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Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C., Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last time you were talking about briefing former President Truman on the behalf of President Johnson, and after the tape
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't like that a damn bit. But Tom grew. My job in the Governor's office--I was called departmental secretary--I was traveling secretary and speech writer for three years. And then in 1948 after [Thomas] Dewey and Warren were defeated--and that's
  • Going to work for Senator Thomas Kuchel; presidential appointments from California during Dwight Eisenhower's administration; political factions in California in the 1930s and 1940s; Earl Warren's early law and political career; Kuchel's rise
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? C: No, not at all. F: Just Dewey Bradford. C: Just Dewey Bradford, yes. I never will [stop] regretting that we didn't buy that building, although at the time Dewey didn't really want to sell it. Of course, Dewey was a hell of a lot smarter
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: THOMAS CORCORAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Corcoran's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr. Corcoran, let's get started again talking about President Johnson and go back and pick up the Sputnik episode
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  • Corcoran, Thomas G., 1900-1981
  • Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Thomas G. Corcoran
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • between here and the airport. He went by to see him. G: Is that right? Well, was Estes a Republican? s: No. G: One of those letters indicates that he was supporting [Thomas] Dewey Estes, as far as I know, was always a Democrat. in 1948. S: He
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Fulbrights. And always our Texas delegation, Lyndon never lost contact with them. Lera [Mrs. Albert] Thomas was one of my good friends. We would go to dinner there occasionally. She was a great collector of antiques, one of those lively, undefeatable women
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Truman had in 1948 when he ran so well in the rural areas where he wasn't supposed to run well . They took a look at Mr . [Thomas] Dewey with his little mustache and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Philadelphia, and Governor Thomas Dewey emerged from that as their nominee. Lyndon went on in the helicopter but got stopped. Well, first he did Hillsboro and Meridian. At Hillsboro, all of Mary Rather's folks turned out. Her younger brother, Ed Rather
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . I might mention a couple of things that perhaps would make it a little more accurate. You d i d n ' t mention the fact that I was defeated for the legislature in 1948 in the [Thomas E.] Dewey year [Republican presidential candidate]. Also, you d
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the decision made for him, he wanted-- K: That's right. And I also remember being in Atlantic City when Arthur Schlesinger came to me and said, "It's going to be Senator [Thomas] Dodd and there's going to be all hell to pay," because Dodd had been called
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be reckoned with? Was he involved? C: I have no sense of that. I have no recollection of our talking about it or being worried about it. This one, I see, talking to [Thomas] Dewey. That was obviously on some crime message. G: Really the bottom line
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had never sought anything himself. And he did--I don't remember how much, but I'm sure we put into it just as much as we could. My brother, throughout all this period, through every race that Lyndon had, Thomas Jefferson Taylor III was county man
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as it was with the Paul Butler crowd. I say that because after the conventions, including the national convention--it would have been in the fall around September, early October--Dewey Bradford had a party [in Austin]. He had one of the first houses in Rollingwood. It had
  • Allan Shivers and Democrats for Eisenhower in 1952; the role of LBJ and Sam Rayburn in the 1956 Texas State Democratic Convention; Paul Butler and the Democratic Advisory Committee; party at Dewey Bradford's house; how LBJ won county and precinct
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? K: Yes, I predicted it from my experience from riding with him. I was one of the few fellows that would come back after following Dewey and following Truman and predict Truman's election. I told some of my friends and they went out and made some
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLI -- 5 C: I can't remember. You might take a look. Ask--it's actually in the--Dewey Ballantine [law firm] represented Borden's and they've recently done a redo
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and we became very good friends. So, the third time, in 1948, I was a staff member of a special committee created to investigate the petroleum industry, chaired by 'Congressman Dewey Short of Missouri. Lyndon Johnson was the senior Democrat
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be elected." And when you asked me when I was conscious that Lyndon Johnson would ever become president, I think I would have to tell you the story after the 1948 campaign in which Truman beat Dewey. I saw President Truman and he asked me, "Paul, when did
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in New York with a young cous in of mine. M: Sullivan and Cromwell, wasn't it? B: I've forgotten. M: Yes. B: So at least some good Democrats carne out of Dewey's office. It was in Dewey's office. But Joe kept in close contact. I'm going back
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the Midwest except under unusual cir­ cumstances votes Republican in presidential elections. Truman carried it strong in '48, but that was because Dewey just didn't sell and because they made some mistakes. One of them was in agriculture. very aggressively
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . This I cannot tell you. was when I got the news he was shot. I know where I I was with Tom Dewey at lunch. But when we got together and when he called, this the record would show, and I don't know. F: I have a record that you were down in EOB
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in two minutes Gerry Rosberg can tell you how the--or Konrad Alt, the associate, Konrad Alt [Rosberg and Alt were attorneys with Califano at Dewey Ballantine at the time of the interview] can give you the--ask him to give you a one-pager on the time
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to New York to practice law with Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, a large Wall Street law firm. F: Did it matter that you were a Democrat by persuasion? C: No. As a matter of fact, I wasn't really either a Democrat or a Republican
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • is that these people weren't very practical, but he would tease them and he would tease me--teasing with a cutting edge in which he was saying in effect, give all this away and run around dewey-eyed. nYou just can't You've got to be a little practical as to what
Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Perkins, Carl Dewey, 1912-1984
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • supported Harry Truman when Strom Thurmond and Dewey \\'ere running, and I was a budding politician of Cumberland County. I supported him openly and to the dismay of the local Democratic leadership, and as a brash young man offered to debate the state
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : No, not then or after. M: Well, now, this is not completely the end of the fight. C: No, they had some 1awsu i ts, dnd there was even a contest fi 1ed in the Senate. It was abandoned later. Truman was elected. It was abandoned when If Dewey had been elected
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . That never came through. He was not quite Tom Dewey on the wedding cake, but he was the elocution student, really, on camera; he didn't sound natural. And I've seen him take a group of businessmen and others and charm them right out of the trees
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for Eisenhower in 1952 and had previously worked for Dewey on three of his campaigns, and also as research assistant for John Foster Dulles. pretty solidly Republican background. many years. So it was a However, it did go back a good I've retained my
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • behind or ahead he was either. D: Exactly. None of us did. I remember coming home to vote, and being at my desk at the office and getting a story from the AP about the cabinet that Dewey had already picked. and about four we're in." 0' And I stayed
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Knott -- I :..- 4 those days, we had a Republican Congress about 1952 or so. So he was out of the chair, and his ranking Republican friend from Missouri, Mr. [Dewey] Short, was chairman for a while. And you never really saw much
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , Dewey Daane of the Fed;-Tony Solomon .of State, and I were the other four members . It was a group of five . We met regularly, a primarily principals-only kind of session in Deming's office, not the big staff meeting type arrangement . It got