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Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the little corridor that leaves the Oval Room--I was still within sight of him but was part way down the hall--he turned and called out after me that he hoped that I realized that I had just extracted this large sum of money from him and that he hoped that I
  • Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.
Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , it was very clear. B: Then, sir, both you and Mr. Johnson entered the Senate at the same time, after the 1948 election. A: Yes, there were three of us that the so-called liberals marked out for slaughter--Bob Kerr from Oklahoma, Lyndon Johnson from Texas
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • real hopes of being a possible candidate of the party in 1960? M: Yes, and he always denied it, even to his intimate friends like Bill Blair and Bill Wirtz and me. But down deep I think he still hoped. He knew that this time it couldn't
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • time, and while you were poor, you didn't intend to be poor all your life and you had hope. But the word 'poor' applied to you right then, wouldn't really have described whether you were happy or unhappy, because you were probably as happy then as you
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in tomorrow," and I did. letter was there. All right, my Russ Blandford who was afterwards executive of the Armed Services Committee--Bob Smart was at that time--worked on our committee; Russ is a retired Marine Corps major general now. The old man went
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . several times. As a matter of fact Kintner was very helpful I'd just put through a call to Bob if I was in search of some information. He was always very helpful and if he didn't have the answer he could certainly tell me where to get it. F: Kintner
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • think that Lyndon grabbed the ball just for Lyndon's sake or politics. I think he had enough friends in the academic field and in the manufacturing field that they pointed out to him the importance of space. No other man except Bob Kerr worked as hard
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would call him or when he was down would bring it up. our legislative branch: Then Jerry Persons was the head of it; the main man in the Senate was Jack Martin, who was Bob Taft's administrative assistant and knew Lyndon Johnson very well
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No, I don't think they preferred to disbelieve; I think they preferred to ignore it and hope that they could get by, but they couldn't. F: Did you get the feeling in your meetings with Senator Johnson that this was a political hot potato
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • nomination . Was this sort of a real peace gesture on his part, or was this newspaper talk? B: I have no recollection of his offering to support me for Vice President, I was always rather hopeful secretly that the President would select me as his Vice
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with companies--potential advertisers. F: He was seeking national advertisers? W: Both local and national. Most national advertisers have local interests in the Texas area. F: And so he was hoping to work through the horne office to induce local people
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • committee. He made that determination, and as a result, when he died--and I had no idea at the time he was going to the hospital that he was as seriously ill as it turned out that he was. Whether Bob Taft knew it at the time or not I just don't quite
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab." to stay. So I
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . The people who come from the universities, that are connected with the universities, or who are thought to be intellectuals . John Gardner was there, Bob Wood from HUD, who had come from M .I .T ., I was there, Alain Enthoven was there, Bill Gorham
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Alaska and Hawaii statehood? Can you recount how this bill was passed, the strategy? B: There was much more sentiment in the Congress for Alaskan statehood than for Hawaiian statehood. There was a man who was dying with cancer, and I hope he lives
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • force mixes--both from offensive and defensive sides--that would assure both sides that they had enough weapons for assured destruction. In other words, that neither side could strike first at the other side and hope to do this without having inflicted
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of their vehicles. complimentary vote to Governor Ross Barnett, who was then Governor and he was head of the delegation. Johnson. I was one of them. But we worked--several of us worked for And-- F: Did you have much hope? S: No, I wouldn't say it was a great
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and they kind of like a dead fish's tail shook hands with me. do it. Springs. I tried to provoke conversation and couldn't Finally I said, "Well, I think I'm going on up to Sulphur I'm running for Congress, I hope you remember that, and I hope you'll vote
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, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ' secretary, in hopes of seeing Jenkins when Mr. Johnson arrived in the office. my first introduction to the Senator. meeting in this respect: ~Jr. I believe that was But I think it was an important right off the bat he invited me to come in and sit down
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the table and hope that it goes by. at the time. I was inclined to speak out myself. I thought it was wrong The whole thing, you know, was developed by these two fellows that ran this Rampart Magazine up here who were inclined to produce the sensational
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Actually, we've covered a lot of the Senate material, but I hope you'll give me another opportunity to talk to you about the later years. C: Why, sure. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview IJ LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Incidentally, I must insert here into the record, it is now July 18, 1969, and Apollo 11 is right now a little more than halfway on its way to what we hope will be the first moon landing [Apollo 11 did land on the moon]. W: Yes, it is more than halfway
Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in setting about to accomplish it. I never had the feeling at any time that he engaged in any arm-twisting or put any special or undue pressure on me. I had the feeling that he simply made known what it was that he wanted and expressed certain hopes