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Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

to five-thirty, and then I came up at night and I would take what they call the graveyard shift, eight to twelve. At that time they put the 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and into the night, that I think that's one of the reasons that I can't remember very well. There were too many things going on. As a result of the 1941 campaign for the United States Senate, which Mr. Johnson lost by a very, very few votes, he became a statewide

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in for a long night and perhaps a long aftermath . The report of his shooting was confirmed to be the grave wound and then soon thereafter a fatal wound . By one of those accidents of history, a representative of the Co.=unity Relations Service, Jim Laue

Folder, "October 18, 1967 - 7:30 p.m. Rusk, McNamara, Katzenbach, Rostow, Kissinger, Fortas, Taylor, Clifford," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT lom FROM: Torn Johnson Attached are the notes of your Wednesday night meeting, in the Cabinet R oorn. (J)(JJ.;Jl/!j /4, 1, I 1 Those that attended were: Secretary of State Dean Rusk Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara

Folder, "August 4, 1964 Leadership Breakfast [1964 Leadership Notes]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)

·7Zl "Put that on my desk - I'll need it every day." LBJ:JRJ 8/27/67 - THE Wt"flTE HOUSE WASHINGTON August 25, 1967 Mr. President: Here is a revision of the notes for the Leadership meeting. There are a few places even my friend could not read

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

died and Lyndon Johnson announced one Sunday night, I think it was, for his place. This was a special election and there was no primary involved, no run-off, just winner take all. The next day, Sam Fore of Floresville and Denver Chestnut, with whom
“Who the hell is Lyndon Johnson?” Martin Harris; Ray Lee; basic strategy for LBJ; Lady Bird; headquarters in Capital National Bank Building; LBJ meeting with FDR; Maury Maverick; LBJ’s illness; Ben Crider; hillbilly; election night; radio station

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to come in at night--like you get in after ten o'clock at night and write out a memo to President Johnson about what you're going to do the next day when sometimes the weather dictates [what you do]. I think farming is something that you do just sort

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

reading light, make sure there was an ashtray handy everywhere, and, in the living room, wherever he was going to sit, a good reclining chair, with a good light by it. We put the brass bed up in Aunt Georgia's room. The bed that was in Lyndon's and my room

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 asked me if I would come out and help them with telephones and mail because I knew the family and the personal friends and So forth, so I did at night time and then through the days and So forth. And when

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

she did read a lot and she had a habit of reading in bed at night. She nearly always took a book to bed with her. G: In some of the letters that you exchanged you send her clippings of things that you wanted her to read and she talks about, I guess

Oral history transcript, Josefa Baines Saunders, interview 1 (I), 12/28/1964, by Juanita Roberts (Item)

: - -and we would go into Fredericksburg and at night we would go to a ll the country dances and , oh, we just had the time of my life. Of course, I was at that age where everything, you know , appealed t o you . Mrs . Roberts: Yes , and the young couple
Biographical information; Baines family; LBJ’s birth; George Johnson; The House and Furnishing; Ruth Amet Hoffman; Joseph Wilson Baines; Natural Breeze; Lyndon’s room; Mrs. Johnson reading to LBJ; move to Johnson City; Murphy Bed.

Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and everybody would be, you know, putting it together and stapling and doing all sorts of things. he was still in the Senate Cha~ber; out to see how things were going. If it was late at night and he would corne in and But we were all around. I don't know

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was that night I stayed in a rat-infested colored YMCA and all of my other classmates stayed at Purdue. I felt that despite the fact that I was performing quite well at Purdue that engineering was not really the vehicle for social change, and even if engineering

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on these speeches--doing the editing on them, doing some of the writing on them late at night, and needed help. come down. So he asked me to I assume that he had read my book and had had that experience with that Indianapolis speech, and that he was the driving

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me to Texas. never understand this. Kennedy could Kennedy always thought that I should be going to Texas and always thought that I should.be travel ing with him. thought somehow that Lyndon Johnson belonged to me. He One Sunday night we were

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

impossible to have prepared it. Well, it would have been possible to prepare that night. It was a rather simple resolution, if you go back to it carefully and read it. But it may be something that they had prepared simply because, you know, the Pentagon's got

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they come up. This was one of his great weaknesses, his failure to realize that one thing leads to another, that when you do something you get a headline out of it. Now the headline may disappear, but six months later it can bob up on you, like, "Read my

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

talking about the other Linden Johnson who owned the Dynasty Shop. But back to my story about the eighty shirts. He bought eighty silk shirts in Hong Kong, and he brought them back and they were beautiful, just beautiful shirts. One night I was over

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

my family closer to where I think they were going. We were all going on a rafting trip down the Salmon River or something of that sort. I got on the plane to fly throughout the night, and it happened that Wayne Morse was there, on the plane. I sat
sources of information, such as the Office of Economic Opportunity and Tom Bradley; visiting Newark, New Jersey, to talk to citizens about rioting; John Lindsay's involvement with the Commission; the chain of command within the Commission; late night/early

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

association. F: I don't know lowell Limpus. C: Lowell Limpus is now dead, but Lowell Limpus was night city editor and military expert of the News, and it is my opinion that out of that genesis came much of the Roosevelt Administration, at least press-wise

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 83, January 2004," LBJ Library (Item)

Connally's widow ellie shared her memories or the JFK assassination. peared, we have been besieged with re quests for interviews. I can·, do any m re than they already have me doing. They'll just have to read-the-book." Bui she began with a still older

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of it. across the street from the con- hall, for three days and three nights, something like that, and tried to work out a compromise. Humphrey was very deeply involved in working out that compromise; he'd sit with us, counsel with us. Reuther came

Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 those in the past? There has been quite a lot of writing about the disturbances there in Chicago. Bu: I know. I've been reading. But I feel frankly that were

Folder, "Diary: Vol. #4, 5/29/64 – 12/28/64," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 9 (Item)

. where I spent the night with John Duncan and four Commissioners of Agriculture from Sowth Carolina., Florida., Georgia. and Tennessee .. John· arranged this party. a little We did a little story telling, fishing -- a little and generally built

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/8/1968 (Item)

t Gordon Charles Schultze (They asked fo r th e meetin g s o the y coul d mak e a courtes y call an d express thei r feeling s abou t the President' s announcement las t Sunday night. Marc h 31st . ) 12:26p Presiden t int o mjdr' s offic e t o look

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/18/1968 (Item)

B. JOHNSO N r 18 , 1968 DIARY resident bega n hi s day at (Place ) th Time Telephon In Ou 10:19a f y (includ e visite d by ) Rico et Mik e Guajardo , Sa n Juan, Puerto , reportin g read y o n the cal l th e President ha d made t o him last

Folder, "March 5, 1968 - 1:14 p.m. Tuesday luncheon meeting - Rusk, Clifford, Wheeler, Helms, Taylor, Rostow," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

not want to stap up the military side of this. CLARK CLIFFORD: How about the impartial tribunal? SECRETARY RUSK: They were outraged by the idea. The Pueblo problem seems to have dropped out of the press. I would not hurry this. THE PRESIDENT: last night? O

Folder, "[April 2, 1968 - 8:42 a.m. Congressional Leadership Breakfast]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

Long Senator Robert Byrd Speaker McCormack Congressman Carl Albert Congressman Hale Boggs Postmaster General Larry 0 1 Brien Barefoot San ders Mike Manatos Jim Jones The President opened the meeting and read from the agenda (a copy of which

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/29/1967 (Item)

:40a 12:12 ;! Activity weight: ' l 29, 1967 f , ; , ___«. ; , _ , , _ , Watson (pl)--The President asked for a copy of a Lincoln Gordon memo which been in night reading last night. (MW got it from WWR and sent it in) ' Statement

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/2/1965 (Saturday) (Item)

on th e ir T V ." So the afternoon fo r Lyndon was State of the N ation, night reading*, and then telephone c a lls, and a b it of a nap. And then we asked the B ill W hites, only re c e n tly back from R om e, the V alentis, M arianne M eans and f h

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 2/26/1942 (Item)

! would say it 1e definitely favorable and thltt it would baP, en within the next two w·eeka. Tomorrow morning I a going to ga oft a:n airmail letter to fay,o r Miller tellinr:; him of our con e:r tion. Malcolm is coming by to read it and dele ~e or make

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of real good They didn't need any more, but Tom's idea of how you handle a case like this was to get a million good lawyers and then something would come out of it. That's not my experience. So I went over and we worked all afternoon, all night

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/19/1968 (Item)

legislation. Had his night reading from 5/18 in which he had some matters about tax leg. Gav e Diana a few instructions about th e ones which were ready to return to files. 1968 VHITE HOUS E dat e Sunda y DENT LYNDO N B . JOHNSO N DIARY Ma President

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/7/1966 (Item)

for night reading Joe Califano to office Bob Wallace. Special Assistant to Secry of Treasury , (b-4--only last part of call) Cong. Adam Clayton Powell- -(b-5) Returning the Congressman's call of earlier in the evening while President was still with guests

Folder, "Diary: Vol. #8, 6/6/67 – 3/29/68," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 11 (Item)

resolved to get a minor in teaching which I highly approve. over the hump and doirig well. East war. She certainly is We had a long discussion tonight about the Near I know little about it except what I read in the newspaper and my own conjectures

Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Texas on adjoining farms. They had nine children, too, so I had nine double cousins. You may have read recently--this is off the subject--but about a little girl, a baby girl, that was kidnapped up here on the lakes. I think it was Johnson Lake

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

that normally the cattle, the farmers' cattle, grazed for free. So there was a great conflict that took place there, and the farmers were out at night cutting those fences. The ranchers had their fence riders and they had shootings from time to time. But bad

Oral history transcript, Elaine Fischesser and Ellen Taylor Cooper, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1967, by Douglass Cater (Item)

with a book in her hand and either dried figs or . dried peaches or dried apricots over on the side, munching . them. That was very characteristic. She was very fond of reading and at a very early age was reading books that you would not .expect a person
Mrs. Fischesser first encounters Lady Bird; Lady Bird's Aunt Effie; Lady Bird's love of reading; Mrs. Fischesser's first encounter with LBJ; Mrs. Cooper's first encounter with Lady Bird; Nettie Mason Patillo; Mrs. Cooper's first encounter with LBJ

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it . thinking about it, I don't believe so . And Maybe it could be read into it, but I don't think it was a--never in my consciousness was it a conscious decision or discussion . Now certainly Johnson's behavior there was very open and direct and he

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of their lawyers who I think did some work for the Johnsons. And John Connally became a member of that law firm for a time, and John did some law work. So starting in 1944 most of my representation, as I told you the other day, was to read [speeches] and confer

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