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Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in quieting them? I was against his going on the ticket. He called a little group of us in, and at first I think I talked with him about it and that I hoped he wouldn't do it. F: Was this before he had accepted or after? Y: Before first. it had I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • needs to be done, that you've reached a responsible settlement," and he changes that to, "I'm hoping for a report," and he strikes out, "from Secretary Wirtz," because by this time he's so pissed off at Wirtz for being pro-union, and not doing what he
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and it's so characteristic of him. The marines go ashore to guard Danang air base. Other troops go ashore. Troops are ashore; there's still no master plan for winning the war. He kept hoping--I think, we don't know--that something would turn up, that Hanoi
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • some element of hope in it that it would be an i'ndtcati'on to my father that he wanted to restore their earl ier friends-tHp. Actually, r think most of the restoration had been done after the sadness of the assassination and Johnson's ascendence
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the protracted war approach up through the Summer of 1967 and they were losing on that ground. They then in the fall of 1967 through the Tet Offensive, the May offensive, tried a more all-out war approach--get it over quickly approach, hoping to force us
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that will be good for the country. And for that reason I wouldn't want to exacerbate anything by having my button out front, but this doesn't change my loyalty. I believe in Vice President Humphrey, and I hope that he will become President of this country. B
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • don't think in any realistic way that [Vo Nguyen] Giap or anybody on the top figured that they could throw five hundred thousand Americans into the sea. They may have hoped to foment a bigger popular uprising than they did. The extent to which
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and fitting them with some of the needs of the central government in Saigon. r was hoping that some of them would get along well enough in their local areas to be accepted and become the establishment, so to speak, there. Tnat didn't happen too well
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • hoped that eventually this complex of transportation functions would become so big and powerful that it would be possible to split them off into a new department. The strategy just didn't work, partly because the leading Bureau of the Budget expert
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was that; "I'm going to have this show tomorrow night, and I hope you'll be watching, and I think I'll have something of interest for you." And that was about the upshot of it. F: He didn't £;,7e any real intir;1:1tion of \ihG.l: he'd hav,;? T: iole 11, he
  • March 31 speech, the process of drafting it, and speech-writer Harry McPherson; radios in the White House cars; calling people to forewarn them of the speech’s contents; White House activity following the speech; LBJ’ hopes that the speech could
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on other issues beyond the country in which they are serving, we have no problems. We hope that it will be mature, we hope that it will be done in an articulate way and it won't be a full-time profession. But you can imagine how many different views we
Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was hoping to find one that knew me. Anyway I finally got upstairs and saw them, and they had decided--somebody was giving a dinner for them that night. I don't remember if it was Ambassador [Arthur] Goldberg or not. Anyway, Luci and Pat had been invited
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] hanging out. Then this other part of him said, "This is impossible. Why get my hopes up? fail." More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 23 they couldn't hold it, people who had given up all hope and stopped even looking for work, when given
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that the state confronted, and how we hoped he would run . We talked to him, and he was � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , particularly while he was president. W: I'd attribute that to their way of life; to his having lived and [been] born and raised in that country, the hope for comfortable things and certainly her feelings about it. I think they were both intent on creating
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • conveyed this message which I thought was hopeful, that they were bending back in Washington, that they were offering not to bomb around Hanoi if Hanoi or the liberation front would stop doing certain things around Saigon. Rapacki allowed as how
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with was that the specific programs that would have created substance in the building-bridges program didn't get as much leadership from the President as I had hoped they would get. I think this is one of the prices we paid for Vietnam. My argument was--and I made
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . If you had two, or even three daughters, you dressed them alike on special occasions. I hope they liked it. G: Did these cover stories bring him more recognition, in terms of people being able to 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • you possible hope to take it for­ ward when the Speaker, as influential as he was, had taken a firm antiposition. B: Did you think of going back to Mr. Johnson to see if he could use any in:luence with Mr. Rayburn? F: No. I really didn't
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they could have. F: You could have with a sponsor. C: Yes. But they didn't. Now, they made the film available certainly, but there was nothing in that respect that I remember. on that. I hope I'm correct The networks did buy shrubbery for Luci's
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into an Omnibus Bill in early 1963. It ~vas obvious that the best hope that one could have would be to keep a progrnm before the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for a long period of time. It isn't. It's an experimental technique that has been operating for a short period of time. But I hope it's carried on because I feel that it can be profoundly significant. M: The other question that comes to mind immediately
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • largely restricted to buttonholing. D: Yes, meetings at night and over the weekends and times like that. F: There is a story that I like and hope it's true that you offered him your savings account at that time to help underwrite a campaign
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • did see it as a year and a half or so job, which might possibly lead into another job. During those depression years, we were grasping at straws. You wouldn't remember that, and I hope you never have to go through it, but that was the way it was. M
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • know, is designated as a U.S. highway and will stay that way until Interstate 40 around the park has been completed, which I hope now will be some time in the next couple or three years. But, in addition to that, the issue is further complicated
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : That's right. That's exactly right. B: You've been reading all this lately because of Senator Russell's death--that in those years no Southerner could ever really hope to be anything much beyond the Senate itself. H: Dick wanted to be President
Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 23 R: Oh, yes, I hope so. Actually my own connection with all of that is quite amusing because
Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it to the attention of the proper organization or the proper government group that handles this kind of thing. we hope we solve it. In most cases In other words what it does is pinpoint the problems so that everybody can see them and then they know how to act
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , of course, listened to their comments and their comments were positive on what he said he hoped to enact. F: Did he find them fairly useful in legislative liaison? s: Yes, I think . . . F: I mean, could they touch a certai n group that maybe he wasn't
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ; but we don't want to hurt you too bad, so we just are going kind of to nick the edges for a while," in the hopes that they would get the message. Of course the problem was that they never got the message, because they were professional revolutionaries
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • is the Continental Palace, which had more atmosphere . had the old revolving ceiling fans, a sort of W . It Somerset Maugham atmosphere . G: Got rattan chairs, too, 0: Something like that . I hope . And I stayed at times But the Caravelle was more modern
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • but accepted fact, or did he hold out some hope that you would pull a roll back? W: No. He indicated that this was what the President wanted. didn't suggest that it might be changed. He certainly He didn't seem very happy LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Civil Rights Bill. . ., I hope you're happy,." That's how high the f~elings of--"I had done it!"-- people were . ... . •· when Title III came out of the bill which had to come out or the bill wouldn't pass. And, there again, you know,. which
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to support him and decided very quickly that that was the thing to do . He had some promise and some hope, maybe he would turn out to be a Chung Hee Park, a parallel that certainly occurred to many of us because by then Park had been elected in his own
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . As of right now, it's I think the main Indian issue before the Congress. We didn't resolve it, but I did after a lot of very deep work come up with a proposed solution and what Congress, I hope, is going to do this year, or next year, will be very close