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Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. I received a call on the fifteenth of February, 1967, at six o'clock at night; the operator said, "The White House is calling," and I almost dropped LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the day that he was leaving or the day before he was leaving--he nearly always flew in the daytime, he didn't like to fly at night. As an aside, I was rather startled when I was in the office, never having been around an office like this before, where

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the helicopter, and we didn't know how it would do, and actually, it did real good, but we made that whole trip. In any event-G: You were there primarily to maintain-- N: Well, I was the crew chief on the helicopter, yes, and every night I would look

Folder, "Johnson, Lyndon B. (1942)," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 20 (Item)

of the city election on the air field bonds--whi ch , by the way, carried about 50 to 1 . I had a long visit with Jimmy last night . He has definit e ly made up hi s mind to run, but this is gravey ard. He expects to leave for Washi ngton Sunday . Bill has

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the day would bring because in fact there was night reading to be gone through, and there were messages that had come up from the National Security Council, and there were telephone calls coming in, and the log was still in existence. And yet somehow you

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, this is where your memory can go wrong. I know I remember her talking a whole lot about him, particularly after we'd gone to bed, chatting at night about Lyndon. I think she did say that to me, and possibly she said it to my mother and father, because she

Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

in the sand, afrajd they would be robbed that night, and the next morning they had to dig it up. But the total amount wouldn't have run over fifty dollars. B: What did they get scared about, do you know? C: They were afraid of tramps and hijackers

Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: When did you begin to have some idea that someone named Lyndon Johnson was in the world? M: In my book--did you read my book? F: Yes. M: I said he was going to be President. Oh, I knew Lyndon and Mrs. Johnson-- as I said before, Sam Rayburn

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 1," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 47 (Item)

. They found little or none. On the other hand, there have been civilian casualties and disruption of public services. Just before I came into the room, I read a long cable from Ambassador Bunker which described the vigor with which the Vietnamese Government

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 27, 1 January 1983," LBJ Library (Item)

and malicious a biography as I have ever read ... lls importance, if in fact it can be said to have any at all, resides almost entirely in the mind of the man who wrote it." And these are just a sampling. So it would seem that Caro will not have completely clear

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Bundy, Walter Jenkins were with him. F: You had a regular White House pass or EOB pass or something like that? R: You had no difficulty in getting in? In those days, that's right. up that night. And we met in the EOB elevator going LBJ
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Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

normally at a night speaking where he would spend the night and take off the next morning maybe for some other area. F: Did you spend the night there or would you be busy getting to the first place the next day? P: Well, I would not spend the night

Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Let's talk some more about the Johnson treatment and his ability to persuade people . W: I think one thing--and I saw this often, if I can think of explicits--is that he could read people almost on meeting them . Therefore it's almost as though he

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the President's night reading a draft of how I would treat it and why I would treat it the way I decided to treat it. I thought that was an enormously difficult task for a physician to write for a "layman" concerning why you decided to do it one [way]. He said

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 5, Tabs A-Z and AA-II," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 48 (Item)

which was supported by rocket and artillery. Att?.,cking under the supporting fire of air,· artillery and naval gunfire, the Marines pursued the enemy, northward until dark. Night blocklng positions have been consoli~ated in the area, with plans

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

materials of large corporate executives, their mail is a problem. We all know instances both in and out of govern ment where a letter has been released bearing the signature of an important man and he has never bothered to read it. I honestly cannot

Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 1-10]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

Grandmother Forsse late at night and getting caught in a rainstorm. Of course, the roads were all just dirt roads that got very muddyand very slippery during a rain, and [I remember]our having a flat tire. Wealways had at least two or three flat tires

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

it is a good friend of mine, Ralph A1bertazzi e. M: Albertazzie. Did you read the article in yesterday's Austin American? C: No, I didn't see that. M: I've got a copy. C: My wife's got a copy of it; she told me about it last night, but I'll leave

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, maybe grandchildren sometime. See what I mean? No soap. I was going to obligate it to me someway maybe, off the record. No, it isn't either. You've read it [the speech]? G: Yes. J: What do you think about it? G: I think it's a good speech. J

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

state for all intents and purposes. I had read about Mr. Johnson and first met him in 1948 in his campaign for the Senate. I was very much interested in that ca'mpaign, very strong for Mr. Johnson. We moved to Longview. Through Baile y Sheppard, who

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the job of waking up Ambassador Lodge at nine-thirty in the evening and telling him that. He was grumpy at first: "Why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?" And I said, "Well, sir, it's a telegram from the President with instructions about

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Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

theme that might be injected . If you thought you had some- thing that was really a lot better than you'd written the night before for your overnighter, we'd call in and dictate a new lead . Virtually never dictated a complete new story during
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Telephone conversation # 13618, transcripts, CONFERENCE CALL (with LBJ), 10/31/1968, 6:05PM (Item)

and General ·. .h •' ' . f Jf : Wheeler and Mr. Helms of the CIA, and Mr. Ros tow. I'm t t Ir I ------~--~~~~~~~~~~------~~~~--~--------~---~~--~~~~~i .. '' .· ; . i I· • I i -2 " reading from -- I want to i·ead a brief background

Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

think he was down there. I never heard he was down there. I read some of this--I never heard that he was down there. There were others that I heard were down there, but I don't know that they were. I saw one or two friends down there. G: Who did you see
family; Owens with the Johnsons at the Driskill Hotel in Austin the night of the 1964 presidential election.

Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

directly to Vietnam. The other portion of them in August of 1964 were told to report to Washington to learn Vietnamese, to think and read and study Vietnam, to focus on the problem of the war for approximately one year's training, which included a stint

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

innovations, so he decided that the symposiums must be in it its name. Last night was the end of the first of the Flair Symposia - one that was dedicated to discovering, predicting and analyzing "the future of the printed word." I have lived by the printed

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 8, Excerpts and Taylor's Memo," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)

of his comrades are answering for you at this hour. I stood before some of them at midnight at an air base in Thailand just a few weeks ago. I wanted so much that night to give medals to all of them. Instead, I gave them something just as meaningful-I

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

much, that all credit was due to me for raising the girls. That's not so, but the compelling nature of his job did mean that he spent very little time with them, although when I read his letters to his 2 LBJ Presidential Library http

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

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/25/1968 (Item)

s l 'HUE HOUSE date ENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON May 25, 1968 .„. the resident began his day at (Place) D Time Telephone 11 In Out Lo White Hous e „ f or t Activity LD Saturday ay i (include visited by) On the Helicopter the President: •— Read

President's Daily Diary entry, 8/22/1968 (Item)

and two for the boys 11:33p Presiden ' --signed ' -- did some night reading --told pob to go on hom e but that he was going to be in theoffice for a while 11:45p t Barefoot Sanders - pl VHITE HOUSE Date >ENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON DIARY the •'resident

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/10/1968 (Item)

Allen Ellender R. Pontius D. Connell , Melchiori 11:23a _ Take ^ _, The off for New Orleans, La. t o address American Legion in Nationa l Convention The President and Senator Ellender together in lounge. President worked last night's "Night Reading

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

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/10/1967 (Item)

visited by) ture President to the cabinet room - speaking to Mary Slater said "well did Mary finally get back to work, .were the Marines having a parade last night? " Mary replied ""Yes - she was back to work ^Bf'"yes"aboutth e Marines. Meeting

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

Record copy, Remarks to the Oklahoma Press Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 7/2/60 (Item)

garbase cans where they had gone to hunt tor something to eat. I remember when boys tram Oklahoma came down and would stq nearly all night talking up about Dr. Bennett. What an 1napiration he was to so lll8ey' young men. What a service he rendered

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

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