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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the property of first-class intellects, as long as they were confined to philanthropists or speculators, as long as they were only advocated by austere, intangible Whigs"--there's Paul Douglas for you--"Sir Robert Peel was against them. So soon as these same

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation [third session, fourth tape] of the interview with Harry McPherson. Sir, we were talking last time about

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of supporters from my bureau--accountants and the heads of various geographical areas and so on--Mr. Rooney says, "Is this one of the ones that's going to be cut?" And I said, "Sir?" And he says, "Is this one of the ones that you're going to cut back?" And I

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: This is the continuation of the interview with Harry McPherson. Sir, since we last talked, there has been published in Newsweek on March 10

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 3 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Harry McPherson. Sir, we were talking last time about civil rights activities generally. To talk

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was antipathetic to the, quote, gas lobby and much more on the side of Senator [John O.] Pastore [D.-R.I.] and Senator [Paul H.] Douglas [D.-Ill.] and the others who were for preserving the FPC's regulatory power. B: Did you ever talk to Senator Johnson about

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a minimum number of big meetings. What you did was meet in the Policy Committee, and you had somebody that you could deal with, like Hubert Humphrey, in there. Or you could meet with Hubert privately and say, "Why don't you go tell Paul Douglas or Joe Clark

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. [The] notion of tax cutting as an antirecessionary device is not one that had seeped down to Texas, as I believe I think it's fair to say. Senator [Paul] Douglas, who was at this time in their lives Johnson's almost daily adversary, was a professional economist

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

results and an awful lot of criticism of Johnson coming from the liberal side. It had been there before. It was always there with Joe Rauh and Walter Reuther and Herbert Lehman and Paul Douglas, but it now began to spread to a number of other people

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)

a par t of the whole lea rni ng pro cess so tha t they might continue it at home aft er it was ove r, tha t [th ey] migh t get some sense of wha t the Head Sta rt_ group was try ing to do. And the oth er [group were brought in] wit hou t _mothers

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

over to that Room 201 and sleep till about nine. Then he'd get up and start writing, typing, and I guess then he'd go back home at six and sleep till midnight and he'd start writing at midnight and that's how he wrote The Gay Place, which Johnson did