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Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

eve r beli.e ved it. him, I told him t o his face, and r I told told Phil Potter l'lho wrote H in t he Baltimore Sun at the time , that this just ~1asn t 1 true. T 1·1as the one that objected to Lyndon Johnson. After I 'd made my object i ons

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

technology, and this technology could be used simultaneously not only for observing the atmosphere, observing the oceans, conditions in the solid earth or the sun, and if you are really going to be able to do this in an efficient way, you ought to begin

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and.under the blazing sun or under the tree. · In both San Marcos and Lockhart, we had good trees on the square and it was a colorful sort of a setting. · ·~.Gene-.Au.tr.Y would come and say he was happy to be here, just happened to be here, passing through

Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

gone down to the Yucatan, looking at the pyramids and whatnot on the day off, and just the President and I were there. We were sitting in a reclining chair outside, and the sun was going down, and he said, “You know, I got an invitation from Jim 12

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

insofar as seeing you had the proper lighting, or that the sun came from the right direction and that sort of thing? . W: I think he's very conscious of pictures. I felt that. sense that he didn't want his glasses worn. Also, you could He took them

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

around and watch the deer and sit up on the hillside and watch the sun set and have a drink or two. He wasn't a heavy drinker. G: Now with your background, you would have been a natural for any kind of exercise program for him, I would think. Did he

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

didn't inherit the British Empire; we just inherited most of her responsibilities. They used to say the sun never sets on the British Empire, but you can say today the sun never sets on American military forces. We are scattered over the world

Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

mentholatum on our face to take care of the sun. problem with skin. I imagine you have the same And so we, three of the girls were blondes, had this mentholatum on our face. Then the perspiration would stand in LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 the people who worked in his office to be at the office by sun-up, if pOssible. So I'd leave his home in the dark of the morning and catch a bus and get down to the office

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

in existence--and worked there. We covered the capitol, or I did. Then, he worked some for INS, International News Service. Then in 1937, we went to Kermit, Texas and established a little newspaper, [the] Kermit Sun, West Texas. We stayed there, oh, two

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

quarters, and he's not going to take it." Jack loved the sunshine. He was sitting on a little balcony trying to get some sun. He always loved to sit in the sun. He and I were sitting on a little balcony. Bobby came out and said, "Johnson's going to take

Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was like a huge bird of prey standing over him--arms outstretched. Morris looked up. Well, the President went on, his arms spread further, "In the Pedernales in the springtime, the sun begins to come up early, and it gets right high, and you just look out

Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in absentia to be the permanent chairman. That event, unfortunately, never occurred, but I'm sure he felt that if he were out working for Lyndon and if Hale were the permanent chairman, there was no way under the sun that Lyndon wasn't going to get

Oral history transcript, Emma Boehringer Tooley, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the weekend with her. mysterious. Her home was beautiful but rather Many stories tell about the ghost in the house and I used to tremble from fright imagining that I heard all kinds of weird noises. Mr. Taylor always retired when the sun went down for he

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

vacation, sun and some swimming. But my memory of it is that it was very pleasant for him. G: Did he transact much business while he was there or was he—? 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

County; Harris Melasky over here in Taylor; Don Scarbrough, who is editor of the Williamson County Sun now; Judge Sam Stone, who incidentally was one of those who was a candidate in the special election of 1937 and was defeated. life. It was the only

Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

role as the situation unfolded. Bear in mind at that time McCarthy was calling in everyone under the sun for interro gation regarding subversion, subversion in the government, in the various areas related, whether it was the movie industry or whatnot

Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

say they tried electric shock. You mean as in a mental institution? I see. S: This guy was finally, after they stopped beating on him, he was so out of it, he would react to nothing. He was just—they put him standing up out in the sun, and they stood

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Battle -- III -- 28 wanted to develop its economy. He didn't quite know how; he didn't have a clear body of political philosophy. And he never did. But he wanted a place in the sun for Egypt

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

anniversary. It was a terribly hot day. hundred and twenty degrees. We spent about two and a half to three hours visiting several villages. to protect [us]. any kind. It must have been a None of us even had any headgear I almost had a sun stroke. I

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. The second day I think Lorraine Barnes was assigned to go with him. As you know, Lorraine is red-headed and Lorraine wore a hat. You did a lot of standing out in the sun; I don't blame Lorraine for wearing a hat. Well, Johnson took offense at this big hat

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be done." But you've opened up more techniques through the space effort than any of the early people advocating it ever anticipated. For instance, we are in the center of an energy crisis, the energy that we use on earth comes from the sun. trees out

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in Dr. [John Harvey] Kellogg, who had a hospital, or what really I guess you would call it a spa, in Battle Creek, Michigan, and who began talking about orange juice, vitamins, sun bathing, exercise, before anybody else ever heard of it. Dr. Kellogg

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

to the Ranch from the White House, and it was a local production of Raisin in the Sun. J: Yes, oh I do. And I loved Raisin in the Sun, and so did he. M: About this time, it was in March, Senator Johnson announced that he has not yet made a decision

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

;.'" We had a corner suite, and on the inside of the windows were these So far as I know they weren't working, because old time shutters. the tapes were broken, but the shutters were there, I guess as a protector against the sun. The wind, when it hit

Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was at the lake, and he regularly drove to all the ranches down there that he owned and watched the sun go down. Several of them--and you'll hear them on some of this tape-he's out talking. The next big trick every Sunday was trying to figure out where he

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

where Francis Case announced that he had been tendered a bribe by two attorneys I think with Sun Oil [Company]. C: As I recall that, they were Superior Oil. And as I remember it, there was a big to-do about that bribe, but I think it tended to phase

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Fehmer-- I -- 16 swimming, being out in the sun by the pool in hammocks, driving the boat at full

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think he wanted the luncheon to begin with? H: Because he didn't know the heads of the newspapers or the chains, people like Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspapers and the old [New York] World - [Telegram &] Sun. He knew reporters who covered

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

think this recent act on energy passed by the House as a substitute for the Krueger amendment is typical of tnat--just a wild, wild piece of legislation, couldn't be effective in any way under the sun. I hope that the Senate will knock it down. F

Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

? P: My father's clients were pri~rily Humble, Sun, Tidewater. He represented certain insurance companies oil companies. like the Austin Mutual life Insurance. He represented Senator Wirtz represented the lower Colorado River Authority. M

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I'd eat dinner downtown with Mr. and Mrs. Gray. We were friendly, and Mr. Johnson didn't dislike him, and goodness knows, he wished the president of Humble Oil and Refining and the Pews with Sun Oil and everybody else would vote for him, but he

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of security in the hamlets and villages was the change-over as the sun set from control of the area by the Saigon government to control by the Vietnamese communists. Exit one, enter the other. And the night and the day made the difference, so our idea was, why

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)