Thread by @kevinakwok

If you follow me on twitter, you already know I think you should read the NYT interview with him today

So let me take the chance to add a diff rec. Caro did 22 interviews with Horace Busby. If you like Caro you should *also* read every oral history of LBJs aides

Here are some:

Horace Busby was oral history'd by the LBJ library 8 times

lbjlibrary.net/collections/or…

John Connally was LBJ's Secretary. And later on Gov of Texas. Oral History'd 3 times

lbjlibrary.net/collections/or…

George Reedy was interviewed 27 times. 27 times!! As you'd expect that means he had a lot of things to say--should go read all of them

lbjlibrary.net/collections/or…

Here's all of @LBJLibrary's digital oral histories

Sadly, on primary documents they used to have some that now have been pulled down. If someone from library is reading this--please digitize more of them:)!

lbjlibrary.net/collections/or…

And since for some reason Rowe doesn't seem to be on the library's collection

Can go to their other page Discover LBJ, which has the Rowe oral histories
discoverlbj.org/item/oh-rowej-…

Here's full list of Rowe oral histories
discoverlbj.org/solr-search?fa…

And here's Rowe from JFK library: jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/a…

And Rowe from Truman Library: trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/rowej…

And here's entire Discover LBJ Oral History collection (which is different from their selection on LBJ library site)

discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/…

On final note.

Interviewing someone many times is important. But for those of us without access, I think going past biography and reading as many oral histories is very very important too.

So if you like Caro, highly recommend supplementing it with the oral histories