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was a rather obvious step that was available to us. The Washington Post had advocated home rule over a long period of time and were often editorializing on the subject. We were having difficulty securing the necessary signatures for a discharge petition

Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to believe that he and I had a mutuality of interests, just because of our age bracket. But that wasn't true, because I stili had a college boy, young newspaperman, cartoonist attitudeo particularly serious. I didn't think things were I did my job as well

Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of on a Saturday afternoon, who's a good friend of mine, Walter Krawiec, K-R-A-W-I-E-C, who was the editorial cartoonist for the Polish Daily News, but who is a very talented artist in his own right and did a lot of fine work. I called Walter and I said, "Walter
consulates in the U.S. and U.S. consulates in the USSR; LBJ's relationship with Adam Clayton Powell; LBJ's relationship with Congress; LBJ's ability to persuade people; the change in expectations among African-Americans during LBJ's presidency

. Sargent Shriver was head of the Office of Economic Opportunity and presided at our meetings. A number of very distin- guished Americans were members of the Council and all v!ere anxious to do whatever was possible to alleviate the tragedy of poverty
; Archbishop Binh; Angelo Palmas; Nguyen Van Thieu, Nguyen Cao Ky; Latin American ambassadors meet in San Antonio; St. Francis Xavier parish in Stonewall; the Committee for Peace in Vietnam; assessment of LBJ and CTJ.

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

13 Then I went on and spelled out what those were. "The judicial appointments of the President have been iighly rated by the American Bar Association. have been rated by the ABA. Of the 216 judicial appointments 173 appointees 54 per cent have been

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

certainly intend to cooperate with him, because under the Constitution, the President is given the responsibility of charting our course in Foreign Relations. And that cartoon came out in the paper, and the cartoonist--I don't know just which cartoonist

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/loh/oh B. Abell -- Interview III -- 11 A: Depending upon the type of party, many of your guest lists are ready-made. If you're entertaining the officers of the American Bar Association, that's predetermined by somebody else; if you're having

Oral history transcript, Sheldon Cohen, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the Internal Revenue Service. Is that correct? C: Yes, writing legislation, technical stuff, and regulations on legislation. M: From 1956 to 1960, you were a member of the law firm of Stevenson, Paul, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison? C: Associate, that's

have got such a majority it really doesn't matter. But in those days, it was so close. It was so close. Do you have any Let's talk about LBJ's relations with other senators. recollections of his association with Walter George, for example, who

to take us into greater war is fallacious and the result of the cartoonists and others who attributed this feeling to the President, I think, it was obvious, however that the Congress was willing to support stronger military action and felt we had to do

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