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Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

do then? T: Flew back to Washington. F: How soon did you see the Senator? T: I think the day I got back to Washington, that night or the next morning I went to the hospital and Dr. [James] Cain took me in just for a He was still under the oxygen

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, if he could inherit the governorship . And so he is the man who did most of the work in getting the election of W . Lee O'Daniel to the Senate, to make way for him . Now that came about in this way . When we went to bed on Saturday night, we were, I

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that he ought to call in Negro leadership the next day. And after several memos and a couple of phone conversations, around ten o'clock at night, he agreed to do that. 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

also set great store--he thought I had influence over the arms of the government in my articles in the paper. Johnson as he did. He was anxious for me to know and appreciate So he invited me out to dinner one night for the purpose of meeting Johnson

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and the biggest lawyer need we had in those days was to protect the stations against claims for libel or slander, as you might categorize it, by reading and approving all political speeches. So in political season it was virtually a full-time job to represent

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

VEs to get them in there. Dr. Stanton had been questioned about UHF--this was before we got on the scene--and he had testified at that hearing. testimony but I've heard this. I haven't read his I am convinced it's true in my own mind, but I haven't

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

between our two bureaus on this issue, but it is subject to interpretation. Men of good will sometimes don't always read the language the same way, so when you have a shift of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

might be located where they were getting a little interference from a steel girder or something like that. But the answer is, yes, it was operational, but not to the degree they wanted and they were to correct the problem that night and, as I said

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXIII -- 2 R: Oh, sure. It's rather strange. I've got to recapitulate the background here. One night Dave Broder, the Washington reporter for the Dallas News--I think you have

Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

work projects for the college, but also were getting an opportunity to learn to read and write and some of the other things that are such an important part of developing any working skills, which was what we were trying to [accomplish] . G: What sort

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that causes you to know that it influenced him? C: He told some of us who were in the White House, as I recall it on a social occasion, the night he moved in the Dominican Republic situation; he made references to the need for doing this sort of thing to keep

Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a call late at night at the hotel where I was staying, saying that the president wanted to see me the next day at five p.m. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

negotiations with the Vietnamese bombing halt of thi s month? C: I think Tom Johnson and I attended every meeting. I may not h ave a ttend e d one simply b e caus e I was doing something else, and Torn sat in on it and I read hi s notes l ater . The bomb

Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Haley is still at it, a critical newspaper _~rticle. I just saw one the other day. G: Did you get to know Mrs. Johnson during this period? K: No, only at dinner that one night. was one of my assistants. Lyndon invited Francoise Black, who I

Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. of you. It sounds like there were a number Roy Swift was the Star reporter. ) Harvey Yoe was the fresh- man--it reads like the-H: Yes, it worked. (Laughter) G: How did you organize this election? Did you sit down and decide on your ovln slate

Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Hinojosa said, precisely on the occasion of the visit of President Kennedy to Mexico, "You remember that night that we went out and took two girls? One of them, the one that was with me," said Mr. Hinojosa, "was Miss Jacqueline Bouvier." I did not remember

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the day that he made the speech, a Sunday night. I had not see him for a week before that speech, hadn't heard him say or talk about anything. But since I had all during the period that I had been there come to have more and more the feeling that he

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

much respect for his judgment in some important fields. At the same time, he could read the polls and he knew how people back in Texas felt about Eisenhower--Eisenhower had carried it handsomely both times--and he took great pains not to seem captious

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to it later, regarding the White House role, mine specifically, was that I was totally accepted by Mike Mansfield. Whatever hour of the day or night I was in or out of his office, Mike was available and we'd chat, even if it was just discussing the weather

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson, Mr. Symington, and me--they included me in everything--credit for it. It was a nice night. G: Had Mr. Johnson played a role in getting Sheppard Air Force Base? J: Yes--in getting it originally? G: Yes. J: No. G: It had been there before

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

called and asked me to return his call, he did not tell my wife what it was about. He said no matter what time I got in, twelve, or one or two--it was night, midnight, early hours of the morning. I returned the call and did not reach him, but I was kept

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

onthe-record basis, or in departing from text as he did in the Sunday night speech, his explanations were always more graphic, and his drawing of the cartoon of his reasoning provided these open-ends of just how many heads were rolling in the streets

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the Pakistanis, as well as the United States. But I remember he had a talk with President Diem and I remember reading copy about it. But I don't remember having any particular talks at that time. The most intimate relationships that I had with the President

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that the German foreign minister sent to the minister in Mexico during the First World War in which Germany promised Mexico that she would help her recover her lost provinces of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona? H: I read about that. F: It didn't make a very

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 S: No, not even Truman. And Kennedy, the night of the election, the night he was elected, called me on the telephone about midnight to find out how

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and McGeorge Bundy, and there was Ross Gilpatric, and McNamara, and several others on the staff of the White House in the Office of Science and Technology and the Defense Department. We had been to the White House on Wednesday night to a reception and had

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Albert Gore was con testing for the Tennessee delegation because he wanted to be the vice presidential candidate . One of the things that I recall was about eleven o'clock one night I was sitting out in this big area near the elevator in the Conrad

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and was inside the Eighty-second bridgehead, and he withdrew unexpectedly during the night. Because what they had hoped was that Wessin y Wessin might fill in this gap. But that didn't happen; Wessin y Wessin pulled back and he went back to San Ysidro, where

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

." G: I was about to ask-- P: And he said, Warfare]. II I'm (Laughter) Well , here's Paul Linebarger's book on it [Psychological Read it and then try to figure out how you might apply something to the Vietnamese situation." So I studied

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

forget the shock when McClellan read his opening statement at the hearings. What they didn't realize was I had written it. was a real olive branch. Johnson sold it to them. It McClellan didn't know I had written it, he just knew that Johnson had

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the matter further; I talked to the President about it again, I believe, on Monday and Tuesday; and on Wednesday when I went back to New York, he asked me if I would call him that night after I had had a chance to talk to my wife and to my partners and let

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, not necessarily as a Mexican-American organization, although then by necessity we were working on veteran's education. And then I got to know the schools and the educational system of the basic educational courses, so that night we decided we'd go ahead and get

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. In fact, the very day I was appointed there was a big reception at the White House planned for that night for the new appointees over the past year, and we were immediately brought into that. Then I would say there have been two or three lunches a year

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

or the Quadriad or anything like that? S: To the best of my recollection we had not. And I'm almost positive, I'm virtually certain this came as a surprise to everybody. There may have been a few hours notice or maybe the night before notice, this sort

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the convention for the campaign. So I missed him in one of his more colorful periods. I've realized that. I've read a lot about it. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and forth on the cables and communication networks than the appointment of a freshman senator. In any event, I didn't learn of my appointment [until]-- F: How did you receive the message? K: Well, I first heard of it by reading it in the army newspaper

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think we're dealing with this poor old dumb cluck, he doesn't know how to do anything, he's taking us in. It's just as plain as night but you can't get [inaudible] all it is. And same as I told you I think, I'm sure I did. The closing paragraph

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the only non-Cuban arrested that night. It's clear that when Mitchell issued his statement suggesting McCord was somebody he probably never heard of, it was in the midst of consternation in California. Obviously at this point I'm not aware of that. I made

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 12, 1968 B: This is the interview with George Reedy. Mr. Reedy, I think the starting place would be your knowledge of Congress when you were a correspondent, and I can read this into the record. You were born