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- in that campaign, but no more than any number of other law students to whom the young candidate appealed. F: Before we get into that, let's finish your brief account of your career. H: I went home from the University to practice law in my hometown of Hempstead
- primarily? Me: Yes. Mu: Once the assassination of President Kennedy occurred and Mr. Johnson was suddenly President, how quickly did he contact you? Me: He contacted me at home the next morning. President Kennedy was assassinated on Friday around 1
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , you came over here with me. I just wanted to take leave of you and let you know that I am going home very quickly for political reasons that I have already discussed with you in some measure," as he had over, say, the previous two weeks, his view
- jeopardizing my own position, and so other than talking to friends and trying to influence their vote, I couldn't take any action that would smack of political activity. F: Yes, sir. So Senator Johnson, now, offered you the position as adminis- trative
- mentioned the reorganization of the government. I hqve at my home notes of my meeting with him. I said to him that I thought as much of the running of the District as possible ought to be handled at the District Building, and that I would do everything
- Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 was to say, ·'Yes, sir!" I didn't give it a second thought. I did point out that all my experience was in the Middle East, and I
- to the side and said to me, "You can go home with me and you can stay at The Elms." F: I said, "Yes, sir." Had you had any chance meanwhile to communicate with your wife? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
- you are now. T: Babes in the woods, and had children and my mother was with us. There were just many personal things they did for us; it's just almost impossible to enumerate them alL \' They had us in their home so often. hard time when we first
- home one night at which Chief Justice Warren and then--Majority Leader Johnson and Speaker Rayburn ,vere present. Speaker Rayburn and President Johnson--then Sena- tor Johnson--were advised ahead of time what the subject matter of the dinner was going
- . Well, I was just telling you that I went in to see him, and one of the things that he poignantly asked me was, "Are the mil itary planning a COUp?" And I looked at him and I said, "Yes, sir, I think they are." G: What did you base that on? P: Just
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb
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- to the Atlanta field office? Y: Well, I had been on the White House detail for five years; Georgia is my home; I had expressed a desire to transfer back to Georgia--you must realize that there is an awful lot of traveling on the White House detail and people
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- people's minds that knew anything about it that this fellow Dougherty could ever beat Johnson. M: Did Mr. Johnson discuss or members of his staff talk very much about his political base and broadening his political base at home? He had, of course
- that was about it. He hadn't been home; he had been very much i.nyolved with foreign policy, and when you get to that exalted position-at that time) you know, they were fussing around a lot about starting the Uni.ted Nations; Chiang Kai-shek; Madame Chiang
- home down there on 6th Street. I had a wife and two sons, little kids. born then. Bill wasn't even They'd throw bricks up on the house at night. Once they burst a window in the car and one time they cut a tire, did little old things like
- then, when did you see him first? M: I saw him almost immediately upon his arrival in Washington. I think he arrived, as I remember it-F: He arrived late evening on Friday. M: Late evening, and I think I saw him at his home that night. F: What
- . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
- but that the wetto residents are the people who suffer the most from this because they suffer the dislocation of their homes, the dislocation of the services that exist there, and a disorganization of an area which is already fairly disorganized. But I think
- INTERVIEWEE: JUANITA ROBERTS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Roberts' home, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Okay, Mrs. Roberts, I want you to start with the March 31, [1968J speech. were. R: Yes. Just tell what you remember about
- at this dinner and said, "How long does it take to fly back home? back home tonight." I'll go And of course that became the 1ead story for all of us: "Khrushchev threatens to go home because he can't go to Disneyland." It was like some little kid saying, "I'm
- in For example, he lived further out in Washington than we And I would say more than half of the time, maybe three-fourths of the nights, he would actually take me home, and it was a pretty good drive. We would get to visit a great deal, you see. That's
- thought the course we were following was right and because the President had almost unanimous support of the people he represented • If you crossed FDR on any kind of a vote, the people back home said, "Hey, what is wrong with you,Congressman? getting
- started reading my columns and news stories in the paper in Oklahoma, which is his home state. We became friends and a dialogue developed. expressed an interest. I I told him that I wanted to work for the President if I could, do anything
- in debt, and ,vas planning to go home and start out the next morning looking for a job. That afternoon Ralph Shinn called me alld asked if Dorothy Plyler had reached me; said she had been trying to get me about a job. I called Dorothy and she asked me
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- on Mr. Johnson's election and also were elected Texas Democratic state chairman. From 1957 to 1965 you were executive assistant to E. B. Germany, president of Lone Star Steel Company located near Daingerfield, Texas, where you presently have a home
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 11, 1969 F: This is an interview with former Ambassador to India Chester Bowles in his home in Essex, Connecticut, on November 11, 1969 . The interviewer is Joe B . Frantz . Mr . Ambassador--it's kind of hard
- the ice for them, made them feel at home . F: Then, President Eisenhower named you the Ambassador to Ecuador, a year or so before he went out of office . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
- she would call me here in Washington to give me a little report of what was going on. So she waited until twelve o'clock midnight because of a two hour difference. She knew it'd be ten o'clock here, just about the time I'd be getting home
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- labor organizations before you entered government service. Did you ever have occasion during those years to be in contact with Mr. Johnson while he was a' Senator, for example'? W: Yes, I first met President Johnson in Stuart Symington's home
- , and Wilbur Cohen, a strong opponent of the plan. The whole Treasury department--Douglas Dillon and others--strongly opposed it. I don't know whether, if it had been handled differently, we might have been able to do a more persuasive job. I don't think
- dare to be too far away. F: Yes. S: But Berlin was a little soon for that relationship, and I think I was far away~ in answer to your question. F: Okay~ you're home from Berlin. S: Yes. Then another couple of events took place. The Vice
- had one reader anyhow. K: Yes, I didn't know we circulated up there. people that he really chewed out. papers, though. No, I don't recall any I heard that he did on the local Of course this is getting pretty close to home. I guess he probably
- and talked to Pierre Salinger. It was arranged that I would return to my home and was to call a certain number at Palm Beach an hour hence. So I called that number and the President-elect had gone out, but he would be back in an hour and he would call me
- , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: BROOKS HAYS INTERVIEHER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Congressman Hays' home, 314 2nd Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: I'll make a little introduction here, just for identification. This is an interview with former
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
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- she was, how she tried to make you feel at home . the house well . room . I can remember I think Lynda Bird was there ; we went up to her There were about maybe twelve Senate wives . food we had . I remember the I know a really nice black lady
- ~ .'.it of a speech and he i-lould try calling Harry, and Earry '\]Quld be on his i,Jay to work--,JOuld neither be at home nor at the office--and he ,.]ould say, Harry, and tell him A, B, C, D, E." "Larry, take this speech dOlm to I would relay those messages. I
- -480 agreements were quite long and detailed. They not only said "Build a new fertilizer plant," but "Provide facilities so that by a certain year you will be producing at home so many tons of fertilizer; and provide for the use of foreign exchange
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- education was one of his greatest drives, anything to better your life. I remember extremely strongly one night when we were talking about poverty programs, and he said, "You know, it's awfully hard to argue with a man who has a sick baby at home." a speech
- as legislative institutions . And Mr . Johnson gave me the impression of being a person who had never been fully at home in the House with its procedures . I have no reason to disagree with my early assessment that he never was as effective a House man as he