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Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)

of credential to the President on Febraury 2, 1966, I was very cordially received by him and had a conversation of about fifteen to twenty minutes about my mission and the relations between the United States and Brazil. But it wasn't the first time that I had

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for a fact. I am certain in my own mind and from conversations I've heard that he was insistent and he was, if not solely, almost solely responsible for the selection of Mr. Connally as secretary of the navyo he ought to have Cabinet level. As vice

Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in a rather amazing conversation and said, "Can you think of any reason why anyone might object to your appointment?" And I said, "No, I couldn't think of any." So that without holding any hearings the committee voted that day, and so I got a salary starting

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, as I say, there wasn't anything in these conversations that led him to admire me particularly greatly, but basically we parted friends. One thing was clear, however. All during this operation, the times that Phil and he bumped shoulders together

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was very enthusiastic about me coming to Washington, as was Allan Shivers, interestingly. G: Do you recall once a conversation that you had with Johnson about how the blacks would rebel if they did not receive a more equitable-- B: Well, that's

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

loose down there? C: Turned me loose. "Here you are. You're on your own, and make the best of it." F: Did the name Castro bother you at all, or help you, in Central America? C: No. Strangely enough, the name Castro is much more of a conversational

Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, because being a small school like it is you run into people almost daily. During the fall of 1926 I saw Lyndon on the campus several times, but the first time that I ever really had a serious conversation with him was in the fall of 1927 which would

Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of conversation with Ted Sorensen. Now, also in some of these same discussions I recall Kermit Gordon playing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

agencies ought to be in the DOT. I don't think I had many direct conversations with Boyd until the State of the Union Message was delivered. M: Is it fair to say that Alan Boyd was the key man in the development of the department? 0: Alan Boyd is one

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of the program, and in one of my first conversations with Shriver, I said that what he ought to have was a rural title, because LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh The converse would be to tell them, "Do this, don't do that," and treat them as juveniles. If we do that, we find that they perform as juveniles. I think there's a lesson here

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the President had apparently told SOTI'.E:~ody, which I think is valid, that Bill went down to the ranch and they had a long two-hour conversation down on the banks of the river there. So the President said Bill ,-las just hinting in every "lay

Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the car, but I can't remember conversation. ing. You know, the feelings that we were having. It was numb-~. I doubt if they did. I imagine they were fairly close-mouthed. F: I would guess also that if I could have put some kind of recorder on you

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

you get any Congressional pressure on converting the Army over completely to the M-16, or, I should say, to the use of it in Vietnam and the ultimate conversion of the Army? R: No. What the issue in Congress was was when units were issued the M-16

Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of conversation with him personally, more with Mrs. Johnson, but there were a couple of encounters that I had with him. At the time we made the first set of grants and I described our going over to the White House and his announcing them in the Rose Garden, Mr

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

working for Kennedy on getting a tax bill through, [or] later conversations, it became immediately clear to him: first, the tax cut was very important--He11er and Gordon and a lot of people had been working on that--and secondly, however, the only way

Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: No, usually the conversation, except for malaria and things like that, was around who's coming next and who was there next week. It was not shop talk at all. G: Oh, I see. N: He didn't talk shop all that much. G: He did try to relax then at mealtimes

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the conversations that I had about what we were going to do, "You know, I really could use a fellow like you down in Texas." F: You're being somewhere between innocent and obtuse? L: Right. I must say it first came to me one morning in the bedroom when Joe

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

conversation, sometimes- when Johnson started to talk about something when there wasn't any thing to be made out of talking about it, you could be pretty damn sure it really was in his mind. that question of the water. And time after time he'd come back

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

disconsolate, and he turned and he saw Truman standing there with his head down, his hands on the desk and he said Truman suddenly looked up and said, "General, you're going to get your planes." Aside from that, it was just sort of a nervous conversation all

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the train and bring him out for breakfast and then give Father information about our conversation before Mr. Willkie arrived at the White House. So that anybody to whom I was assigned, I would get a little follow-up memorandum [saying] that "I have 4 LBJ

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of a domestic nature, he just couldn't [get the money]. So the man was in an impossible situation. But in summarizing it in his own mind, as I try to recall the conversation that I had with him, he just had had it. He didn't see how he was going to accomplish

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

- - 6 F: I can remember the efforts to get rid of the old 7, 000 pound load limit . B: Right. Right. But as I started to say, Mr. Sam, I'm sure, influ enced Lyndon to a great extent in his interest in politics because of his conversation about

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: Kellam had worked in the NYA, succeeded Johnson in that job. H: Yes, I know. He was talking about it, and I think recognized that things were rather different and kind of had to be different. But we had a good conversation. I can't recollect

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

because it was generally conceded that he was taping all the conversations. I think that when he became chair- man, on the part of the liberals around the committee it was welcomed, because we had been under Graham Barden, who was so dictatorial. Usua

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Conversion of Federal Security Agency to HEW; observations on Eisenhower; biographical information; early recollections of FSA; the Hill Burton Act; reflections on working on legislation over the years; memories of working on Medicare