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Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this election is in over here ." I never went to but one election party, and that was our first one in 1948 . We went over there, and they had [the party] on top of one of the buildings over there, some club, lemonade and all . Anything he had
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and saw LBJ from time to time when he was in the Senate, during the early part of his career, later as majority leader, and then as vice president. After Kennedy's death, I saw him quite often. The Women's National Democratic Club had a private dance group
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a man who, by the way, was proven mentally incompetent, deSola Poole. and Joseph Proskauer. He, at the same time, sued Cardinal Spellman McCarthy got him to file a complaint that he met me at the John Reed Club, which was a communist club, and so
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went--I hope it's still there, but I'm sure it isn't--was a very swanky place. Bohemian Club. It was the Do you know whether they still have that? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • club luncheon in Waxahachie. Were you in Waxahachie then? W: Yes, I went with him. G: Do you remember that talk? W: Yes, sure do. G: What club was that? W: Oh, I forgot. See, I had a road job at Waxahachie at the same time. I had a contract
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Other than that I don't have any particular recollection of President Johnson. I remember I was president--we had what we called an Administrative Assistants Association, we did then. G: Was this the Burro Club? 18 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson announced that he was taking himself out of the race in 1 68? E: Yes, I was surprised. I was in Houston, Texas that night, and I'd been invited to the Petroleum Club; there were several of us, by a very prominent man in Houston wbo was very
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Miss Lucy, "Do you campaign with Senator George?" And she said, "Oh, yes, I go around with him all the time. I don't make any speeches, I just sit up on the platform to show them I don't have a club foot." This was really I think what Mrs. Johnson did
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to NATO the Senator upon arrival was rather tired, and rightfully so, so he went to bed rather early that night. Johnson, who I think is one of the Mrs. finest women I have ever met, also a very brilliant woman, had never seen the Lido Club. She had
Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or whatever so that he could give a speech to the--maybe the Lions clubs or somebody at lunchtime. He'd have a commitment at lunchtime. He'd have lunch and give a speech. G: He'd leave the helicopter and [inaudible]. N: Yes. Yes. Well, we'd be pretty close
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to a club or something. Bob Hope was there and we went over there one night to their--and I believe they were at Tres Vidas. I can't remember. If there 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • club-footed cousin, Harpalus, invented the profession in the West. M: . A: That's quite a while • Well, he way. I mean, he made changes and innovations that unless we lose our heads completely in this country will have permanent historical importance
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to sing in the glee club all four years I was on campus, and I sang in the � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a party at the South shore Coun try Club and invit e Sena tor Johns on to come to that meet ing, as well as John Conn ally and Mayo r Daley . I belie ve at that time Sena tor Johns on met Mayo r Daley . F: You think this was the first time the two men
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a living ex-president. It becomes an incredibly intimate relationship. It's a private, most exclusive club in the world, and they will go to great lengths--not necessarily as far as Nixon went with Johnson. But he made it clear that anything within reason
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • --at the beginning, it was very difficult to raise money, so finally we--they were able to get LBJ's Hundred Dollar--members of the LBJ's Hundred Dollar President's Club, and we agreed to raise four million dollars for Humphrey there. H: That was the LBJ Hundred
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the Yale Club on the motivations of national public service. M: Was this ever published? F: Yes, it Was published and I think it was reprinted in full in the Washington Post at that time. Therefore, in answer to your question, LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • affirmative action or anything similar being used. He himself of course was the ultimate affirmative actor in his own way of doing things. Who was it yesterday told me they saw in Washington the black secretary that he brought to the Forty Acres Club? G
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a marine brigade and an air wing and we were in the Philippines already. All the planes were lined up on the runway, but nobody ever knew about it, and we had five thousand men there. I'd go to the club at night and play bridge in civilian clothes
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • major revisions. time the next morning to have it typed up. Fortunately, we had The President again called me back in November of 1961, at which time Ambassador Bunker was also asked to return. on a television show, "Meet the Press." Press Club here
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Pearl Hall. F: Right. W: I've got to go one step further on that. In addition, through Mary Pearl originally, I met Horace and Mary Virginia Busby. And I was instrumental with George Hoffman and Horace Busby in forming the local Foreign Policy Club
  • First meeting LBJ in 1958; forming the Austin Foreign Policy Club with George Hoffman and Horace Busby; a visit to the Ranch about 1958; refusing an appointment as general counsel to the army; surprise appointment as chairman of the Administrative
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to listen to the voices of the establishment, the club, the committee chairmen, that annoyed many of the liberals, who thought they now had the horsepower, had the numbers to write their own ticket. Many of them asked for the caucuses, because
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it? Rallies on occasion could be put together. But your best exposure was street-level, the factory gates, walking the main street of a town and then tie in a Rotary Club luncheon, a Kiwanis breakfast, meetings that take place on a regular basis
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • paratroopers patrolling Connecticut Avenue. George Christian and I got together and went over to the National Press Building, because that's your best view of the riot area, from the National Press Building--National Press Club--and saw a lot of rather strange
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE : KEYES BEECH INTERVIEWER : Ted Gittinger PLACE : The Cosmos Club, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 2 B: Yes . There was an example of that, where an ambassador was not fully in control, in Laos, in Vientiane in the early sixties
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had it settled, and then, all of a sudden, Joe Califano and Jim Gaither and Larry Temple showed up in Austin, and we had dinner with them down at the Headliners [Club]. The committee and, 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : President's Club money or--? J: I don't know. Cash, I know it was cash. And he would get together an envelope, and we'd call the guy over. He'd come in and visit a while and talk a while. Before he left, he would get that envelope. No quid pro quo, nothing
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and precedents and so on. MG: The President's Club had been a large fund-raising center in the 1964 campaign. DG: Yes. MG: Was this organization helpful to you in 1968? DG: I don't recall. I don't remember any discussion of it, and I have no memory
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ was going to be president to be a place that they would let the town use for community meetings--4-H clubs, home demons­ tration clubs. Then it became something a great deal more, and it was an easy thing, when we could not let people come
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; and secondly, I did engage in some rather active local civic undertakings, such as the president of the Chamber of Commerce, the president of American Red Cross, the president of Rotary Club, and others were really time consuming--that was all the time I could
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this award. K: Each year at the Women's National Press Club, for many years an award has been given to an outstanding woman. On this particular occasion, President Johnson was to be the speaker. It's a dinner honoring Mrs. Roosevelt and the women who
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , they all agreed that the Sierra Club's fight was pretty ill founded, and wasn't too factual as to what was involved. I never will forget the Reader's Digest story against it, and a picture of some beautiful waterfalls. Nowhere in the story did it say
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Of course, in my state when I was in business, I was called a radical by my competitors because I started the five-day week, the thirty-six hour week, the first profit-sharing plan of any business in the state, a summer cabin for the employees, a flying club
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • President's Club money for support, which I did. Then of course came the day of the primary, and Johnson did win. I don't recall whether it was a plurality or a majority, but if it wasn't a majority, it was very close to 50 per cent. I believe it was 51 per
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • fully understand the Senate and its working. F: Now, are you talking about Senate liberals or all liberals? R: All liberals, it was general. Generally they think of the Senate as sort of a "Gentlemen's Club" where you should have a connnittee