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  • of these people--[David] Hackett and perhaps Boone and [Eric] Tolmach and [Harold W.] Horowitz--we're around from the very start of the task force I gather. Did they sense that there had been a transformation or was the formulation of the program proceeding
  • recommendation s; he turned them over to Joe Fowler as chairman of the Cabinet Committee; asked for a review and recommendation s from the Cabinet Committee on these proposals. Harold Linder of the Ex-Im Bank, Gardner Ackley of the · Council of Economic
  • that many of the bill's supporters were confident of its passage but that you were not, that you thought it was going to run into trouble. Apparently there was a problem with the tobacco area congressmen, [Harold] Cooley and others. Evidently there was some
  • They'd have four Democrats and maybe an Independent and two Republicans. But any- way, Hofheinz had had an application for a radio station in Houston. I learned this later; this happened just before I went to the FCC. Roy's partners were Hugh Roy
  • politics, but it's damaging the country, and in the development of this Tom O'Connor field for a little while, not very long." Harold Ickes had control of the oil industry, and we had our plans to develop a field. We sent them to Washington. They were
  • or something like that, and off I went. It didn't come out until about 1970 or 1971, I guess, when Prime Minister Harold Wilson of England wrote a book saying that on a specific date a peace proposal for Vietnam was handed to President Johnson, to the United
  • . We worked it out. But we also had guys like Langston Hughes, guys who were 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • , and has worked with the Republicans. But he's constitutionally a Democrat. In any event the book kind of got delayed a little bit because of this, but ultimately was published in the fall of 1965. Scammon and I appeared on the Today 8hm" with Hugh
  • for the Democratic nomination of 1972--Hubert Humphrey, Ed Muskie, Henry Jackson, George McGovern, Harold Hughes and Fred Harris. Senator Birch Bayh was 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • to be the judicial review to protect the bill and a recent court decision supports the position I took at that time. It seemed to me it would have been just a more honest way to approach the legislation. But the wheels were greased; Hugh Carey was adamantly opposed
  • [and] was in connection with the death of the late Prime Minister [Harold] Holt of Australia. We went to that for the memorial services, and then from there we went to Vietnam, and from Vietnam to Pakistan, just for refueling, principally, although we did meet
  • on a part-time basis, which I eventually did. It took me some time to locate a job in the newly-burgeoning agencies of the Roosevelt Administration, but I managed to find a mail clerk's job and then got an endorsement from my congressman, Harold Cooley
  • , Senator [Hugh] Scott of Pennsylvania and Senator [Joseph] Clark of Pennsylvania both came to testify, since I am a Pennsylvanian. And members of the Foreign Relations Committee such as--F: They made it bipartisan then? M: Gene McCarthy and [George
  • Marks, Leonard Harold, 1916-2006
  • . 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
  • in the Was.hington area. He's living in Washington now and also doing quite well. M: He must have resigned then? C: He resigned. That's correct. He didn't retire; he was too young. And the other fellow that worked with me was Lieutenant Colonal Hugh Robinson
  • . That was the around-the-world trip, no, the second time I guess it failed on me. G: This was the Harold Holt funeral, is that right? A: That's right. That was on the two days before Christmas, 1967. We went to Thailand, and while in Thailand he made an early
  • . Kleberg's name, asking me to go to Fort Worth to confer on this business. handed Mother the wire. I I also called my girl friend, who was secre- tary to Congressman Hugh Rigney of Illinois, to meet me in Fort Worth. Anyhow, when Mother showed Lyndon
  • up at a dinner party with Pete Lisagor and Hugh Sidey and a couple of other vultures who took him off to the Madison, and he spilled his guts. Literally, the sequence was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • INTERVIEWEES: Mr. and Mrs. Allie T. Hughes (Lorena D. Hughes and Allie T. Hughes) INTERVIEWER: Dr. Eric Goldman PLACE: The Hughes home in San Angelo, Texas Tape 1 of 1 EG: I am now talking with Mr. and Mrs. Allie T. Hughes, 2603 Nasworthy Drive, San
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  • Hughes, Allie T.
  • Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman
  • Allie T. Hughes
  • 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEWEE: JUDGE SARAH HUGHES
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  • Hughes, Sarah T. (Sarah Tilghman), 1896-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Sarah T. Hughes
  • INTERVIHJEES: GOVERNOR AND NRS. RICHARD HUGHES (Betty Hughes) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Hughes' home in Princeton, New Jersey Tape 1 of 2 F: First of all, Governor Hughes, tell us briefly where you came from, how you gradually moved up
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  • Meeting LBJ in 1959; Governor of New Jersey, 1961; LBJ and Kosygin held a meeting at Glassboro State College; Kosygin’s daughter, Dr. Gvishiana, joined Lady Bird, Lynda and Mrs. Hughes for lunch at Island Beach; Ramsey Clark; candidates, 1966-1968
  • Hughes, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1909-
  • Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Richard J. Hughes
  • , except in terms of Vietnam. It wasn't a surprise to me that Humphrey's people were able to move effectively in the delegate hunt and avoid the primary side. It was the right strategy and it was working. G: You did have Richard Hughes in New Jersey? O
  • as politicians; comparing campaign organization in 1960 and 1968; the likelihood that RFK would have won primaries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois, and Ohio; O'Brien's job offers from Howard Hughes, the three television networks, and a book publisher
  • and anything the CEA [Council of Economic Advisers] sent him. He wouldn't even agree to meet with Wirtz until there had been some work done with an intermediary. And when I called Governor Hughes I notice here, who was then the governor of New Jersey--Richard
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: PHILLIP S. HUGHES INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Hughes, Phillip S. (Phillip Samuel), 1917-
  • Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Phillip S. Hughes
  • Senator [Hugh] Scott of Pennsylvania proposed that a political party had to pay its debt a hundred cents 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • to Humphrey choosing Fred Harris as the next DNC chair; the assertion in Citizen Hughes that O'Brien arranged a meeting between LBJ and Robert Maheu so Maheu could offer LBJ one million dollars from Howard Hughes to stop a proposed nuclear test; O'Brien's
  • two friends that she had there. Powell. That is Dorris and Hugh Hugh's dead and Dorris is gone somewhere for an operation. But they were quite young then. And she knew them, Mrs. Taylor, of course, knew [them]. G: Minnie Lee was her name, wasn't
  • , but whether he was a White House correspondent, I don't recall. But there were a lot of very well-known Newsweek-Time magazine sort of people who had known Kennedy. Hugh Sidey, for instance, was another one. Hugh had covered the Senate, so he knew Kennedy
  • or accommodation. One man would prefer a particular individual to be the judge in the Northern District. There they both happened to prefer the same person, Sarah Hughes. There was probably a little poker playing about it as to how much each really cared
  • to prepare myself for the private sector that extended back prior to joining Hubert Humphrey and shortly following the death of Bobby Kennedy had been brought into focus. I had failed to comply with the agreements I had made with the three networks and Hughes
  • INTERVIEWEE: MRS. HUGH POWELL (DORRIS POWELL) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: You say that a Mr. Blocker was the architect for the Brick House? P: One of the Blocker sons. G: Did he live in Marshall
  • : I think Judge Sarah Hughes was a president at one time, wasn't she? P: Sarah Hughes ~as president in 1950 to 1952--one of the great Americans, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • Biographical information; Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Sarah Hughes; Commission on Civil Disorders; Detroit riots; Kerner Commission Report; 1964 Democratic National Convention and campaign; Peden's Senate race; Doers Luncheon; Eartha