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Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • called me, about ten o'clock at night; I had just gotten home from the White House. See, LBJ would never let me use the cars and chauffeurs there except under extraordinary circumstances when I could rig it. You can do a lot of things through personal
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whiteside ~- I -~ 3 But I also had access to the records of some rental property that they had. Dr. Evans had a garage apartment behind his home that had a room and a half
  • ; selling Real Silk hosiery; LBJ’s parents; visiting in the Johnson home; entertainment; Dr. Evans and LBJ; Professor Greene; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; Deacon Wright; origin and activities of the White Stars; the Black Stars; social cleavage between local
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on involvement in the war. But at least it began, 1940, with a happy note, with the official appointment of Senator [Alvin] Wirtz, and that meant he and Kittie Mae were coming to Washington and taking up residence, and we would have more of the close ones at home
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Senator Douglas, and some others in the Senate who really sought the position, and, as I say, they used the stratagem, I think partly because they didn't want them on the Policy Committee at that time. There was a little power struggle between one group
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to you, you have any changes or corrections or additions--anything like that. Has that ever occurred? A: No, I think that won't be a problem with us here. M: Sir, you came to Congress just two years after Mr. Johnson ran and was elected
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as Paul Douglas used to be, absolutely uncompromising and never gain a damn thing. Or they can come as Kerr and Johnson did and as Kerr once said, "I'd rather take home a sack half full to my people than a full sack with the bottom shelled out
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • challenge and. great .. experience I 've ever had. . B: · I can imagine .... How were you .·notified of your appointment, sir? J: :I had a call at· home about five o'clock in "the afternoon .from Ramsey . . Clark, and Ramsey said, ''The President's
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh April 21, 1969 B: This is the interview with Sterling Tucker. with just a brief bit of background. Sir, let me begin here You were born in 1923 in Akron and have a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Akron. You joined
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C., Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last time you were talking about briefing former President Truman on the behalf of President Johnson, and after the tape
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • home town. In the airport, I found myself in a long queue at Customs. I [was?] longing to get to the top of it, not to keep that distinguished gentleman waiting. I was behind fifteen hippies, every one with assorted baggage. Every straw bag and every
Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • you describe that, sir? in that? Did Mr . Johnson inquire into it, or did you, as Administrator, point out to him the problem? B: Who initiated the presidential interest How did it work? This was actually mostly before I was Administrator
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • got a copy of it. M: Sir, in September of 1964, President Johnson spoke at the 200th anniversary convocation at Brown University. Do you recall how this was arranged and how it came about and the sequence of events leading up to and through his
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Mississippi. He said, "Well, that's a part of Texas, isn't it?" in a joking matter, and I said, "No, sir, it's not." He said, "Well, you sound like a Texan," and I said, "That's a Mississippi accent." 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ) INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker March 27, 1969 B: Sir, we covered last time up to the time of the assassination. Immediately afterwards, that night, you were one of the group of legislative leaders who met then-President Johnson out at the airport, weren't you? Bo
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • pursuant to our understanding, but I never had heard of that group. And he said, "Would you present your views to that group?" and I said, "I don't know anything about that group, who is it?" And he told me in general who it was: Douglas Dillon, General
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • take two steps forward, is a little bit difficult to go home and expJain. You know, really the half-a-loaf theory is always discussed with pejorative words and in derogatory tones. When 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Payne in August of 1935. I then taught school for two years in my home town, Eden. And in the autumn of 1937, I entered the School of Law at the University of Texas, from which I graduated in June 1940. In the spring of 1940, I applied for a job
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS DILLON INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN M: Letl s begin by identifying you sir. More on LBJ
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  • Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • straight through the hall into my library, picked up the phone, and said, "Give me [C. Douglas] Dillon!" And, in a moment, he said, "Underwrite the British pound," and hung up. As far as I know, there was no chance for Dillon to say anything but, "Yes, sir
  • house and the White House; LBJ's insistence that Crook find a position in the administration; LBJ's visit and reception at Crook's home; Crook's dogs named after Charles de Gaulle and a dog LBJ gave the Crook family; LBJ's interest in antelope; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson, I have heard a report was drawn up, but I have never seen it. Do you know whether there was such a report and what happened to it? S: You mean a report by our Senate committee? F: Yes, sir. S: I don't remember that. F: Yes, sir. S
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RAMSEY CLARK INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER PLACE: His home in Falls Church, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Ramsey Clark. Sir, to start in on the whole general matter of law enforcement and what became
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ?" clear-cut answer was, My "No, sir, I have never been in this office before." Whereupon Senator Johnson got up out of his chair, he put his arm around my shoulder, and he said, and I quote, "General, I have done you the greatest injustice that I have
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • relationship just continued on. F: You are just about the same age as President Johnson . B: Yes, sir. I was born in March of 1908 and he was born in August of 1908 . F: Do you have any idea when you first met him? B: Not precisely . My early
Oral history transcript, Marjorie A. Delafield, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • PB: This is November 9, 1968. Marjorie Anne Delafield. We are in the home of Miss Miss Delafield, tell us some- thing about your profession. MD: Well, I have a typing and duplicating service. We type a great deal for the students
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , but it was a prime festival of Washington. (Interruption) J: And back home one weekend Luci was confirmed at Saint David's Episcopal Church. She would have been--let's see, born in 1947, she was just about turning thirteen. M: Was she as devote Episcopalian as she
  • African-American employees; Sunday meals at Senator Harry Byrd's home; Byrd's personality and interests; story of LBJ getting stopped for speeding on the way to the Byrd home; uses for the Sequoia; the Senate Ladies Club; decorating LBJ's office with items
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JACK VALENTI INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: His office in Washington Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Jack Valenti. Sir, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? V: Yes, I do. Houston. I met him sometime in, I believe
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Yes. I think it looked as though the odds were with him. You could come home a winner. And I believe Senator McCarthy wanted it very much, as did Senator Humphrey. At one time, it must have been March or April, along in there, I had the feeling
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the fact that he thought something was materially wrong with Rayburn. G: What did he say? H: The Speaker came back from the July 4 vacation and he said, "The damnedest thing happened to me while I was at home. crick in my back. I got the worst I went
Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 M: Did Mr. Johnson ever get involved in that at all? L: Not to my knowledge. I worked there with Dick Goodwin and others in the White House and of course, with the Secretary of the Treasury, Douglas
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation [third session, fourth tape] of the interview with Harry McPherson. Sir, we were talking last time about
Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came over I told him, "Mr. Ernest Miller was in here today." Mr. Kleberg's brown eyes just shot at me and he said, "Does he want you to go home?" because they were good friends. I said, "Yes, sir, he does." He said, "Do you want to go home?" I said
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Okay, the highway bill was another big controversy that year. Do you remember that? B: Yes, sir; yes, sir. I think that the administration under President Eisenhower had suggested the interstate highway program, but they really wanted
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : With a commitment to stay for three months, and I've been here ever ca~e here right at the beginning of the New Deal? since. F: You don't know how to go home, do you? P: That's right. I think I must have met the President, then Lyndon, early in that period
Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MRS. KITTlE CLYDE LEONARD INTERVIB~ER: DAV 10 McCOMB PLACE: Mrs. Leonardis home in Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 1 H: This is an interview with Mrs. Kittie Clyde_Leonard. Is that the name you use or do you use your husband's name? L: Well
  • going to Washington; speeches LBJ gave at Johnson City high school graduations; LBJ’s presidential inauguration; visits to the Ranch; maintenance of LBJ’s boyhood home; LBJ’s effects on Johnson City during his presidency and retirement.
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: -6http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dick Kleberg and Paul Kilday were real good friends and so ,,;ras Lyndon Johnson a good friend of the Kildays. F: Did you knm,;r Franklin Roosevelt? Q: Yes, sir. F: Did he take
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DAVID G. NES INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Nes' home, Owings Mills, Maryland Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Nes, may we begin by simply saying that the account in David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest of your assignment
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Also, sir, in that primary campaign so far as Mr. Johnson's campaign speeches and so on went, was he going pretty well down the line with the Truman administration? S: Yes. He was, and with the Democratic Party generally. We considered him of course
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldberg -- II -- 3 deceased, by the name of Martin Winfrey, who was also a very close friend of President Johnson's. So he knew I was there. As a matter of fact, I had been invited out to his home on a number of times before
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , there was a second luncheon invitation out, and I received it as well, which shows something about my lack of morals--the fact that I have friends in both camps--inviting me to a luncheon at the home of one Creekmore Fath, whose name I am sure may have figured