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Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the fund-raising dinner in Washington. I can't recall, and your notes didn't help me on it, whether it was the [Democratic] National Committee or the congressional Democratic committee, but it was a fund raiser. Initially, of course, the President
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that convention through and fulfill the responsibility to run a national convention. G: What happened to the President's Club? O: I don't recall that the President's Club remained very active, if at all. G: Did it cease to exist or did--? O: I think
  • ' photographs of the meeting; O'Brien's speeches and travel during the 1970 congressional elections; O'Brien's stop in Chicago and Mayor Richard Daley's influence there; Hubert Humphrey as the titular head of the DNC rather than LBJ; LBJ's and Truman's interest
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a very social type. hard worker. He was very rich, you know. Dick Kleberg was He was not a Johnson used to say that Kleberg's congressional salary wouldn't pay his club bills. But Johnson, when I met him--it was late in 1933--was immensely active
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of NYA. F: Now, he had had a good job with the NYA; why did he quit it to take the chance on getting defeated as a Congressional candidate? D: Well, I think that having served as a Congressman's secretary in Washington, that he appreciated the work
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that the President was trying to exercise. And of course Lyndon was a "me too" to FDR; if FDR had said jump, Lyndon would have said how high. Of course, he rode into his first congressional election on the coattails of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He ran
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BRUCE PALMER INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: General Palmer, would you describe a little of your professional background in the late fifties, leading up to the time that you took over
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . \'Jhen he was vd th us, he was wonderfu 1. G: He must have been. P: He was a terrific guy, and he could walk these lines. He had far more experience with that sort of thing than I had ever had. see, I wasn't part of the insider club. You I stuck
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , The Congressional Record, which took a good bit of time. But after a while, you would get to the point where you could skim over it pretty rapidly. And [you'd] get ready on the bills you knew were coming up that day, so you could be prepared. And then, when
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • perhaps--? O: There wouldn't be the New Orleans Saints today if there hadn't been congressional activity. G: Do you think they were holding out some of these franchises in order to get the legislation passed or was it--? O: It was a matter of trying
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Thornberry, the [Walter] Jenkinses and Marie Fehmer to briefly attend the opening of Bobby Baker's club, The Carousel." That's not a club, of course, it was a hotel. Bobby had really put on a big show. He had most of the guests brought out by a bus. The bus
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think, a graduate of Yale, and he was a hard-working fellow, but the club was against him and that was the only reason. And if I had my life to live over again, I would never in my life have recommended that he be precluded from going to the Foreign
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a political intervention, unless the war. ends for other reasons. 11 One of those things that Westmoreland has been heavily criticized for, the National Press Club speech of the fall of 1967, November, 1967, you go back to it, andyouwill find
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Dick says we ought to hire you. We'll get you a job. " So he did, and then after a few months there they decided to start up a congressional relations department. There was a fellow named Wilson McCarthy who headed it up and I was Wilson's deputy
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the interdepartmental fights here. At any rate it became an agreement between the United States and Polish governments in April of 1967, but subsequent to that time it has really become a dead letter because any use of these funds requires congressional appropriation
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Congressional Record of the amount of time that has been taken up on the floor by the Democrats and by the Republicans. And I want specifically, then, to know how much time I've taken up and how much time Knowland has taken up." Then he called back to them
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • recall the name, the Congressional Women's Club, or something of that kind, which was located just off 16th Street. I happened to go there one evening with Congressman Sieminski [Alfred D.; D/N.J.] a dance. from Jersey City because my son and his
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President yet, and he called in some Congressional leaders and asked them whether or not he should accept this agreement? Mundt: I don't recall that meeting. M: What about the Dominican Republic? Were you involved in those? Mundt: Several of them, yes
Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • every ~ about the same damn bill. It seemed to me you could find out what happened to it because it came out in the Congressional out in the newspaper. big. Recor~ every single day. Minimum wage came That was even sillier when it came out
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the whole nation kind of went through a-­ F: People weren t really very interested in the congressional campaign. P: Not at all. 1 And people also wanted to cleanse their souls ~ Those who had been super righteous and so very bent on tolerating
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But they talked The President used to kid him, too, at the Gridiron Clubs or places like that about Landslide Johnson, by winning his first thing call him Landslide. by a few votes, and in public he used to The very way he said it was with love and affection
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 1917 in Chicago-­ R: East Chicago, Indiana--it's in a different state. B: And became the United Press' Congressional correspondent in 1938--from '38 to '41--in Air Force service, 1942-45; and then again after the war from '46 to '51 with UP
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • /loh/oh Johnson -- XXXVI -- 24 children can remember taking with their father. We went to Daytona Beach with a bunch of congressmen. They had something, sort of a, called the congressional baseball teams, which were largely figments of the imagination
  • vacation to Daytona Beach; getting to know Liz and Les Carpenter; James Forrestal; Dale and Virginia "Scooter" Miller; Lynda's experience with a cotillion for congressional children; Mrs. Johnson's impressions of President Dwight Eisenhower; LBJ's view
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to intrude too much of James into this story because I know you want to hear about LBJ. G: Well, we want your perspectives of him. J: You asked me the question of Aubrey's relationship. In 1950 I ran for Congress in the Seconrl Congressional District
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the program never took off because funding wasn't available and people's energies were distracted. N: This was really a problem, the war. Was this administration lack of will, or was it congressional refusal apart from the administration lack
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • clubs here in Washington. I was up at the front table because I was making some little comment about the book I was just bringing about. no. That was about all. But I would not say that I knew him, He might have known my name, but he could easily
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on Capitol Hi 11 . VM: Terrific drive. Di~: Tremendous drive, tremendous energy. And in almost no time at all, he became president of the congressional secretaries club. What did they call that in those years? VM: I've forgotten. F: Called
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to the newpapers in Texas. I wrote some of his speeches. I wrote statements for the Congressional Record. Of course, George Reedy 'vas his principal writer, especially in his capacity as floor leader. Then later--Johnson had a yen for what he called flwarm
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Congressional Record or to old clips, you'd probably find there was. Inevitably there would be some negative fallout. But there again, you felt pretty comfortable down there with that sort of thing. So there was griping from sources that you'd anticipate. And we
  • and O'Brien's role during the crisis; requesting that appropriate congressional leadership and committee members return to Washington D.C. immediately so that JFK could brief them on the situation; possible courses of action and criticism of JFK's decisions
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] to summarize Kennedy and then we'll go to LBJ's style. The Kennedy I first knew was a fellow who had decided to run for statewide office in Massachusetts. As he traveled the state to become acquainted beyond his congressional district, he had a set speech
  • election and the end of the congressional session; O'Brien's relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy in the years after JFK's death; criticism from Kennedy loyalists directed at O'Brien and Claude Desautels for staying on LBJ's staff; the transition to a staff
Oral history transcript, Victor Jaeggli, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the Rotary Club. I was the program chairman that year, and I'd gotten Lyndon to come, to stop off in Corpus Christi, and he kept us waiting a little while, but it was worth waiting for. Lyndon had so much to say to people, to talk to people, that he generally
  • in the Woods in Denton and San Antonio's La Villita; Jaeggli's work with Maury Maverick; the Inks Dam and Pedernales Electric Cooperative NYA projects; supporting LBJ's congressional campaign in 1937; the relationship between the NYA and the Works Projects
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Club, 9 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 Johnson -- XLI -- 10
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • " cases that came up. really. They were congressional "musts" And we took care of a handful of other jobs that weren't presidential appointments that the President was particularly interested in, AID Mission directors and that sort of thing. But I
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • always been just a little men's club. B: You were the first woman to win election to the city council? L: That's right. First woman ever to run for a city council of any major city in Texas. Of course, that wasn't easy, but it was easier for us because
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to see as editor of the yearbook, then we a~ a group would move in and cam- paign for her and get the student council, which they now call the student congress, I guess, to nominate her, to elect her. G: Was it a social club as well as a political
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and perpetually to the Senate club up there. Lyndon would very often have lunch" and I would be there but I didn't have any political contact with him at that time because there was no use in my trying to influence him--he was already for everything I was. So I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Then if not Hubert and if not Ed, who? Hubert would formalize his "no" and prior to Ed Muskie finalizing his "no," I received a request from George to have dinner with he and Eleanor, Elva and I, at the Jockey Club in Washington. It was rather strange. He
  • ; the McGovern campaign's relationship with the DNC and its new chair, Jean Westwood; organized labor support for McGovern; a meeting of congressmen and senators to discuss Democratic discontent related to party reforms; attempts to increase congressional
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . allover: But this was like Pressures were coming in from from clubs, from the Rotary, from the Elks, from allover the country. As I think I told you before, when Bob went to see Sam Rayburn at the beginning of 1958, he practically threw up his LBJ
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • because Johnson'd been here since 1932, but in 1948 when he ran for the Senate. F: Yes. He had run first in 1941 and barely been defeated in a special election which didn't affect his congressional status; and then he came back and ran again in 1948. S
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I met my wife, who at the age of seventeen years old was a junior at the University of Wisconsin. I had just gotten out of the Marine Corps and was on the 52-20 Club. I took her out a couple of times and liked her. I asked her to marry me