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Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

then. Your committee assignments are on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Veterans Affairs Committee. Before running for Congress, from 1933 to 1950, you were a practicing attorney and probate commissioner of Allen County, Indiana. your LLB from

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. That's broken down so that it has a Subcommittee on each one of the twelve departments, and then one on foreign aid. believe they have one on Supplemental Bills. And then, I also But 14 different subcom- mittees and they're the ones that hear

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in political affairs came into focus in November 1928, when I was living in this small town in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Fayette County. Al Smith

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CHARLES BOATNER (Tape #2) JOE B. FRANTZ 1969 This is the second interview with Charles Boatner in his office in the Department of Interior Building in Washington on May 21, 1969 . The interviewer is Joe B . Frantz . Charlie

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of a sort of get-together among the liberal and young New Dealers, I gather. P: Oh yes, there was a very congenial group, plus a very volatile group. It was a controversial group, and I sometimes said that with the group over at the Department

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 17, 1968 F: This is an interview with Mr. Charles K . Boatner, the Director of Press Information for the Department of Interior, in his office in Washington, December 17, 1968

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

convention which first named Stevenson that you had that problem of the FEPC [Fair Employment Practices Commission] plank and your compromise on that, that the Labor Department would act by persuasion instead of compulsion in developing the FEPC. Did you ever

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Greenebaumwith the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; this is Mr. Driver, the head of the Veterans' Administration; and that's me and Secretary Fowler; and this is Larry O'Brien. M: That's a nice picture. C: It really is. M: Okay. Now you are a fully

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

." But that's the way it was. He'd drift in and out. for a couple of hours or a couple of minutes. He might be out There was no way of predicting it. John Connally came up. Rayburn was supposed to make a speech out at the Veteran's Hospital on November 11

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and Mr. Johnson stay out of Democratic National 60mmittee affairs in that period? M: To the best of my recollection they did. B: When did you first see any signs of presidential ambitions in Mr. Johnson? M: I don't know. B: Well, back

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

but never pressure . G: John Connally was commissioned, too, wasn't he, about the same time? B: Yes, about the same time . But I know they were both during that period . (Interruption) G: In July 1937 the House Naval Affairs Committee
Biographical information; LBJ's Naval Commission; Naval Affairs Committee; LBJ military service overseas; LBJ and Sam Rayburn; LBJ and Forrestal; LBJ and John Connally; Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy; LBJ investigations of Navy Department

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

are on the Committee for Foreign Affairs and you are the fourth ranking Democrat. You're chairman of the Near East Sub-Committee. Also you are a member of the Government's Operations Committee and I believe fourth ranking Democrat on that committee. F: That's right
to North Carolina; Congress under JFK and LBJ; objecting to Adam Yarmolinsky as head of Poverty program; LBJ’s strategy on passing legislation; Freeman’s agricultural policy; Foreign Affairs Committee; schism between Fulbright and LBJ regarding Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was desirous of being the U. S. Senator, but because of his opposition to the reclamation program of the Department of the Interior. I challenged him on this issue. He was as destructive in his opposition as Joe McCarthy was later to the State Department
Biographical information; first political action; election to Congress; activities/bill introduced in Congress; Richard Nixon; Melvyn Douglas campaign for LBJ at request of FDR; Farm Security Agricultural Department Program; friendship with LBJ

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of selling anyone on the fact that it was crucial? B: Oh, yes. The government didn't even agree on it themselves. In 1959 I remember the State Department said that we probably didn't have any balance of payments problem. The Treasury was deeply
departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

fruit, combined with a vigorous export expansion program. F: In this sort of changeover, you involve the Departments well beyond Treasury. You get into S t a t e and Defense and so forth. Within Treasury you've got your own international section. B
departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ

Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

good affair. But back to what you originally started to ask. I think you become progressively active, and then maybe the interest did fall off a little with the 1960 race. M: Yes. When you go about raising money, what do you do? Is this all done
techniques; contact with the Treasury Department; credit crunch of 1966; experience as a local director of the Federal Reserve System; reflections on the FDIC during the Johnson years; James Saxton; proliferation of national banks; consultations with LBJ

Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: No, I usually use a term, a conservative with a heart. While I've never had any money, I've always had to be very careful of my financial affairs, not ever having any money and being brought up rather conservatively because of that. But at the same

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and clean working conditions for labor, adequate aid to and care for veterans . He opposes the federal lecting production tax on our natural government controlling and colresources ." I mentioned to this group that that was about what I said and wrote

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in an office that is as public as the office of Mr. McCormack as speaker of the House--or I would imagine as any speaker of the House. in the crisis department sometimes. It's like being in the I handle all the people and his appointments, his legislative

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

many of the young men that I am hiring because of your having served as a field representative in the Texas Relief Commission." And then, too, he touched on the fact that I was reared in a department store and had experience in the running

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Jenkins -- IV -- 15 J: No, he worked on that, too. The departments that he had some

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was at a two-day seminar in East Texas University with reference to Sam Rayburn. One of the people the're was the head of the history department LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to go to that and got time off to go down. It was strictly a women's affair, I think. G: Did he talk about President Roosevelt? K: No, I don't recall him talking about him. He was strictly a sup- porter of the New Deal at that time, which many
; relationship between Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Maury Maverick; minimum wage; LBJ’s friendship with FDR; securing appropriations; airline franchise; Naval Affairs Committee; Erich Leinsdorf; Huey Long; Dick Kleberg; war in Europe; other Washington experiences.

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to go a step further with respect to tidelands, when Daniel got to Washington, his big issue had been tidelands and Johnson was completely responsible for him being made a member of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee which was the committee

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in public housing per se? R: Not much. G: How about the naval expansion bill in 1938? Do you remember that? R: No. I think he was interested in Austin getting a project. Johnson was then on the--he was almost immediately on Naval Affairs, wasn't he

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

conversation, or telling stories. G: These parties were often New Deal parties, weren't they? R: Oh, yes. G: People in the Interior Department or RFC? R: Well, all varieties, I mean from all parts of the government. G: Would you say he was closer

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

down a little. B: Brought down there by whom? M: An employee of the Department of Agriculture. B: With the knm.,rledge of the Administration? M: Oh, yes. B: That's an interesting point. M: It's interesting. B: You recall the names of those

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on them. So I guess I couldn't claim much knowledge there. M: You mentioned Evans and Novak awhile ago as a reference on the whole relationship you had. They seem to make a case that on the Leland Olds affair in 1949, that sort of a feud developed

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and they turned it over to make a gas line out of it. G: Do you recall LBJ working with the Interior Department on this? N: Oh, yes. He was very instrumental in getting it. Well, they built two lines, the "Big Inch" and what they called the "Little Big Inch

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or something like that. Or maybe they'd have somebody from the execu- tive department to explain a particular project in which Texas was interested. It.was the closed door sessions of the Texas group where the decisions [were madeJ--where they really got

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for others. are no longer on the scene. Most of them I think probably Jake Pickle was there and Jesse Kellam; one little bitty guy, a lawyer, who later worked in the state attorney general's department, whose name would come to me; others that Bill I'm

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

--it was a seesaw affair up until the last minute. P: Were you in doubt: of Mr. Johnson winning that election? How did you feel about it before the actual voting day? T: There were only two elections I have ever bet on in my life--both of those were that summer

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

microfilm cameras; then we need something to look at our film on; and then we need readers. I understand that the Kodak Company is involved in this and has a big research department doing nothing but this." This interested him a lot, and he said, "Would

Oral history transcript, Judge R.E. Thomason, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

was able to put in a good word for her at the time of the organization of the WACs, of which she became the director and she made a distinguished record as such. (I was then a member of the Military Affairs Committee in Congress). Oveta is a very fine

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

them off and into the Speaker's lobby and talk to them. G: Do you have any idea how he got appointed to the Naval Affairs Committee? E: Well, I know that you've already researched this a lot so you can double check what I will say, because I'm simply
Biographical information; regional staff; appointment to Naval Affairs Committee; Albert Thomas; 1941 Senate campaign; Colorado River dam projects; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. He was very sympathetic and interested in the Western Hemisphere. F: Well now, he was relatively a junior congressman, although he was coming up fast. Did you have much contact with him, or, again, was he somebody

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Johnson felt like his vote won for him also. B; Had any of the ca:mpaign bitterness lingered over into that co:m:mittee :meeting? S: Oh, yes. place. It was a heated affair and bitterness was very evident all over the Everybody was working feverishly

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

older than I, he and I became friends. We were con- temporaries, we were both interested in public affairs, and we both knew the same type of people, such as Governor [James V.] Allred and most of the officials. I think that at that time Lyndon had

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

ever had a president that worked any harder than Lyndon Baines Johnson. He read, contrary to popular belief, a tremendous amount of material and was, I think, very well informed in the affairs of government, as much as anyone man can be. M

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