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Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Rowe, George Brown, Sid Richardson, Phil Graham, who was then the editor of the Washington Post and subsequently committed suicide. He made a point of seeing all newspapermen, and everyone left thinking that he,was Lyndon's best friend

Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Biographical information; first meeting LBJ in 1961 in discussions on Mexico; resolving the Chamizal issue; Sam Young; Judge Norman Hardy; John Connally; the Panama disturbance in early 1965; Cyrus Vance and Graham Martin; the Dominican crisis

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Donovan surprises me. Walter Lippmann, James Reston [are] taken off. Now look at the people he wanted put on. Who knows? Ray Sherer, Harry Reasoner, William White, Russ Wiggins, Kay Graham--who knows what the reason for it is? One of the things

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Bolling -- I -- 8 could be with the press, both in terms of columnists and editors . He was a positive genius with them, despite his reputation with reporters . influential . He had a very close friend in Phil Graham, who was And he had demonstrated

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

over. All sorts of people were advising him. During the day he called various friends to ask them what he should do--Senator Kerr and Bobby Baker were around; I think Jim Rowe was very much around; Philip Graham. F: Did you hear much of the advice? V

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)

I talked to Mrs. Kennedy. Then I had to talk at the Cardinal Spellman dinner. Republicans just knew that this was the election. Everyone who got in the way wound up corpses. I couldn't go to the Newsweek party. Phil Graham was a good friend of mine

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. A few days later Kay Graham telephoned. It's one of the very, very few conversations I ever had with her. She was open and direct and talked a thousand times easier on the telephone than she is able to do in person. I made note of the conversation mainly

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

give you advice on where you ought to go and what you ought to do? C: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. He wanted to be sure that I had a good time. I never knew exactly how much of a good time he wanted me to have. But I remember talking to Kay Graham maybe a year

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

was quite active in debate. The spring of 1928 was when he went to Huntsville for a tournament. was Elmer Graham. I guess his partner Do you remember anything about that debate tournament that he went to and his win there? H: No. I remember he

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson -- VIII -- 21 J: Well, he had a little pressure put on him. of the top people to succeed him. He didn't name him as one I th i nk he was down at the bottom. Pressure was put on him by Phil Graham, that was it. I remember that one

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

as the chairman of the subcommittee involved, which was a Labor subcommittee, he was dealing with his counterpart in the House which was Graham Barden this tough old arch-conservative from North Carolina. Well, Barden treated him like an absolute baby, even

Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

comedy in the White House. The President told this later, last year when he came for a dinner at Kay Graham's he told part of it, and we put it together. It was just a Mack Sennett thing, because John was so upset about the thing that he insisted

Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of this was ever by chance. Yo u weren't flying from, say, Weatherford to Graham and just suddenly realize that's Peaster down there or something like that. M: No, no. It was all planned and programmed. And then the press followed in another car or cars so we

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

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Phil Graham [publisher, Washington Post], who had come in and was waiting and said, "Phil, I've got to get out of this. Can't you help me?" And he said, "No, I can't, but there's only one man in town that can, and that's Clark Clifford." So when we came

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

those that later claimed it was their thought; Joe Alsop claimed that and Phil Graham claimed that. But I think in the normal course of events, Jack Kennedy came up with this idea, because I think perhaps he was probably the first to focus on "Are you

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

hotshots in there. So I got two of them, the two best in the army: Charley Morris, whose name I've already given you, and the other is Danny Graham, both of them excellent intelligence officers; both of them had worked for me and knew how I worked; both

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and, through him, got some of the people listed on a group that was going to meet under the chairmanship of Professor Frank Graham. rewrite it. They were going to take what we wrote and Then it was going to be made public and in that way get a little

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)