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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
LBJ's interests in Sputnik and civil rights; activities at the LBJ Ranch the night of the Sputnik launch; Corcoran's relationship with FDR; the 1936 Minimum Wage Bill; Corcoran's preference for a career in law rather than politics; expectations

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
in the White House as the most rewarding time of his life; why O'Brien never ran for elected office; the role of women in the 1960 and 1964 presidential campaigns; Lady Bird Johnson's 1964 whistle stop tour through the South; the excitement of election night

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

Reference File, "Cooks / Chefs" (Item)

." Bellows recalls boisterous gatherings of the extended family, and quiet mornings when the grandchildren would ride bikes around the ranch, and she would read Lady Bird .the Sunday paper. "I really never thought that she would die," Bellows said. Johnson

Reference File, "Cooks / Chefs" (Item)

." Bellows recalls boisterous gatherings of the extended family, and quiet mornings when the grandchildren would ride bikes around the ranch, and she would read Lady Bird .the Sunday paper. "I really never thought that she would die," Bellows said. Johnson

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

Folder, "Epton, William Leo, Jr.," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 8 (Item)

(OAAU}, with himself as Chairman. This announcement was made at a public rally held by the MMI in the Audubon Ballroom, Broadway and 166th Street, New York City. A printed and published statement of basic OAAU aims read by MALCOLM X at this meeting

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Legacy of the Sixties, 1999," LBJ Library (Item)

together to write gags • r it, and we came up ith the line, "Now, about my great-great-granddaddy at the Alamo. Y'all dicln 't let me fini h. It was the Alamo Bar and Grill in Eagle Pass, Tex·1s." The President changed it to read ··The Alamo Hotel in Eagle

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

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/2/1968 (Item)

, and Arizona, starting at age 14 . Since joinin g Goodwill in 1963, he has progressed t o supervisor of 40 men, is attending night school, an d expect s a high school equivalency certificate in another year, has lost his aggressive pattern, is active

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/11/1968 (Item)

at Austin residence No answer - Pres. said never mind last President reading over/draft of speech for White House Correspondents dinner. Asked Larry to get earlier draft in which reference to Walter Lippmann, , Mary McGrory, et al, was made and deleted from

President's Daily Diary entry, 7/20/1968 (Item)

USSS Rufus Youngbloo d USS S OTTE R USS S Mille Clint Hil l USS S Plea s on USSS Mitchel John Pau l Jone s USS S Carrel l USS S McCarth Mroz USS S Balg e USS S DeFrees S Read y USS S Hutc h USS S 5 0 PASSENGERS ) r USS S l USS S y USSS e USS S WHITE

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/6/1968 (Item)

:55a t Senato 11:15a 12:00 n Senato 11:50a T y Saturda y (includ e visite d by ) t y 'x] r Richar d Russel l - a t his hom e y McPherso n Harry's daughter , Coco , fel l fro m a tree las t night , an d there wa s a chance of seriou s injury

President's Daily Diary entry, 8/10/1967 (Item)

on the Citizens Advisory Board on Youth Opportunity. I |\\ - pl -- talked to JimJones _ ^ 8:56p ~ Thursday ay_ MW --at home " 9:24p To mansion - w/ Diana MacArthur, J Jones, mf worked night reading in West Hall 10:30p | 1i .i 10:48p £ 11:00p To 11:31p

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

. Oval Office with Tom Johnson mjdr's room with Tom Johnson, working some of his night reading and looking a : the News Magazines. To Harry 7:48p Mrs. 7:59p t Hon. Willard QS-- 8:04p f N* U.S McPherson Johnson joined to hear the radio "Campaign Speech

President's Daily Diary entry, 11/22/1968 (Item)

departed the Sanders residence - via auto --accompanied by Tom Johnson and m f 11:20p Arrived the South Grounds - and to the second floor and his bedroom -worked night reading w/ T Johnson and mf 11:45p Tom Johnson and mf departed The President had

President's Daily Diary entry, 8/22/1964 (Item)

O'Brien w/ Jack mans Russell Eastland fr mans Ala Miss Doddsville Reading papers Valenti arrived Valenti sparkman Eastland Ga Miss night on Miss Doddsville Miss 8-22-64 White House Sat Diane Richards pics and her mother and father

President's Daily Diary entry, 11/2/1964 (Item)

, The President ate lunch in his cabin w/ Mrs. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. The President read the newspapers and talked with Lynda, and Luci, VM, MF. JV and Marvin Watson about the seating of Senator Yarborough in the motorcade and about th e possibility of Senator

Folder, "October 5, 1967 - 6:55 p.m. McNamara, Rusk, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

the toughness of the times ahead. !he President read his speech which is scheduled for Saturday night at a Salute to the President in Washington. SECRETARY McNAMARA: Left before the speech was concluded because of another engagement. SECRETARY RUSK: Said he

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