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Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • 12, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: BILLY GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: Monroe Billington PLACE: Interview was conducted over the telephone Tape 1 of 1 B: Why don't you just talk a little bit about the time you first had contact with President Johnson? G: Well
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  • Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you have now. G: He seems to have enjoyed a close relationship with Billy Graham. C: I was not familiar with that. I have--you see that picture over there? G: Yes. C: That's in the pool. Everybody is sweating like hell. That's in the White
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Krim -- III -- 22 Billy Graham services in Houston. That was the first we heard of this. It surprised us, number one, that he had given out our names, which again was a little inconsistent with what we thought his master plan
  • the land around the Ranch; donating clothes to a family living on the Ranch; Billy Graham; Ben Heineman; travelling to the Ranch; people sending messages to LBJ through Krim; LBJ’s intelligence and compassion; LBJ’s formidable presence, tendency toward
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • early education and dyslexia; Abe and Carol Fortas; Oveta Culp Hobby; the Johnsons' friendship with Billy Graham; Billy Graham's and the Johnsons' religious beliefs and backgrounds; Mrs. Johnson's relationship with the press; Charles and Jane Engelhard
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • having a swim with a guest." "Well, who is the guest?" Bill said, "The Reverend Dr. Graham." (Laughter) There was a long pause, and the old man said, "Our Billy?" (Laughter) LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but I couldn't say that Senator Johnson felt that way, that he thought it was not a wise idea for them to talk about his health. (Interruption) G: I notice here that he went to hear Billy Graham speak on June 26. Do you have any idea when his
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • for the first time Billy Graham. And I liked to go but I couldn't even tell who won. So it was best for me to keep my mouth shut from beginning to end, just smile--if they were clapping, I clapped. M: Another digression before we get back to the chronology
  • ; the effect of World War II on Paris and London in 1956 and later; Philip and Katharine Graham; Rebekah Johnson's devotion to her children and their education.
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that. F: How did he seem to get along with North Carolina's senators. The only one I ever knew personally was Frank Graham. D: I don't know how he got along with Josiah Bailey, for instance, or whether Bailey was still in the Senate when he came
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • speech. And by the way, Kay Graham was in the audience, and Chal [Chalmers] Roberts. Kay was just down there visiting or 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the time Mrs. Johnson came with him--we had advance notice only on two occasions. One was the Inaugural service, and one was one time when Billy Graham preached for me. There was some public announcement about that and we had advance notice. We had some
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • , at all of it? G: A congressman by the name of Elliott-- K: Carl Elliott? G: --from Alabama was chairman of that. this was very much on his mind. There isn't any question that We had at that time Graham Barden as the chairman of the Education
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • myself. I did check I wrote a letter I remember it was at a time when Peter Marshall was quite a popular and widely heralded minister. He would have been in that period somewhat like Billy Graham today. And Mrs. Peter Marshall had come to Dallas
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. He would sound like Billy Graham. And you could just read it, you could read the duplicity, the deviousness, the hidden--or the unhidden--but the attempt to hide true feelings in his face. And I've always thought that was one of the reasons why
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a lovely green dress with a gold-embroidered jacket on it, and I was downstairs as the guests were coming in and her dress walked in on Kay Graham--Mrs. Philip Graham of the Washington Post--I ran upstairs and said, "You may want to change." B: Did she
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to have a piece by Billy Graham in Life during the campaign, which literally said, "Nixon ' s the man," you know. They called Kennedy forty-eight hours before this piece was to appear--they were stricken by their conscience up there--and said, "Well
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Crook -- I -- 19 M: Do you know anything about Lyndon Johnson and Billy Graham, when they met? Did you have anything to do with that? C
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mean, Billy Graham They started out from North Carolina, you know, and trace it right on back, the Baineses and so forth. [They were] all church people, lawyers and pol iticians, too, on the Baines side. Now, the Bunton side, the Desha side, were
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: DANIEL O. GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Graham's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: General Graham, were there disputes within the intelligence establishment in MACV about the enemy order of battle? DG
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  • Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger
  • Daniel O. Graham
Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: REVEREND EU1ER GRAHAM INTERVImVER: ERIC F. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman
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Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DANIEL O. GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Graham's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, sir, go ahead. DG: Let me tell you first my connections with the Vietnam affair. It probably started back in about
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  • Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger
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Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CALLAN GRAHAM INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Graham, very briefly sketch where you came from and how you ended up working with Coke Stevenson. CG: I have lived in Junction, Texas
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  • Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Callan Graham
Oral history transcript, J. Graham Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1968, by Monna Clark (Item)
  • 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW WITH J. GRAHAM SULLIVAN
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  • Oral history transcript, J. Graham Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1968, by Monna Clark
  • J. Graham Sullivan
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was there. ' B: . . . Did you ever discuss the events at Los Angeles with Philip Graham.or · Katherine Graham? S: No. With neither, actually, except that I think I mentioned to you, when I got to Los Angeles the first people I happened into were
  • ; Phil Graham; relationship between Robert Kennedy and LBJ; leaving the LBJ staff in 1960; going to work for Mr. Graham at the Washington Post; interaction with LBJ in VP years; LBJ and the press; press involvement in government work; turning down LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . M: I can't place that either, but the ~, I remember, got very involved in that. W: The Post is very strongly for this and Philip L. Graham, then president of the Washington Post Company, went up to see Mr. Johnson, who was then the majority
  • Biographical information; LBJ-press relationship; the campaign contributions issue; Philip Graham; Rayburn convinces LBJ to run in 1960; LBJ persuades FDR to put the REA into the Pedernales valley; JFK and leaks; Steve Early and James Hagerty; W
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • cocktail parties before the major sitdown dinner. Well, I gravitated to the Washington Post party first because I had so many old friends there. And standing at the entrance was Kay Graham, publisher of the Washington Post¸ and I chatted her for a few
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GRAHAM PURCELL INTERVIEWER: DAV ID Mc COMB PLACE: Congressman Purcell IS office in the Cannon Building, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, let's get some background about you. Where were you born and when, and where did you
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  • Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Graham Purcell
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: MRS. KATHARINE (PHILIP) GRAHAM publisher of Washington ~ INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ
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  • ; Russ Wiggins; 1960/1964 Democratic convention; meeting of JFK and Graham regarding the VP nomination; Home Rule; LBJ’s attitude toward the press; beautification; press relations; civil rights; assessment of LBJ’s presidency.
  • Graham, Katharine, 1917-2001
  • Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Katharine Graham
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • one I had was--have you read that account, the Graham memorandum? F: Yes. R: Teddy White. I think that is pretty accurate, as I remember, because Graham sat-F: I have a copy of that. I got it from Kay Graham. R: No, this was Phil Graham. F
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to Eva, in any way. He just wouldn't do it. He was an old New England gentleman, a marvelous man. G: Did anything change when Graham Martin came in? M: Graham--I know from peripheral evidence, but not from direct evidence, that Ellsworth explained
  • relationship; McArthur's relationship with Graham Martin; Americans and Vietnamese selling scrap brass from Vietnam; Vietnamese military involvement in drug sales; American soldiers' marijuana and heroin use; drug use among African American soldiers; opium use
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • into a man in the president's office with whom I had worked with as a student officer, and he pulled me into some things he was doing and that led me to Dr. [Frank P.] Graham. Before I could turn around, Dr. Graham had gone to the Senate, and I then stayed
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for the first four years I was with the Post, and my only contact \
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of involved along as sort of assistant to Phil Graham, the president, his mild political wheeling and dealing, the things he got involved in. And he did a little bit of it. M: He did quite a lot of it later. F: Later he did a great deal of it and it's
  • Roosevelt Association; counsel for Washington Post; Phil Graham; Jerry Siegel; John McCloy; Edmund A. Gullion; Herbert Humphrey; Jerome B. Wiesner; Arthur Dean; Arthur Schlesinger; McGeorge Bundy; ACDA; Alvin Wirtz; Moscow trip; test ban treaty; American
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that worked at the San Marcos Record, linotype operator and so forth, who would be down there with me. G: Who was that? K: Graham [?]. A fellow by the name of Graham. I, at the moment, can't remember his first name, but he was married, had a daughter
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was prepared to see a floor fight, and he decided to go. As I understand it, it was to Robert Kennedy that the labor leaders spoke. I was also conscious of the fact that Mr. Graham had spoken to President Kennedy-F: Philip Graham? K: Philip Graham