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Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that Moyers was undercutting Johnson, a sort of a secret Kennedy agent. That's ridiculous. In the many conversations we had with Bill Moyers, he never said an unkind thing about Lyndon Johnson. He did give out information without checking with Johnson

Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the defensive, because what do you do? I've often thought about this. I was completely convinced that I was right. I still am. G: Where were you when this conversation took place? M: In the ground floor of the White House, just off the East Wing. I ask

Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it was propaganda or for real or what. G: Did you find out why he was there? Mc: He didn't go into any details with us other than we just had a conversation mostly about how many Texans and what all transpired, and with that, I sort of promptly forgot it. I

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. I have strong feelings about it and have heard him talk about it on one or two occasions. It's defensive. They were against him-- B: His conversations about it are defensive? M: No, I mean his relationships to them is defensive. What he has done

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that's important about the vice president is the succession." He wanted--I never wrote him a memorandum on it, but in conversation I told him that I had made a little check and that this business of the vice president breaking ties was really virtually

Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and was appointed district attorney over there. R: Well, the name's familiar. G: Okay. R: So we get back then when Coke decided to run for the Senate after he had left the governor's office. I had a conversation with him, he told me, and I said, "Well, count

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or a small group of people to be with him and have long conversations, and Lyndon sought out those times. One stopped and changed and spent a while in St. Louis, and they early had good friends there who would come join them at the station. G: Also

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)

only speak English and that I think was a big drawback. It is one of the things that is a very sizeable asset to be able to converse in two or three languages. And also I argued against and felt sorry about the fact that those poor Chiefs of State

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the attorney general, didn't want to give him any cases. I don't know how many conversations I had with both the President and Clark on this subject, and Dirksen, on the issue of giving them work to do. Dirksen felt enormously embarrassed because he said

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as the administration was concerned. Ribicoff considered them, in my conversations with him, to be--I mean he agreed that they were critical of the administration but he thought they would help get more funds into the cities. I think it's fair to say we thought

Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

and conversation. I was fortunate to be among that group and some of my fondest memories are of those occasions when we'd all gather at one of our houses or in our backyards--the Jesse Kellams, the Bill Deasons, the John Connallys, Jake Pickle and Sugar Critz

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, enormous. M: Is this just the converse of the way it was with Kennedy, that Kennedy came over well on television and in private-- S: Yes, absolutely, in private, disaster. I don't mean a disaster, but he was, first of all, ill at ease with men of power

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of that? Was there any carry-over into the period when you came in? After all, you came into the press shortly after that. H: Yes, there was some. Because I think of all the conversation and the people that were involved and what they said, you'd have to say

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

more conversation, and she said, "Well, it bothered me a great deal, especially after his heart attack. I used to try to control him and try to get him to do things and not to do things. But I finally made up my mind that it was making it worse

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

used to give a great deal of difficulty although it hasn't in recent years. In the course of our conversation, he said in a joking way, "I want you to get over on my side and work for me where you belong." I thought he was kidding, and I said, "Make

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

his work on the West Coast? J: Yes, but I don't recall exactly what he said, and I remember not understanding a lot of it, because a lot of it was conversation with John who was with us, who was working with him. I guess he had been assigned as his

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There was conversation but not from Shivers, I don't think. I think just some of the people, some of his cohorts, wanted to see the strongest person they could think of run. G: In April LBJ issued a statement really blasting TrlJTlan 1 s seizure of the steel mills

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall any of their conversations here, and did Mr. Johnson ever talk about that with you? J: No, but I think he felt that Russell almost had to do it, because he had been in an effort to get the nomination himself. It would be a serious mistake

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he ventured to call upon him and had a lengthy conversation in which he impressed the old gentleman. But Lyndon always had a lot of respect for older men, successful men in the field in which he was interested. He wanted to learn from them, and he got

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

; could take dictation lickety-split, and the fact that he was a man made him all right to be in Lyndon's bedroom at twelve, one, two, taking shorthand and, you know, avoid a lot of conversation that you didn't need to have on the part of opponents

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

or any conversation with Mr. Johnson between November 22 and the end of '63. B: Also, at that time, I would assume that, particularly in the Justice Department here, there was a good deal of immediate shock, but as that began to wear off, did you hear

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

called after. There were some conversations before, but he called after. He did this the next morning at ten or eleven o'clock. No contempt proceedings of any significance developed. There was some talk about it, but we didn't ever develop them, and he

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, sir. She had her own PAC. Yes, she did. G: Conversely, did she contribute to the opponents of senators or House members who opposed health legislation? C: I don't know. I'm going to guess that she did, because Mike Gorman was her guy. And I said

Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't remember either Senator Russell's or Congressman [Carl] Vinson's exerting any effort on behalf of a Georgia site. It may be that they did, and my memory is just blank on it, but I don't remember a single conversation on the subject of that. I've

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, who was the dean of the law school of the University of Notre Dame. But then I think this conversation about the White House Conference on Civil Rights, there's a very elaborate paper in there about what he was supposed to do and what he was supposed

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

brother and getting Martin King out of jail. He knew all of that, but I just couldn't talk to the man. He expected you to carry all the conversation. So when I got into this-- Tape 2 of 2 So when I began to seriously contemplate running and also began

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

primary were supporters; that is the best sort of politics. When you're just running around speaking to an audience on the square or some audience that just comes to hear a political speech, you may be talking to people who are hopelessly beyond conversion

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

] around the President. He's a quiet kind of man, and they never had an easy conversational relationship. It came his turn and he made what I 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as relations with people who were for or against him were concerned. H: No, I didn't intend to leave that impression. I remember I've heard Jim Ferguson, say on campaign speeches and personal conversations, "If you're not for me, you must be against me." I

Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: Did he try to get you to go? J: On, yes. G: Before we turned on the tape you described the conversation that Yes. took place between you and [LBJ]. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

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

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of lectures and conversations with them as to what to expect and what our reaction should be. B: Has there been any thinking in the Justice Department toward establishing sort of a permanent but floating force of federal agents of some kind to handle