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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is it was a combination of two things: one, the natural problems of trying to be king-daddy leader over a group of individuals who don't really want to yield all their autonomy to a king-daddy leader; and, I should think, a very strong feeling among the out-of-the Senate

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Powell -- I -- 17 G: Montgomery, I think. P: Yes, Professor Montgomery, and he was on leave from the university, and they had rented his house. Mr. Hiram A. King was one of the vice presidents

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, I think it's very simple. The Montgomery bus boycott and Dr. King, which popularized the technique that CORE had been using and experimenting with on a smaller scale throughout. And there were those who had heard of CORE vaguely or more acutely

Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of going down there every week for a state dinner for some president or king or foreign dignitary. II So Kennedy and Johnson had agreed that we should go anywhere, whether the guys were on Merchant Marine or Post Office Committee. Share the goodies

Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Barbara got in Congress--she didn't do nothing that he didn't visualize--he knew what she'd do. He knew she had an unusual ability to use the king's English and this flair of oratory, and he knew that if she got the opportunity

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

community. G: Who had owned the saloon? Do you recall? R: Yes. G: Did this mean that people would make bootleg whiskey after that? R: Your guess is as good as mine. King Casparis. (Laughter) G: The Redfords didn't make any? R: The Redfords didn't

Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

The intervievler is Joe B. Frantz. 21, 1974. To start, let's just talk about when you first became aware of Lyndon Johnson. R: Down at the King Ranch, when I was visiting Bob Kleberg and his brother Dick Kleberg, and Lyndon Johnson was A. A. for Dick Kleberg. F

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 12 It was no longer a case, as Lord Bryce said, that the publishers were the uncrowned kings of the American democracy. There were about six or seven columnists who were its emperors. Now when the banks failed in the sense that they could not meet

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

invitations. G: Did he ever come close to buying another house instead? V: Well, I remember when Mrs. Johnson was looking, I think that they looked at a house very close over here on King Street. It was owned by Scottie, F. Scott Fitzgerald's daughter

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

we met promptly with Foreign Minister [Panayotis] Pipinelis who took the document for his perusal and for consultation with the Greek Cabinet and the King. As you know, agreement was reached with one or two minor modifications on the document which I

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

into types, absolutely. There are the State dinners that are the most formal occasions that are given at the White House, and these are to honor the President's high-ranking visitors from abroad--the prime ministers, the kings and the presidents who come

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the inner circle. There was an inner circle in the Senate, which does not exist today in the same degree that it did. It probably exists in every organization. But the chairmen were kings in those days, and the chairmen then were senior Democrats of Russell

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Ms. Bonanno's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: There are one or two items in April [1968], the end of April, I want to ask you about. One is the visit of King Olav of Norway to the White House. Do you remember

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

months later in a word or a deed, And, of course, with Mr. Rayburn, he was king. Mr. Rayburn was so much Mr. Speaker and so many gifts flowed from Mr. Rayburn that when he was around, nobody took over the conversation. F: When he started campaigning

Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

straightening up things either. G: Tell me about the pillow now. 0: Oh, oh, the pillow. Tell me about the pillow. Well, you see, even before king-sized beds and things was in, he always had his beds made long and made his pillows bigger. You notice

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson, but I knew of Rayburn. shocked at Johnson. We were None of us believed it when Johnson's name surfaced early as a possible vice-presidential candidate--those of us who covered Washington and knew Johnson as a very proud man--he was king

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

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

also, that a minimum wage law in that small industry would not be easy to achieve. The king of the pecan merchants came to see me a few weeks later and brought his secretary along--probably to make a record of what I said and what the king of pecan

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

did you come to be appointed Postmaster? Q: Ivell, I got mixed up in politics in the campaign of Dick Kleberg, that's east of Dallas. Good farmland. the King Ranch, in a special election that he was running in for Congress representing

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

dividing? W: The big problem with Libya occurred after I left. It was just begin- The problem there apparently was that the old King wasn't ning. really as interested in ruling that country as in some of his religious and other problems, and also he

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the King and Queen at the White House. F: Ickes I think was the only Cabinet member who didn't show up. D: Yes, and he was at Lyndon's. And Lyndon was always making such contacts and developing, and Lady Bird was always his first and very fascinating

Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was in Warm Springs in 1945 when President Roosevelt died, and I was here in Washington when John Kennedy lost his life, but those things stand out more than anything else. Oh, when President Roosevelt invited the King and Queen of England to come

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and had just started seeing people again. The King of Jordan was in town at the same time, which also might have been a factor. I was supposed to see Nasser. He left the day that I suspect that, knowing Nasser, that if he had wanted to see me and he

Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of destroyers to protect him. Well, Mr. Churchill was determined, said that maybe General Eisenhower had better go ahead and make those arrangements. About that time the King of England got wind of these plans and decided that he, too, would like to go

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

versus fixed price supports? C: We had a lot of interest, of course, in Alabama because we were largely agricultural at that time you're talking about and still are largely agricultural. King Cotton had moved out beyond Texas to Arizona and those places

Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

duties consisted of. I never did become interested in it at that time, but, of course, he became, when he got the job with the Congressman from the [King] Ranch--what was his name? G: [Richard] Kleberg. D: Kleberg, yes. And when he got that job

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

,there \-1aS quite a l~t of speech I"fI.3.king and talking,. and Pap. Avery brought the house dO'/In \ihen he said" J'~Touldnft it have been a helluva hardship on the country if I'd been elected!" PB :Nm'i to pick up your story chronologically" fiIr

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Quill -- I -- 2 King Ranch, he kind of handled the social end of the Congress and Lyndon did all the heavy lifting, all the hard work. G: What were you doing there? Q: I was Chief Deputy County Clerk. I was at the stockyard

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is that Johnson was--when Proxmire won a special election out there--he was on the phone with him and he met him at the airport and he treated him like a king, and Proxmire was embarrassing in his praise of Johnson. I mean, I'm not sure Johnson found

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

didn't quite kiss it. You know that custom, how they do that. Several others I met like that. The King of Sweden I met. Who else? I've forgotten them now. G: Did Mr. Johnson elaborate on why he did not plan to run again in 1968 either when you were

Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

goodbye to him. P: He left about seven o'clock, and I had fixed us some supper, and my son Larry was all intrigued over this flying and he just thought Harold Teague was, you know, a king in a flying machine. T: He took off a little earlier than

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

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in and take on the city of Houston. T: No, it didn't scare me. You know we weren't too large a city at that time in 1925. F: How did you make your contacts after you got here, as far as people to sell to? T: Mr. Roberts had told Mr. King, Jesse Jones

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the king. one of our items. This was I did not know at the time, nor did other people know--and I would have thought that the pipelines of the Rockefeller group were as good as any there--of the great interest of Mrs. Johnson in this operation, nor

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

of the King Ranch people, the Klebergs. That was where the primary impetus came from. Now again, it was a very, very complicated issue, like so many issues, that it was not presented properly to the public and I don't think it could have been. But one

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

peasant being touched by the king for scrofula. And you weren't going to keep him out of crowds like that. Poor Secret Service. I felt sorry for them. I remember one other thing out of the campaign. That was the business of landing in Phoenix, deliberately

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of in context as it affected the Middle East crisis--the continuing Middle East crisis. K: The issue with Libya as long as King Idris was in charge was much more our holding onto Wheelus [Air Force] Base and protecting our oil and gas, which were growing

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

you; he had so much to do with things like this. He was actually running the Russell headquarters. I was helping him. G: In ta 1 king to delegates how important was it that Russe 11 was a south erner? Did this keep delegates fr001 other parts