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Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

to me by one of my most valued fI'iends of those days Mr. Richard Kleberg, of the world-famous King Ranch. Mr. KJeberg and his family had been extraordinarily kind to me during my Summer Sessions at the college. I still remember one luncheon party

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

cigars. Edward cigars. And of course he smoked King Here again, any cigar smoker will tell you that ain't the choice of the industry. But it suited him, as long as it burned and produced smoke I guess. And the same thing with cigars. I've seen

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

their physical training instructor. Wow! Talk about King Kong. That's exactly what he looked like: King Kong. And they were out in this jungle, they were crawling over vines and wading streams, and they turned them loose for one whole week. They had to support

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. So then we sold her to the President and then the President sold her on ta king the job, and wharrmo, we announced it! M: Well, in the recent reviews of her work in the press she ' s been highly pra i sed. C: Absolutely. You ought to see her mail

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But Cousin Nat called everybody in the whole wide world his cousin. He was from deep East Texas and sort of a professional East Texan. I remember when the King and Queen, King George and Queen Elizabeth of England, came. There was a big reception--I think

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

: When did he say this to you? A: While I was manager of the station. M: In the 1940s then. A: Yes, and this was up there in a casual conversation. He didn't use these words, but to paraphrase a word, he'd rather be a kingmaker than a king. [He said

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

happened was made known. of course. It is sort of a situation: Well, there were many problems, "The king is dead. long live LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the King's Royal Rifles by a special dispensation and was detailed to man the rocket guns in Hyde Park. I took along with several others there in the U.S. Mission, a course of training with the Home Guards--and qualified as a home guard component

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Which would be used, say, as in the case of the disorders that followed the assassination of Reverend King? V: That's right. B: In a case like Detroit, who from your office

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is it was a combination of two things: one, the natural problems of trying to be king-daddy leader over a group of individuals who don't really want to yield all their autonomy to a king-daddy leader; and, I should think, a very strong feeling among the out-of-the Senate

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Powell -- I -- 17 G: Montgomery, I think. P: Yes, Professor Montgomery, and he was on leave from the university, and they had rented his house. Mr. Hiram A. King was one of the vice presidents

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, I think it's very simple. The Montgomery bus boycott and Dr. King, which popularized the technique that CORE had been using and experimenting with on a smaller scale throughout. And there were those who had heard of CORE vaguely or more acutely

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of going down there every week for a state dinner for some president or king or foreign dignitary. II So Kennedy and Johnson had agreed that we should go anywhere, whether the guys were on Merchant Marine or Post Office Committee. Share the goodies

Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Barbara got in Congress--she didn't do nothing that he didn't visualize--he knew what she'd do. He knew she had an unusual ability to use the king's English and this flair of oratory, and he knew that if she got the opportunity

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

community. G: Who had owned the saloon? Do you recall? R: Yes. G: Did this mean that people would make bootleg whiskey after that? R: Your guess is as good as mine. King Casparis. (Laughter) G: The Redfords didn't make any? R: The Redfords didn't

Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

The intervievler is Joe B. Frantz. 21, 1974. To start, let's just talk about when you first became aware of Lyndon Johnson. R: Down at the King Ranch, when I was visiting Bob Kleberg and his brother Dick Kleberg, and Lyndon Johnson was A. A. for Dick Kleberg. F

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

-- 12 It was no longer a case, as Lord Bryce said, that the publishers were the uncrowned kings of the American democracy. There were about six or seven columnists who were its emperors. Now when the banks failed in the sense that they could not meet

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

invitations. G: Did he ever come close to buying another house instead? V: Well, I remember when Mrs. Johnson was looking, I think that they looked at a house very close over here on King Street. It was owned by Scottie, F. Scott Fitzgerald's daughter

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

we met promptly with Foreign Minister [Panayotis] Pipinelis who took the document for his perusal and for consultation with the Greek Cabinet and the King. As you know, agreement was reached with one or two minor modifications on the document which I

Oral history transcript, Dr. Arthur Harris, interview S-I, 7/10/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)

tied in -H ere your programs ·. i ' }vl th the rest of the of f ice programs and with the depar~1n. e'nt of HEW at that ti me ? 11 ,,.I JI DR. HARRIS: We were \'TO r ) king part i cu. 1ar1 y c 1 o s 0. l y .. ) 'f !~ with the Depart

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

into types, absolutely. There are the State dinners that are the most formal occasions that are given at the White House, and these are to honor the President's high-ranking visitors from abroad--the prime ministers, the kings and the presidents who come

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the inner circle. There was an inner circle in the Senate, which does not exist today in the same degree that it did. It probably exists in every organization. But the chairmen were kings in those days, and the chairmen then were senior Democrats of Russell

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Ms. Bonanno's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: There are one or two items in April [1968], the end of April, I want to ask you about. One is the visit of King Olav of Norway to the White House. Do you remember

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

months later in a word or a deed, And, of course, with Mr. Rayburn, he was king. Mr. Rayburn was so much Mr. Speaker and so many gifts flowed from Mr. Rayburn that when he was around, nobody took over the conversation. F: When he started campaigning

Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

straightening up things either. G: Tell me about the pillow now. 0: Oh, oh, the pillow. Tell me about the pillow. Well, you see, even before king-sized beds and things was in, he always had his beds made long and made his pillows bigger. You notice

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

Johnson, but I knew of Rayburn. shocked at Johnson. We were None of us believed it when Johnson's name surfaced early as a possible vice-presidential candidate--those of us who covered Washington and knew Johnson as a very proud man--he was king

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

also, that a minimum wage law in that small industry would not be easy to achieve. The king of the pecan merchants came to see me a few weeks later and brought his secretary along--probably to make a record of what I said and what the king of pecan

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

did you come to be appointed Postmaster? Q: Ivell, I got mixed up in politics in the campaign of Dick Kleberg, that's east of Dallas. Good farmland. the King Ranch, in a special election that he was running in for Congress representing

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

dividing? W: The big problem with Libya occurred after I left. It was just begin- The problem there apparently was that the old King wasn't ning. really as interested in ruling that country as in some of his religious and other problems, and also he

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the King and Queen at the White House. F: Ickes I think was the only Cabinet member who didn't show up. D: Yes, and he was at Lyndon's. And Lyndon was always making such contacts and developing, and Lady Bird was always his first and very fascinating

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

was in Warm Springs in 1945 when President Roosevelt died, and I was here in Washington when John Kennedy lost his life, but those things stand out more than anything else. Oh, when President Roosevelt invited the King and Queen of England to come

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and had just started seeing people again. The King of Jordan was in town at the same time, which also might have been a factor. I was supposed to see Nasser. He left the day that I suspect that, knowing Nasser, that if he had wanted to see me and he

Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of destroyers to protect him. Well, Mr. Churchill was determined, said that maybe General Eisenhower had better go ahead and make those arrangements. About that time the King of England got wind of these plans and decided that he, too, would like to go

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

versus fixed price supports? C: We had a lot of interest, of course, in Alabama because we were largely agricultural at that time you're talking about and still are largely agricultural. King Cotton had moved out beyond Texas to Arizona and those places

Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

duties consisted of. I never did become interested in it at that time, but, of course, he became, when he got the job with the Congressman from the [King] Ranch--what was his name? G: [Richard] Kleberg. D: Kleberg, yes. And when he got that job

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

,there \-1aS quite a l~t of speech I"fI.3.king and talking,. and Pap. Avery brought the house dO'/In \ihen he said" J'~Touldnft it have been a helluva hardship on the country if I'd been elected!" PB :Nm'i to pick up your story chronologically" fiIr

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Quill -- I -- 2 King Ranch, he kind of handled the social end of the Congress and Lyndon did all the heavy lifting, all the hard work. G: What were you doing there? Q: I was Chief Deputy County Clerk. I was at the stockyard

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is that Johnson was--when Proxmire won a special election out there--he was on the phone with him and he met him at the airport and he treated him like a king, and Proxmire was embarrassing in his praise of Johnson. I mean, I'm not sure Johnson found