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Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it was? W: There wasn't much to talk about, because you had to plow new furrows because there hadn't been any cultivation to speak of to that point. Mr. Johnson's primary conversation had to do with the fact that if I were going to be so closely associated
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to talk to you about the War on Poverty things that you're doing in Texas." So obviously, I'd set aside a morning or whatever was necessary to listen to the Governor and we'd have a very straightforward, back and forth conversation with Governor Connally
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • someone you can talk with? C: Well, it was a matter of telling him something, and it was about a two-minute conversation. I talked to Walter Fauntroy a lot. He is someone you can talk with. F: Well, he is giving us some very detailed interviews
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • by President Díaz Ordaz in Spanish. Of course, I later told President Johnson that President Díaz Ordaz in his conversation with President Johnson remarked more-or-less as a side comment, "Well, we have finally resolved a problem that has existed for over
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it. what was on the other end of the conversation. I couldn't tell But the next thing I heard was, "Sam, I hope you'll help to try to head this thing off, because it's a bad thing." And then more conversation. Then I heard him say, "You know Sam, we
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that night. The next day was spent in various activities, swimming, bowling, and walks and driving around the compound and having relaxed conversations. In the evening John Chancellor showed us a sixteen-millimeter film which he had just taken of the ranch
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JAKE JACOBSEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Jacobsen's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: I wanted to ask you about Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism and the impact that that had
  • Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; LBJ's religious beliefs and church attendance; James Eastland's involvement in James Coleman's appointment; LBJ using a candidate's stance on civil rights and other issues as a litmus test for choosing
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • be wrong, this is just an impression, but based on conversations that I had with him and watching him move around the House. He was very quick and walked fast between here and the Cannon Building. I'd meet him in the tunnel; he'd be walking very fast
  • ; Barkley; Rayburn-Johnson conversation regarding the Democratic nomination for president; LBJ's working relationship with Eisenhower; Rayburn; Civil Rights Act; Federal aid to education; Gerald Ford
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was just taking pictures. There's nothing wrong with that." And I said, "Well, there is something wrong with that. We cannot in any way jeopardize this study by any picture taking, friendly conversations, or what have you on the part of any staff
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • information in conversation, particularly with relation to things that were political. He could astound you at the knowledge he would have that he gained out of conversation. H: In one of your other i.ntervi,ews, I thi,nk you mentioned the Congress iona 1
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But [of] all those early days before the war, I can't think of any specific conversation or anything, except I always looked forward to seeing them, I always knew he was going to be great company. But I can't think of any particular pre -war incident; it rna
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the federal programs, and don't know that we ever had anything more than a casual conversation. F: You and Johnson by sort of background would be at odds on one thing, and that is your emphasis on the strengthening of states and Johnson with a very strong
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of that conversation he explained that the top career job in the Civil Service Commission, that of executive director, was about to be vacant through the retirement of the long-time incumbent, and that he had decided that he wanted to have someone from outside
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] of that conversation. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--12 My recollection is very hazy, because I
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • said." I said, "Well, why stir it up? That was a private conversation. It wasn't something that he wanted in the press; it was a private conversation with me, and I'd hate to implicate my colleague here." They didn't use it. U: Did they? M
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • over in Lexington, Mississippi. B: Hazel Brannon Smith? C: Hazel Brannon Smith did. Oliver Emmerich in McComb did. I think that was all. B: Did you have any personal conversations or letters with Mr. Johnson in connection with the '64 campaign
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • picked up the phone and called the White House trying to set up an appointment for Dr. King to talk with President Johnson the next day. And for some reason--we don't understand how--they put him right through. So they had about an hour conversation where
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • told me to call every governor in the Northeast and offer anything we could do. And I did talk to all of them and to Mayor Wagner several times, my last conversation I guess being with Swidler at quarter to twelve that night. But I think
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of those conversations were about labor issues, repealing 14-B-G: Minimum wage, I guess. C: Minimum wage issues, unemployment insurance comp issues, whether to invoke Taft-Hartley, whether to set up mediation boards, what to do about the railroad strike
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it. (Interruption) H: He started off something like this: "Bird and I and some friends here just been sitting around and our conversation wandered to you." And I had to think, "Now, why would the President of the United States, who has a lot of things on his mind
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was chairman of the FDIC at this time, and I called Jimmy to inform him of this conversation, Saxon. And he wasn't there but his deputy, Bill [Camp]--I could get these names-G: I'll get them later. B: Bill whoever-it-was was there; he's a very good
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • some questions about the March 31 speech. Did you have any indication ahead of time that he was going to withdraw? B: Again, in retrospect, yes, a lot of them. A lot of his conversations at the family dinner table would be about how old he
Oral history transcript, Harry Schreiber, 1964, interview 1 (I) (Item)
  • , and came back. I think he flew with Harold Pease. Did he say who he flew with ••• was it Pease? I: I don't remember. Can you remember any of his reactions, or conversation on his part, what frame of mind he seemed to be in. S: Oh, he
Oral history transcript, Marjorie A. Delafield, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • you ever have an opportunity to meet him? MD: No sir, I never did. I felt like I knew him from all of our many conversations about him, but I never did meet him. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at the White House. So he was living right at the White House during this period.. I must say I can't recount any conversation--I had no conversation with him during this period, but there was a constant flow and interchange of information between the White
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • campaign manager. I particularly remember my conversation with him because I was pretty tired and I \'JaS swimming pool. staying at a Holiday Inn in Raleigh because they had a I was lying out by the swimming pool. We had a downtown hotel office
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • was told, "Go ahead and change it." So we changed it and sent it up to the Hill then. But that's the kind of thing when we have a meeting with the Budget Bureau and some other people and if you're not conversant with all the details, there's a problem
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - nent or semi-permanent in Saigon was twelve or fifteen. Now, with a group that small, there was not so much peer pressure as there was simply a gathering of versation~ reporters~ shared experiences. lunch conversation, beer con- I don't think
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: WILLARD DEASON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Deason's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 D: Since talking last I have had two or three other thoughts about our conversations and our connections
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • critical comments. He did not want to lessen his on-the-record support and yet as early as January of 1966 you see indications of my conversation with him, my report to the President by this memo, that he was beginning to express concern
Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in getting home for dinner that night so I talked with her, which is very happy making for a reporter. I talked with her from about, I guess it was a little before 8:00 until after 10:00, maybe I left at 10:00 or so. F: No difficulty in making conversation
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . He abruptly terminated the conversation, told me that he trusted I would understand that he had to go see somebody else right away, and never talked to me again anymore than he could help during the entire conference until this quite official
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think it's really just a matter of concentration, of wanting to do it, and perhaps calling the person's name two or three times in the conversation after you've just met him helps to fix it in your mind. G: How good at it was he? Was he pretty
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that every year she got more welfare money. And Johnson in a very spirited way disagreed with Mills on this, which was--normally he would just sort of nod and listen, let the conversation go on, whatever he thought. But he came in hard and disagreed with him
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Ken~~dy's last trip. D: That's right. M: Was that clearly understood as an errand for Lyndon Johnson? D: Oh> absolutely, absolutely. . I was in on the conversations in-the t-7eeks prior to the decision to make that· trip. . And Kennedy r
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that although I don't think I sat in on those conversations. G: Was it seen as a regional problem, as largely a southern, rural [problem]? D: I think it was perceived that way, yes. G: Let me ask you to just analyze the feeding programs that existed
Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . D: No, I can't say that because my association with him, I didn't have any classes under him but only through conversations. I recall talking with him in the presence of Lyndon on one occasion. It might have been more, but on one occasion I recall
Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and he believed now that the fault was mostly his. 0: Yes, he sa id that-- G: Can you recall that conversation? D~ Yes, that's true. I never gave it publicity, because I never believed in using it, a private conversation of the President, to uphold
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • apply any pressure myself in the same way that he could. on them. It's not even entirely fair to describe it as putting pressure It takes more than one conversation and one go-around to make a case on what's obviously a complicated and difficult
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second interview with Senator McGee in his office on March 10, 1969. Senator, without any preliminaries, did not you have some conversation with Mr. Johnson before you went on the Senate Foreign