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Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . B: To whom did you communicate this attitude at the time, sir? F: Oh, to audiences before which I spoke and personal conversations. B: This was during the campaign itself? F: This was during the campaign itself, yes, during the campaign itself
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I had conversations with [Abe] Fortas and with the President. I guess at three-fifteen, and then later in the day. These led to a whole series of suggestions. G: Why Fortas? Why wouldn't . . . ? C: Well, I mean, you know, we must have been
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wound up and it might not by that stage be productive at all. It could be a matter of reminiscences, conversation, projections, and talking about individual members, perhaps. G: Did you have an impression that he just didn't like to be alone, that he
Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • years that he was there. That was one way he was paying his room rent. He was very, very industrious. EG: Mrs. Hughes, you said that he would often talk with you before class. Do you recall any of the conversations, what they were about, what LBJ
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tocker -- I -~ 6 From the material that I have seen, the industry was having conversations with the Department of Commerce in 1963
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • strongly and if someone disagreed, he'd argue with them . B : Yes . G: I was going to ask you some more about those conversations that you and President Johnson and Senator Wirtz used to have when Lyndon Johnson was a young congressman . B: When he
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in April of 1968, and I believe it was on a Sunday afternoon; we were having a conversation, and he indicated that Ambassador [Llewellyn E.] Thompson had to stay in Moscow because of a number of things which were going on, including the possibility
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the conversation. There was a part of the conversation that dealt with Vietnam and dealt with how it was affecting the Democrats' chances and all of that, but I was just in and out so I don't recall making any notes on the conversation. G: Was there anything
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • had a very strange name, Lady Bird Johnson, and she said that her husband, who was a representative, was ill and couldn't come that day. This was a Sunday or a Saturday. The only thing I remember in the conversation was she said, "He's just been
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on my conversations with Mrs. Johnson and with the President. I think she really kept the President more interested than he might otherwise have been. M: That's interesting. I've heard that before, and it's an interesting insight, someone who has
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • but I could probably recall if I heard it--it's a one syllable name, I think, like Dean or Bell. This fellow seemed quite interested and told Senator Kennedy that he was going to report the conversation to Washington. And I think Senator Kennedy told
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? What did you do Does the State Department try to teach you a little bit of conversational Swedish, or do they just let you go on the way you are? And what do they do in the way of briefing? H: Well, I did not undertake to--as far as the language
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , my memory doesn't serve me on that. But I told him very early in our conversation that the very 1ast substantive conversation that I had had with Kennedy was about a poverty program. The reason I had seen Kennedy before 1eaving for Japan
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and if that's all they did, we wouldn't get very much out of the conversation because we really knew where we were going. But more often than not, the Vietnamese, because of their own personality, their spontaneity, the traits they have, were very easy to engage
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . always will. And I cherish his memory; Then Congressman Lyndon Johnson came into the office, and the Speaker asked him to sit down and he joined in the conversation. It was my concern, being a new member just starting out, should become embroiled
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have some rate adjustments ultimately enacted. Beyond that, the President was beginning to focus on the election of 1968, and I found that I was in conversations with him over 1967 more and more. Those conversations involved evaluations and planning
  • and Senate leadership and problems with the whip system in the House; the increase in concern over the Vietnam War among congressmen; the work of John McCormack, Carl Albert, and Hale Boggs as house majority whips; O'Brien's conversation with Chicago Mayor
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • said he had a job. That was one of the conversations going on in the car. The President looked into the distance and said, "A well patient does not need a doctor every day, and a doctor needs more than one patient to say competent." I remember sort
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No recollections regarding ambassadorial appointments or anything--? W: No, I don't know, because my boss was very secretive and I never heard the conversations. I guess the conversation was mostly by phone. G: And then after President Kennedy's assassination
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • senators. But I think primarily during this period the thing that surprised me is how many times I talked to people or they talked to me about the gas bill and reported on their conversations with [Albert] Gore or [Stuart] Symington or different senators
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the most revealing would probably be the discussions, conversations, that took place between Robert Kennedy and the President during that period of time. I'm not sure within that given framework whether this included the time that Senator Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in the price area. This led to conversations with the President in which he wanted me to, as far as the price of milk was concerned, to see if it was something we could move aggressively in the antitrust area against some of the big companies. There was--and I
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview S-I, 7/12/1968, by Jack Broudy (Item)
  • Conversation with Samuel Halperin; "The Federal Government's Remaining Role in Education"
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • INTERVIEWER: William S. White DATE: May 8, 1968 W: This is the conversation between Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois, the Republican leader of the Senate, and William S. White. It's being made on May 8, 1968. Senator, you've known President
Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , it was the original Corcoran Gallery of Art, that it would have been far more efficient to tum the building back into a gallery of some sort, rather than to modify it into other purposes as an office building. In this con- nection, as a result of a conversation
Oral history transcript, Claud Kellam, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • was an uncle of mine, Jim Cage. Knowing that Lyndon was werking with Kleberg, and Jim Cage, Mother's brother, and Kleberg beins ;ood friends, the conversation popped up rather easily. My most direct knowledge of anything that the President in at that time ccp
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a series of conversations, I believe--at different intervals, during 2 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to get much done in the wake of that report. But my recollection of conversations with President Johnson is that he also wanted to really shake up the television networks and the communications business, the broadcasting business and he put Nicholas
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • second-guess de Gaulle on the contents of a mano a mano conversation on the first day out is overstretching, even Lyndon. Anyway, at least that kind of "I'll show them" [attitude] is a part of it. It's not the only part, not the largest part
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • trying to fit them into a salary slot, because that's too long and complicated. After having asked if they were this thing or something else, then if I got inside I'd start a conversation. I said, "What is this office? I was looking for this other one
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conversations with them up to that point had been conversations on some--on what was happening. Now they were after is, "What is Johnson like?" G: Yes. How would you define your official responsibilities during this period? R: That period? The same
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but there were relatively minor in nature . M: Did he ever comment to you, either at the convention or later, about the nature of the vice presidency, his opinion of it? B: No, not in a personal conversation, nor did I have any occasion to be present in groups
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XI -- 4 about it. Sometime after Watts or at some other point I do remember him in a long conversation talking about violence
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in, and there were. some . quiet whispered conversations. I said to Arthur Schlesinger, ~ . who was standing by me, "How do you feel about complying with the President's request? Are you going to stay?" He . said, ~·1 don't know whether he wants me
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the money." That's always in political campaigns. I'm sure your conversation with Louie Martin revealed that in that area there was a particularly unique approach to this. G: At the time there was a lot of press speculation that you might replace John
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that because we didn't want the President looking like he was running around with an elephant gun. In some conversation I had with the President early on I said we really needed to know something about the copper market, and as I went around the government, we
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • either the relationship with the Soviet Union or the peace process in Vietnam to the results he had hoped to achieve by the end of his presidency. We had many conversations about that. I remember that in November, probably during the Thanksgiving period
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JOHN A. GRONOUSKI INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: The subjects that haven't been talked about that I think are important--the conversation with the Red Chinese which occurred I think
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • • knowing it, because you can't be around anybody as catalytic as Lyndon Johnson and not be swept up into it. I think that she has had the best teacher in the world in government, in really practical government. She has probably heard more conversations
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to go for Kefauver instead of for Humphrey . I guess I didn't really know the result because I think the roll call started after that caucus . But any rate, my conversation with Brooks Hays was just as the vote had started and before Arkansas' name
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a 10 per cent surtax. K: Yes, well, I had a number of conversations with the President about that but didn't of course play any role in the dynamics of that situation. But I do know that getting a tax [increase] was one of his high priorities