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

is sitting there; it inhibits conversation. You aren't getting any news out of it. You can't get any news. The news is at the stops, not while they're on the plane. Eventually he abolished it altogether, and I could not talk him out of it. He got awfully mad

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, but it was early in their careers in the House. He spoke of and was impressed by this tall, lanky, energetic man from Texas. I remember that in his words. M: You1ve indicated to me in our conversation off the tape that you and your husband made a point

Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Mills or the Ways and Means Committee or do you think you would have equal problem in the Senate at the time? R: The major obstacle was Wilbur Mills; at least that's what was thought. A lot of conversation was going on on how many votes there were

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

measures, by the progress of time, by the striving of understanding, the conversion of receptive minds became the property of second-class intellects, Sir Robert Peel became possessed of them also. He was converted at the conversion of the average man. His

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for September 1 [1966]? Well, armed with that memo, which he had that afternoon and also spending that morning, you look at his calendar and [he had] several conversations with me, one with Fowler, one with [Russell] Long, about the investment tax credit. Met

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: There are a lot of notes on this railroad strike. C: (Long pause) Prior to the ninth of April and prior to the tenth of April, we had asked--I see here in notes of April 7 of my conversations with Wirtz and Reynolds--we had asked labor if they would extend

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and very conversant with politics. And as I say, both of them were very fond of Lyndon Johnson. They held him in great respect. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin and Harold Howe II, interview S-II, undated (Item)

'• ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] ! ,, - : I 12 More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ,. ) /, \ ( .. I And now to give this conversation a balance
Conversation on "The "Federal Government's Remaining Role in Education;"

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you're going to have with almost anyone that you interview on Johnson. He was not the kind of man that after that kind of an action would start speculating on why it happened. His conversation would be entirely "for the love of God, the ox

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of associations with her and later on in life, of course, my associations with her grew closer and closer. And we had many opportunities for conversation and discussion during the remainder of her lifetime. I also knew very well [Mary W.] Molly Dewson. Molly

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

no notion to whom he had been introduced. So I would say it was at that level, the way people know public figures in Washington. S: By repute and by various brief contacts. H: And by very brief contacts and small, small conversations. I'm sure he

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, without the his tory of his relationship with Johnson; and as to what conversations and how many went on I just don't know. F: MOving ahead to '68 when you see this from a different vantage point, how did that develop in your own experience? S: Well

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but I never really reached a point where you would say, "What is he going to do in the next forty-eight hours?" G: Collins, I believe, did come down to Washington and met with you sometime. O: Yes, I do recall a conversation. I believe also
of the zip code; working with, and learning from, European mail systems; trips to Europe to learn about their postal systems; O'Brien's visit with Pope Paul VI and their conversation regarding Vietnam; efforts to improve mail service between the U.S

Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of a little disgusted at its length. But then he read it. He said, "Oh, yes, now I remember." After all that research, all I had done, and all we had done was remind him of a conversation that had taken place in the Republican cloakroom in the Senate in 1927

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and he liked him very much, but he never could understand his South Carolina accent. They would just go through a whole conversation, which Lyndon didn't understand, or so he said. Maybank was a member of an aristocratic, old South Carolina family, as I

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Oh, I suspect they knew about it.I suspect they ran into enough evidence of it. We had talked to a bunch of officers there and I think scared a number of them.I think some of them reinsured and told the government about the conversations. I don't have

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

did. They were so good! And she was a little struck by this thing, but he ate her--I think he ate the bacon. I think he ate the bacon off her plate, all the while carrying on an animated conversation with all of us, the Prime Minister, Mrs. Holt, Mrs

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

the President that he ought to invite some people over. I was one of the six who went, six or eight, and the conversation was beneficial. Well, within a month after that meeting Kent State occurred, and he called us all back into a second session. Mr. Nixon

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in a Natural Beauty message to Congress, he found that the First Lady was a very attentive and knowledgeable participant in the conversation; that she had a mind that grasped ••• This is not to say the President didn't. But I think he was more startled--Udall

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

backing among the Mc: ~ress and a good many influential and well-to-do people. In =.:-:y occasion of his being up for election, did you have any conversations with him regarding getting more support for his candidacy? F: The only time that could have

Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was--through [minority] leader to majority leader, and see that whole process unfold. Fortunately with Mr. Rayburn, the two of them were in the two top legislative offices, and of course, not that I was privy to a lot of their conversations, but just because

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 17 And the third is that he is extraordinarily sensitive and adept at diplomatic conversations. M: You mean interpersonal with foreign dignitaries? R: Dignitaries. It's often said, that oh, well, that's not his specialty

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, obviously absolutely devoted to Bird, but very, very busy. Unlike my father, he wasn't at home much, and he was not what I would call conversational. I didn't get to know him except as Bird's father. I didn't know him as a personality as I think Bird got

Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there--but certainly the Secretary of HEW-G: [Anthony] Celebrezze. M: And others, probably [Orville] Freeman for Agriculture and so on, whoever was around the table, the cabinet-level part. like this conversation took place: But something liOn Community Action we

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this vote I got Purtell back outside the center door, over there sitting against the wall, and reminded him of the conversation . I said, "Now here you're going to have an opportunity to prove whether you believe that or whether you don't . this vote

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on and interested myself through conversations with my old associates on the National Service Program, some of whom had low-level staff positions or very intermittent relationships with the task force. It occurred to me at the time, and it certainly occurred

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh any of it was anybody's pet idea that they were pushing. And they did a little research and found that other people had proposed it and it had some background, but I think it just came out in the normal course of staff conversations

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people in the room. At that time I do remember his saying how Hubert Humphrey was hungering after the job, and that he's overdoing it, and he got angry with people pressuring him on Hubert Humphrey's behalf. I remember being in conversations about

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the-G: My reading of this, plus what you've told me in previous conversations, is that he may have been too accessible on an individual basis, calling one reporter at a time in and talking to him for an hour or such, but he perhaps did not give enough

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

conversation here, are things that you might think would add dimension to what you know is in those records because you are the one who pulled them together very 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

did make a commitment ifyou came." This is what I'm saying, that Mr. Rayburn was that much of a Democrat. G: One ofthe items from the files, I'll show it to you, is a memo of a conversation between LBJ and Weldon Hart in April 1952. And it does

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really remember all of that now because I was not the one making the decisions on those. I don't really know. I'm not privy to any conversation- G: Are there any other events concerning civil rights that you recall during that time? There was a crisis

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

minutes of conversation with him and had my picture taken with him. Frankly, I was rather disappointed that I didn't get to speak with him longer, but, of course, I understood that he was very busy and very burdened, and I remember that I felt very

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

will. No reply ever came. He just chose to regard me as someone who was hostile, who was trying to make his job difficult. So we had no transition. That's the effect of it. We just had that one conversation. F: Let's shift a little bit now. Let's go down

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

just wasting my time." He didn't hold any vindictive view of these people. Oddly, enough he was far kinder toward them in private conversations than they were to him. But he quit seeing some people on the grounds that it was no good. He did continue

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, but his intense .involvement came only after December . So he would have been operating concurrently with Ball? Concurrently--but the one that I described was very particularly George Ball's operation . Conversely, though, when the big pause came up

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the Mayflower. G: Would you get together a lot with him in the evenings? J: Yes, yes. His coming was always an opportunity for a good dinner and good conversation, in which women were included, although we did not participate too much in the conversation

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

uncanny ability to call people by name and to introduce them to her other friends and tell little interesting anecdotes about them, which would get a conversation started, even in a mausoleum. The then-majority leader stood at the head of the receiving

Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

don't mind Senator. You've been very kind to give me this much time. When Mr. Johnson became President suddenly after the assassination, did you have any early personal conversations with him? A: I can't recall the first conversation I had with him. I

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