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- that Bob Eckhardt always credited Mr. Rayburn with killing big city liberal organization. I've forgotten how Bob perceived that. But at any rate, I know when I married Bob he was very anti-Lyndon Johnson. G: Was it a result of the 1956 [fight]? E: Yes
- See all online interviews with Nadine Brammer Eckhardt
- Why LBJ hired Eckhardt; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; downplaying LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; how Eckhardt’s opinion of LBJ improved; the Southern Manifesto; LBJ’s public vs. private opinions.
- Eckhardt, Nadine Brammer, 1931
- Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette
- Nadine Brammer Eckhardt
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . [Reading from chronology], "May 11, the Texas House [of Representatives] passes the Texas Election Bill, which changed the primary date, after Bob Eckhardt makes a speech against it." Bob Eckhardt was the leader of the liberals in the Texas house. When I
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ? G: Nadine Eckhardt? R: Nadine, yes. G: No. R: She's living there now. G: Is she? R: Yes. She divorced the Congressman, ex-Congressman [Bob Eckhardt]. She may be married again, I don't know. she was moving. I had a note from her saying
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- easy communications with some members of the press. Certainly people like Wolf von Eckhardt of the Washington Post, in the very latter days Bob Cahn of the Christian Science Monitor, I could call and ask for information and ask for background
- Club here in Houston not long ago. M: The color photograph? J: Yes. t1: Which shows Lyndon Johnson and you-- J: And my wife. M: And your wife. J: And the person half-hidden is Congressman Bob Eckhardt. M: Yes. J: It was a party. What
- Biographical information; BOB job; liquidation of war industries; use of BOB by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower; Major General Wilton Persons; Sherman Adams; Jack Martin; Bryce Harlow; McCarran-Walter Immigration Act; Hatch Act; problem of civil
- transformed. F: We've got Bob Eckhardt out at Houston that's got some savvy in him. G: By the way is Bob Eckhardt . . .? F: He's from Houston. G: What kind of a congressman is he? F: Well, he's quite liberal. So Houston's got two good ones. They've
- ; LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; Mrs. Hobart Taylor; LBJ's 1948 Senate race; LBJ and civil rights; Bob Eckhardt
- Club here in Houston not long ago. M: The color photograph? J: Yes. t1: Which shows Lyndon Johnson and you-- J: And my wife. M: And your wife. J: And the person half-hidden is Congressman Bob Eckhardt. M: Yes. J: It was a party. What
- that was at the county level, or was it at all statewide when you were involved? D: It was at the county level in the beginning. G: Was it? D: It was at the county level. G: Was it primarily labor or was it--? D: No, it was liberals, too. Okay. There was Bob
- -- I -- 2 G: Who was involved, do you recall? B: Generally it was people like Sam Low, J. Edwin Smith, Chris Dixie, Bob Eckhardt, Arthur Combs. G: Was it largely Houston-based? B: Well, those are the ones I know and was working with at the time
- . Scholar~ It He was elected from a district in Houston where the labor unions and liberal elements elected him time after time. They now have Bob Eckhardt. M: Again, this is a question that is sensitive, and it's the kind of question that comes up
- to finance it, she did it herself. But she shared the burden with the unions and with a She ran that office. few plaintiff lawyers here in Houston who made regular donations, Dixie and Ed Smith and Bob Eckhardt and a lot of their friends in the plaintiff
- recall, the anti- Johnson forces who were at the convention were for Stevenson. I remember Mrs. [Frankie] Randolph and Bob Eckhardt and Ronnie Dugger and that crowd were for Stevenson, not for Kennedy. I ran into some people in the hotel who were
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- but peonage. And it's nobody's fault, but it has got to be stopped. Old Senator Parr stood up for his friends, the Klebergs, over a road through to the Ki ng Ranch. And Bob Kl eberg was call ed and said, "You'll beat your friend Senator Parr if you tell
- you who wrote that bill. Bob Eckhardt was a student at the University at that time, and Bob wrote that bill. F: Oh, he did. B: He was kind of my--he wasn't on my payroll or anything but he was hanging around; I don't know why the hell I didn't put
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb
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- for it and, of course, it was tied to various other factors . And then a lot of people felt like we should have asked for it earlier . I think Congressman Bob Eckhardt was an early supporter of it ; by the time it finally got around to passage he'd switched tracks
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , several freshmen did receive some choice appointments, 1ike Robert Byrd, Thomas Dodd, Gale McGee on Appropriations; Clair Engle, [E. L. Bob] Bartlett, and [Howard] Cannon on Armed Services. Any significance to these appointments? R: That's just Johnson
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- planning was beginning, the Anacostia Park project would get underway. She also praised Wolf von Eckhardt's Washington Post editorial on Mission '76 making 1976 the Bicentennial, making the celebration the achievement of all the many plans on our drawing
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- might be able to do it today. You've got Bob Eckhardt and Henry Gonzalez, who by the way, is also about to fallout with the liberals too, who can pretty well represent a state like Texas and be friendly with the liberals. Now, to get back to your
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: NADINE BRAMMER ECKHARDT INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Eckhard's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start by asking you to recount how you and Billy Lee [Brammer] ended up working for LBJ. E: We
- See all online interviews with Nadine Brammer Eckhardt
- How Eckhardt and first husband, Billy Lee Brammer, came to work for LBJ; early impressions of LBJ; Ronnie Dugger; clipping articles from Texas newspapers for LBJ; LBJ’s senatorial staff; socializing with the Johnsons; how LBJ treated people; Senator
- Eckhardt, Nadine Brammer, 1931
- Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
- Nadine Brammer Eckhardt