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Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Domingo. I remember we were in constant touch with the Department of Defense. Decisions had to be made continually with respect to a number of matters such as whether we should try and air-drop troops in during the night, or whether we should wait

Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would think that he He'd probably have a paper, reading it or something, while you were talking to him. I told him that it was so funny that we had a chef, and he wouldn't eat his cooking. I said, "I have to teach him what you like. I feel
in the middle of the night; LBJ brings unexpected guests for dinner; LBJ gets ill on seafood salad at Glassboro; LBJ's eating habits; LBJ's recreation; LBJ changes moods between the Ranch and Washington; Richard Russell; LBJ turns off the White House lights; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

as-they had a little collusion there, you knm'l, because the next night Lyndon would probqbly_do the same thing. He was supposed to come home and milk the cow before dark and he seldom got in before dark. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 1, 1971 B: This is the interview with Senator Lister Hill. here very briefly your background. Sir, let me just read You were born here in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1894, and attended the University of Alabama

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: BUFORD ELLINGTON INTERVIEWER: T.H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Ellington's office in the State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee Tape 1 of 2 B: Sir, if I may read just a little background material. You were born in Mississippi and attended

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

an attendance of over seven thousand. Bobby [Kennedy] had gone to California, because we were moving into California immediately following the Oregon primary. It was rather a shock to lose on primary night. Bobby had returned from California. We were

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

all over the world. But in Rio it was a most dramatic thing. We opened a book at the chancery and another one at our residence, and over that weekend we had a line of people stretching for three or four blocks. It was continuous, day and night

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

talk for a second about your view of the nature of the war? From reading some of the communications that you made to the White House and some of the statements that you made for newspapers and at the trial, your view of what the war was about inside

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in drama that led to--? R: It might have been. And she did love to read, and she was a real learned person. And by reading, I mean, I'm sure she read plays as well as novels and history and everything else. Now this is simply a guess on my part

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

establishing the national forests one night and the next morning signing the act that took the authority away from him. Therefore, Udall had devoted much time and had his people devote six months to working up this presentation. very indirectly, but I knew

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and then lots of casual dinners for staff, newspaper friends, other senators. We began to branch out more in that year. The children's doctor was Dr. John Washington, who would come any time of day or night, if he felt that tone in your voice that said, "I'm

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

election first when he read about it in the Army Newspaper. 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://discoverlbj.org

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

these boys, so there were a lot of court-martials around there. So I would train the troops all day and then I would prosecute cases from six o'clock till about midnight every night, for malingering and for shooting themselves in the foot and for theft

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of the writing, the next guy will read this and this will 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was turning us into a whole nation of zeros. I would argue with Dobie and in the process of arguing with him, he began to read a lot of the material that ol’ Bedichek and I would give him. Bedichek was a very liberal, very literate man that was well read

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But Mr. Dunn was sent. It is highly probable that Mr. Greene may have gone with Lyndon and Bill Schupp. It all happened the same night. G: I see. S: And yet I can't find it in the book. G: Did you have to pay your own expenses-- s: Oh, no. Oh

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Mansfield was never away that much. Johnson was like--again, to use a musical analogy--a [Herbert] Von Karajan. He flies into Berlin. He spends three weeks whipping the orchestra into frantic shape. They put on four spectacular nights of Beethoven and Wagner

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, do you? G: Sure. B: Did you read that? I. 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://discoverlbj.org

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

directions in terms of the conversation. An example again: leadership breakfasts. If you take Kennedy and then Johnson, you had the same leaders on Tuesday morning. Each president has had the same briefing from me the prior night for his night reading

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

these people how that very night or that very afternoon after they left, there would be a reception in the afternoon, a tea with Mrs. Johnson, and in the evening there might be a state reception with the cabinet. Through this White House photographer

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 19, 1969 M: This is an interview with Dr. Joseph A. Pechman. Institution. He is at Brookings I am in the Reading Room of the Library at Brookings where the interview is taking place. The date is March 19, 1969

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

commitment from Martin not to act unilaterally in the future? C: He did try to get Martin to agree not to act, to give us notice of any action he wanted to take and also not to act without all the facts. But that also has to be read against the context

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of southerners that wrote the report on economic conditions in the South which I recolmlend all historians, particularly from Arkansas, read. It's a document that was produced to try to bring the South into the rest of the economy of the country_

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

acquaintance with him and his staff when he was Vice President, but my first real meeting with Mr . Johnson was the night that he told me he was going to appoint me Deputy Postmaster General . P: Could you tell me a little of the circumstances surrounding

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would go down on Friday morning, go to the races on Friday as pre-Derby races, and you'd have fun at night. Maybe go to the Kentucky Colonel's Dinner. Then, of course, they came to the Derby breakfast when I was Governor. Then we would generally come

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the things I found out when I got out there is that as usual, nobody had read any of the stuff that the Vietnamese were putting out themselves on what they wanted to achieve with the strategic hamlet program. Well, one of the things they had

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and the government's efforts. Anyway, we felt that it was important to design some coherent local strategy, and so we really put together on paper a pacification program, and we read all the things that we could gather from around the world. We got good help from RAND

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)

-or that I would want to be on the ticket as vice president. That night he called me and said he wanted to see me [this is 1960-H. M.]. He came in and said he wanted me on the ticket. I said, "You want a good majority leader to help you pass your program." I

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, that Johnson just withdrew. M: I remember some of the comments on the TV that night were pretty shocked-by people such as yourself. Z: I called and learned that it was true. Well, March 31, Johnson withdrew and our primary was that following Tuesday

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. S: It hurt him when someone criticized a friend. I'll give an example. I got up one morning and then read a paper, and somebody had jumped all over me. And he called me. "Well," he said, "you know, it's another example of somebody that supports me

Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

job was simply the text, in the makeup and that sort of thing--Bob Breeden will explain to you. That's very important in all our books because pictures play such a big part. In fact, I was just reading a few minutes ago in something else that I

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

sides they take? I've read, of course, all the stories on Louis B. Mayer and his friendship with high political types and so on, but I wonder what is the attitude at the executive level. W: Well, I think the executives have matured enough so

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

start to look at these papers, and now I look--you look at these papers, for sure going up there in 1966 with a State of the Union Message that I can tell you, I remember that night, [it] just blew their minds. A dozen or so brand-new programs. Nobody

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of all, this time, there was no circulation of the State of the Union to the cabinet. They had to come to my office to read it on the day before. That was the first time they saw it. And I went through with cabinet officer by cabinet officer with them

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. That was a grand occasion and the night that--it was in April. It froze the peaches. I think it was April 21 when Adenauer came because we had a freeze on Saturday night and he was supposed to come to mass on Sunday morning, and I'll never forget it because

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

across it. If you came in late at night, and you always did if you worked for Congressman Johnson, because his hours were long, you walked across the floor and it would creak. His bedroom was just under this attic room and he kept a broom

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/show/loh/oh 17 B: Well, I was wondering if you had any specific instances of what you call the stubbornness that has sometimes hurt his activities? C: I think you'd just have to read his record. It's written down for you to see. B: Do you think
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Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

pretty hard during that year? W: Yes, it was a rare night when I would get home before 8 o'clock. And in those days, the conferences with the Court were on Saturday, so Friday night--the night before the conferences--the law clerks would be down

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: He froze you out. C: Froze me out. And then he called me in one night and handed me this document and he said, "This isn't clear. This really needs to be spruced up and straightened out. Go to work on it. I want a clean draft tonight or tomorrow

Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and were all ushered into the Cabinet Room. The President did come in, and he read his executive order and appointed each of us. As he signed the executive order he handed each of us a pen with which he signed it. LBJ Presidential Library http

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