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Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the shooting at the Ranch. He just wouldn't go out with rifles anymore. And that was something that I didn't realize until this event happened, that there had been times when a lot of hunting expeditions would take place at the Ranch. But he had just decided
was pronounced dead; difficulty passing gun control legislation; LBJ's dog, Yuki; how LBJ enjoyed spending time with his grandson, Lyn Nugent; LBJ's love of the soft drink, Fresca; Bonanno spending time with Lynda Bird Johnson; red tags on documents; how LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Assistance Division in the Community Action Program of OEO. Mr. Tolmach, I know a little bit about your background, I know that you were in Labor and you were a newspaperman at one time, but I don't know enough. I think for the purposes of this tape it would

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the whole matter, but there were two occasions when I had to face it. One was the interview for the Warren Commission, which basically went to how many shots did I hear and that sort of thing. And the other occasion occurred a long time afterward when Abe
mate in 1964; Hubert Humphrey's strengths and weaknesses as a vice presidential candidate; the 1964 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's concern over the timing and effect of a film to honor JFK that was introduced by RFK; O'Brien's respect for Senator

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a very powerful committee and as time went by they had jurisdiction over civil rights legislation. But the significance of Price Daniel going on the Judiciary Committee over Governor Lehman was basically a civil rights fight. I think this one move

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

his name publicly, because he has some daughters living here, and they're very good friends of ours. Guy Maddox [?] was his name. G: Guy Maddox? W: He was the town bully at that time, drunkard, and everything else. And I didn't have much trouble
; Sam Houston and Josefa Johnson; LBJ paying off his father's debts; Winters' contact with LBJ at the time of the JFK assassination; the Association of General Contractors' pressure on LBJ to sign highway legislation; LBJ's involvement in roadside park

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Country in the spring. It'd been a long time since I'd been in the countryside repeatedly in February, April, May, June, and I saw it all unfold. And there's just nothing in the world as green, and as new, and as fresh, and as sure of the revival
Furniture for the LBJ Ranch; living at the Ranch for the first time in the summer of 1952; LBJ's legislative work in 1952, including military waste and tidelands; the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago; controversy surrounding

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abram -- Interview I -- 2 did my father, he never shot an animal in his life. And I met Russell then and I thought I had met the modern redeemer. I continued to have a relationship with Russell until the time when I

Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Aiken -- 3 policy issue? A: No, I wouldn't say so. I wouldn't say he was a typical Southern state Senator, but he came awful close to it. Along about that time they got

Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Administration, trying organized crime cases, and had around this time reached the point where I thought I wanted to leave. I didn't know what I wanted to do and was looking about for what the next step would be. Just around that time there was some press

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was just a diplomat doing his thing, which was repeating his government's position . G: I noticed that the last article from that trip, which carries a date line of November 20, is one of your think pieces that you referred to last time as sort
Time limit in dealing with Vietnamese situation; the Tet Offensive; Weyand's role; press reaction; impact of Tet on South Vietnamese forces; intelligence; Cronkite's visit to Vietnam; the pacification programs; decision to write Tet!; subsequent

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

time talking to the then-Director of the Bureau of the Budget, Charlie Schultze, to find out a little bit about what I would be required to do. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
of the Budget; the privilege of working hard for a president; keeping ideas fresh and balanced over time; LBJ's strengths, especially in communication and helping people.

Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Commissioner of Patents . The interview is in his office, in Crystal Plaza, on the eleventh floor of the third building . 10 :45 . The date is November the 19th and the time is Mr . Brenner, can you first of all tell me something about your background

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

' initial reluctance. Let me ask one question. The need for reorganization had nothing to do with the way that Wirtz had run the department but it was merely the fact that it had grown a parcel at a time and not everything integrated, right? C

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. He was born a freedman in Washington; thus the name Freeman was no coincidence. He looked around to find a dental school that would accept him in the l860-s, and there were about four or five dental schools in the country at that time. Harvard did

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

of us who worked for the Park Service had keys to the gates of Arlington Cemetery, because many times we would work overtime and work a nighttime 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, an old Moscow callow colleague [?J. I'd been up to Saigon on a long visit one time, so I knew the situation up there, the physical situation. Then I came back and I was briefed in the department and in the Pentagon and in the CIA and everything else
Assignment to Vietnam; situation there at the time; view of Diem in late 1950s; Wolf Ladejinsky; land reform; problems with relocation program; the Montagnards; conflict with General Sam Williams; MAAG and the embassy; Williams and Diem

Oral history transcript, Bertha Allman Graef, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that, and he did mention, I think, a few of the Texas politicians, but at that time he never did mention anything in the federal government. G: Were his courses more oriented toward Texas government and politics, or national or international? BG

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

notes. We didn’t do that. This was just a little call on her so that she could get acquainted with Dorothy. In the afternoon visit she told us a good many things. And, you know, 1958 is a long time ago and I don’t know how much I am going to be able

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

a payment acceleration, and in addition, I think I'm right on this, the postponement of some of the excises. M: Apparently the economy was heating up at that time, is that right? S: Well, yes. All of this really gets into the beginning of the whole

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the state school superintendent, with the superintendents of schools all over the state, and Jesse knew them all. where he fitted in there with the colleges and that. time, too, he refereed football games on the side. into him out at Brownwood. That's Back

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to comment on them and frequently did so that as far as Washington was concerned there was pretty good coordination. For a time President Johnson had Mr. Robert Komer in the White House to coordinate what was called "the other war," that is, the political

Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGIA CAMMACK EDGEWORTH INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 Mrs. Edgeworth's residence, San Antonio, Texas G: Well, Mrs. Edgeworth, let's start with an incident that you talked about the last time I was here

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and the balance of my grade school in League City and three years in high school in League City, I took my final year in high school in what is now Sam Houston High in Houston. It was called Central High at that time. In the fall of 1924 I entered Rice

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in Montana or California or somewhere, but I was offered a number of jobs after his death, one of which was working in the R.F.C. [Reconstruction Finance Corporation] for Tommy Corcoran, who is now my partner. At the time Corcoran was in charge

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: Maybe so. McS: I'd like to begin by asking you if you recall your first meeting with Mr. Johnson and your earliest impressions of him. McC: Yes, of course, I'd testified before him several times in various capacities when he was a senator on the Hill

Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

during that time I was very friendly in my attitude and very supportive in my attitude towards Senator [Richard] Russell. I wrote all the editorials for this weekly newspaper and never passed up an opportunity to praise Senator Russell during

Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, [who] was at that time a lieutenant colonel, had spent four years in Vietnam; Chuck Cooper, an economist from the RAND Corporation. G: Was it Chuck Cooper? R: Yes. G: Not Chet Cooper. R: Not Chet. Charles Cooper, Charles N. from the RAND

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connally -- II -- 2 C: No, I really think, so far as I know, it partially developed out of Johnson's friendship with Charlie Marsh. It doesn't predate my time and association, but I was never in on it particularly. Charlie Marsh, as I

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

talking last time about the Post Office. First of all, it's under Mr. Johnson's presidency that you were promoted to assistant postmaster general? A: That's correct. B: What were the circumstances there? A: The full details, I don't think are too
Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/loh/oh StoUghton -- I -- 2 there when war broke out in December of 1941. Was assigned to an Air Force observation squadron in Fort Riley, Kansas, which had departed by the time I arrived there. F: All the glamour spots, huh? 5: Yes. So

Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the time, but also it was my first venture into politics, the first time that I ran for the office of county clerk of El Paso County, Texas. And I was elected. F: So you have good reason to remember that. T: Yes, I have good reason to remember that. F

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and when I came out of the Army, I went into the University of Texas again . At the same time I was in the state legislature from Falls County . H: All right . When did you go into the state legislature? What was the date on that, approximately? 0

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. C: The first time I ever ran for public office was in 1961, when I ran for the office of mayor here in Detroit. Prior to that time I had been practicing law here in the city. F: You ran, I gather, pretty much as a lone wolf. C: Yes, I ran

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape 4) June 2, 1969 M: You had gotten last time to the summer of 1966 with the decision to bomb the Haiphone POL, which came at the end of various efforts at peacemaking . The one question that occurred to me just as we

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. They felt this related to--and a great many people who would get the food stamps would be people that were in the South and in these areas. This was not stated but that was an underlying feeling at that time, particularly in some of the key positions

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: BESS ABELL INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mrs. Abell's home in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: We had gotten last time into the White House years and just to sort of take areas at random, once the shock and the travail of moving

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

start with this, that at the time that I was presented with the decision or the opportunity to come with him, I was told then by Paul Bolton--I think this may be in the script--that he had not made up his mind about continuing in politics, not just

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 service, and it seemed to me that in the interest of my family it was time for me to resign the most demanding job I had ever had in my life, Administrator of the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

me what I was doing, and I said I was a senior at Boston College. He asked me what I was going to do after I was graduated, and I said I thought I would come down to Washington to look for a job. He said that if I did, he would give me a part-time

Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on the Foreign Relations Com- I went to Paris where he was there as the leader of our delegation to the NATO Parliamentarians, and sought to secure his support for this appointment at that time. me. He was exceedingly receptive and cordial to I remember, I

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