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Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for anything I've done. Just volunteer. G: I gather that you would go to the Austin Woman's Club. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
First meeting with Lady Bird; Lady Bird as a student; early impressions of Lady Bird; life at UT; the Matthews Rooming House; arrangements on meals; the DeWitt Reddicks; the Austin Women’s Club; recollections of Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter; Lady

Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

? AH: I don't know. LH: I don't think he had time. don't you see. AH: I don't think so. He just knew of my brother's playing, I don't recall whether he played on the team. Your brother didn't play on the team. clubs. He played for some other He

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Club, and I know some of the Senators that I have interviewed have told me that either they were rever a member of the Club, or after some time they came to be accepted and so on. So far as LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Candidacy for the Senate; first acquaintance with LBJ; Minority Leadership; Senate Club; FEPC and Tidelands; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had a group called the President's Club started early in the Kennedy and Johnson era. It cost a thousand dollars to become a member. Now, Gaston, A. G. Gaston, who had an insurance company, a motel, and an S&L, he was one of those southerners that I
Shepherd. Also mentions Hobart Taylor, the President’s Club, Adam Clayton Powell. DNC activities in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Atlanta

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Then I see I write him a note thanking him--he took me to the Alfalfa Club dinner in 1958; he was one of the officers; that's a men's club in Washington, right unique. They give a dinner every year, always a very interesting and-- F: Primarily political

Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

: In other words any jobs, or any honors, that were to be passed out, both for the girls and the boys, we thought it was part of our obligation to the student body to see that they went in the right hands. PB: The right hands were the members of your club

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 5 (V), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: JOHN W. MACY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Why don't we start, Mr. Macy, and let me ask you to recall the incident we've been discussing. M: My recollection relates

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Let me ask you more about the Harris-Blair group. You mentioned that last time as a debating organization, but can you recall their social events or--? W: No, I can't, because I wasn't a member and it was such a small club. I'm sorry I can't help

Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Yes . G: Did that ever take place? B: I don't think so . G: How did one get to become a member of the Harris Blairs anyway? B: Well, it was just a debate club . invitation . I don't think it did . I believe that's right . G: Did it have
Biographical information; SWTTC; contact with LBJ; Harris Blair debating club; Student Welfare Council; 1928 Democratic Convention; Black Stars; LBJ as Blackman's best man; LBJ's activities and family; President Evans; dating in San Marcos

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

January, and the usual round of things began, all that series of stag things like the Alfalfa Club and my 81st Club, which took place this year at Mrs. Bob Kerr's house. We hosted a tea for the 82nd 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Bertha Allman Graef, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was not in the students' [section] where it should have been, with the other students. Then I looked all over the book and finally I found it in the Newman Club, which was a Catholic organization, and it didn't even have my name under it, had someone else's name. I

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in Seguin very long then, so the people that I invited were relatives and Girl Scout leaders and PTA members, the people that I had met in that particular [capacity], Sunday school teachers and that way. Mrs. Henry Donegan was a very active club woman and so

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

President Johnson. F: But we're getting a world of President Johnson--a lifetime. H: I was president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women Clubs at the time. We had been active in supporting women for public office. In that year

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. At the University of Wisconsin, I was a member of the Young Progressives Club, and also in the election of 1940 the whole campus seemed to be Young Democrats or something [to the] left of that. Much to everyone's surprise, a press release came to me as reporter

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was--in finding that the First Lady knew something about landscape and wanted to do something about it. She said to him that this would be something she would like to work on. Bear in mind, Mrs. Johnson is not a club-woman type. She's not a person who thinks

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have been organized, but he really put it on the map. the Hill. We had clubs on I don't know vJhether they even exist any more, but they ~"ere very strong in those early years, [clubs] of the donkeys and the elephants. We were called the Burros

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

of the Groos National Bank. All these were good friends of Harry Drought's. They were all members of a strange little club down there. It was called the t~ednesday Club because it met on Wednesday. had one common denominator. It It had a gallon-size

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: FREDERICK W. FLOTT INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Mr. Flott, what was the nature of your responsibility for the Free World Assistance side of our operation? F

Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Johnson -- I -- 9 G: Now he enrolled there in the spring of 1927 and I noticed in going through those newspapers that one of the first things he did was to organize a Blanco-Gillespie County club. J: Do you remember that? No, because I

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: There was an organization called the Press Club, do you remember that? W: Yes, I remember something about that, but I had nothing to do with any of those things. G: Okay. I have a note here that LBJ went to Huntsville for the Texas Press

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and not read him out of the club, as it were. And how only he could do it. G: Do you recall specifically how he described his conversations with Russell? K: I recall that he described them in great detail, and I don't recall the substance of it. I'd have
Krim; political discussions at the Ranch; the amphicar; Ranch staff loyalty; LBJ gallstone attacks; LBJ avoiding the press and his need for privacy among friends; Jesse Kellam; White House dinner for President’s Club members; Abe Beame; William

Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVI EWEE: CLIFFORD P. CASE INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Perhaps we can just proceed chronologically. C: All right. G: Do you recall your first association with Lyndon Johnson? C
rights filibuster; Senate club; legislative issues

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: One day I had gotten out of here to go to lunch over at the Georgetown Club-I've forgotten who was buying my lunch that day; and I got a phone call--no, it was before going out to lunch that the President called me in the morning and said, "Do you

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to get a little bit happy. He was feeling pretty good, and it was a little problem getting him to leave, so I was elected to help get him to leave. F: He liked this club he was playing. A: He liked it, it was a pretty good gig. problem. He was going

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

that was to me the most gratifying experience. But as I remember the first couple of years I was in the Senate I was very sad. I just couldn't believe-- F: The charge that it is a club is true-- H: Much more so then than now, much more so! I've been asked

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and he had his second drawer full of ashes and sand and held spit in there. We had a club--the class was fifty-five minutes long, and we had a certain size plug of tobacco that if you put in the side of your jaw and you could keep from spitting until

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: BARRY ZORTHIAN INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, sir. When we left off, I believe we were talking about the Tet Offensive, the impact of the Tet Offensive on public opinion and so

Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

remembered that he had taken his club and raked up from behind the ball kind of in the sand trap and putted on up there. And I just kind of mumbled--I said, “You know, Mr. President, you’re not supposed to ground your club in the sand trap.” He said, “What do

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Some. I saw him a great deal more after 1963. I was back in Washington several times during 1961 and 1962 having to do with some President Club activity with Arthur Krim on the West Coast and some meetings and some affairs at the White House. We saw him
How Ed Weisl, Sr. got Wasserman involved with LBJ’s campaign in the 1950’s; 1960 presidential campaign; political involvement of entertainment industry executives; Arthur Krim; the 1964 presidential campaign; the President’s Club; 1964 California

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Feldman had a group that used to meet three times a week called the "5 O'Clock Club" or something, which was sort of the dirty tricks division--you may have heard about it, the who1e political thing--to think of ways to get the other candidate in trouble

Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a year, there's no problem. need to reach in your pocket and take out a dollar. Lions Clubs every week. other. You only They do that in the They have to pitch in a dollar for something or I want it once a year. That does two things. It helps

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/loh/oh Hazlewood -- I -- 5 Now that's something I wouldn't have done and it kind of shook me. But it went like that. I saw Dr. Knapp a couple of weeks later at the Rotary Club in Lubbock, and he kind of cast an eye at me because he had been nice

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

ten o'clock So I think you can do it. every night. It was sort of a joke around that he'd leave the office and go to the Club Sportif and swim in the afternoons, then he'd take a nap and then he'd go home and go to bed at night. forth. He'd never

Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

. The first was an evening affair around the swimming pool. I organized a water show to be presented in the swimming pool. We got the Austin Aquatic Club and teamed them up with the San Antonio Aquatic Club with the help of my brother, Wally, who

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the college in San Marcos he organized I gather a Blanco-Gillespie County club. that? Did you have anything to do with that? Do you remember They had swimming parties and things like that, almost as soon as he got to campus. W: No, I don't. I could have

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

both--in other words, in civil rights we ought to talk to the Poles in West Chicago who virtually turned Martin Luther King inside out. Do they represent the white opposition, or do the people that--I want to say Ridge Oak Country Club in Houston-M

Oral history transcript, Marjorie A. Delafield, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Professional Women's Club and I got to know her even better doing bUSiness for her. She was the one who mentioned my service to Mrs. Johnson. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

contained better in a memorandum I \vrote in February of 1960. A friend of mine in Cincinnati was going to have to make a speech before a service club on conventions, and he \vanted son:e anecdotes. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

friends, and I just noticed it got done. remember specifically on that. I can't He did have--have you ever heard of his "I Can't Do It Club?" F: No. R: Well, this is something he created as a congressman. I think maybe this is where it started

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