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Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that get into the office before anyone has had a chance to pull things together and read the traffic out of Washington and digest it, and stay there until all hours of the night and exhaust everybody really aren't doing the mission or their staff that much

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, "They're on television every night. They're on the evening news. Washington is--[Robert] McNamara and [Cyrus] Vance and [Roswell] Gilpatric and you and [Dean] Rusk--are all working and you read the New York Times and the Washington Post. The country

Folder, "Longoria, Felix," Pre-Presidential Confidential Files, Box 2 (Item)

e accounI oif J CLASS OF SERVICE DESIRED 'DOMESTIC ' CABLE TELEGRAM ORDINARY DAY URGENT RATE LETTER i SERIAL DEFERRED NIGHT LETTER NIGHT LffiER Palrona should check clau or Mrvice .i.inld; ot"-iae the m-ae .,ill be tlanlmilled

Folder, "Committee on Armed Services, Unidentified Flying Objects, 1966," Office Files of Fred Panzer, Box 573 (Item)

, and somemmes blue-green. No heat is felt, and the lights do not bum or char the ground. They can appear for hours wt a stretch and sometimes for a whole night. Gi!nerally, there is no smell and no !!Ound except for the popping !IOUndof little explosion

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)

, during the day, as well as Dorothy Nichols and Herbert Henderson. And then we'd work at night when the office was basically closed after six o'clock, and write the letters. I would at times write as many as eighty letters a night myself, typing them

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

you mentioned was the other crisis that you would like to talk about, there are a couple of things that seem a little incongruous. On television the other night, for example, a history professor at Georgetown, I think, named [Hasham] Sharabi, said

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to them in dealing with these matters. Well, as I see now in papers which I've read that you've provided, papers coming from within the White House, it was clear that as the report was coming to Joe Califano, that he was looking at it from the viewpoint

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Antonio to visit, or he'd come up there with his debate team. I"d ~~ I saw him on an average of once every two months during the year and a half in which he was coaching debate at Sam Houston in Houston. As you'll recall if you've read the history

Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

available for everybody [was enacted] then, generally, every . body that· was for 1aw and order accepted .it, and .we: went from there. . ,. ,. B: Was it that easy? It seems to be, just.from what I recall of reading the papers at the time. Atlanta

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

representative, because they didn't want to take any chance on him not being elected. So Avery Dowell became ill and twelve of the leaders in McKinney asked me if I'd come to Dudley Perkins' office one night, and we did. I was the only young man there; the other

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/show/loh/oh (Interruption) G: You hinted at a rather interesting point earlier. If I read you right, you said that the question of press relations was in some ways a reflection of what can be called a generation gap back in the states. Z: Well, I

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/4/1968 (Thursday) (Item)

^ % it a fte r a ll th ese y e a r s Lyndon knew and Worked w ith FDR, we only have about two or th ree au tograp hed p ic tu r e s of h im , and how m uch we tr e a su r e them . I w an ted to be read y to le a v e on tim e for m y own sa k e , and b e c a u
& speeches; LBJ works hard with little rest; Johnsons to Democratic fundraiser that night; Lynda Robb relays news that Martin Luther King has been shot & died; LBJ calls Coretta Scott King & makes televised speech; evening plans cancelled & Hawaii trip

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/24/1967 (Item)

a briefing memo for his meeting w/ Chancellor Kiesinger today and other items that had accumulated during the night. This morning, he read the "New York Times" and the "Stars and Stripes" : j 1j . Mr. j Ranch i (____-E \ j last Marvin Watson told

President's Daily Diary entry, 11/2/1966 (Item)

Jake Jacobsen in-- the President continued with suggestions for smoother operations i j the future. H e sai d that in the future he wanted his secretaries luggage taken off the j every night, for he liked to see them in fresh clothes daily. _ ^ . j Th e

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

, in fact only one with President Johnson. the day itself. I would like for Mrs. Hurd now to tell me about She was just telling me that it was a disturbing day in many ways, and I will let her say why. H: Well, the disturbing day started the night before

Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was superb at reading the moods. He was so much like Melville Grosvenor here, he reminded me very much--not necessarily in the way the mind works but the way the heart works, the moods. Of course I've worked very closely with Dr. Grosvenor over the years

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Ben B. Lindsey, the juvenile court judge. He became the most famous juvenile judge in the world, and he was always in a controversial position. F: My early memories-- C: You must have read his Companionate Marriage. F: Yes, and the local

Report on Australia, 1942 [Sherrod Report] (Item)

, 1991, Mr. Sherrod told me that he wrote the report for his Washington editors, although it was not for publication. Johnson agreed to carry it back to the states and give it to the editors, thus avoiding the censors. Sherrod stayed up all night writing

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the Senate--and at the time when Sam Rayburn was Speaker. Do you recall what you knew or had heard of Lyndon Johnson when you first came into Congress? A: Yes. I did not know him, of course, but I knew of him. I knew of him by reputation and having read

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the message. The President went over--I don't know how many drafts were produced. The President went over many of them. I think he virtually never talked to Goodwin directly. Valenti and I dealt with Goodwin. Moyers. On the night before the State of the Union

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Now, if I read you right, what you're saying is that these men, and men like them, formed the cadre who organized and directed the Am I reading you properly on this? insurgency. ~I: That's right. G: Now, most authorities waul d agree with that, I

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, there will probably be another conference call. read-out. We'll discuss what might come up and we receive a In the meantime, we're in touch with each other on an hourly basis and if necessary all night long. M: So you don't get at cross purposes. D: No; quite

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was in in high school, and, of course, the Longhorn Band in those days traveled by train to most of the football games we attended, but a cross-country trip, spending a couple of nights on the train--that's what it took then--was something new. I 3 LBJ

Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Capitol in the morning in the 7:30 to 8:30 range, and they left here in the 9:30 to 10:30 range at night. They were here, Senator Russell and I believe Senator Johnson, every Saturday and most Sundays. the Senate. There has been a change in Now we find

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he's come from something he never expected to raise his hand. (Laughter) CTJ: Oh, Lordy, Lordy, I'll raise both of mine. LB: Bird and I were talking about that the other night when I was saying how beautiful Austin was here, and she was talking

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been where it was. H: I must have met him, yes. Because when he ran for Congress, the night before election -- late afternoon before election -- Aubrey Williams called me and said, IICan you raise five hundred dollars in New York? We have no money

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

campaigns. B: Did you have anything to do with other campaign mechanics like this group I've read about, the five o'clock club, or the Department of Dirty Tricks, to think up ways to bedevil the opposition? R: No. That was a childish sort of operation

Folder, "White House Fashion Show, 2/29/1968 [1 of 3]," White House Social Files, Bess Abell Files, Box 23 (Item)

. for the President From Bees Abell Reading around to your right the lollowing are a eated at your table for tomorrow night' a dinner: Mrs. 1obn N. Dempsey (Connecticut) GOT. John A. Volpe (Mas eachu.aetta) Mrs. Raymond P. Shaler (Pemusylvania) Mr • .James H. Rowe

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

had almost an hour's conference with the President on the night of the twenty-third. M: The plane turned back, you were told what happened, and you returned to Washington then? H: Right. M: Johnson, meanwhile, with Mrs. Kennedy and the rest

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

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 s: You know, you read it carefully, it wasn't libelous, but it looked like

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1960" (Item)

to Acapulco the next day. 2/10 The Johnsons, Kellams, Baileys, Wiley and Bob Armstrong leave at 1 p.m. for Mexico on Wesley West’s plane. They are forced to spend the night in Monterrey after the pilot refuses to fly into the unfamiliar terrain around

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, Bill Manchester wrote in his book--he got carried away and wrote that it was a Bible that Kennedy often read at night while he was making trips. He would read this Bible at night before he would turn out his lights, Manchester said. I later tracked

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/5/1967 (Item)

night reading w/ mary s and MW--gave MW all night reading back. Simon McHugh and Mr. &: : Mrs. John McCammon Today sen t t o th e Congres s hi s ms g o n Federal Pa y an d Posta l Rate s /HITS Hous e >ENT LYNDO N B . JOHNSO N Date Apri MARY e Whit

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or drink anything except the problems he has as majority leader. He won't relax." That was on a Friday night. On Sunday morning we picked up the paper and read that over the \'Jeekend he had had his heart attack. F: Did'Mr. Truman ever express himself

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? T: She was a very unusual woman. She liked to read, and she had a house full of books. G: Was she active in the community? T: Yes. Of course, I was just a child. I don't know too much about her. I think she entered into politics. G: What kind

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about whether to accept one or the other; yet any deviation from LBJ's particular formulation was unacceptable to LBJ. I'll tell the story later how we finally came out. At the beginning, during that week before the convention, before the Sunday night

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Party in 1956? P: In 1956? No, I wasn't in on that. (Laughter) I've heard enough about it. M: Sounds almost as if you're ,happy you weren't. P: I sure am. That was a trauma. (Laughter) Judge Wilson, who died here last Friday night

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Well, read that little story there. G: You're referring to the story here that's in the Texas Highway Department magazine. W: I met him right there; that's the first day I met him. If you read that story, you'd kind of find out what it was all about

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

night and I nearly all night, because I think we reached New York and docked shortly after 3 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, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

something ready in a package"--at that time, and then of course the assassination just floored all of us for a while. G: Was there something that President Kennedy had read I wonder, like I ' v e heard that he read Night Comes to the Cumberlands

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