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Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the University of Texas. give us material. They would give us outlines, and then they would We would study the outlines and then read the material, and then we would write our debates from that. G: I see. Well, was LBJ pretty diligent in studying

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLI -- 2 the night. There was no, ever, never any, "I'm sorry it's three

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

know, a baby clinic, or a hospital, or somewhere the next day. The night before that was to take place, our son Dan fell off his burro and broke his arm, and we had the Dominican doctor look at it and set it and cast it, and we weren't very satisfied

Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson did before he worked in President Evans' office? H: Yes, when we first moved up to this apartment he was night That was one of the good jobs there. well secure at night. watchm~n. They kept the campus pretty There were two shifts in each area

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

wanted to make you friendly as possible. Yes, you get an intimation of . . . . F: And did he read you? B: Well, I was impressed with him. F: No, I mean did he read your copy? Did you get an idea that when I didn't agree with him-- you wrote

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was on the plane going out with us, and my room that had been assigned to me at the hotel there in Los Angeles had been taken over as an office, and I spent my first night in Governor Burns l suite. Then as a result of being invited by the President to serve

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

I know about, in terms of decisions at that point or,what! ve read abou,t since, Ambassador Lodgels return and I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

announced for the Senate, and that he was leaving and to get him a bag packed. And he flew out that night. F: Did she seem surprised? R: Well, there was so much excitement--I'm confident that they'd talked it over, because I think that they have been

Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was invited to stay there by the two guys who were living there at the time. That was Dave Kenney, who was in the evaluation division of CORDS, a foreign service officer, and Mike Cook, who was doing the same thing. So I was staying there the night that Tet

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

support from Russia? B: Well, in the summer of '64, my own reading, and I gave it to a lot o£ newsmen in these terms at the time, is that Khrushchev wished Southeast Asia were under six feet of water . When he was overthrown in October, this was very

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and wanted to see my father do well . likewise . His brothers and sisters were interested in him They were readers . I've heard him say when they lived in Georgia that they were poor people, but they took the Atlanta Constitution , and his mother read

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there? Would it be every evening? R: No, not every evening, but pretty regularly, and they wouldn't stay until late at night or anything like that, but the little group--I can't tell you who all was in it because I don't know--they all liked and respected

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

them, because that's what we thought was wanted, we didn't have any strong feelings that number one was far, far superior to number eight on that list. Shall I read in the names? M: Yes. L: All right, this is in the--this is the rank-ordering
School-related topics; dining and staying the night at the White House; Frank Dobie staying the night in the Lincoln Bedroom; LBJ turning off the lights in the White House; Walter Cronkite and Livingston looking for a restroom in the White House; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that it was not because President Johnson twisted my arm, as I have read in many publications. A president of the United States cannot twist the arm of a Supreme Court justice, even Lyndon Johnson. As a matter of fact, to prove that, sometime before then he had invited me

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of television, by asking for the networks to place those television crews in the White House almost around the clock, until midnight or something. Every night he'd have the television crew at the White House theater, and the networks paid for it. And a couple

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of him was] reading in the Dallas [Morning] News that he had been appointed NYA director for Texas. It surprised me a bit because a few weeks or a few days before I had read that a fellow from Port Arthur or Corpus [Christi] somewhere down there, had

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of Germany. I was invited to attend and to spend the night as a guest in the White House. During the social hour before the dinner, many distinguished guests were present and I saw Justice Black of the Supreme Court. I remember a decision which he wrote

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and the questions of conflict of interest. We already read in the paper yesterday that President Nixon, in the midst of a major antitrust case, picked up the telephone and called the Deputy Attorney General and told him not to file an appeal. Later that order

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it, but it works, too, you know. G: I heard you playing it the other night. P: Oh yes. You can play "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder," belt it out. Now, how you can use it in the Library's hold, I don't know. I think Harry [Middleton] has in mind maybe putting

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the White House I had become, personally, rather concerned about a lot of the things that were going on, things that seemed to me politically--well, inept is the kindest word I can use. And I ran into Dick Russell at a party one night. Now the relationship

Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of him. F: Incidentally, Senator Knowland told me--I saw him some time in the past year out in Oakland at the Tribune office--that President Johnson still sent him an occasionally note or something on a birthday or some other occasion when he read

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

audience and feels his audience; he was good at it. He read the mood of his audience. He was quite good at it. M: Did he ad-lib a great deal? W: Yes. Oh, he could make a much better speech speaking from that which he knew and in which he conveyed

Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

got up here our mail was heavy on that subject for a long time. This was in--I believe it was in 1955 that the Southern Manifesto--you remember reading about that--or do you remember that? Walter George of Georgia, the great orator, is the one who

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

around the fact that there was misreporting by CIA or the armed services, intelligence services, whichever was doing it. Now, in your position, which I think is a rather unique position, reading the enemy documents and so forth, did you ever have any

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, but in the end he wanted to go off with elaborate papers and sit with his yellow pad and do his toting up. Kennedy I suppose read everything in sight, not in the systematic way that Nixon did with pros and cons papers, but just read every analytical piece that he

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to read out loud a rather lengthy statement that John Kennedy had delivered as a Senator to the Massachusetts Farm Bureau state convention. It was a speech in which as a young senato~ Kennedy came out in effect against the agricultural price support

Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)

in your whole life span. I noticed that you don't project those out as the first of this, and someone else picks that up. I think, based upon my reading, a lot of this came from your grandfather [John Ed Patten]. J: Yes, that is correct. H: Would you

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

they simply wouldn't thrive in Washington. So we thought that we'd have to do something other than that. At dinner that night at the Ranch, Liz Carpenter came up with the idea of going to the quarry at Marble Falls and looking for a stone there. Mrs. Johnson

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

And I recall after the dinner party at the Wheelers, which did not break up until after eleven o'clock, I went up to read over my manuscript for the last time and found it unsatisfactory. , So I worked until about two o'clock in the morning in making

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was down there and he had control over his time and what he could do, he was relaxed most of the time and would work in the morning or late at night. M: You haven't described any of the very widely, supposed at least, abuse that his staff received. Did

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

aircraft. McNamara blew him out of the water by saying, one, we've got plenty of KC-135s and, two, the A-6 was not yet tested. Greene wanted to replace the C-119s which he said did not provide an all-weather capability or a night-time capability. McNamara

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

takes place in Faulkner's Sanctuary.] I don't know if you ever read it, where Popeye's walking down the street with this guy and they're looking at all these black whores and white whores, all kinds, in the windows above. And this guy said, Let's go up

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

for regulation in some areas . came up in odd circumstances. In the early days these things I remember, for instance, one night about 2 o'clock in the morning I was reading some applications for state technical assistance grants and I ran across the name

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it in to me." Well, I did know, and some of what I knew about Stu shouldn't have been written. I knew lots. So I sat down and I patted my typewriter, and I said, "Write, honey." home at night. I sat down and wrote that at And I wrote it and I wrote

Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was deeply interested in it and included it in his night reading on at least two occasions, and sent for it on several occasions. After the President left office, I got a request from the White House for the report. I sent it to President Nixon. I

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sauvageot -- I -- 5 indicate the tones and how to put these together. That gave me the building blocks to purchase Vietnamese newspapers and develop vocabulary, both by reading

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

transpired. But he did regard this man--now I'm aware that they had some words about the Vietnam War and some differences. I Johnson did not go to his funeral, I'm aware of that. did not know that incidentally until I read Cliff and Virginia Durr's

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

asked Willie laBay, a Scripps-Howard writer and a very dear friend of mine, a lady in her fifties, I would say, if she wouldn't come and spend the night with us at the Brinkerhoff Lodge. Willie very graciously and understandably agreed to do

Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: We had to go to San Antonio to see it. F: That was an all day and night affair, wasn't it? L: Yes, and I don't know, I guess sometime later the next spring--! don't know when it was--she met Lyndon. And boy,_Lyndon, like· everything else, he

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

law at night, and second, that after he got his law degree I either heard from him or from somewhere that he had opened a law office. the extent of his activities. I didn't realize I do remember one Saturday afternoon when we were working

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