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Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into it, and they did start to operate, but they had--you know, they were subsidized by the post office. So it's kind of hard to come up with a number. I would have to guess when it was all boiled down, it was maybe between three and four hundred dollars an hour
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • out all our troops, if the enemy would take all of his troops. Then, noninterference in the post-war government; that's a noble objective which has nothing to do with stopping the fighting." Then I add, "There are numerous other specific problems
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Let's see. I think that there's a Chicago Tribune article on August 10. O: Oh, it's that early. G: Then the Washington Post September 2 has a piece saying that O'Brien had hinted two days ago that he might quit unless the campaign direction
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ., Jack Staples, Pressler [?]. Now let's see. I think Clayton, Jr. died. He was an attorney and rather prominent. And Jack Staples had a job with the government, regional director in the Post Office in Dallas, and knew Lady Bird all the way through. I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • release through for me to take a peek at announcing her appointment. I thought, "What the hell is happening here?" Apparently Freeman had gone to LBJ with a suggestion that Bob Lewis back up in the rural areas be named to this post and LBJ said, "Orville
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • organized a post-war planning conference toward the end of the war, also, in Austin . Do you remember that conference? It had a bunch of business leaders and people like that . No, Sorry . I don't . B : No . G: In 1945 the files seem to indicate
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • post office site, or something . M: By this time it must have been almost dark? B: Eight o'clock . M: That's right . B: And Mrs . Johnson said, "Well, there's no use going back sixty miles . Why don't you take potluck with us?" So we went back
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on some air fields, then you have to have some guys in there to guard the air fields. Then it's simply not a question of posting MP's at the gate of the air field, you're putting combat troops around the perimeter of the air field; and then if somebody
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ? Just after his election. And meanwhile, having made this mistake and feeling very strongly about the matter, I concentrated my attention post-election on the Vietnamese problem, which was obviously the biggest problem facing the President. well
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that they wanted. They also had in eve ry village the posting in the village papers of all the names of thos e that we re qualified to vote - -twice. had to be published twice within a few weeks. on Thursday or Friday, They I was up in Da Nang lIve forgotten now
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ministers--on crises and they all exchange information back and forth between each other and get to be very good friends. They all poured into Germany--into Bonn. We set up a command post over in the White House. were here, and Fowler and Deming were over
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wasn't that foolish. G: What did he want you to do? S: A variety of jobs. I think he had me ticketed for a couple of cabinet posts, not HEW [Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]. Yes, I guess it was HEW in those days. He wanted me to go
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • place. G: The other aspect of this post-presidential deal was the publication of the memoirs, both the President's and Mrs. Johnson's A White House Diary. Can you finish this topic? S: Sure. G: Was The Vantage Point what you had expected
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was stable, that there'd be no political upheaval. Of course, that was the headline in the Stars and Stripes the next morning. [Laughter] [I] informed General Harkins on all this; I took my post to find out what was going on. We [were] particularly concerned
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we were thinking and what we were saying. T: But you never got those midnight calls, or post-midnight calls? T: Not from him, no. No. But he was zeroed in on what we were saying in the press room. He always wanted to know; he was full of curiosity
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tower -- Interview I -- 4 T: I think a lot of them came in under the same circumstances as I did. We were post-war, young people that had been around and lost some of their provincialism
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • knowledge of government and workings of government to the post of Vice President if he should be elected. I didn't go any farther than that. B: Did either Mr. Kennedy or Mr. Johnson or anyone from their staffs get in touch with you immediately after
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Were you ever offered an administrative post? Y: I was offered a job with "The White House Conference to Fulfill These Rights" as one of the--I don't know whether they had co-directors, or something. But I never felt that that was my--well, I thought
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • and over to reach you. I wanted to invite you to an early breakfast." Needless to say after that we kept him posted as to our whereabouts. That trip was one of the highlights of our lives. The Senator called me one day and said he wanted me to get in touch
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • office. The way I get the story, the first you hear about it is when you read it in the Washington Post, and the first the President hears about it is when you tell him, or somebody tells him from the White House staff. And that he sends for Wirtz, who
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with me if he read about it in the Washington Post the next day. Then, three, just the whole father-son relationship breaking up, the separation, Bill wanting to get out on his own. And I think he was worried about his family, whether his family would hold
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Alan] Otten, Joe [Joseph] Slevin, Sterling Green, and John Pierson at five o'clock in the afternoon. The briefing went well, with things like the Washington Post saying, "This unique outpouring of business support for the Johnson administration
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a political preference or persuasion, which I thought was very broad-minded of him. Well, after talking with George and Howard, as I recall I left and went back to my post at Fort Slocum. I didn't hear anything for about a couple of weeks until I had a call
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • financially and otherwise. In that way he was really out of tune with what was being worked on. G: I have heard it asserted that once when Xuan was recommended to Diem by an American adviser for some post or other, Diem said he didn't trust Xuan because
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)