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Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

elected, then the prospects would be even more uncertain. So I realized that, but of course the administration was defined by the legislation as a nonpartisan, bipartisan administration. been active politically. I had never I was a registered Democrat

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 B: Did this involve you in national Democratic politics? C: To a limited degree. I wouldn 1 t ~.;rant

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in there. Was there ever any question as to what your politics were or whether or not that would influence the appointment? T: Not a one. I was never asked whether I had supported the Democratic Party or whether I was, in fact, a Democrat. I had in 1964 contributed

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

people up there. But I don't think Now, frequently I I think I did this even more in the Republican Administration than in the Democratic Administration. I would go up with Wilbur to executive sessions at Ways and Means and things like

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

could dip down in his bag, and he had a little assignment for a Democrat on the Senate Small Business Committee. F: Did you get the feeling that Senator Johnson was sort of sidetracking Senator Kefauver? 2 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to mumble; he looked like a man trying to lie his way out of a traffic charge. But he was a good loyal Truman Democrat and was prepared to undertake the sort of a captaincy of the Administration team presenting the ten-point anti-inflation program

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was simply eight light years away from where the action was and simply had no way of knowing. B: Could you feel atmospheres? For example, was there any bitterness between the Kennedy groups and the Johnson groups? V: I never saw the candidates, either

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the dean of the college and was the only person with a Ph.D. degree. G: What were Professor Greene's politics? Was he a liberal by philosophy or a conservative? Was he an internationalist or an isolationist? S: He was not an isolationist. Democrat

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

, of course we don't know who it was, but he was bound to have had some backing, because he had no money of his own . Democratic primary, you understand . That was in the These flyers, handbills, cropped � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

and the burning questions of free-enterprise and socialist form of government, autocratic form of government versus the democratic form of governments . We spent many hours discussing the pros and cons of each one of these questions . We had a complete meeting

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a straight support Roosevelt candidate. That's the way he got elected to the Congress in 1936 or 1937 or 1938, whenever it was along in there. Governor O'Daniel was never a pro-Roosevelt man or really a Democrat, identified as such. 4 LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Secretary who went to Moscow and wanted some ammunition, was to launch a thing we called "Phase A-Phase B ." That is to say, we would be prepared to stop t1te bombing with no visible immediate counter action on the other side, provided that it was agreed

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Democratic stalwarts in Dallas to which Lyndon of course went and spoke. This was in February. It featured a senator from Missouri
Taylor; LBJ's view of minorities in the 1930s and 1940s and some of his unpopular actions; LBJ's association with African-American education leaders; Bill Deason and the Johnsons' first victory garden; guests and friends; the changing morale regarding

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

institution into what it now is. T: Was it, at the time that you became president of the system, the way it is now, which encompasses [inaudible]? F: Yes, in 1931 that action initially began under Dr. Graham. A woman's college in Greensboro, and the land

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

off and an almost meticulous avoidance of anything whereby the United States and the Soviet Union will, to use Dean Rusk's famous phrase, stare down the barrel of nuclear war again. There have been a lot of corollary and auxiliary actions and so

Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Marder -- I -- 8 establish more quickly the questions that we had about this incident and to have displayed them prominently enough that they would have come into the debate. The political action moved
warfare; speculation versus fact when reporting on the government's actions; the administration's refusal to acknowledge any change of policy regarding Vietnam; the Dominican Crisis and its impact on the Organization of American States (OAS).

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic delegation? C: Again, not much that I was aware of. We were in communication with the civil rights forces in Mississippi, but we tended to do our own LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

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

. Then we had the time that the Texas Democrats wouldn't put Adlai Stevenson and Senator Sparkman--or didn·'t want to put them on the ballot as Democrats. The Texas party wanted to put them on as something else and they went to court over that. We were
; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that the only connection I had with President Johnson early on was not one that would have made him particularly fond of me and the Americans for Democratic Action. M: Did you react with horror like the rest of the Kennedy cadre when the nomination became

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

did you arrive at your own position? R: Intuitively. I 1 ve been around politicians and around the political process all of my life and most of my knowledge is right up here. His problems as Senate Democratic Leader were basically political

Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in politics in the world some creative things. His whole career was marked by this very achievement. One doesn’t have to agree with all of his political conceptions or political actions to know that he was driven by the desire to serve. Politics is a rough

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was critical of him as a citizen who should have been interested in what is good for America and for the American people rather than what is good for the party or what is good for Lyndon. He said Lyndon never could distinguish the fortunes of the United

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh full of vinegar, and regardless of whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, _ you had to admit that he was in there full of vim

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

sort of thing five years later, or several years later. G: Another wild Texas convention. J: That's right. G: ~Jell, J: I was overseas in 1944. G: Now the Democratic National Convention was in Chicago that summer in 1944 I gather

Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 2 B: That's going to come up later in the interview when we get into the area of personnel. Have you had in your career at any time any strictly political activity? R: No, I haven't. My wife, as an active Democrat

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, when the Italians were then occupying the south of France and I was in a villa I always had had with my mother and my stepfather, four sisters, and my little girl Annette, the rumblings of war were still over our heads. northern Africa. America
relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was the Chieu Hoi returns, although Chieu Hoi could be a result of a military action, military pressure, as much as psychological operations. But psychological operations, you would think, were an element in it. You would, I guess, measure it by the degree

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

conditions were far worse and always were, all the time. You know, if we were going to start and take an attitude that morally we were going to make it up to the Indian, we were going to take action, the Indian always in my view should have been at the head

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, this was true of the Reserves as well. He didn't want to be in the middle of a social campaign or a social-action campaign when he had to use this force as a military force. Well, I remember on that same occasion, we said "We don't want to embarrass you, Mr

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

months. M: For appointments? C: Yes, memos recommending people for appointments. M: Did you just get them back? C: Yes, no mark on them or no action. We weren't getting any results. So I went into an analysis of the President and it dawned on me

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of developing the appropriations for the National Institutes of Health and so forth. Mrs. Krim was the wife of Mr. Arthur Krim. He became a very close friend of the President's and raised money for the Democratic Party. Mr. and Mrs. Krim also have a ranch close

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the committees, outlining the proposed action and getting clearance from the committee. It was my job to do this for the secretary of the army, who had that obligation under the law. Collat- erally with that, I got involved in analyzing and writing reports

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

well say that I'm not political enough, but the real answer is that I'm just not political for Fred Belen ." Congressmen--came to Washington in I said, "I've been secretary to two '37 . My mother was vice-chairman of the Democratic party in Michigan

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of the detail work in that area was my responsibility. We had some political liaison work with the governors primarily, and the [Democratic] National Committee, and the state chairmen of the various states. That was out of Marvin's office. There again I handled

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

does not slow the economy down much, which is presumably what you want to do if you're afraid of inflation. In the normal circumstance it wouldn't have been a bad move, but in combination with the Fed's action it just may have put corporations more

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Democratic campaign committee functioning through its representative in the House was in deep trouble. Some very fine Congressman, I think from Virginia, was supposed to be in charge of the Democratic campaign for reelection of those members of the House

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on in connection with the election and the vote and how it turned out and the controversy and the fact that it had been thrown back by the courts, I guess, onto the [State Democratic Executive] Committee, of which I was a member but not very active at that time
1948 election and the State Democratic Executive Committee; Byron Skelton; HST and General Marshall collaborate on the Truman Committee; the 1960 convention in Los Angeles; meeting JFK at Hyannis Port after the convention; Ted Dealey insults JFK

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that it would not be good with my constituents if I voted carte blanche with everything that the administration was doing. I think they also felt that I was a Democrat and would support most of these things and would give them support in the crunches, and I

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

action. M: By both people. L: Yes. live tried to say, the other day when we talked, that among the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

~ Republicans or at least non-Democrats, as most of them were, to serve on that welcoming committee for the President. Then they asked if we'd put on a rally--not actually a political rally, but gather a substantial crowd if we could for the President's

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