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Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

knowledge of him was almost like any, I suppose, average, intelligent man, reading the papers and being aware of him. I'd followed his career in Texas, but peculiarly enough until that afternoon, I really had never seen him in person and surely had never

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

President, sent him a copy of the bill, complimented him on his vision and having seen the merits of it. I got a very nice letter back from him on May 3, 1962, in which he says [Mr. Marks reads from the letter]: your note. "Thanks for You have good

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

days you could enter the law school with two years of academic work. I was in and out of school some; worked in the state night watchman. departments, and as a I finally finished my law course in January, 1931, got my license in February and my

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Then in 1960, early in the year, I got a call from him one day, and he said he was going to be some place in Ohio, nearby, Would 1 have was going to come into Pittsburgh and stay all night

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Califano -- XVI -- 3 emergency, get the planes ready. And Cross told him everything was ready; they were ready to leave immediately. Then, there ensued over the night a whole series of calls from the President to me, and back and forth

Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. He had been hauled in as a result of the police raids that night, and he wanted assurance that I was trying to get him into America. I showed that message to Mr. Johnson, and shortly afterwards he was complaining that I wasn't working hard enough

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and it was quite a bit of copy on it and taken in to the Government Printing Office and fortunately they have a staff that goes day and night. There is one section there that I understand can proof-read Gone With the Wind in twenty minutes. And so you know the size

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But it was specifically stated by Russell at that meeting that any senator could speak as long as he wanted to. The day I started that long speech--I started about nine o'clock at night I believe--shortly after lunch that day I went to Russell and I told him, "You know

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would have been terribly important, and all the people who saw the moving lips and nothing come out of it. There is such a thing as doing your job too well sometimes. Oh, let me tell you one other thing. Late that night, in front of the Waldorf, we were
invited to the Library dedication; LBJ reading the news ticker in his office; Tony Sargent; traveling on Air Force One; Liz Carpenter’s humor group and Ben Wattenberg; LBJ’s desire to control the press in Austin; Luci’s engagement announcement; an incident

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

day for the President. It was about seven-thirty or a quarter to eight at night, and he and I sat very quietly. His eyes were red-rimmed. I remember that. He had been under a tremendous strain, tremendous pressure. The Filipino mess boy who comes out

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

said . telephone number in my room . [Sam Rayburn] Here's my private And have him contact me ." That night I went to Chasen's Restaurant . I got in touch with Bobby--I can't think of his last name right now--who was Kennedy's chauffeur

Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the night, he got this helicopte r, and he res -:ued all thes e people, brought the:m to the ral1.ch, aYJ.d there we were serving breakfast. It just turned out to be a gay affair in the lnidst of something very dcatructive. It was things like

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you sent me. G: I see it's not here. K: No, it isn't. But I was there. It was a few days afterward. Jack Valenti saw me in the hall, and it was the first time we had met. He had read all about my partner and myself. My partner was with me

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at that particular time. One of the most exhaustive hearings for me occurred one night with Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who was then chairman of the District Committee. He invited only a few of us as witnesses, including Tom Fletcher, the deputy mayor

Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have done. G: Because I thought I Walter said no, that's what Johnson never told me that, but I sensed it. I gather that Walter could read Johnson as well as anyone, in terms of what he really wanted and what ought to be done. H: It really

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. The park was the Blue and Gray, and the hotel the Lee-Grant. I was always an intensely political animal and so was my father, who was a Rumanian immigrant who could scarcely read and write. But the way I met Dick Russell was as follows: I was probably

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and that $10 a day wasn't hay back in those days of depression. Anyway, Lyndon was the same age. everything I read and heard about him I liked. I didn't know him then but And certainly we had a common bond being young and in politics and trying to get

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

idea. They'd come down about five o'clock; we'd eat dinner and have that [talk] and he'd fly back that same night. They had this little air force jet, takes about thirty minutes to get back up there. T: All this suggests that you had a fairly close

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

approach. I think that was an extremely important point because, at that time, I had much advice from all over that he couldn't possibly return to the active life of majority leader, which he worked at, as you well know, morning, noon and night. So I guess

Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, because that was about when the really strong dissent was beginning here in this country and was getting in the papers. The troops were reading this. They were hearing about it back home; and they were just wondering how much support they had back here

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the train in Fort Worth, and I caught the railroad train and rode all Austin about five-thirty in the morning. it. I believe it was a Katy. ~ight and got into The Night Owl they called And I took a taxi, which cost fifteen cents, to take me from

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and didn't get it, people would read it as no support for the war, and no leadership. [J. Ward] Keener, who was then the head of the [B.F.] Goodrich [Company]--and [William Beverly] Bev Murphy [who] was the head of Campbell's Soup said they were for a tax

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the Fort Worth Club. I wrote my story, and about three o'clock in the morning I got a phone call, and it was from Lyndon Johnson. And he said, "I'm down in the lobby. read the Dallas News and I want to thank you." I've just I said, "For what?" He

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

read this by the time he and I met in the wee hours of that morning concerning my continuance. But it was the basic document that, once I stayed aboard, we tried to follow. G: The memo was submitted before you had your meeting with him, is that right

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

argument to the President, or if I laid out his argument, I'd call him up and read what I had written to him. And whenever they felt strongly enough, the President would see them, or I'd suggest that he see him. If there were any exceptions at all

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, because some of the material which is actually read is put in small type because it is printed. So we had to devise a ruler of our own with which we could count the lines of one kind of type and count other lines in another kind of type, and equate them

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

animal. He wanted to do so much, and there were only certain bounds that he could move in. I think for a man with his background as Senate Majority Leader, the job was too confining. Although I didn't personally experience his Senate days, I had read

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that took place several years after we were married. We were down at White Sulphur Springs. We got in the car and drove all the way back to Washington at some ridiculous hour of the night, as I recall, because Lyndon--I just can't quite express it, and so I

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

don't know when in the late fifties, 1957/58/59, I had traveled out west with Nixon, and late one night at the Denver airport there weren't but four or five reporters with him and he invited us into one of the airport rooms while we waited for the plane

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. And I was with him at the head table when he spoke in Birmingham, and I believe carried him back to the airport that night, along with one other person. That was a short time before I ran for governor in 1958. But this was before 1956, because I

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

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Desautels -- I -- 5 he should request of them. Then Monday night I'd prepare that, and if he had left the office I'd take it up to his night reading table in the Mansion. You

Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

, very much on the level with his students. EG: Was he humorous? LH: We always looked forward to that class. discussing the Mutt and Jeff cartoons. He began his classes by I am sorry to say that I never read anything but Mutt and Jeff in the funny

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

around it. You see that Then the first person that's buried in there was the founder of Baylor University, [LBJ's] grandfather. It's a most interesting thing, and people just read those epitaphs on the monuments. that; I did myself. They spend a lot
; reading the Congressional Record.

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

o'clock in the morning, and he required reading of the morning newspaper before you could go into his class. If he called on you. you had to name the topic. then he would call on someone else and ask how that was affecting America or how it would

Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the rescue organization out by setting a real skillful ambush for them. We had very, very poor success in conducting ambushes. G: Now, this is basically in l962. P: Yes, it was. G: And yet, I have read several accounts, including communist sources, which

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

during the day and then at night when he retires the staff goes to work on the next day. get any sleep! So they never But we took off and Air Force One had not been airborne more than--oh, I would imagine--about an hour when I got a summons from
when talking to foreign dignitaries; LBJ’s ability to read or hear vast amounts of information and retain it; LBJ’s treatment of staff; Food for Peace and giving wheat to India while negotiating for agricultural reform; B.K. Nehru; how LBJ hid his true

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Not where I ever was with him, no. In fact, we went one night to the Folies Bergère and he didn't like it. I that were with him. group. I think it was Sam Plyler and The whole group was there; we all went as a But I think that the three of us left

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on it. And that night he called me in Baltimore and said, "Your papers are on the "'lay to Holabird. You can pick them up in the morning and report"--somewhere there in Maryland, I've forgotten where--"and be out of the army tomorrow." So that was the contact I had

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

all night long, and we'd, oh, three or four in the morning gather downstairs and have breakfast. The dining room was open, you know, all night long. He would use what he had to great advantage. He knew the arts of 3 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

back and forth with him. He was the janitor of the school. TG: I heard stories that he also tried to teach the janitor to read English? DG: I don't doubt it, because he did talk many times with him. And we knew that the old man Tomás Coronado didn't

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