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Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was scheduled to make a speech in one of the town parks right across from the hotel where he was staying. to scout the opposition. So I went over there that night just You know, we didn't end up at the same place at the same time too many times

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: Yes. I can tell you ab~ut a night I had dinner with Mike Feldman, in February of 1960, when Mike and I put the ticket together and only he was right. . B: S: Mr. Feldman was working then for ... . Senator Kennedy. And he was, of course

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

five in the morning, fly to Washington, work all day long, talk with Shriver until well in the evening, and then work all the next day before flying back to Ohio late at night. I would guess that the reason Sargent Shriver asked me to become involved

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

way . He was He sat back and listened to the professor, and so on . One night he said to me in class, "How is it you always know the answer to these questions?" You know, when the professor would ask questions I'd put up my hand and discuss

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as could be, just jumping at the news of the day. In fact, we had had long discussions about all of the situation with Japan the night before and that morning at breakfast before I drove to Billingsley. I remember, with appropriate dismay, how I had said

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for devising this grand strategy which Wayne Morse had really devised. But he lays out what a hero I am in this meeting in the Cabinet Room or something. And that night he called me. I didn't call him. That night he called me, he said, "Did you read my column

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Marianne Means were both reporters and I read them religiously, and neither one of them never during the entire war or even after that betrayed his confidence on any of the discussions that took place there. They had inside information that no other writers

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

which was a record vote for any candidate for Governor on either ticket. So after he was elected, reelected Governor, the night after the election, the day after the election, I made the prediction that, in my judgment, he would be the nominee

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

really to make a contribution. I knew that and far more significantly, he knew that. Hhen Prime :Hinister Holt died, my recollection is that that was learned early on a Monday morning [or) late on a Sunday night. The Presi- dent i==ediately
leading up to Nixon’s inauguration; cocktail party in the Mansion on the last night of Johnson’s presidency; Temple’s activities the day of Nixon’s inauguration; leaving Andrews Air Force Base with LBJ and talking to George Bush; LBJ’s reception

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and teaching him to read and being with him. I think he very much missed--it made him realize that he'd missed other opportunities to be with her during times in Washington, maybe sometimes he wouldn't go by to see her every time he went to the Ranch

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and then we went up to the LCRA guest house to spend the night. We were all throwing a football around Sunday morning when Nellie and the other women came running out saying that the Japs had bombed Pearl Harbor. We all went into the guest house to listen

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 7 on April 20, 1968, to Califano in which I said, "I have read the draft of the Kappel Commission report and I would strongly recommend against public release or presidential endorsement of the report in the form that it was sent." Joe Califano had
Hampshire primary; the timing of RFK's announcement; Eugene McCarthy as a presidential candidate in 1968; O'Brien's trip to Wisconsin; a run-in with Jesse Unruh the night before O'Brien's son left for Vietnam; LBJ's March 31, 1968, announcement that he would

Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -4Hall that night. Lyndon took first. The title of that speech was, "Texas Undivided and Indivisible," which was a very popular speech in those:days. The next year he went

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about Maury Maverick that we've read and we know the author. G: Dick Henderson. W: Yes. G: Just a lucky guess. How'd you know that? (Laughter) W: But when we were living in San Antonio, I was working for the oil and gas division of the Railroad

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by eighty-seven votes, I think it was, and they called him IILandslide Johnson. II With that memory tucked way back in there in my mind, I read with interest the statement by this election official or party official or Johnson organizational official [luis

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

presidential running mate and that in effect his family went to bed the night after Kennedy was nominated thinking that in the morning the family would have to decide if the father would go on as a Senator or would become a vice presidential candidate. Can you

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into the White House, and I remember the eerie feeling of going back with all the lights and Secret Service and the Presidential aura around that house. F: It changed the complexion a bit. G: Yes, and that night, Joe and Susan Mary Alsop were there. F: Who

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the poverty job. Did your work then in drafting what became the VISTA title of the ? bill bring you more directly into the general drafting of the. P: I read the whole bill and made some comments to Schlei and his people. But it did not. time. I did

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Carpenter -- Special Interview -- 3 the Library, that part of it [for studying] the archives[the Reading Room]--is now heavily occupied. And I can remember for the first few weeks

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, but before he made any decision about what he was going to do, where he was going to go, he really wanted to find out what the situation was in South Vietnam and whether the things he had been reading about and hearing about in fact added up to a form

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this hindsight that people try to put into history these days to prove that they were right. I was fascinated to read last night an article in Encounter magazine written by a man named Robert Elegant-G: He's a British journalist, I believe. H: --in which he

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

that was a natural, the right of teachers to teach and students to read and write, and that was about it. I wrote something along that line, I don't know whether I have a copy of it or not, probably, and sent it in. I wasn't altogether prompt with it, and somewhere

Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was anxious to move in this whole field. I remember that night about a dozen of us met way into the night LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Well, Buchanan, James P. Buchanan of Brenham, had died rather suddenly, and he had already been in Congress many years. So most of us people didn't knmv too much of what a congressman was going to do. But we had, of course, read that he had died

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

and clergy and labor and students in universities and everybody else. He even thought~ as his mind went on, I remember one night, about taking an hour or an hour and a half of prime time television to put on a documentary of what life was really like

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, left my family in New York City; I commuted between Washington and New York every weekend. I had a small apartment across from the State Department on 21st Street, and I'd be there during the week. Friday night I'd go home and come back out Monday

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to have known anything about Dick K1eberg, except what he read about in elections. As far as Lyndon having anything to do with Dick K1eberg ' s original election, he did not, because he was teaching school. All right, then Daddy called him to meet him

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVII -- 16 two days. You could read all you wanted to and just look out at passing

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

House." Moyers says it's "spurious and ridiculous," and "gossip like this only demeans the Office of the President," and "I'm surprised you would run it without an effort to verify it." Then at the bottom it says, "For the President's night reading from

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

happen the night before, yet it proved to be one of the most underrated stories that went begging for attention for quite a long time. And I think some of those fellows, if you were to ask them today, would say that it was a genuinely missed opportunity

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the State Department saw as a possible shortage of oil in the Middle East. Well, it wasn't a story that had the kind of coup d'état immediacy to it. It was something that wasn't going to happen tomorrow morning or didn't happen the night before, yet

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

will not permit you to go to Cairo; and I am very much opposed to your departure." As these little ironies of fate happen, as it worked out, we happened to run into Bill and Betty Fulbright, it seemed to me, almost every night during those several weeks. M

Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but I \\las in graduate school at the time, just at the time work. I think she was about completing her undergraduate I was a student assistant for journalism, teaching headline writing and copy reading while I took tv:o years to get my masters degree

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

an Electra, a chartered Electra; you may recall those planes. They had kind of a circular lounge right in the rear, the tail. F: Right. W: And after everything was through for the night, he'd be flying off somewhere--maybe Garden City, Kansas--be flying

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

yourself to any of the other Democratic contenders? 'hi: Yes. First of all, I think it was exclusively for Humphrey, all the people on the White House staff. he wasn't going to run, ~:::J I know the night that Johnson said .".,ife was jumping up

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Johnson said to me--we had dinner together, just the two of us, in his hotel suite the night of the speech of the, what do you call them, temporary chairman. F: Yes. R: The keynote speech, which I think Frank Church was giving. The keynote. We were

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Point, Rhode Island, for additional training. This is really more personal than relates to President Johnson, so I won't elaborate on it. But then I was attached to a night-fighter group. We were the first trained controllers, called then fighter

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me ." He said that "They got 'em organized here ." I remember one time when I was sergeant-at-arms over there and we were going to have our meeting the same night that Joe Louis was going to fight . F: Oh, no . M: It was in the spring

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was to appear there as a potential candidate, but it was agreed that night on March 31, when I talked with the President after he had withdrawn, that he was going to keep that appearance. I came down just to keep the ball rolling on that, and several things

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

by the estimates section, a group of singularly incompetent lieutenant colonels. After I read the briefing I called them all in, and I said, "You're all fired. Out." I real- ized either I was going to have to do it myself or I was going to have to get some

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