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Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Feild -- II -- 3 was sit back and let John Wheeler and Walter Reuther and Howard
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh C. Lipsen--I--7 G: What about Walter Reuther? L: Walter Reuther was one of the biggest bullshitters there was as far as Lyndon Johnson was concerned. course, he came around. He did not like him
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a candidate. Everybody knew nothing was going to happen, but the end product was that Governor Stevenson made a deal with Walter Reuther, who was the president of United Automobile Workers, who had about three hundred delegates to the convention from all
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as much right as Walter Reuther and other people to go see Kennedy after he won the nomination. But I was so worn out and my feeling at that time was, "Well, he's harassed and I don't need to go by and congratulate him and bask in the glory." And Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • well publicized? R: You mean, in this particular discussion. of other people in on that discussion. Well, there were a number In fact, the more significant discussion took place at the Trademoor Hotel where Walter Reuther called me one morning
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to give us their ideas. They produced by Labor Day of 1965 a task force report which was inadequate, and if the cities were to be a major plank in the 1966 program we needed to do something more. Walter Reuther had been in to see the President sometime
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the assassination came. I was asked by Walter Reuther in effect--he was responding to a request from Lyndon Johnson to help him formulate what he was going to say in his speech to the joint session of Congress. of start. He wanted to get off to the right kind He
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the establishment. was entitled to it. He The only thing that really rankled a lot of professional Democrats--I was the executive director of the Democratic Platform Committee that year--was the fact that Walter Reuther controlled the convention. And he made
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or whether it's something much more serious." So he sensed that something was wrong. Well, then he began to lose weight and he couldn't eat; he lost his appetite. Dr. Walter Judd, the Republican congressman from Minnesota, told people, "Of course, I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and we didn't have to get votes--I'm not saying that's a perfect world--but if we were living in that kind of a world, we would have gone with six cities, the kind of thing that [Walter] Reuther and I talked about that first afternoon. And we would have
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • do we pick on these guys? There was a [Walter] Reuther settlement up at 4 or 5 per cent. That we're talking about twenty or thirty million dollars." Steel stayed within the guidelines. When we talk about a 4 per cent settlement we've got to recognize
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • people, and that Johnson was the one he wanted. talked to I think Johnson asked if he had talked with people like Walter Reuther and George Meany and Soapy Williams and so on. I believe. Kennedy indicated he hadn't, Johnson advised him to go talk
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  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the Conservative Party and installed the Labour government and were proceeding to nationalize steel and whatever else they nationalized. The accepted premise of many conservatives in this country was that this was what we were at the edge of. In fact Walter Reuther
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ by that point had established, largely through me, very good liaison with a number of national labor leaders. George Meany. He was in very good shape with Walter Reuther was a personal friend of mine. And the view of LBJ held by national labor
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • horn. For instance, I was responsible for the employment of Walter McLeod by Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, and the development of a project to get money from industry for the operation of the NAACP. Now in some three or four years this amounts to over
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; problems of President’s Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity; enforcement of regulations; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; success of PCEEO; OEO; EEOC; civil rights organizations; MLK; Office of Federal Contract Compliance; Council of Equal Opportunity
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -Soapy Williams-Walter Reuther opposition to the decision? B: No, I was told that later that there was tremendous opposition on their part, but I did not talk to them personally. F: Of course, they had no choice in the matter. B: No, no. F: You
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to convince them that this was a great addition to the national ticket and would help the Democratic Party in the November election. F: Fortunately, that worked out. On an occasion like that you have got very influential people like Walter Reuther, Soapy
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and this is an interesting historical footnote, the ADA was born. to Senator Johnson about that. I remember talking I was one of the first vice- chairmen and organizers, with Leon Henderson, Hubert Humphrey, Chet Bowles, Mrs. Roosevelt, Walter Reuther, Phil Murray, name
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Walter Washington got up and went out to telephone call about half way through, and he asked the President if he could see him in his small room off the Oval Room and told him that we were in real 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into contact with Jere Cooper, who was the chairman for awhile, and of course ultimately with Wilbur D. Mills, with whom I worked out the Medicare plan. Similarly on the Senate side, I intimately knew and worked with Walter George; I worked with Pat Harrison
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And it had been the subject of discussions in late 1966 with Horsky and Philip S. Hughes, deputy director of the Bureau of the Budget, Harold Seidman and Bob Prestoman (?) of the Bureau of the Budget, Califano, and [Walter] Tobriner and Schuyler Lowe
  • AActivities as presidential adviser on National Capital Affairs; reorganization to commission and council system; selection of Walter Washington as mayor; council members; evaluation of White House staff operation; Pollak’s nomination of assistant
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the communist power had been broken--and it was broken; after 1948 that was the end. Walter Reuther got the United Automobile Workers back. The AFL-CIO set up the IUE, the International Union of Electrical Workers, which over a long period of time finally
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • abor had been i nterested i n, and Walter Reuther and George Meany had gone to ,Johnson for seven years and received no t hi ng, but showed the door. So f knew what our problems Nere, particularly with let 's say the left wfog of the labor movement
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; assassination; 1964 Vice Presidential contest; HHH; LBJ's legislative ability; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam; O'Donnell's resignation; decision not to run again; 1968 Democratic convention; Czechoslovakia invasion; peace plank
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Democratic party was handled? H: No, I had nothing to do with that. Joe Rauh handled that entirely. S: And Walter Reuther I think was called in. H: And Walter Reuther was in on that too. But very frankly, except for Stokeley Carmichael, I did
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. was a very dramatic one. That Paul Popple was the man who handled most of those investigations. G: LBJ seems to have, at that point, been endeavoring to increase his staff, to get more good staff people. I guess to run for Congress. [Walter] Jenkins had
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • mostly oriented toward the Michigan group, Soapy Williams and Walter Reuther. the choice of Johnson. They were very upset at I never will forget being in the hotel that night and listening to this fervor of their discontent about this. B: Later
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I think Estes Kefauver was being nominated, and he was opposed by Texans, who supported John F. Kennedy. Is it true that Walter Reuther blocked that Kennedy move? N: I don't think so. I think it was more or less of an inspiration on Kennedy. I
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • results and an awful lot of criticism of Johnson coming from the liberal side. It had been there before. It was always there with Joe Rauh and Walter Reuther and Herbert Lehman and Paul Douglas, but it now began to spread to a number of other people
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ." I duly reported this to Tom. It was arranged that when they next came in I should bring them to see Tom; that was Homer Martin, Dick Frankenstein who headed the Chrysler, and subsequently the addition of Walter Reuther. The third thesis
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Walter Reuther was the most influential man in the labor movement because of his money, so he controlled more delegates to the 1956 convention than Truman did. You know, Truman in 1956 was an ex-president and he had not been rehabilitated; he still
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this, which I guess I had with Walter Reuther among others, we were talking about one or two or three cities, just take a part of Detroit, take a neighborhood, rebuild it, and show that you can make it a gleaming gem. The rhetoric on this program is tremendous
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Jack assigned his brother, Bob, who was to go up and visit with Governor G. Mennen Williams and Walter Reuther, and advise them of the decision. G: Was this at that early meeting that he asked his brother to--? O: Once it was determined that Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Russell, of course, was Armed Services; Carl Hayden had Appropriations; Ellender was chairman of Agriculture and Forestry; Byrd was chairman of Finance; Walter George, of Foreign Relati"ons. M: I hesitate to say that's a rogues' gallery, but they do have
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • put him on a committee, too . I remember on that committee, Walter Reuther and Ernie [Earnest Robert] Breech, people on it . And then later, the head of Ford,[were] I just forget exactly what it was right now ; a similar thing as the one
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • made by the Senate Republican Policy Corrrnittee? Well, he mentioned Reuther, which was ridiculous because Walter and I were very close friends. And obviously what he was asking for was rather foo 1 ish. You have to understand something
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -makers--people like George Meany and Walter Reuther and George Harrison, and the industry side, Henry Ford and Edgar Kaiser. I think that the President did have hopes that if you could get the consent and active participation of some of the people who