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Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

that. Occasionally you would be in the room at night whe n you'd be visiting there and if something came across when he was doing his night reading, he would say, "What do you think about this"--this kind of thing. But I tried to stay out of these things as much as I

Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Kampelman. I had closed my mind to it. One night I got home from a National Symphony concert. After the concert we actually went to the Austrian Embassy, I remember that too. So we didn't get home until something like 1:15. When I got home there were

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that get into the office before anyone has had a chance to pull things together and read the traffic out of Washington and digest it, and stay there until all hours of the night and exhaust everybody really aren't doing the mission or their staff that much

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, "They're on television every night. They're on the evening news. Washington is--[Robert] McNamara and [Cyrus] Vance and [Roswell] Gilpatric and you and [Dean] Rusk--are all working and you read the New York Times and the Washington Post. The country

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)

, during the day, as well as Dorothy Nichols and Herbert Henderson. And then we'd work at night when the office was basically closed after six o'clock, and write the letters. I would at times write as many as eighty letters a night myself, typing them

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

you mentioned was the other crisis that you would like to talk about, there are a couple of things that seem a little incongruous. On television the other night, for example, a history professor at Georgetown, I think, named [Hasham] Sharabi, said

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to them in dealing with these matters. Well, as I see now in papers which I've read that you've provided, papers coming from within the White House, it was clear that as the report was coming to Joe Califano, that he was looking at it from the viewpoint

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Antonio to visit, or he'd come up there with his debate team. I"d ~~ I saw him on an average of once every two months during the year and a half in which he was coaching debate at Sam Houston in Houston. As you'll recall if you've read the history

Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

available for everybody [was enacted] then, generally, every . body that· was for 1aw and order accepted .it, and .we: went from there. . ,. ,. B: Was it that easy? It seems to be, just.from what I recall of reading the papers at the time. Atlanta

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

representative, because they didn't want to take any chance on him not being elected. So Avery Dowell became ill and twelve of the leaders in McKinney asked me if I'd come to Dudley Perkins' office one night, and we did. I was the only young man there; the other

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

/show/loh/oh (Interruption) G: You hinted at a rather interesting point earlier. If I read you right, you said that the question of press relations was in some ways a reflection of what can be called a generation gap back in the states. Z: Well, I

Oral history transcript, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

, in fact only one with President Johnson. the day itself. I would like for Mrs. Hurd now to tell me about She was just telling me that it was a disturbing day in many ways, and I will let her say why. H: Well, the disturbing day started the night before

Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was superb at reading the moods. He was so much like Melville Grosvenor here, he reminded me very much--not necessarily in the way the mind works but the way the heart works, the moods. Of course I've worked very closely with Dr. Grosvenor over the years

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Ben B. Lindsey, the juvenile court judge. He became the most famous juvenile judge in the world, and he was always in a controversial position. F: My early memories-- C: You must have read his Companionate Marriage. F: Yes, and the local

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the Senate--and at the time when Sam Rayburn was Speaker. Do you recall what you knew or had heard of Lyndon Johnson when you first came into Congress? A: Yes. I did not know him, of course, but I knew of him. I knew of him by reputation and having read

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the message. The President went over--I don't know how many drafts were produced. The President went over many of them. I think he virtually never talked to Goodwin directly. Valenti and I dealt with Goodwin. Moyers. On the night before the State of the Union

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Now, if I read you right, what you're saying is that these men, and men like them, formed the cadre who organized and directed the Am I reading you properly on this? insurgency. ~I: That's right. G: Now, most authorities waul d agree with that, I

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, there will probably be another conference call. read-out. We'll discuss what might come up and we receive a In the meantime, we're in touch with each other on an hourly basis and if necessary all night long. M: So you don't get at cross purposes. D: No; quite

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was in in high school, and, of course, the Longhorn Band in those days traveled by train to most of the football games we attended, but a cross-country trip, spending a couple of nights on the train--that's what it took then--was something new. I 3 LBJ

Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Capitol in the morning in the 7:30 to 8:30 range, and they left here in the 9:30 to 10:30 range at night. They were here, Senator Russell and I believe Senator Johnson, every Saturday and most Sundays. the Senate. There has been a change in Now we find

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he's come from something he never expected to raise his hand. (Laughter) CTJ: Oh, Lordy, Lordy, I'll raise both of mine. LB: Bird and I were talking about that the other night when I was saying how beautiful Austin was here, and she was talking

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been where it was. H: I must have met him, yes. Because when he ran for Congress, the night before election -- late afternoon before election -- Aubrey Williams called me and said, IICan you raise five hundred dollars in New York? We have no money

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

campaigns. B: Did you have anything to do with other campaign mechanics like this group I've read about, the five o'clock club, or the Department of Dirty Tricks, to think up ways to bedevil the opposition? R: No. That was a childish sort of operation

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

had almost an hour's conference with the President on the night of the twenty-third. M: The plane turned back, you were told what happened, and you returned to Washington then? H: Right. M: Johnson, meanwhile, with Mrs. Kennedy and the rest

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 s: You know, you read it carefully, it wasn't libelous, but it looked like

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, Bill Manchester wrote in his book--he got carried away and wrote that it was a Bible that Kennedy often read at night while he was making trips. He would read this Bible at night before he would turn out his lights, Manchester said. I later tracked

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or drink anything except the problems he has as majority leader. He won't relax." That was on a Friday night. On Sunday morning we picked up the paper and read that over the \'Jeekend he had had his heart attack. F: Did'Mr. Truman ever express himself

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? T: She was a very unusual woman. She liked to read, and she had a house full of books. G: Was she active in the community? T: Yes. Of course, I was just a child. I don't know too much about her. I think she entered into politics. G: What kind

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about whether to accept one or the other; yet any deviation from LBJ's particular formulation was unacceptable to LBJ. I'll tell the story later how we finally came out. At the beginning, during that week before the convention, before the Sunday night

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Party in 1956? P: In 1956? No, I wasn't in on that. (Laughter) I've heard enough about it. M: Sounds almost as if you're ,happy you weren't. P: I sure am. That was a trauma. (Laughter) Judge Wilson, who died here last Friday night

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Well, read that little story there. G: You're referring to the story here that's in the Texas Highway Department magazine. W: I met him right there; that's the first day I met him. If you read that story, you'd kind of find out what it was all about

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

night and I nearly all night, because I think we reached New York and docked shortly after 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

something ready in a package"--at that time, and then of course the assassination just floored all of us for a while. G: Was there something that President Kennedy had read I wonder, like I ' v e heard that he read Night Comes to the Cumberlands

Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. I received a call on the fifteenth of February, 1967, at six o'clock at night; the operator said, "The White House is calling," and I almost dropped LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the day that he was leaving or the day before he was leaving--he nearly always flew in the daytime, he didn't like to fly at night. As an aside, I was rather startled when I was in the office, never having been around an office like this before, where

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the helicopter, and we didn't know how it would do, and actually, it did real good, but we made that whole trip. In any event-G: You were there primarily to maintain-- N: Well, I was the crew chief on the helicopter, yes, and every night I would look

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the day would bring because in fact there was night reading to be gone through, and there were messages that had come up from the National Security Council, and there were telephone calls coming in, and the log was still in existence. And yet somehow you

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, this is where your memory can go wrong. I know I remember her talking a whole lot about him, particularly after we'd gone to bed, chatting at night about Lyndon. I think she did say that to me, and possibly she said it to my mother and father, because she

Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

in the sand, afrajd they would be robbed that night, and the next morning they had to dig it up. But the total amount wouldn't have run over fifty dollars. B: What did they get scared about, do you know? C: They were afraid of tramps and hijackers

Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: When did you begin to have some idea that someone named Lyndon Johnson was in the world? M: In my book--did you read my book? F: Yes. M: I said he was going to be President. Oh, I knew Lyndon and Mrs. Johnson-- as I said before, Sam Rayburn