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Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh What can I do for you?" The President insisted on that sort of thing. I think the staffing operation kept that in mind--the importance, the indispensability of the congressman and the senator. F: How did you prepare his night reading
speeches; election day; staff schedules and duties; the appointments secretary’s power; night reading; Walt Rostow; diplomatic luncheons; speechwriting for LBJ.

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of comparison. ;.J: Did he spend a lot of time in personal camaraderie with the press on trips like that, long monologues or late night discussions, this type of thing? A: .iot in my presence. I think he may have with some of the regular White House

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

you mentioned was the other crisis that you would like to talk about, there are a couple of things that seem a little incongruous. On television the other night, for example, a history professor at Georgetown, I think, named [Hasham] Sharabi, said

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

during the day and then at night when he retires the staff goes to work on the next day. get any sleep! So they never But we took off and Air Force One had not been airborne more than--oh, I would imagine--about an hour when I got a summons from
when talking to foreign dignitaries; LBJ’s ability to read or hear vast amounts of information and retain it; LBJ’s treatment of staff; Food for Peace and giving wheat to India while negotiating for agricultural reform; B.K. Nehru; how LBJ hid his true

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

will not permit you to go to Cairo; and I am very much opposed to your departure." As these little ironies of fate happen, as it worked out, we happened to run into Bill and Betty Fulbright, it seemed to me, almost every night during those several weeks. M

Secretary McNamara that Mrs. Anderson should go to Vietnam. what arrangements can be made about this." See So I was pleased and thought probably after a couple of months I might hear from him or something about it. When I got back to New York that night

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

crisis of great importance that lasts for a period of time 1 L: In that particular thing the President was kept fully informed at all times as to what was going on, partly by the Secretary personally at these Tuesday luncheons. We would get reading

. commanding personality. I He was obviously a very I remember the surprise that I felt that he also had so much charm which I hadn't read about or hadn't realized. P: You are a very close friend with the Vice President, Mr. Humphrey. A: Yes, I've known

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, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of is in the opposite direction. It was a pOSition, I'm sure, that the President read beacuse he was, you know, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

also made a trip to Vietnam in 1961. Did you ever have occasion to talk to him about his trip there? J: No, I didn't. I never had a chance to talk to him about that trip. have read about it, of course, and read reports on it. I But I haven't

think that these did make an impression on those Bulgarians that were, you know, able to read and got the message. I think it had a pronounced effect, and I know, I rememeber that one of the things which I assured all the Bulgarians who did calIon me

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