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Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

too much over to the discretion of the executive department. I hope to see the Congress get back to the saddle and do more of its own work and not shove so much responsibility on the executive department. tive department has become entirely too

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know that at my age, of course I'm not. In the kind of acrimony that you get in the intellectual circles of Massachusetts and with the Kennedy organization behind it trying to make all the trouble it could possibly make and hoping that maybe Lyndon

Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is terrible. I hope you're doing something about it." And I'd say, "Well, Dick, I'm doing the best I can. I don't know how you measure these things but as far as expenditures are concerned, we're just going overboard. That is something that concerns me very

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Foundation. It probably wasn't. It might have been called the Johnson Foundation or it might have been called something else. But I'm sure they had their own ideas about what they hoped it would be someday. I know it was later changed and I don't know where

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in it. Then too, the President established the wild rivers concept in the National Park System. Additionally, he pushed for a Potomac National River, which one day we hope to achieve, after we acquire some 66,000 acres of land. The Potomac is one of the least

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

personality and method of operation. At that reception, which was I guess the day before he left office, he said to me, "John, I'm going to be in the Federal Building down there in Austin. We're going to be in the same building. Hope I can drop in and see you

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

by the TWA New York counsel, appeared, and then I was hoping to have ten or fifteen minutes for rebuttal. However, they questioned my colleague, the lawyer from the supplemental airlines, so much that it cut me down to seven minutes. In my own presentation

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

for his own father-in-law. I felt so sorry for everybody around me. There's nothing you can do in that situation except hope, and it's pointless to hope because people will excuse you for being very, very late at the next place or even canceling it. 3

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)

are and for the next predictable whatever it was, after 1965 it was four years to predict, barring dying or something--you begin where you are and you hope it has ripple effect, set some kind of chain-reaction, of standards maybe, anyhowthat's excitement

Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

around here, not very many? E: Allen Ellender on the Democratic side, and George Aiken on the Republican side. F: Well, you look as if you' re going to out-last them all. E: No. hope them all good luck. F: When did you first get to know Lyntlon

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

. It was called the Bay of Pigs Report. ML: It was at that time that it happened? CL: Yes. ML: My heavens, did it ever take place? CL: It did take place, but it didn't turn out as you and others had hoped, The report came in at the time of the Bay of Pigs

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 12 I was able to plan to leave the government finally at the end of 1945, which I did. I should say that we had hoped and our

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

time he was our favorite son nominee for president. F: Was this just to hold the delegation, or did you think something might work out? T: Of course, a lot of us hoped it might work out. I doubt that he thought so. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thing, she did it because she really wanted to get the second degree; she was interested in history. The other reason is that she loved being at the University of Texas and hated to leave. had hoped to stay on. I I finished in mid-term and then came

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

thirty books. I hope that they have been influential. Two years later, I was elevated to the post of Director of Economic Studies, which I still hold. At Brookings I have been not only director, but also a senior researcher and have published a couple

Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

have been built here so we now have practically all of our operations out here . And the few remaining ones we have back in the Commerce Department and we hope to get out here in the not too distant future . 1,1 : Does the distance from Washington

Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the country, I told him all about it. (Laughter) All wrong, too, incidentally. Not entirely. But out of that meeting came [the decision] to build up two more divisions. Still concerned about invasion from the North, and hoping that two more divisions maybe

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was at the NAACP at the time, and I do recall drafting a memorandum which was sent to all the NAACP staff persons trying to interpret the sit-ins, and their motivation and their philosophy, what they hoped to accomplish. B: I suppose those Southern sit-ins were

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the night by a low roar and I knew what it was immediately; it was the Pedernales. I didn't know this for sure but I was hoping--I'd never been down there 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and here are the poor. But they don't think about it the way a doctor has to analyze the way things--he's partly all right but he's partly sick. And you have to hope that the parts that are healthy will outweigh and overcome the parts that are diseased

Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Of course, I'm quite sure that Johnson would have stepped in to carryon where he left off. B: Were you among those contacted by Mr. Johnson immediately after the assassination? C: Yes. B: What did he say to you then? C: He hoped that the same

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and here are the poor. But they don't think about it the way a doctor has to analyze the way things--he's partly all right but he's partly sick. And you have to hope that the parts that are healthy will outweigh and overcome the parts that are diseased

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ever conceive of--Freeman nominated Kennedy, Gene McCarthy nominated Adlai Stevenson, and Hubert sat there hoping somehow he would be the one. You know, it was all havoc! And we voted for Humphrey, who wasn't even a candidate for the office of president

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

internally. He knew that winning Louisiana was going to be tough for him and I recall the last lines of his speech. He ad-libbed these remarks. He said, "I think I know what you're thinking and I hope you vote for me, and I'm not going to say anything bad

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

forgotten that. G: During the campaign. B: The poet I believe he was affectionately called. You know, this time period gets all very interesting, because we were so hopeful that the Paris peace talks would work and then we had--again, one looks

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. The original idea, I might say, was that Milton Eisenhower would be invited to be chairman. He was willing to serve on the initial period of the commission, but did not feel he had the time to be the chairman, so he turned it down. It was then hoped that Dr

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

record was not kept, and I hope that for the historians of the future, when we have another President, if we're lucky enough to do so, with this concern for the full utilization of our human resources, that full records will be kept. But the executive

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

series of new things. I hope I have a copy of that here. A friend of mi ne, Florence Mahoney, and I were great friends with Clark Clifford, who was also a great friend of Senator Johnson's, as you well know. Clark Clifford said that he would . get us

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

I've since heard that may- be it was just an invitation and some of the Kennedy people thought or hoped it would be turned down, and he accepted. I don't know just what happened. These are some of the things that went around. But that was the very

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

something of that comp-lex too--that it's out of phase with the remainder of New York and the nation et cetera, and I think that feeling maybe it ought to fonn its own state and go its own way is real. H: There's no question about it, and yet I'm hoping

Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Americans, Jewish Americans, and I got the feeling that they were no different than I was. And I sure hope that they feel now that I was no different than they were. I believe that the world war was the beginning of the tearing down of these tremendous

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

it. For example, there is a great deal of moral legislation enacted by the Congress of the United States in recent years. Take, for example, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the new amendments to the immigration law which give hope to people who

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh McLean -- I -- 20 great hopes for him. The timing of it was something over which we had no control. Stevenson had made an attractive, intriguing candidate and he had lost in was entitled to it. '52~ he wanted another shot

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

strong conviction among most of us that Humphrey was perhaps better qualified than many, if not all, of the other candidates . For that reason, there was always a hope that something � � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

office on March 31 the two people who were working around the clock literally to put this material together John Robson--and I hope that when somebody interviews him, they raise this point--and Jim Gaither of our staff, were both in there working to meet

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recollection is that it was not productive in any meaningful way, and that's no reflection on Kay Graham. We had given her what really was an impossible list, with the hope there was something we were unaware of by way of Washington Post involvement with some

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Alaska and Hawaii statehood? Can you recount how this bill was passed, the strategy? B: There was much more sentiment in the Congress for Alaskan statehood than for Hawaiian statehood. There was a man who was dying with cancer, and I hope he lives

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

mentioned this--when he announced in March of '68 that he was not running again and would not accept nomination, he did it as he said because he hoped he could therefore remove his personality from the issue and perhaps could work then in a calmer atmosphere

Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jones -- Interview I -- 11 Kennedy Administration was taking shape was a time and a place of a good deal of enthusiasm and hope and optimism. Did that atmosphere exist? J: Quite definitely it was an exciting

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

assuming that job ten or eleven months hence . I guess I was particularly amused and impressed that he said, "Look, this may leak into the press . I recognize that . it doesn't, but that's really up to Gardner in part . I hope If he felt that he