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- served with? T: Well, let's see now. I was elected to the Senate in 1954 and he became vice president in 1961. Although I became a member of the Senate on Christmas Eve, 1954, I didn't come here actually physically until January of 1955. From 1955
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- : the business of the opposition is not just to oppose. You see what the new leader, the new president does, proposes, what his program is for the country, and then you help him on it insofar as you think he is 8 LBJ Presidential Library http
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- , but it had an appropriation. The Leamon piece says that Bobby [Kennedy] rode to the Hill with this young sociologist who finally enabled him to understand his point about delinquency when Bobby said, "Oh, I see. If I'd been born here this might have happened
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- through, and the President then started his campaign. I've never seen anything like it, nor are we likely to see it again. It was past the royal.progress; it was the visit of a holy man. I think this had a great deal to do with the Court fight
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- INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Let's talk a little bit about the crisis that erupted in the fall of 1968 over the Department of Labor reorganization plan
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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- House staff busy preparing statements to be issued wherever possible, contacting press to see if you could get favorable editorial comment, all of it added up to exacerbating the situation with Mansfield. Mansfield wasn't going to take it. He
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- became ambassador to South Vietnam; Homer Thornberry's appointment to a judgeship; Carl Rowan as ambassador to Finland; Chester Bowles' and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.'s appointments; White House responses to opposition from civilians as opposed
- to this district but to the entire state of Texas, I think. I don't know that I can say anything more about their per- sonal relationship. I do know that--you see, Jim Cain that we have spoken of, the doctor at Mayo's, married Alvin Wirtz' daughter [Ida May
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- began see- ing him on a regular basis to talk about the reconstruction and the afterrna th. B: Before I interrupted you, you Here talking about the need for some sort of investigative commission. C: Yes, it soon became highly desirable, \.;e thought
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- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- : I'm trying to recall when the first hearings took place. I would say probably in April [1968]. The first one that I recall so well-- F: Before you'd even granted a permit, or selected a site? C: Oh, heavens yes! That's the whole issue, you see
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- York Puerto Ricans on the grounds of the Washington Monument; SCLC lawyers Frank Reeves and Leroy Clarke; Coretta Scott King; Walter Washington's response to Martin Luther King's death; Ramsey Clark, Stephen Pollak, Fred Vinson, Jr., Matthew Nimetz
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: There's a final version of this memo, which I'd love to have. G: Okay, I'll get it. C: Okay? G
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- such a terrible burden, with really just people harassing him and wanting to see him and wanting to do this, and he had to give this person a little time and give that person a little time. And just the tremendous problems he has, not the Vietnams--of course
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- Jacobsen's early work for LBJ; protocol for entering LBJ's office; a trip to Camp David with LBJ; allowing LBJ to relax from the stress of his duties; Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., Abe Fortas, and Tom Mann in the Dominican Republic in 1965
- never forget this moment, this time with you, to be able to see what a man like you, whom I know to be a good practicing Christian, to have this splendid example that you've just given me of the Christian spirit as applied to your fellow human beings
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- it was, they accuse whoever's in power of deliberately doing it, and that's how the credibility gap gets started. G: How would you contrast George Christian's performance with Moyers, or compare it? J: Let's see. I think George was more down to earth
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- Texas protesters arrested and later invited to the Ranch; Jacobsen's opinion of Martin Luther King, Jr.; clothier Louis Roth's anti-Vietnam stance; Martin Luther King's FBI report.
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of good will in the Senate, not much partisanship or not much political wrangling. You had Senator Russell, and let's see who else: Senator Harry Byrd [Sr.], and Senator Johnson, Senator [John] Stennis and [Henry Styles] Bridges and [Leverett] Saltonstall
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- got Clark Kerr to validate. So the sequence is there, you see. T: I may want to ask you a little more about that because I think when I was in California I had a chance to interview Mr. Clark and also Thomas Pettigrew. F: Yes, Tommy was on our group
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 C: At some point in early November [1965], before we had rolled aluminum back--we're in the middle
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- was frequently when I was mayor, and Cliff Carter wanted me to come in and see the Vice President. And I did. I spoke with him in his office right off the Senate chambers. I recall it very vividly because I remember he said, among other things, when he sat
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- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- see enough in that brief encounter to see where young Congressman Johnson would have felt impelled in his direction. W: Well, let me say . . . F: You don't see young Congressman Johnson without realizing it. W: That's right. And I can see where
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- as unique. F: Did you take any particular interest in his first race for the Senate against Pappy O'Daniel in 1941? P: Yes. F: Did he seek your advice? P: vJe 11, I doni t know that he sought my advi ce, but I di d recall hi s lamentations. F: I see
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- Courthouse campaign- ing when he was setting up his campaign. He came in, and one of my assistants was a young fellow then named Henry Wade. He came by to see if he could get Henry Lvade to be his Dallas County campaign manager. F: Wade, as I recall
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- encountered Lyndon Johnson. When did you first see him? Do you recall that? DG: Yes, I recall a few of the things, yes. I recall him coming over; he came over around December, kind of at mid-year, and he took over 1928 or 1927 in January, the teachers
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- the machinery, the procedures--all incoming mail is examined and that which the President might wish personally to see is channelled one way so that it reaches his office. If he wishes to respond personally that is done separately by in large, although every
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- Shoemaker, Arthur Whitney, Jr., 1920-2003
- very much and had a very high regard for him. So I started in trying to see what could be lined up on the campaign and just kind of scouting the situation out. I can't remember exactly when--but before too long he called me and asked me- - - said he'd
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- to the effect that the purpose is not to point the finger at anyone but to see what we can do in order to get us back into a position of leadership. B: What was Mr. Johnson's attitude at the time toward military? W: Well, Mr. Johnson, of course, was a member
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Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- before or afterwards? B: He always gave me the impression of having a hell of a lot of important things to do when I would go up from the paper and go by to see him as Senator . He'd always be glad to see you, but he'd give you the impres sion, "Boy
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- -- 2 understand the issue, just the big fat oil boys versus the poor people. There's a hell of a lot more involved than that, and you can see the wisdom of Lyndon Johnson's position. Those people who represented states who lived on the water wanted
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- . In the second primary, first of all, Congress. . . . You see, at the 1948 Democratic National Committee [Convention] Truman in his aggressive, feisty acceptance speech said that he was going to [be] tarring and feathering the Republican Congress
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- in the Midwest than here in the South? H: Yes. You see, the South is always a whipping-boy on these things of prejudice. We had had the Al Smith situation in our own state--first time in a hundred years we went Republican was for Al Smith as a Democratic
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- 1954-58; memo 85th-93rd Congresses, 1st Dist. Minn.; memo com. edn. and labor. Recipient Young Man of Year award Minn. Jr. CofC, 1957; Distinguished Service award N.E.A.; Legislative Statesmanship citation Council for Exceptional Children, 1969
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- when he ran for Congress. Edwin Weisl, who was a dear friend of the President's and at that point in time was attorney and an old friend of mine. He was our attorney corporately and my personal attorney in the East. F: I've interviewed both Ed, Jr
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- . Johnson invited me down to Texas to see the dam and to see this group of contractors, which is where I first met the Browns, George and Herman. I remember--although my dates are not completely clear but I can establish it from my own memoranda--I
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- governor of South Carolina, Earl Morris, Jr., who was a candidate for governor and who was defeated. I moved to Pickens. My father was the village carrier, then became postmaster during Eisenhower's administration, thanks to Senator LBJ Presidential
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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of arrogant with me about my friendship with Clint, Jr. and Bob Thompson [?]. He was always leery, I suppose ever since he got that letter, of big fat cats trying to tell him how to run his business. He was skeptical of them. G: The suggestion
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- , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Joe, let's talk today about some of the reorganizational problems and talk in the beginning about the formation
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- , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Joe, we're going to talk about various bits and pieces today, and I thought we'd go back and cover that period
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- , and the others, to just bulldoze the house down, but we were making a big gamble to see if we could take this old place and turn it into a livable home for forever. I went down in a grey, bleak February weather, stayed with Mrs. Johnson in Austin, would drive out
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Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- not there, but they're just not as well known, and they don't really have the reputations of these other schools. And it's also kind of a circular process; you tend to see here in Washington top academic people from Harvard and Yale and Cal and Stanford; but you really
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- Califano, Joseph A., Jr., 1931-
- to the Republicans~ So we looked kindly on Mr. Sam all the time. The only thing that we wanted from him that I suppose he never could see fit to give is that we wanted liberal speakers to come into Texas. In fact, for years and years it was our feeling
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Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- /show/loh/oh Cikins -- I -- 4 Taylor became staff director later--and I of course had been very close to Rogerson--I realized that while Taylor and I are to this day very good friends and we see each other occasionally, I wasn't really his alter ego
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- , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: You had some experience with General Edwin Walker both at Oxford, [Mississippi] and then later when he was sent
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