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Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Any insights? V: I don't know—I just know what I've read about what happened in Illinois. I don't know—I just have no way of knowing what did happen there. Possible. I think Richard Nixon thinks so. But then after the convention was over, I think

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

when he had, you know, measured on any reasonable standard, scores of more important things to think about was deeply involved in this explosion in Congress. He read every night the transcript of the hearings before the House Veterans Affairs

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

objects would be hauled through the streets at nights, and things of this kind. F: It was difficult to gauge-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)

think I read this or heard it some- where--that he reached his state quota, his assigned mission so far as processing these youngsters, that's a rather harsh word, but taking care of these youngsters, quicker than anybody in the country. Is this true

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that ever occurred in connection with Lyndon Johnson was that my wife and I were invited to the White House to a dinner one night when [Eamon] de Valera, the President of Ireland, was over here. It was quite an occasion, and Lyndon and Lady Bird came walking

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Then in Florida I was trying to get this mental health clinic started, but it was so distressing and awful. Then one day I read a story in the paper about a man, an Oklahoma newspaperman [Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, see his interview]. He had gone to see

Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the assassination . B: That is true . THB : And may I ask here too, for the record, are the direct references to you in William Manchester's Death of a President generally accurate? B: I have never actually read Manchester's book . My wife has read

Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)

: Do you have any idea how much the other candidates spent in that campaign, because I've read that Polk Shelton spent between forty and fifty thousand dollars in that campaign? C: I don't think Polk Shelton--and I knew him real well, he was a friend

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that there's some misinformation Some people may have got the impression from reading articles, material about Lyndon, that Sam Johnson was. a tenant farmer. I think Lyndon htmself may have empnasi.zed that very brief period in Sam Johnson's life that he

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

rearing by improving the quality of the homes in which the children would be nourished and so forth. I brought that to the Secretary, I think I got it retyped and turned over to him about Monday or Tuesday. he immediately became enchanted with it. He read

Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And that was always· very interesting, because Senator Johnson would usually have a little press conference, right ahead of time, in which they asked him things. to work early. So, I did not get I'd get to work about nine o'clock, I guess, and read the record

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of that in Saigon, but nevertheless, as a practical matter it wasn't a matter of affecting our operations out there beyond that confirmation that U.S. public support was collapsing. G: Did the Vietnamese read it that way? Z: Oh, I think they were very concerned

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1971 INTERVIE"VlEE : JONATHAN DANIELS INTER7IElfER : JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: His home at Hilton Head, South Carolina Tape 1 of 1 F: I·fr. Daniels, I suppose I should confess that I read :rour father's life of Hoodrow Wilson when I was in the fifth

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with both camps. But, anyway, we then spent the night at the hotel talking until sunrise, and he asked me if I was going to support Kennedy. And I said I would. As you know, there was a real Baptist opposition to Kennedy at that time. I think they were

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- II -- 5 call second level or third level decisions, not of the highest importance or urgency, which are nevertheless significant enough to come to the Budget Director. Here the responsibility of the Budget Director to try to read the President's

Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and sat me next to him and continued all through lunch. On the way back to Washington that night, Sarge and I were flying in that Jet Star, or whatever it was, Shriver said to me--and I assume you want it the way he said it--being the devout Catholic he

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of an overview or summary- 0: November 20, 1966? G: On Yes . reading these I feel you made some rather uncannily accurate--I won't say predictions but something along that now, how do you feel line . Looking back about some of the things that you

Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, and actually discussed them when he went off in a jeep with Chancellor Erhardt. I know that because Jack Valenti called me up in New- port since the only copy of my memo was in the President's pocket. I had to read my copy of the memo to the typist

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

reports that he was having arm pain. In discussing it with him I determined that he was having no troubles. And so I was with him then until probably eleven o'clock the night of the assassination. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to the office around seven to seven-thirty in the morning and leaving anywhere from nine to midnight every night. F: Comparatively the volume of work was just as great then, considering the size of the staff as-- C: No question about it. During the day we'd

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

continued our mvn private discussion of that conference far into the night. than I had ever known her to be -- during all our year's together. We had, for a long time, been ~ccustomed sessions ,,,ith small groups of my dents. She was more serious

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

http://www.lbjlibrary.org -9More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] 8 o'clock that night. And to make the arrangements. me much

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

inside the convention hall because they didn't have enough places for reporters, and he was a reporter for the College Star and he had gotten in and he wouldn't leave. He slept on the table, and they ran it day and night, and these other reporters, him

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with that first day that you went out to Johnson City or that evening, and if you can recall that night in as great a detail as possible. J: I recall it very vividly. Let me go back before that a little bit because the things leading up to it are slightly

Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

be willing to help them do some administrative organizational work in connection with setting up the Community Action Program and I docd that. At first it was an hour or two a week and then it became every night. Finally my boss said, '~ell, you're

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: That's pretty high level approval before announcement. T: Well, that was when it was in the formulative stage. I remember I was at home watching the President on television that night, and just before the braodcast, the phone rang and a reporter from

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the history of those machines down there--and I think at least the Parr machine was broken up, it's a thing of the past, I guess, from what I read in the papers, I haven't got any recent infonnation about it--they were originally, and probably continued

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

], the photographer, was in snapping our pictures. Later I was given a couple of the pictures, autographed by the President. Then when I got home that night Bess told me that the President had called her 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at that point and Mrs. Johnson called me. I of course went to the hospital in Charlottesville, University of Virginia, where Dr. Crampton was attending the President. I slept in a little small area in the coronary care unit that first night. He actually had

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Westmoreland--I--7 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

Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Partridge -- I -- 3 set of grant conditions for our first grants," and I did a cut-and-paste job one night. Those were the grant conditions that survived substantially unchanged for several years. G: Was that the Community

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

say who, I just said "everybody." I remember Mayor Hiller made the remark that, nOh, those black boys are liable to get back there and sit with the white girls at the tables, where they'll be reading in the reading room. He was a very kind, lovable man

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it was impossible for Martin to control the situation there . I'm drifting way away from your specific question- G: No, you're not . B: But Martin--you know, he'd been reading [Alexander] Solzhenitsyn at this point . That's fine . And as I say, I was living

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

York, and I had the Badeaus to dinner there one night, and I saw him that time. I don't recall that I saw him again until he came out to Cairo two or three times while I was there and stayed with us. I saw him fairly frequently. We had no very strong

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to me once, "Didn't we decide all that earlier?" I brought him back a long memorandum when I came back from my visit, which coincided with the Pleiku attack in February of 1965, recommending a selective bombing program. He read it through in his bedroom

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. talking about two or three days I At that I thought he was visit to Indochina, so I was quite busy in the Philippines, I said, yes, sure, lid come along. about eleven o'clock at night. there?" This was I said. "tfuat time are you going over He said

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

couldn't win this war with their Beau Geste tactics of holing up in the fortified city areas at night and then trying to keep the country under control in the daytime. And LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for that, taking care of his staff, as we have done with each president since I've been here, is because the members of the staff work pretty hard and they have hard hours. They get in early in the morning and leave late at night, when there's no barber shops

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and President Truman were never very compatible. They both tried, I think mainly for my sake, and there was no disagree-. ment between them. They both went to dinner with me one night, for example, and they just didn't manage to carryon a conversation

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

in the United States, was to cally--as systematic as a journalist does prepare myself to One of the things that I did, parenthetically, rather systemati anything, I guess--try to gather basic information about the situation in Vietnam, to read some