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Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

read that? N: Okay. This is a term that was popular in Vietnam for the combat-exhausted and for the shell-shocked. In World War I it was called shell shock; in World War II we called it combat fatigue or combat exhaustion, and in Korea it was called

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that? B: Yes, at night, late at night, we were in a plane or something, he He never got to be commander . What did he say? would say that he always wished that he could put that brass on his G: cap . But there was nothing I could have done about

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Had you been active in the preconvention maneuvering? W: No. F: Nor the cacpaign? W: No. I was working for a Republican senator who was running for re-elec::ion, and I S?er.t election night, November 1960, at Republican ..· headq::a.=t:ers

Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HUBBARD -- I -- 3 H: Webecame involved in this project of the LBJ State Park in a very interesting sort of way. I guess it was almost midnight on the night

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, it was a fairly small group of people. They looked over your background pretty thoroughly and you had to have recommendations from your commanding general and so on. And I started off on this. It's a marvelous program. The nearest thing, if you've ever read George

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

before the editors Saturday night, simply because the speech reflected so many of your suggestions and because you had read it and approved of it. Thanks, my friend; it certainly helps to have your advice, your counsel, and your friendship." So the fact

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] a lot of purple rhetoric by present standards, and Mr. Johnson just loved these speeches. There were speeches on motherhood and a whole bunch of stuff--very beautifully said, but very purple, the rhetoric. He would read these speeches to us

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, graduated from North Dallas High School, then took a B.A. degree from the University of Texas and an LL.B. degree from Yale Law School. M: From what I've read in the newspaper clippings, you made some friends at the Yale Law School that later had some

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, it was most unfortunate that he was never able to get the public to fully appreciate the real Lyndon Johnson. One reads such cruel things about President Johnson now, all of which are probably based upon some minor issue or another, but all of these remarks

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

were tempted to go with the Republicans. We had had very little luck in denting the Republican ranks, particularly after their Crime Committee or whatever it is came out with this condemnation of it. They just trooped right along. The night before

Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that these materials weren't abused and misused. Here I was, a comparative stranger to the President, reading his letters and papers. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

time he came back to Texas. Not only that, but he would invite me down to dinner. Like he'd come home on a Thursday or Friday night, and before he goes in the ranch house, he would give already instructions on the two-way radio. He would tell

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Roanoke, our destination for the night. The Blue Ridge Parkway is not designed for fast driving, as you know; it's designed in such a way that people simply cannot drive fast, so they can enjoy the lovely scenery. Liz, you know, is a very nervous flyer

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] Saltonstall, a Republican, and I forget the other one, as far as that's concerned. But of course that was during the Truman Administration, the Korean War. But you didn't read much publicity about the Preparedness Subcommittee. The reason I'm making

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the palace. I ran down and ran out to the palace to get up closer and so forth, finally got back to the hotel, and Alexander was there with other reporters and he began to say, well, maybe he was a little hasty the night before about how everyone loved Diem

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

coffee and donuts around the clock. The manager was out, store employees were out full time during the nights of rioting and didn't discriminate about whether they were giving coffee and donuts to rioters or nonrioters, but just reminded everyone

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

around at night and whatnot, but I wouldn't sit down and deliberately--he didn't like Cao, and John Vann, I remember one article where he said Cao was a coward. Well, I have never said things like that about Nhon, and Nhon was my friend to begin

Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh GARZA -- I -- 10 G: Yes, when I was nominated, then my name went over to the Senate, I was sitting in the gallery in the Vice President's box \'Ihen roy nomination came over from the White House. nomination to the Senate. They read my

Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. the drafts weren't any good. And secondly, Galbraith came in and in two days at the outside of what must have been marathon sessions on his part, all-night sessions, he redrafted it essentially into the message that was finally delivered

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

kind of a vacation and he needed some kind of a vacation, too, and he told me to take some time off. He was going to take Mrs. Wirtz and go on a trip. One night, however, while I was at a party Congressman Johnson and Senator Wirtz phoned me from

Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)

life in that regard. S: He influenced where I live today. A lot of people think I'm crazy, but I drive 140 miles to get to and from work every day. I live on a ranch out in Llano County. And one night the President told me, he said, "You better get up

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

England with Lera Thomas. We were looking for antiques. Lera bought a lot of antiques, loved it, and knew a lot about it. I just loved the countryside and traveling. Every morning we would pick up the paper and read about the invasion

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, the CIa thought highly of him. 11: The AF of L should have supported him, but didn't. I have read Vl2: in that campaign there was some confusion over the labor lSS~~_ Apparently Lyndon Johnson had voted for Taft- Hartley. H: He had, yes. H

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and night it seemed to me, we had a series of meetings to put together the program, using the French model, using a book of draft regulations that existed in Treasury but not quite on all-fours for this. B: This is all specifically on the matter of-G

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into the Capitol every morning before it gets real light and then crawl home at night after dark. I felt a lot of guilt about leaving my children, and Lyndon was always very empathetic about those problems on the staff. He even imported this really nice black girl

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--dropped by my desk, dropped a newspaper on my desk, said, "You might like to read this." It developed it was my home town county paper. He had been born and raised about ten miles from where I had and of course I had never known him until that time. I

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of it was--at that time we used to read the political speeches and more or less edit them for possible libel. I very well remember the first Christmas, the Christmas of 1944, when I was invited to the station Christmas party and received a hundred-dollar bonus, which

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to get the heat from the Senate commit- tee, our inspection people looked at it more closely. I don't know how you can make any kind of flat statement, except to say that in my judgment--and I read all the inspection reports and a lot of the other

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] the paper. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -9- They just read his speeches

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to use good judgment. You kind Most people are fairly responsible. But you get one bastard who I think was absolutely unreasonable, and it was this cut-outs. I think his problem was he was a fly-by-night operator and whatever money he had was all

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

he was at least tacitly giving his approval to these election plans . Bi : Well, according to the stories you read, he obviously was . hear it mentioned from time to time--mentioned with me . We used to Sometimes people I was calling

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. M: But which was never repeated. as far as I know. l: No. I was reading last.night, if I may quote from this year's record of events that the encyclopedia puts out, what the President had LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Carolina project, was in and out, but more· in than out. I can't remember his name. G: I'll look that up. 8: But the agency representatives, mostly assistant secretaries, like Lisle Carter and me, we [attended] faithfully all day and all night. one day

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to Omaha to attend a meeting and left there in the afternoon, went to Kansas City and on down to Oklahoma City, spent the night; and the next day they were having what they call a Friday Forum in the Chamber of Commerce, which in this case was a luncheon

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to criticize navy personnel or their operations, let them read it first, so if they wanted an answer they would be prepared to either give it to you at that time or later on down the line. due process in the finest sense of the word. Which I thought

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

/show/loh/oh 4 M: And what was that? R: I said, "You ITlUst have a short nap after lunch each day. You ITlUst take some exercise in the open, preferably in the swimming pool, and you must be in bed by ten 0' clock every night. If He kept

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

consent, unanimous consent. Because at any step of the way, in the old way of doing things, somebody could stop the operation. stop it then. They could But the Senate rules were so encumbered by all the things you had to do, like reading the journal

Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. It was, interestingly, at that convention that a then-young Senator named John F. Kennedy received his first nationwide attention. known him earlier, not really known him, but had met him. I had I had read his book, Profiles in Courage, and thought it magnificent. I

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

•~ nigh~, o: a broad sort on issues. do you.? and they have a sort of general agreement Bu'.:: both :::andida.tes are pres :irnably in':elli gen: men, and wh•en th•e Vice Presidential candidate reads the President ial cand[datcs speeches, he kn::iws