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- , there isn't any subject under the sun that doesn't fall upon the President's desk to be solved. There's no question that deals with the people--and it's the kind of increase in activity that just can't be helped. had to encompass more and more. It's like
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- can still shut my eyes and see it, [is of] him paddling up and down that pool out there at 4040 on a raft and Juanita walking back and forth taking dictation . While he got his recreation Juanita got a walk in the sun . G: Well- LBJ Presidential
- time there's a tragedy, the cranks and those people who just want a day in the sun? W: Not as much as we expected. Very little. Very, very little. Some depositions were taken that I'm sure were of crank type, you know, but in the first place we had
- , that room was left open--unoccupied. fearful that The sun Everybody was woulc--because of the symbolism that it had been i~ occu?ied ~y Sheroa.~ Adams--somehow or another take one member of the sta== or a~d stick then on top of the others. =o=~:-£i7e
- minute was utilized. was keeping him in shirts. Now, one of the logistics, of course, You can imagine how you would wilt down a shirt. M: You can do that in an hour or so. W: Oh, absolutely, in the hot sun. So we had quite a logistics problem
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz
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- a group of men, and all over the city they pulled down billboards so that when the sun came up the next morning every Lyndon's boy, Jake . si gn in Austin ha d disappeared. F: They were good at t hat. In my nei ghb orhood inl964, mine was about th e
- years standing, made an appointment to go to Bonham and interview him. He had to wait ten days until Rayburn was well enough to see him. So Rayburn was lying on a cot out on the back porch, the sun porch, when the tape recorder was going. Rags got
- . Plus it protected you from the sun. like all the rest of them, which I tried to do. I thought, "I don't want to get shot." And then you looked We were all bigger, but I tried to look as much like them as I could, even to the point of carrying
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- since, in my opinion: Jim Rowe and Libby, his wife, Tom Corcoran, for ages Ben Cohen. Every one who were old FDR people, their friendship remained. The luster was somewhat off. I think they will all remember it as their special day in the sun. Those
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and the tremendous transfer-payments we have. So that I would say that it's entirely possible that we will never successfully rectify the evils of the unemployment insurance system because it's somewhat like the fable of the hole in the roof. When the sun is shining
- thing, if it hadn't have been for the girls in his class, a lot of times he'd have never made it through. But he could get around; he could talk you into anything and get you to do anything under the shining sun when you knew very well that it wasn't
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- certainly did cooperate with the institution because you don't become Cherry Blossom Princess to see the sun set on the empire, so to speak. I mean you wouldn't take a public assignment or honor like that if you didn't expect to do some penance
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- activities with that of Mr. Johnson and the events that occurred during his time. You began your news career with the Chicago Sun Times in 1948 and moved into broadcasting in 1950. You went with Station WNBQ, the NBC station in Chicago. From 1950 to 1965 you
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of the city then maybe wasn't more than thirty thousand--that could be checked on--it wasn't a large city. Sun, I remember. The newspaper \'IaS the San Bernardino And it's in the citrus area, a very nice town. Of course 1 ike all the towns around Los
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- have thought of ourselves as a just nation ... proud of the fact that we have been a beacon to struggling peoples. wonder! Did the bomb change us! Now, I Are we unable to live in the nuclear age and retain our virtue? We have the power of the sun
- out your transfer. You go down and start shooting because we've got these big moon shots coming up," or sun shots or something. So this began a series of commuting between Canaveral for shoot; fly back to Washington that night with the raw film
- no, not another White House conference! We've had so many White House conferences under the sun. Nothing can come of it. Everybody is going to recommend a White House conference, all the task forces. It's just no good." And our first typed version, which I
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- , but I think it was primarily Justice. I don't remember any problems. F: Did you work on gun control ,at all? S: I did. F: Tell me a little background on that. S: Well, you know gun control was one of those bills sort of like the sun and the moon
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- were faced with people who couldn't care less. They were going to have their moment in the sun. From the outset, platform debate and motions offered caused considerable delay. At the end of all this and you finally had a nominee for president and vice
- , I think to this day, has many people, particularly women, that just think the sun rose and set on the man. And there were people in the Kennedy Administration who felt very deeply about the man. And I think they turned to--and everybody just tried
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . And usually the further up he went, the further down he went, too. He actually preferred Nice and the Riviera. It's resort country; he could lie out in the sun. That was more of the sort of thing he liked to do. G: As long as you're talking about France, any