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Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there had been no previous maneuvering in that direction. H: No. F: Nothing to give you any lead. H: No. F: Did you think that the threatened liberal revolt was serious or do you From all I read and heard there was none. It came on rather suddenly
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Georgetown Law School at night. just gotten out of the navy. I started in 1961 and I had I didn't know anybody in Washington. One night at the law school after about three weeks, a fellow who always sat behind me in the contracts class, who was all duded
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a resolution was read one morning by the reading clerk who had this big old voice, you could hear him all over Austin almost, reading without the benefit of a public address system. And he said: r~e it resolved that tonight after the House adjourns
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Humphrey and Henry Reuss, as a corps of young people who would go overseas and do good things in developing countries. I stayed with the program and enrolled in Georgetown Law School at night rather than going on to the Universi:ty of Virginia Law School
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/4/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • ^ % it a fte r a ll th ese y e a r s Lyndon knew and Worked w ith FDR, we only have about two or th ree au tograp hed p ic tu r e s of h im , and how m uch we tr e a su r e them . I w an ted to be read y to le a v e on tim e for m y own sa k e , and b e c a u
  • & speeches; LBJ works hard with little rest; Johnsons to Democratic fundraiser that night; Lynda Robb relays news that Martin Luther King has been shot & died; LBJ calls Coretta Scott King & makes televised speech; evening plans cancelled & Hawaii trip
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Bill Manchester wrote in his book--he got carried away and wrote that it was a Bible that Kennedy often read at night while he was making trips. He would read this Bible at night before he would turn out his lights, Manchester said. I later tracked
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the job of waking up Ambassador Lodge at nine-thirty in the evening and telling him that. He was grumpy at first: "Why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?" And I said, "Well, sir, it's a telegram from the President with instructions about
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the French It simply means that the Viet Cong had enough of a fight with us and didn't want one with the French as well. out, we weren't stopped. As it turned I had worked all night and the night before, and going through the worst part of Zone 0
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • this hindsight that people try to put into history these days to prove that they were right. I was fascinated to read last night an article in Encounter magazine written by a man named Robert Elegant-G: He's a British journalist, I believe. H: --in which he
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an Electra, a chartered Electra; you may recall those planes. They had kind of a circular lounge right in the rear, the tail. F: Right. W: And after everything was through for the night, he'd be flying off somewhere--maybe Garden City, Kansas--be flying
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they reacted very well. One of the cute stories about the White House years is that a senator attacked the President very strongly on the floor of the Senate the day of a state dinner, and that night he was on the guest list. Of course, COpy Lyndon B~ Jobnson
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 19, 1969 M: This is an interview with Dr. Joseph A. Pechman. Institution. He is at Brookings I am in the Reading Room of the Library at Brookings where the interview is taking place. The date is March 19, 1969
Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the things I found out when I got out there is that as usual, nobody had read any of the stuff that the Vietnamese were putting out themselves on what they wanted to achieve with the strategic hamlet program. Well, one of the things they had
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that in and out a" it. By lying to the bedroom every morning as I did, I came in contact ~1 with the speech because by-and-large the various drafts were went to the President as his night reading. When I would arrive there in the morning the speech would
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • objects would be hauled through the streets at nights, and things of this kind. F: It was difficult to gauge-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on the train. And of course some of them got on late at night, some of them came in the back door. Some of them, a few of them, fortunately stood up and didn't make any bones about it, like I was doing, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • o'clock in the afternoon. body back here that night. As you know, they brought his President Johnson--of course he immediately became President--called me quite early, somewhere between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, the very next morning
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • came in, he was an old :ial of the Speaker' s , and the Speaker said, "This is one I want . " I had his Ci vil Service report because he'd been in and it was rather voluminous and I'd read a ll through it. We always c l eared them with the Bureau
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • been the White Horse Division, but it doesn't make any difference, it was the division under the 9th Corps. He said, "They gave way during the night and there's no ROK division there now. in your artillery. The Chinese are now marching in strength
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with Bob Kennedy alone in his room at the Biltmore Hotel the night before that happened, and I had no inkling. I was totally surprised. I was totally outside that, couldn't contribute anything to it here. S: There's been a good deal of speculation
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the people he checked it out with didn't know any more about it than he did, and they all read it, and they all arrived at the same conclusion. ''Well, it's okay." F: I know that the State Department and the White House go to great lengths to see
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and McGeorge Bundy, and there was Ross Gilpatric, and McNamara, and several others on the staff of the White House in the Office of Science and Technology and the Defense Department. We had been to the White House on Wednesday night to a reception and had
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at all. He used to take a stack of material down on the beach and sit there with one yeoman and read what had to be acted upon and dictate the answer right now, and out it went. He didn't even proofread it. He just dictated the answer
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh -18- At the rally he had that night in Boston, there was a big overflow rally with thousands outside unable to get in. And he had evidenced by his leadership in the Senate a refreshing and courageous, progressive leadership
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of pieces he didn't like, and he expressed himself about it. to the effect, if not directly, "~Jhat He said words you're doing is you're up here, you read The New York Times and The Washington Post, and all of a sudden you think that's the fad. yourself