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Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on national problems in the department and did not want to take on the position. I said that if the President determined that that's what he wanted me to do, I served in his administration and I would take the assignment. Stemming from that conversation were

Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that happened. mentioned it to me. I don't think Lyndon Johnson ever even Our conversations in those days, indeed nearly always, were on pretty objective matters, generally, on policy, on politics, in an impersonal sense. Johnson never talked to me much

Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

elections or something. It wasn't his own election, I'm sure. F: No. W: Well, time went on, and of course he was supposed to be at our big banquet. We didn't advertise the thing, but we did converse with LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think this is where we, Russell and I, became very close, and I think part of it was because of a conversation we had one night about the whole strategy of this MacArthur thing. Because the accordian ended way back in Moscow, that was the real trouble

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. thrown there together. So I had to converse with him, go over what we were doing and so forth. G: Would you say that it was that year, 1951, that you and LBJ sort of developed an alliance? B: Yes. I think because of his position, being the deputy

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

conversations . Of course, it wasn't too long until war came known as members that were strong for defense . on, and he and I were As a matter of fact, he was on the Naval Affairs Committee when I became a member of Congress . My recollection is that in May

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at a in on this French lady, and pretty soon all of them were seated table and they were carrying on a highly animated conversation . Bodard said, "Their husbands jumped tonight at Dien G: Wow! B: I wrote a little column piece about that one time . And Bien Phu

Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

' v e always felt was a candid and, as far as I know, accurate summary of the conditions as they existed at that time on many subjects. Ordinarily the chief topic of conversation was the Vietnam War, but he also would talk about the financial affairs

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 worked out to be anything. And then it was a general conversation during that half an hour about speeches and image, and television, and Newsweek and things like

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

thought he was her friend, and she was annoyed when Lyndon wanted to monopolize the conversation with him, because she wanted to. (Laughter) I think it is the only time I ever saw Lyndon spank her, is when he was trying to get her to leave the room and let

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

would stick by your guns, he would go with what you told him. G: Well, that jibes with what I've heard from other people. H: Yes. I had a conversation with Arthur Schlesinger about a year ago, who was down here as a guest speaker for us, and he told

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be surprised if he did. G: Do you recall anything along this line? H: I know there were conversations between Kennedy and Shriver that winter but I have forgotten anything I might have been told about them. There was at least some continuing Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Jenkins - XIII - 9 J: I remember that Senator Johnson, who had the responsibility for naming the Democrats on the censure conmittee, spent a lot of time and a lot of thought and a lot of conversation in naming those members, with the thought in mind

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was certainly one of the most time-consuming and heatedly argued things of several years, but you well remember all about it. But it filled the newspapers and it filled the Texans' conversation. I remember going down to the Supreme Court one day and sitting

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the pleasure of a conversational meal. But I never really made a sale. He said, "If you had worked your way through school like I did, in full college course, four years in two and a half years, and carried a forty-hour work week," then he'd rattle off all

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

of the southern senators, and he just thought it's just going to be better for them if finally, now, when we are within grasp, we fail to rise to it. Just on that basis, just on the basis [of] his conversations with me, he thought it was best for the South

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

through lots of conversation about how we happened to agree on this, why this was that and so forth and so on, and that then became the speech. M: After the speech was made and was favorably received by Hanoi, was there any question at all during

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. With the development of that greater strength in our whole domestic structure we are better able to withstand attacks from without. And the converse of that is that if the structure of our country begins to deteriorate internally, then is the time that we had better

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

Johnson Foundation money, they had other needs at the Library and so on. I really was feeling that I'd about come to the end of the road, and after a number of conversations Spurr finally said to Ross--Spurr is president and Ross is provost--that he

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

evaluating the initiative which was returned to Secretary Rusk with your notation "as per our conversations." Is this of any importance, or is this a fiction of Kraslow and Loory? B: I don't remember. I'm just not in a position to recite. M: Were

Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that concept. G: What did the task force members think of LBJ? H: That's a good question. I don't know that I could generalize for you. Surely I cannot recall conversations of that sort now. I mean, I can talk about I guess having ~ own individual

Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the meeting and the conversation, and it was decided that he would take on O'Daniel. So he got everybody that he knew, and held kept a good list of people who had been interested in him, people who had supported him. He determined he was going to make

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that time. They went on with thei r paper for over, oh, I guess, ten years or longer, but they finally just closed it up and folded. G: Do you recall--again, going back to that conversation in the Austin Hotel coffee shop--was it pretty cordial? LBJ

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, one evening in my house in Georgetown--I was in the middle of a conversation with a governor or somebody of one of the Southern states who was yelling at me about changing the school system. And I had a couple of assistant secretaries around, two

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasker -- I -- 28 After several conversations with the President, he did call such a meeting. Dr. Shannon and the individual Institute heads were stunned that they were supposed to get specific results, like lowering

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

I started doing in task force number one, because I knew the congressional committees would ask about it, was to seek a place to put the Secretary. In November 1963 the FAA occupied the building in which we are holding this conversation, FOB lOA

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that there was no violation of federal statute because it was a primary election. I think that was the finding in that case. Apropos of that, I recall a conversation with Lyndon involving my personal opinion in regard to that election contest. remember, the Republicans had

Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; we heard personal conversations going on, and we became a little embarrassed [about how] to let them know we were in the church. So finally we kicked the church bench, and the boys came down the aisle, and they were looking outside, of course

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the previous programs that you needed to work closer together. You had mentioned during the course of the conversation that there had been changes that had taken place in the office, and in the process of the institutionalizing legislative program development

Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

no help, the sec- retary wasn't there. The phone rang--I don't usually answer it, I did that time--and I heard, "Bueno, Bueno," the conversation I could see was from Nexico, so I said then "Quien hable"--who's speaking-and he said, "Díaz Ordaz

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

getting a secretary. M: Do you know what had persuaded Representative Kleberg to select Mr. Johnson? Was it Miller's recommendation? T: It had a great deal to do with it. But as Kleberg said himself, he liked the letter he wrote or the conversation he

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in various memoranda and conversations with him to get him to use television in a different way. I was opposed to the teleprompters, I just think they were wrong. He was much better when he was speaking from notes. And I tried to get him to go

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the conversion of a sinner in the crowd. G: On the civil rights legislation of 1957 and 1960, he had pressure from both the right and the left: the pro-civil rights forces wanting a stronger bill and the opposition forces wanting nothing at all or a more limited

Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

bill. F: And you worked that then over forty-five years and made it? H: Long on that committee and the Appropriations Committee. F: As President, have Mr. Johnson and you had regular conversations on appropriations? H: We were always--didn't have

Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it the framework that was going to go in the statute. You couldn't talk about it in a conversational way as the memo did. • WhelJ you mention Dave Hackett it triggers a recollection that the Community Action Program was in many respects an outgrowth