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Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22. something stronger because in the course of conversation he said, "Well, the good has to help pay for the bad, and your project is such a good project so we'll let you have your bonds

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

negotiating with other agencies and preparation for our requests to the Hill. He began having conversations. It was necessary to find sponsors for the legislation, and Shriver's ability in dealing with the Hill, I think, was put to use at that. time. His role

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

into Lyndon Johnson? G: It was shortly after I came to Texas in '55. I first ran across him through conversation before actually seeing him in the flesh; and I think for the record I should tell the story of the first real confrontation with the reality

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

you remember any conversations with Johnson on this? I think you and he generally voted together. G: That's right. I talked to Johnson and I talked to Knowland to see if we couldn't divide the so-called foreign aid bill into three. One would

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

not going to spend my energies in the past." That was about the nature of the conversation. He always had a tremendously effective staff. I could write to him about a problem of one of my friends and the thing was taken care of so LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a conversation, even though we have had that conversation. F: Yes. "I just drove two thousand miles from Cincinnati." H: Yes, and we've had that in Yellowstone this year, in which we said, "You know, when that campground is full, it's full, and nobody else

Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Did you see Colonel Lansdale at this time? I understand he accompanied-N: Ed Lansdale? G: Well, it would have been Brigadier General Lansdale I guess by that time. N: Yes. I saw him once in Vietnam, but I had many conversations with him before

Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

counted me out, and maybe rightly so, from the chance of winning. But in any event Price decided he wanted to run again, and there was a sharp conflict between Price and me on that,because we'd had some conversations about that subject. I regarded

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that, but that it is an emotional more than a purely economic problem, so this conversation developed in that line. But you know Senator Johnson, and at the moment I, not knowing him very well, I said, well, if he's raising his voice, I also have to raise my voice a little

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

drives with just the two of us in the car. G: What would he tal k about on these occasions? J: Everything. I remember one conversation he tal ked about sex. was kind of shocking to me. he worded it, let me see now. correctly. It He said that he--I

Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

irritated him greatly. So that was rather par for the course. If we had a conversation, he was bound to be irritated, it seemed. And he said, "You know damn well what editorial I'm talking about." And I said, "I frankly don't really know what editorial

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that position, but he told me [that] and he was right. G: Another memo that you have describes a conversation that you had with Arthur Goldberg. R: Yes. That was rather amusing in a way. Arthur in that. I don t know what had gotten 1 I think he was just

Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

grandkids. We talked about his childhood, my childhood. We just visited, and conversation seemed to flow. It never did 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

situation, and the President was going to take part in those conversations himself. So the President took a very active part in the consideration of the Middle Eastern crisis, both before it broke out and of course when the fighting actually started. M

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on that possibility? C: Yes, we were involved always a little elliptically. In other words, I was always involved in that kind of planning, either as advisory to the 000 or to the Director, mostly to McCone himself. But I had lots of conversations on those

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

high on Lyndon ; he was sort of a protégé . I think probably Lyndon was his favorite congressman, so they talked to each other quite frequently . ticular conversation . I don't recall any par But, anyway, Roosevelt of course was all for building

Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

significant conversations with congressmen or senators--how they were feeling and what were their complaints, � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

much later. In the year plus that I was there, I did not get the Reedy files. But I did have, as I say, long conversations with Pauline Moore, and I don't remember the name of the other lady that was working with her. A: Now, did she gradually begin

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

-- I -- 9 happen to get in [from work], well, the President himself or Mrs. Johnson would ask, "Where's 1So and So', aren't they going to come and eat? 11 8: What sort of conversation goes on around the dinner table? H: Oh, all sorts of interesting

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. the room now. in. Fin all y the Senat or says, "You tel 1 him I am in I' 11 tal k to him . 11 Of course by that time, I was done So I handed him the phone and he talked to Clayton a little bit. It wasn't a pleasant conversation but he finally talked

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

you saw him on October 4, 1967 because he looked so worn. At any time previous to that during his presidency had you felt any concern, any undue alarm? H: Well, as I reported--as Bird reports it in her diary, our conversation in the back of the car

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

it would do much good for this particular conversation back and forth, and for your overall effort. I remember the Bricker Amendment and I remember at the time that Hill opposed the George substitute, as I recall it. I also remember at the time--I had just

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, I'm saying this, and I’m hearing all this and saying, "You mean legislation comes out this way?" I'd always learned in college so-and-so, but it didn't work that way. G: Well, how common was this kind of conversation? C: I don't know. It may

Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the real experts who have been there on that issue and its creation. G: Anything else on those conversations? C: Yes. The other one that I do recall--and I may be wrong--somehow, and I have no idea of the real implementation date, my recollection

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and his discussion with you as he was leaving the presidency. Do you want to recount what you can of that conversation? F: I may have mentioned when we talked before, that the day after the [Richard] Nixon election in 1968, when we were in New York

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

seven o'clock or seven-thirty, in the Vice President's office in the old State Department Building. B: Was the conversation at that meeting just general or did you go into any specific plans for what would happen next? Bo: President Johnson, like

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the preliminary conversation, I t hink later we ought to go into some of the d etails of that . But to mov e on now , after yo u were up here , you were then later approac h e d with the idea of being the press secretary? C: I worked with Hr . Ros tow for two

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of his public posture. G: Any particular conversations with any national labor leaders that you remember? 0: No, but I vividly remember that the local CIa leaders had a meeting with Lyndon down here after he got elected to the Senate, which I LBJ

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--? AG: Oh, that was the predominant thing. I can't imagine him being in a room with a conversation talking about the weather. of time. I mean that was a waste I'm sure you've heard this a thousand times, but his vocation, avocation, everything

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the country needed. That \'Ias a di fferent approach from Lyndon's. G: Did you ever try to explain one man to the other? H: In conversation I always would. When I had an opportunity, I would enumerate some of the great things Lyndon Johnson had done

Oral history transcript, William Dayton Maclay, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

conversation indicated that perhaps it would be best if you would outline for us the circumstances of the creation of this agency, which I understand is a relatively new development. You were telling me before the tape was on about the creation of the general

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 that the appointment to the World Bank had been made without his knowledge. That was Reston's story. And so the conversation with Reston which, when the call

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

do recall that in connection with the conflict between the Fund for the Republic and HUAC I had a specific conversation with Johnson on the subject of civil rights. He was sympathetic and helpful to the Fund. F: You got to know his staff pretty well

Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Perkins -- I -- 16 G: Conversely, did you ever have a feeling that in some cases local government was ignoring the poor? P: Well, that was one of the issues back in that day, to ignore the local governments, when we first enacted

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

happeneu:. though. G: Did he talk to you about his decision to run for the Senate in 1941 against W. Lee O'Daniel? P: No, I don't recall that we ever had any conversation on that. Of course, after he was running I must say Lyndon never met you

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 W: The interesting thing was, you see, that my conversation over the phone with the Under Secretary just before this interview began was that I was telling him when he had time I wanted

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he had. VW: When groups would form on the Quadrangle, standing around just talking, he would stop by and see what the conversation was about and add his to it. G: I hear he lived in a very modest fashion with farm animals around. VW: Yes. G