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

that the Senate should have majority rule so that the filibuster can't prevail. In that December a group was assembled--it was Paul Douglas, Hubert Humphrey, Wayne Morse, Herbert Lehman--that all agreed to a proposal that I had made some time back. The proposal

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

of streets? G: I think so. W: Congress, Colorado, Lavaca. southwest corner. It was on 8th and Lavaca, I believe the Now I may have that off a block or two. It was downtown Austin, within a stone's throw of the City Hall. G: Did you do any work for him

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

?" said, "Yes ." He said, "How come John's a member and I'm not?" I I said, "Well, John was born to it . He was president of the student body at the University of Texas ." We drove two more blocks, three more blocks over towards the Texas, and we

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

said, "Yes, sir, but I've been about my Vice President's business," and he grinned and didn't say a word ! So we went on out to dinner and oddly enough Nixon was in Chasen's! So he was just about getting ready to leave, so we circled the block--the Vice

Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

an effort by the Stevenson people to bring about a change of the results or a blocking of the certification of Johnson. B: r understand that you were asked to advise with the then-Senator Johnson concerning at least one of his subsequent campaigns

Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

then in the neighborhood that that voting precinct encompasses you build alliances of people who are willing to have coffee visitations with ladies in their block and hold meetings in their neighborhood to build up interest and concern, usually in people's homes. You do

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

. I think Estes Kefauver was being nominated, and he was opposed by Texans, who supported John F. Kennedy. Is it true that Walter Reuther blocked that Kennedy move? N: I don't think so. I think it was more or less of an inspiration on Kennedy. I

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

has got us blocked at every corner. They've got so many people working around here and they know so much that's going on, we've got a hard, hard row to hoe. It looks to me like we don't have much of a show." Shortly thereafter, that same day, Jake

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

program, and then he had been killed, and that there was some blocking of this program at the time of his death, but that Lyndon Johnson took over and moved this program through in 1964 and '65. R: Does this make sense to you? As I've previously

Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and printed these tags "Love that Lyndon." made a serious effort. thing. B: And he Well, the Truman thing didn't amount to any- Stevenson had it blocked up. I was going to say, did the Truman announcement scare the Stevenson camp badly? H: Oh, yes, sure

Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Motor Company. So in the 1930s, when Couzens was still in the Senate, it is thought by many--and I am one of those--that Senator Couzens was instrumental [in] blocking federal aid from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the First National Bank

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

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

there, they had two of them standing by. Of course, those things are a block long. So as we pulled up there, Rayburn saw those two gigantic planes there. Because Eisen- hower had commandeered General LeMay's plane to take it to India, LBJ Presidential