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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

of your interests and specialties? J: Never, never, alas. I had the idea that anybody that could read could cook. And I did indeed cook everything for the first two years that we were married, and then, somewhere along the line, we acquired a cook. Help

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of photographs of mine. They seem to be now. At least, I think they will be. I was working one night, and unannounced and not even on the President's schedule that day, the Russian ambassador, [Anatoly] Dobrynin, came over. I don't remember the exact date

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

out your transfer. You go down and start shooting because we've got these big moon shots coming up," or sun shots or something. So this began a series of commuting between Canaveral for shoot; fly back to Washington that night with the raw film

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and the first time on television, which came into everybody's room every night, and as television is interested in the sensational, dramatic, this was the aspect of war they saw, saw things that happen in every war but had never been seen before. [That] turned

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

not going to be darkness. In many ways this is why, when I go to bed at night, I sleep better, because Lyndon Johnson is in the White House." I must say, in my naïveté, I thought that was a nice flourish. I really thought that was a pretty good way to end

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: In 1964 when I was on the PAC desk of NMCC, I was very much involved in Southeast Asia. That was the focus of it. G: What was the nature of your duties there? S: I was the PACOM desk officer in the National Military Command Center. I read all

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the Bureau of the Budget, and sort of commiserating and claiming that, you know, it was a very short time and enormous amounts of material. absorbed. I found myself I was reading more and more of these reports about the rivers and mountains, national parks

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McGovern -- I -- 5 counterpart--not the counterpart; he was my partner on the Senate side. And he was in my office one day, Hubert was, and he read

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a good reporter does first and foremost is, he's able to read motivation. I think any reporter who's any good can read motivation as to why somebody is bitching. Is he bitching because he's a professional bitcher? bitching because he's always unhappy

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

one time at the time of the CypriotGreek argument. I got in there about seven o'clock at night, and he was just absolutely exhausted. All I should have said was, "Well, listen, I'm going home," or "You should go home and get a drink," or something

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

vote, finally. Did Johnson ever show his hand on that particularly? G: No, but I'll tell you something I don't think I've ever told publicly. Price Daniel came to me one night in the middle of the debate over whether to censure Joe or not, and he said

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Congressman Kleberg. Now those were the days--we were contempo- raries of a sort--where the young New Dealers around Washington congregated at all hours of the day and night, particularly at night. I came to Washington in 1933. F: You P

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

/oh 10 M: Did you have anything to do with that? W: No. In effect the Secretary as Administrator had read out the Kennedy task force--Joe McMurray. who had worked with the Secretary and who had been the chairman of the Kennedy Task Force

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

be in the tub, and he would talk to you and two or three secretaries would come in and take letters . He never stopped . At night, the conversation would go on during supper and right up to bedtime . I would say that the press that followed him from all

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and he was for Truman. So you'll remember that one night when Mr. Wallace was getting up some steam, Mr. Jackson adjourned the convention. That's attributed to many people. Frankly many people think I had something to do with it, but I didn't, and I don't

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was in progress because the troops went by your house. Did we have no warning, no advance notice of this? C: I don't think any particular warning, no.I remember I went out to dinner the night before with the Ambassador and we certainly had no thoughts of that.We

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

picked up the word somewhere that I had criticized Johnson in something I'd read or a speech I'd made. Well, I had made a speech at the University of Chicago--it was the only thing I could figure--in the summer of 1962, which they had asked could

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I probably got there around anywhere from four to five o'clock in the afternoon, but it was not unusual to leave at ten-thirty at night. It's marvelous looking back on that period to wonder at the amount of energy one has when one is young

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

been appointed Ambassador to Chile, and I wanted to go back to Chile . I liked it . I spoke the language fluently, I could read and write it as well as I could English ; I kept books in it for two years . F: You had been with a mining company

Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. In the late fifties, he came with Mrs. Johnson to a CBS affiliates reception in New York one night. was the Hotel Pi erre or the ~~a 1dorf, I don't recall whether if but I, of course, through a Democratic family, knew the Senator. F: In these sort

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

York before the hearings [in 1956], to try to find out what was bugging him. He had a counsel that was very negative toward not me, but toward the industry. I've forgotten his name. And Manny sat there that night--the only time I could see him

Oral history transcript, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

was about; he had his two bits worth to say. I do remember that. That part is just about all I remember about him, during those times when I was eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve years old along in there. Of course now I've read this, too, but I definitely

Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

is writing it. Caro hasn't reached the point where he's written on the period of Johnson's life that I know. But what he has written on, much of it doesn't ring true to me, at least not as a balanced appraisal. I haven't read your book thoroughly, but from my

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

reading a lot of stuff about his responsibility for this Vietnam War. He inherited that damned war! I've cut a tape for President Kennedy, and I've made it clear on that tape, I don't know what they've done with it, but the first combat troops were sent

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. So it certainly wasn't a bone of contention because I don't remember ever talking about it except more or less casually. I did send him a copy of my book. Storm Over the States, but I certainly didn't expect him to read it. F: It wasn't devotional

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

out to Buchanan Dam, days and nights. I didn't go every time and I don't remember who he and Lady Bird took with them or any special occasion, but he did enjoy it. [Reading a document] "Raise the price of milk or reduce the price"--"or reduce the price

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in a category by what I'm going to say, but I don't think it's atypical. First of all, I knew some about Southeast Asia. I had read some of the history. culture. I knew a little bit about their I believed absolutely in what we were doing

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I announced in January of that year I believe, so, yes, I was an early announcer. G: I've heard a story about that campaign or read it in Senator [Paul] Douglas' memoirs that showed your independence. M: Yes, that story became quite famous

Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

so that it will be easier for you to read over. background. Let's start with your You're not a native Texan. P: Right. G: Do you want to tell where you were born? P: Shawnee, Oklahoma. G: I believe you indicated that you lived in Chicago. P

Oral history transcript, C.W. Price, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: C. W. PRICE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Price's office, Alice, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: . . . the manuscript of the hearings, and of course it makes delightful reading. But let us back up a minute, if we can. Something

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

were all a little nervous about it and we talked about it, because this guy, of course, was an indefatigable worker. He worked from early morning until late at night. I don't quite remember whether this was the year that I became acting whip. I think

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

, just about one year. My father--that was in 1919--he was teaching in Beaumont, and the war was ended. He wanted to buy the Johnson place, and he had already gotten Aunt Jessie to say she would sell her part and then if--I guess if you read [Robert

Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

it on his own personal contact. He walked the streets from morning until night and I would go in a different direction. I did not make political speeches, but I circulated with people and it got to be quite a joke, because just to say "This is Mrs. Thomas

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they reacted very well. One of the cute stories about the White House years is that a senator attacked the President very strongly on the floor of the Senate the day of a state dinner, and that night he was on the guest list. Of course, COpy Lyndon B~ Jobnson

Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a time sequence, but I know I worked very late into the night on that story. And I see the Washington Post here, as I would have recalled, carried two stories, to exemplify what I was just saying. Well, actually we carried more than two; we carried two

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on Saturday morning, he came to my office and we briefed him. And he was off on a plane Saturday night, and he went to Chile. G: Was Zimmerman knowledgeable about this aspect as well? C: Well, Zimmerman was the guy that convinced us that the only way we

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

make little notes in shorthand on the back of envelopes in my purse or I usually had a shorthand book around with me. So I was a kind of a conveyor for those late nights when I finally got to see him over those endless cups of coffee that I would bring

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

lamp and get a carbon arc, night lights for the Brewers baseball stadium, because it wasn't there. And for a Texas senator the thing was excru ciating. One of the problems of Texas, which is not well understood up here in the North, is that oil