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Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

there in 1952 and took command of the 25th Infantry Division. General Van Fleet, one of the best in our army was 8th Army commanding general. I stayed with that elite division and that assignment up until the time I left Korea, which was shortly after

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Watson -- I -- 2 that I thought would best serve my home state and so worked in his behalf as a student in the city of Waco, Texas at that time. P: Did you meet him on your university

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

such impact. I recall that he had some input into some problem--whether it was an oil problem or a steel price problem, I'm not sure; but I was not personally involved, and I was not aware of his involvement in other economic problems up to that time. F

Telephone conversation # 1, transcript, LBJ and NELLIE CONNALLY, 11/22/1963, 4:30PM (Item)

- I 4:30 T.sae Time -11-22-63 From the Preaideadal a.lrplaDe • The Prealdeat called Mn. Nellie Con nally: LBJ NeWe, do you 'Mar me ? We are prayt-. with you. darUaa. ad I know that everytlUDc l• 10lD& to be all ript. l•a't It? bl••• you

Telephone conversation # 14, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT ANDERSON, 11/23/1963, 1:55PM (Item)

IBM BELT; DAT RECORDING MADE FROM REEL-TO-REEL TAPE RECORDED FROM ORIGINAL BELT IN ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE IMPROVED SOUND QUALITY; PREVIOUSLY RELEASED ON K6311.01, PNO 10 AND K6311.01A, PNO 11; OLLIE ANDERSON IS MEETING WITH ROBERT ANDERSON AT TIME

Telephone conversation # 22, sound recording, LBJ and DAVID MCDONALD, 11/23/1963, 4:15PM (Item)

"TRANSCRIBED"; IBM BELT; DAT RECORDING MADE FROM REEL-TO-REEL TAPE RECORDED FROM ORIGINAL BELT IN ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE IMPROVED SOUND QUALITY; PREVIOUSLY RELEASED ON K6311.01, PNO 18 AND K6311.01A, PNO 19; LBJ IS MEETING WITH ARTHUR GOLDBERG AT TIME

Telephone conversation # 33, sound recording, LBJ and JACK BROOKS, 11/24/1963, 4:53PM (Item)

"CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING ON THIS" ERASED ON SLIP; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 11/1993; WALTER JENKINS? ANSWERS TELEPHONE, THEN LBJ SPEAKS WITH JACK BROOKS; CHARLOTTE BROOKS IS MEETING WITH JACK BROOKS AT TIME OF CALL; RECORDING ENDS BEFORE CONVERSATION IS OVER

Telephone conversation # 41, sound recording, LBJ and WHITNEY YOUNG, 11/24/1963, 6:23PM (Item)

LBJ TELLS YOUNG THAT INVITATIONS TO JFK FUNERAL WILL BE SENT TO YOUNG AND ROY WILKINS; YOUNG ASKS ABOUT TIME OF FUNERAL; LBJ TELLS YOUNG TO CONTACT BILL MOYERS IF HE DOES NOT RECEIVE INVITATION, JOKES ABOUT MOYERS SPEAKING AT YOUNG'S CONFERENCE

Telephone conversation # 77, sound recording, LBJ and NELLIE CONNALLY, 11/27/1963, 1:35PM (Item)

"(TRANSCRIBED)"; NELLIE CONNALLY ON HOLD 0:20; LBJ IS MEETING WITH LADY BIRD, LUCI, AND LYNDA JOHNSON AT TIME OF CALL; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 11/1993

Telephone conversation # 120, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 11/29/1963, 11:10AM (Item)

"(TRANSCRIBED)"; DEAN RUSK IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 11/1993; RECORDING OF MANSFIELD CALL IS BRIEFLY INTERRUPTED BY ANOTHER CALL BETWEEN TELEPHONE OPERATOR AND OFFICE SECRETARY

Telephone conversation # 125, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 11/29/1963, 11:40AM (Item)

"(TRANSCRIBED)"; DIRKSEN ON HOLD 0:35; BILL MOYERS IS APPARENTLY MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL AND INITIALLY ANSWERS THE CALL; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 11/1993; RECORDING IS BRIEFLY INTERRUPTED

Telephone conversation # 150, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN MCCORMACK, 11/29/1963, 4:55PM (Item)

"FRIDAY"; "#5"; "TRANSCRIBED"; MCCORMACK ON HOLD 1:03; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; LBJ PUTS MCCORMACK ON HOLD BRIEFLY DURING CALL; MCCORMACK IS MEETING WITH OTTO PASSMAN AT TIME OF CALL; PREVIOUSLY OPENED 11/1993

Telephone conversation # 194, sound recording, LBJ and JESSE KELLAM, 11/30/1963, 2:55PM (Item)

"#4"; "(TRANSCRIBED)"; KELLAM ON HOLD 0:30; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; LBJ IS MEETING WITH A. W. MOURSUND, DON THOMAS AT TIME OF CALL; KELLAM SPEAKS WITH BOTH; RECORDING IS BRIEFLY INTERRUPTED BY ANOTHER CALL; PREVIOUSLY OPENED

Telephone conversation # 196, sound recording, LBJ and LUCIA ALEXANDER, 11/30/1963, 3:16PM (Item)

"#5"; "TRANSCRIBED" WRITTEN ON ENVELOPE CONTAINING DICTABELT; LBJ IS MEETING WITH A. W. MOURSUND AT TIME OF CALL AND LBJ SPEAKS WITH HIM DURING CALL; CALL FROM TELEPHONE OPERATOR BRIEFLY INTERRUPTS CALL; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART 11/1993

Telephone conversation # 3868, sound recording, LBJ and ALLEN DULLES, 6/23/1964, 7:05PM (Item)

ENVELOPE CONTAINING 6/23/64 DICTABELTS CONTAINS LONG NOTE ABOUT CALLS THAT DAY ON 3 MISSING CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS IN MISSISSIPPI; RFK IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL

Telephone conversation # 5606, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 9/18/1964, 7:54PM (Item)

"(RET. HIS CALL)"; RUSSELL ON HOLD 1:20; DAILY DIARY INDICATES LBJ IS MEETING WITH MCGEORGE BUNDY AT TIME OF CALL; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART ON TAPE K64.02, PNO 2; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING

Telephone conversation # 10654, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)

LADY BIRD JOHNSON, MARIE FEHMER, GEORGE CHRISTIAN ARE MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CONFERENCE CALL; ABE FORTAS TALKS TO JUANITA ROBERTS WHO IS IN OFFICE WITH HIM BUT ROBERTS IS NOT AUDIBLE; CONVERSATION CONTINUES ON NEXT 3 RECORDINGS

Telephone conversation # 10655, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)

LADY BIRD JOHNSON, MARIE FEHMER, GEORGE CHRISTIAN ARE MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CONFERENCE CALL; ABE FORTAS TALKS TO DOROTHY TERRITO WHO IS IN OFFICE WITH HIM BUT TERRITO IS NOT AUDIBLE; CONVERSATION CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING AND ON NEXT

Telephone conversation # 10656, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)

LADY BIRD JOHNSON, MARIE FEHMER, GEORGE CHRISTIAN ARE MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CONFERENCE CALL; BILL MOYERS IS IN WASHINGTON, DC AND JOINS CALL DURING THIS RECORDING; CONVERSATION CONTINUES FROM 2 PREVIOUS RECORDINGS AND ON NEXT RECORDING

Telephone conversation # 10657, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 8/29/1966, 9:30AM (Item)

LADY BIRD JOHNSON, MARIE FEHMER, GEORGE CHRISTIAN ARE MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CONFERENCE CALL; BILL MOYERS IS IN WASHINGTON, DC; CONVERSATION CONTINUES FROM 3 PREVIOUS RECORDINGS

Telephone conversation # 12908, sound recording, LBJ and IVAN ALLEN, 4/4/1968, 11:00PM (Item)

"ALL SUMMARIZED YB"; LADY BIRD JOHNSON IS MEETING WITH LBJ AT TIME OF CALL

Telephone conversation # 13104, sound recording, LBJ and TED SORENSEN, 6/5/1968, 6:35AM (Item)

SHORTHAND NOTES ON SLIP WITH DICTABELT; "(ALSO TALKED TO STEPHEN SMITH & SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY)" ON ENVELOPE; EDWARD KENNEDY, STEPHEN SMITH ARE MEETING WITH SORENSEN AT TIME OF CALL AND ARE ALMOST INAUDIBLE; LAST PORTION OF CALL REPEATED ON REF #13106

Telephone conversation # 11113, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 12/5/1966, 10:46AM (Item)

KATZENBACH IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART ON TAPE K66.01, PNO 2; CONVERSATION ON OTHER TELEPHONE LINES IS AUDIBLE AT TIMES; LBJ PUTS KATZENBACH ON HOLD BUT REMAINING CONVERSATION IS NOT RECORDED

Telephone conversation # 11150, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 12/17/1966, 10:45AM (Item)

"WASHINGTON"; POOR SOUND QUALITY; FORTAS IS DIFFICULT TO HEAR; FORTAS IS APPARENTLY MEETING WITH "BILL" (MOYERS?) AT TIME OF CALL AND TALKS WITH HIM DURING CALL; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING AND ON NEXT RECORDING; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART

Telephone conversation # 11160, sound recording, LBJ and ROBERT KINTNER, 12/20/1966, 7:57AM (Item)

"WASHINGTON"; TV NEWS ABOUT VIETNAM, FEDERAL BUDGET AUDIBLE IN BACKGROUND AT TIMES; CONTINUES FROM 2 PREVIOUS RECORDINGS; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART ON TAPE K66.01, PNO 9

Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whitney Young -- Interview I -- 2 the statement many times that some of the best liberals

Report, re Oswald (Item)

• Lee Harvey Oswald, in 1939, he wished applied his two years and that At that citizenship. and that His last in Japan time. this First that he had address was Embassy that Embassy replied that desire as a radar

Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the Department of Justice at the time, and I met a Mr. Pollak, who at the time was on the White House staff in District of Columbia affairs. He had for a year, approximately, been working on the legislation for reorganization of District government. The mayor

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there and went to the University of Texas in due time . B: We moved to Texas when I was five years old and I attended public school in Beaumont and completed my education, Joe, at Lamar College and the University of Texas . F: Then you got caught up

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. He was born a freedman in Washington; thus the name Freeman was no coincidence. He looked around to find a dental school that would accept him in the l860-s, and there were about four or five dental schools in the country at that time. Harvard did

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/loh/oh StoUghton -- I -- 2 there when war broke out in December of 1941. Was assigned to an Air Force observation squadron in Fort Riley, Kansas, which had departed by the time I arrived there. F: All the glamour spots, huh? 5: Yes. So

Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the time, but also it was my first venture into politics, the first time that I ran for the office of county clerk of El Paso County, Texas. And I was elected. F: So you have good reason to remember that. T: Yes, I have good reason to remember that. F

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: The National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: We're in time now to 1967 when you became the presidential advisor on National Capital Affairs. I think I

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to get him out of the country . And I was chargé at the time ; so it was very interesting . F: And then to Quito? B: Yes, then I went to Quito as Deputy Chief of the Mission . F: Did you anywhere--we'll move ahead--prior to 1960, ever run

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. definitely a little bit of a number game. I do remember They were very much inter- ested in being able to announce that the number of advisers was dramatically reduced from sixteen thousand to fifteen thousand, because at that point in time it had been up

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/show/loh/oh Bolling -- I -- 2 M: And I suppose by that time Mr . Johnson was first minority leader and then majority leader after that . B: Well, actually--I'm not sure of my memory on this--but I probably was in the Board of Education before he

Telephone conversation # 12907, transcript, LBJ and BUFORD ELLINGTON, 4/4/1968, 9:36PM (Item)

Reference No. 12907 April 21, 2008 Processing Note Transcript only of this conversation; there is no recording. DATE: 4/4/68 TIME: 9:36 PM CALLER: Buford Ellington Pages of Transcript: 1 page Charlaine McCauley Archivist , .... ~ ~ ·. From

Telephone conversation # 13116, transcript, LBJ and ETHEL KENNEDY, 6/9/1968, 12:41PM (Item)

July2, 2008 Reference No. 13116 Processing Note Transcript only of this conversation; there is no recording. DATE: 6/9/68 TIME: 12:41 PM CALLER: Ethel Kennedy Pages ofTranscript: 1 page Barbara Cline Archivist ·-· -......- - - ~~· ... i

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Kennedy, known as Executive Order 10988, which set up for the first time a formal government policy with respect to the rights of federal empoyees to be in unions. There was never any question, there was never any deviation, there was 'never any compromise

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

settled," or whatever, what I considered to be an absurd amount of time. But if Mac said it, you did it. And [I] ended up movi ng d o ~ m to Washington, I remember quite well on July 11 since that happens to be Adele's and my anniver- sary. F