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- was current at the time, he would talk about. Actually, that particular night, as on subsequent nights, he was going through his IInight reading," as he called it, and occasionally he would hand me some letter to read or something. Of course, if there were
- How Hoyt met LBJ; Hoyt’s role as domestic director of the Office of War Information; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s persuasive techniques; staying the night at the White House visiting with LBJ; LBJ’s public relations; 1960 election; Hoyt’s appointment
- with Mrs . Johnson and my wife and the President reached the point where he was detailing how he studied at night, he was associating himself with those people at West, finding a common point of interest . He detailed how at night after they had dinner why
- night or only on specific invitation, and I don't think anybody else was quite sure either. Rayburn left it vague. Tiger Teague told me once, "I' ve been baffled because every now and then he'll stop me and say, 'Why don't you come down and have
- 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, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- that argument and Hubert did get out. An interesting thing happened that night. I read the statement to Bobby Kennedy at the other Charleston hotel over the telephone. and he thanked us. About five minutes later the hotel clerk called our suite to say that Mr
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- R: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Yes, I read this last night. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I didn't even remember it until I read it. G
- the pleasure of being associated with, and I was quite close to Senator Kerr . Mrs . Kerr said, in my presence one night when I took them to the hotel after we'd been on a speaking thing, that I was closer to him than his own sons were . stop right there . F
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
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- and working relationship, and that although he was sort of on the periphery, Ted Kennedy did, too, but that something in the chemistry between Bobby and Lyndon was always abrasive . 0: I suppose from what you read now . I don't know if it was before . You
- , I thought that all was ended. I did receive from Senator Johnson a letter which I think was written after the first trial in Austin. It's dated August 6, 1960, and is a rather interesting letter. Maybe I should read it into the record, because
- was delivering newspapers in Bishop and I read in the Houston Chronicle that the NYA had been set up, and that he was going to be the administrator of it ; that you could get $15 .50 a month and go to the University by working two hours a day or some such thing
- 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
- , as I recall, was held in Mexico City--thought it was '46 but I think it must have been '47, one of the two--and I spent six weeks there, and this is what aroused my curiosity and it was then that I began my studies on Latin America, reading everything
- the steam right out of us. In that particular campaign, why, we worked all night long getting our committee plans ready. The next morning we'd read the Los Angeles paper, which was being put out with the aid of Mr. Kennedy out there, wherever he sat his
- of the byline that they read . F: B: Did you tend to travel separately or did you gang up? Some of us traveled separately, some traveled together . Most of the time Acheson of the Times Herald rode with me, I can't recall his first name . F: B: F: B: F: B
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- to the Senate--and at the time when Sam Rayburn was Speaker. Do you recall what you knew or had heard of Lyndon Johnson when you first came into Congress? A: Yes. I did not know him, of course, but I knew of him. I knew of him by reputation and having read
- ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 s: You know, you read it carefully, it wasn't libelous, but it looked like
- : When did you begin to have some idea that someone named Lyndon Johnson was in the world? M: In my book--did you read my book? F: Yes. M: I said he was going to be President. Oh, I knew Lyndon and Mrs. Johnson-- as I said before, Sam Rayburn
- normally at a night speaking where he would spend the night and take off the next morning maybe for some other area. F: Did you spend the night there or would you be busy getting to the first place the next day? P: Well, I would not spend the night
- there. visited some classes and had a tutor. I was a graduate student. I read English literature. I I wasn't looking for credits, so I could do what I \-Janted. F: Then did you come back to New York? l: I came back to New York. I was interested
- 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
- knowledge of him was almost like any, I suppose, average, intelligent man, reading the papers and being aware of him. I'd followed his career in Texas, but peculiarly enough until that afternoon, I really had never seen him in person and surely had never
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- President, sent him a copy of the bill, complimented him on his vision and having seen the merits of it. I got a very nice letter back from him on May 3, 1962, in which he says [Mr. Marks reads from the letter]: your note. "Thanks for You have good
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- said . telephone number in my room . [Sam Rayburn] Here's my private And have him contact me ." That night I went to Chasen's Restaurant . I got in touch with Bobby--I can't think of his last name right now--who was Kennedy's chauffeur
- ] spent three days in that campaigning and by the last day, I had a very rough throat, got to where I could hardly speak, and I came home on Saturday night, went to bed. no better; in fact, if anything, I was worse. The next morning I was So my wife
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- 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
- to Washington when Johnson was vice president I went to a party one evening out at Liz Carpenter's house. I had not long before read Ted White's book, The Making of a President, 1960, and he has in there a version of how the Johnson selection as vice president
- which was a record vote for any candidate for Governor on either ticket. So after he was elected, reelected Governor, the night after the election, the day after the election, I made the prediction that, in my judgment, he would be the nominee
- into the White House, and I remember the eerie feeling of going back with all the lights and Secret Service and the Presidential aura around that house. F: It changed the complexion a bit. G: Yes, and that night, Joe and Susan Mary Alsop were there. F: Who
- . Johnson said to me--we had dinner together, just the two of us, in his hotel suite the night of the speech of the, what do you call them, temporary chairman. F: Yes. R: The keynote speech, which I think Frank Church was giving. The keynote. We were
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was on the plane going out with us, and my room that had been assigned to me at the hotel there in Los Angeles had been taken over as an office, and I spent my first night in Governor Burns l suite. Then as a result of being invited by the President to serve
- a good reporter does first and foremost is, he's able to read motivation. I think any reporter who's any good can read motivation as to why somebody is bitching. Is he bitching because he's a professional bitcher? bitching because he's always unhappy
- 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
- it except as I read about it in the newspapers . Ba : If I may postpone it, I was going to ask you about the one thing you would have been involved in, the Wilson and Kosygin meeting, but if I may postpone that for a moment . B : Ba : Yes . You
- that happen? C: Well, he was a very active participant in the Little Congress, which was the organization of congressional secretaries. been the speaker of it. In fact, he had We met every Tuesday night. was very much interested in it. I, of course, I
- and had been governor of Illinois and had been helpful to Daley. But he was committed deep down in there, and this was even after that spectacular demonstration at the convention for Stevenson the night that he came out to the Coliseum. The mayor still
- not as prominent as many of the jobs you read about going to so-and-so. Mc Was this at Mr. Johnson's direction? M: I'm sure it was, although I think Mr. Macy came in under Mr. Kennedy. But certainly President Johnson not only continued his employment, but made
- and just About all it was was a ni ce 1uncheon wi th We were discussing manpower things, and I'm sure he had read LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
- in the circulars if they would read them. Of course,they got a great deal of attention from that . M: So the helicopter was an effective means of getting attention? B: Very , very effective--it was spectacular . He made stops all over ; I guess he made four
- , not necessarily as a Mexican-American organization, although then by necessity we were working on veteran's education. And then I got to know the schools and the educational system of the basic educational courses, so that night we decided we'd go ahead and get
- : Was this at night or in the afternoon? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 S