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Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in New York parks in doing outdoor living rooms for all ages, old people to sit in the sun, ' young people to have some instructible kind of playground equipment. And so once when she was in New York, she asked Mrs. Astor if she would take her

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

have to make around Washington to- C: It went on for two months. She blocked out time to do it right. at sunrise to Mount Vernon because the sun's better then. She went even The cameramen all fell in love with her because she was the first person

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

, rather impressively massive, figure. So that I didn't like very much, nor did I think much about the idea of the Capitol at the time. But one evening when I saw it illuminated by artificial light as the sun went down I thought, II Th is is the way I

Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Fleming -- I -- 22 specific problems. degree. Well, that's the kind of thing you can do to some But if you're talking about an overall planning agency to deal with everything under the sun--transportation, health, education

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

who are now criticizing called this just everything under the sun which is black and bad. It was an unusual convention. It wasn't that black and bad. Yes, we had unusual security, security that I never experienced in any other conventions. past

Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. People from all over the state. say, from Pascagoula. They were heavily armed. gas and grenades and everything under the sun. A big bus load, They had tear There were deer hunters with rifles, all that sort of thing, and they wouldn't have had

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

o'clock, and the next morning about seven o'clock he was at my door with a contract. F: You got the feeling he never slept, didn't you? J: So I said, "My God, can't you wait until the sun comes up?" He said, "Business is business, we've got to get

Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

to the Federal Reserve Bank!" Nobody So, I had to pay $2.35 before he would read the telegram saying it was all right to let us have several million dollars. PE: Now, just to sun®arize for a minute, that was to buy what from the Central Power and Light? SG

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

procedure, hunting, fishing, just everything under the sun. B: Just chatting among buddies? T: Yes, tha tis correct. B: Senator Johnson and Senator Russell obviously had a special relationship, as you said a while back, almost as if Senator Russell

Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- I -- 22 before dawn and just as we got over Vera Cruz at a terrific altitude --all the great peaks of Nexico standing up and the rays of the sun hitting the mountains. live never seen such a sight in my life. felt a bit

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

assignment. So there was this animosity. But this goes on in every administration. I can't believe that any White House would operate without this interplay of egos and clashings of ambitions, all sort of like satellites circling the sun. F: Did

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

if they wanted to march on the side of the road in the hot sun. It was all right. But I still worried about their safety. told the President that we could handle the matter, but I had visualized at that time that it would take about five hundred national

Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--no, Stephen F. here about sun-down. Austin. F: - Did you come because you . • . ? W: Oh, we were interested in the campaign, of course. F: Did you know it was going to be a close election, or did you just come? W: Oh, we came because we wanted him

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

think that there is some truth to the story that they did resent certain aspects of it. On the other hand, Jack called me up, and in fact, I was out with my children skiing. They were skiing in Sun Valley, and I got a call from Rusk out there saying

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 him since the wartime days. I met him first in 1942 when I went to Teheran with Prime Minister Churchill and went up to Moscow at that time. I have seen him intimately. He's stayed in my house in Sun Valley and he's come

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 And we were doing some good things in science, we had a number of--the Year of the Quiet Sun--we had earlier wound up the International Geophysical year, and I remember during that period I went down to the Antarctic

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

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and in fact I had a room downtown but I was out there to get away from it. He was sitting out there with the sun beating down on him and he had his old preacher's suit on and was sweating. I don't know." He said, "You don't have any choice. for, you've got

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about bluebonnets and wildflowers, and we loved to go on long walks in the woods and still loved the picnics and the cookouts, you know, all of that. there. And loved Barton Springs, sunning and swimming We'd double-date and triple-date very often

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Saturday, October 19,1968,7:30 p.m. at his residence, 140 Sun Way, San JI.ntonio, Texas L: ~ly first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in the year 1941. There was a strike of pecan

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

dying in the heat of the day, and found out that we were eating pork and after being served pork, the men were allowed to go down to the PX and eat ice cream afterwards and then march. They got out in the hot sun and we had a few deaths, so right quick

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

about coming in when the sun goes down and telling their experiences of the day. Everybody went in a different direction or took a different stand or something, then they'd come in and tell their tale of what they saw and what happened and all, around

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Phillips -- II -- 20 P: No, no. Rising Sun was the first resettlement-pacification thing that was started before Harkins

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, obviously. If there ever was, and I assume there was, any enemy troops there, three days before the first landing craft left, the LSTs, they were gone. So it turned into, as so many things did, a massive, totally fruitless, frustrating walk in the sun

Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into that sun; it was about four or five o'clock in the afternoon. I got just plain glasses and I bought a pair for Randy and a pair for me. I asked him, "Is Lyndon in town?" He said, "No, he just left, but Sam Houston is." "Yeah? Where's Sam Houston?" Well, he

Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

on the outskirts of Munich. Munich is located on the outskirts of the Alps. You are standing in Dachau military--they are, not the other things--and the sun rises, and it's red--things you don't forget--and cold. You had no clothes, no nothing, just a jacket

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, there isn't any subject under the sun that doesn't fall upon the President's desk to be solved. There's no question that deals with the people--and it's the kind of increase in activity that just can't be helped. had to encompass more and more. It's like

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

can still shut my eyes and see it, [is of] him paddling up and down that pool out there at 4040 on a raft and Juanita walking back and forth taking dictation . While he got his recreation Juanita got a walk in the sun . G: Well- LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

time there's a tragedy, the cranks and those people who just want a day in the sun? W: Not as much as we expected. Very little. Very, very little. Some depositions were taken that I'm sure were of crank type, you know, but in the first place we had

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, that room was left open--unoccupied. fearful that The sun Everybody was woulc--because of the symbolism that it had been i~ occu?ied ~y Sheroa.~ Adams--somehow or another take one member of the sta== or a~d stick then on top of the others. =o=~:-£i7e

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

minute was utilized. was keeping him in shirts. Now, one of the logistics, of course, You can imagine how you would wilt down a shirt. M: You can do that in an hour or so. W: Oh, absolutely, in the hot sun. So we had quite a logistics problem

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a group of men, and all over the city they pulled down billboards so that when the sun came up the next morning every Lyndon's boy, Jake . si gn in Austin ha d disappeared. F: They were good at t hat. In my nei ghb orhood inl964, mine was about th e

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

years standing, made an appointment to go to Bonham and interview him. He had to wait ten days until Rayburn was well enough to see him. So Rayburn was lying on a cot out on the back porch, the sun porch, when the tape recorder was going. Rags got