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Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • called me, about ten o'clock at night; I had just gotten home from the White House. See, LBJ would never let me use the cars and chauffeurs there except under extraordinary circumstances when I could rig it. You can do a lot of things through personal
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whiteside ~- I -~ 3 But I also had access to the records of some rental property that they had. Dr. Evans had a garage apartment behind his home that had a room and a half
  • ; selling Real Silk hosiery; LBJ’s parents; visiting in the Johnson home; entertainment; Dr. Evans and LBJ; Professor Greene; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; Deacon Wright; origin and activities of the White Stars; the Black Stars; social cleavage between local
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 1, Nov. 1963 - Feb. 1964 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • DINNER AT MY HOME L AST NIGHT ATTENDED BY ". ·-·~:· ..../':~:~'.~ ...... ,....:
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on involvement in the war. But at least it began, 1940, with a happy note, with the official appointment of Senator [Alvin] Wirtz, and that meant he and Kittie Mae were coming to Washington and taking up residence, and we would have more of the close ones at home
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Senator Douglas, and some others in the Senate who really sought the position, and, as I say, they used the stratagem, I think partly because they didn't want them on the Policy Committee at that time. There was a little power struggle between one group
Folder, "Operations of Billie Sol Estes, Report Prepared by the Intergovernmental Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, October 1964," Pre-Presidential Confidential Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • on in two different parts of west Texas. Estes' business headquarters and his home were at Pecos, in the trans-Pecos area, a region which extends from the Pecos River about 200 miles west to the Rio Grande. Pecos, a town of about 13,000, is county seat
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/11/1968 (Item)
  • ./^ ay ~ 1 (include visited by) ture ^ PREMIER / 6:00 p 6:45p H. E. Eeti. Lynden Pindling Premier of Bahamas President saw the Prime Minister • 6:45p Sir Patrick Dean, Ambassador of Great Britain at the suggestion of Sen. Smathers. ^ 6:45p Senator
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to you, you have any changes or corrections or additions--anything like that. Has that ever occurred? A: No, I think that won't be a problem with us here. M: Sir, you came to Congress just two years after Mr. Johnson ran and was elected
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as Paul Douglas used to be, absolutely uncompromising and never gain a damn thing. Or they can come as Kerr and Johnson did and as Kerr once said, "I'd rather take home a sack half full to my people than a full sack with the bottom shelled out
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • challenge and. great .. experience I 've ever had. . B: · I can imagine .... How were you .·notified of your appointment, sir? J: :I had a call at· home about five o'clock in "the afternoon .from Ramsey . . Clark, and Ramsey said, ''The President's
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/10/1964 (Item)
  • to me he can com e in and talk t o me there." m f replied , "Yes , sir . . Mr. Bund y i s here. " Reply : "Well, tel l him i f h e wants t o tal k t o me . h e ca n talk t o m e there , too." G Reedy General Clifton To Cabinet Room to to Admiral Harry
Folder, "[June 22, 1966 - National Security Council Meeting]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • industry, disregard human life? Suppose I say no, what else would you recommend? General Wheeler: Mining Haiphong. The President: Do you think this will involve the Chinese Communists and the Soviets? General Wheeler: No, Sir. The President: Are you
President's Daily Diary entry, 1/16/1965 (Item)
  • to LBJ Ranch via helicopter w/ Mrs. Johnson, Judge Moursund, J.C. Kellam January LBJ Ranch 16, 1965 Saturday Returned to Ranch & to office Discussed guests on AF-1 - wanted all of his friends that have been w/ him at home (Texas) for so long
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh April 21, 1969 B: This is the interview with Sterling Tucker. with just a brief bit of background. Sir, let me begin here You were born in 1923 in Akron and have a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Akron. You joined
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C., Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last time you were talking about briefing former President Truman on the behalf of President Johnson, and after the tape
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1956" (Item)
  • -Fulbright natural gas bill through the Senate immediately, but he is going to encounter opposition from Senator Paul Douglas of Chicago. Chicago’s Negro population “has been seething” since the recent murder of Emmett Till, from Chicago, in Mississippi
Folder, "Hays, Brooks," Name Files, WHCF, Box H-185 (Item)
  • for an increase for House Members after the War, I met considerable criticism, and always in my talks at home took time to defend my action. It was my practice to call for questions after my speeches. One day in Perry County I called for questions and one little
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • a relatively small staff in those days. In those days Congress stayed in session only about five months out of the year, six at the most. They'd be home by June. Most of them had left their families at home, they didn't establish residences in Washington
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • home town. In the airport, I found myself in a long queue at Customs. I [was?] longing to get to the top of it, not to keep that distinguished gentleman waiting. I was behind fifteen hippies, every one with assorted baggage. Every straw bag and every
Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • you describe that, sir? in that? Did Mr . Johnson inquire into it, or did you, as Administrator, point out to him the problem? B: Who initiated the presidential interest How did it work? This was actually mostly before I was Administrator
President's Daily Diary entry, 8/16/1967 (Item)
  • Secretary Secy The 9:24 /^ 9:35p f 9:40a t Douglass Joe Cong. 10:00a" T 10:32ai t - McNamar a Vice ,—, _^_ Director 9:44a t McNamara President, in_i_—^IT,T mansion r
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • got a copy of it. M: Sir, in September of 1964, President Johnson spoke at the 200th anniversary convocation at Brown University. Do you recall how this was arranged and how it came about and the sequence of events leading up to and through his
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Mississippi. He said, "Well, that's a part of Texas, isn't it?" in a joking matter, and I said, "No, sir, it's not." He said, "Well, you sound like a Texan," and I said, "That's a Mississippi accent." 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ) INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker March 27, 1969 B: Sir, we covered last time up to the time of the assassination. Immediately afterwards, that night, you were one of the group of legislative leaders who met then-President Johnson out at the airport, weren't you? Bo
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • pursuant to our understanding, but I never had heard of that group. And he said, "Would you present your views to that group?" and I said, "I don't know anything about that group, who is it?" And he told me in general who it was: Douglas Dillon, General
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • take two steps forward, is a little bit difficult to go home and expJain. You know, really the half-a-loaf theory is always discussed with pejorative words and in derogatory tones. When 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Payne in August of 1935. I then taught school for two years in my home town, Eden. And in the autumn of 1937, I entered the School of Law at the University of Texas, from which I graduated in June 1940. In the spring of 1940, I applied for a job
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS DILLON INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN M: Letl s begin by identifying you sir. More on LBJ
  • See all online interviews with C. Douglas Dillon
  • Dillon, C. Douglas (Clarence Douglas), 1909-2003
  • Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • C. Douglas Dillon
Telephone conversation # 2482, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 3/12/1964, 12:25PM (Item)
  • PAUL DOUGLAS
  • LBJ IS MEETING WITH DOUGLAS AT TIME OF CALL; LBJ ON HOLD 0:34; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING
  • WH CONGRESSIONAL RECEPTION LAST NIGHT; LBJ'S LETTER TO CHARLES BUCKLEY; O'BRIEN DISCUSSES INDIANA DUNES BILL, TRUTH-IN-LENDING BILL WITH DOUGLAS; EDMUND MUSKIE
  • Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976
Telephone conversation # 2483, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 3/12/1964, 12:25PM (Item)
  • PAUL DOUGLAS
  • LBJ IS MEETING WITH DOUGLAS AT TIME OF CALL; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING
  • O'BRIEN DISCUSSES TRUTH-IN-LENDING BILL WITH DOUGLAS; EDMUND MUSKIE; INDIANA DUNES BILL; LEE WHITE
  • Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976
Telephone conversation # 5209, sound recording, LBJ and DOUGLAS WYNN, 8/25/1964, 9:33PM? (Item)
  • Wynn, Douglas
  • Telephone conversation # 5209, sound recording, LBJ and DOUGLAS WYNN, 8/25/1964, 9:33PM?
  • DOUGLAS WYNN
Telephone conversation # 6321, sound recording, LBJ and SIDNEY WEINBERG, 11/11/1964, 1:32PM (Item)
  • DOUGLAS DILLON
  • "LBJ RANCH"; WEINBERG ON HOLD 0:35; DOUGLAS DILLON IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL
  • Dillon, C. Douglas (Clarence Douglas), 1909-2003
Telephone conversation # 10841, sound recording, LBJ and DOUGLAS MACARTHUR II, 9/26/1966, 6:11PM (Item)
  • Macarthur, Douglas, 1909-1997
  • Telephone conversation # 10841, sound recording, LBJ and DOUGLAS MACARTHUR II, 9/26/1966, 6:11PM
  • DOUGLAS MACARTHUR II
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • straight through the hall into my library, picked up the phone, and said, "Give me [C. Douglas] Dillon!" And, in a moment, he said, "Underwrite the British pound," and hung up. As far as I know, there was no chance for Dillon to say anything but, "Yes, sir
  • house and the White House; LBJ's insistence that Crook find a position in the administration; LBJ's visit and reception at Crook's home; Crook's dogs named after Charles de Gaulle and a dog LBJ gave the Crook family; LBJ's interest in antelope; LBJ's
Folder, "Longoria, Felix [Correspondence] [2 of 2]," Pre-Presidential Confidential Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • Mexican ancestry." 1 ; The GI, Felix Longoria, died in action · on , Luzon in the Phil· ippines. I [3 of 4] _A..merican olegion mAnUH PEREZ PosT NO. 1017 Mr. T. w. Kennedy Rice Funeral Home Three Rivers, Texas Dear Sir: Knowledp has reached us ot
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson, I have heard a report was drawn up, but I have never seen it. Do you know whether there was such a report and what happened to it? S: You mean a report by our Senate committee? F: Yes, sir. S: I don't remember that. F: Yes, sir. S
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RAMSEY CLARK INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER PLACE: His home in Falls Church, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Ramsey Clark. Sir, to start in on the whole general matter of law enforcement and what became
Folder, "5/16-26/65 - Program for State Visit of His Excellency Chung Hee Park, President of the Republic of Korea and Mrs. Park to the USA," Statements Files, Box 146 (Item)
  • , or Sir. Your Excellency, Mrs. Chung Hee Park, Wife of the President Mrs. Park, of the Republic or Madam. Correspondence, Salutation Your Excellency: Correspondence, Complimentary Close Very respectfully, Envelope His Excellency Chung Hee Park
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ?" clear-cut answer was, My "No, sir, I have never been in this office before." Whereupon Senator Johnson got up out of his chair, he put his arm around my shoulder, and he said, and I quote, "General, I have done you the greatest injustice that I have
President's Daily Diary entry, 9/30/1967 (Item)
  • : -, with Mrs. Johnson Lynda and Capt Charles Robb Capt Wm. Douglas Davidson Luci and Pat _ _ _^__—— Miss Warrie Lynn Smith Ramsey Clark Barefoot Sanders Dean Griswold mf, gt, Jim Jones -—^...^^^^ ^""III"*""* Stephen Pollak 1To —- ^ —] S:?,Qp 1