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Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with much gusto and stimulate our enthusiasm for beautiful language. And I remember there was one speech [by] Bob Ingersoll. You know who he is, don't you? Well, Bob Ingersoll was a great speaker maybe seventy-five years ago, a public speaker, and many
Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • administration, as I recall. What were they? Bascom Giles. The insurance scandal, the big land scandal-- The lid of that was blown off by one of my townsmen, you remember, from Cuero? G: Bob Trotti, wasn't it? No, it wasn't. What's his name? S
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • persisted for the next i t~o or three years, during which time I had no further contact whatever with the future President. PAtTL BOLTON: Well, Dr. Bob, when did you next make contact \,i th the President? ROBERT MONTGOME~Y: '-[hat was the occasion
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the Eighty-second Airborne Division, who followed Bob [Robert] York. He was sort of the acting commander of Bragg and the Eighty-second, what was left of it. sion was in Santo Domingo. At one time the whole divi- He was trying to run Fort Bragg, and I had
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Admiral Stevens has just spent an hour with Bob Mayo talking about it." So I called him up
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the station was available? J: I can't remember exactly. We knew at least one of the three absentee owners, and that was Bob Anderson who used to be from Vernon. He'd been on Lyndon's advisory committee in the NYA. It was there in our hometown. We could have
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • come see him. I voiced the hope that he might be interested in becoming NYA state director. If he was interested I would make an appoi.ntment for him to see Aubrey Williams when Aubrey returned to the city. My recollection is that he was obviously
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PICKLE -- V -- 2 I was at my campaign headquarter s, and I was in a little private room talking to Dr. Bob Montgomery, my dear friend from University days. We were talking about how
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was going to do and what I wanted to do, and I told him that I hoped to study law . And he asked me where I was going to go to school, and I explained my problem to him . He said, "Well, they're hiring people in Washington now in many of these New Deal
  • system; modification of standards; working relationship with Bob Weaver; Austin pilot program; Boston Rehabilitation Project; low cost housing; social services; Fanny Mae; LBJ's effectiveness in a small group
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , But if I had found out that he had just absolutely said no the day before, I might wait a week to bring it in and hope that maybe he had had a change of heart which he often did. B: When did you first get called in on agricultural redevelopment for Viet
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • hope on that and don't make him a flat promise, Porter would try, "No, no. We can't do that." And Crockett would say, "Well now, you know, yes, that's very interesting, and when we get back, try [and] 9 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and less on separate staff operations than perhaps Mr . Acheson and Mr . Dulles and Governor Herter . Even there, it's awfully hard to generalize, Mr . Dulles had a very close relationship with Bob Bowie, who was head or chairman of the Policy Planning
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • near--where, Marlin? I don't think Marlin. G: Killeen, I guess. R: Up near Waco. You know, back to Mr. Johnson and owning land and hoping some day to have enough money to buy land and also bank stock, the only other thing that he said to me--and he
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be given for a long, long time. For instance, reading the love letters exchanged between Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird, which someday I hope will be published. word in them that can't be used. will be inspiring to people. They are publishable; there's
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 ideas were of Mr. Johnson. M: The clearest initial impression I have was of exclaiming, I hope to myself, 11 My God, what a big man! 11 llis size, of course, was and is always magnified
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , to start this program and hoped that the program would then become self-supporting . What it amounted to was a series of ten steps, beginning with a drive for new registrations, and then some made work things, and then a victory celebration, and a whole
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it went up in '66 and was whittled down to a much less significant bill before final votes, the vote was not so terribly discouraging as to make it seem impossible to hope to secure the legislation. '67 was really probably an even more negative year
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Did he ever talk to you about his hopes for getting an open housing bill through? E: No. I was there when he signed the voter rights bill. I still have the pen. F: I know. Tell me about that ceremony. He invited you up, didn't he? E: Yes, yes. He
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . charge. Oh, I think Bob Baskin was there. He He had come up there getting ready to take John Connally insisted that Lyndon had serious doubts about whether he wanted to be President; that he was thinking about his chidren, his daughters grmving up
Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the hell was Chris Weeks doing? Was he on the out- side or inside? G: He was, I think, BOB [Bureau of the Budget]. S: I guess you're right; I guess you're right. But everything was so free- for-all and everybody could just throw in any ideas
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the only top man in the Johnson organization that was in New York. So that was the sum total of my delegate hunting. B: Incidentally, at that time, was the Johnson effort there kind of a for- lorn hope, or was there still belief that he could get
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 1 3 of the full committee . George and John Kluczynski, Bob Jones [Democrat] from Alabama, who
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but when it happened I remember President Johnson said to me when I told him that I wanted to do it-­ F: Did you talk to him. personally? H: Yes. I said, "I hope you feel all right about my going. you say? How do you feel about it?" He smiled
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Point and spent most of his life in the military? Is there somebody smarter than Bob McNamara? If there is, where is he?" And these requests were coming out of Vietnam, just one, you know, one more battalion, one more this or one more that, and we'll see
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to pressures from Senator Paul Douglas to designate Percy Williams as the deputy executive director for government contract compliance. I recommended the other deputy and Holleman quickly agreed to it. The other deputy was a guy named John Hope [Franklin]. John
  • ; affirmative action; Jerry Holleman; John Hope Franklin; Gwendolyn Tice; Percy Williams; Jerry Bruno; staffing and funding the commission; Bobby Troutman and the conflict between LBJ and RFK; Richard Russell; the Lockheed plant in Marietta, Georgia; Plan
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and inspired colleague and friend I needed, and I will always be grateful for the privilege of having worked with you. Our paths will cross often, I hope. Sincerely, Bill" B: Those are kind statements. One suspects that after Moyers' departure, there might
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to agendas for cabinet meetings. At some stage Bob Kintner came in as a coordinator or secretary of the cabinet. There were efforts made to have the cabinet members report in detail regarding their departments in advance of cabinet meetings. Tight agendas
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , acquired a handsome, nice wife and lots of people hoped that that would change his life greatly. I think it came along too late, perhaps. At 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • you ask what you hope are intelligent questions. One thing I wanted to throw in because it's one other Johnson relationship [is that] somewhere back there, I'd say around 1964, Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., was on the National Historical Publications
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of his. I remember him asking him, "Bob, are we so poor that we don't have $60,000 that we need to build some facilities on the border with Mexico?" And I suppose that the answer was, "Yes, we have the money." "Well, then, I can tell the State
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • called me again and said, "What about the yacht?" I had hoped she had forgotten about it; I [hadn't] called her back. This is among one of the grandiose things we did at the White House. Sometimes you'd get 10 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • does he look to someone else to direct his difficulties and to remove his problems. somehow c a n He hopes that a third party bail him out. M: So they didn't suggest anything either? B: They didn't suggest anything. There was nothing new
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HUGHES -- I -- 3 BH: Yes~ Rich~ there were eight presidential hopefuls, of whom John F. Kennedy was one. them around. There were so many that they were shuffling They had two ballrooms
Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)
  • hopes and who had great ambitions that the country was going to be made over in a new image, particularly the young Southerners because as poor as the United States was, and as much unemployment as there was, it was much worse in the South. The South had
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a quick summary of it. I'll give you I had been fascinated with the prospects of supersonic transportation ever since I had seen some sketches at Lockheed in the summer of 1955 where Bob Gross and Kelly Johnson showed Eddie Rickenbacker and Laurance
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • appreciate it. You know, if the president was from Texas, as Johnson was, the homebuilders would kind of elect a president of the homebuilders from Texas, or the housing groups would elect people that were wise or knew him or we'd suggest people we'd hope
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • decide where you were going to go? C: Sometimes with an invitation. For instance, Bill Battel--I think I told you in the last tape, had been head of the Area Redevelopment Administra­ tion--came over and hoped Mrs. Johnson would go up and give out
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Bob Jackson, Kay and Arthur Perry. It was in this year that our own staff changed, but I believe that change took place in the fall when we returned. We knew that Sherman [Birdwell] was going to be leaving and we were looking around for someone else
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the life of the President. Of course, Sam Rayburn who had been all through the years and whose judgment he trusted more than anybody else; Russell, whose power he trusted more than anybody else; and Bob Kerr, whose ability he trusted more than anybody else