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Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -raising dinners . Back in those days we had the twenty-five-dollar-a-plate dinner which just seemed fantastic in those days . Of course look what has happened to them since that time . But during those years, I met not only Lyndon Johnson but also
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , who was, at the time of his death in 196l, Dean of Men at The University of Texas. A daughter, our only daughter, who is now Barbara Norwood, was also a graduate of The University of Texas. I worked--I have been associated with many figures in public
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . JACKSON, EDITOR, CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER- TIMES . DONE BY ERIC F . GOLDMAN IN MR . JACKSON'S OFFICE, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS , April 5, 1965 . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------G: Mr . Jackson has been discussing
  • , required very little sleep, thought movies were a waste of time; LBJ tended to all the duties Congressman Kleberg neglected: veterans' pensions, etc.; attending night sessions of Congress; the Texas Club; LBJ dating in Washington; no hobbies; no reading
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 19, 1968 W: I was born of southern parents in St. Louis, where they were residing at that time, briefly in 1923. We returned to the South. My mother and father were Tennesseean and Alabaman people with a long
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . G: So you satisfied yourself that what he was suffering was angina. H: It was angina, but at that point Dr. North and the others that were treating him there were doing all that was known to do at that point in time. G: Right. H: And after
  • Trip to the Ranch in February 1970 to evaluate LBJ’s angina; 1972 heart attack in Charlottesville; moving LBJ back to the ranch; LBJ’s return to smoking; changes in treatment for heart attack patients from LBJ’s time to 1995; personal impressions
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to see was ~don B. Johnson. I think he was senator at that time. F: He was elected to the Senate in 1948. H: I think he'd just been elected senator. But even as a new senator he still had unusual influence in the Senate. As I slW, he
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • went to Saigon. B: I started out in May 1966 as the New York Times Bangkok bureau chief, which essentially in theory kept me in Laos, Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia outside Vietnam. But within a week of my arrival, I was happily in Vietnam
  • Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe
Oral history transcript, Sam V. Stone, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • it was in the Aviation Section. At that time the Army had no air force so I was in the Signal Corps but they later changed it to the Air Force and I was then commissioned in the Air Force and finally became a Captain in the Air Force. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • campaign. I believe you indicated you were at the University of Texas at the time. S: Right. I was in summer school in 1941 and John Connally was managing Johnson's campaign for [the Senate]. Sheppard had died. I believe it was Senator Morris
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • motivated. We want to thank them in advance for what they were going to do. The bottom line was we ought to try to at least informally organize them rather than be totally dependent on brief telephone conversations that had taken place over a period of time
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with him; but this was quite distant really--was a time when he talked to some of the officials of the Department of Commerce while he was Vice President, to express his interest and support of the Equal Employment Opportunity program. I believe
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • vacation period that summer. That was what I told you about last time, that Johnson was magnificent, if you asked him for one favor, for doing three or four for you. I saw Johnson when I got to Austin, the Monday afterwards, and he told me
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and what you have been doing. P: I came to Washington in June of 1919 in response to an offer by the then-Senator Sheppard of Texas of a place in his office for the summer. I can well recall that at that time I had the understanding that the position
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that period to come into contact or have acquaintance with Mr. Johnson, either when he was Senator or later when he was Vice President? R: Limited, but some, yes. I had an amusing experience because there was a long period of time when President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • l had not covered the Hill in the days when he was majority leader, although obviously everybody in town knew him. M: You were. overseas, l suppose, most of the time. A: Much of the ti;ne, I. was. terribly well. I was in and out, but I never
Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • many hundred times-- M: That's fine. G: And I know that that is not accurate. But Commander Mills, if you'll begin by telling us how you came to be associated with the White House navy operation. M: Okay, I was stationed at Main Navy
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • come in on. I don't know as to whether or not it was a Civil Service grade at that time, I really don't. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • remembrance of when I first met Lyndon Johnson was he came through Buda with his father and, because of the close family relationship and the old time acquaintance, why, they stopped in to see us . I'm sure that's the first time I met him . F: Probably two
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not able to go to' college as my stepfather had had a financial disaster, you might say. gone broke and he had lost all. The bank had At that time the federal government di dn 't protect people 1ike they do nm'l. So I stayed out three years and worked
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time. She liked that, so she put me to work around the office voluntarily to stamp the farmer's bulletins [and] infant care and that type of stuff, and to get the mail out. I did a little bit of that at spare times, other times walking the streets
  • and his time spent in Texas; comparing the political philosophies and methods of LBJ and Rayburn; LBJ's and Rayburn's work on the 1957 civil rights bill; Rayburn's involvement in Dr. Walter Splawn's appointment to the Interstate Commerce Commission
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attack in 1955 goes like this. He came out to see me at Emory University Hospital in the fall of 1955. He was doing quite well. At that time Dr. Paul White was one of the leading cardiologists in the world, and it had been my pleasure to have worked
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the department on a full-time basis by February 20, '61. It's hard to remember now, but at that time it remained very difficult to secure confirmation for an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division, and it was several months after that before
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Newton, North Carolina, which is in Catawba County, where my people had been for quite a long time. I finished high school there in 1933 at the age of 16. We didn't have but eleven grades and I didn't go to but ten. Well, I went to eleven but, you know
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • interesting experience because, as I men- tioned in the earlier interview, one of Mr. Johnson's closest and long time associates was Irving Goldberg, who now serves as a judge on the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Goldberg agreed to become vice chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • suppose that at the time I went to Pittsburgh I happened to be at the right place at the right time. This was a large city with the typical problems of big city education. I was sufficiently credible, I suppose, with the Foundation people who thought
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on to the house and Dale was sort of indirectly involved with that. I guess when they came home they spent more time with us visiting and telling us different things that they wanted done. I think when he first came home he sort of really didn't know what to do
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . II I didn't know at the time who had written them, at that exact time, but I found out several months later that the handwriter had been then Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gard, G-A-R-D, who was the military assistant to McNaughton at the time
  • Times; order of battle controversy; reflections on JFK and the Vietnam War; present and past views about the Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WALLACE TERRY INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Terry, would you begin by giving us just a little background of how you came to work for Time? T: I was a reporter for the Washington Post from 1960
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Slocum, New York, at the time I was first approached by a member of Mr. Deegan's staff in New York City, Tom [Thomas] Deegan, and asked if I could come down to talk about an interview with Mr. Johnson, perhaps, after I had a chance to talk to him. I went
  • How Jackson became military aide to Vice President Johnson; LBJ's vice-presidential trip to Asia and members of the press on the trip; LBJ's time management; arranging for a photographer to accompany LBJ; the ability of the South Vietnamese to fight
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • as we would like to have it. Would you describe that as fully as you can? WH: That time I recall in detail because I was running for Democratic nomination for a place in the Texas Senate. It was the 19th Senatorial District, composed of six counties
Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • that. I was glad to let Lyndon have the floor because I profited from listening. EG: Could I shift over here now to Mr. Hughes for a moment? Mr. Hughes, you also went to San Marcos, with the President? AH: Not at that time. I was married at the time
Oral history transcript, Claud Kellam, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • or 1927 when I started seeing him fairly regularly. but I met him as a youngster back in Bl anco County a good many years ago. G: You grew up in Blanco? K: I was born in Blanc). I, too, was livirQ ~n Our families knew each other. At the time he
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Johnson? S: I guess that was probably in 1962. M: After he was already vice president? S: When he was vice president. I spent from June 1961 until July 1962 pretty much in Geneva on the Laos talks, and I think the first time I met him
  • to negotiate; drafting a congressional resolution and comparing it to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution; meeting with Canadian officials about U.S. negotiation goals; J. Blair Seaborn; LBJ balancing time devoted to domestic affairs vs. Vietnam; how Sullivan was chosen
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Senate? I wouldn't say that I knew him well. However, while I served on the House side, I would get over to the Senate side from time to time to see the Senate in action. Of course, Lyndon Johnson was very prominent in those days as the Senate's
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : And that is spelled R-O-T-H? FR: That's right. PB: Mr. Roth, it is my understanding that in the early days you were a classmate of Mr. Johnson at Southwest Texas State College. I believe it was called Southwest Texas State Teachers College at that time. FR
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from and where were you born, that sort of thing. S: I was born in a little teeny tiny town called West, Texas, but we moved to Dallas when I was very young, so I remember very little about West. It was close to Waco. I remember one time--I don't
Oral history transcript, Cecil D. Redford, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Johnson City with two teachers in the high school and three in the elementary schools. Of course, there were eleven grades only in those years. I finished there in May of 1923. During the last few years, in order to make more time for teaching classes
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to t,JPA . Lyndon has asked (lrs . Hicks if she knew of anyone working for the Texas Relief Commission at that time that she would recom­ mend for his program . She gave him my name . I went to Austin in the latter part of December, 1935
Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • be willing to take a leave of absence from the Library of Congress and work for a year in Senator Johnson's office. Incidentally, my name was Dorothy Springer at that time. A: So when you went to his office you were actually working for the Library
Oral history transcript, Joseph Bruno, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and then I went to work at the Library of Congress as a research assistant. Actually, I had no interest in politics at that time. But while I was working at the Library of Congress, I was approached by a friend over there who said that there was an opening