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Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . respect. I never thought of Lyndon in that We've had some members who I hav~ thought of as populists, but I never really thought Lyndon was a populist. In those days we thought of him as a New Dealer and not the old term of populist, I guess. G: I
  • LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • was a fairly conservative man, actually. B: On what particular issues--he was known as a New Dealer and as a-- G: Yes, he was. B: --Roosevelt man. On what issues do you think he was basically conservative? G: I do not know how--for instance
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Senator Langer had made a speech on both sides of a bill and on the same day. Senator Johnson was sometimes called a wheeler and dealer. He wasn't beyond having some understandings with Senator Langer. If you had some problem he might help you out
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • years or whatever it was, they had a party for him. Of course, he was there in my day, and so we, the old-timers, the old New Dealers, were invited. So on those occasions I've seen him, and occasionally I saw him, you know, at some party. But that's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . J: Well you would have to observe the short tenure of several of the former leaders, majority and minority. But also, there were forty-seven Democrats and a very mixed-up bag they were. There were New Dealers and Fair Dealers and a particular little
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a New Dealer and had supported a lot of liberal things nationally, and in the state senate he had supported things. He led the fight against private utilities. But on social mores of Texas he did not feel that Johnson was closely attuned to those mores
Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • donated by various dealers. G: Really? Were they new cars? N: Yes. There were--in fact, one morning we were following one of the other cars. One of the young guys who was going to be the drummer as it were, he passed us, and I had LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to be broken. Hughes was no New Dealer in any sense; still he was not reactionary and an Old Guarder as (Willis) Van Devanter and o t h e r s were-- M c R e y n o l d s , for example They were just deadheads.. They put their foot down and said, "That's
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • will be there and will refuel us." I got up early the next morning and went out here to see E. K. Bennett, who was the Skelly dealer. He got a man to drive a truck, we loaded the truck full of gas, and it stayed ahead of him from here. He left Marshall, went to Jefferson
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • look back over the campaign, what groups of voters really put him in--that is in respect to the rural and urban voters? The young voters, old voters, etc.--where was he strongest? W: Well, he got the dedicated New Dealers. most of them. He got
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , as a wheeler-dealer. This is where the real charge came. Was he a wheeler-dealer in the sort of flamboyant sense, or was it just the fact he was a man who stayed after things? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org R: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , early in President Johnson's Administration I had discussed the possibility of sending a small delegation to the Soviet to clear up some areas of concern that I had, which arose from the fact that Vie were being told by the two big grain dealer
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to rest in the Library or not. G: I think you'll find copies. J: I hope so. Yes, there is a copy of his stationery, which had the familiar red fish at the top, "T. J. Taylor, Dealer in Everything." It used to say, "Dealer in General Merchandise." Later
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • confident of victory, because he had a statewide image. Johnson had a district-wide image, although Johnson had made one statewide race in 1941 against O'Daniel. Stevenson was conservative and Johnson was a New Dealer, and so Stevenson had not the slightest
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Late February. T: Any rate, we decided to transfer the airplane and there was a company in San Antonio that serviced airplanes. Zachry. It was owned by Mr. [H. B. "Pat"] I don't remember the name of the company. craft dealer over
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • exclusively members of Congress. G: Johnson was regarded, I think, pretty much as a young turk, a liberal in those days, a New Dealer. R: I suppose you also knew Maury Maverick. Oh, indeed I knew Maury Maverick, but if I start talking about him we'll
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • decloive person. he didialt al6vayl- Like it. During this period wovild you call I.-Am an all-out New Dealer or an onthasla ic 'New De er or zoine such adjective aa that" I would say that he waa -in all-out ~Te-w Dealer . Admiration for the President
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Dealer. In the real sense of the Roosevelt tradition--Social Security, yes, minimum wage, yes, the kind of economic legislation for depressed areas, yes, education, yes--he was a Rooseveltian Democrat, and the Social Security issue was hotly debated
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • New Dealer in those days. He really took off his coat. G: Lots of gestures? K: Lots of gestures and he haggled with the hecklers in the audience. G: Did he take on the hecklers? K: He would take them on. He always held his own, you know
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • of Price Administration, in October of '41 and stayed with them through October of '45. At that time I reSigned from government service and went to Corpus Christi and went in business for myself as a dealer for Friedrich Commercial Refrigeration and Air
Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? M: Quickly, yes, sir, with the utmost dispatch. Mc: For the sake of the typist, I need to know how to spell these names. You mentioned someone by the name of Rowsey. M: Rowsey. R-O-W-S-E-Y. Mc: And the Chevrolet dealer? M: McConchie. M-C-C
Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a general merchandise store? T: Yes. G: Let me ask you to describe it. T: It was just a big, big stone building, two-story. It had a sign on it, "Dealer in Everything," and he tried to live up to that. He wasn't afraid to tackle anything. G: Did he
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jackson -- I -- 2 the fact that he came from Texas and was in the thirties, as I understand it, a New Dealer. And that liberal image in the eyes of Mr. Roosevelt gave
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . H: That's right. But Johnson never was a captive of the southern bloc. He was trying to be a captain of them, rather than a captive. You see, being a Roosevelt New Dealer and being a protege of Sam Rayburn, he obviously couldn't be a real
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh FISHER -- I -- 14 F: I think so. Me: He had a reputation, or gained a reputation, during his majority leadership days, as a wheeler-dealer. Do you recall any events or examples of legislation that really required his very
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1943; casual relationship with LBJ in House for six years; controversial 1948 election of LBJ over Coke Stevenson; LBJ’s reputation as a wheeler-dealer; insecure politically in Texas; dedication of Medical
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he started out. R: Oh no, no, nobody had ever heard of him. No. Here's a man whose county had only been attached to the district for two years. He was a New Dealer in the time when that wasn't necessarily popular. I don't know whether you have
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] G: I know that FDR did that. R: I don't either. G: Was FDR criticized for that move? R: A little bit by the New Dealers. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I'm not sure it was tied to-- No, I
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and naturally he and Johnson had sort of a political affinity . to Roosevelt . He was a New Dealer . Johnson was close Jimmie Allred was a New Dealer . Johnson supported Jimmie Allred very strongly when he ran for the Senate, and Jimmie Allred supported
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Congressman Kleberg. Now those were the days--we were contempo- raries of a sort--where the young New Dealers around Washington congregated at all hours of the day and night, particularly at night. I came to Washington in 1933. F: You P
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . That's the kind of operation now. You know he had a reputation of being a wheeler-dealer, and I wouldn't say it came from intimate experience that would cause me to say that. I was pretty young and a freshman in '58 and new in the Congress, you know
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • matter to the dealer, if he got the stamps, and he didn't follow strictly the rules . It could go for purposes for which it wasn't intended, and it was generally regarded as a difficult thing to handle . I think this was the main reason . And in fact
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • couldn't get together; they were divided by too many issues. The ultraliberals, for instance, for whom Kennedy wasn't liberal enough; the old New Dealers who kind of looked upon Kennedy as the son of the man who had given Roosevelt a lot of trouble
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Small -- I -- 4 postmaster general? [Arthur Summerfield]. He was a Chevrolet dealer from Detroit. He called a meeting with the Republican senators and announced that he was going to get rid of every
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • think he was ever par­ ticularly effective in understanding the House business . I don't think he was a very great wheeler and dealer in the House after the honeymoon was over . I personally believe that what we got out of the Goldwater Congress
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 11 and [he thought they] would consider him an obnoxious young New Dealer. Brown says he was convinced that Johnson could sell himself--there's that Treatment A again--if he had the opportunity, and he arranged the opportunity, a meeting in a Houston