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Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

.) and former Senator Butler of Maryland . The Democratic members were Senator (Hubert) Humphrey (D-Minn .), Senator (John) Kennedy (D-Mass .), and Ted Sorensen was their counsel . At one point there was a roll call in the House and Mr . Hagan LBJ

Oral history transcript, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

, "Do this. Take off the glasses, I can't Do that. Father stand it," and all that. In the meantime the President had asked the colored butler, two of the gardeners who had just been employed, because [',Irs. Johnson had been discussing two men she

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

into the practice of law. I was in charge of the oil and gas division; prior to that time, I had served in the lands division. I was in charge of oil and gas there for about six months; then I came to Houston and joined the law firm of Butler, Binion, Rice and Cook

Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Court. I think one was HR 3; another one was the [John Marshall] Butler-[William] Jenner bill. Do you recall how you were able to turn those around? One of them had already passed. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

to Justice Butler? EG: Yes. It is a very interesting story how he got it. Lyndon had gone back to Texas in the NYA job and he left L. E. up here. I knew at the time L. E. was having some difficulty LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the President, both at the Ranch and in Acapulco, and many times alone in New York. For instance, one evening I had been home for a couple of hours. I keep a cook and a waitress and a butler, and I decided I was going to stay home, so I told the butler

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

English butler that gets to see everything from all the family fights to the innermost state secrets but is totally the invisible man. I really came away feeling that I had gotten absolutely nothing. M: Yes, but would she just tell you that? F: Well

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Ewing Thomason took me in, and we passed about six livened footmen and butlers before we got to the drawing room where our hostess greeted us. There were flowers and mirrors everywhere and exquisite furniture and about forty guests, including Justice

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for it. I've been to Alaska so I'm glad they annexed it. G: Anything on the Jenner-Butler bill? 5 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, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

Mayor Tom Miller's face looming up at me like you do Roy Butler now. Everybody knows who Roy Butler is. The students didn't have a vote, so the town just passed them by to a great extent. So we were very much aware of the NYA, less aware of the director

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

organization we have leaders and we have followers. The more dynamic people on this board have been Laurance Rockefeller; Helen Hayes; Marie Schwartz; Patsy and Marshal Steves; Don Thomas; John Barr; Roy Butler; Carlton Lees, bless his heart. Carolyn Curtis

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 2 (II), 4/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: This is the kitchen and on this opposite side is a little glazed-in breakfast room. You come in from the side porch into this little glazed breakfast room, through a butler's pantry, into this kitchen across the back of the house. And that, however, is the distance

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

trained at Northwestern, at Indiana, and Butler and Franklin Colleges, in the Midwest--even before I went to Brown University for my undergraduate training. And then I was trained, as I said, at the University of Chicago in the ministry, and I felt

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

might call on them. Now on the White House you certainly called, but it was not expected that Mrs. Roosevelt would be at home. You simply went up there and handed your cards to the butler. At other places you would knock on the door-usually a bunch of us

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

there a year, and then I became clerk to Justice Butler on the Supreme Court for about thirteen months. Then I went and worked for Alvin Wirtz, who had become under secretary of interior, for about a year. Of course, in everyone of these changes Mr. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thurmond -- I -- 12 curb the powers of the Supreme Court. One was the Butler-Jenner bill. He managed to sidetrack that. T

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the next election will change that. of good people are dropping out. But a lot Oh, they're fed up and they say, "It isn't worth it; it used to be fun," you know. And I mean good people, people like, oh, Julia Butler Hansen of Washington and Edith

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to assemble there--Jim Abercrombie, Brown, Gus Wortham, George Butler--and kind of just talk things over. G: I guess that big business in Texas was pretty much divided on Lyndon Johnson, weren't they? N: Yes, he was a very controversial figure. Of course

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as anybody else. He wasn't too aware of it. I'm sure, it probably had been discussed in the White House, but not in the State Department. You know, it was also then that President Johnson took away my cook and butler. And he's still with him at the LBJ Ranch
to Bolivia; LBJ taking Castro's butler to work at the LBJ Ranch; Castro's relationship with Bolivian president René Barrientos; Che Guevara and Jules Régis Debray in Bolivia; the CIA's possible involvement in Che Guevara's death; Che Guevara's diary; Antonio

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was invaded by two thugs \'/ho shot and nearly killed the butler, \'Iounded a footman, and were apprehended. [Sergio] Fenoaltea was the Ambassador at the time, and he came \'Ihite-faced to see Katzenbach, who was then attorney general. Department. I was his

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of unpleasantness between them towards the end. G: Do you remember any of the bills aimed at curbing the power of the Supreme Court, like the Butler~Jenner I think it was, [sponsored it]. bill or the HR 3? Howard Smith, Johnson's role seems to have been one

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

sixty years old and radios have been for just young men anyhow. Time for me to get out." So I sold it to Roy Butler for cash and moved to Washington where LBJ appointed LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the White House. I We never did him the disservice of saying that he was fired, although he had had his verbal blows with Bess and J. B. West. I'm not sure what happened. F: Who's J. B. West--the butler? C: He was the head usher of the White House

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

to know the butler's name is Johnson, and he has told me when I need him.. this. /I She did it, I think, to amuse me about So presently a very nice colored servant appeared with our breakfast, and his name was indeed Nr. Johnson. Well, I'll \'/ait

Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember two plays that we put on there. One was The Importance of Being Earnest--done very well, I thought. believe that Bird was in that as a butler! I I know Helen Bird was excellent as Lady Bracknell, and one of my other good friends, Harriet North

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and then they landed down on the White House lawn and wen': right on over to the Executive Office 'Juilding, and I asked him who he saw. He said, "Jo·e, frankly, this was my first time, and I didn't know butlers frmn VIP' s. S: They all looked alike to me." I thin

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at least. There was a butler, or a footman I should say, behind every other person at the table, and they would move precisely to serve the courses in and out, very, very beautifully done, regimented. I couldn't understand how they could do it so well. I

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Butler, Binion Andrews, Kurth was a medium-sized, good, very, very conservative law firm, ultraconservative law firm. I don't know how you would characterize Fulbright, Crooker as a firm. would guess it was probably more liberal than the others. I

Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wright -- I -- 28 G: Is that right? W: Yes. But it was just a way of stalling, really. the butler, "Well, just

Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to have some Republican help in this. Whom did you work with most closely in trying to get this thing set up so that the Republicans could carry more than their share of the --? D: Senator Butler, who was chairman of the committee, turned this problem

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and immediately Yuki and de Gaulle tangled. The second de Gaulle was, and is, either mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed; we've never figured out what it is, but he's not a fighter. So we called for the butler to retrieve him, and to take him away

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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