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Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of women who had to work. She just asked the most naive questions that you could possi bly believe, and we all sat around the room and just gulped, just gulped! And in the car going out to LBJ's that night, she [Mrs. Roosevelt] said to me, "Where did

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

brilliance is related to his ability to count votes, and I've read several places that next to Lyndon Johnson, you could count votes better than anyone in the Senate. Can you educate us on the process? B: How would you do this? One, he had a basic

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

there that helped raise her. We stayed there that night, and I asked them where they got the name of Bird--how she happened to get the name of Bird, and I was told that this old Negro that had to take and raise her said that when she was born, she said that she

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

and to stop at a old farmhouse that had been turned into a restaurant and have dinner first. This night, though, it was a great play and a very romantic and splendid actor. So I still have and cherish a picture of me and Sir Lawrence Olivier. M: When you

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to think about it. You just tell Weaver to resign," which I didn't do that day or that night, whatever it was. The next day we talked about it some more and the President said--and there was some merit to this at least in the thinking of the people

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and an interesting fall, because he got some of the meanest letters you have ever read: "I will give you two weeks to send me a satisfactory answer," and, "We sent you there to do," so and so and so, and, "You can be sure we'll get you next time if you don't do what

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a copy of the book USA. Have you read USA? G: No. Was this Grover Sellers? B: Grover Sellers, that was his name. He put on a pair of gloves, I d o n ' t know whether they are cotton gloves or rubber gloves, because he wouldn't touch that book

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and three nights here trying to figure out [what to do] . All the discussions have resulted in telling us what we couldn't do . Could we have a half hour before we go home in which you tell us what we can do?" faced . Well, he laughed and got a little

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)

the airpla ne and fly back to Washington at two o'clo ck in the morning. I thoug ht it was ridicu lous and we ought to spend the night , but Califano is ., LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

college, as I recall, and the kid--he killed himself on that night. I can't recall the precise story, but I made some reference to those children which were--it was totally inoffensive, as I thought at the time. But Graham took that reference

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the essence of the degree to which our thinking had developed at that time; and I think if you read those Fourteen Points, you'll see that they hadn't really gotten down into sharp, precise details. The view that prevailed was pretty much the one

Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- I -- 3 M: Well, according to the books I read about this, your father was a pretty busy man most

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the speech to the Jefferson-Jackson Day Annual Dinner and he and Mrs. Johnson spent the night with Mrs. Hodges and me at the mansion. We had a chance to know them pretty intimately, and he made a good impression at the Jackson Day Dinner because he

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

did you first get acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? Did he just drift in or do you have some specific--? R: I can't really remember. I have some vague idea--now this [may be] only because I have read it since, it may have been true

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the night before President Kennedy was assassinated. M: By President Kennedy? That would be after he was in Texas. S: No, I was sworn in here in the State Department. But it was the night before, so actually my first day on the job was the day that he

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McNeil -- I -- 13 M: Oh, he worked at it day and night. G: How did he do it? M: By having people in and by arranging for them to see people. Once, I've forgotten what the hell it was now, but Ev Dirkson had a story

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

." These were The compromise that came out was not what we thought we'd agreed to that night. If you remember that history, it was a fairly compli- cated package, for a non-technician, which was to cut budget authority by ten billion, cut appropriations

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was pretty inept. I had a number of friends, who we'd spend the night at their house or they would come to the country with me, because I went home every weekend. I think I mentioned to you one time when Nellie Ford [?] and I and various others dressed up

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

ceiling 549,500. Then, I flew out to Clark .L\ir Force Base in the Phi 11 i ppi nes on the bJenty;;.fourth of f\1a rch, and I met with General Westmoreland and discussed this whole thing with him most of one night. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] Burris. The main thing that I remember is that as we were flying over--and it wasn't in a jet; that was the era of the Lockheed Constellation--sitting up with General Clay most of the night long. The main thing that I remember, quite frankly

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be just scientific satellites and that's the way ours was planned, with the Vanguard. So he had all these witnesses come, and I remember one day we met from about nine in the morning till nine at night interviewing all these people and getting answers

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, been FDR's secretary. She We drove through the night, and we expected that when we arrived, because it was quite late, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think he was aware of the fact that he was actually doing a favor for a friend of Bobby Baker's. I'll never forget what happened then. One Sunday--I always read the Baltimore Sun on Sunday, because I thought it was about the best paper in the country

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the language of the draft. Jerry Siegel, as a matter of fact, would read a certain portion of it, and then there would be some discussion and we would go on in that fashion. One of the curious and little personal asides was that in that early draft

Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

came to Washington from Sherman, Texas. I came up to Washington in 1939 after I had graduated from Abilene Christian College. I came up in June of 1939 and looked around town to try to find a job so I could go to school at night, maybe Foreign Service

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- III -- 5 Johnson would jump him every once in a while about this image, because--again, I may be repeating myself--in 1944 when the University of Texas Board of Regents dismissed as president Dr. Homer Rainey, the night

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Charlie a bad deal, Brownell?" "Damn right I do. Yes." need," backing from Homer, you see. Lyndon said, "Well, that's all I The reason I brought it up, I'd convinced him on the plane, then I brought it up that night. All right. Then the next night

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the train. And of course some of them got on late at night, some of them came in the back door. Some of them, a few of them, fortunately stood up and didn't make any bones about it, like I was doing, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you know anything about the story that we've heard, how LBJ went out and helped get enough votes to put the White Stars :andidate over? r~: I've heard the story, but I probably don't -know any more about it than you or anybody else who read

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

o'clock in the afternoon. body back here that night. As you know, they brought his President Johnson--of course he immediately became President--called me quite early, somewhere between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, the very next morning

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on back to tk. Rayburn's apartment. walked in. I was reading my paper and Mr. Rayburn And he asked me the question, IIWonder what's going on down in front of Lyndon's shop?" F: He didn't know, either? P: He didn't know, either. And I said, "We11, I

Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Parr -- I -- 5 P: He didn't talk to him on the telephone either, sir. After I was married and what have you, I lived with George for quite a while. And George and I would sit around and talk at night. We'd cook supper together; he'd

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the administration and join his campaign, it was never a major effort on his part and it was with the understanding I was not going to do that. I never would have. I would have remained with Johnson until the end of that year. All of this blew up on that Sunday night

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 c: Exactly. That was Sunday morning. On Saturday night we went over this draft; Bundy, McNaughton, Alex Johnson and one or two others were

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Secretary McNamara that Mrs. Anderson should go to Vietnam. what arrangements can be made about this." See So I was pleased and thought probably after a couple of months I might hear from him or something about it. When I got back to New York that night

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

forty, and said, "Look, you folks obviously must have been doing a good job, because it's only the bad ones you read about, and I haven't read anything bad. tenure or job? So why should \'Ie worry about our I expect you to continue to do the work

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

couldn't leave. And also the trip to the Dominican Republic. B: Just from reading the newspaper accounts, he seemed inmensely. R: to enjoy those trips Is that a correct version? Yes, he enjoyed certain parts of the trips, did not enjoy others

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of calling Lyndon because he hasn't read the cables. When you get into one of these things you want to talk to the people who are most i n v o l v e d , and your mind does not turn to Lyndon because he isn't following the flow of cables." That was the only

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DOUGHERTY -- I -- 7 D: (Laughter) I was given the text of these speeches, and they read well