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Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

car \'/as Johnson and his Secret Service and there was one seemed to me like a congressman, but I don't recall who it was. Then in Mr. Putnam's car there were some other congressmen, I believe, and. some t'Jhite House aides or something. M: What

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

close. And to me it was an amazing meeting. The people who were in attendance were the President, FOR, Jr., John Sweeney and myself representing the federal part of the program, and the Governor of Kentucky, his press aide, and a man named John Wisdom

Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of work in the field of environmental prediction, weather prediction, monitoring weather, communicating the state of the weather worldwide almost simultaneously. We have done deep submergence programs and are planning to do more, all of these an aid

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the best I could. Helped in any way I could. G: Who were his principle political aids here? Advisers? Operatives in Harrison County? T: I guess I was and Dar [?] Sullivan. Do you know Dar Sullivan and Powell? G: Hugh Powell? T: Yes. Hugh Powell. G

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the opportunity to be as aggressive as they'd like. I think in particular we failed to make use of our air and naval superiority, this is what I think we did wrong. F: At this juncture an aide came in and called the Senator away. He apologized and said he would

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LII -- 12 "That's it." Presidents don't like that, I don't think, and that's what aides are for in part. And the other part of it was, you know, everybody signed up. Everybody signed

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, plus the fact that once the President wrote, "Hurray," you've got to understand what that does to a young aide. This is 1964 [1965], so I'm just thirty-three. I was just thirty-three. It was incredible. I was kind of giving him a big traffic safety

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

more aid es on t h a t committee than we had members of Congress. When we got to London we picked up Bradley's son, so he had an a i d e . And when we got to P a r i s , Cole had a young naval l i e u t e n a n t ; we picked him up and he had

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, when John F. Kennedy appointed Udall to his cabinet one of Udall's aides telephoned me and asked if I would come in for a job interview. I did, and right after the inauguration received another call from the aide saying, "Where are you? We're starting

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Is this Tran Van Don? ~~: Yes. He d been 1 i eutenant or capta in in the French army. I Don had been aide-de-camp to Emperor Bao Da i. down the line. You "'Eoul d go right Some of them had been born in France, some of them had been educated in France

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Bill and Howard handled the security reports, being the military aide and the Air Force aide when he was vice president . I think that they could give you more of a reading on that . G: Okay, great . B: You'd love it . address at home . G

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

he could trust me, he was very useful to me in letting me know what was going on. F: Did you see much of Walter Jenkins in that period? H: No, not as much as George, because Walter was over in the Senate office, which is essentially the Texas

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Dorothy Nichols, who was Dorothy Jackson from Cotulla, Texas, whose brother Don Jackson had been a very dear friend of mine in school. We hired Walter Jenkins. He had already had on his staff a fellow named Herbert Henderson. Charlie Henderson was also

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

which flowed from the podium. Proudly, I was able to produce three of the great personalities of the event: first, the man who opened it, Simon Jenkins, former editor of the London Times, considered a "big brain" in England. He began by insisting, thank

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson's troops a lot more than Jack Kennedy ever did. That was a brutal battle for that nomination, and Bobby Kennedy had a lot of knowledge about Johnson's operatives. He knew George Reedy; he knew Walter Jenkins, he knew every one of Johnson's right-hand

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

office. How did the Commission decide how to address this task? DG: At the first several meetings at the beginning of the Commission, it was hard to get them together. These were the governor of Illinois, the police chief of Atlanta [Herbert Jenkins

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Couldn't even get a line into the White House. I talked to Walter Jenkins before I came back; just "if anybody inquires, Helen and Gene and I are bringing the clothes and we are on our way back and will be in the middle of the morning." B: Did you see

Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

was John Connally and Walter Jenkins and one gtb~r secretary. WF:. Mary Rather TF: The oldest one died and I've forgotten what his name was. WF: I've forgotten, also. TF: But they stayed with us in the wintertime and there's a few little 0

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thomas -- IV -- 21 I did go to Corpus Christi somewhere during this time with Walter Jenkins and Jesse Kellam. There was a station down there, KVDO, which Jesse Kellam said sounded like KA Venereal Disease. We went down

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was in Washington of 1964, and the President suggested I go by and visit with Walter Jenkins and with Cliff Carter and Dick Maguire over at the--Cliff and Dick being at the Democratic National Committee, and if! could to assist them in some special project

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, had advised him over the years. I remember going to dinner in which either Jim Rowe, or Tommy Corcoran, or Abe Fortas were the guests. Or quite often it was the staff--Walter Jenkins, or whoever were the secretaries at the time. dinner. He just

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

when to when? R: Let's see. ." He announced in April, and I believe it was about a six-weeks period. F: You were there almost for the whole campaign? R: I was there the whole time. Walter Jenkins volunteered his auto- mobile since he

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

own; I'll give him leave, or sOlllething like that." So I got down there for the last two or three weeks. I remelllber the night of the election the campaign results were coming in. in Austin, Walter Jenkins, Juanita and 1. conceded the election

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

start to rewrite my ad--" And he wanted to see it. I went over to poor old Jenkins and I said, "I don't care whether he's mad as hell. What are we going to do?" He said, "Let's print the goddamn thing and say you didn't get the message." So we printed

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

find out." He says then that frequently at four o'clock on Friday afternoon, Johnson comes tearing into the office saying, "Call Lady Bird and tell her to meet me at the airport at five o'clock, and call Walter Jenkins and tell him to get me two tickets

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and what my findings were, and sometimes they weren't very pleasant to hear. He attempted his own implementation at his end by having [Walter] Jenkins and others in the White House in contact with the [Democratic] National Committee trying to stir up

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Prokop -- I -- 3 P: Well, I worked with Walter Jenkins, who at the time was the administrative assistant. I worked closely with Juanita

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy - V - 19 R: He would rarely go over to the Texas office. In fact, I think Walter Jenkins just moved in and used his office

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the story? G: No. R: What had happened is that--what the hell was the name of that guy? G: Reynolds? R: Reynolds, that's it. Reynolds was a friend of Bobby's, and so Bobby steered him to Walter Jenkins with the idea of selling this million-dollar

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as a Democrat. That happened in '55, when the Democrats became a majority. I don't recall anything special about Price Daniel's seating and office space.· Walter Jenkins would know more about.that, I'm sure. The Hurley-Chavez election contest I had

Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the local Tulsa situation . [Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Editor of The Tulsa Tribune Jenk Jones is one of the hardest-headed newspaper editors in the nation . B: That's one description you can put on him, among others . F: Are there any attempts

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to the barbeque and then came up here on August 1 of '61 . Doing what? I didn't know until I got here, but I found out that I was a generalist and was sitting in for Walter Jenkins when he was out of the office, and I was sitting in for Cliff Carter when he

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

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

were over there. John was the head man and did a fine job in getting us all pulled together. we commenced to build a staff. There was Walter Jenkins and myself and I forget now, but I think maybe Gene Latimer might have been with us at that time; I

Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)