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Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, 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, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the use of all-night sessions and things like that. M: Yes. Oh, physical breakdown, ordeal. Yes, he believed in that. I think that's one reason he was partly right against cloture, said, "Look, you just 1eave this thing and you get a really tough

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

around in the car, working late hours, because I'd missed so many hours interviewing that day. I get home that night around nine o'clock, and the phone is ringing off the hook. It's Stalfort again and he says, "All right, what the hell did you tell

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

purple stains on it. It turns out that it was what we used as our Saturday night bar about midnight when we would serve chianti or the cheapest red wine we could find to our dates, because it was just the most fantastic vista of the city. All of those

Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, but educational in the sense of learning how to care for themselves and how to work and how to make a living and how to earn money, and I think it was highly worthwhile. I'll have to say for Lyndon Johnson, he worked night and day. There weren't LBJ

Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Acres Club, and the President came there that night. He stayed and chatted for half or three-quarters of an hour, and this was a very interesting, quite close personal chat. very much about it. I don't remember It was strictly on a non-business basis

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh We used to go around and follow each other around Lackland Air Force Base at night, picking the blankets off these poor kids and asking them whether they were warm enough. It was almost a comic

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

-- 8 me I could wait right outside the door. I asked them where could I spend the night. And they showed me to a room close by. And I called home to let Zephyr know, and Luci, and Lynda if she was there--funny, I cannot recall about Lynda at this moment

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Mayor [Richard] Daley was incensed at it and probably called the President or one of the president's assistants and the President was very much annoyed. And I was one of those who was in the meeting with the President at about seven o'clock at night

Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

representative, regardless of the seniority or the elegance of the participants. And he used to send me out into the countryside quite a lot to give him a different slant, if you will, on things. he also used me as a sounding board, I think. And I read

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

them a piece of his literature, and he said, "I'm Evetts Haley," and he said, "and I'm running for governor." And he said, "You read this, and if you don't believe I'm the right guy, by God, you just vote against me." And then the light changed, and he

Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

handled his campaigns that his responses would be that so many of them were gone, were dead. In many counties a majority of those still living were against him and were for me. So I began to read the handwriting on the wall when I started getting

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

day or night he wasn't prepared to charge in, I think his readiness to participate created a different kind of responsibility for me. And I tried with some degree of success-- G: Did you succeed in this way? O: Yes-- Tape 1 of 4, Side 2 9 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or difficulty. In fact, my association with him as president was similar. But what he might have inwardly thought about his role or about us, I have no idea. I read with interest an excerpt you have of a conversation that he had with Ted Sorensen, and my

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

fifteen reports, and we were not only able to read the reports for the first time and not just the summaries, but we had enough time to think about them and to develop more fully some of the ideas, enlarge them, and ask the Departments and agencies

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

me ask you to describe the-- S: There was a fourth person there, too, Al Peery. Kathleen up. Al Peery drove The meeting was at night, and they drove up from San Antonio on those back roads out of San Antonio. Jerry and I drove down together out

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at five o'clock in the morning and go through all the tapes, all the cables, everything that we had from Geneva, try to sift it out, and find out what might be of interest to the Congress, what they should know before they read it in the paper

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of truth to that? W: Newsweek? M: Yes, I read that just the other day. W: That is absolutely ridiculous! that. Moyers didn't figure anywhere in I think Phil was impressed with Moyers. about him frequently after com~ng He spoke to me back to see

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the people he checked it out with didn't know any more about it than he did, and they all read it, and they all arrived at the same conclusion. ''Well, it's okay." F: I know that the State Department and the White House go to great lengths to see

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

was going to die right there on the Senate floor while we were talking on civil rights, and all those long, long nights, and yet at the same time he was determined to hold them in session until some decision was reached. The Senate did pass a civil rights

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

district with any sort of problems they had. He had a very broad scope. F: Did you work out of Hempstead or out of Austin? H: Both, but primarily out of Austin. F: Where were you the night of the election? H: As I recall it, I was in Austin

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

given to some of the women on the trip, women reporters. We went all the way around the world and when we were coming back, our last night out, we stopped in Bermuda. was a little party. As sometimes happens on those trips, there Those of us

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had to spend there waiting for the night train here, I walked over to the river and down to the river banks because the famous NC-4, one of the seaplanes that had gone around the world, was sitting at anchor dovm there while the officers and the men

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

crisis of great importance that lasts for a period of time 1 L: In that particular thing the President was kept fully informed at all times as to what was going on, partly by the Secretary personally at these Tuesday luncheons. We would get reading

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in San Marcos enjoy certai n advantages, sud] as bei ng able to 1 ive at home? P: Well, I suppose the advantages were that we were not under the strict rules of the college about when to get in at night, and what nights we could go out and that sort

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

his responsibility. If you read these languages it says, "In all safety matters the administrator's responsible in the case of aviation." What's a safety matter? The location of an airport as it fits into the air traffic control system is a safety

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

any project to Mr. Roosevelt- who hated to read more than one side of one sheet of paper--was to show him a picture, which Johnson did. Between myself and Ickes in the Public Works Administration, of which Ickes was then the head, we managed

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the national committee to go over the debt. Through the course of dinner, it became apparent the debt extended far beyond what I had heard or read about. My recollection is the debt was in the vicinity of nine million dollars, not five or six million people had

Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

game that night, but I had nothing to do with the halftime ceremonies. G: Well, did you have to make any special arrangements for LBJ’s attending these games, or was that in someone else’s hands? R: Well, we saw to it that he wasn’t in the end zone

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me, "but his name doesn't come back ." Just warm and charming . F: Did she spend the night? B: No . At nine-thirty or so it came time for her [to leave] . When she was here, and I suppose that's the way she was as the first lady, we couldn't

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of a real pressure chamber which would have led to a well-reasoned package. We thought we had one, the best available under those cirucm.stances; but this was hammered all day Christmas and it was hammered out all night Christmas Eve and it was every day

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in 1964? M: No, I read these stories with a great deal of interest, but-I couldn't detect any such movement. F: Did you see any overt evidence of the schism between the Vice President and the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy? M: No, I couldn't see

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was to be construed as establishing a quota system. How you could carry out the mandate of the commission and not have the end result a quota system was hard to determine. Yet, that is the way the mandate read. We advised Democrats across the country

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at. F: On.something like the New York Times in which you are not confronted--that is, the great general public can't read a by-line and tell whether it's white, black, or plaid, how does such a generally liberal organ have such a poor record

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

not, if I recall correctly, morning meetings such as I read in the paper that the Nixon ..l.drninistration White House has. F: There was nothing routine about these--every Tuesday or every second Tuesday or something like that? W: I think every once

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the first. It clearly was a commitment made by the party, and we all recognize the party platform probably isn't worth the reading most of the time, and I don't think many people ever read a party platform anyway after a convention. 5 LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in early 1965 but neither side really knew it? D: Well, I don't know. He may have said that. The ironic thing is that in Stanley Karnow's book [Vietnam: A History?], which I'm sure you've read, a fellow named Bui Tin came into--and incidentally, he's

Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it to Heller to do something with. three of us proceeded and we read the message. and all that. We threw it away. Well, the It was nice rhetoric We had to have a message over at the White House by the next morning, and this was noon, so we wrote all night

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)