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Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

be replaced, Go: Have you had much contact with the President since then in 1966? Gu: No, not a lot. Telephone conversations occasionally regarding flights when he wanted someone picked up at a point and delivered to a point. He has always been very nice

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

? D: Well, you remember at the outset of our conversation, I said I thought I could give you some human interest stories about the President, so let me back up. Over a period of many, many months, the period that I refer to as supplying goodies

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in February of that year. Towards the late spring or early summer as the project was about at its conclusion, I discovered by a personal conversation with the then Deputy Director of OEO, Mr. Bernie Boutin that Mr. Boutin was extremely unhappy in his job

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for about one-half hour and I found him quite inspiring. He said he was quite anxious for me to take the job and I was absolutely flattered and naturally accepted. B: What goes on in a conversation like that to inspire you? R: To begin with, I was 34

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BELEN -- I -- 2 P: When did you first become better acquainted with him? B: I had a telephone

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

didn't wake him up, let him sleep about two or three hours, and of course he needed the rest very bad. I always remember the table down there where he got massaged and he slept. Around a health club there's a good deal of conversation, you know

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, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with the Achesons. And I remember at break£ast-- the first morning that we were there--Dean Acheson had a telephone call in the middle of breakfast and went out and then came back to the table. he said to me, "That was Senator Lyndon Johnson." And And he s a i d

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

it. what was on the other end of the conversation. I couldn't tell But the next thing I heard was, "Sam, I hope you'll help to try to head this thing off, because it's a bad thing." And then more conversation. Then I heard him say, "You know Sam, we

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 17 And the third is that he is extraordinarily sensitive and adept at diplomatic conversations. M: You mean interpersonal with foreign dignitaries? R: Dignitaries. It's often said, that oh, well, that's not his specialty

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

minutes of conversation with him and had my picture taken with him. Frankly, I was rather disappointed that I didn't get to speak with him longer, but, of course, I understood that he was very busy and very burdened, and I remember that I felt very

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

don't think there's any comparison. I think Lyndon Johnson is head and shoulders above Nixon, in intellectual capacity and feeling . And yet, you know, in personal conversation, Lyndon Johnson is a very warm man, and he's funny as all hell! He's one

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for almost an hour. Secretary Freeman. that he was there." The President said, It turned out that it was "Well, I'm sorry, I didn't know Well, in any case he really seemed to enjoy the conversation and I certainly did, too. And he was very encouraging

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that Dirksen and Halleck agreed to a disengagement in Laos and agreed to an engagement in Vietnam. Well, we didn't agree to anything. This announce- ment was made, and there was a little more conversation and I broke up the meeting, I think, by saying: "Well

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

talked to me, and the conversation was just about this . He said, "Alan, I've been hearing a lot and reading a lot about the Northeast Airlines case . As far as I'm concerned, I want good air service in New England and whatever you do to accomplish

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

went through? S: Yes, no problem. M: And you had to find assistants to help you. S: Had to find assistants and establish an organization that would move. I took over the office. Then it was quite apparent from a few conversations with Secretary

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 worked out to be anything. And then it was a general conversation during that half an hour about speeches and image, and television, and Newsweek and things like

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the previous programs that you needed to work closer together. You had mentioned during the course of the conversation that there had been changes that had taken place in the office, and in the process of the institutionalizing legislative program development

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

by letter and by personal conversation that he did not want to get in there and repudiate what was one of the main spokes in the foreign policy and foreign trade concepts of Jack Kennedy. debate in the Senate had started under Kennedy. a vote at that time

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. Danish You see, for Bulgarian you have to learn a different alphabet, and Bulgarian is a Slavic tongue, and this was quite new for me. But with Danish I really learned enough Danish that I could carry on a conversation in Danish after about a year

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

they realized that F i n l a n d w a s just a little bit too tough a nut to crack, that there would be a lot of trouble, that there w o u l d be guerrilla warfare. In fact, S t a l i n said that once in a conversation with Churchill. said, "You cannot but a d

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

you get any Congressional pressure on converting the Army over completely to the M-16, or, I should say, to the use of it in Vietnam and the ultimate conversion of the Army? R: No. What the issue in Congress was was when units were issued the M-16