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Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

-seven and one-half per cent oil depletion allowance than any two men in the entire government. And the oilmen should have gotten down on their knees every night and given thanks for Johnson and Rayburn. ~1: And then they left him, though, in '60. K

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to walk around out on the south lawn. W: Oh, yes, he talked to me about it many times, usually with a very loud and angry voice. When he first became President, he asked me at the White House one night what would I do about the press. I said, "Mr

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think there are many times he kind 1 of liked the idea of being in business. He liked to look over the radio station reports on Sunday afternoon, read what everybody did, have Mrs. Johnson make notes on what they should have done. She would

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

then at that time, or you just saw him? J: Just hello--a cordial handshake as he has done with millions of others. And then subsequent to that, while I was in night law school at Georgetown and working full-time for Congressman Edmondson, Tommy Boggs, who

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Kennedy read more than Johnson and had been in contact with students and with foreign leaders and so on perhaps more than Johnson. But Johnson had, I always thought, the towering intellect of that period over all the other people that he associated

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

think I'll ever be caught playing against the President, because he can read those LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] things bac~~ards--those so much

Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

some connection between Brown and Root and Lyndon and their rise together. P: Right. Correct. You read many and many of those. He did advise wha t to do, as I I ve told you, advi sed fvtr. Herman Brown or George Brown, me or anybody else--"thought

Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for overnight camp . One night we got caught for shoot- ing craps out there, playing poker and one thing, girls and the boys . G: At Wimberley? B: Yes . G: Was LBJ along, do you remember? B: I don't believe he was . He always managed to stay out

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thinking about Kintner. Here's Kintner having a staff meeting on all the minutiae of. . . . Okay. Now. That night, the agreement is reached, the President comes over, tells the press just before ten [o'clock] that there is an agreement, but he wanted to go

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to your attention? S: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I mean, they were a godsend. We couldn't have run OEO without them. G: Did you have someone on your staff go through and read those and sift through them? S: No, sir, I read them myself. G: Did you? S: Oh

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

negative views about Viet Nam. I read Bob Shaplen's book a couple of years ago and I read a book by a man named Lucien Bodard called The Quicksand War, written about the French experience between 1945 and 1950. And I talked to a number of guys who had been

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in between, make speeches and then, at the night, there would be a major rally in a fairly large town. He'd go to Blanco and Johnson City and Round Mountain and Cypress Hills and Marble Falls and there make a sizeable speech. Meanwhile, we had our good

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

went back home, and of course I was sworn to absolute utmost secrecy that I could never ever tell anybody that he had offered me a job. I came back down again the next week. I think I stayed in the Mansion overnight the first night. I did

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in smoke if he ever read it himself. But it's well worth having. What it shows you is that this was a man who had a traveling American senator's view--and a highly personalistic one--of how he was acting. So that the size of the bed and the shape

Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

away from home. But then I enr'olled for about. let's see, I took classes per day. tvlO or three I took my noon hour and went to school and then I took one course at night, and in the summer I took a course from seven to eight in the morning. G

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Allred because I asked him if he knew anything about this young congressman personally--I had known of course what I'd read in the papers--he though very highly of LBJ. I said, "Well, we've got hell in our county to do much for him because our county

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the night with one of them. ) You find that instead of a platoon, there are really only eight people there. maybe in a cemetery. You're dug in Actually, I'm using a small case history now. In our "platoon" of popular forces, underequipped

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to formulate a solution to a problem? M: I think Bob Shaplen did. G: Did he? M: Yes. G: Can M: you--? The only specific I can give you is not within my own experience, I simply read about it in Frank Snepp's book [Decent Interval]. In the closing days

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

really. I think he was My recollection is it was the morning after his arrival, or in any case the morning he was to depart. Actually, the first time I discovered there was a problem I think might have been very late the night before the departure

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

welfare work, because during the Depression the relief situation was so acute that the welfare department kept its office open at night . So I worked a swing shift . I went to law school in the forenoon and then came on to the welfare department, worked

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

directions. He'd approach different people to get opinions and whatnot, and I'll never forget it, he said to me on the occasion of that particular visit to the cockpit, "Well, what did you think about my decision that I announced last night?" or whatever

Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and it was our time to get up and talk on a subject, we would know exactly what it was all about. (Interruption) G: --the library at the University of Texas to get the literature. C: Extension Loan Library, and get the material on this and read up

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I think, when we talked Friday night, that he was a person that if I were you I would interview. He is getting up in years. This we'll take out of the transcript, but, off the record, but for your information he is up in years. F: He is still

Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

telling me about your interest in politics and how you'd read some of the liberal journals of the day. C: My husband and I are orphans, and we had found through our connections with a conservative religious community that there were people who cared

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. It wasn't easy to locate him. He used to tell Henry, Gonzalez~ 11 Henry, I can get hold of t he Pope a lot qu i cker than I can find you, because Henry's hours are a li ttle erratic, believe me. la te and works late at night. from his room. 11 He reads

Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

two or three Democrats to agree with us. I remember they had a book program in these foreign countries. I had been ambassador to India and I had seen these people just crowding these libraries reading these books. And the Russians had a big book

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

here with Lyndon Johnson that was taken that particular night. But we had a briefing with [Secretary of State] Dean Rusk, [Robert] McNamara--the Secretary of Defense--to tell us about Vietnam policies, the very thing you're asking about. And we walked

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. The only thing exciting Dudley Dougherty did was, as far as I remember, pay for the first talkathon. And probably the night before election he had some telephone on the statewide radio network, but none of us took that very seriously as a means of getting

Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the premier collection in private hands. In fact, I was reminded that I'd read about it some years ago in a book by Aline Saarinen, The Proud Possessors. And when I cast about looking at ways in which the posture of the Smithsonian as a whole could

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with mud, but she had an extra dress that she had bought to wear to the program that night in San Antonio, so she changed immediately to that. And as the ladies came, she was poised and gracious, her usual charming self. You would just never dream that she

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

around the table in my office--we were actually rewriting the brief in my office, and I called Thurgood Marshall and read it to him and got his approval. G: And Ramsey Clark did approve at this point? C: Ramsey Clark acceded, I think it would be fair

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the three things I mentioned. I sent the President a memo on it and he exploded all over the memo. I read this here, [he wrote] "No, hell, no," but I mean if you look at the original of this you can see the pencil breaking as he was writing. G

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Union stuff, these stories? B: I'll check. C: Because they're important stories. This is the [Washington] Post, I guess: "There with an agenda rivaling the original Great Society program in scope, President Johnson last night laid before Congress

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

mean at the White House? M: Well, at the White House, often on a Saturday night with only a couple hours' warning. It wasn't a big party affair. F: Sort of ''You-all come?" M: That's right, exactly that. And then a few times just floating down

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Of course, King was very articulate, he was one of the best friends I've got. The bed we share tonight here is a bed he slept in many a night when he was in town. He never went to a hotel when he came through this part. He knew he'd come home. This was home

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that in and out a" it. By lying to the bedroom every morning as I did, I came in contact ~1 with the speech because by-and-large the various drafts were went to the President as his night reading. When I would arrive there in the morning the speech would

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a few here. W: I think the first impression I had of him was of furious, almost incredible, energy. I also had an impression--now, this, as you know, [or] will have read about, was in the early New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson was deeply

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Was this for action in the Pacific? P: For action in the Pacific, right, around Kelpart Island, which is just south of Korea, where we went into a harbor one night and sank a munitions ship that was at anchor. M: Did you have to go through nets and mine fields

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

running infrared missions at night, indicating great usage of these particular roads. also being used. Certain nighttime photography was But all of it sort of fitted together into a mosaic. This movement, as I recall, was what convinced myself

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was, I would lie to you in a completely relaxed frame of mind. Dudman: Well, I can write that up. Rowe: I don't want to read about Pan Am. Pan Am is a client and I don't want you to get this riled up. I will run my law practice; you can run