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Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

you come to Roosevelt being popular, he always got the votes. But I think Mr. Johnson thought that that would be favorable to him. He was labeled as a New Dealer, and I cannot understand, have never been able to understand, during the more recent

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

contest of his primary election in Texas? R: No. Actually, like most of the other young New Dealers around town, I met then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson in the early '40's, but it's not a clear recollection for me. I guess I remember him mostly as sort

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on creating legislation. He was a great manipulator -- to use that word in its best sense. F: He has been accused of being an arm twister and wheeler-dealer and so forth. S: Would you care to comment on that? Whether you saw any evidence of it? Well, I

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

suspected the wheeler-dealer image, and both of these certainly 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

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? Was one more of a New Dealer and the other one more of a traditional Democrat? 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

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and LBJ and some of the New Dealers were supporting Roosevelt. forces? Do you recall that issue, the stop-Roosevelt LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org L: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Eisenhower. Mc As you know, Mr. Johnson had the reputation of a political wheeler-dealer during his Majority Leadership. In 1955 he managed to get through"-or you, I think, managed to get through a very sizeable increase in public housing. Didn't you work

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

in the race. 80th of them I should characterize as quite conservative -- cert,ainly not "New Dealers" by anybody I s computations; and ti~e he was Editor of the Austi.n FAl'L 80lTOK: selected him as his fact-" ] ee -- I believe at that :~ay ~werican

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphey -- I -~ 13 that he thought Lyndon was an opportunist, that Lyndon was a New Dealer, whom Mr. Stevenson utterly

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in administration circles up to that point ; Isador Lubin who was the Director of Labor Statistics in the Labor Department . All of them I would call New Dealers . Jerry Frank, a whole coterie of people--some of them dead--most of them moved to other walks of life

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

business of applying to Black as a Justice, I had kept Black as a Roosevelt New Dealer aware about what was going on in the Texas election. Black has always been one of my best friends. He did me a last great favor about two years ago--he appointed my

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And then these same people had a· high regard for him and I can remember-F: Vlho were they, may I ask? K: It was Cl ifford Durr, D-U-R-R, who ~"as Communications Comrnission, and his ~"ife. New Dealers. Mrs. Durr was the a member of the Federal They were

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

he should have had one. He has got that tremendous reputation as a wheeler-dealer, and yet I'm sure that his opposition then and his successors since have looked deeply to find something, for there seems to be a certain amount of, "Well, we're

Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of his skills and all of his talents to produce legislative results designed to accomplish this, that he picked up instead the image of a kind of a Texas wheeler-dealer. And since IilOSt people who are unthinking, and either not terribly educated

Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- III -- 17 who has a big furniture store now, who was later president of the Texas Furniture Dealers Association . I think he lived at Killeen, somewhere in that neighborhood . There was one other big project and that was the Inks Dam Project

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--that little town, poor boy beginning . He had become, in my mind, what I'd always thought of as a wheeler-dealer in Texas, whereas Johnson never did show that . Now their speed of mind, of both of them, is astounding . Even before the question had formed

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, something like that? G: Yes. W: He wanted everybody to have something. At the same time, he didn't want them to throw it away, or something--I don't know. G: Was he a New Dealer, do you think? Was that his chief political heritage? 29 LBJ

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

value and proceed from that basis because he almost always turned out to be right. Well, he had that kind of a gut reaction about Bobby Baker, as I recall. G: What was that reaction? P: That here was a fast operator, a wheeler-dealer, and someone

Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

encounter some of the best conversation. They were two old New Dealers from the very beginning. Then there was a newspaper man named Bob Sherrod. Was he with Time? I forget. I think so. We'd go to his house for cocktails, and indeed, we went to a goodly

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

that the reputation he had of being a Texas wheeler-dealer is something he did not want history to confirm that that reputation ever existed while he was president. And I would imagine that he was personally hurt by things like Bobby Baker and Walter Jenkins. He just

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was of course famous for being a wheeler-dealer in the Senate long before anybody considered him as a potential president. Anyway, I marked this in my mind. Cliff had told me to take a biography over to the President, over to Juanita Roberts. So I got

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

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

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the press critIcism about him being a wheeler-dealer, conniver, less than anxious to deal with the truth at all times would have been just LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

because when he first ran for the House of Representatives in 1937, he had--it was a special election--he had corne out for the President's Court Packing Plan. That instantly and forever identified him as a New Dealer in the minds of many people in Texas

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to listen to him really get started in a very spontaneous, very earnest way about what he saw as the goals of this country . And it . was not the picture of the wheeler-dealer, the riverboat gambler type of operator, yet there were nuances

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of your own fatigue. Every city looks alike. You know, the approaches to any city in the United States from an airport are identical. A bunch of the used car dealers on the way in, gasoline stations, roadhouses. You get about the same speech. Well, you

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

reserves, dealer reserves � 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

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a guy that's a wheeler and dealer and a goer and a goer, and he never slowed down. The main relationships in those days I had with him was back in this NYA period. And of course the Authority was entering into some projects during that time. now