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Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • frustration that flows out of any type of congressional or collective power--it's obliged to be most frustrating. A man that has developed an executive capability and come into a legislative environment and experienced the frustration of that type
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . club all our lives. In fact, we've been a member of the Some people are just acceptable. F: Did you ever chop any cotton? T: Yes, sir, I chopped cotton for my father. tenants on our plantation. We had fifteen to twenty I chopped cotton for my
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • tt, and r met him there for the first time. Now I have here a copy of the Congressional Record for January 18, 1962, page 356 [see attachments], which tells in detail of the ceremonies for the dedication of this building, in which my remarks start
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , or commonwealth, as we call it. On the American side there were three public members who theoretically had no opinions or, if they did, had no way of implementing them. But from the congressional side, there were members who ultimately might be called upon
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • - that was attacked most fiercely on the Hill. The last year when I acted as principal witness at Congressional hearings we were given an e.normous cut. For the future, I think it should be noted that the argument came about through the Vietnam War. M: Oyer
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SARAH McCLENDON (and her daughter, SALLY O'BRIEN) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: National Press Club, Washington, D.C. 16~ Tape 1 of 1 M: I thought you might be interested to know the first time I ever met Lyndon Johnson. I can't
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , "No, I can't do that. I can't do that." Then I got in touch with some of the Democrats, and I said to them--to Dawson--I had been Dawson's secretary in the Third Ward Republican Club when I was going to school in Chicago. Republican then, and he became
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . That was after the war started, down here in Washington at the Touchdown Club. This was in January. [Must have been 1942 or later]. M: And then you got a law degree from Harvard later. P: After that I went in the Navy, where I was in the submarine service
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Tobriner, I went to lunch with him at the Cosmos Club before I had taken on my position. We talked. I pledged to him that I had no desire to be a public figure in that job. That incidentally was one of the things that I determined upon as I went
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the Texas legislature, the House. I heard about a young whipper- snapper who was in the Congressional race to succeed [James P.] Buchanan who had died. He had been chairman of the Appropriations Committee. I say a young whippersnapper because that's
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and was very helpful in terms of the congressional liaison with the California delegations. [The President] nominated Irv for FDIC, which was one of the positions that was confirmed. Joe Califano had a very important personal decision to make vis-a-vis Arnold
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at headquarters, and he was the focal point of information coming in from Washington. F: That's one thing that always struck me about Johnson and that was there never was this kind of officers club/enlisted man situation. The whole crew goes together
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s 1948 congressional campaign; Mashman’s work as pilot of the helicopter provided by Bell Aircraft Corp.; impressions of LBJ; techniques in using the helicopter; visits to the Ranch and the White House; preparing
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was to make, I believe, at the National Press Club. The memo substance suggested questions to be posed to me. It was so ridiculous that upon receipt of it I dropped it in the wastebasket. It suggested that questions be posed to me as to whether there was any
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : That was after World War II . After World War II . Because of that I was summoned before congressional committees from time to time . I had occasion then to see President Johnson, but again only casually . My.real beginning of any close acquaintanceship
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . They aren't the kinds of strides that I was at all happy with, but they were again light years from where they were. But there was agai n a timidity to - challenge the structure. There vIas the old club atmosphere, and there was no real help from the top
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Congressional liaison--who had been former state Democratic chairman of Iowa and resigned later from the Department, and now runs the Washington Farm Letter . of set the thing up . He had sort Freeman ; Clyde Ellis, who was then general manager
  • of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • something, [and say] "Does this remind you of anything?" We must have saved the taxpayers millions of dollars doing it that way because of his memory for the details of things that you'd never find in the record, would not be in the Congressional Record
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Then at the congressional level you had Luther Patrick from Birmingham, but Luther got defeated. VFD: But in the House, Vito Marcantonio, who was a radical from New York, carried it in the House. The reason he was able to get it carried in the House was because neither
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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 I remember decorating his Empire State lunch club
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Congress [Congressional Government], because he thought the Congress should react the same way the British Parliament reacts, never occurring to him--or it may have occurred to him but he didn't draw the necessary conclusions--that the prime minister
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , educational opportunities, medical care, the general category of morale activities, recreation, and service clubs and other elements of morale; how many stripes are appropriate for a sergeant--which is a subject I don't like to get into. P
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /oh O'Donnell -- I -- 27 from the National Committee who would rel ate the state pol itical end of it, or John Connally would call him and this is John Bailey's problem; then 11e had a congressional s i de and that would be O' Srien's problem
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Do you remember going to Austin? I think there was a party for Horace Busby. W: Yes. G: Tell me about that. W: I didn't know it was a party for Horace Busby but I know it was Twenty Acres Club. G: The Forty Acres Club. W: Forty Acres
  • the University of Texas' Forty Acres Club; LBJ's attitudes on civil rights; Whittington's experiences at the Ranch.
Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • Master's Club. ran for President of the different societies that we belonged to. several debating societies at that time. that time than it is now. He We had Debating was more prominent at LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • First meeting with LBJ; debating the subject of sending Marines to South America; LBJ as a debater; Professor Greene; University of Texas Library; LBJ as a politician; Black Star/White Star episode; School Master Club
Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Doyle -- I -- 3 D: Oh, no. No. He could swim, but that was about all. He was not an expert swimmer. G: Well, now, also that summer he was elected secretary of the Schoolmasters' Club, and I guess
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ at college in San Marcos; clubs at Southwest Texas State Teachers' College (SWTSTC), including the White Stars; LBJ's parents; LBJ's early interest in politics; professors LBJ admired at SWTSTC, including
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that there was an organization called the Capitol Press Club, which was established during the World War II years by black reporters basically working for the black press, because they had not been accepted for membership in the National Press Club. The Capitol Press Club still
  • How Terry got a job at the Washington Post; shaking hands with Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus; early encounters with LBJ; Capitol Press Club; awarding LBJ for civil rights work; LBJ giving scholarship money to a black college student in 1963; job
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a good student, but you know, nobody studied too much. G: I gather there were a lot of bull sessions. H: Yes, bull sessions. G: What was he interested in? H: He was interested in debate. There was a press club out there that he was a member
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a big luncheon for us, and then, in the afternoon, there was a party at the Snyder Country Club. Mrs. McLaughlin hosted that evening for me another big chamber of commerce affair that night. Well, C. T. McLaughlin is an unusual figure in our lives: oil
Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /oh 7 A: That's right, and it was very wide coverage, I can show you some of these clippings, and also some of the anecdotes that came out of it. F: You are a member of the Women's National Press Club, right? A: Yes. F: You've had
  • and President Johnson; Woman's National Press Club Farwell dinner for Mrs. Johnson; parties for women's press
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall having a list though of the people on the Star. K: No staff--? G: I gather there were reporters from various clubs and organizations, is that right? K: Yes, that would be true. They wouldn't necessarily office there, but they would
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; College Star; LBJ's activities; President Evans; athletes; secret organizations; faculty; school clubs; relationship with LBJ