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Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And Johnson said, "We're going to have a new policy. We're going to give each new Democratic senator a major committee." When I came in, you got the dregs, you know, minor committees, unless you were in the club. And most of us liberals were put on over
; LBJ as minority leader; committee assignments; estimations of LBJ; Joe McCarthy; Foreign Relations Committee; difference of opinion between LBJ and Humphrey; William Proxmire; jury trials; 1957 Civil Rights Act; JFK; Rule 22 amendment; Mexican

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is the need to reorganize the DNC and that LBJ was evidently unhappy with the way the DNC was focused or set up. B: Yes. Do you recall that? The biggest problem that Johnson had with the Democratic National Committee as you know, he was super

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

in particular that were demanding that they be put on the committee. One of them was John F. Kennedy, who said he needed the prestige of the committee because he was getting ready to run for national office. The second was Hubert Humphrey, the whip
Biographical information; Appropriations Committee seat; Strauss and Fortas confirmation hearings; LBJ as Majority Leader; 1960 and 1964 campaigns; JFK; 3/31 announcement; foreign relations; his wife; exchange of committee assignment with Russell

Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: I've been there several times, yes. Mc: What did you go to--a dinner or what? M: I went to receptions, and the meetings of the National Committee. the last thing. I can't tell you how many, but the last committee That's LBJ Presidential Library
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
History of Democratic conventions; relations with Democratic leaders; First meeting LBJ; NYA; opinion of LBJ

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: SENATOR JOHN SPARKMAN (Democrat/Alabama) INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Hays Interviewer: Paige E. Mulhollan Date: March 11, 1969 Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by simply identifying you. You're Wayne Hays, Democratic Congressman from Ohio--the eighteenth/district; and you've been in the House of Representatives since
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NATO Parliamentarians Committee; LBJ’s praise of Hays; collaboration of Rayburn and LBJ in shaping legislation in the House; committed JFK delegate in 1960; LBJ as VP; friendship with President a political

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. R: With various titles. M: With various titles, yes. boards and committees. You have served on a number of national You were also assistant director to the Office of Price Administration with Rationing from 1942 to 1945. R: That should

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, it happened that Senator [stuart] Symington, who was a member of the committee, does not like boards. So we changed the name to council, that's how it got to be the National Aeronautics and Space Council in the NASA Act. I don't know what Symington's bitter
Biographical information; LBJ; Sputnik; committee work; NASA; space legislation; U.N. and space; conferences; visiting the Ranch; space law; reports; foreign travel

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Committee. He wanted to get the tax, but he wouldn't agree to this withholding. On one occasion he had every Democratic chairman in the House in there. (Interruption) G: You were talking about the meeting with the President here. M: Oh, yes. He started
Tax surcharge; balancing the budget and six billion dollars in budget cuts, pressure from LBJ; budgetary process reform; George Mahon; work on the Ways and Means Committee; appropriations.

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 Democratic National Committeewoman in 1940 for the state of California. The same year, I became State Vice-Chairman ... you know, we have a 50-50

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. But when we had the National Defense Education Act up, I was Whip. Carl Elliott from Alabama handled it in the House. The conference committee had agreed, and we had a conference report, but it was the last day of the session. Carl was carrying it around
; Barkley; Rayburn-Johnson conversation regarding the Democratic nomination for president; LBJ's working relationship with Eisenhower; Rayburn; Civil Rights Act; Federal aid to education; Gerald Ford

Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Congressional Campaign Committee. J: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in a wire that I received from him after having been nominated on the Democratic ticket for Congress from the Second District of Washington. The wire advised that I was to receive
LBJ as congressman; Joseph McCarthy; bipartisan foreign policy under DDE; Space Committee; statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; LBJ legislative strategy as majority leader; 1955 Minimum Wage Bill; Hell's Canyon; Senator Richard Russell; Senator Dirksen

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had good manners. But getting to Bobby Kennedy, what did happen around one o'clock was Bobby came in and wanted to know if Johnson would be the chairman of the Democratic National Committee instead of vice president. And old man Rayburn said, "Shit
Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Proxmire -- I -- 2 Republican. Wisconsin Democrats hadn't elected a senator since 1932 and we hadn't elected a governor in thirty elections, since 1896 except in 1932. The year after I
Views on the duties of a Senate leader; circumstances of assuming office; 1959 speech relating views and reaction to speech; LBJ and committee assignments; opposition to depletion allowance; LBJ's support for Proxmire's re-election; 1957 Civil

Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not quite sure that's true. But Russell was the com- manding figure in the Committee on Armed Forces, but Johnson took an active part. When there was some problem that the Democrats opposed, I remember that he would always be very strong against

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and the Democrats quite well and faithfully--everyone from Truman forward as President. I wonder how you first came into contact with Lyndon Johnson. M: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in 1950 or 1951 when I was Under Secretary of the Air Force during
; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA

Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

jurisdiction issue. You're now dealing with the jurisdiction of the committees, and most of the legislation that we would deal with in health, other than national health insurance--I would regularly, when I was Republican counsel, always open the hearing
1974 Budget Impoundment Act; how Cutler came to work for government; the importance of seniority on committees; Cutler's work on veterans' affairs; Wilbur Cohen and the creation of Medicare; Jacob Javits' national health care initiative; Javits

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of platform that he drew such national attention to. At that time I was Democratic national committeeman from Arkansas. I went on the national committee and was a Roosevelt man very early. I was the youngest member of the national committee. hadn't reached
; Community Relations Service; Roy Wilkins; Pope Paul; Southern Committee on Political Ethics, 1967-1968.

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

31, 1940. At that time, of course, I also resigned as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. But before I tell about that resignation, I'll go back and say that in 1928 when Governor Smith was nominated for the Presidency in Houston, when
of the U.S.; Hubert Humphrey; law and order issue; Labor Union; open immigration policy of the Democratic Party; LBJ’s place in history; science of politics and LBJ; difference in roles played by Farley and Bailey as National Chairmen of the Democratic Party.

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that way. It would appear to Republicans as they watched what was going on that he controlled the committees and who went on. Now and then there \

Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: No, I'm not the first. As a matter of fact, another woman was nominated at the Democratic convention--what is her name? She was a committeewoman at the time and national vice-chairman of the Democratic committee. She's very active this year-- F: India
Biographical information; 1948 Senate campaign; 1960 campaign; federal judgeship appointment; VP nomination at the 1952 convention; swearing-in of LBJ; funeral of JFK; meetings with LBJ; appointment as member of U.S. National Commission of UNESCO

Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

work on the same committees in Congress, and later, when both were in the Senate together, they also served on precisely the same committees again together. S: So Lyndon Johnson [was] on the Democratic side and I on the Republican side, he just ahead

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

was the precinct chairman for thirty years, and he was on the State Democratic Executive Committee. So we, of course, both went to the convention in San Antonio. The big fight was, of course, the liberals versus the Shivercrats, and whether or not we were going
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Biographical information; first meeting LBJ in the 1930s when he was state director of the NYA; LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate; 1952 split in Texas Democratic Party (Shivers’ “legal delegation” seated at the 1952 national convention); Texas

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Allan Shivers for control of the state Democratic Party and chairmanship of it. S: Okay. What do you want to know? G: Well, just simply how the battle took shape from your point of view. You were down here in San Antonio at the time. S
Allan Shivers and LBJ's 1956 fight for control of the Texas Democratic Party; Spears' work with Shivers; Shivers leaving the Democratic Party; the 1956 Texas Democratic Convention; Dwight Eisenhower as president; John Connally.

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

areas to see if we could get through. So one of the fund raisers or assistants, at least, to the Democratic campaign committee came out to Utah to see what he could do to help. In the course of that, while he was there--and he stayed for several days
LBJ’s assistance in Moss’ 1958 Senate campaign in Utah; LBJ’s management and leadership as Senate Majority Leader; conflict over Rule 22; 1960 Civil Rights Act filibuster; LBJ’s use of the Senate rules and vote counting; 1960 Democratic Convention

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the State Democratic Executive Committee, 1946-48. I've held various otherm.inortype jobs, like president of the Hillsboro School Board for a period of time and things of that sort. I was nominated in the Democratic primary in 1950 for an associate justice
Biographical information; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; 1948 state convention; State Executive Committee and certification of LBJ as a candidate in 1948

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

delegation, we're one zone in the Democratic set-up. Texas is. position on a committee. So we would recommend the person for the The senior man, usually the senior man who sought the position would be favored though he might not necessarily
How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act

Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the women, or did you do this as India Edwards personally? E: I did it as the President's representative and the Director of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee. I may have appeared to be more free- wheeling than I actually was for I

Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, somehow allowed the campaign organization and the Democratic National Committee and so on to sort of atrophy while he was president, through disuse or through neglect or something, so that it was not a vital force in 1968. Do you think that's true? LBJ
Biographical information; knew LBJ as majority leader; Housing Committee, a sub-committee of Banking and Currency Committee of the Senate; staff director Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, 1965; Earle Clements; Kentucky Senator Symington

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not want to have the television exposure of, say, Larry Spivak or something? R: Oh, that would have been very bad really at that particular point. The difficulty there, that was during a period when holding the Democratic Party together in the Senate

Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

after 1958? C: No, I was not. B: The agency that paul Butler established in connection with the National Committee. C: I was not a member. B: Were you asked to be a member of it? C: I was not. B: I was asking because Mr. Johnson and Mr

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; two hundred ninety-three Democrats, one hundred forty Republicans in the House. I have a note that early in 1966, the [Senate] Democratic Steering Committee appointed four assistant whips, all liberals, to assist Russell Long. Was this a measure
Russell Long's support for LBJ's programs and how Long compared to Harry Byrd, Sr., as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; tax increases to help pay for the Vietnam War; Winston Prouty's and Vance Hartke's proposed amendments to change Social

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in putting it together. M: Did you get a chance to talk with her about the Democratic National Committee's apparent atrophy by that time? One of the mysteries to me is how someone that you've described like Johnson as a great politician, would at the same

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

entities of the Democratic Party. I don't know whether it was monthly, but it was a newsletter the ADA [Americans for Democratic Action] developed that was attacking the President specifically in the area of civil rights. They felt there hadn't been any
on a failed farm bill; the influence of the Farm Bureau, liberal Democrats, and moderate Republicans on the farm bill vote; Otis Pike's response to frequent arm-twisting tactics; the administration's willingness to accept passage of legislation that didn't

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that we met as you usually meet your colleagues in a place like that. Casually, walking over to the Chamber some day or sitting around the cloakrooms, or something of that nature. We never served on the same Committees of the House together, although

Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Services Committee. Senator [Richard] Russell was chairman. Styles Bridges was the senior Republican. Lyndon was number three on the committee on the Democratic side, Russell being the chairman and Harry Byrd, Sr. of Virginia, now deceased, the next in rank
Belieu's work with the Armed Services Committee in the mid-1950s; a bill LBJ requested to transfer the San Jacinto Army Ordnance Arsenal from the federal government to the state of Texas; how Belieu came to lead both the Senate Space Committee

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Roosevelt -- I -- 12 recollections there of his getting a public housing project for Austin? R: Not directly, no. G: You were named Democratic national
LBJ's election to Congress in 1937 and Franklin Roosevelt's (FDR's) appreciation for his support in Texas; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee and FDR's feelings regarding the appointment; Roosevelt's duties with regard to members

Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the committee. They stacked it. They put three new members, two liberable Democrats and a Republican. F: Did Johnson ever show any evidence of the kind of bind he put a number of you southern Congressmen in with these civil rights acts and other federal acts

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

handle it or not, I don't know. G: He \'las certainly able to command a strong Democratic vote to censure McCarthy after he became leader. S: Well, by that time it was a great national scandal; no problem then. My major problem with McCarthy started
Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; Joseph McCarthy; tin smelter; agricultural issues; impressions of LBJ and his relationship with other Senatorial leaders

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that-- C: Pardon me? G: I said could it be because his role at the White House was one dealing with electoral politics rather than-- C: That's what I'm saying. The Democrat--yes, it may have been the Democratic National Committee thing, but I'm

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