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Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] he had really ever had any conversation with him . known individual around the Department . More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 He was not a well- Many of us

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and then to Florida. V: As I recall the conversations that he had with me, he realized that John Connally as governor would bear the brunt of this visit, and he knew that there were problems between Connally and Yarborough. Also, he wasn't sure this was the time

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

just a feeling about the man. I don't recall any conversations with him about it, so my impression was that it was not anything that he expected or that he regretted. That it was one of those things. They had a coup and they knocked a guy off

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -6- Leader, why, he and I would talk over the telephone or see each other two

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, they always wanted to own the land, wherever they were, that this was a universal longing. --Telephone interruption-I didn't have too much to do directly with the Kennedy Round. Let me conclude with what you need here on the Kennedy Round by saying

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

party the individual may have chosen, and to work for the election of that candidate ofthe majority view. That's true whether it's in a Democratic primary or whether it's in a Democratic convention. Conversely it's true for those that work within

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, we were in a recess and Mr. Rayburn was the only one there from the House and Mr. Truman was over there from the Senate--he was Vice President--and the telephone rang and Mr. Rayburn was sitting at the desk like this, answered it, says, "It's for you

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

he meant. He could see that I was a little puzzled. He said, "I'm going to make you a full Special Assistant to me." My part in that conversation LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Folder, "Garrison Investigation, New Orleans, 1967-1968," Papers of John B. Connally, Box 324 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was practicing law, I became very interested in Democratic Party politics. In 1948 I became especially interested in supporting Lyndon Johnson for the United States Senate. (blank tape at this point: pause for telephone call) Of course, I was aligned

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Cable, to White House Attn: Bundy, 11/27/63, #24 (Item)

HRSLASTEVENINGTELEPHONED PRESIDENTDORTICOS OF CUBA.IN THIS CONVERSATION, WHICHLIKE THE FIRST IS TAPED, DORTICOS EXPRESSED CONTINUED CONCERN OVERTHE POSSIBILITYTHAT THEMEXICAN POLICEHADINTERROGATED SILVIA DURAN ABOUTMONEY. 2. GILBERTO ALVARADO URGARTE, THE NICARAGUAN

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

, my memory doesn't serve me on that. But I told him very early in our conversation that the very 1ast substantive conversation that I had had with Kennedy was about a poverty program. The reason I had seen Kennedy before 1eaving for Japan

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

great respect for the other man's judgment. Now he'll make his own final judgment, but he wants facts and figures and therefore he will guide the conversation along 1 inles of interest to his guests and along lines and subjects with which the guest

Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and had discussed various matters with him--and I had a very high opinion of him, if I may say so. He was an admirable man to talk with because it was a two-sided conversation with him. We were, in spite of our differences of age, sympathetic to each

Folder, "Garrison, Jim," Papers of Wright Patman, Box 768-B (Item)

by Pershing Gervais, in order secretly to record conversations with me, as well as with other defendants. (It is to be noted that these recordings, secretly made for the government by the electronic equipment worn by Mr. Gervais, turned out to be 11inaudible

Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

by President Díaz Ordaz in Spanish. Of course, I later told President Johnson that President Díaz Ordaz in his conversation with President Johnson remarked more-or-less as a side comment, "Well, we have finally resolved a problem that has existed for over

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of that conversation he explained that the top career job in the Civil Service Commission, that of executive director, was about to be vacant through the retirement of the long-time incumbent, and that he had decided that he wanted to have someone from outside

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

over in Lexington, Mississippi. B: Hazel Brannon Smith? C: Hazel Brannon Smith did. Oliver Emmerich in McComb did. I think that was all. B: Did you have any personal conversations or letters with Mr. Johnson in connection with the '64 campaign

Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, "Could I have yOI.!r attention, please?" and conversing. And I said a little They went on eating Finally, I shouted out in my best Texas voice, "Simmer down!" And they did. I emceed very much like I did the other functions at the ranch, very

Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

? C: Yes. M: And the vtc.e presidential car also went out there, with Lyndon Johnson in it. C: Yes. r~: Then at the hospital, did you talk with Lyndon Johnson at all? C: No~ not any particular conversation. I might have had a word or two

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Vice President in those days? You didn't have a long time with him as vice president. A: No. I certainly did not. I did not know him at all, really. I saw him from a distance, and I saw him around, but I really had had no conversations with him

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/15/1964 (Monday) (Item)

on Southeast Asia; Lady Bird's conversation with Lynda Johnson about Hawaii

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of that on television and all that. But I did not stay up there the next several days, and I had no further conversations with him after th.at about it. B: When he heard the news did he himself suggest or perhaps ask you to call Mrs. King or any of the other members

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on national problems in the department and did not want to take on the position. I said that if the President determined that that's what he wanted me to do, I served in his administration and I would take the assignment. Stemming from that conversation were

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

conversations . Of course, it wasn't too long until war came known as members that were strong for defense . on, and he and I were As a matter of fact, he was on the Naval Affairs Committee when I became a member of Congress . My recollection is that in May

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the conversion of a sinner in the crowd. G: On the civil rights legislation of 1957 and 1960, he had pressure from both the right and the left: the pro-civil rights forces wanting a stronger bill and the opposition forces wanting nothing at all or a more limited

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for Civil Rights Under Law. They had a couple of representatives. And the conversation covered all of those areas, and I think some fruits were born from that. The National Bar Association developed a program--and the government later got into this area

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