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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/19/1967 (Monday) (Item)

Lady Bird rises early and drives to LBJ Boyhood Home; LBJ gives speech on Middle East; Lady Bird & Neva West decorate the LBJ Ranch house; lunch; Lady Bird to Bailey House at Reagan Ranch to hang paintings and decorate; Lady Bird & Dale Malechek

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/23/1966 (Thursday) (Item)

house; Lady Bird receives call from LBJ about Lynda Johnson's visit to Spain; Lady Bird takes fabric samples to Aunt Oriole for selection; Lady Bird rides around Reagan Ranch and describes deer; dinner; coffee outside; end of eight-day vacation

Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, President Reagan is in China today. To the We have a quasi, de facto alliance with the Chinese in certain respects, despite the ignominy of our withdrawal. real one. Our commitment to the Thais I think is a I think it was then, I think it is now

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

are being badly served by the absence of a certain kind of military hardware, or by our strategic plans or whatever, in the hope that you'll get them changed that way. We just had a great example with [Caspar] Weinberger's letter to Reagan. The Pentagon

Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

liked. G: Jellybeans. W: Yes. G: Oh, I thought Reagan was the president that liked jellybeans. W: Yes, but he loved jellybeans. MW: He'd tell a story about him and Max [inaudible] jellybeans, wouldn't give him any. W: That was when they were

Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

; POW diet and living conditions, such as access to showers, beds, food, clothing; the POWs' release; Vietnamese modesty; the process of leaving the prison camp and returning to the US; meeting with Nancy Reagan; Stavast's medical condition; military

Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 20, February 1- 11, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 13 (Item)

Folder, "[July 1967 - May 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

if there is any real differences between Nixon and Rockefeller in the final analysis, in regard to their position on Vietnam. Percy is alight-weight. Reagan appeals to the Birch-Goldwater-Andrew Melon type of Republican. I haven 1t done much talking about

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, who was public information officer, mentioned to me just the other day how much more communications seemed possible with Governor Ross Barnett then than now seemed possible in California where he is living with Governor Reagan, speaking in terms

Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or not we were taking adequate steps to prepare the country to defend itself, and number two, he was always on the tack of getting a dollar's worth of defense for a dollar. And the rumor was all over the place--and still is by the way, Reagan and his crowd

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/18/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)

holding ' /-■£ "a,*! " w a te r .;*^The ta n k a t the_;^^north end o f our o r ig in a l lin e jo in in g L e l a ' s i s V' ^ . '' 4 1 aJaoxDc alm ost a.su ccess|^ in its existence the tank ^ c • in the Reagan is marvelously full but whether

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wore on. M: Oh, he did. president. He did. In fact, he became disenchanted with every He supported Goldwater in 1964 and he supported Nixon in 1968, although he was really for Reagan. nomination he was for him. sioned with Nixon. G: But after

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that one can throw a label at Reagan as not being concerned about the poor, and it receives a very positive response. When you have significant majorities of the American people telling every pollster who's asked them, "Do you think the administration's

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and the problems. Let me just ask you to elaborate on a couple of aspects there. Let me ask you to describe Sam Yorty's role. One memo characterized him as the real problem. He had supported Nixon over Kennedy and Reagan over Brown. O: He was a continuing problem

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

twenty years of non-recognition and non-interaction. I think that the policy being pursued now by the Reagan Administration--which I don't find distinctively different from the policy pursued by the Carter Administration, which in turn built on the Nixon

Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

interested right now. I couldn't leave the television yesterday, Reagan and all of his--over in Iceland. B: During that year did LBJ get involved in politics in an active way? Do you remember any of his involvements? A: I don't think so. He was too

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be. G: Was the commission at that time inclined to reflect the views of President Roosevelt, do you think? S: More so than some other administrations, but I think the current FCC is very reflective of President Reagan's views. Harry Truman certainly

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, [George] Aiken. So he stayed on through both Democratic and Republican administrations until I think finally, in Reagan's time that they said, "What the hell have we got this guy--why are we giving this guy a plum?" and they cut him off. He had strong

Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and corporate income tax rates (very much like Reagan's "supply-side" ta..'\'. cut in 1981, which I had a great deal to do with). JFK had pushed the bill through the House but it was hung up in the Senate Finance Committee, headed by the very conservative

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 28, 15 May 1983," LBJ Library (Item)

CAB and the ICC by Senator Edward Ken nedy. These proposals bore fruit under Carter and Reagan for the airlin and the trucking industries and, to a degree, for the railroads. Don't get me wrong. I'm not .aying that the New Deal legacy across the board

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 31, 15 July 1984," LBJ Library (Item)

national poll which indicated that 62% of the public believed that "the anti-poverty programs of the 60s either had little impact on the poor or made things worse for them." Most prom inent of the skeptics, of course, is President Reagan. who recently said

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 41, 1 October 1987," LBJ Library (Item)

resumed it when the lapse brought unfavorable attention. Now it's a tradition. Placing the wreath sent by Presi dent Reagan on President Johnson's grave at the LBJ Ranch, Library Director Harry Middleton recalled for a group of visitors LBJ's plea early

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 85, November 2004," LBJ Library (Item)

O'Brien IO, OBC Group. "We were in numerous meetings with President Reagan. In good times and bad, when it was going well and when it wasn't, he'd come in, give a little pep talk, tell a funny story. He would say, 'Keep up the good work. I'm with you. You

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a copy of. It's kind of interesting. He went down to the Library and read a lot of stuff. But, no, I had no sense of a staff at war within itself. I had no sense of the kind of thing you read about on the Reagan staff. You have to remember something when

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XVI -- 24 carving up the routes, bring down prices--the same as where now Reagan is being praised

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for peace. I'm not looking to win the war." So which way was he going? He was forced into a number of contradictions, and that's where the credibility gap came from, and where the bitterness of the military comes from. There's no credibility gap with Reagan

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there . After Mr . Sam, Lyndon's father, was born there--my grandfather was Dr . Dan Reagan, R-E-A-G-A-N ; he was distantly related to Senator John H . Reagan--the families were just very close . After Mr . Sam moved to Blanco County, or maybe it was even

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXVIII -- 14 with the Reagan Library, so I better not say. I'd have to see a picture. Aren't

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

different bases. I noticed that the Grace Commission for Reagan today says there are four thousand. Well, they're counting every little recruiting station, every little kiosk, when they do that. There are not that many major stations, and the ones that have

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

Folder, "[September 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Third Ward became Jeff Davis. And then Milby, I think, was probably the third t although it was outside of the Houston Independent School District at that time. And then, of course, the Houston Heights came into the area which was Reagan, and so

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

badly. on the Reagan High School team. made sure that his people [wereJ. I was a bad debater-- I was not properly prepared, but he I think his debate team was L. E. Jones and Gene Latimer, as I recall. Connally's era, too. And So I am of that era

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

together, when the government hadn't been settled down at all. Now, three months after President Reagan took over there wasn't very much trouble at all here. The transition that occurred during February, March, and the early part of April simply didn't