Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek

Title:

Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek

Number of Pages:

33

Description:

How Clark met LBJ; how Governor James Allred helped LBJ run for Congress in 1937; campaign costs in 1937; LBJ's support for FDR; fundraising for LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Brown and Root; W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel's victory over LBJ in 1941; Lady Bird Johnson's family and her business skills; events leading up to John F. Kennedy's assassination; LBJ's opinion of his time as vice president; Tommy Corcoran; Charles Marsh; Alice Glass; Clark's work as ambassador to Australia and American executive director of the Inter-American Development Bank; Clark's ranking of the presidents; LBJ's work ethic and political loyalty; LBJ's charm in one-on-one situations; Walter Jenkins; LBJ's relationship with Harry Truman; support for LBJ from Texas newspapers and people in the oil industry; LBJ's campaigns against Hardy Hollers and Buck Taylor; the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947; how LBJ was offered a position on the House Naval Affairs Committee; attending the funeral for LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.; Billie Sol Estes; how Clark ranked LBJ and JFK as presidents; LBJ's relationship with Robert Kennedy.

Contributor:

Clark, Edward, 1906-1992

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of Oral Histories Given to the Lyndon B. Johnson Library

See Also:

See all online interviews with Edward Clark

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details