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Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HORWITZ -- I -- 9 M: Said the cue again? H: So he went up and read his paragraph again. Once again Church didn't get up, and once again O'Nahoney said, "This is so important I will have to repeat

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

months after he was out of the presidency. But I spent many nights there. I was in Washington on many occasions for different purposes. Occasionally it was because he had gotten me involved in some health committee. For example, he placed me on the Heart

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

Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org the press; ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] she would read it at her committee meetings; More on LBJ Library oral histories: -12 http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wanted it that way, Jim,” which I didn't of course. Nobody else in Texas did. I was told second hand after I moved to Washington--but coming from very responsible sources--that the night after Jack Kennedy was buried there was a meeting at a big home

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Birdwell -- III -- 8 over there, and by that time we had had time to read and study some

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

know about it until I read about it in Evans and Novak, and I don't believe anything they LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the commitments already made while I was planning for additional appearances in the future . The Senator called one night, and he was using a Convair, a twin-engine Convair . He called one night and said, "I just talked to C . R . Smith, and he wants me

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there. visited some classes and had a tutor. I was a graduate student. I read English literature. I I wasn't looking for credits, so I could do what I \-Janted. F: Then did you come back to New York? l: I came back to New York. I was interested

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

. The speech had been written and he asked Claude Wild to go down there and read it. And Claude did. There was also a radio broadcast from Luling on that particular Friday night. B: That was over WOAI? L: Over KNOW, I guess. B: Local station. L

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

have been secretaries to Mr. Justice Holmes. I was reading about it in Dean Acheson the other night. [I don't know] whether we find a hero in the old man and do not have the capacity for adulation that is demanded of presidents. Dean Acheson had his
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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

present. In the case of Kennedy and Johnson, there was easy access day or night on the part of a half dozen of the key people. So the national committee is an entity for filing purposes and other purposes and perhaps funneling fund purposes. That's over
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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

organization and that's the way it should be. G: Was there anyone following the Nixon campaign or was it simply a matter of reading about it in the press? Did you have anyone--? O: At this stage, we did not have people in place that I recall. G: Later did

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

at that goddamned:Herald-Tribune for running that story! F: He was already reading it before it appeared! W: He was reading it and thinking, they're doing to me!" 11 Those dirty bastards! Look what And because he was getting really mad as could be at the situation

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was then either Cy [Cyrus] Vance's special assistant or general counsel to the army. That was September 1962. We got into this--I shouldn't say we, I got into it on the Saturday before the Sunday night in which the rioting really hit its peak. Mr. [Robert

Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

." And he read me the note. The note was a handwritten note from Kermit Gordon saying, "Dear Mr. President: I promised to close the books Thursday night, and tonight I did close them. But your boy, Manny Cohen, called me and said he needs another quarter

Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Originally this was rumored in January in the New York Times I know particularly. Did someone leak it along the way? S: Apparently someone did, because I didn't know anything about it. F: You mean you read about it, too! S: Yes, I read about it, too

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

thing we did- you might try to find this in Shriver 's fil.es--we got up a list that .f irst · night of books and magazines and ali kinds of things that we suggested Shriver start reading immediately. on tha~ list, not just Oh, there might have been

Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to. Because the convention was going to be the deciding factor anyway; the convention could overrule the recommendation of the committee anyway. So that night they did. G: Who was--was there any one person who was sort of leading Stevenson's side

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gorman -- I -- 9 I can't do both things at the same time. I've got to tour the state hospitals first; I've got to find out. I've got to do a hell of a lot of reading, and it's got to be at night and weekends; I don't have time to do

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the bombings and things that we were doing, it was middle of the night, our time, when they'd come back from bombing, and it seemed to me he was always kind of prayerful about things until he heard that they were back. I would consider him a deeply religious

Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of a relationship I just now looked over some of the correspondence that I have since I took over this office when I retired. Then I read it a~ain, and I'm getting more and more inspiration after reading it. M: Well, good. D: And how could I say no! M: I

Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? E: I don't know except read. G: What did she read? E: I don't really know. G: Did she work on the newspaper at all or write or edit a newspaper at What kind of books? I didn't pay that much attention. any time? E: I don't know. did. Since

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for a doctor in San Antonio after I had left the Quartermaster Corps in San Antonio. I then came back to Washington and worked for the International Monetary Fund for a while. I had taken night courses throughout this time in Washington, from the time I had

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the second primary night as on the E: general election night. Yes, I think it did play quite a good deal. Then, of course, that's the election campaign that ended up with the disputed vote count and the ruckus at the certification meeting, and the court

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, that doesn't explain why he went out in the woods in the first place. M: Not because of a political belief, believe me. vinced of. This much I am con- I've read too many translations of diaries. That little fellow coming from the North wasn't doing

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Act? J: I can recall the details of the close vote, but not from his point of view. I can recall it primarily because I was on the Capitol police force, and we were trying to police the Capitol that night of that vote, and it was an impossible job

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

knowledge of him was almost like any, I suppose, average, intelligent man, reading the papers and being aware of him. I'd followed his career in Texas, but peculiarly enough until that afternoon, I really had never seen him in person and surely had never

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

President, sent him a copy of the bill, complimented him on his vision and having seen the merits of it. I got a very nice letter back from him on May 3, 1962, in which he says [Mr. Marks reads from the letter]: your note. "Thanks for You have good

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

days you could enter the law school with two years of academic work. I was in and out of school some; worked in the state night watchman. departments, and as a I finally finished my law course in January, 1931, got my license in February and my

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Then in 1960, early in the year, I got a call from him one day, and he said he was going to be some place in Ohio, nearby, Would 1 have was going to come into Pittsburgh and stay all night

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Califano -- XVI -- 3 emergency, get the planes ready. And Cross told him everything was ready; they were ready to leave immediately. Then, there ensued over the night a whole series of calls from the President to me, and back and forth

Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. He had been hauled in as a result of the police raids that night, and he wanted assurance that I was trying to get him into America. I showed that message to Mr. Johnson, and shortly afterwards he was complaining that I wasn't working hard enough

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and it was quite a bit of copy on it and taken in to the Government Printing Office and fortunately they have a staff that goes day and night. There is one section there that I understand can proof-read Gone With the Wind in twenty minutes. And so you know the size

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But it was specifically stated by Russell at that meeting that any senator could speak as long as he wanted to. The day I started that long speech--I started about nine o'clock at night I believe--shortly after lunch that day I went to Russell and I told him, "You know

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

would have been terribly important, and all the people who saw the moving lips and nothing come out of it. There is such a thing as doing your job too well sometimes. Oh, let me tell you one other thing. Late that night, in front of the Waldorf, we were
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Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

day for the President. It was about seven-thirty or a quarter to eight at night, and he and I sat very quietly. His eyes were red-rimmed. I remember that. He had been under a tremendous strain, tremendous pressure. The Filipino mess boy who comes out

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

said . telephone number in my room . [Sam Rayburn] Here's my private And have him contact me ." That night I went to Chasen's Restaurant . I got in touch with Bobby--I can't think of his last name right now--who was Kennedy's chauffeur

Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the night, he got this helicopte r, and he res -:ued all thes e people, brought the:m to the ral1.ch, aYJ.d there we were serving breakfast. It just turned out to be a gay affair in the lnidst of something very dcatructive. It was things like

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you sent me. G: I see it's not here. K: No, it isn't. But I was there. It was a few days afterward. Jack Valenti saw me in the hall, and it was the first time we had met. He had read all about my partner and myself. My partner was with me

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at that particular time. One of the most exhaustive hearings for me occurred one night with Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who was then chairman of the District Committee. He invited only a few of us as witnesses, including Tom Fletcher, the deputy mayor

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