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Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Bundy, Walter Jenkins were with him. F: You had a regular White House pass or EOB pass or something like that? R: You had no difficulty in getting in? In those days, that's right. up that night. And we met in the EOB elevator going LBJ
LBJ and RFK; LBJ’s activities the night of November 22, 1963; LBJ’s first days as President; JFK’s staff; the transition; Jacqueline Kennedy; LBJ in retirement

Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

normally at a night speaking where he would spend the night and take off the next morning maybe for some other area. F: Did you spend the night there or would you be busy getting to the first place the next day? P: Well, I would not spend the night

Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Let's talk some more about the Johnson treatment and his ability to persuade people . W: I think one thing--and I saw this often, if I can think of explicits--is that he could read people almost on meeting them . Therefore it's almost as though he

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the President's night reading a draft of how I would treat it and why I would treat it the way I decided to treat it. I thought that was an enormously difficult task for a physician to write for a "layman" concerning why you decided to do it one [way]. He said

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

materials of large corporate executives, their mail is a problem. We all know instances both in and out of govern ment where a letter has been released bearing the signature of an important man and he has never bothered to read it. I honestly cannot

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

it is a good friend of mine, Ralph A1bertazzi e. M: Albertazzie. Did you read the article in yesterday's Austin American? C: No, I didn't see that. M: I've got a copy. C: My wife's got a copy of it; she told me about it last night, but I'll leave

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, maybe grandchildren sometime. See what I mean? No soap. I was going to obligate it to me someway maybe, off the record. No, it isn't either. You've read it [the speech]? G: Yes. J: What do you think about it? G: I think it's a good speech. J

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

state for all intents and purposes. I had read about Mr. Johnson and first met him in 1948 in his campaign for the Senate. I was very much interested in that ca'mpaign, very strong for Mr. Johnson. We moved to Longview. Through Baile y Sheppard, who

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the job of waking up Ambassador Lodge at nine-thirty in the evening and telling him that. He was grumpy at first: "Why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?" And I said, "Well, sir, it's a telegram from the President with instructions about

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

theme that might be injected . If you thought you had some- thing that was really a lot better than you'd written the night before for your overnighter, we'd call in and dictate a new lead . Virtually never dictated a complete new story during
with LBJ; San Antonio leaders; advance work; oil support; Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ and Coke Stevenson; the Taft-Hartley issue; LBJ's treatment of staff; women in campaign; spending nights at Dillman Street at time of the election; impressions of frenzied

Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

think he was down there. I never heard he was down there. I read some of this--I never heard that he was down there. There were others that I heard were down there, but I don't know that they were. I saw one or two friends down there. G: Who did you see
family; Owens with the Johnsons at the Driskill Hotel in Austin the night of the 1964 presidential election.

Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

directly to Vietnam. The other portion of them in August of 1964 were told to report to Washington to learn Vietnamese, to think and read and study Vietnam, to focus on the problem of the war for approximately one year's training, which included a stint

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

innovations, so he decided that the symposiums must be in it its name. Last night was the end of the first of the Flair Symposia - one that was dedicated to discovering, predicting and analyzing "the future of the printed word." I have lived by the printed

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

much, that all credit was due to me for raising the girls. That's not so, but the compelling nature of his job did mean that he spent very little time with them, although when I read his letters to his 2 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HORWITZ -- I -- 9 M: Said the cue again? H: So he went up and read his paragraph again. Once again Church didn't get up, and once again O'Nahoney said, "This is so important I will have to repeat

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

months after he was out of the presidency. But I spent many nights there. I was in Washington on many occasions for different purposes. Occasionally it was because he had gotten me involved in some health committee. For example, he placed me on the Heart

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org the press; ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] she would read it at her committee meetings; More on LBJ Library oral histories: -12 http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wanted it that way, Jim,” which I didn't of course. Nobody else in Texas did. I was told second hand after I moved to Washington--but coming from very responsible sources--that the night after Jack Kennedy was buried there was a meeting at a big home

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Birdwell -- III -- 8 over there, and by that time we had had time to read and study some

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

know about it until I read about it in Evans and Novak, and I don't believe anything they 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, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the commitments already made while I was planning for additional appearances in the future . The Senator called one night, and he was using a Convair, a twin-engine Convair . He called one night and said, "I just talked to C . R . Smith, and he wants me

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there. visited some classes and had a tutor. I was a graduate student. I read English literature. I I wasn't looking for credits, so I could do what I \-Janted. F: Then did you come back to New York? l: I came back to New York. I was interested

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

. The speech had been written and he asked Claude Wild to go down there and read it. And Claude did. There was also a radio broadcast from Luling on that particular Friday night. B: That was over WOAI? L: Over KNOW, I guess. B: Local station. L

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

have been secretaries to Mr. Justice Holmes. I was reading about it in Dean Acheson the other night. [I don't know] whether we find a hero in the old man and do not have the capacity for adulation that is demanded of presidents. Dean Acheson had his
LBJ's interests in Sputnik and civil rights; activities at the LBJ Ranch the night of the Sputnik launch; Corcoran's relationship with FDR; the 1936 Minimum Wage Bill; Corcoran's preference for a career in law rather than politics; expectations

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

present. In the case of Kennedy and Johnson, there was easy access day or night on the part of a half dozen of the key people. So the national committee is an entity for filing purposes and other purposes and perhaps funneling fund purposes. That's over
in the White House as the most rewarding time of his life; why O'Brien never ran for elected office; the role of women in the 1960 and 1964 presidential campaigns; Lady Bird Johnson's 1964 whistle stop tour through the South; the excitement of election night

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

organization and that's the way it should be. G: Was there anyone following the Nixon campaign or was it simply a matter of reading about it in the press? Did you have anyone--? O: At this stage, we did not have people in place that I recall. G: Later did

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at that goddamned:Herald-Tribune for running that story! F: He was already reading it before it appeared! W: He was reading it and thinking, they're doing to me!" 11 Those dirty bastards! Look what And because he was getting really mad as could be at the situation

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was then either Cy [Cyrus] Vance's special assistant or general counsel to the army. That was September 1962. We got into this--I shouldn't say we, I got into it on the Saturday before the Sunday night in which the rioting really hit its peak. Mr. [Robert

Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

." And he read me the note. The note was a handwritten note from Kermit Gordon saying, "Dear Mr. President: I promised to close the books Thursday night, and tonight I did close them. But your boy, Manny Cohen, called me and said he needs another quarter

Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Originally this was rumored in January in the New York Times I know particularly. Did someone leak it along the way? S: Apparently someone did, because I didn't know anything about it. F: You mean you read about it, too! S: Yes, I read about it, too

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

thing we did- you might try to find this in Shriver 's fil.es--we got up a list that .f irst · night of books and magazines and ali kinds of things that we suggested Shriver start reading immediately. on tha~ list, not just Oh, there might have been

Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to. Because the convention was going to be the deciding factor anyway; the convention could overrule the recommendation of the committee anyway. So that night they did. G: Who was--was there any one person who was sort of leading Stevenson's side

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gorman -- I -- 9 I can't do both things at the same time. I've got to tour the state hospitals first; I've got to find out. I've got to do a hell of a lot of reading, and it's got to be at night and weekends; I don't have time to do

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the bombings and things that we were doing, it was middle of the night, our time, when they'd come back from bombing, and it seemed to me he was always kind of prayerful about things until he heard that they were back. I would consider him a deeply religious

Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of a relationship I just now looked over some of the correspondence that I have since I took over this office when I retired. Then I read it a~ain, and I'm getting more and more inspiration after reading it. M: Well, good. D: And how could I say no! M: I

Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? E: I don't know except read. G: What did she read? E: I don't really know. G: Did she work on the newspaper at all or write or edit a newspaper at What kind of books? I didn't pay that much attention. any time? E: I don't know. did. Since

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for a doctor in San Antonio after I had left the Quartermaster Corps in San Antonio. I then came back to Washington and worked for the International Monetary Fund for a while. I had taken night courses throughout this time in Washington, from the time I had

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the second primary night as on the E: general election night. Yes, I think it did play quite a good deal. Then, of course, that's the election campaign that ended up with the disputed vote count and the ruckus at the certification meeting, and the court

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, that doesn't explain why he went out in the woods in the first place. M: Not because of a political belief, believe me. vinced of. This much I am con- I've read too many translations of diaries. That little fellow coming from the North wasn't doing

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Act? J: I can recall the details of the close vote, but not from his point of view. I can recall it primarily because I was on the Capitol police force, and we were trying to police the Capitol that night of that vote, and it was an impossible job

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