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Folder, "February 6, 1968 - 8:30 a.m. Democratic Congressional Leadership Breakfast," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

WITH THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHrP February 6, 1968 Breakfast In the Mans ion The President reviewed Vietnam and the Pueblo situation with the leader ship. He read the 6 :30 a. m. situation report and the CIA briefing on developments around the world

Folder, "February 15, 1968 - 6:06 p.m. Cyrus Vance meeting on his return from Korea - and other foreign advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

the following morning then they ·just forget what he had told them the night before. The President: Where do we get this information from? Mr. Vance: General Bonesteel gets it. The military have the greatest amount of respect for the UN Commander and for his

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Vietnam, 1/29/1966, Volume 3, Tab 38," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

, 1966; Noon Vietnam GIA Di-rect or Rabo r n, reading from notes , briefed on the military situation in Vietnam. Six hundr ed trucks are reported in the south -- twice the level of a year ago. They are carrying men and equipment. The North Vietnamese

Folder, "[August 18, 1967 - 8:35 p.m. Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

forecast is the best in 3 days. dissipating. The cloud coverage is The President interrupted to ask how many strikes were made in one night. General Wheeler said 2 or 3, sometimes 4. plant is based on a one strike basis. He said the Hanoi thermal power

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/3/1967 (Item)

called mary s in to watch "Lassie Comes to the White House" on the _ in his office. ^ __ ! worked - j ____„__ 7:40p 7:50p _^ | __ Marvin tomorrow : his night reading , Watson--President tol d MW to ask th e Krims if they want to go to Texas w/ him

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/24/1967 (Item)

the President first arrived at the Ranch he saw of the two in the living room, but was unable to find the second painting. This morning (after a few hours sleep), the second painting waz discovered in the office leaning against the wall. The President read some

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/13/1966 (Item)

to White House To the East Room for presentation of Distinguished Federal civilian Service Awards for 1966 REMARKS by the President As John Macy read the citations and introduced/ announced each winner, the awardee, his wife, and department head stepped up

President's Daily Diary entry, 10/11/1965 (Item)

and Dr. Cain . H e mentioned to the m th e discomfort he suffere d durin g th e night . Th e doctors assure d hi m that this wa s to b e expecte d an d reminde d hi m that hi s temperatur e was now normal. Th e President intentl y looke d a t hi s barrag

President's Daily Diary entry, 3/29/1966 (Item)

Desautels then while talking to BM, called mjdr who took a note BM (pl) to Bill to read to the President to the effect that ^MHHH! by teller vote the Bow amendment to strike out rent supple BM (pl) J*lJ*^6 /was defeated by 30 votes -- Ht^H^ 153-183 5:56p f

Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have done. G: Because I thought I Walter said no, that's what Johnson never told me that, but I sensed it. I gather that Walter could read Johnson as well as anyone, in terms of what he really wanted and what ought to be done. H: It really

Folder, "Corr: Carter, Amon," House of Representatives Papers of Lyndon Johnson, Box 142 (Item)

-RATE SERIAL DEFERRED LETTER NIGHT OVERNIGHT TELEGRAM LETTER SPECIAL SHIP SERVICE RADIOGRAM Patrons should ,check class of strvice desired; otherwise the mesaage will be transmitted as a telegram or ordinary cablegram. (C(Q)JPY (Q)JF WIESTIE~IM

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. The park was the Blue and Gray, and the hotel the Lee-Grant. I was always an intensely political animal and so was my father, who was a Rumanian immigrant who could scarcely read and write. But the way I met Dick Russell was as follows: I was probably

Folder, "Longoria, Felix [Newspaper Articles] [1 of 2]," Pre-Presidential Confidential Files, Box 3 (Item)

please excuse us for what you have read on the newspapers." methpd." · . Windham: "In how many · Summoned { o r appearance cases .do you go to the scene." I Friday were Garcia, Mrs. Lon Sutherland: "I haven't both goria, R. H. Farley of Bexar I ered

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and that $10 a day wasn't hay back in those days of depression. Anyway, Lyndon was the same age. everything I read and heard about him I liked. I didn't know him then but And certainly we had a common bond being young and in politics and trying to get

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

idea. They'd come down about five o'clock; we'd eat dinner and have that [talk] and he'd fly back that same night. They had this little air force jet, takes about thirty minutes to get back up there. T: All this suggests that you had a fairly close

Folder, "Ex OS 4-1, Astronauts, 11/22/63 - 9/15/65," WHCF OS, Box 8 (Item)

, President, Republic of Kenya, Nairobi, ¥&18iIR · AF:AFE :WPO'Neill:djw 9/14/65 Clearance: AFE - Mr. Mulcahy cl' ' Mr . President, Jack asked me to get this to you sooner than night reading --- if possible. I Juanita Sep 13 4:30 I EXECUTIVI osJ..1

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

approach. I think that was an extremely important point because, at that time, I had much advice from all over that he couldn't possibly return to the active life of majority leader, which he worked at, as you well know, morning, noon and night. So I guess

Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, because that was about when the really strong dissent was beginning here in this country and was getting in the papers. The troops were reading this. They were hearing about it back home; and they were just wondering how much support they had back here

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the train in Fort Worth, and I caught the railroad train and rode all Austin about five-thirty in the morning. it. I believe it was a Katy. ~ight and got into The Night Owl they called And I took a taxi, which cost fifteen cents, to take me from

Folder, "Demonstrations (August 1965 to December 1966) [2 of 2]," Aides Files of Mildred Stegall, Investigative Subject Files, Box 64b (Item)

of protest demonstra tions by civil rights organizations. One such demonstration took place on the night of June 6, 1966, when a group of about 36 Negroes and two white persons, led by Marion Barry of the Student Non-Violent the Coordinating Committee

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and didn't get it, people would read it as no support for the war, and no leadership. [J. Ward] Keener, who was then the head of the [B.F.] Goodrich [Company]--and [William Beverly] Bev Murphy [who] was the head of Campbell's Soup said they were for a tax

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the Fort Worth Club. I wrote my story, and about three o'clock in the morning I got a phone call, and it was from Lyndon Johnson. And he said, "I'm down in the lobby. read the Dallas News and I want to thank you." I've just I said, "For what?" He

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

read this by the time he and I met in the wee hours of that morning concerning my continuance. But it was the basic document that, once I stayed aboard, we tried to follow. G: The memo was submitted before you had your meeting with him, is that right

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

argument to the President, or if I laid out his argument, I'd call him up and read what I had written to him. And whenever they felt strongly enough, the President would see them, or I'd suggest that he see him. If there were any exceptions at all

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, because some of the material which is actually read is put in small type because it is printed. So we had to devise a ruler of our own with which we could count the lines of one kind of type and count other lines in another kind of type, and equate them

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

animal. He wanted to do so much, and there were only certain bounds that he could move in. I think for a man with his background as Senate Majority Leader, the job was too confining. Although I didn't personally experience his Senate days, I had read

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that took place several years after we were married. We were down at White Sulphur Springs. We got in the car and drove all the way back to Washington at some ridiculous hour of the night, as I recall, because Lyndon--I just can't quite express it, and so I

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

don't know when in the late fifties, 1957/58/59, I had traveled out west with Nixon, and late one night at the Denver airport there weren't but four or five reporters with him and he invited us into one of the airport rooms while we waited for the plane

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. And I was with him at the head table when he spoke in Birmingham, and I believe carried him back to the airport that night, along with one other person. That was a short time before I ran for governor in 1958. But this was before 1956, because I

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Desautels -- I -- 5 he should request of them. Then Monday night I'd prepare that, and if he had left the office I'd take it up to his night reading table in the Mansion. You

President's Daily Diary entry, 3/31/1968 (Item)

President an d Mrs . Johnso n wen t t o th e Sout h Ground s t o wait fo r Lynd a wh o was du e to arrive fro m Californi a wher e sh e had sai d goodby e t o Chuc k last night . a Lynd a arrive d 7:14a Th e President , Mrs . Johnso n an d Lynda t o th e

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/10/1967 (Item)

of important contributions to the Inter-American progress. The President read the point s of a talking paper to Meyer, and instructed Bob Fleming to give Meyer a copy. _ Bob Fleming memo on meeting and talking paper to Dorothy Territo. Preparation pape r

President's Daily Diary entry, 6/8/1967 (Item)

root beer. " and invited His Excellency have a seat "while I finish reading this report. " (report -was last 5 pages of Christian's morning press briefing). President Banda chose to have coffee. ' to 12:59p Unde r Secy of State Nicholas Katzenbach

President's Daily Diary entry, 10/22/1966 (Item)

with the Premier walked to the microphone --the Pr cool and windy welcomed the President. Overhead a large g banner was suspended from two crane reading --"Welcome to Sydney ---First City of Australia". There was a fairly lar crowd that had many small American

Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

, very much on the level with his students. EG: Was he humorous? LH: We always looked forward to that class. discussing the Mutt and Jeff cartoons. He began his classes by I am sorry to say that I never read anything but Mutt and Jeff in the funny

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

around it. You see that Then the first person that's buried in there was the founder of Baylor University, [LBJ's] grandfather. It's a most interesting thing, and people just read those epitaphs on the monuments. that; I did myself. They spend a lot
; reading the Congressional Record.

Folder, "Eartha Kitt," Reference File (Item)

oc r I o " o , o 3c7t M I A t Name DATE Address Reading Room Researcher ·r Hall Researcher Phone ( ) COLLECTION CONTAINER NUMBER Folder Tltle or FIie Symbol form of Document Document Identification: Correspondents, Tltle, Document

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/5/1966 (Item)

) and Margaret Price (sitting next to Cliff on his right). Returning to his quarter stopped and asked Al Barkan and Jim Suffridge to join him a little later. President th stopped in the isle to go over night reading sent in the evening before by Joe Califano

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

o'clock in the morning, and he required reading of the morning newspaper before you could go into his class. If he called on you. you had to name the topic. then he would call on someone else and ask how that was affecting America or how it would

Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the rescue organization out by setting a real skillful ambush for them. We had very, very poor success in conducting ambushes. G: Now, this is basically in l962. P: Yes, it was. G: And yet, I have read several accounts, including communist sources, which