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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to rest in the Library or not. G: I think you'll find copies. J: I hope so. Yes, there is a copy of his stationery, which had the familiar red fish at the top, "T. J. Taylor, Dealer in Everything." It used to say, "Dealer in General Merchandise." Later
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • campaign for him in 1954? C: Well, some precinct-level stuff. It was after 1960, though, after my race, which he followed, and supported-- M: Did he help you at all? C: Yes, he sent some advice, in a very discreet way, and was very hopeful, I think
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of stories suggesting that he was presidential timber and perhaps in 1956 he might be the Democratic nominee. When did you first get insights that Lyndon Johnson did have presidential hopes? Was it at all in connection with the heart attack? Do you think he
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • between hoping our experience would validate their own lack of success on one hand, and on the other hand of holding the line against further communist encroachment in Southeast Asia. But I don't recall anything about de Gaulle's personal attitude
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • throughout the Eastern United States and even as far as the Midwest. Actually, they had hoped to attract people from all over the United States. The way it turned out, most of their participants came from the Northeastern part of the United States, from major
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there is. That was done under Mr. Watson's direction and guidance and is so developed that you have people that are there and their main job is to service the President. I hope we service him to his satisfaction. There were occasions when something would go wrong
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • to be of assistance in setting up the school and college aid program. At the end of thirty days, money, rules and regulations had not come forward ~s soon as the President had hoped they would and he went to Dr. Woods, with my hearty approval, and requested
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • committees together. So that there is some hope, I think, for the future of working out a budget in a little more coherent fashion rather than going through the process that I described where the appropriation subcommittees were taking their own actions
Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the days look very bright for the future. M: Is it fair to ask what you're going to do? E: I hope to continue working with deafness. is an International Organization. I'm a member of Rotary. Rotary It's my opinion that Rotary ought to be doing more
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Saigon, isn't it? G: Yes. F: I went down there once, and that for a while seemed to be a more hopeful place, if I'm not mistaken. Or at least we hoped it would get better, but it was just par for the course, and I don't remember the details. G: Okay
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of their vehicles. complimentary vote to Governor Ross Barnett, who was then Governor and he was head of the delegation. Johnson. I was one of them. But we worked--several of us worked for And-- F: Did you have much hope? S: No, I wouldn't say it was a great
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thought of. F: I'd heard the rumor and was hoping it would corne through. T: I'm very fond of Dean Keeton and I was hoping so also, but he had an age-factor against him. Then it got into a situation where, for some strange reason that never know
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and, in that sense, maybe they have to be discounted. But, nevertheless, they were there, and one could only have hoped for a better quality of staff work. I would say that we could have had better felling for the Johnson Administration, better relations
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and several others, but Maury leaned on me a good deal, that he didn't have a chance in the world because the San Antonio machine was going to put up a candidate and he couldn't hope to get enough votes from Bexar County to overcome--rather he could not rely
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a very lengthy letter to the Johnsons about her work on restoration of the White House, and her hopes of what they might continue. Every evidence in the written word from LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Vietnam. And like any mother, father and daughter, there was sadness, efforts at expressing hopefulness and that kind of thing. But in those days Lynda had a very volatile personality, and like many of us one and two-child families, we spoke to our
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • felt like he was a breath of fresh air, and I had hoped that it would probably work out where he \'JOuld become the nominee. But I was bound by the unit rule in my delegation, and of course Vie cast our ballots for Lyndon Johnson on the first ballot
Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't, because the state of Texas wasn't in it entirely. that were in the contest. It was just some schools in Texas We simply came out winner over those schools that were in it by process of elimination. answers your question. I hope that Outside
Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -18D: I think you're right, Mr. Lindig. you. You have many happy years ahead of Mr. Lindig, it's been a pleasure talking to you and hope we get to see you again and; hear more from you. Mrs. Hunter
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • send the checks, which I did. would come out. But he also asked me when LBJ I called LBJ and said to him [that] I felt that he owed Jack Burns this responsibility and that I would hope he could do it. do it. He said, "Well, I would like to Remind
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and frustrate local school administrators. We hope to consolidate these programs into a much simpler form of delivery. And of course it means consolidating many laws and authorities that we have. But that is precisely what this administration speaks
Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went to the White House that my heart d idn It sk i p a beat. I used to say to myself unconsciously, "Will you look who's going to the White House?" I used to hope that some of my friends would see me. And to this day, there's something very
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • paid teenagers in our neighborhood: "Well, we only pay them fifty cents." Luci's response was, "I would hope that's what you'd say, because that's what my friends get. II But not knm·ting how many hours had been involved, we gave her five dollars
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Another time I invited the President and Bird over to the house during a terrible snow storm . It got to be about eighteen inches, and so everyone was calling . And of course when people came to our house in those days, they always hoped the President
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went down there on vacation in 1934 I believe it was said that Lyndon never mentioned - the possibility of going to Washington, but he did confide to her that he hoped some day he could be governor of Texas. Well, now, that was real logical
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't care about having it be successful. But I think those first couple or three years, the years in which Shriver was having two jobs, had to be considered eminently satisfactory years. At least that's my judgment, I hope not a partisan, narrow
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /oh Parr -- I -- 27 dead and had hoped that it would be announced at a more appropriate time. Well, I wasn't about to go out and say anything about it, nor was I going to call in--my place was on the job. Well, that gook sat there and by the end
  • ; Parr not being allowed to return to Duval County or politics; the treatment and punishment Parr received following his conviction for making false statements to a grand jury; Parr's hope of being pardoned and reinstated to the bar; selecting a site
Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • your husband on the Supreme Court." She said, "I'm sure glad I'm sitting down." B: Didn't you have a little bit of a suspicion that it might be coming? M: I had a hope. Any lawyer has a hope, but no suspicion. We had a party the night before for Tom
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and so forth and so on is a pretty difficult problem. So we want to get a lot of people there fast. Anyway, we had to go through all this, and I hope we left our successors a pretty good set of plans and organization and a much larger 24 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , or circles around one or both of those cities for perhaps more than 180 days in the year--there were always things that we hoped might come off, that we didn't want to jeopardize with allegations, rightly or wrongly, or give them a handle to hit us with when
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Latin America is transportation, and it is terrible. You cannot--you cannot go from Chile to Argentina any way except flying or an incredibly long boat trip-- G: Yes. R: --around the Horn, which nobody likes to take--around the Cape of Good Hope
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • will or his solution on the other, and therefore, that it had to be within a unified context and a more broadly based government. I felt, not that I approached it--I hope I didn't approach it naively, and one had to take into account the possibility
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that this was going to be a major case before the board, that I appreciated that the Justice Department had antitrust interests, and I wanted him to know that the board did too ; that I would hope if his Antitrust Division got into the case that they had something
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the Budget? B : As I recall, the Bureau of the Budget sat in on this--somebody from the Bureau, and we felt that there our bigger problem was really what sort of hope could we get for acceptance from Civil Service Commission, once we got below
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Each one had a different thing, one was "Best Regards," or "With much hope," all six different . M: Different inscriptions . B: Yes . I had the whole eight or nine books . It was very nice . One time we had a discussion on materials, you know
Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . in '56. This policy had been inaugurated by John Foster Dulles I think the first shipments were made in '57. The hope was that it would lead Poland to pursue a more independent and friendly policy toward the United States. It did not work out
Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 12 B: It was all handled at arms length, completely ethically ; they were honorable opponents, and we so considered them all the way and hope they considered us the same . We
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Texas, and thus not be in a position of influence at all. Now he didn't say this, but this is what I gather. B: Your talks with him on Rule 22, did he give you any hope for possible changes in that in those days? W: No. He said he would go with what
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • we felt those were hopeful signs, that here was a guy that could get things done, who knew the legislative machinery of the government. Dr. King used to always say that if a Southerner ever really gets converted then there is no better ally. B: When