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- that the climate was unsavory. up. There was rumbling of revolutions. Sun Yat-sen was coming My father and mother were quite close to Sun Yat-sen and many other important people of the revolution through the diplomatic corps and also through a press gentleman
- at Bethesda, as you know, is surrounded by a golf course. He wasn't playing golf, but he was out in the sun and reporters were around him. I was not immediately at hand right there. And they asked him about the operation and, being uninhibited, he just pulls
- of the most beautiful country the Lord ever made. Lyndon liked to play golf when he could. He loved to swim, and he was a lover of the sun and when he played, he played almost as vigorously as he worked. As well as I can remember, there were only the four
- answer telephone calls; we'd make our telephone calls, and even in those days we had a great many veterans' cases, I remember. Of course, in the tail end of a depression you had every kind of problem under the sun. 7 LBJ Presidential Library http
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Davis -- V -- 27 States. After all, they claim they're the first part of the United States to see the sunrise. "The sun rises first in Guam" is the slogan they have out there. So we get out to Guam and everybody has traveled
- size. He kr.. ow 16 \·fhnt ic;~ do not have, 17 m(;)c..surcs until the sun goes dm·:n.. 18 how8vcr, is ony m~asurcs on the .ou tpuL 19 1.·1h.::.t the rcsul ts are and people, our citizcas, our clients 20 qu:!.te c.-:.pproprio.tc1y expect ns
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- under the sun. You can't believe the crooked things this fellow was doing. The newspapers knew about it; everybody knew about it. How did Saxon let this go on? And all of a sudden it got all through the press, and his marvelous image didn't look so
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- in New York parks in doing outdoor living rooms for all ages, old people to sit in the sun, ' young people to have some instructible kind of playground equipment. And so once when she was in New York, she asked Mrs. Astor if she would take her
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- have to make around Washington to- C: It went on for two months. She blocked out time to do it right. at sunrise to Mount Vernon because the sun's better then. She went even The cameramen all fell in love with her because she was the first person
- , rather impressively massive, figure. So that I didn't like very much, nor did I think much about the idea of the Capitol at the time. But one evening when I saw it illuminated by artificial light as the sun went down I thought, II Th is is the way I
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Fleming -- I -- 22 specific problems. degree. Well, that's the kind of thing you can do to some But if you're talking about an overall planning agency to deal with everything under the sun--transportation, health, education
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- who are now criticizing called this just everything under the sun which is black and bad. It was an unusual convention. It wasn't that black and bad. Yes, we had unusual security, security that I never experienced in any other conventions. past
- . People from all over the state. say, from Pascagoula. They were heavily armed. gas and grenades and everything under the sun. A big bus load, They had tear There were deer hunters with rifles, all that sort of thing, and they wouldn't have had
- o'clock, and the next morning about seven o'clock he was at my door with a contract. F: You got the feeling he never slept, didn't you? J: So I said, "My God, can't you wait until the sun comes up?" He said, "Business is business, we've got to get
- to the Federal Reserve Bank!" Nobody So, I had to pay $2.35 before he would read the telegram saying it was all right to let us have several million dollars. PE: Now, just to sun®arize for a minute, that was to buy what from the Central Power and Light? SG
- procedure, hunting, fishing, just everything under the sun. B: Just chatting among buddies? T: Yes, tha tis correct. B: Senator Johnson and Senator Russell obviously had a special relationship, as you said a while back, almost as if Senator Russell
- /exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- I -- 22 before dawn and just as we got over Vera Cruz at a terrific altitude --all the great peaks of Nexico standing up and the rays of the sun hitting the mountains. live never seen such a sight in my life. felt a bit
- assignment. So there was this animosity. But this goes on in every administration. I can't believe that any White House would operate without this interplay of egos and clashings of ambitions, all sort of like satellites circling the sun. F: Did
- if they wanted to march on the side of the road in the hot sun. It was all right. But I still worried about their safety. told the President that we could handle the matter, but I had visualized at that time that it would take about five hundred national
- --no, Stephen F. here about sun-down. Austin. F: - Did you come because you . • . ? W: Oh, we were interested in the campaign, of course. F: Did you know it was going to be a close election, or did you just come? W: Oh, we came because we wanted him
- think that there is some truth to the story that they did resent certain aspects of it. On the other hand, Jack called me up, and in fact, I was out with my children skiing. They were skiing in Sun Valley, and I got a call from Rusk out there saying
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- /exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 him since the wartime days. I met him first in 1942 when I went to Teheran with Prime Minister Churchill and went up to Moscow at that time. I have seen him intimately. He's stayed in my house in Sun Valley and he's come
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 And we were doing some good things in science, we had a number of--the Year of the Quiet Sun--we had earlier wound up the International Geophysical year, and I remember during that period I went down to the Antarctic
- , and in fact I had a room downtown but I was out there to get away from it. He was sitting out there with the sun beating down on him and he had his old preacher's suit on and was sweating. I don't know." He said, "You don't have any choice. for, you've got
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- about bluebonnets and wildflowers, and we loved to go on long walks in the woods and still loved the picnics and the cookouts, you know, all of that. there. And loved Barton Springs, sunning and swimming We'd double-date and triple-date very often
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Saturday, October 19,1968,7:30 p.m. at his residence, 140 Sun Way, San JI.ntonio, Texas L: ~ly first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in the year 1941. There was a strike of pecan
- dying in the heat of the day, and found out that we were eating pork and after being served pork, the men were allowed to go down to the PX and eat ice cream afterwards and then march. They got out in the hot sun and we had a few deaths, so right quick
- about coming in when the sun goes down and telling their experiences of the day. Everybody went in a different direction or took a different stand or something, then they'd come in and tell their tale of what they saw and what happened and all, around
- . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Phillips -- II -- 20 P: No, no. Rising Sun was the first resettlement-pacification thing that was started before Harkins
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , obviously. If there ever was, and I assume there was, any enemy troops there, three days before the first landing craft left, the LSTs, they were gone. So it turned into, as so many things did, a massive, totally fruitless, frustrating walk in the sun
Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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- into that sun; it was about four or five o'clock in the afternoon. I got just plain glasses and I bought a pair for Randy and a pair for me. I asked him, "Is Lyndon in town?" He said, "No, he just left, but Sam Houston is." "Yeah? Where's Sam Houston?" Well, he
- on the outskirts of Munich. Munich is located on the outskirts of the Alps. You are standing in Dachau military--they are, not the other things--and the sun rises, and it's red--things you don't forget--and cold. You had no clothes, no nothing, just a jacket