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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/30/1964 (Monday) (Item)

racing in the snow, a c ro s s the lon ely white grounds. I read o v e r m y speech fo r Tex a s W om en ’ s Un iv e rs ity , three o r four tim es, once to Lyndon. , , Did some tran scrib ing, made a check on a ll the s ilv e r , china, and household

Folder, "Notes and Transcripts of Johnson Conversations, 1951," Pre-Presidential Telephone Conversations and Meetings, Box 1 (Item)

taking for word.) this "Tell him I realize and admire greatly and I said as much night.'' down? (Answer: Yes, sir, all the practical difficulties the way he has handled it, to the President on Monday (Thank you very much, General Marshall

Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as opposed-- F: Almost all day, and all night. The committee would ask questions during the day based on suggestions I made, and then the testimony would be typed. It would be handed to me shortly after the hearing adjourned. I'd go over the testimony

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to make this speech at Johns Hopkins University tomorrow night. It's embargoed, you can't use this, but I want to read you some if you'll tell me what you think." So he read the speech to us. He read us the first few paragraphs of it, standing

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 63, 1 August 1996," LBJ Library (Item)

. Former President Jimmy Carter inaugurated the series last year. Luckinbill, currently appearing in a play, "A Fair Country," in New York, flew to Austin to make his Darrow presentation on the one night of the week when his play is not given, to honor

President's Daily Diary entry, 11/18/1966 (Item)

. The President read a memo from Jake concerning J. C. Kellam's findings and Bill left to call J. C. K Dr. Cain and Mrs. Johnson were discussing what the President could and couLd not do safely . The doctor suggested that the President should not go riding over

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh What can I do for you?" The President insisted on that sort of thing. I think the staffing operation kept that in mind--the importance, the indispensability of the congressman and the senator. F: How did you prepare his night reading
speeches; election day; staff schedules and duties; the appointments secretary’s power; night reading; Walt Rostow; diplomatic luncheons; speechwriting for LBJ.

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Mrs . Johnson and my wife and the President reached the point where he was detailing how he studied at night, he was associating himself with those people at West, finding a common point of interest . He detailed how at night after they had dinner why

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/13/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)

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Lady Bird does office work; Lady Bird to hair salon; controversy about Lady Bird's property and tenants in Alabama; Lady Bird and Luci Johnson to Huntlands Estate in Virginia; Lady Bird reads Bill White's book on LBJ

President's Daily Diary entry, 12/19/1966 (Item)

_____—. _ ____ Mary S took him a note that Secy Rusk would talk with him as soon as he finished reading some papers--about 10:15a and that the plane from Washington would be in at 10:00am. __^___—^—— Secretary Rusk (b-1) ^ The President departed the house by car

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/21/1966 (Item)

of the Press --in answer to a question, from Marquis Childs about filling vacancies in the State Dept, the President said, "Well, one became vacant last night, and I'm going to fill it right now. The Attorney General will resign from the Cabinet and will take

President's Daily Diary entry, 7/26/1966 (Item)

this info on a note in the President's night reading last evening, and the President wrote on it, "I want to see her." To Jo e Califano's office to join a meeting re the Airlines Strike Those that attended were: Secy. Wirtz Hon. John Douglas - Asst. Attorney

President's Daily Diary entry, 10/18/1965 (Item)

the President for drainage (the y expect to remove the tube tomorrow night). . . . (Marvin Watson -was i n and out) Mr. and Mrs. ^brfcbr O. P. Bobbit t - VM i n w/ work to do , --.the President read aloud.some. of the .messages , etr — that he had received

President's Daily Diary entry, 2/24/1966 (Item)

on his signing table w/yb ^ - ^:^5p Reading IH):00 To ex Proceeds p ! Departed }. i . tickers MJDR's Ofc - stopping at mfs desk - asking if night reading is heavy. to look through n/r folder and works n/r folder w/yb. for the Mansion "telling yb to go

President's Daily Diary entry, 1/28/1966 (Item)

at a restaurant!") * Date January White House FRIDAY Activity (include visited by) Mike Manatos Working his night reading in the West Hall VM left and the President had a rub. . . Judge A. W. Moursund - Round Mtn. , Texas Day 28, 1966 Today transmitted

Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson 'Salute to Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson' Luncheon Given by Federated Democratic Women of Ohio, Deshler Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, 9/18/1964" (Item)

the other morning as he strode through our little family sitting room on the second floor of the White House on his way to the office -- arms loaded with envelopes marked, ''Night Reading". I said, "Listen. You had better fortify me with some facts for our

President's Daily Diary entry, 8/3/1966 (Item)

an idea for settlement of the Airlines strike. OFF RECORD: Mayor Robert King High of Miami Hon Farris Bryant, Director, OEP (Mayor High left a letter for the Pres's night reading((dated Aug 3)) to the point his pride in his nomination as Gov. of Fla

President's Daily Diary entry, 11/30/1967 (Item)

^ Thursday (include visited by) ture Mansion to have a bite to eat Clifford thru mjdr's room to read a few things of night reading then to Oval Office Joe 3.5 Rep. Califano -pl \ \ fn%^ ' (y)iA-7^ mass mass Harold D. Donohue and Rep. Phillip J

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into a night reading file. Then the information items also were broken down into immediate and things that could go into the night reading file. So at the end of the day, if it was your turn to work that night, you would be left with the following: the diary

Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Oh yes, it's a greater educational handicap. Now a blind person can go to a hearing college with a reader, but a deaf student has trouble going to a hearing college, because he can't read lips that well. is an art, and some have it and some don't
History of Gallaudet College; difficulties of English language for deaf children; drawbacks of lip reading; remedial work; connection with HEW; interest of Homer Eloise Thornberry; oralism and manualism; LBJ's attendance at graduation ceremony

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

[James] Meredith into the University of Mississippi, Walker appeared on the campus and was, from the reports we got down there, extremely inflammatory, and was picked up one night--the second night of rioting, I think, I can't remember which. But in any

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/17/1968 (Item)

(even to locating secretaries and assistants who might know wher e was), President said let it go. Temple get Temple and he Jones into Oval Office with and Sen. Dirksen to secretary's office and looked over a bit of the night-reading. Said he was too

Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)

would. He was very religious. Sometimes--oh, he did many interesting things. I remember one time we spent the night with them up at Camp David, and the next morning when my wife and I went over to the main house, he had the Attorney General

Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Texas history, nothing she didn't know. She knew One of the funniest things that happened, we had Wilton Woods, whom you read about. We called him Noisy. He never talked. Her pet peeve was somebody coming in late. toeing, late. She had already

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to Washington, and Washington agreed that I could do that, that I should do it. Wilson said that what he would like to do would be for me to really stand by at any moment day and night so that he could be in touch with me or inform me, so that I could keep

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 42 (XLII), 2/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was working on that. [Robert] Solow is then a young professor, just a hot-shot MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] guy that Eckstein brought along and so was Lester Thurow. He's listed--he was the rapporteur of the group whether he was the night we

Folder, "Jamaica, Bustamente Correspondence," Special Head of State Correspondence Files, NSF, Box 29 (Item)

•ted January 3~ 1966 to the Departl!IN!mtfer ch@ Pr®sid®Dt QUOTEI rejoice Yoo ~re over the recovery of your healtbo not only to your country but 11lao to ti. I wish that the night cedes int@ di!y 11s mtir~ '.f@U democr

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and the Attorney General had some ideas is my recollection. Nick read from this memo, basically, that I had prepared. He knew what was in it and went through this reorganization. I mean, blood left the Vice President's face. It was the end of his role in civil

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/15/1967 (Item)

of the IC C" ~ ~ e " _ . : 1j 11 \— Th e President was working a folder of night reading which he had ha d a t i « r . - * ^j^j--^ e mmTno te the Secretaries. ^m -t-nlfj-hh^ - i_ Camp David, pointing^ i out TTj^i/-m variou s memo s at otrth Secretaries

Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

read. And my husband never forgot He'd keep it all right up here. He took about five dailies and he never went to sleep at night that he hadn't read everyone of them. M: So when they got together, they would talk about politics. F: Oh yes

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

reading practice. M: Did you give a lot of material to him to read? G: Yes. I was in that box almost every day. What was her name--the secretary that used to put the night reading together, a very attractive woman? M: Mary Rather? [Juanita Roberts

Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that? J: T-I-E-R-N-E-Y .. P: Now you were telling me you had some trouble, but not very much until you reached Arizona and the desert. J: Yes. VJe parked at Needl es, and it was 112 ~ [degrees] in Needl es· that afternoon. During the night it got

Folder, "Saboteur," Papers of Drew Pearson, Georgetown Files, Box G 86 [1 of 3] (Item)

cock's new picture; 'Saboteur' (Uni ,f versal), at RKO-Keith:s on Wednesday (22). They wrote personal in ~- vitations for the premiere, with Mrs. ~~ Patterson's papeF ignoring the bally d h'oo. Up to Saturday night P. and k A. had won a substantial

Folder, "July 24, 1967 - 11:15 a.m. Detroit Riots - Clark, McNamara, Christopher, Fortas, Wilkins, Doar," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

and said that Vance should go. At 11 :23 the President read a telegram to Governor Romney which had been drafted. CBNFIDl&DI'I'IA-L M!rflMG NOi ES COP'.fRl~Hif 0 Poelicctic11 Re"""~' ht P.eRni11ion of Capyng ~~ Ibnmn• Jahft'SOTl [1 of 2

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would go home and still have night reading. take home. MG: He's always had night reading to I don't see how he could have been any healthier. Now, the [John] Kennedy-[Irving] Ives labor bill came up that year. Let me get you to just talk about LBJ's

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

night or only on specific invitation, and I don't think anybody else was quite sure either. Rayburn left it vague. Tiger Teague told me once, "I' ve been baffled because every now and then he'll stop me and say, 'Why don't you come down and have

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McPherson -- VII -- 11 at night and then come back and dictate to her. Poor woman. Reedy was of that 10 per cent--where I think Reedy would not read so well today would be on things like

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. reading. He ended up at nights, you've heard about all the night My impression was that, for instance, there was some friction between Califano and some of the cabinet people because they sort of looked at Joe as maybe getting between them

Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of a research institute, ought to anticipate. G: Was this the Mershon--? R: Mershon Center for Education in National Security at Ohio State University. And, sometime in the summer or early fall of 1967, I counted or read that there were, as I recall

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was Wayne Morse. At the end of the day Pearson called me and said, "Didn't you read my column this morning?" I said, "Yes, I read it." He said, "Didn't you appreciate it?" I said, "Well, yes. But it really wasn't true. It was Morse that did that." He said

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