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Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to political campaigns. This action on the part of the business leaders generally showed the high standing he had with them; particularly their high regard for the job he had done as president following President Kennedy's assassination, and the very

Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: MORRIS ROBERTS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Roberts' office, Victoria, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Mr. Roberts, when did you begin participating in Democratic Party activities? R: Ever since I've been voting age
Roberts' career in the Texas state legislature and work on the Democratic executive committee investigating alleged voting irregularities in Jim Wells County in 1948; Roberts' relationship with Coke Stevenson and serving under him on the Texas

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 and of course he had nothing to do with the action in the legislature, but he did come in and make the thing function--made it really a goirg

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

no need to appoint bad people, but their wants and needs ought to be considered, and also help in their political campaigns. Now Johnson, in my view, neglected his functions as leader of the Democratic Party which substantially contributed to his
of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on national politics. I was organization manager for the state of Texas in the Adlai Stevenson campaign in 1952. Then in 1953 and 1954, I worked part-time for the Democratic National Committee under Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell and Speaker Sam Rayburn

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and advising Dick Russell.So that's why I say that Dick Russell would not have been a--if he became president I don't doubt that he would have modified. G: Did you have any involvement in or knowledge of his effort to get the Democratic nomination
Biographical information; how Abram met Richard Russell; Georgia’s county unit system; Russell and civil rights; Herman Talmadge; Charlie Bloch; Thurgood Marshall’s appt. to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court appointments; the Democratic Presidential

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

we left the airport in the motorcade, and there were large crowds all the way into town on the autopista [expressway] from the airport. And all at once--I was in the, I don't know, second or third car, with the assistant secretary for Latin America
; Adlai Stevenson’s briefing on Dominican Republic; relationship between LBJ and Robert Kennedy; 1968 presidential campaign; LBJ’s control of 1968 Democratic convention; Hubert H. Humphrey’s campaign.

Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: or is this also-- This has been a fairly consistent policy or practice on the part of the Democratic Presidents. Incidentally, I want to go back in a minute and pick up a point about the other aspect of the V i c e President as I saw in the early days

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

--the longest break in the history of the talks. M: But there's no specific cause for this, no action that took place? G: There was no cause for it, and one could not say the talks were broken off because the Chinese followed the procedures of asking

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Workers. To go further up in the city of Washington in a Republican time. ~ack, I grew My family were Democrats living in Washington, although my family were not political. The gossip of the town is political. My knowledge of politics

Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was in the later actions as Deputy. Kermit Gordon. The Director at that point was This was part, really, of the Johnson review of the Kennedy budget which was all but put together at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. I think Mr. Gordon would

Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)

you give us your personal impressions of the President, either at the time when you were received by him and were in official relationships with him or at times when you saw him in action in other circumstances? L: When I presented my letters

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

that this was an Administration which would not act? N: I have not been disenchanted with the actions of the Democrats since I have been in the party because, again, I have been in the Civil Rights fight so long. I've seen it from so many angles, and I know what has to be done
appointments; black attitudes toward LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; RFK, Truman, Humphrey and John Macy; Nabrit’s switch to Democratic Party in 1964; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s seating fight at 1964 Convention; advising President on civil rights

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

somewhat the same in-party rebellion on Viet Nam that Johnson actually faced. Looking back on it, I think it would be correct to say that this was the Great Divide, when it became absolutely certain to the left wing of the Democratic party that he would

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

? And what were the circumstances? A: I recall meeting Lyndon Johnson one time when I was visiting thenSenator Humphrey in the United States Senate, and Lyndon Johnson was at that time a Senator and the Leader of the Democratic Majority

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

together. All the veterans, not necessarily the Mexican-Americans but all of us, to protest the actions of the naval hospital in Corpus Christi in limiting the number of veterans who could go to the hospital. And also practically requiring

Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

himself to me several times. By coincidence, Governor Meyner's the Democratic candidate for governor this year. I have served two terms. This is the final year LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. D: Yes. F: So that you, in one sense, have to look two ways at once. This was the year when Stevenson was first nominated by the Democrats and Eisenhower by the Republicans. According to my notes on August 24, 1952, you announced that you

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

image. That was fashionable in the mid-fifties. So I went up to see Walter. I went in and was introduced, and he said, "Max Brooks says that you're the best secretary in the United States of America." I said, "Well, that's very kind of him." you, I

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the rising costs of the Vietnam War and curb inflation because that was becoming a troublesome matter. The proposal was not submitted to the Congress until late 1967, August, and no action was taken until the next session. He renewed the request early in 1968
in various states; the slate of delegates for the Massachusetts primary; Massachusetts state Democratic chairman Lester Hyman; the risks of having someone stand in for LBJ in the Massachusetts primary and the president's position on avoiding primaries

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, running so-called paramilitary centers operated by educational establishments and private industry. For the first time ppor people, poor youth, black people, people who had heretofore been hidden, were coming up to the surface, and America wasn't liking

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, this unconstitutional action, which had gone on for a hundred years had to stop. B: I've heard it said that in a sense passage of the Voting Rights Bill was, if not exactly easy, made less difficult simply because it was a voting rights bill, that there weren't many

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Sanders was one, is that UpO::1 at the time that Congress adjourned and took its Well, in fact it was the end of Congress. No action was taken. When the Congress reconvened in early January, during the last two or thr...: .:».3 of the Johnson

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is that Scott Lucas had gotten defeated in 1948 [1950]. That left a rather dangerous gap in the Senate. Up to that point there had been an understanding in the Senate that the Democratic leaders would come largely from the Middle West. It was because

"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)

them I had heard the owner was the biggest Republican in Young County. He was not about to do a favor for a Democrat, especially not the Vice President. The Secret Service had no trouble finding a car elsewhere. One of Glynn's great nephews, Bill Balch

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Republicans won a lot. Scott Lucas, the majority leader of the Democratic side, was defeated. So was Francis Myers, the 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Frank Ikard -- Interview I -- 3 Falls by the name of Colonel W. T. Knight. He was an oil man and very active in democratic politics
under Section Seven of Trad Agreement Act; Suez Crisis; 1955-1956 oil supply shut-off by Middle East countries; Ernest O. Thompson; Price Daniel and the tidelands; LBJ, Sam Rayburn and civil rights; 1960 Democratic Convention and LBJ’s acceptance

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

as representative in the House which gave the majority to the Democrats for the first time in the thirties in that particular era, which, when they reorganized the House, that's when John Garner became speaker. So, when Mr. Kleberg was elected as a Democrat

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, on the campaign. R: Right. B: And you also said you thought Mr. Johnson needed some help after you looked at the White House staff. R: Oh, yes. B: What does that latter part mean? R: Oh, it was in very bad shape, as was the Democratic National Committee

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

in 1937. R: Right. No, actually, I was probably not too close to the White House day-to-day functioning until about the summer of 1936. Then I went with my father down to South America and back, and at that time he asked me to come into the White House
of Congress; Jim Rowe; Abe Fortas; FDR's decision to run for a third term as president in 1940; FDR's opinion of LBJ's military service in World War II; Eleanor Roosevelt's opinion of LBJ; Roosevelt's work with civil rights legislation; the 1960 Democratic

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, Democratic Congressmen for dinner at the White House. The President asked me if I would join them for dinner, understanding that this was somewhat of an awkward request--which he admitted--but which I fully understood. So I had dinner with the President, sat

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

) just the general disenchantment of any administration in office, that the Democrats would lose still more and I know Congressman Johnson wanted to be two things: he wanted to be secretary to the Democratic National Committee and also he wanted
and Pedernales River Authority; preparing for FDR's 1940 presidential campaign; Corcoran's work on LBJ's 1948 election to the U.S. Senate; how LBJ became Senate minority leader; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's and Corcoran's relationship

Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. I think that's characteristic of the wayan action- oriented executive branch, where the President has to influence such an executive branch to carry out what are complex problems. Because the programs are complex in that the responsibilities

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- 1 7 T felt I was wrong . But I read this to the bar association . I said, "Beckworth favors the Democratic administration, adequate assistance to the aged, b1i:nd, dependent children, and to those people totally and permanently disabled
Home congressional office facilities; family background; father's county school superintendent campaign; 1928 Democratic convention in Houston; college education data; 1936 race for state representative; introduction to LBJ in 1936; 1938 campaign

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to somebody if he wanted to look into something and so on. F: When you sent in these weekly reports to President Johnson, were the responses pretty prompt? U: Well, usually if they're of an action nature I'd often times get something back the same day

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and over-eager sonar men. No visual sightings by the Maddox." In other words, "We've seen no torpedoes; we've seen no PT boats; suggest complete evaluation for action." Well, he was the one man who knew what had happened and what hadn't happened. wai t

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with the Democratic convention or the campaign in 1960? C: No. I was not there, have never been beyond a county convention. I've been to the Dallas County convention, but never to the state convention. I've been to precinct conventions in Dallas a good many times

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: What were his politics? T: His politics were Democratic, I think consistently throughout his life. He was, I would say, moderate. G: How would you compare him with, say, Jimmie Allred? T: Well, he was about of Jimmie Allred's stripe

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

day I was doing appropriations when he was chairman of State Justice Judiciary Subcommittee; the next day I was working Preparedness; the next day I was working Space, and the next day I was Democratic Policy. M: So, the payroll was where

Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the last several months of his period as Governor. M: Had you been involved any in politics? L: Oh, yes. And in community affairs. I've been a Democrat all my life and active in Democratic party activities; I was an active Young Democrat many years

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