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Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://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
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • address? Voice: Yes, sir. G: Dig it up, will you? He might be a big help to you. F: Yes, I'd be very interested. Johnson, of course, in this period became the Senate majority leader. Did that make any great difference in the operation of the Senate
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • event he was very cordial about this. I brought my mother and sister down, and he was always very gracious with people like your mother or your sister or whatever, and he made them feel at home in the White House. And I remember occasionally being over
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson before you came into the White House? H: No, sir, I didn't run into him until I came down to Washington with President Eisenhower, which would have been in January of 1953. F: Right. How soon did you become aware of him? Do you have any clear
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • home down there on 6th Street. I had a wife and two sons, little kids. born then. Bill wasn't even They'd throw bricks up on the house at night. Once they burst a window in the car and one time they cut a tire, did little old things like
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • no problems with them. F: Of course, Johnson and Rayburn both were in a sense swimming upstream in their home state. M: Right. I think Governor Stevenson knew in his heart that you couldn't beat Eisenhower in 1956. There were some of us, including me