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Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 K: Well, you might look up the citation that I read that day. I think that was what I thought about him then. M: Very good. K: He's got a copy of it, Brown's

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to Washington each day. In a certain sense of the word, they were messages to the President--not that he read them all, nor should he read them all. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

the way those things work, I see somebody reading the cable and then talking to Wiental, and 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, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

interested areas in the department will discuss the idea . The Secretary is very good in responding to any request for a meeting, he's very good in reading any paper ; and papers that we send him get 'read, anytime we've asked for a meeting on the subject

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

career plans of your own, of what you wanted to do along the line. B: Is that fair to say that? I suppose I should say that, because I guess every man I've ever read about in high public office always said that as a young boy he used to dream

Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Benjamin Read, who was Rusk's executive secretary, in order to gain access to State Department materials. No one in the White House was called so far as I knew. I called people over there to tell them I was doing this and to ask for documents

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

read other people's speeches." it was then absolutely true. I said, "Well, This was pre-United Nations, but So I saw a young Jim Reston and Doug Cater LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 A: Oh, he got very, very, very angry with me. M: With you? A: Oh, furious! M: You couldn't have· supported him more closely, just from reading your Absolutely furious

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, transmitted around the various Cabinet offices, but these were very stilted and I didn't learn a great deal from reading the other Cabinet officers reports, and I doubt seriously that they learned much from reading mine . I had a feeling all the way through

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

thing if we had had the MLF. I've never read about a subject--I'm not--you know, never have I read such really low-grade attacks that were made on MLF--even people who should know better and shouldn't use words like "zealots" of the State Department

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McS: This interview is with L. H. Fountain, Democrat from the Second District of North Carolina. Mr. Fountain, you were in private law prac- tice in North Carolina and then a reading clerk

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, have any struck you as being particularly meritorious or with substance, or are they all, to your mind, meretricious? N: You mean the criticisms? G: Yes, sir. N: Well, I hate to brand everything, including stuff I haven't read, as being wrong

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

think that these did make an impression on those Bulgarians that were, you know, able to read and got the message. I think it had a pronounced effect, and I know, I rememeber that one of the things which I assured all the Bulgarians who did calIon me

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was throwing his hands in the air, and that they were going to misinterpret it; and what he intended as a really very major gesture in the direction of peace would be read as a gesture as a result of weakness, and that it would lengthen the war and complicate

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. M: How did you do that? B: Well, I now forget what the circumstances were, in fact, but, any way, I got to him, and we talked about it, and he asked me for a memo which he, himself, read to the National Security Council . And I remember

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, but it was--and I'm not saying this in a derogatory sense-it was a pamphleteer job. study of the whole subject. He took a few stirring cases. Mine was a complete It had tremendous coverage in the newspapers and elsewhere and in the schools. And if you read it now

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

goes, this is a real problem. M: What about the label? S: The FTC doesn't think it does any good, and I don't think so either. It's not in a place where people would read it. meaning. It doesn't have much I have a hunch that if that label had

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was pretty formidable, something to have to- F: He didn't want [the President] to read it in the paper, did he A! He surely didn't. And I don't remember now how much advance hint we had; but, in any case, the actual decision was a surprise

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

that rather shook up the White House some months before, and I'd read that and I was very much interested. So I looked forward to seeing him when he got back. I don'C"recall we ever sat down and really talked over what he saw on the trip. , I saw his cables

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

getting up and reading a letter from Johnson, or a message from Johnson, to prevail in the debate in which he made a most tear-jerking plea not to disavow the policies of Jack Kennedy. And in our exchange of correspondence, that seemed to be reflected

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

talked to me, and the conversation was just about this . He said, "Alan, I've been hearing a lot and reading a lot about the Northeast Airlines case . As far as I'm concerned, I want good air service in New England and whatever you do to accomplish

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

to bed about midnight and got up the next morning and ate breakfast . The President invited us all to go to church . And after breakfast, I was sitting in the living room reading the paper, and the President said, "Alan, come in here . I want to show

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

implied-- F: Might I just say that Lyndon Johson is a man of deep emotions. And if the mothers of the men who went to Vietnam could have seen him on occasion as I saw him reading their letters with the deepest emotion they would have felt as sorry

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Oh~ well ~ the people who read the transcripts will have to make up their own minds about that one. T: He's a character. He's worth meeting. G: I understand he's in the area. T: Really? G: I think so. He's in McLean. I think so. Well

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Service special agents read the newspapers, like anyone else, and if they see something that has the potential of generating unreported income, they may well start an investigation. The investigation as I recall, LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and equipment into a military victory--I think if one reads Mr. McNamara's testimony and his press statements during that period, he really was very cautious about any estimate about rapid victory. Prior to 1965 I remember Mr. McNamara believed and so stated

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: I have read that there was some friction with the highway people over the Highway Trust Fund, and possible plans to use that more broadly by the department . B: Is there anything to that? You have to refine your question, Dave . The answer

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

countries; problems, the Defense Department,-F: You must have spent a lot of time both listening and reading? H: Oh, yes. Every department in government which has anything overseas has a tremendous amount of briefing. F: Now, you arrived there in mid

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 Q: Through 1965, yes. G: I have read comments to the effect that in 1964 the administration ramrodded the bill through the committee. statements. People have made these I think some committee members made

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in Mexico at the time and looking at this election campaign very much from a distance. I did, however, receive a letter from him while I was still in Mexico saying he had read The Uncertain LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

along \'Iith the U.N. resolution on Rhodesia.· We still sell them food because we don't read the U.N. resolution as advocating starvation, because it's starvation for the whites as well as the blacks. F: Right. While we're on the subject of food

Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that, you still had no response from the President or the White House staff? M: No, sir. [I] never received any response whatsoever. It was somewhat disturbing, knowing that every time you looked at the television and you read news reports about what

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

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PARTEN -- II -- 13 Yarborough's house and tells how great Ralph Yarborough is and all the opposition melted away. P: I know nothing of that except what I've read in the papers

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

date, what had you heard about then-Senator Johnson in preparation for appearing for his committee? P: Of course, you always get the usual briefings on senators before you go up so you won't make too many mistakes. I'd been told, and I had read

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

if I'd been running it I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing. Each month it sort of looked as though you were going to get it, and so they'd sort of defer their tightening-up policy. I think the Federal's major sin was reading what everybody

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

were all visible. But everyone knew what they were because if you read the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Christmas? He had only been in office about a month . He saw it coming, and he was going to have to make up his mind because he had read all the commitments and knew all the =7-vi tments . He felt like he was committed to it . G: Do you think that he

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of pieces he didn't like, and he expressed himself about it. to the effect, if not directly, "~Jhat He said words you're doing is you're up here, you read The New York Times and The Washington Post, and all of a sudden you think that's the fad. yourself