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Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

think this recent act on energy passed by the House as a substitute for the Krueger amendment is typical of tnat--just a wild, wild piece of legislation, couldn't be effective in any way under the sun. I hope that the Senate will knock it down. F

Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

? P: My father's clients were pri~rily Humble, Sun, Tidewater. He represented certain insurance companies oil companies. like the Austin Mutual life Insurance. He represented Senator Wirtz represented the lower Colorado River Authority. M

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I'd eat dinner downtown with Mr. and Mrs. Gray. We were friendly, and Mr. Johnson didn't dislike him, and goodness knows, he wished the president of Humble Oil and Refining and the Pews with Sun Oil and everybody else would vote for him, but he

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of security in the hamlets and villages was the change-over as the sun set from control of the area by the Saigon government to control by the Vietnamese communists. Exit one, enter the other. And the night and the day made the difference, so our idea was, why

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

under the sun, and they tell me I've got to do something!'" And he said, "I told him, 'no, Lyndon. If you go down there and start campaigning, you'll lose two hundred thousand votes. You're the majority leader"'-- or was it minority? F: He became

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh in hotel rooms, on airplanes and cars to talk about everything under the sun. F: Would he open up pretty well? H: Oh yes, oh sure. You know he treated

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

to stop at sun-down, and he said, "How about working another hour, boys? I'll turn the lights on." And cheered on by his ambition, 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was in the The captain announced that we had a very dangerous situation and for people to be calm~ i I I told the people around me to watch for the sun so we could tell where we were going. He turned southeast--the plan._,e turned southeast, and I knew

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

, were really almost threadbare. The upholstery in that end of the house takes very rough wear because the west sun streams in there and it doesn't last very long, but Mrs. Johnson just wouldn't do anything to the furniture until after the campaign. She

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

a great belief that labor unions are the only way that blacks are going to find their place in the sun. I'm not sure he is right, but that's what he believes. G: Can you provide any more details about Moynihan's appearance at the conference? A: Oh, he

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

Rusk and he asks McNamara; and he asks everybody under the sun, including Ted Sorensen, "What do I do about this?" And all of you, uniformly, are saying, "Neutrality means surrender of Vietnam to North Vietnam, to communism." B: Yes. D: And Sorensen

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the war what they called Operation Dixie; they were going to unionize the South, what is now the Sun Belt. During the war and before, there had built up in the state a great deal of antagonism toward the militancy of the unions after the Wagner Act

Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and then the sun came 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/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- I -- 2 out

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

. But once out from under his watchful eye I lost my senses and we strolled the Boardwalk all afternoon in the July sun. I had to get a doctor for a second degree burn from top to bottom and it goes without saying that although the marriage was legal

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. that. That's the same thing as saying the sun Can you shut people up? He never said If he had said that, I don't know what it would have gotten to because I don't know how you'd shut them up. But if he had said that then he would at least have made

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

go down and kind of lean back in the sun and think. He liked to have people around him, not particularly talking to him and bothering him, but just around enjoying themselves. And then he would use them as LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and all he could handle, but Johnson wanted a place in the political sun. That was obvious all along but he wasn't obnoxious about LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

W: Yes. G: Did he have a specialty or a particular era that he focused on? W: Well~ he was real good on current events. He would come to eight o'clock class in the summertime when the sun was high in the sky at eight o'clock. He thought

Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh NYA -- I -- 27 sun was coming down and his hands were blistered, and he just decided this wasn I t very smart. to school. Hi s mother had been tryi ng to get him to go

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

discoloration, and then the evidence of some damage is noted by a roughening or the appearance of warty, scaly growths. These occur almost exclusively on sun-exposed areas, face, neck, ears, backs of hands, in people who are susceptible. The fair-skinned, blue

Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it finished before the lights went out, so they said, "Come back in the morning," and we were playing with the gaslights that were on the wall that hadn't been used for years and all I could see was the place going up in smoke. I was very glad when the sun

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

in 1940 at a resort where you were recovering from ulcers . Tell us something about that episode . GB : Well, I was up there . I'd had hemorrhages and was pretty weak and thought I ought to go somewhere and just get in the sun and walk and take

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and such was the fervor that the New York Sun ran a note, "Positively tomorrow at three o'clock Theodore will walk on the waters." It was something of that tre- mendous populist movement. As we thought of it at the time, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom the President

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Street to invite the Prime Minister. He never mentioned it to me. He talked about everything else under the sun but not that. M: When did you come back to the United States? A: I came back just before Christmas in 1967. M: How much dissent

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, pretty weather . about 75° , and the sun was out . 17 It was a good San Antonio day ; it was Cantinflas would get up and say, "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year," and he would sit down . But this wowed the crowd and they loved to see him

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? I'm paying you not to go out and socialize but to be right here when I need you." As President he certainly had an enormous belief that he was the sun and everything else revolved about him. I'm sure somewhere along the line, probably from me

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

leaving on August 2 to go to Sun Valley and take a vacation. I had done everything I could and tried to keep my law practice together and put in this time on the side, and I was tired. So I went to Sun Valley on the second. 24 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

feels. But at any rate, this liaison job--and, of course, with the entire world converging on Washington for the funeral, with getting material and handling the high-level visitors, De Gaulle, the emperor of Ethiopia, and everybody else under the sun

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

things to do, but I've got to get away. couple of days in the sun to shake this damn thing. II I need a He said, "Well, if you don't knock off anybody. If there's an empty seat in the plane, it's all right with me. II Kenny O'Donnell was still

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

that Pueblo happened. You know, we thought, "Darn it, he just can't have more than twenty minutes of fun for anything under the sun." DBH: Everybody said how relaxed and happy he was, and he had pictures of the grandchildren he showed everybody. LB: Once

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, of the church in Honey Creek. However, I wrecked my car, but I wasn't hurt. That's beside the point. But what really happened was, it was in August, the evening setting sun got in my eyes, a car came against me, and with the setting sun. I tried to avoid the car

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)