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Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me to Texas. never understand this. Kennedy could Kennedy always thought that I should be going to Texas and always thought that I should.be travel ing with him. thought somehow that Lyndon Johnson belonged to me. He One Sunday night we were

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

impossible to have prepared it. Well, it would have been possible to prepare that night. It was a rather simple resolution, if you go back to it carefully and read it. But it may be something that they had prepared simply because, you know, the Pentagon's got

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they come up. This was one of his great weaknesses, his failure to realize that one thing leads to another, that when you do something you get a headline out of it. Now the headline may disappear, but six months later it can bob up on you, like, "Read my

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

talking about the other Linden Johnson who owned the Dynasty Shop. But back to my story about the eighty shirts. He bought eighty silk shirts in Hong Kong, and he brought them back and they were beautiful, just beautiful shirts. One night I was over

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

my family closer to where I think they were going. We were all going on a rafting trip down the Salmon River or something of that sort. I got on the plane to fly throughout the night, and it happened that Wayne Morse was there, on the plane. I sat
sources of information, such as the Office of Economic Opportunity and Tom Bradley; visiting Newark, New Jersey, to talk to citizens about rioting; John Lindsay's involvement with the Commission; the chain of command within the Commission; late night/early

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

association. F: I don't know lowell Limpus. C: Lowell Limpus is now dead, but Lowell Limpus was night city editor and military expert of the News, and it is my opinion that out of that genesis came much of the Roosevelt Administration, at least press-wise

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 83, January 2004," LBJ Library (Item)

Connally's widow ellie shared her memories or the JFK assassination. peared, we have been besieged with re quests for interviews. I can·, do any m re than they already have me doing. They'll just have to read-the-book." Bui she began with a still older

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of it. across the street from the con- hall, for three days and three nights, something like that, and tried to work out a compromise. Humphrey was very deeply involved in working out that compromise; he'd sit with us, counsel with us. Reuther came

Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 those in the past? There has been quite a lot of writing about the disturbances there in Chicago. Bu: I know. I've been reading. But I feel frankly that were

Folder, "Diary: Vol. #4, 5/29/64 – 12/28/64," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 9 (Item)

. where I spent the night with John Duncan and four Commissioners of Agriculture from Sowth Carolina., Florida., Georgia. and Tennessee .. John· arranged this party. a little We did a little story telling, fishing -- a little and generally built

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/8/1968 (Item)

t Gordon Charles Schultze (They asked fo r th e meetin g s o the y coul d mak e a courtes y call an d express thei r feeling s abou t the President' s announcement las t Sunday night. Marc h 31st . ) 12:26p Presiden t int o mjdr' s offic e t o look

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/18/1968 (Item)

B. JOHNSO N r 18 , 1968 DIARY resident bega n hi s day at (Place ) th Time Telephon In Ou 10:19a f y (includ e visite d by ) Rico et Mik e Guajardo , Sa n Juan, Puerto , reportin g read y o n the cal l th e President ha d made t o him last

Folder, "March 5, 1968 - 1:14 p.m. Tuesday luncheon meeting - Rusk, Clifford, Wheeler, Helms, Taylor, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

not want to stap up the military side of this. CLARK CLIFFORD: How about the impartial tribunal? SECRETARY RUSK: They were outraged by the idea. The Pueblo problem seems to have dropped out of the press. I would not hurry this. THE PRESIDENT: last night? O

Folder, "[April 2, 1968 - 8:42 a.m. Congressional Leadership Breakfast]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

Long Senator Robert Byrd Speaker McCormack Congressman Carl Albert Congressman Hale Boggs Postmaster General Larry 0 1 Brien Barefoot San ders Mike Manatos Jim Jones The President opened the meeting and read from the agenda (a copy of which

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/29/1967 (Item)

:40a 12:12 ;! Activity weight: ' l 29, 1967 f , ; , ___«. ; , _ , , _ , Watson (pl)--The President asked for a copy of a Lincoln Gordon memo which been in night reading last night. (MW got it from WWR and sent it in) ' Statement

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/2/1965 (Saturday) (Item)

on th e ir T V ." So the afternoon fo r Lyndon was State of the N ation, night reading*, and then telephone c a lls, and a b it of a nap. And then we asked the B ill W hites, only re c e n tly back from R om e, the V alentis, M arianne M eans and f h

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 2/26/1942 (Item)

! would say it 1e definitely favorable and thltt it would baP, en within the next two w·eeka. Tomorrow morning I a going to ga oft a:n airmail letter to fay,o r Miller tellinr:; him of our con e:r tion. Malcolm is coming by to read it and dele ~e or make

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of real good They didn't need any more, but Tom's idea of how you handle a case like this was to get a million good lawyers and then something would come out of it. That's not my experience. So I went over and we worked all afternoon, all night

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/19/1968 (Item)

legislation. Had his night reading from 5/18 in which he had some matters about tax leg. Gav e Diana a few instructions about th e ones which were ready to return to files. 1968 VHITE HOUS E dat e Sunda y DENT LYNDO N B . JOHNSO N DIARY Ma President

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/7/1966 (Item)

for night reading Joe Califano to office Bob Wallace. Special Assistant to Secry of Treasury , (b-4--only last part of call) Cong. Adam Clayton Powell- -(b-5) Returning the Congressman's call of earlier in the evening while President was still with guests

Folder, "Diary: Vol. #8, 6/6/67 – 3/29/68," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 11 (Item)

resolved to get a minor in teaching which I highly approve. over the hump and doirig well. East war. She certainly is We had a long discussion tonight about the Near I know little about it except what I read in the newspaper and my own conjectures

Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Texas on adjoining farms. They had nine children, too, so I had nine double cousins. You may have read recently--this is off the subject--but about a little girl, a baby girl, that was kidnapped up here on the lakes. I think it was Johnson Lake

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

that normally the cattle, the farmers' cattle, grazed for free. So there was a great conflict that took place there, and the farmers were out at night cutting those fences. The ranchers had their fence riders and they had shootings from time to time. But bad

Oral history transcript, Elaine Fischesser and Ellen Taylor Cooper, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1967, by Douglass Cater (Item)

with a book in her hand and either dried figs or . dried peaches or dried apricots over on the side, munching . them. That was very characteristic. She was very fond of reading and at a very early age was reading books that you would not .expect a person
Mrs. Fischesser first encounters Lady Bird; Lady Bird's Aunt Effie; Lady Bird's love of reading; Mrs. Fischesser's first encounter with LBJ; Mrs. Cooper's first encounter with Lady Bird; Nettie Mason Patillo; Mrs. Cooper's first encounter with LBJ

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it . thinking about it, I don't believe so . And Maybe it could be read into it, but I don't think it was a--never in my consciousness was it a conscious decision or discussion . Now certainly Johnson's behavior there was very open and direct and he

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of their lawyers who I think did some work for the Johnsons. And John Connally became a member of that law firm for a time, and John did some law work. So starting in 1944 most of my representation, as I told you the other day, was to read [speeches] and confer

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Georgetown Law School at night. just gotten out of the navy. I started in 1961 and I had I didn't know anybody in Washington. One night at the law school after about three weeks, a fellow who always sat behind me in the contracts class, who was all duded

Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

just popped out of the wall and then the hordes of friends and people that were reading in the newspaper, they made a--they had a news release and announced this program. Then everybody just came in. But this organized man would have the mail on his

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

proceeded to do that. of the legislative history. One of my assignments was to read all The Tidelands Act had been subject of a filibuster-B: That's a lot of material. P: I read thousands of pages. By and large, the disposition of the mud lumps

Folder, "Conot Profiles - Work Copy with Comments [1 of 2]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)

THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS 1016 16TH WASHINGTON, STREET, D. C. N.W. 20036 December 20, 1967 Bob: I asked Chick to have a few team people read the revised version of your paper (i.e., the version that the Commission

Folder, "October 30, 1968 - 10:10 a.m. Foreign Policy Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

: Let's go to Korea and advise them. M!ETU~G NOTES COPYRIGHTED PwbliGatioA R1~ras ..PeHAiuioR gf

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a very interesting file. spent last night reading your file, your dossier." He left it there. I And that's all. He said, "Very interesting," and walked away or somebody else came up. You know, to have the president of the United States say, "I spent

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on. This was generally the function. We reproduced tapes and placed them in the archives and so on. As time went on, though, he wanted more things. He wanted to be able to read his speech while looking at the audience, and so we turned to the philosophy of the 4 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of them for most of his life, at least until the very late end of it. In his eighties he had some setbacks. G: I've noticed in reading some of his letters that he was a good writer. He had a good writing style and expressed himself well. J: Well
. Johnson's family's love of reading; Aunt Effie Pattillo; Mr. Taylor's store; the Taylor home in Karnack, Texas; Mr. Taylor putting people to work during the Depression; Mr. Taylor's physical appearance; Mr. Taylor's love of Karnack and the Caddo Lake area

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

or not. I'm not sure at that moment whether I think we probably did. But he'd talked in this statement about the "drums of hate beating louder and louder and now they have done it." He didn't say right-wingers, but you couldn't read the statement and get

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/1/1968 (Item)

^ an and the n t o mjdr's roo m - w / Christia n d Madden. Read flimse y o f this morning' s pres s briefin g b y G C ,12:00n J L To Ova l Offic e - w / Sec y Rus k ]£r y1 , 1968 x Wed. ^^ ^p ^p ' THE WHITE HOUSE Date PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON DAILY

President's Daily Diary entry, 7/11/1967 (Item)

._. TheDay 'resident began his day at (Place) Time Telephone In Out 11 Lo 7:29p~~ T~ White House r, t or t ...... Activity TUESDAY 1 \JJL,O±J±\ i (include visited by) LD MW (pl) 7:30p -7:45p ' MW in 7:29p-8:21p working 8:20p t 11, 1967 night

President's Daily Diary entry, 7/24/1967 (Item)

_ - _. ' Jl^l ____^______ P-— ^— _12:30a ___________ _ 12:58am ____________ ______ f j£ Justice The The President worked returned night _ J — Cyrus reading ^ ^^Vance J-l Fortas to the oval w/ office mary in _______ s Detroit

Folder, "January 23, 1968 - 12:58 p.m. Pueblo I - Tuesday Luncheon meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

, General Wheeler pointed to the position of the ship at 9 :25 the night before and at 12 noon it was 25 miles off shore and 16 miles away from the nearest land associated with North Korea. Secretary McNamara said it was unclear whether or not the ship

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/15/1965 (Saturday) (Item)

’ : A fte r dinner ev ery b od y s e ttle d down to w atch a sp y m o v ie , w h ile I w en t o ff fo r m y r e g u la r S aturday night date w ith GUNSMOKE, and th en b a ck to s e e the r e s t o f the sp y m o v ie . And then, though I hoped Lyndon w
Lady Bird and office work; talk with Luci Johnson; luncheon guests of LBJ; visit to art exhibit at Dumbarton Oaks; trip to Camp David; Lady Bird bowls with June White; the David Brinkleys are guests; Lady Bird watches "Gunsmoke;" Lady Bird reads

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