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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the interior. I read the correspondence between the two men, and I read it and reread it and reread it and reread it, and I never found what 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • assistant and Lyndon was in on the same thing. Lyndon was interested in that sort of thing. F: W: This was kind of a luncheon debating society, in a sense? A dinner--I mean a night thing. great went. It was a night thing, and some of the Don't ever
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • real and some of them perhaps imagined, I don't know quite where the line was. But at any rate, her eyesight was poor by this time and her reading limited. Sometime along about here I found out about, and secured for her, these records from the Library
  • Youth Administration; LBJ's work in the 10th District in the fall of 1943; LBJ's efforts to help individuals in his role as congressman; KTBC's affiliation with Columbia and capability to broadcast at night; losing office staff to the military; staying
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • by to that city. One can drive an hour away and be skiing. One can literally drive up on a Friday afternoon in midsummer and have an exciting mountain climb and be back early enough in the night to have one's own bath and sleep in one's own bed. As an active
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to pass out cards for a young candidate at a political rally there in Smithville; that candidate was Lyndon Johnson. Cliff Carter met Lyndon Johnson that night. He became so deeply impressed with the man that he devoted much of the remainder of his life
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • read to the President up in Hyannis, it had been also read and I understood approved by Rusk, and I was told that the intention was to run down Max Taylor, that General [Victor] Krulak was going to get hold of Taylor. So my reaction
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was going on, as important as it would be, he always insisted on that. He'd take this leather envelope and put it alongside of his bed, I'm told, of course I wasn't there, and then he would read these things. He would put "OK, LBJ," or "See me," or "Walter
  • Bryant's work on the Empire Ordnance investigation; Don Cook's work in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the preparedness subcommittee; Bryant's meetings with LBJ; LBJ's night reading; the preparedness subcommittee's work related
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER February 5, 1969 B. This is the interview with J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. Sir, let me read an outline of your career subject to corrections and additions. You were born in 1898 in Charlottesville, served in World War II
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would make the offer of the vice presidency to Senator Johnson, and two, that Senator Johnson would accept it? M: Let me tell you my association with that. The balloting ended at mid- night, and we got all of our workers together. In a very
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] the Shah and his new wife, and Mrs. Johnson. We, of course, learned a lot about the problems that have existed in Cyprus and Turkey. In Turkey I distinctly remember how they teach soldiers how to read and write. Apparently some of them can join the army
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • professional fashion. Whereas we were just sort of the good guys of America. had, I think, one delegation the night before the roll call. the devil was it? Kansas, I think. We What We had it by one vote, and went to bed on it, and woke up and one vote had
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • side of the street was totally wrecked, the other side wasn't touched. G: Anything on the Kennedy assassination? R: You mean Bobby? G: Yes. R: The main thing I remember, I'd gone to bed early that night and Sam Houston called me. He was watching
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and as you can see from this memo, the night before we worked out the jurisdictional issues about how to split this up. We would prepare a brief TV clip so the President could read a brief statement--two minutes--what today we'd call a sound bite basically
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] spent three days in that campaigning and by the last day, I had a very rough throat, got to where I could hardly speak, and I came home on Saturday night, went to bed. no better; in fact, if anything, I was worse. The next morning I was So my wife
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to remember the names of the very few whom we did know in Austin. I think one had a Johnson City background, a furniture man named Brown, and a hardware man named Davis. Oh, gee. G: Here's a list of contributors, if you can read that messy handwriting. J
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the city of Chicago November 5, 1896; on the near west side, a short distance from the Loop. My education was just a grammar school education and some courses at night school at Lewis Institute. M: You went to work at an early age? K: I went to work
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the French It simply means that the Viet Cong had enough of a fight with us and didn't want one with the French as well. out, we weren't stopped. As it turned I had worked all night and the night before, and going through the worst part of Zone 0
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Woods -- II -- 4 to--it would be a speaking at night when the Fergusons were running for governor~ that kind of thing. You might have heard along on a trip and went to San Antonio to hear Jim think~ speak for Ma, or vice versa. rally. Anyway~ I
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • care of his business, and accepted the fact he has had a heart attack. He has the problems of convalescence to worry him and so forth. But still that same night, in the process of getting his thoughts in order, he talked with Lady Bird. Mrs. Johnson, I
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the telephone. But it was an interesting story to me, because it was part of the President's boyhood that I don't happen to have read about~ also because it showed the kind of a background he"grew up in. and He was exposed to what we know as "making your
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • home. You couldn't possibly get them all registered. In Washington, D.C., the registration law they've put in locally here--I read somewhere that less than twenty percent of the estimated guns in the District of Columbia are registered, and of that less
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • today, Lyndon Johnson felt he was the president, and they all worked for him. Some of the things I've seen recently in the press about his Secret ServiceCone thing in particular: I read an article about bathroom habits and the Secret Service. I can't
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • I called up--this was about 11:30-12:00 o'clock at night, not LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • all night with him and the next night he would stay all night at our house. Kids like, we slept together, it was nothing unusual in those days. In fact, it was compelling because houses were small. (Interruption) In looking back, at the time maybe
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • went out there . before . I got there in the morning or the night Anyhow, I talked with Max and then I met Heath, who's a lawyer, you know . Do you know who he is? M: I know who he is . I never met him . B: He's a lawyer and a real Texas old
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was how he could somehow get on top of a script very quickly without having to refer to it. He characterized Senator Kennedy as being able to read a memorandum and somehow get on top of it very quickly and go out and talk about it. And yet I'm confusing
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Presidential candidate with Mr. Stevenson to represent the South? J: Yes, I recall there was, but I was not a participant in any of the convention procedures at that time. Yes, I did hear and read that this might have been a feeling of those people
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Washington when Johnson was vice president I went to a party one evening out at Liz Carpenter's house. I had not long before read Ted White's book, The Making of a President, 1960, and he has in there a version of how the Johnson selection as vice president
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Johnson would ten pages, single- spaced, with paragraphs a half a page long, sentences that you had to read three times to figure out what they were saying. LBJ would look at it, obviously at night, read a coup.le of paragraphs, and throw it aside
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • very well at Amherst: Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, and all that business. I went to law school, never read a book, never went to class. I really didn't like it; I never wanted to practice law. I read novels; I became an expert on many of our great
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . very favorably. I mean, comparisons are obnoxious. I think generally Mrs. Johnson came out She did things. F: Particularly as time went by. C: Yes. F: I read some of the comments on her in 1 64 as against 1 67 and '68, and you could see
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • worked all day in that capacity and the night before as well. P: Can you tell me a little about it? W: Well, it was just a matter of contacting individuals that I knew from those particular counties from Texas and trying to convince them
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • night about a story they ran and just chewed out some poor night copy editor? I'm sure LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] every night . it quiet . More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh We had had reporters trying to listen in . We tried to hold the line
Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • to Bruce Thomas, who had maybe one assistant and then part-time helpers. They were the ones that would be folding the mail and mailing it at night. But Bruce--that's Bruce Thomas--with his helper, they would open the mail and if it was case mail, meaning
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ' rights basis, I suppose you'd term it. When I got here and this bill came up, I read the bill at night. Mrs. Pickle was in Austin. I'd take it home in the evening and read it and I'd debate it with myself. I was coming around to the conclusion
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 San Antonio at Alamo Heights Junior High School. During those four years, I was going to night law school in San Antonio at the old San
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • about 8 o'clock at night. Met Mr. Califano and spent about an hour with him, and then for the first time discovered that I was being considered to be deputy mayor of the District of Columbia. When Mr. Califano was through with the interview, he made
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • There's nothing as confusing as to try to unravel a descrip- tion of a night action at sea. There you can see things in-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and many senior members. My recollections about Mr. Johnson in particular are rather hazy at this time. I do recall that he was a rather prominent member of the delegation and I, therefore, was somewhat attracted to him out of curiosity, having read a lot