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Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, when did you first meet Lyndon Johnson, do you have any memory? B: F: B : F: I probably met him while he was still a senator on several occasions, but I really had no personal acquaintance with him at that time, You never had to appear before any

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the air force, and in 1966 a temporary duty assignment came down--I was in New Mexico at the time--and it was for "a photographer in Washington," and that's all it said. assignment. I only had about three months to go. September of 1966. I got the I

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

. There was no alarm raised. What he turned out to be in our eyes, he certainly was not in the beginning. M: When you went to Washington this time, in the company of Lynda and Luci, you all flew. Is that the first time they flew? It seems to me that they usually

Oral history transcript, Victor Jaeggli, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the next time I saw Lyndon he had made a trip up to Dallas, and he was inspecting some of the work up there. G: Was he pleased with it? J: Yes, he was. He, of course, always saw some things that should be done better. He was very meticulous about what

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the money centers of the North and East. Lot of congressmen in those days, and with a great deal of justification, looked upon our part of the country as a sort of a stepchild, and we were glad every time we could make a stride in bringing ourselves somewhat
Johnson's time spent sight-seeing and attending events at the Congressional Club or the 75th Club; visiting Bill White in New York City; Sam Rayburn, Wright Patman, Nat Patton, and other Texans in Washington, D.C.; visits with Aunt Effie Pattillo; summer

Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

years decided I would go over into the law school with the prospects of becoming a lawyer or using it as a help in my business career, which I had anticipated at the time. I entered Baylor in 1924 [and was there in] 1925, 1926, 1927. It so happened

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that I be given a position. At that time I had not met the President, but I was well acquainted with his then-secretary, John Connally. M: Did you know Connally in school? B: Yes, I knew Connally in school very well at the University of Texas

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. The time is 10:45 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. To start off, Dr. Pechman, I'd like to know something about your background--where you were born, when, where did you get your education. P: I was born in New York City and went through

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

and Root was a very well established construction firm at that time . GB : That is correct . PB : Now, Mr . Johnson was first elected to public office in 1937 . Do you recall, did you know Mr . Johnson yourself at that time? I h-ad not met him

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, but that's characteristic of this government anyway, during election time or non-election periods. After the election, Bundy then asked me if I would move directly onto the White House staff--his staff--and take over the Asian responsibilities and for some

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

people at that time, in a way everybody else is playing marbles. M: This is where the action is--over here? K: It's tremendously important ~ and if you really look at Cabinet posts, I think the Assistant Secretary, for example, handling European

Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

have too much. But we took the Pathfinder, which was a little current event paper that came out, and we took that every week. And as we would go along, Uncle Sam would coach us in asking current event questions. At that time the Socialist Party was just
; LBJ breaking his leg; Cox's horse, Old Kussie; lessons LBJ learned from his trip to California in 1924; LBJ's time in Robstown; campaigning for LBJ; Cox attending the 1965 inaugural; LBJ's later visits to Cox's home; Robert McNamara; the Boyhood Home

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

returned. F: March 1, and live never been back. Right. M: Did you have any contact with Mr. Johnson prior to the time ·he became vice presldent, back in the fifties or any time earlier than that? F: Yes. But it was entirely social. friend of my

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: SARAH McCLENDON (and her daughter, SALLY O'BRIEN) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Press Club, Washington, D.C. 16~ Tape 1 of 1 M: I thought you might be interested to know the first time I ever met Lyndon Johnson. I can't

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

governor. I was secretary of the Young Republican Club at that time and became involved in a general [way]. [It] at least gave me a general knowledge of politics in Michigan, and I became very interested in that sort of thing. Then of course we came

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people, would you say? O: I don't recall the book specifically in that regard. I'm trying to determine the time frame of the book. When was the book published? G: I'll have to get the date on it. It was sometime before your appointment, I assume

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and guidance. And in retrospect, I just think it disturbed the President a great deal that he was not used more by Nixon. Although Nixon did meet with him several times. They never had the kind of relationship that he had with Eisenhower and Truman, which
of Distinguished Service Medals; LBJ's preference for organization and good management of time; LBJ signing photographs and his use of photography; LBJ's teasing; how Bonanno learned from LBJ to use her temper to her advantage; LBJ's moods; Lady Bird Johnson's

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Soviet Union being first to orbit a satellite. Then he told Lyndon Johnson that he thought I could help him with outer space hearings. Johnson at the time was chairman of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. So then Lyndon Johnson called

Oral history transcript, Louis F. Walter, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/loh/oh 2 F: Generally recognized as good citizens? W: Oh, yes. F: Good people to bank with? W: Yes. F: Did you ever lend them any money? W: Yes, I remember the father had a loan there one time. F: On his crops, or do you remember? W

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

through my husband in about 1956. I believe it was then that we perhaps had dinner with them two or three times. F: You didn't have more than a casual social relationship during his early days as a Senator? G: No, we knew them a little bit, but I

Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

this. This year marks the twenty-fourth observance of the National Employ the PhySically Handicapped Week in October? R: Yes. P: So it does make it all the way back to '48, and you have served on the committee for the entire time. R: Yes, I have. I've seen

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

time you can recall being involved in any way in one of his campaigns? M: Well, of course, up until he ran for lieutenant governor he had never run a statewide campaign. Governor Stevenson had been county attorney of Kimble County, and at that time

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a member of the bar in Washington, D.C. in 1947. You worked as a lawyer, starting off in New York City in 1930 to 1933. 0: Those must have been tough times. Well, that was the beginning and the middle of the deepest depression, I guess, that anyone now

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

country and we had such an elaborate intelligence liaison operation at that time that I was treated as a regular official in the country team. Accordingly, I was instructed from Washington to get out and meet the Vice President when he arrived

Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)

for history have recorded for us as a what those skills were. And we are going to play a brief tape that will give you some idea of that. These are voices of people who were with him at the time. " . .. political system is one that requires enormous
in the future; Middleton and Christian's opinion of LBJ and their time spent working for LBJ; preparing for the Library's first conference; LBJ's opinion of the process of reviewing Library documents for potential closures

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on that telephone, really almost commanding the controllers at the tower to get the plane in. He had called our office to find out what the flight number was and what time I had left Minneapolis, what plane I was on. And he did get the plane in; there was a car

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

) INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER October, 1969 B: This is an interview with James Farmer, who at the time of the interview here in October of 1969, is assistant secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Administration. F: That's right. B: And just very

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a reception at the Carlton Hotel for Vice President and Mrs. Truman. F: At the Carlton here? s: Yes. During the reception someone, either Secretary Forrestal who was secretary of the Navy at that time, or Mrs. Forrestal, suggested that my wife and I come

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

hitting Washington cold. I had cabled several times that I thought we were playing a losing game since the fall of President [Ngo Dinh] Diem and all the chaos wh,ich had followed, and that, sooner or later, we were going to have to avail ourselves

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Jack, we were discussing the last time the campaign of '64 and we shut off on the campaign swing through New England. Now then, as you know, along about that time when the President was up in New York we had the unfortunate episode of Walter Jenkins

Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

dependence that Foster Dulles had on Lyndon Johnson's legislative judgment. I can just hear Dulles saying time and again, "Hhat does Lyndon Johnson say?" whenever there was a crisis or same problem. It was quite a refrain: LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

she wear vei ls? LM: I don It know. tied. It was the kind that went over the top of the hat and Now that was the only time I ever saw her, but it was my impression, and I thought, well, she is a real lady. M: Sheld be in a Ford sedan and have

Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the Louisville Nashville Railroad. He had had a business education of some sort, as they had as early as that. at the time. He went home for his mother's funeral in 1860 or '61. And he wrote his father after he got back. and of course he was in politics. just

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

More Story" -- I -- 2 on the fire and got the washtub out. He got everything starting to go and got water in the washtub and got in there to take his bath. ~e was taking his time, and one of the groomsmen said, 'Billy Bob, if you don't hurry up

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN November 14, 1968 N: Let's identify you in time and position here. Hhen Hr. Johnson became President, you were serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. B: That's correct. N: You had been

Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a little bit about yourself. I know that you were a policewoman here in Washington at one time. Just what does that involve? H: I dealt largely with delinquent children and delinquent girls. I did patrol the dance halls, Union Terminal, and some

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was a member of Congress a time or two and when I was in Washington. He probably won't remember those occasions, but I do. But I have no idea when it was. And I don't remember my very first association with him as a member of Congress. I knew that he

Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Washington, D.C. The date is March 7, 1969. The time is 10:08 in the morning and my name is David McComb. Let me find out something about your background first, Mr. Hughes. Where were you born and when? H: I was born in Chicago, Illinois, February 26

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

graduated before he enrolled. However, I was in San Marcos during the summers and on other vacations, and knew him and spent some time with him when he was a student at San Marcos. G: May I ask you about the kinds of courses he particularly liked

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in a stream of political talk all very much over our heads, but he is in such high good humor we enjoy it anyway. So we practice, and we learn what he wants us to learn, and how to say it, and as we win the city championship for the first time

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