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Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

manners when it came to trying to work with the people, and in my book that's why he succeeded so well. B: Does any of this kind of thing ever involve just blatant trading of votes-log rolling. For example--I hope this isn't impertinent--but for example

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

what times he would be in there and that he hoped to see us at that time. G: How did you first hear from him when you--? E: I feel sure that he called on the phone and said that he was there maybe for one day. This is a little bit hazy in my mind

Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was there. F: Have you seen him since he got out? G: No, I have not. F: He hasn't been down here, has he? G: He hasn't been down here. I hope to see him up there this weekend. I'm supposed to ask him to [come]. from high school. My youngest boy

Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Johnson back in the fifties when he was majority leader. F: In what capacity? Just social? S: I called on him because Mrs. Stevens was working on the Humane Slaughter Bill and I was hoping that he would support it. F: Did you have any luck? S

Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)

the President or Mrs. Johnson ever communicated any views to them. Whether they were hoping to make points because they knew this was close to the President because of his wifels activities, or what, I don't know, but they were certainly determined to resist

Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh TORP -- I -- 23 that will allow this multinational state to operate. F: You may get something viable out of that yet. T: We're not very hopeful

Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] of the whole program--are greater. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh You go for areas where your chances of success are greater and hope that once you've

Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] M: Has the Bill worked as you hoped it would? H: Oh, yes, I think it has. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -4- There've been any number of amendments. I

Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the U.N. because I thought the only hope to bring any peace to that part of the world would come through activities in the U.N. of course. F: And it did, The truce came -- let's see, when was the truce? I'm not sure just when the truce did come

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

all out because I never spent that much time in the White House. He was very fond of about my closest friend in Washington, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News. I think probably, and I hope to goodness somebody does him. M: He's on our list

Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in Illinois, and I don't think that . • . At least, I, in the small part that I played, at no time had in mind to move it. I was always trying to get it to Illinois. that the 1972 convention comes to Chicago. And I hope I think it's a great convention

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

of the council and what it was not doing for them. So it gave me a good chance to bring out all the things that needed to be done and that I would hope to do if I got elected. And all the men ran, and that day we just had--what is it? A plurality? They had five

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Crisis." Senator Kennedy said rather icily, "Which comment of President Kennedy's was that, Mr. Vaughn?" And then Vaughn couldn't remember. Then Senator Kennedy got rather annoyed and said, "I hope you"-- "you" meaning the administration

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that. would work. One is that I'd have to And I'd just go forward and hope that it And I thought that the trick on that would be to find somebody, a Negro, who knew his way around the ghetto; ideally, somebody who had been born and raised in that ghetto

Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with Holleman and John Feild, not with the Vice President. But I know that he was in constant touch with Holleman about this, that, and the other of the committee and its work. I believed he was sincerely interested in it and hopeful for it. G: He

Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

everybody else. G: Sure. Anything else that we haven't covered? M: I think we have drained me pretty dry. If I think of something I'll get in touch with you. G: Okay. You can just add it to the transcript, too. in as an appendix. M: I hope you've

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

that he had written it before he got sick and this is a little fib that I hope they forgave me. had a lot of comments on my delivery of that thing. I I don't know why. G: We heard it was very eloquent--with a golden voice. W: Anyway we had a bunch

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

hope you get Raymond to repeat that. He's getting older, and it might be that you want to let him think a little and maybe repeat it twice, but that's what he told me. G: Do you have any recollection of LBJ selling the Real Silk socks? W: Of Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a picnic--1 mean a barbecue--and I was invited. But I didn't go at that time. I had illness in the family, and I didn't go, and I did not see him any more after that. G: I see. Well, Mrs. Johnson, this has been most informative. J: Well, I hope. G

Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the deputy. Steve had hoped to be the general counsel. That was a disappointment, but . . . I was the assistant general counsel for the Community Action Program. The first assistant counsel for Job Corps LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

as you're young and able to do it, a deadline when you're working for a wire service doesn't mean anything in the world to you. You know you've got to have it in at one p.m., so you go and do something, and you hope it's right, and you do everything that you

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

are being badly served by the absence of a certain kind of military hardware, or by our strategic plans or whatever, in the hope that you'll get them changed that way. We just had a great example with [Caspar] Weinberger's letter to Reagan. The Pentagon

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

kind of trying to press for whatever- M: Well, I was hoping to get an agreement from him. Finally I just gave up on it and went ahead. But I couldn't get anything out of him. G: Really? 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

from ineptness. All right. A crackerjack, first-rate CAP team could not hope to get into the political and--the political fabric of a hamlet or a village to the degree that a good RD team could, because the RD team was--first of all it was all

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I think the convention will tear itself apart . Some of these Kennedy-pledged delegations will move and we hope they will move to Lyndon Johnson . If they do, I know that Senator Johnson has a tremendous respect for you ." F : You had had

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

reactions . The first was to simply say that the speech said nothing new, namely, to kind of try to co-opt the new elements into the old in the hope of smothering the new . And the second one was that of shock and dismay . As some fellow once said : before

Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

a very large party. We thought it would be nice if we could invite the Vice President and Mrs. Johnson. She accepted right away, and said that the Vice President hoped that he might be able to join us, but that he wouldn't be certain until the late

Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson like? Did you know her very well? C: Rebekah Baines Johnson was a princess, she was a wonderful lady. All that Lyndon could ever have hoped to be, why, he owes to his mother. She was a wonderful person, yes. G: What was she like? c: Very

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

after the Detroit situation, the Attorney General wrote each of the fifty governors indicating the bases for the request for federal troops and the procedure that would be used in requesting them. that this has had some educational value. We hope

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

conservation and what he felt his Administration had done, what he hoped the country would do, and he said, "We haven't finished yet," he made this reference. Well, this let the cat out of the bag. I had the Saylers and Jacksons and others sworn to secrecy. F

Folder, "Foster, Luther H.," Name Files, WHCF, Box F-203 (Item)

parts of the South--for example, the recent bombings in McComb,Mississippi--continuing disregard for the physical safety of thousands of Negro citizens is dis couraging to all who are working in behalf of a finer America. We hope there wi-11 be no let

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol. 6, Khe Sanh Reports, A-S," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)

Folder, "Cooperation in Space - US - Japan," Files of Charles E. Johnson, NSF, Box 13 (Item)

TO ~PROTEtT SECRETS" TO A CERfAIN EXTE~T, ·BUT fHE GOVERNMEijf~ND LOP HOPE TO REACH AN AMICABLESETTLEM~NTIN TALKS WITH THE U•S• SIDE, WHILE MAINTAININGTHE POSITION "THAT JAPAN•UoS• COOPERATION fN SPACE DEVELOPMENTis LIMITED •To PEACEFUL"USE'"• £NO· TEXT

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with with is overseas. have any impact LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] M: So your only hope is negotiation K: So there's their really cities not much we've

Folder, "Hilsman, Roger (Vietnam - Diem) (1963) [1 of 2]," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 263 (Item)

. .. • "'~t such ·a time governments perforce operat.e on .... informed hunch, . . ,~hoping only that the ~unch U1eyuse is the best one available . ·. • •But I als; thir~k that at such· a time governments must not eve:i. .. ·attempt to make final judgments

Folder, "Visit to Greece (funeral of King Paul) [1 of 2]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 2 (Item)

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 1, 25 March 1974," LBJ Library (Item)

1:P11lr.il dtl,·, .. E:1.1·111th,Di11l'!111 of th1· l . S. Conln • Trn,1s Co11111, C.011rt )111!~1 ~1.uy r•m·,• of \l,l\ors. \\Ith Bid,.ml C. Le,·, 'I Ire mosl hopeful note \\ as :.II11d, h> l'l'arl \\ illi.uns: ''The l'l lllll11,il

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 8, 15 April 1976," LBJ Library (Item)

a('repting our unfair share, with our serving as willing In her welcoming remarks, Liz Carpenter set the tone for the Conference: " ... I would hope that you "ill find perhaps a ne • Acnse of destiny \ltithin yoursehes. If \H' can do that. then this year has

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 22, 15 May 1981," LBJ Library (Item)

the reasons for the shortage. W really didn't have any authority to do anything in the voluntary alloca tion program. What could you possibly do other than call oil companies up and jawbone and hope they got the message? - Duke Ligon, former Assistant

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] The 23rd UN General Assembly, 9/25/1968, Volume 5, Tab 73," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

reason for assuming that they will not take advantage of the bombing halt. We cannot base such action on hope or prayer. We need a wink or a nod or something. A burned child dreads fire. Our gambles for peace have, in the past, dead - ended. -TOP SECRET