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- 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
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 17, 1969 B: This is the interview with Bayard Rustin. Sir, to start pretty far back in time, did you have any knowledge of Mr. Johnson when he was in the Senate? R: Yes, I did. Of course, I suppose everybody heard
- Lyndon the prime mover in this? D: Well, he was certainly one of the prime ones, yes, sir. I might relate one incident which will show you that even at the age of eighteen or nineteen he had some of the qualities which later came forward in his
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968, Washington, D. C. B: Sir, to begin with, do you remember the first time you met Lyndon Johnson? K: Yes. I wrote something about that in a book I recently published [Memoirs: Sixty Years ~ the Firing
- to catch up. M: Were you surprised when Lyndon Johnson accepted the vice presidential nomination? P: At that time, yes, sir, very much. It's sometimes difficult to look far back with all the things that've happened since then and really appreciate how
- INTERVIEWEE: CARL SANDERS INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Sanders' office in Atlanta, Georgia Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, do you recall if you met Mr. Johnson any time before the 1960s while he was still a senator? S: Oh, yes, I had met Mr
- /exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape ff:3) July 29, 1969 B: This is a continuation of the interview with the Reverend Luther Holcomb. Sir, before we get back into the chronology-- H: Excuse me, have you met Judy Miller? B: We've been talking out there. H
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 8, 1969 B: This is a continuation, the second interview with Rev. Holcomb. Sir, we left this after about 1961 or so. The next thing would be in '62 when you were appointed by President Kennedy as chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton
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- of age at that time, and I would go out on the patio of our home to practice my lines and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
- Texas; Van Cliburn; St. Mary’s Catholic High School chorus; Diaz Ordaz visit; “The Fandango;” Sir Gilbert Peake.
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 24, 1969 B: This is the interview with Luther Holcomb. Sir, to begin in the beginning, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? H: Yes, I can reconstruct. It was during the campaign of--the one when W. Lee
- is worried about staff, and I think you ought to go out there with him." And they invited me up to the family home in Beverly, north of Boston--I was in Washington--to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968 B: This is the interview with Mr. John A. Schnittker, the Under Secretary of Agriculture. Sir, would you start by outlining your career up to the time of your appointment as Under Secretary here? S: Yes
- INTERVIEWEE: LINDLEY BECKWORTH INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Beckworth's home near Gladewater, Texas Tape 1 of 2 M: I've just been talking to Mr. Beckworth about the use of this information, and I've explained that the tape and the transcript
- Home congressional office facilities; family background; father's county school superintendent campaign; 1928 Democratic convention in Houston; college education data; 1936 race for state representative; introduction to LBJ in 1936; 1938 campaign
- : Not in quite such a hurry to get home . B: That's right . I was not married then, Joe . I'd work in my office until 6 :30, sometime a little later, and then I'd stop over there and have a drink with Mr . Rayburn and visit with him . There were probably
- , sir, I wanted to ask you about that. To back up into the '40 IS, even if you had not met Mr. Johns·--a had you formed an opinion about him? Had you classified him as a Congressman? M: Yes, I had. I was a pretty conservative young man, and it seemed
- : In 139. He had an office there. In the Co-op. [Pedernales Electric] From September 15 when I went to "vork until the first of the year, we worked there. And then the boys drove up to Washington and I spent Christmas with Bird at her home in Karnack
- , but we can fix you up in the dining room. And I don't believe you'll be identified if we just go in two at a time. We arranged that, in order to avoid creating a scene, there would just be two or three cars going to my place. I said, "I'll drive home
- histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MULHOLLfu~ Let's begin simply by identifying you, sir. You are James J. Rowley, Director of the United States Secret Service, and you have held this position as director since 1961. R
- in that campaign, but no more than any number of other law students to whom the young candidate appealed. F: Before we get into that, let's finish your brief account of your career. H: I went home from the University to practice law in my hometown of Hempstead
- primarily? Me: Yes. Mu: Once the assassination of President Kennedy occurred and Mr. Johnson was suddenly President, how quickly did he contact you? Me: He contacted me at home the next morning. President Kennedy was assassinated on Friday around 1
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , you came over here with me. I just wanted to take leave of you and let you know that I am going home very quickly for political reasons that I have already discussed with you in some measure," as he had over, say, the previous two weeks, his view
- jeopardizing my own position, and so other than talking to friends and trying to influence their vote, I couldn't take any action that would smack of political activity. F: Yes, sir. So Senator Johnson, now, offered you the position as adminis- trative
- Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 was to say, ·'Yes, sir!" I didn't give it a second thought. I did point out that all my experience was in the Middle East, and I
Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb
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- to the Atlanta field office? Y: Well, I had been on the White House detail for five years; Georgia is my home; I had expressed a desire to transfer back to Georgia--you must realize that there is an awful lot of traveling on the White House detail and people
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- people's minds that knew anything about it that this fellow Dougherty could ever beat Johnson. M: Did Mr. Johnson discuss or members of his staff talk very much about his political base and broadening his political base at home? He had, of course
- that was about it. He hadn't been home; he had been very much i.nyolved with foreign policy, and when you get to that exalted position-at that time) you know, they were fussing around a lot about starting the Uni.ted Nations; Chiang Kai-shek; Madame Chiang
- then, when did you see him first? M: I saw him almost immediately upon his arrival in Washington. I think he arrived, as I remember it-F: He arrived late evening on Friday. M: Late evening, and I think I saw him at his home that night. F: What
- at this dinner and said, "How long does it take to fly back home? back home tonight." I'll go And of course that became the 1ead story for all of us: "Khrushchev threatens to go home because he can't go to Disneyland." It was like some little kid saying, "I'm
- in For example, he lived further out in Washington than we And I would say more than half of the time, maybe three-fourths of the nights, he would actually take me home, and it was a pretty good drive. We would get to visit a great deal, you see. That's
- , and Wilbur Cohen, a strong opponent of the plan. The whole Treasury department--Douglas Dillon and others--strongly opposed it. I don't know whether, if it had been handled differently, we might have been able to do a more persuasive job. I don't think
- , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: BROOKS HAYS INTERVIEHER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Congressman Hays' home, 314 2nd Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: I'll make a little introduction here, just for identification. This is an interview with former
- -480 agreements were quite long and detailed. They not only said "Build a new fertilizer plant," but "Provide facilities so that by a certain year you will be producing at home so many tons of fertilizer; and provide for the use of foreign exchange
- IS Eventually, I went into the department in the Office. I had been in the Solicitor Generalis Office a little less than a year when Ole Miss came. I recall on Sunday night I was at home, and one of my law classmates from Yale Law School--Howard Willens
- what my presence in my office could accomplish that afternoon, and I decided none. For personal reasons I wanted to be with my family, and I just got in the car and went home and spent the rest of the day with my family. The next day I began to think