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Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. every night. and going t:l Reading--going to bed with a "Who Done It" Reading the same sentence on page 13 every night sleep. Weld get to bed apout 3--this is when we were on t:.'-le trail. Mr . Johnson did this every night. Mary Rather and Dorot

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into that little breakfast room in The Elms with the little circular table, and we had dinner. And the only peo- ple present--I must say I've read over the years of who was there that night, and it would make enough for a grand ballroom. F: A real state dinner

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

a Roman Catholic, bringing it to your attention!" B: Do you recall who that was? H: Yes, that was Walter Jenkins, which I will later develop. senator read the letter and told Mr. Jenkins that, '~aybe So the you'd better check the writer

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there had been no previous maneuvering in that direction. H: No. F: Nothing to give you any lead. H: No. F: Did you think that the threatened liberal revolt was serious or do you From all I read and heard there was none. It came on rather suddenly

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a month before that--and I had to get my affairs in order with my station in Ohio. I got everything I could get on Khrushchev and started to read about his life, his politics, his biography and all the current affairs I could put together. You have

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

proceeded to do that. of the legislative history. One of my assignments was to read all The Tidelands Act had been subject of a filibuster-B: That's a lot of material. P: I read thousands of pages. By and large, the disposition of the mud lumps

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in behalf of the visit, day and night, as I had for several weeks, I was beginning to experience a sense of well, "it's just terrific." Then all at once the motorcade came to a stop. say it sounded like maybe a car backfiring. At first I would have to I

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

had almost an hour's conference with the President on the night of the twenty-third. M: The plane turned back, you were told what happened, and you returned to Washington then? H: Right. M: Johnson, meanwhile, with Mrs. Kennedy and the rest

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the job of waking up Ambassador Lodge at nine-thirty in the evening and telling him that. He was grumpy at first: "Why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?" And I said, "Well, sir, it's a telegram from the President with instructions about

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the second primary night as on the E: general election night. Yes, I think it did play quite a good deal. Then, of course, that's the election campaign that ended up with the disputed vote count and the ruckus at the certification meeting, and the court

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

that the French It simply means that the Viet Cong had enough of a fight with us and didn't want one with the French as well. out, we weren't stopped. As it turned I had worked all night and the night before, and going through the worst part of Zone 0

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Presidential candidate with Mr. Stevenson to represent the South? J: Yes, I recall there was, but I was not a participant in any of the convention procedures at that time. Yes, I did hear and read that this might have been a feeling of those people

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 San Antonio at Alamo Heights Junior High School. During those four years, I was going to night law school in San Antonio at the old San

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

wanted to make you friendly as possible. Yes, you get an intimation of . . . . F: And did he read you? B: Well, I was impressed with him. F: No, I mean did he read your copy? Did you get an idea that when I didn't agree with him-- you wrote

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and wanted to see my father do well . likewise . His brothers and sisters were interested in him They were readers . I've heard him say when they lived in Georgia that they were poor people, but they took the Atlanta Constitution , and his mother read

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 19, 1969 M: This is an interview with Dr. Joseph A. Pechman. Institution. He is at Brookings I am in the Reading Room of the Library at Brookings where the interview is taking place. The date is March 19, 1969

Folder, "Garrison Investigation, New Orleans, 1967-1968," Papers of John B. Connally, Box 324 (Item)

by approximately and included frora 12 states prosecutors and the It was conducted and Secret of the ag·encies, Ne1,r York. a,-,·:.-:·--,.. "::()n- Ser-'7lce on a11d e-1Jb•1 5..._;;~d over invest:i.r~;-\t-i 25,000 reports. Now when I read what you say

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I think, when we talked Friday night, that he was a person that if I were you I would interview. He is getting up in years. This we'll take out of the transcript, but, off the record, but for your information he is up in years. F: He is still

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

objects would be hauled through the streets at nights, and things of this kind. F: It was difficult to gauge-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- II -- 5 call second level or third level decisions, not of the highest importance or urgency, which are nevertheless significant enough to come to the Budget Director. Here the responsibility of the Budget Director to try to read the President's

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the speech to the Jefferson-Jackson Day Annual Dinner and he and Mrs. Johnson spent the night with Mrs. Hodges and me at the mansion. We had a chance to know them pretty intimately, and he made a good impression at the Jackson Day Dinner because he

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the train. And of course some of them got on late at night, some of them came in the back door. Some of them, a few of them, fortunately stood up and didn't make any bones about it, like I was doing, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

o'clock in the afternoon. body back here that night. As you know, they brought his President Johnson--of course he immediately became President--called me quite early, somewhere between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, the very next morning

Folder, "Garrison, Jim," Papers of Wright Patman, Box 768-B (Item)

Committee. I have read in the newspapers that the Committee is considering an investigation into whether politics has influenced the activities and decisions of the Justice Department. In addition to being District Attorney of Orleans Parish, I happen

Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

office and they notify their headquarters who notifies us here and so it is a double check. And we dispatch an agent to check- it out. M: The instance that came to my mind, I recall reading in Time one which, I believe it was the FBI declined

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Well, this intrigued some of us and we got to work on it. some meetings over in State in the middle of the night. meeting lasted until 1:00 a.m. discussing this. We had I remember one We had some experts in land reform I personally thought it might

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the people he checked it out with didn't know any more about it than he did, and they all read it, and they all arrived at the same conclusion. ''Well, it's okay." F: I know that the State Department and the White House go to great lengths to see

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

district with any sort of problems they had. He had a very broad scope. F: Did you work out of Hempstead or out of Austin? H: Both, but primarily out of Austin. F: Where were you the night of the election? H: As I recall it, I was in Austin

Folder, "JFK Assassination - Preserving Documents," Papers of Ramsey Clark, Box 97 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

also set great store--he thought I had influence over the arms of the government in my articles in the paper. Johnson as he did. He was anxious for me to know and appreciate So he invited me out to dinner one night for the purpose of meeting Johnson

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and McGeorge Bundy, and there was Ross Gilpatric, and McNamara, and several others on the staff of the White House in the Office of Science and Technology and the Defense Department. We had been to the White House on Wednesday night to a reception and had

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. In fact, the very day I was appointed there was a big reception at the White House planned for that night for the new appointees over the past year, and we were immediately brought into that. Then I would say there have been two or three lunches a year

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that for granted. F: And you worked. S: Yes, sir. F: Did you go home that night? S: As I recall, I think I did go home about three or four o'clock. I came back very early the next morning. F: Did you get involved at all in the funeral? S: No, sir. F

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

to keep him from taking the U.S. Senate seat here in Washington. We had some very exciting moments on election day, election night particularly, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of that, and he said--actually he wasn't there but he had one of his assistants read his speech for hinr-"I am now in a position from certain statements I have made on national TV and to the press of looking as if I may lead the state into a secession again. All

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

days. So they put Hess in the front row there, with the doctors observing film. He would sit up there and pretend to be reading a book and wouldn't talk to Ribbentrop or Göring or anybody. All the other defendants would talk with one another during

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

thing about the politics of Texas, except that it's awfully confusing . And I never had any difficulty, because of their record, in believing that both Mr . Johnson and Mr . Yarborough were fine, outstanding, public servants . Yet just reading

Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)