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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Johnson -- XXXVI -- 2 M: Absolutely. How about any of the people around him? Do you know that any of the people around him were pushing him or hoping that he would--that lightening would strike? J: I think
  • of Mary Rather's brother and sister-in-law and Rather's efforts to care for their children; Juanita Roberts; Oklahoma Senator Bob Kerr; LBJ's view about alcohol; Averell Harriman; Estes Kefauver and his speech in Waxahachie, Texas; Christmas Eve at LBJ's
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , were Pat Blair in the Business School; Millard Ruud in the Law School; Jack Otis, the dean of Social Work; Steve McDonald in Economics; Bob Divine in History; Emmette Redford in Government; and myself. So. . . . M: Any significance in the discipline
  • , Ralph Huitt, Charles Schultze, Bob Wood, David Truman, Gardner Ackley, David Bell, and Willard Wirtz; Frank Erwin’s suggestions: Otis Singletary, Dean Rusk, and Eric Goldman; specifications that candidates be academically respectable, have government
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • were, as I look back now, quite ungracious in many of the things they did to him. M: The Kennedy people, not the Kennedys? s: Not Jack Kennedy, but the others. Bob Kennedy and Ethel--oh, they used to--God, I was one of the original Hickory Hill
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it to find Bob Knudsen, Mrs. Johnson's photographer, with two suitcases in hand. I asked, "Bob, what are you doing here?" He said, "Liz sent me over. sa~d, She wants me to chaperone you." "But," I said, "we're already chaperoned." "Well," he said, "she
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was not, I hope, a narrow-minded political affiliation. When I was on these committees, they were inevitably bipartisan committees and had been sure that that would be so. About that time I was also serving with some State Department committees in a couple
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • serious question on the part of some members of the administration regarding any movement of this extent. I hope I'm not recalling this in the context of some other activity. But I think there was an up-front State Department concern. My recollection
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • were there with some other friends of the President. I remember specifically Jay Smith was there--he used to be an Austin automobile dealer--and old Bob Present, who is the chairman of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't seek to avoid confrontations. with Bob Kerr. It was no Marquis of Queensberry Bob Kerr was solid. I don't know how you used to hire a combatant in the olden days in a war. Senator Kerr was certainly not for hire, but if you identified
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • [in which] [Averell] Harriman and [Roger] Hilsman are accused of having conducted an end run around the administration, instructing Lodge that "If you can't separate him from Nhu, I guess there's no hope for it." And of course everybody knew that you
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1976 INTERVIEWEE: BOB WALDRON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Waldron's residence, Washington, D.C. D.C~ Tape 1 of 2 G: You're from East Texas. Beaumont, is that right? W: No, Arp. G: That's right, that's W: A-R-P, in East
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • followed it through? G: I don't know whether it was Stew Udall--he looked down on statues and wanted to get rid of them, you know. But I'd always thought that was a natural place for it and I still think so and hope eventually that it will come back
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : We split the vote . F: Did you have much hope that you could get a nomination? B: That's a battle that we fought, from the southern states, convention after convention . We hoped that because of Lyndon Johnson's national posture, and because
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • . It was a comfortable and successful trip, and the Vice President commenting to me at that time, said II~lajor, that was a nice trip. Hope to see you again soon." I thanked him and went on back to Washington. M: You didn't realize how prophetic that was. C: I had
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of these centers in operation in Houston a couple of months later just as it was beginning to open, and found that, at least in prospect, the idea was working out as well as I had hoped it would. I think there are several morals to this; to me there were 5 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into the women's division and what it did and how it operated. J: Marietta Brooks was chairman. Mrs. Bob Long may have been vice chairman, at least she had an important role. She was always president of some woman's civic club. There was an elderly lady of very
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 M: Did he discuss with you his hopes for the city government? F: Oh yes. He many many times discussed the hopes at the first meeting that I had on the 24th, discussed them again when we were
  • Appointment as Deputy Mayor; LBJ's hopes for city government; work with D.C. Council; relationship with Congress; difficulties from serving unrepresented constituency; high percentage of disadvantaged people in D.C.; budget process; program budget
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and spend the night with Bob and Homer Haley. Usually permission wasn't granted. Something was about to happen. This time it was granted promptly. So when we came back the next day we had a sister. M: Were you delighted to have a sister or were you much
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was of There was some hope that, if it wasn't going LBJ Presidential Library http://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
Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of power in his wrists and forearms. I remember one time--I think this was the time in Acapulco that we were playing with Bob Hope. We ran across him down there, and he made a golf game with the President the next day, and we were playing. I hit a ball
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of this material in the earlier interview, but what I hoped we could do is go into much more detail, particularly in two areas: one, your work with the subcommittee, investigating the-C: Which [subcommittee]? G: The Naval Affairs Subcommittee during World War II
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • later when he became majority leader and what pride he took in the diversity of people who nominated him, such as Dick Russell of Georgia, Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island, but no, I don't remember. G: Someone else had recalled that he and Bob
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, a very astute, shrewd, conservative politician--sort of a Bob Taft-type politician. A perfectly decent man, but he considered politics a reasonably rough game; and he knew more about the OPA, since he
  • Neustadt; Dean Acheson; Bob Kerr; Brien McMahon; John Sparkman; James Webb; Senator Richard Russell; Secretary Marshall; General Bradley; Forrest Sherman; General Vandenberg; Lawton Collins; joined Covington & Burling; Albert Gore; lobbyist for Theodore
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and Bob Kerr. They worked for these states. God, they stood by them! They got them appropriations, flood control, everything else. Yet some of these--I like to call them peckerwoods--that Johnson did the most for were the first to turn on him. I think
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and Martin. Then after Mr. Bob Calvert, Robert W. Calvert, who's a contemporary of ~lr. Johnson and former speaker of the [Texas] House, now chief justice of the Supreme Court [of Texas], was elected to the Supreme Court in 1950, we moved down with his
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . The American Bar Association got behind it very strongly and legislation was passed in 1954. And I gather that a lot of people were getting rather impatient. But that was the background of it. F: Now Bob Kennedy was still attorney general then. Did he
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not the son of Houghton-Mifflin published it . Nathanial and the grandson of Robert? BE : Yes . BA : A distinguished background, Then in 1967 you took the job on the White House staff? BE : Yes . Through, having met, while I was at Newsweek , Bob
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , a lieutenant colonel at the time, who had been working for him named Bob [Robert] Montague who had made himself really persona non grata to almost every one of the military men out there in Vietnam to the point that General Harold K. Johnson sent a back-channel
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • place with little hope of success in civil rights in order to get some meaningful legislation without a complete war on the Hill at the beginning and eased into the major legislative commitments, civil rights, in due course down the road. The contrast
  • with Powers, O'Donnell, and O'Brien and their career plans after leaving the White House; opposition to Medicare, especially from the American Medical Association (AMA); how the public mindset has changed regarding Social Security and Medicare; the Bob Kerr
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • got his papers, I hope. MLG: Sure. I'm going to ask you some question about him. VFD: Oh well, do. Anyway, the point I'm making is: Lyndon wasn't cold- blooded in that he only cultivated people who could help him. But if he was going after
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "Ain't any woman alive going to tell me how to put my britches on!" (Laughter) So the Vice President said--I said something about I hope his lumbago gets better or something--"Well, D.B., I think in a week or so we'll know whether it's lumbago
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that election. Many of those elected in 1958 went on to become committee chairmen and subcommittee chairmen. They included people like Dan Rostenkowski, Bob Kastenmeier, Neal Smith, Bob Giaimo, Bill Moorhead, Jim O'Hara and John Brademas, now the House
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Scranton at some function down here in Washington, and the Governor said to him, '~ou know, we spent a lot of time on Appalachia, and we sure hope you will give it your attention." him. That was all he said to The next thing I knew, Bill Moyers
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days and then as a delegate to the national convention in Chicago, long with Alvin Wirtz, Roy Miller, Frank Scofield, and Bill St. John and any number of political--Bob Holliday from El Paso and others. F: You served in the Texas legislature for awhile
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ." He just smiled and that was the only sweet, soft, happy thing. F: Sort of like an island of hope in a-- M: Just so glad to see Sally, and it was sort of funny. But anyway, while we're talking on that subject there's one thing I want to say. I
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that campaign was going you know, although he hoped for the best. spoken out innnediately and forthrightly. But no, I think he should have I would have said, "Regardless of the truth or lack of truth of these charges, this man is my long-time friend and still
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to be around for about seventy years before I could even hope maybe for the chairmanship of a subcommittee. So when the new committee in space was created in the 86th Congress, and I was coming in and had no committee assignments to give up, I put in a bid
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • back to Washington from Ne\'1 York City. At the actual time of the assassination I was in the Executive Office Building-the first word we got of it. F: Hhat happened? Did everybody just spill out into the halls? A: No. Bob Komer and myself were
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there was a realization there really wasn't anything here as far as the federal government was concerned, except they hoped maybe something might show up some place along the line . Ba : Did you ever get the idea that perhaps the dragging on of the affair and the timing
  • of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson