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Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Mrs. Cantankerous, Margaret Chase. G: Smi th. H: She was off at the Mayflower at some function. I got her called out, "White House calling," and I said there was this critical meeting that morning, as she knew, of this Preparedness Subcommittee
Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the area that had ambushed another different ARVN [Army of the Republic of Vietnam] army unit earlier that morning and left these guys laying all over the road, just really wiped out. The reports and the observation of the village indicated it was strictly
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did want me to arrive as soon as Lodge left, which was quite unusual for a new ambassador to arrive the day his predecessor left. Lodge left in the morning and I arrived in the afternoon. Usually there's a gap of some weeks or even months
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , "Wheels up at six in the morning. II (Laughter) So I said, "Jesus. I'll see if I can disengage here and get some clothes and so on to come wi ttl you." Anyhow, I did that, come along. Of course. we caught the French by great surprise when we got
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency had put us in touch around several matters and I had done a number of chores for the two of them in various efforts to draft new legislation and new programs. So in the summer of '64 Dick called to ask if I would
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as a nation of antagonists and dissidents. I just think he's the past master of it. The difficulty with him, when he moved into the presidency, was that he obviously didn't have the new technique for building of massive public support for your programs. He
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and I enjoy the funny things that happened. I remember a member of the legislature from Dallas, Texas, a very dry humor type of fellow, on the floor of the house during that controversy. When Rainey then later announced for governor, he said
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • well publicized? R: You mean, in this particular discussion. of other people in on that discussion. Well, there were a number In fact, the more significant discussion took place at the Trademoor Hotel where Walter Reuther called me one morning
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was then at the [Democratic] National Committee. The two of us worked, always, very closely together. greater than mine, and through him we made others. His contacts were But there was an attempt to encourage the thought of creating new ideas for developing contact
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that--particularly thought of serving at the UN. that I wasn't interested in the UN Not but I was doubtful if I could afford to live in New York at the United Nations, because it's a very expensive post. Probably, if I had realized how expensive I couldn't have
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • on his right side, which is just asinine. I mean, I suppose I've heard every rumor and everything that happened in the place over there and this I never heard before at all. That's brand new. But this sort of thing that's creeping into some
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of operation. There's nothing structured about it. The whole idea is to get from within government the ferment, the yeast, the new ideas that produce something with which the President can go to the Congress saying, "This is what I am going to do
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Yesterday we were talking about President Kennedy and the southern members of Congress. Let me ask you
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • friendship continued. I felt I knew Luci and Lynda and their problems and had many visits with them. I spent much time with Mrs. Johnson and the entire personal staff, meeting new people, including Ashton Gonella, and continuing with the friendship with Bess
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . He's in the dentist's chair." So I rushed by DCSOPS, threw my notes from the morning JCS [Joint Chiefs of Staff] meeting at Art [Arthur] Collins, who was my deputy, and said, "Art, you are now the deputy chief of staff for ops. (Laughter) Bye bye
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to wait if I was interested, but, "You call me tomorrow morning before you leave." So I called him up and said that, "I'm interested. I'd like to talk with you, but I certainly can't say yes, and I certainly don't think I ought to bottle up this position
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • level right on down to the troop level. I felt that we, in most cases, had very good support from our Vietnamese counterparts, although that wasn't necessarily always too obvious to the news people nor to visitors who came there, because the Vietnamese
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that people in a leisure situation don't like to be educated, so we found a new word. He have a list of taboo words such as 11lecture and "interpretation" activities 11 and 11tourist and things that we don't use, is one that we have sort of used to cover
  • birthplace; historian Jerry Rogers; the homey character of the Ranch and the hospitality of the Johnsons; anecdotes of LBJ guiding visitors about the Ranch and showing off the new State Park Visitor Center
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Johnson was taking her farewell trip Mrs. Cohen and I went with her to New Orleans. And she went on to Denver. And in the 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • commanders who are ambushed because they came back the same way they went up, and I've heard you tell them never come back the same way you go up, and here every morning at precisely the same time you go out the same gate and same route to the office." But he
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to have breakfast with him the next morning. So I thought that what he was going to do was have a whole crowd of people there. But 10 and behold, when I got there for breakfast, I was the only one present. I think maybe that I was selected because I
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ty and we Ire goi ng to hang him and we mi ght as well get thi s trial over as quick as \'/e can. II So we got it over as qui ckly as vie could and we sentenced the man to death. The news got out. and people started calling Terrible nickname. me
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • element that was present there that wasn't known yet was the decision also in North Vietnam to introduce into the guerilla cadres in the South a new family of weapons, the AK-47 family. and Czech weapons of a very high sophistication. probably in April
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Gibb Gilchrist, I believe, who was the state highway engineer at that time, and sold him on it . G: Lyndon sold him on it ; I sat there and listened . I gather that Gilchrist was the sort of guy that would naturally be resistant to a new proposal
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: Let's drop back to 1964 and talk about that race. There are critics who say that no matter whom the Republicans had picked in 1964, that because of what had happened in Dallas and because of the fact that Johnson had provided continuity
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jenkins -- IX -- 4 the Tenth District even after he was senator. G: Yes. What did a new senator have to do to really become acclimated, get
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what it was like on the farms. He knew all about men hauling up that water out of that well, bucket by bucket on a cold winter morning, and all about the women leaning over the wash pots, backbreaking work. It stemmed just right straight out of his life
  • problems of the South; Clark Foreman; a new congressman's wife's duty to call on the wives of her husband's delegation, committee chair, cabinet and Court members; visiting Joseph Edward Davies at Tregaron; LBJ helping Jewish people from Germany in the late
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • was a fairly conservative man, actually. B: On what particular issues--he was known as a New Dealer and as a-- G: Yes, he was. B: --Roosevelt man. On what issues do you think he was basically conservative? G: I do not know how--for instance
Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a meeting of the townspeople and asked them which they'd rather have, the railroad or the highway through the town to boost the town, and they voted to have the highway. So he worked toward getting a highway through the town, and that was kind of a new
Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • to come. I want her put on that list." And I was called the next morning. B: This is LBJ, who was calling [inaudible]? A: Well, LBJ helped through his letter, but it was Congressman Thomas-- B: --who called and said, "Let's get moving
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . S: Jim left and went to Georgetown [UniversityJ as their Comptroller or finance officer, and then he went to the State University of New York as chancellor. Anyhow, I am sure he was there and we resolved some of the issues. Then in January right
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ], a year ago, the morning news conference in which he didn't stand behind the podium but walked about and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, "All right, Mr. Senator." I went there. That's when I met Lady Bird. It was a very interesting meeting, because at the end it developed into some kind of polemic about the policies of the new administration in Mexico regarding foreign
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • bodyguard came in and said the President wanted to speak to him on the telephone. Everybody was pretty set up about the fact that the new President wanted advice from Walter and wanted his help. We all thought that was great. About five minutes later
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , I was detailed on a part-time basis, still as special assistant, still working at J3, but I was also supposed to go out and spend some time with III Corps in planning this particular operation. I don't think it had any really significant and new
  • to improved the placement of new chiefs and staff; dealing with questions from the press; how Jack Cushman dealt with the press; Montague's role in planning the Hop Tac operation and why it was unsuccessful; General Westmoreland's request for an estimate
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • morning, being Monday, the very first thing I did when I came to the office was to dictate a memo to the Director, proposing 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • a very strong man for a very long time, was finally getting gnawed at by age and physical problems, and financial problems. To begin new endeavors when you are in your seventies and eighties is, I think, an unwise thing, and Daddy had made, actually, he
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • s t r i c t , New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Hebert, I would l i k e to summarize b r i e f l y your c a r e e r before we begin. I t ' s a very b r i ef summary. Orleans, Louisiana in t h a t c i t y . You o f course come from New and were educated
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the amount of money we could get. This is no news to me. We've been fighting this battle for a long, long time, and the people that have been fighting it and the people that are managing the program, and I think doing it well, are discredited in a significant
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . I started out, I guess you'd have to say, in something called the Chieu Hoi program, which had to do with getting defectors over on the government side. I did a study on that as my first move in this new role that I was playing, and then from