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Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and that he did not want his presidential appointees participating in the personalities in the election. I told him I read him loud and clear. M: Didn't he ultimately send out a directive to that effect? B: Yes. M: This was before that? LBJ

Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and we'd spend the night, take our girls along . think anyone ever slept with a girl (Laughter) G: Where'd you stay? in those years . I don't � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, it's only reflection after this, and a lot of reading, that I realized that we had the wrong kind of units that we were advising. The Vietnamese division commanders were imbued with the 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

House of Representatives. (I seem to recall that he did this in one day, even though Mrs. Green's committee had not acted upon the bill, because he wanted to include it that night in a major speech on his big education bill.) Finally, however, we brought

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. It's going to happen, but it was particularly a certainty in his Administration because of his closeness to the press and his--1 guess there is no other word--this obsession with the news that he had. Re read the newspapers and listened to the radio

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

commentator, debating with another man last night about eight o'clock, I believe it was. One man was debating in favor of Nixon and the other one came along and he came on strong telling them about McGovern. He said, "Thi,s is what you say about McGovern

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that require a ~·)ell Presidential signature. On many occasions at night I recall that from maybe from nine orcloel, at night until eleven o'clock at night, or nine to ten or ten-thirty, he would sit at what we called the signing table which

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: Well, I had no inkling that it was going to happen; I think anybody who read the papers knew that things were pretty tense and that there was an excellent chance that it would erupt into war. So I had this on my mind and it influenced my putting

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was to go around and visit all these communities where I was going to land to judge whether they had an area large enough for the helicopter to land in. Then that information would be passed on to me, say the previous night so the following morning, I would

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

!" He was amused, and from then on it became the Quadriad. But just to show you how history goes, about a year ago I read a little item in the paper saying "President Nixon called a meeting of the Quadriad which was formed and named during

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

--to the Yellow Oval Room in the Mansion. There was the Secretary of State and I guess the Secretary of Defense. I remember Lucius Clay was there. And Mac just turned it over: "Here's the draft that Walt did." President Kennedy read it and passed it to the Vice

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I guess it was an Olympia. And he said, "Busby." He just kind of gestured and I knew that he meant for me to read his lead. He said, "Senator John F. Kennedy, at his Hyannis Port home on Cape Cod, Saturday morning accepted the sword of Texas Senator

Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Butane Rubber Company, I read it in the papers, and I knew I was going to be grounded as a salesman for oil and gas. I phoned Homer T. Arbuckle, who was a big man with Gulf at Pittsburgh. I saw where he was coming down to be secretarytreasurer, and I

Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a marine brigade and an air wing and we were in the Philippines already. All the planes were lined up on the runway, but nobody ever knew about it, and we had five thousand men there. I'd go to the club at night and play bridge in civilian clothes

Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Asking people to make extra carbons and asking them to pull from letters and routine and set up a reading file and all of that took us probably the first three months. After that we began to look around for the archival copies of speeches

Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Russell. That was one of the criticisms of One night I heard the two of them visiting. The President had called Dick Russell to discuss important issues with him, but he later would pay little attention to his views. He LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

the committeeman and he would select the committeewoman and that when it came down to the choice he had selected you, but the liberals refused to honor this . B: I don't believe there's any truth in fact to that statement . I read that in a book someone brought

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 3 (III), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

artist. Let me ask you to tell how that tradition began. V: Well, let's see. I was reading a current issue of Vogue magazine, the ladies' magazine. There was an article done on several make-up artists in New York, and one of them was 6 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it was real bad. G: Did he just need glasses to read? W: I think that more than anything else. G: Apparently it never affected his shooting. W: No. G: That summer, I have a note that he made his first long visit back to the Ranch after the election

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

we get into Robert Kennedy's decision to run, or do you want to save that for someone working on-- K: I don't think I'd probably get to that-- F: Did you hear the President speak the night he removed himself? K: That's in March-- F: March 31

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 3 (III), April 1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with a book called Unsafe at Any Speed. I personally had read Nader's book in October or November as we were putting together the details of the program. M: 1965? L: Of 1965. And as we moved to develop the whole transportation program of which auto safety

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Department. I don't see any of my notes here but I know the President talked to me and we were going to get rid of these commissions; we were going to do all of this and, as I said to you, the Vice President didn't know about it until Johnson started reading

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was upholding the Voting Rights Act in Texas, which he wrote, to get a sense of where we were. But I do not know why, for such a master politician, how that miscalculation on Russell was made. And obviously Russell read it as his guy being held back. Maybe

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

pressures they worked--I wasn't there really--but the fact of the matter is there have been very substantial amount of hearings. And if you go back and read the Senate report which I wrote at that time, I documented the amount of hearings that had been

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this country boy approach. He said he was having to go to these NSC meetings and read all these papers about foreign affairs and things and he really couldn't follow them. He needed somebody who could help him to understand what these were all about and so

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. But all this is in the testimony. You might want to read it if you're interested in the subject. G: Right. Okay, now I'd like to turn, if we can, to your present job as Director of the Elections Research Center. Ird like to go back to 1963 where you

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

years, 1961 and 1962, something [he'd] read in papers, something that he had an interest in. I don't know whether I suggested it or who suggested it. It was suggested, "Listen, why don't you formalize this business and draw everybody in?" That was what

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the [William] Blakley-[Ralph] Yarborough campaign. You could have read the Texas press for weeks and not had the faintest idea that there was a man named Yarborough running. lous! It was ridicu I remember once when both Yarborough and Blakley happened

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. [I said], "Let's just the people that meet in this room come over to my house and have dinner some night next week and just sit around and talk about everything but what we talk about in these meetings--where we send our kids to school, 9 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not all that demanding. He wanted a darn good reading light above his bed and a darn good shaving light in his bathroom. Incidentally, I think I have told you about Aunt Frank's two bathrooms? Well, sometime, years before, I think very early twenties, she

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But it was probably I'm sure we didn't wait for it to be completed. may have been completed G: the highway's changed first~ It but they were working all over the state. I've read the story, and it may be apocryphal, and I'm not sure it pertained to a roadside

Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

seven-day weeks until about midnight and sometimes all night, all of the ideas had been pulled together and organized by categories such as education, health, foreign aid, foreign trade, and so forth. And then a meeting was held to discuss the ideas

Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

hours, night and day just about. So we kept on persisting, and we finally got a piece of legislation through the House Committee and through the House. But in the meantime a Senate committee got a different piece of legislation passed which

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the Governor's Mansion in Austin. G: Not many people can make that claim. M: I'm sure that many people have spent the night in one or more of the places, but I may be the only survivor who has slept in all three of them. But we would visit, as families back

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a week with the department heads. I was always kept informed. a glamour boy. I must admit that that's not the way to become It's just hard work from morning until night, and you don't run around the country making speeches. work. So that You pay

Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

; Doctor of Laws, Tusculum College, 1965; Reporter Temple, Tex. Daily Telegram and Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, 1947-48; mgr. for S. C., United Press, 1948-49, night bur. mgr., N.Y.C., 1949-53; mgr. London bur., also chief corr. U.K., 1953-56; vp exec. editor

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. side turns. instance. He'd gone through a number of back flips and He'd created a committee on the consent calendar, for You know, on the days when they call the consent calendar and they read the titles and nobody objects, the bills become law. So

Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)

of the people who jumped on Pat had not then seen the report and may not until this day have read the report. It was not the report itself and the substance that caused the hurrah, except maybe in very, very few 2 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

had sensed, and ',.,hat the sentiment was, as I could read it. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http