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Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Let me make two or three comments first about the President and foreign policy, because I don't find in any of the things I read--and I don't try to read all the Johnsoniana by any means. But the President in handling foreign policy, there are two

Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to something I've just finished reading here that one of the Brookings people has written, Mr. James Sundquist's book which covers the Eisenhower and Kennedy--Johnson years and draws contrasts. He has a section on the environment and describes what has

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

matched what they reported up with what we got from someone else, it was really awfully hard to feel that you had anything very robust or reliable. M: Of course, the non-NSC people who ",'ere involving themselves weren't reading the traffic. C

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Toward the end of the month, Uncle Tom Johnson died in Johnson City, and that was one of the sort of the loosening ties with the older generation. Lyndon flew to Texas for the funeral, just stayed, I think, just a couple of nights, long enough though

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, you know, just by happenchance. I think I was with Dad and Tony Buford from St. Louis and Mr. Johnson the night after Lynda Bird was born. B: What was Mr. Johnson like as a brand new father? C: Well, you know, that's a long time ago. My

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: There was some indication at the time that Mr. Johnson was not overly fond of George Hamilton. A: I read all those things, but I never heard the President say anything but nice things about George. I truthfully have no knowledge of how he felt about

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the King's Royal Rifles. My assignment was to man the rocket guns one or two nights a week in Hyde Park. During the first day of the V-l--well, the morning after the first night attack, when they were corning periodically over London and we were on the site

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that stuff much. G: Anything else on his activities relating to the paper, the student paper? W: No, not that I know of. I don't think I even read the College Star, much less had anything to do with it. I don't even know where their offices were. G

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

costs for planning to give them planning grants and low costs until fiscal 1989. I'm trying to read my handwriting here. I can't . . . . And secondly, telling him how we'd organized HUD. That is not the way HUD got organized because the Community Action

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the President a report memo. Other times you'd give him a memo in which you needed his concurrence of his decision on some-- M: This would go into the night reading? C: Yes. M: So through the passage of this bill, he knew everything that was going

Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

office and they notify their headquarters who notifies us here and so it is a double check. And we dispatch an agent to check- it out. M: The instance that came to my mind, I recall reading in Time one which, I believe it was the FBI declined

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, he did. There was another little episode that's very interesting, and that is, I read Marguerite Higgins' book, Vietnam Nightmare, and was pretty shocked to find out that President Johnson was against the overthrow of President Diem when President

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the upcoming campaign. At that time we were deeply involved in the Hardesty operation and trying to compile a record of the President's legislative accomplishments for the campaign. So the night of March 31, 1968, we had been given an advance copy of his speech

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

tour charter technique. Unfortunately, from my standpoint, the brief was pretty well shaped up before I got into the case. I read it and reviewed it, but I had no real opportunity to focus on it in the degree that I would have had if I had argued

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. No explicit K: Nothing absolutely be that we could written agreement explicit on it, that but applied-- I think asslDile he was in agreement a fair since reading of it would he expressed no dis agreement. M: After that trying K

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

announcement, if my recollection is correct, indicated that we would take all bids on the first hundred thousand tons. McNamara and Vance had this meeting on the night of the eighth. On the morning of the ninth we put out the GSA release on the first hundred

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of, you know, a vague agreement that we would come up to see him in Maine and put something together. I reported that to the President. He said, "You're going up tomorrow." And so I, well, I called Muskie. He agreed. We worked through the night, putting

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, saying that I have this response from the RFC which I am presenting to the chairman for his information, and which I will read to the committee when this bill is renewed next week, provided your hold is removed. his point. Johnson. He said, "Okay. Go

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Well, this intrigued some of us and we got to work on it. some meetings over in State in the middle of the night. meeting lasted until 1:00 a.m. discussing this. We had I remember one We had some experts in land reform I personally thought it might

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, after having attended night school at the University of Connecticut, you received your law degree and were admitted to the Connecticut Bar. And until 1951 you served as an instructor in the English departments at Harvard and the University

Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

remember on the night of the election-- I think probably the legislature was in session at that time also--he thought he had won the election. My wife and I were living in the Stephen F. Austin Hotel, and Lyndon and his group were headquartered

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and had been governor of Illinois and had been helpful to Daley. But he was committed deep down in there, and this was even after that spectacular demonstration at the convention for Stevenson the night that he came out to the Coliseum. The mayor still

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Krim -- V -- 15 frankly surprised me no end, that the speech was a repudiation of him, the speech that Hubert had made the night before. Now I've never reread
in reference to Paris talks; LBJ’s support of Humphrey; LBJ trying to give $650,000 to Humphrey’s campaign; election night 1968.

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, the President and Mrs. Johnson had Walter and Bennetta Washington and Tom Fletcher and his wife over in the afternoon. The President had said he'd read the FBI files completely on both men, and he'd never seen better files. There wasn't a fly in the ointment

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the--? K: No. I read it in your notes, but it ties in with my own remembrance of the sequence. I think that was in November, was it? G: Yes. K: Yes. Because in November he was talking about the Russians still inviting him. Now, you've got a lot

Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

working at a deaf and blind school, where I supervised some boys for two years. Then I worked at a county hospital every night of the week from midnight to eight o'clock in the morning. So I was working about a hundred hours a week, and then clearing

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

secretary who was Harry McPherson who went over to the White House. Senator Fulbright got a copy of the policy recom,::len- dations of the draft and he had also apparently read other things of mine. We'd been on symposia together, public symposiums. M

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Medicare that you haven't talked about? M: No, I don't know of anything else. I know we had the twentieth anniversary of it in 1985, and Wilbur [Cohen] and I prepared an article for some publication the department put out over here. You've read that, I

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know, I want every person to be two people to a room, you know, on this trip and I want II And he was capable, then, of sort of abusing you if you didn't fulfill this. He was capable of getting up in the middle of the night and going around to see

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

factotum. was in the Eisenhower years. This I was in Washington for a meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and at some raucous late-night party I ran into Lyndon and Lady Bird. We were standing around talking and drinking--it was very

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Sidney Saperstein has read the transcript, and has made only minor corrections and emendations. The reader is asked to bear in mind, therefore, that he is reading a transcript of the spoken rather than the written word. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

for two years and then went to it was called the Oregon Normal School then for a year to get my teaching certificate. Then by summers and night school I finished at the University of Oregon. K: With a degree in English? G: Yes. K: And then when did

Oral history transcript, Joseph Bruno, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a week, sometimes every night in the week, and all he watches is documentaries. That may be a form of entertainment for him or a form of diversion, but it's still in that same line that I mentioned earlier; it's business. M: What kind of documentaries

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

come down for that. Was that the year he flew around in a helicopter? F: Helicopter, thetis right. H: All I know is what I read about that. F: Did you ever S22 any instance [of it]? I think you told me about his losing his temper once

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with Bob Kennedy alone in his room at the Biltmore Hotel the night before that happened, and I had no inkling. I was totally surprised. I was totally outside that, couldn't contribute anything to it here. S: There's been a good deal of speculation

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldfarb -- I -- 7 I was reading stuff there and educating myself while I was serving. I read [Michael] Harrington's book [The Other America] the first day I arrived, because I hadn't

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

well." He said, 'IWell, do you suppose you could get them to come out against me? II I said, "What do you mean?'1 "I'll tell you what happened. He said, .A little while ago I came home one night and I said to Bird, 'I'm tired of voting the way I

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to say, "vJell, now, I called" so and so, and so and so, and so and so last night. These would be people all around the country. [He was] just taking their pulse, you see, to find out what their reaction was to this situation or that situation. He

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

sufficient to put it across. That plus Shriver's energy and tre- mendous effectiveness on the Hill. I've written about this as-- I take it you've had a chance to read in this literature. I've done some writing on it. M: Was there somebody

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

an influence on Kennedy. That was one of the really great things about Kennedy; when he was president somehow or other he found the time to read a thoughtful book by Michael Harrington, or "a take-out essay" in the New Yorker magazine; and then having read

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