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Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: NADINE BRAMMER ECKHARDT INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Eckhardt's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Here we go. E: Okay. I want to start beginning with--I've been reading those notes and the layering of events during

Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the pleasure of being associated with, and I was quite close to Senator Kerr . Mrs . Kerr said, in my presence one night when I took them to the hotel after we'd been on a speaking thing, that I was closer to him than his own sons were . stop right there . F

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there had been no previous maneuvering in that direction. H: No. F: Nothing to give you any lead. H: No. F: Did you think that the threatened liberal revolt was serious or do you From all I read and heard there was none. It came on rather suddenly

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

of 1964. I don't now know whether I actually stuck it in the night reading, or whether I didn't bother because it wouldn't get read. Probably the White House records would show it, although they might not; he might not have checked it. It might not turn up

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

little small power boats that always kind of protected around the Sequoia, as we went off. I was looking around the yacht; we had read about it, seen pictures of it. It wasn't what I would call an extravagant yacht at all. 2 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] Jenkins -- XIV -- 3 this was coming on. J: None whatever. I noticed from reading this other people thought that he was testy and hard to get along with a day or two before. I never noticed that. G: Really? J: If he

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

and say that we were unable to get there on account of weather, and that you, Paul, were to read the speech that night. Because we were all concerned as to what we would say to the gathering crowd at Wichita Falls as to why he was not there, bearing

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

that ran needlessly into the middle of the night. When they were ready to take a vote on a measure, both of them generally knew how the chips were going to fall. They'd be ready for the vote and I guess there weren't very many surprises because the tally

Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at night when we were ready to close up, lots of nights we counted our money to make sure we had enough to eat on at Childs' Cafeteria, which was across the Capitol grounds, right across from the Grace Dodge Hotel. time. Lyndon ate there all the He knew

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

guidance on what he wrote, but whether to go in or go out, so that's where this all came from. My point in reestablishing that--I know that the article says it was on Sunday night that I did it, and I just didn't think even when I read the article that I

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

moved to Washington, D.C., arriving, I believe, on about Sunday, the twenty-third of July 1967. So I was involved with them on Sunday and on Sunday night, trying in that personal way that we all have of getting settled and getting reunited with my

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as he was president. Well, that night I was in Baltimore with the ex-Governor of Maryland, a Democrat, Governor [John] Tawes, and the Democratic Speaker of the [Maryland] House [of Delegates], Marvin Mandel, who is now governor of Maryland

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was normally up until after mid-night or later or night reading. I'm sure you've had night reading described to you more times than you want to hear about it now. Mc: I'll hear about it anytime. The President is also known for what is described as his

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

gathering of Sunday night supper when he would tell his wife to call some friends in to dinner, or whether it was a luncheon planned the day before for three prime ministers who were in this country at the United Nations, which was quite a feat in itself. My

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

/show/loh/oh ~- I -- 4 So he had a knowledge even then of some politics although I don't think he intended to go into politics at that time. G: Do you have any idea what kind of books or readings he would have you read for the courses? BG: Oh, we

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. And the real kicker came when it became obvious that his attitude was clear-cut on what was right and what was wrong at the University. I date the end of the real problems at the University from that dinner that night. ment that I had suffered terminated

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a month before that--and I had to get my affairs in order with my station in Ohio. I got everything I could get on Khrushchev and started to read about his life, his politics, his biography and all the current affairs I could put together. You have

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

what it was. Jack just said they were going to be late. I think I came on back by myself to Washington and then Jack called me later that night on the phone and told me what had happened. Then pretty soon after that it was on the late news that night

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

letters that I ever read in my life. I don't know whether I had it in that batch of things I turned over to the Library or not. I doubt it. I moved around a good deal in those days and didn't keep up with my files very well. the answer to your

Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

started a huge food program and you probably still have it. You as an historian have read Harry Caudill's When Night Comes to the Cumberlands [Night Comes to Cumberlands] haven't you? 27 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

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

to five-thirty, and then I came up at night and I would take what they call the graveyard shift, eight to twelve. At that time they put the 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and into the night, that I think that's one of the reasons that I can't remember very well. There were too many things going on. As a result of the 1941 campaign for the United States Senate, which Mr. Johnson lost by a very, very few votes, he became a statewide

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in for a long night and perhaps a long aftermath . The report of his shooting was confirmed to be the grave wound and then soon thereafter a fatal wound . By one of those accidents of history, a representative of the Co.=unity Relations Service, Jim Laue

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

died and Lyndon Johnson announced one Sunday night, I think it was, for his place. This was a special election and there was no primary involved, no run-off, just winner take all. The next day, Sam Fore of Floresville and Denver Chestnut, with whom
“Who the hell is Lyndon Johnson?” Martin Harris; Ray Lee; basic strategy for LBJ; Lady Bird; headquarters in Capital National Bank Building; LBJ meeting with FDR; Maury Maverick; LBJ’s illness; Ben Crider; hillbilly; election night; radio station

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to come in at night--like you get in after ten o'clock at night and write out a memo to President Johnson about what you're going to do the next day when sometimes the weather dictates [what you do]. I think farming is something that you do just sort

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

reading light, make sure there was an ashtray handy everywhere, and, in the living room, wherever he was going to sit, a good reclining chair, with a good light by it. We put the brass bed up in Aunt Georgia's room. The bed that was in Lyndon's and my room

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 asked me if I would come out and help them with telephones and mail because I knew the family and the personal friends and So forth, so I did at night time and then through the days and So forth. And when

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

she did read a lot and she had a habit of reading in bed at night. She nearly always took a book to bed with her. G: In some of the letters that you exchanged you send her clippings of things that you wanted her to read and she talks about, I guess

Oral history transcript, Josefa Baines Saunders, interview 1 (I), 12/28/1964, by Juanita Roberts (Item)

: - -and we would go into Fredericksburg and at night we would go to a ll the country dances and , oh, we just had the time of my life. Of course, I was at that age where everything, you know , appealed t o you . Mrs . Roberts: Yes , and the young couple
Biographical information; Baines family; LBJ’s birth; George Johnson; The House and Furnishing; Ruth Amet Hoffman; Joseph Wilson Baines; Natural Breeze; Lyndon’s room; Mrs. Johnson reading to LBJ; move to Johnson City; Murphy Bed.

Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and everybody would be, you know, putting it together and stapling and doing all sorts of things. he was still in the Senate Cha~ber; out to see how things were going. If it was late at night and he would corne in and But we were all around. I don't know

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was that night I stayed in a rat-infested colored YMCA and all of my other classmates stayed at Purdue. I felt that despite the fact that I was performing quite well at Purdue that engineering was not really the vehicle for social change, and even if engineering

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on these speeches--doing the editing on them, doing some of the writing on them late at night, and needed help. come down. So he asked me to I assume that he had read my book and had had that experience with that Indianapolis speech, and that he was the driving

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

me to Texas. never understand this. Kennedy could Kennedy always thought that I should be going to Texas and always thought that I should.be travel ing with him. thought somehow that Lyndon Johnson belonged to me. He One Sunday night we were

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

impossible to have prepared it. Well, it would have been possible to prepare that night. It was a rather simple resolution, if you go back to it carefully and read it. But it may be something that they had prepared simply because, you know, the Pentagon's got

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they come up. This was one of his great weaknesses, his failure to realize that one thing leads to another, that when you do something you get a headline out of it. Now the headline may disappear, but six months later it can bob up on you, like, "Read my

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

talking about the other Linden Johnson who owned the Dynasty Shop. But back to my story about the eighty shirts. He bought eighty silk shirts in Hong Kong, and he brought them back and they were beautiful, just beautiful shirts. One night I was over

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

my family closer to where I think they were going. We were all going on a rafting trip down the Salmon River or something of that sort. I got on the plane to fly throughout the night, and it happened that Wayne Morse was there, on the plane. I sat
sources of information, such as the Office of Economic Opportunity and Tom Bradley; visiting Newark, New Jersey, to talk to citizens about rioting; John Lindsay's involvement with the Commission; the chain of command within the Commission; late night/early

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

association. F: I don't know lowell Limpus. C: Lowell Limpus is now dead, but Lowell Limpus was night city editor and military expert of the News, and it is my opinion that out of that genesis came much of the Roosevelt Administration, at least press-wise

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of it. across the street from the con- hall, for three days and three nights, something like that, and tried to work out a compromise. Humphrey was very deeply involved in working out that compromise; he'd sit with us, counsel with us. Reuther came

Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 those in the past? There has been quite a lot of writing about the disturbances there in Chicago. Bu: I know. I've been reading. But I feel frankly that were

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