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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and John Connally, but you probably have read that they had been bitter enemies for some time. G: No. J: Never heard about it? They were. Ed Clark, to go back into hi s history, he comes from East Texas, and when Jimmie Allred was attorney general

Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Commission, and one of the commissioners died. Really, I hate to tell you how terrible I was, the way I used to read the death notices and rush into the President because that's the only way you could get a woman in. And so I rushed over to see President

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

letters There was one guy I'd have to give an awful lot of credit on this, and that was Clarence Mitchell. Clarence walked those halls morning, noon, and night; and he talked to Senators, and he talked again-all of this, I'm sure he wasn't by himself

Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

occasions, and there were no benefits in that for him. He believed it was important. He might hurt you on lesser legislation, but when you needed the AID Bill. . .Gosh, I remember one night when the AID conference was in deep trouble and he wasn't one

Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Virginia and that--the article I was trying to remember was Dwight Macdonald. The President got a marked-up copy of the Macdonald article, I happen to know, because Walter suggested we clip it and paste it on sheets of paper and send it over for his night

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

thing in those days, when you're very young. The school was at the end of Spook Lane and was then known as the Spook Lane School. Then after having gone to a really very poor high school in the county seat, Reading, Pennsylvania, I went to Swarthmore

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall or may have read, was Mrs. Sarah Hughes. From what I have [learnedJ in my investigations since that time, as near as I can tell, Mrs. Hughes was concerned on a moral issue rather than on a economic or political issue, particularly with regard

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for us, saying one time that he was in his office working at seven or eight o'clock on a Sunday night, and the phone rang. Ciaccio said, "I knew that Marian was out for the night, so it couldn't be her," surprised that anyone would call then. He picked

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the United States. Now I doubt whether Johnson ever read [Karl] Haushofer, but I believe that he had an instinctive recognition of the validity of Haushofer s doctrine of the heartland, which was, in 1 effect, the Middle East. Are you familiar

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really wanted him to think about a little bit, I always tried to get it inserted into his night reading. He loved to wake up in the morning and have a lot of things there to read. But I wouldn't say that he 20 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

to our right. And a population of bats (laughter) and swallows from some surrounding buildings that flew around at night. It was an interesting possibility; it offered us more room than we had ever had before. Max Brooks was a very able and creative

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the Southern opposition to civil rights legislation in opposition to what a lot of people call "progress" and that was an obstacle. And he recognized those things. F: He knew it well. I know you can't read another man's mind altogether, but do you get

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, who was the first member of the Council appointed, and Paul Samuelson, who was a close adviser to President-Elect Kennedy, got together one night to discuss the third LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with their print shop, usually at night. [lid] go down with my staff. We would come into their print 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, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Standard upon graduating from the University of Missouri. Here he served first as a reporter and then as a night editor of the San Angelo Morning Times, which the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

Johnson Library, and our focus will be on health legislation and activities during the Johnson Administration. Perhaps we could start with the President's health. Let me preface it by saying this: I read just this morning an article that the late Michael

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Well, I think by that time I understood its multifaceted aspects, because I had read a lot and I had talked to a lot of people. So I think I had a fairly clear

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

mind that he wasn't going to accept or negotiate anything less than a victory and that he would do whatever he could. Now, I tried to clear up this confusion in the paper edition of the book. M: Why, I haven't even seen the paper edition. I read

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Chalmers Roberts is a great guy, you know no matter how much he'd tell you this. I represented a piece of the Washington Post to him and the Washington Post is read by everybody who counts in Washington every morning. [If] we socked him with an unfavorable

Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

and some of us wandered through the streets in Jacksonville during the three days of the riots. I just wandered through. I never got bothered in the least at any time, day or night, and tried to keep things cool and get some of the leaders to understand

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that had been submitted. As a matter of fact, I disagreed with many a thing that Jim Cain said about what should be done in Vietnam. I read the report in November of '63. done this earlier--I think it may have been the spring of '63. Jim had

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

not as prominent as many of the jobs you read about going to so-and-so. Mc Was this at Mr. Johnson's direction? M: I'm sure it was, although I think Mr. Macy came in under Mr. Kennedy. But certainly President Johnson not only continued his employment, but made

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and just About all it was was a ni ce 1uncheon wi th We were discussing manpower things, and I'm sure he had read LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, 1968 INTERVIEWEE: DR. LOGAN WILSON INTERVIEHER: DAVID G. McCOMB PLACE: Dr. Wilson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 t1: Dr. Wilson, first of all, let's say something about your background. r have some data on it. I can read through

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the war for a year, and read the Dallas News, which was in those days a rather jingoistic newspaper, which announced with regularity that Texans were bombing Berlin and invading Italy and so on. Anyway, we came down here never supposing that the first

Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

hands, and the first thing he said was, "Did you read the Pearson article?" And Drew Pearson had printed a story a few days before that John Carver, who was then in this job and who was slotted to take my job in the Federal Power Commission, that he

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for the conduct of non-foreign affairs, really. It was If you look D W the Constitution and you really read the contemporary writings and opininns that are expressed, you can see that one of the great anxieties of the Founding Fathers, so-called, Z D V

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 4 communication. After all if this took three minutes of somebody’s time to quickly read a memorandum, at least he had the benefit of your thoughts, what you thought was important, what was coming up. He then could react, could give direction

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

be more frightened of the evil one knows than the evil one knows not of?" M: Hard to believe he had been reading Hamlet. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. Taught school in Grand Saline for six years. and I worked at the sa~t Raised My wife plant at night to pay for our first home. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

and listen all night to them--but these were mainly business people. There was always a big clamor for keeping the cost of government down. B: So it was controversial to have a pension system for old folks? M: Well, yes, because the only thing they'd had

Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that that would have been the ideal one. I was reading an interview last night with Dr. Burns, asking him if government was too big, and he said, well, government was so big that you couldn't evaluate it, and "If you can't evaluate it, you don't know whether it's

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that Schultze was concerned about the numbers. B: That's right, that's right. But he was giving us the--he was not giving us the right--he expressed his concern. I read that memo. He was expressing his concern, but he still was not giving us for planning

Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

that Lyndon came The night that he came, why the biggest storm 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://discoverlbj.org

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[reading an outline], "the senators came out of the chamber laughing." No, I don't remember. G: Now McCarthy introduced a resolution that would have tied Eisenhower's hands at Geneva. M: That's right. Yes, I remember that the Republicans knew it had

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the circulars if they would read them. Of course,they got a great deal of attention from that . M: So the helicopter was an effective means of getting attention? B: Very , very effective--it was spectacular . He made stops all over ; I guess he made four

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

knowledge and Stevenson's knowledge and you sort of bred them together, if maybe those two great minds might get us out of this abyss that we're in now. Because I recently read in the Wall Street Journal where that if you continue to spend--I'm talking

Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

under it . We know in our hearts what the Congress intended to authorize us to do and what they intended to prohibit us from doing . We read the legislative history of any piece of legislation . We know what the committees of Congress and the Congress

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that we get credit for giving them the advance push on it and the advance notification so that they can make an announcement or leak something if they want too. But, on the other hand, the way I read this--the way I would assume this--I'd call them

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Department about seve n or eigh t o'clo ck that night and put it all do.wn • . He had said to me, "I don 't want this memorandum to go through anybody else . This is a M: S: memorandum that must come from you dire ctly to me. Not even through