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Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • always a lot of people wanting to talk to him and it was hard to move on and meet your appointments. F: He never has been one to stay on schedule. L· No, and it's hard to keep him going. F: Were you involved in that State Democratic fight up
  • Biographical information; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; LBJ’s rapport with Latinos; use of helicopter; interest in Valley drought; LBJ’s role in location of Falcon Dam; 1952 and 1956 State Democratic Conventions; 1960 and 1968 Democratic Conventions
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , then, to the Democratic ticket in 1960? J: Well ~ I was a bit surprised. I thought that Lyndon Johnson would either take the presidency or not take anything at all. surprised~ I was really, that he took the way out that he did. Of course, Mississippi was against
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • movement all along to get-­ F: Were you doing anything? P: No. Except that I was then serving as executive director of the St ate Democratic Executive Committee under Governor Daniel. Then Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn had a general
  • election of 1960; John Tower elected; LBJ-Pickle relationship in the vice-presidential years; LBJ's generosity; Ed Lyles; "Dollars for Democrats;" Homer Thornberry and Pickle; Gene Fondren, Charles Herring, and Pickle reach agreement on running for Congress
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • assistant secretary of defense for manpower. McS: Were you in need of any political credentials in this job? Did you necessarily have to belong to the Democratic Party? McG: Not that I am aware of. I imagine it didn't hurt, but I am not aware
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would tell you where he stood on it. But I think the most important thing was he realized just before it was too late and after he became president, that we're just people. I think he realized the wrong that America had done to poor folks and black folks
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 5, Side 1 G: Let me ask you first to review some of the episodes at the 1960 [Democratic National] Convention
  • John F. Kennedy's (JFK) plan regarding primaries going into the 1960 Democratic National Convention; assigning JFK staffers to specific state delegations; JFK's decision to address the Texas delegation; JFK's decision to ask Lyndon Johnson (LBJ
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this course of action and Walt called me to advise me the date and time and place that the meeting would occur and all the details. M: Was it organized, or did you organize it differently than the one that had organized in late 1967? C: No, the fact is I
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the hotel after this action by the hotel authorities. F: It was tremendously convenient for a young man working on the Hill. P: As I remember, the first month or so they gave me my room rent free. After that, I paid a very nominal sum, and as I remember
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Houston. B: Were you politically active in those days; did you participate in political campaigns in 1960 or 1964? W: I really never participated; I made relatively small contributions to the Democratic Party on both occasions, and I was one
  • The importance of maintaining a high moral standard; proposed revision of the Administrative Procedure Act; Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) strategies to delay or expedite action to accomplish their intended goals; how to get a viewpoint heard
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the Democratic Club, the Women's National Democratic Club on New Hampshire. A great gathering of the clan, lots of Texans, lots of other congressmen, and just all the family of the Rayburns that could be present. It was a much-looked forward to, and very special
  • on television; visits to historic sites around the Washington, D.C. area with guests; the 75th Club, the Congressional Club, and Women's National Democratic Club; Mrs. Johnson's interest in interior design; LBJ's decision to run for the Senate in 1948
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And that was the situation with respect to the Mansfield letter. That's totally a partisan thing, trying to stir up controversy within the Democratic hierarchy on an issue that really should have been kept private. If Mansfield didn't agree 1 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or senator \vho wanted her help and who was up for election. different ways. I'd check out a number of things. I checked it out several I checked it out with the Democratic Committee; I checked it out with the people the President knew in each state
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • explicitly what I think about any subject, but labels sometimes keep people apart. They say, "Oh, he's a socialist," or "Oh, he's a capitalist," or "Oh, he's a Democrat," or "Oh, he's a Republican," and so I try to avoid them. But I have learned a great
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to that effect. G: Would he have favored a more aggressive defense of Eastern Europe, do you think? J: I think he would have. I feel sure he would have. I don't know how far, but we had no defense at all. G: The Democrats were really on the defensive
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on to Washington. We'd come in 1933, but I hadn't gotten into any kind of action or done anything there. I had gone to work for the Democratic National Committee in the Women's Division, but only as a volunteer. see, in those days you had servants. You Even
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was really quite good . Yes, without question . Right after he became President there was some talk of a price rise . This was in the summer of '64 . He made a very thinly veiled warning against such action . And right after that when U .S . Steel cut prices
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then where I have actually worked closer with them than I did then, their institutional structure, organization, their permanent personnel if you want to put it that way, just did not know how to operate big fast-moving action programs and they still d o n
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was there. The a Republican?" ~resident came up to me and said, "Jerre, are you I said, "No, sir. I'm a Democrat." "well, you Ire fr:;m Colorado, aren't you? back there?" I said, IINo,sir. ~'Jeren't He said, you a Republican My father \'Jas a Democratic attorney
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • went on all during that period. But the degree to which he was active I think was somewhat limited; he was not particularly engaged in political pursuits at that stage although he was on the Democratic Study Group, or the Policy Committee I guess
  • Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee
Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of all a good Democrat; number two, an international businessman or person who was well connected with a large international company, but not a U.S. based company; and that the increasing monetary influence of Switzerland upon world monetary affairs
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He did not want to get stuck with this hot potato, either. I don't know whether he called me, or Marvin [Watson?], or what have you, but he told me anyway to get the Democratic [congressional] leadership, together with us and meet on it. We did
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • became the Democratic Whip of the Senate. And of course as such he was a member of the leadership, and as such he was in touch with plans and purposes, and I of course saw him every day, I suppose--practically every day. M: Do you recall some specific
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • or legislative policy. We were both Democrats. cloakroom, I recall seeing him in the Democratic sitting beside hiIn at times in the House while issues were under debate. would come up. Maybe in close contact with him when roll call votes I can recall
  • LBJ as a congressman; civil rights as an issue in Virginia; the 1960 Democratic Convention and the selection of LBJ as a candidate for VP; Senator Harry Byrd; JFK as President
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the 1960s, when he was st ill a senator? W: No, sir, I had no personal association with him other than in 1956 I was delegate to the Democratic National Convention and was the platform representative from Alabama, and I got on the elevator at, I believe
Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh 5 these negotiations which came up on food aid every few months as a means for obtaining commitments from the recipient countries that they would take the kind of actions needed to develop their own agriculture . THB : Now, sir
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the Senate but not necessarily in the field of civil rights. I don't think his reputation good. As a matter of fact, with the 1960 Democratic Convention, the fight over his nomination for the Presidency was much around--the opposition was to the fact
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the days when I was in the Defense Department, and had met him socially a few times, we were not close personal friends. I raised the question with him after we offered our resignations and there had been no action for some time, suggesting that with all
Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Chapter 21 of Title 44~ United States Code~ and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth~ I William C. Westmoreland, of Charleston~ South Carolina, do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, ti.tle
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But I don't remember discussing about it that day. G: Was there any talk of moving the Democratic convention from Chicago? You had all sorts of hints that there would be protests during this period. R: Yes. Not in my direction. I don't remember
  • The day and night of March 31, 1968; meeting with RFK; HHH's bid for the Presidency; MLK assassination; Fortas nomination; RFK assassination; 1968 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's night reading
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talked to him about the small towns in America where the level of teaching was mediocre and certainly not competitive with the big cities, and how, if we had television stations serving those towns, films by acknowledged experts in the field could
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of stay-behind--suspension--and there really wasn't much problem. The government had become a little heavy-handed in some of its political activities. I've forgotten what they called the Democratic Front or something that they had, the National
Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Adler -- I -- 6 sort of a mini-urban poverty program, or at least had many of the elements of the CAP [Community Action] program. I wasn't involved
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , he used them to improve the relationship with the press, and it may or may not be as you say, but generally the reporters that I met in that context were favorably disposed to him. But to say it was a reward for specific action goes beyond anything
  • October 1965 visit to the Ranch; LBJ’s relationship with the press; activities at the Ranch; LBJ’s desire to pay off Democratic National Committee debt and Krim’s involvement; Cliff Carter; John Criswell; political discussions at the Ranch; Francis
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a filibuster, and that stopped us because the Democratic leader Mansfield would not try to break the filibuster. You see, the way you break the filibuster is by meeting around the clock, just keep on meeting, and Mansfield absolutely refused to do
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but it didn't produce much political pressure in the sense that Congress was demanding action. Actually the situation I found was one in which I was sitting down with representatives of the Justice Department, a specialist on this staff here, Dave Seeley
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • him if such a suit had been filed, and he And he said tha. t it was set for a hearing before Judge Connally. And so I said, He said, And I called Judge Ingraham, and "Fine. I guess you took no action with respect to it." "Oh yes, I did. I
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it at a Cabinet meeting way back in 1961 that AID should be rather than an action agency with an in-house capacity of its own personnel, it ought to be a coordinating-planning kind of an operation delegating to the operating parts of government--the line
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] LBJ as a liberal-conservative; LBJ record up to 1960; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 and 1964 conventions and elections; Freeman’s personal interest in the Vice-Presidency; JFK problems in Minnesota; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had faced up to the same responsibility, only in his day it was the Democrats for the most part leading the fight. So my guess is that Bryce Harlow was involved in communicating with Eisenhower in this area, and it did some additional support. 13
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • people? N: No, I don't. The Department of Agriculture man later came up here, and the last time I talked to him, I think he was going to South America. Sorry I can't remember his name. It's been twenty years or more. B: Was the Stevenson side
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the drafting of that legislation. Lyndon Johnson supported the Taft-Hartley Act, whereas, Sam Rayburn did not. speech against it. He made a So Johnson was not hidebound to the so-called liberal side. He was flexible on occasions, as indicated by his action