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Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of real good They didn't need any more, but Tom's idea of how you handle a case like this was to get a million good lawyers and then something would come out of it. That's not my experience. So I went over and we worked all afternoon, all night

Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Texas on adjoining farms. They had nine children, too, so I had nine double cousins. You may have read recently--this is off the subject--but about a little girl, a baby girl, that was kidnapped up here on the lakes. I think it was Johnson Lake

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

that normally the cattle, the farmers' cattle, grazed for free. So there was a great conflict that took place there, and the farmers were out at night cutting those fences. The ranchers had their fence riders and they had shootings from time to time. But bad

Oral history transcript, Elaine Fischesser and Ellen Taylor Cooper, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1967, by Douglass Cater (Item)

with a book in her hand and either dried figs or . dried peaches or dried apricots over on the side, munching . them. That was very characteristic. She was very fond of reading and at a very early age was reading books that you would not .expect a person
Mrs. Fischesser first encounters Lady Bird; Lady Bird's Aunt Effie; Lady Bird's love of reading; Mrs. Fischesser's first encounter with LBJ; Mrs. Cooper's first encounter with Lady Bird; Nettie Mason Patillo; Mrs. Cooper's first encounter with LBJ

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it . thinking about it, I don't believe so . And Maybe it could be read into it, but I don't think it was a--never in my consciousness was it a conscious decision or discussion . Now certainly Johnson's behavior there was very open and direct and he

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of their lawyers who I think did some work for the Johnsons. And John Connally became a member of that law firm for a time, and John did some law work. So starting in 1944 most of my representation, as I told you the other day, was to read [speeches] and confer

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Georgetown Law School at night. just gotten out of the navy. I started in 1961 and I had I didn't know anybody in Washington. One night at the law school after about three weeks, a fellow who always sat behind me in the contracts class, who was all duded

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

just popped out of the wall and then the hordes of friends and people that were reading in the newspaper, they made a--they had a news release and announced this program. Then everybody just came in. But this organized man would have the mail on his

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

proceeded to do that. of the legislative history. One of my assignments was to read all The Tidelands Act had been subject of a filibuster-B: That's a lot of material. P: I read thousands of pages. By and large, the disposition of the mud lumps

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

a very interesting file. spent last night reading your file, your dossier." He left it there. I And that's all. He said, "Very interesting," and walked away or somebody else came up. You know, to have the president of the United States say, "I spent

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on. This was generally the function. We reproduced tapes and placed them in the archives and so on. As time went on, though, he wanted more things. He wanted to be able to read his speech while looking at the audience, and so we turned to the philosophy of the 4 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of them for most of his life, at least until the very late end of it. In his eighties he had some setbacks. G: I've noticed in reading some of his letters that he was a good writer. He had a good writing style and expressed himself well. J: Well
. Johnson's family's love of reading; Aunt Effie Pattillo; Mr. Taylor's store; the Taylor home in Karnack, Texas; Mr. Taylor putting people to work during the Depression; Mr. Taylor's physical appearance; Mr. Taylor's love of Karnack and the Caddo Lake area

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

or not. I'm not sure at that moment whether I think we probably did. But he'd talked in this statement about the "drums of hate beating louder and louder and now they have done it." He didn't say right-wingers, but you couldn't read the statement and get

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

difficult it was to sleep that night because of the difference in time zones between Hawaii and where we had left, but there was nothing exceptional or unusual in Hawaii. Just everything went according to plan. We were accompanied by a press plane

Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on one side of the table probably and she on the other and he read the dispatches and the reports that he had to become acquainted with. hower I don't know. Now, President Eisen- I don't think he often worked at night, but President Johnson, my

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

something wrong. mean, this elephant thing just got me that night. I Then I began to look around, and of course, the Cambodians at that time--I'd read in the newspapers or seen pictures of them mounted on Coca-Cola trucks going out to the battlefield

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this?" or "Get that fellow up here and talk to him for awhile." F: I was there that night, incidentally, and I remember that I thought your patter was quite effective. A: Did Cactus feed you some of that? He was giving me some of his lines and telling me who

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

night so I don't think--I doubt if we ever stayed overnight. I mean even going to California, we went, I remember going to California and we went to Los Angeles. I don't know which year we did that or what trip that was in. G: I think it was 1966. C

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have read, they being light humor pieces and drama criticism . BA : That's really why I asked the question . later, I might as well ask it now . BE : I was going to ask it Does the President's reading and his general knowledge go beyond public
Biographical information; TIME & A TICKET; LBJ's remarks regarding Vietnam; LBJ's reading and general knowledge; speech writing and the staff; "cussers/doubters/nervous-nellies;" consumer interest information; speech schedule put out on Fridays

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

as a legislative leader. I remember LBJ very vividly that night.. me, of course. He paid no attention to He was polite; he was tall, I remarked about his tallness; he was well turned out, well-dressed. He looked tired and busy, as though he had had a good

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

day and night for about six weeks; I was a very new man--I had been in the job about four months--and I'd tried to learn about it, but I really did learn as I prepared for those hearings. It's like studying for an exam, for the exam of your life, you

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? Do you think his mother had anything to do with it, or his Uncle George? Did he ever talk about his own experiences debating in college or anything of this nature? L: No. I know, of course, that he did. Looking back afterwards, we've all read

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

that we might get picked off. J: I've read that the project was faced with mixed emotions from the black leaders, in fact, that Roy Wilkins had opposed it and Martin Luther King had supported it. Do you remember anything about those emotions

Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the hangar, do all our work at night and have it all ready in the morning. But during the morning we would have to be met probably once for fuel, so they would get fuel out to us in trucks in fifty-gallon drums. Of course, if you've been in this business

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

against the whole bill, that'll get the guys on the committee mad as hell at them and we'll get a stronger bill. Let them go." The other thing that struck me about this day was that night. I believe this was the night because Gusty's was the restaurant. I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

didn't want to be the floor manager. Finally, after a time, we talked Peter Rodino into being the floor manager. But Johnson's commitment to that, if you want an example of it, I remember the night King was shot. I was in the White House. He [President

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

competitive type Of course, all of them being associated with politicians, the leaders of the Little Congress were, you know, 'gung ho' too. I remember the night that Lyndon was elected speaker of the Little Congress. quite an occasion. It was held

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for the President I think to go into one of these tantrums you read about, but I never found it. I've always been very careful talking in public about this ever since Jack Valenti's famous speech in Boston where he "sleeps a little better at night," but I've always

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

together. boy~ a friend of mine. A young Jewish and a few others, got about eight or ten yards of black crepe and we climbed up on the roof of an adjacent building and draped this fiery cross in black crepe the night after they had tarred and feathered

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and involved going down to the operational training center and going through the whole bit, from night landings and safe-picking [onJ up. G: Did you get your wings? C: I don't know what I got, but I had an awfully good time. I believe I passed the course

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but that frequently existed for schools in those days. For example, a very large group of students was suspended from school for a few days because they had attended a traveling show on Wednesday night. The school and the churches and the homes were the centers

Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on that proposition of Judge Davidson getting that, that was what . . . Well, at any rate, it started out after the Fort Worth convention, and I don't know whether you've read the Court of Civil Appeals opinion in that case or not. Well, that describes Fort Worth

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

--the road was full of us in those days going to Washington--and went as far as Roanoke. This again is sort of typical of that time. We spent the night in a tourist home. There were lots of rather nice-looking old homes, usually Victorian with white

Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and working relationship, and that although he was sort of on the periphery, Ted Kennedy did, too, but that something in the chemistry between Bobby and Lyndon was always abrasive . 0: I suppose from what you read now . I don't know if it was before . You

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and started reading it and he had inserted it in the Record the previous day. Those were the kinds of things he did I could never quite understand. It was also at that session that he told me--I think it appeared in our book, I'm not sure--that his economic

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that. B: July 18? C: Yes, but I think the night of the seventeenth-- G: Yes, it must have been the seventeenth. C: He got on the phone immediately. But what I can't really remember is--I guess there are no papers, but I know Morse, [George] Meany

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy- -III- -4 which he could read early in the morning or late at night, he wru ld at least read the whole memorandum
Houston Johnson; LBJ’s ability to mimic and read people; Big Ed Johnson; LBJ’s views toward women.

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

-time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

review the bills and in the early years, I would write an explanation of each one of them. Later on I just read them, got to know them, and marked the bad ones in my opinion and would tell the committee about those. The committee took its job seriously

Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

there could be nothing derogatory about a person--but we had to give very logical reasons why such and such was true or there couldn't be any arguments. They wouldn't allow it. So they made us think, and made us study, and made us read. M: What did you

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