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Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Folder, "NSAM # 212: U.S. Policy Toward Yugoslavia, 12/14/1962," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • . These included the airlifting of an army field hospital, medicine and supplies, the erection of 253 Butler pre-fab buildings, and the provision. of "US-owned" PL 480 local currency in the equivalent of $50 million, half as a loan and half as a grant
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as anybody else. He wasn't too aware of it. I'm sure, it probably had been discussed in the White House, but not in the State Department. You know, it was also then that President Johnson took away my cook and butler. And he's still with him at the LBJ Ranch
  • to Bolivia; LBJ taking Castro's butler to work at the LBJ Ranch; Castro's relationship with Bolivian president René Barrientos; Che Guevara and Jules Régis Debray in Bolivia; the CIA's possible involvement in Che Guevara's death; Che Guevara's diary; Antonio
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was invaded by two thugs \'/ho shot and nearly killed the butler, \'Iounded a footman, and were apprehended. [Sergio] Fenoaltea was the Ambassador at the time, and he came \'Ihite-faced to see Katzenbach, who was then attorney general. Department. I was his
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of unpleasantness between them towards the end. G: Do you remember any of the bills aimed at curbing the power of the Supreme Court, like the Butler~Jenner I think it was, [sponsored it]. bill or the HR 3? Howard Smith, Johnson's role seems to have been one
Folder, "Johnson, Lyndon B. [1940]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 10 (Item)
  • , Houstin, and c. E. M. Wednesday evening B: Saw Manager Butler by accident yesterday, and he said, 11 Things are looking stormy. I doubt if we can carry Harrison County for G arner." Ms Did Butler think he was talking to a Roosevelt sympathizer1 Bs
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • sixty years old and radios have been for just young men anyhow. Time for me to get out." So I sold it to Roy Butler for cash and moved to Washington where LBJ appointed LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the White House. I We never did him the disservice of saying that he was fired, although he had had his verbal blows with Bess and J. B. West. I'm not sure what happened. F: Who's J. B. West--the butler? C: He was the head usher of the White House
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 4, May 1-27, 1964 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • -6:18 H. E. Romulo Betancourt April 27 11 :06-11 :23 Indira Gandhi 5:30-5:51 Eric Williams - Tobago April 29 10:50-11:05 11:20-11:28 11:3.6-11:40 R. A. Butler CENTO Foreign Ministers PM Erkin THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON February 11 - May 5
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • to know the butler's name is Johnson, and he has told me when I need him.. this. /I She did it, I think, to amuse me about So presently a very nice colored servant appeared with our breakfast, and his name was indeed Nr. Johnson. Well, I'll \'/ait
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember two plays that we put on there. One was The Importance of Being Earnest--done very well, I thought. believe that Bird was in that as a butler! I I know Helen Bird was excellent as Lady Bracknell, and one of my other good friends, Harriet North
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and then they landed down on the White House lawn and wen': right on over to the Executive Office 'Juilding, and I asked him who he saw. He said, "Jo·e, frankly, this was my first time, and I didn't know butlers frmn VIP' s. S: They all looked alike to me." I thin
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 90, January 2009," LBJ Library (Item)
  • service employ­ ees and former staffers at the ranch, traded stories. Eighty-eight-year-old James Davis, who was hired in 1959 by the Johnsons as a cook and served the family as a kind of butler until his widow, Lady Bird Johnson, died last year
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Folder, "Farley, James #1," Papers of Drew Pearson, Farm Series, Box F 437 (Item)
  • haa had ganir o! them. ' some have had a whole Toe Ohio gang In th Harding rava ed e days ot Warren Ga ruthlessness ttat ~verument departments -~~ machine. Coolidge i;:e nea.r wr~ the entire Hoover had Walter Br!~ his Wllllam B. Butler a mAchlne boSS
Folder, "S. Con. Res. 91, Guatemala [2 of 2]," Files Relating to Senator Johnson’s Legislation, Senate Papers, Box 297 (Item)
  • not an American program,• s~ George •• Butler, a dedicated young man in charge or·tne Point roar mission 1n El Salvador. • "We are· actually- tr.,1ng to work ourselves out ot a j~, a4 makll th:1.11wholly- a Salvad.orean aans .first ahOlr•" Butler works in cJ.oae
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at least. There was a butler, or a footman I should say, behind every other person at the table, and they would move precisely to serve the courses in and out, very, very beautifully done, regimented. I couldn't understand how they could do it so well. I
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Butler, Binion Andrews, Kurth was a medium-sized, good, very, very conservative law firm, ultraconservative law firm. I don't know how you would characterize Fulbright, Crooker as a firm. would guess it was probably more liberal than the others. I
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wright -- I -- 28 G: Is that right? W: Yes. But it was just a way of stalling, really. the butler, "Well, just
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to have some Republican help in this. Whom did you work with most closely in trying to get this thing set up so that the Republicans could carry more than their share of the --? D: Senator Butler, who was chairman of the committee, turned this problem
Folder, "Gen PU 1 / FG 731 [Publications / President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity]," WHCF PU Subject Files, Box 33 (Item)
  • Opportunity. The fourth Task Force, on conferences and ublications, Commissioner William Graham. Kendrick, is under the supervision of Working on this Task .Force are Robert Gale, of the Peace Corps, Miss Katherine Ellickson, George 0. Butler. and Ofield
Folder, "Black National Movement - FBI Report - File #3," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 14 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and immediately Yuki and de Gaulle tangled. The second de Gaulle was, and is, either mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed; we've never figured out what it is, but he's not a fighter. So we called for the butler to retrieve him, and to take him away
Folder, "Johnson, Lyndon B. [1948]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 29 (Item)
  • here. 2--Please deny you met with Butler and st.rnes when war time Governor, to plot over-throw of war time President Roosevelt • . Please Ytire your xxxx c ounty campaign Ub.W:Lger name of fourth ma.n in room amd your denial . Roy Lumpkin 3--Please
Folder, "Legislative Struggle - Vol. II [2 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 3 (Item)
Folder, "President's European Trip Briefing Book - June 1963 (I)," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • will be able to resist for loll?; the anticipated increasing demand that he step down. R.A. Butler, the Deputy Prime Minister, with a reputation for rock-like integrity, appears to have the inside track to succession if there is a change in leadership before
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . The President should get ideas from everyone--from his butler, if he wants to. The only request that I have of you is that if you put an idea to the President, please send me a copy so that I will be able to comment on it if the President wishes my view
Folder, "Marsh, Charles E. - Writings [1940-1941]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 10 (Item)
  • with the President because of his honesty. He lives in t he country with a Jap butler on a nine hole golf course which he loves. He is constantly being called upon for policy decisions. And he has got too big for his britches as far as this deal is concerned
Folder, "Young, Harold [1940]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 12 (Item)
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 100: Oct. 16‑22, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 41 (Item)
Folder, "Marsh, Charles E. - Special writings [1940-1946]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 10 (Item)
Folder, "[Part 2 and Notes][removed from binder] 1941," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 15 (Item)
Folder, "Cables, [Cables, memos, reports, and other material, 11/63-5/67] Vol. XV, 8/1964," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 7 (Item)