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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he could satisfy all of that wide range of philosophies, bind them together, make a team that could do a good job out of those forty-seven highly individual, "every man's a king" senators. Somebody told him--I wouldn't be surprised if it were Russell

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

. One of the most devastating articles about Johnson in this era was written in Harper's magazine by Larry King. Larry and I got to be friends during this period, and some of what Larry says is entirely too bitter and too biting, but a lot

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

administrative aide to Fleet 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bullion -- I -- 5 Admiral [Ernest] King. M: I have heard that during

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, That's one of the reasons I wrote You see, Rayburn went for Garner for president. See, Roy Miller, the lobbyist for Andrew Mellon, the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company and all that, he used to work for the King Ranch. him, the most powerful man in Texas

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of November when Richard M. K1eberg, of King Ranch fame, was elected to the 14th Congressional District, and the Chief became his secretary. As might be expected, he was influential in the selection of his successor at Sam Houston, a former fellow student

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is what it amounted to. G: Anything else on that episode that you remember or feel is important? Any details? D: No. No. mind. I'm sorry I don't. I don't know why that one popped in my You said did I ever go down there. I never went to the King

Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

them the story the way we were walking around in the garment district, and the crowd was there, and they saw us, and I was wal king with him. He overheard, he sai d, some people asking one another, "Who is that tall man walking with Dubinsky?" M

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, high level foriegn diplomats, presidents, kings, whatever, Okie was always the third person in the room and, in many cases, the only person in the room. It was never asked of me. I never had that entree. If I had gone in, I think I would probably

Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

and I knew Arthur Perry, and I knew who Lyndon Johnson was because he had been teaching school in South Texas and had worked for the Kings and the Klebergs for a year or so on different matters. He was very much interested in the campaign of Dick

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

things that a friend of her sister's, her oldest sister, could do for anybody. Because to Bird she'd always been my little sister. I think I talked about Mr. King and about his taking us horseback riding, and about when he was in Washington later

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

at that time about Dr. King's warning of race riots, if Washington, D.C. didn't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

commission. G: Do you recall his defense of Walter Winchell in the Naval Affairs Committee when Admiral [Ernest J.] King and Admiral [Randall] Jacobs were trying to silence Winchell? M: Both Lyndon and I came to his defense. to Mr. Winchell. It was sort

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in 1964. F: Kind of like waiting for the King of Sweden to pass on. M: Well, yes. I was heavily involved with defense spending, all the missiles programs and so forth, and I enjoyed my work tremendously as the head man of this committee handling all

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

because they're colleagues from the same state. If it was a bill, for instance, that was out of the Ways and Means Committee, you'd have Mr. Mills there and Congressman King. Of course Mr. ranking member on Ways and Means. ~oggs, the majority whip

Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to a lot of the state P: Yes, I was. G: One for Princess Margaret. P: The first one was for Princess Margaret and Snowden, yes. G: Anything about these state dinners that you recall? I ~~ 14 dinners~ Tal king to the President? P: I never

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and during that time I spent some time in Washington and I knew Dick Kleberg of King Ranch reasonably well. And that's where I first met Lyndon Johnson. F: He was his administrative aide or secretary at that time? P: That's right. I think he had

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

there was the Mineral King problem, and they clashed on that. I would say toward the end their relationships were deteriorating, but initially they were very good in this field and they cooperated very well. Mc Was this Treaty of the Potomac an agreement to cooperate

Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and I remember we drove from San Benito to San Antonio our wedding day, and drove through the King Ranch, and I made a prediction, which my wife has quoted many times, that Lyndon Johnson would be president. G: Is that a fact? B: That's a fact. It's

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

. -- -,','ho, if I ."' t 1he - bova _ Lis, 41>1d oa tlae V1.40r, I !-UlOW h;.: i,aas oiten xp in offlee t-al,king -:vita Sm about our progrann im-portant throughout thij peric.),d 7 z"~e wia a m,_~.mber of the Advi3ory Council, -wag lie not'? Yes

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Chiefs of Staff. So even at 6:30 at night we were still worried about power failure and preparedness. Governor [John] Reed of Maine, Governor [John] Dempsey of Connecticut, Governor [Phillip] Hoff of Vermont, Governor [John] King--I guess the President

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, a handsome étagère or something from her house, because gradually, gradually I was wanting to make home a more beautiful place. One of the fantastic dinners at the White House they had us to was the King and Queen of Nepal with unpronounceable names

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Johnson -- VI -- 19 G: Really? J: And she's sweet as can be to me. She's more sociably inclined; she wanted to go to New York to see the King of Spain when he came over, you know. More social life. up with that. And when I lived

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Texas on a few weeks' visit in 1928. These events that we're tal king about i.n my contacts with Lyndon in California were in 1925. I am sure that I saw him in 1928. I think he was then in college maybe, wasn't he, or do you know? G: Well, part

Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

my wife and me to come to Washington to a State dinner for the King and Queen of Nepal. This was about the first of November, if I remember right, of last year, 1967, and I assumed quite rightly that this was the first way of giving me an excuse

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to a helicopter before. I guess I had in the service. But anyway, it was arranged that he would land here. You know where we had lunch today, at the Americana? G: Yes. D: Only now they call it the King's Inn. Where the highways come together over the overpass

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a lot of the Vietnamese special forces. The Assistant Province Chief in Ban Me Thuot was a man whose name was Y Bham, Y B-H-A-M. I know you know all this. Anyway, Y Bham was the hereditary king of the Rhade, and because the Rhade were the senior tribe

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the Government Operations Committee with Frank Ikard from Texas, he was senior to me, and with six other members of Congress- F: I must say, Jack, you have a facility, though, for getting put on I committees kind of like being Crown Prince to the King

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

the Vice President in Uvalde . As that ceremony was breaking up, classmate of mine named Tom King . I was with a He presently is an attorney in San Antonio, and he was from Stockdale in Wilson County, the county seat of which is Floresville . Tom

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was rea lly su l king all through the trip in Texas . M: And not helpful. 0: He was against go ing to the ministers , as the Speaker 1•1as . The Speaker and I sat together and watched it on TV and he was stunned, because he was totally against

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Ambassador during the build-up of the crisis? AG: Oh, yes, continuous. And more important, the foreign minster of Egypt, [Mahmoud] Riad who was here, and King Hussein of Jordan. TG: Were they cognizant of the fact that Israel could not sustain

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Kennedy. [Richard J.] Daley made his commitment. He was, as you know, the king of Chicago at that time, and a terribly interesting and able man. He made the commitment, and, of course, John Kennedy promised him everything from soup to nuts. Anything

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the process of legislation in case there was a King George III again. That's what motivated them. So Lyndon B. Johnson knew all of the places where you could falter as you went along, and he tried to push it along. He had good 18 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on King Idris, again aimed at money. The third, and least likely, is that he will heat up the Arab-Israeli thing. Not that he wishes to go to war, but he wishes 29 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and he's treated as such. It is, in a way, rather embarrassing to travel to another country under that type circumstances. It's almost like the king of the world moving in on some inferior country. Many of them just don 1 t understand it. I think

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. It reminds me of the lines from Idylls of the King, the one called "Arthur and Modred." One day, as Tennyson relates it, Arthur and Modred were playing on the sand, and Modred built a sand castle, and Arthur kicked it away, and Tennyson says, "And ever after