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Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

had that in the memo to me There was just lots of evidence of that sort that he did his homework . M: Did a lot of this go into the night reading? � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

from time to time about whether he might draw upon himself another heart attack.He worked late at night, he worked early mornings, he took his evening reading to his bedside with him, and that kept him up frequently most of the time until one or two

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Investigating Subcommittee. B: This was one that LBJ chaired at that time. I am not going to be a great amount of help to you, because once you lead me from the Senate floor and go to the committees, all I know is what you read in the newspapers and so

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)

. We'll get to that maybe individually later on. I can think of two or three. R: As I said this is very informal and we haven't--while Horace at our annual meeting the other night in San Marcos stimulated a lot of discussion about the old timers

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

came in, he was an old :ial of the Speaker' s , and the Speaker said, "This is one I want . " I had his Ci vil Service report because he'd been in and it was rather voluminous and I'd read a ll through it. We always c l eared them with the Bureau

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

made the mistake of ever walking in his office. So that night I was on duty at Marvin's desk. Were you going to ask something? G: I was just going to say, even in an emergency? J: No emergency. There wasn't any such thing as an emergency. You had

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Congress operates today came during the war. I'll come back to your question in a moment to get in an important observation. Night before last a man asked me--he said, "Dr. Judd, do you think the Congress is better now than it used to be?" And I said

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me disheartened cablegrams that night and we were deeply distressed . Then on Monday came a cablegram from the President saying, "Here's your wheat .' I don't know . Now, why, Was LBJ playing games with these people? I don't suppose he changes

Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was to do my day's work at HEW. I don't know if all people were doing that, but my work on the task force was at night. It threw our car-pooling arrangements just utterly out of whack completely. I really had a logistical problem because I could

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, but which existed prior to OEO. There was interest in things like that and what they were doing about the jobless and their fix on these kinds of problems. G: All this was beginning to came to. the fore. I've read several accaunts; one that comes

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, we were speaking every night to as big a crowd as we could whomp up. And there were He LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

about the study that you did in the 1970s. Was there an intelligence input to the Policy Planning Council, or did you simply read the SNIEs [Special National Intelligence Estimate] and so forth that everybody else had? RG: Well, we worked closely

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or not. What about a joint announcement? You announce what you are going to do, we announce what we're going to do. Wouldn't that be on the whole better than us doing it otherwise?" And this was duly read to the Geneva Conference the 16th of April by the U.S

Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it except as I read about it in the newspapers . Ba : If I may postpone it, I was going to ask you about the one thing you would have been involved in, the Wilson and Kosygin meeting, but if I may postpone that for a moment . B : Ba : Yes . You

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-to-late afternoon, and then they stopped in Paris, and he was photographed in the Lido that night. (Laughter) I used that once with [Walter] 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

paper--called to doublecheck that it was an accurate story that they were reading on the AP and UP. I was surprised at how many did call to doublecheck it. 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for granted then. They could bust out of that and go any way they wanted to. We were coming in from Delaware one time, Senator Kerr and I, late one night, from a speaking for the re-election of Senator Allen Frear. At this time--this was 1958 or 1959--people

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

American part of the thing. Which I learned a lot out of, but the basic fact is that Castro was just about in power, so there was nothing anybody was going to do about it except read the stuff for background. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to get out of the capital, get out of the city. for peanut farms. So actually I was fishing around We had read that peanuts were grown there. I assure you our Embassy would have been the last to know because we had the old world type of ambassador

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and we could really hot-dog it, and we'd needle these guys every time we saw them at the club that night. But it did become the Twentieth, the wing did, and then it was moved to Shaw Air Force Base, still in Mustangs, and then the jet school opened up

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

an unusual relationship, and I think this was He said I was his first Republican appointment, and the first one not committed by the Kennedys. Now since then, live been reading that Hamer Budget feels that he's the first Republican appointed

Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh WHITE -- I -- 7 of the night, or three days later or something, he's likely to get an idea that--in other words, he doesn't just come in and listen to you and then when you all have finished . • . . He doesn't drop the subject until

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the top behind you. So, therefore, it seemed to me that if that night I had to fight something there was only one thing to fight about and that was the abolishment of our present decentralized LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that happen? C: Well, he was a very active participant in the Little Congress, which was the organization of congressional secretaries. been the speaker of it. In fact, he had We met every Tuesday night. was very much interested in it. I, of course, I

Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that were taken that night, and, really, a pictorial history of everything that did happen. There are some things that are not in that record that actually did take place. For instance, under the order of Robert Kennedy there were 155 mm. guns, cannons

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

is you can never say "no" to a He didn't even ask me. He just assumed that if he said "yes," I would. I remember when I came home that night. The meeting had been scheduled for about 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon, and he got to me about 7:00 instead

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? L: Well, I guess I just heard about it when everybody heard about it. And I think everybody was very surprised, including President Johnson. When the muttering started, and it was like pandemonium that night, we got in touch with Congressman

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Then after that, whenever they came home they usually invited us up for dinner at night on one of the nights they were there or picked us up to drive around the Ranch with some of their guests. So it was sort of the beginning of a lot of fun times for me. G

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be reasonably close--"I'm going to be leaving my mother, too, and, damn it, you've got to do your share," and so forth. So we had a twelve-year-old daughter, and we hadn't told her about this at all, but that night at the table I brought up the subject with her

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of ten minutes to find out that John Vann was a very special fellow. He was the senior adviser to the Seventh Division, which was in the Delta. And I suppose the best way I can let you know my thoughts about John Vann is to read to you a letter, dated 13

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

or that took you by surprise or that took you a while to learn to deal with. Is there anything particularly significant in that regard? D: Oh, yes. I don't think anybody can go into Vietnam, no matter how much they've read or heard about it, and really have

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to go back and read his speeches about what would happen, and everything they predicted has happened. The problem of most liberals in America is that they don't pay any attention to history. They never LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that he was particularly concerned about it. He has discussed it. He has explained certain things to me that I think others didn't understand, because a lot of people were trying to read something into the--was it Duval 5 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Okay. C: I called out there. G: Did you learn about it from the President or did you read it in the press initially? C: No, I found out about it at 9:45 a.m. on the fifteenth of October. This is interesting. They don't even have the President

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

been the White Horse Division, but it doesn't make any difference, it was the division under the 9th Corps. He said, "They gave way during the night and there's no ROK division there now. in your artillery. The Chinese are now marching in strength

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

ready to retire. He had been up most of the night and this was an all-night filibuster, and we were discussing some things which he said he thought I ought to be doing. So he never hesitated to utilize people if he thought they would serve a constructive

Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

force BG [brigadier general], was the acting chief. Anyhow, off we went. We went down here to Andrews on the night of the twenty-fifth of May, in a KC-135, he and I and his aide, a couple of Indians, and Ambassador [Robert] Komer. We loaded aboard about

Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

wrongdoing. H: And it will continue I'm sure for years in the future, and I'm sure it's going on M: ri9~t now, night and day. But that committee is organized in such a way that the majority leader can influence the direction the funds flow, I take

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he wasn't, that's So then he got up and said that Lyndon Johnson was one of the greatest senators. You have all that as a matter of record in the Library, because they made a big book out of it, easy for you to check and read. LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Press, owning a lot of AP papers, so forth. So I knew him quite well. was a pretty conservative businessman. Like most all publishers he Well, he wrote [an article]. I don't know whether you've read it but you might find it very LBJ Presidential