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Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they? They can make money on their own. They don't need us." He said, "Well, I tell you what you do. You go and talk to Colonel [Alfred] Petsch, and you go tell him that you want for him to go with you and get the garden club in Fredericksburg to go with ya'll

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

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 2 was vice president then, and he was asked by the Fort Worth Club over here . He said, "John Connally's a member there now, isn't he

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

activities in New York, I debated at the various reform Democratic clubs for Kennedy against both [Adlai] Stevenson and Johnson and [Hubert] Humphrey and [Stuart] Symington, who was also a candidate at that time. You've got to remember now, there were about

Oral history transcript, Earl Howsam, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

highly of by the other members, and I feel that it's a closed corporation, so to speak. It's the greatest country club in the world, and if you belong to it, others will help you. G: Of course, he also had allies on the commission. H: Yes, right. Well

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with a chamber of commerce group or a service club, a breakfast meeting, a lunch meeting, a lot of stops in between. The state is a big place. It was not nearly as simple as it had been in running in the Tenth District. You couldn't just stop like in Taylor

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Selma--Jim Clark was sheriff at the time and they got some bad pictures of him clubbing people and so on and so forth. There were a lot, myself included, who felt that the situation was inflamed enough at that time that you didn't need a march and if you

Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

such fun. We went to this one particular night club, the name of which I forget. T: It was out on the lake. I took LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Press Club here. And the person making [the presentation?], just casually, just like you were lifting something from a biographical sketch, mentioned that I was to be serving as chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee on Civil Rights, and a member

Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

President Johnson through President Miguel Mexico and through his friend Miguel Guajardo. Ale~an of Miguel Guajardo'as a young boy worked with his fathGr in the hotel in Acapulco by the name of the Club de Pesca, and having been to school in the United

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Houston and I had offices on the fourth floor of the old building just as far from anywhere as you could get, way back toward the Republican Club of today. Lacey Sharp, who later was my secretary for eighteen years or more and then for my Agriculture

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to return. The two of us appeared on a television show, "Meet the Press." I also talked to the National Press Club here in Washington. Mrs. Johnson at the White House. that trip. I again was guest of the President and Mrs. Westmoreland accompanied me

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

reaction to you for your failure to join the club on the way they had made their mind up by 1967? B: I think it was ambivalent . On the one hand, I think a good section or the majority section of the intellectual community disagreed with and resented

Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

his supporting anyone in particular? S: No, not at this point. G: Would you have characterized him as a liberal or conservative? S: I wouldn't say on the liberal side. G: Now, you were a member of one political fraternity or club, the Black

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the country club and said-- F: Is this Wichita Falls? T: Yes, Wichita Falls. Said, "John, I hate to tell you this, but you ain't got a cut dog's chance." But we recovered by '66. F: What do you do, just quietly go back to work on something like this? T

Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Not that I heard him say; he could have, but I never heard him mention anything about it. I really think that he just thought it wasn't happening to him and he was going to just go away. G: Do you ever go to the Gay Nineties Club in Fredericksburg with him

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

served you so well in your life. You've had such good health and such a great physique." And he smiled and said, "It wasn't always like this." Said, "When your mother first got married, she bought me a set of dumbbells and Indian clubs," are the words he

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

benefits for you." Conrad Cooper, who was the main negotiator for the steel industry, was a tough guy, very hard-nosed negotiator who was of the old school of business, old hard-line Duquesne Club steel industry, and he was determined to teach Abel a lesson

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-six. F: In your senatorial career then, after being named to the Appropriations Committee, did you have much of a relationship with Mr. Johnson or were you--? M: Not intimate, that is, I wasn't on the inner club. I was not one of his confidants

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

me questions about my life while he was urinating. G: Had you seen him before, while he was in the Senate? L: No. If I had seen him I did not recall him. The first time I ever heard of him was when George Reedy, at the Press Club Bar, told me he

Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

, and when it was a junior college, and the scholarship from there to Baylor University. I finished in Baylor University in 1912. The other day, Monday of last week, I went up to Baylor. They have a Heritage Club, and the members are those who have graduated

Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. She was attending the joint convention of the National Council of State Garden Clubs in the American Forestry Association. This was one of the first trips, one of the first follow-throughs, after the White House Conference on Natural Beauty_ TOg

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 27 which is now the Austin Woman's Club. It was then, I think, the property of the Austin Woman's Club, but they took in business and professional women and gave them a room there. I don't think they boarded, but they had rooms there. She had

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

. No good." He was--when the governor least--one idiot governor after another, like Texas. I remember once we were sitting around in the National Press Club having Coca-Colas--and we got pretty high on Coca-Cola, the old Coca- Cola. Creekmore Fath

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the Goldwater department store sent a charming scarf to every one of the members of the club through this congressman's wife that was in charge of the event. That was my first introduction to Goldwater. Lyndon harped on the economic issues, and on peace

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

talking now about the monied people. The Taft-Hartley thing fitted in, in that they could hold up their heads at the clubs and say, "I'm going with Johnson," because of Taft-Hartley. In other words, they didn't have to defend to their conservative friends

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, said, "Did you know, Senator, the French Air Force has finer officers clubs than the American Air Force does?" And Lyndon bawled him out about that. He said, liThe Air Force is the most extravagant branch of the service." you know, that was kind

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of most of us at that time, because the Curtain Club had excellent LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Selden actors. Zachary Scott was one, you know

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. It was given to the newspapers. So, at least he realized the value of the press. But I've seen these Presidents that I have known at times when they were entirely disgusted with the press. Theodore Roosevelt had his Ananias Club; he used to put newspaper

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the Fort Worth Club. I wrote my story, and about three o'clock in the morning I got a phone call, and it was from Lyndon Johnson. And he said, "I'm down in the lobby. read the Dallas News and I want to thank you." I've just I said, "For what?" He

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: September 17, 1981 INTERVIEWEE : DON OBERDORFER INTERVIEWER : Ted Gittinger PLACE : The Cosmos Club, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr . Oberdorfer, at one point in your career you said that you spent nine days recall 0: in Cambodia

Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Russell is concerned . he was more contained . So I think his treatment, probably, was after he became Majority Leader and younger senators came in . Rather, he didn't come on quite that gung ho with the older, inner club members, I'm sure . I mean

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of .. G: Hhat do you remember about the Press Club? W: I don't remember much about it, if anything. belonged to it or anything. G: live forgotten now who I remember there was one, all right. Do you recqll LBJ as a member of the debate team? debating

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McGovern -- I -- 13 maintaining that civility inside the Senate. The Senate was frequently described as a club, and it really was that when I was there. U: Based

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a kind of club-- M: The Establishment, as Richard Rovere once called it. S: And I think one of the reasons-- M: But the president of the Establishment wasn't there. That's what made me ask. John McCloy wasn't there, and certainly he would

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Headliners Club . on it they had to have three signatures . So he and Everett got together and called me up and put me on as the third member of the That plaque hanging in there I'm the only survivor . corporation . in my bathroom, they honored me one

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

looked quite different to many Europeans, including the British, than it did from the White House; that it looked like an effort by a major power to club a small country senseless and use dispro portionate power, air power in particular. I made

Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-election in Illinois. I was also president of the Democratic Club in Park Forest, Illinois. In 1964 I was a s s i s t a n t director of Rural Americans for Johnson- Humphrey. paigns]. I think these are my official connections \'lith any [camIn 1960 I

Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD G. STILWELL INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. G: I notice in General [William] Westmoreland's memoirs [A Soldier Reports] he refers to you as "a close associate in many previous assignments before he

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

President--I was up at Wesleyan at that time, but I was down for a party that was held at the Women's Democratic Club. It was a group that, I believe, still meets once a month, and has a dinner and dance. He was there that evening, and he took me aside