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Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Henry. You said Aaron Henry; and, of course, the Evers. B: His brother Charles? C; Yes, he would certainly be. B: Do you see any signs among the Negro leadership in Mississippi of We've had a lot of them. the kind of internal fragmentation
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • try to tell blacks, "You've got to remember that our little accomplishment wasn't done by blacks alone. There were a few white folks who cared. Men like Lyndon Johnson, there's some others: the Kennedys, [Senator Charles] Percy of Illinois, [Nelson
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  • and Senator John Stennis; Evers as NAACP field director; work for education; housing; employment; Ramsey Clark; Lady Bird's Dixie tour; federal programs in Mississippi; friends Charles Percy of Illinois and Nelson Rockefeller of New York; SNCC; CORE; SCLC
  • Evers, Charles, 1922-
  • Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Charles Evers
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a congressman? P: I was elected in 1958 and I remained in Congress for fourteen years, and then I ran for the Senate. I ran against Chuck Percy in 1972. I gave up a [House seat]. F: Which wasn't a good year for Democrats. P: No, it wasn't a good year
  • Pucinski's political career; Pucinski's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ's support for Pucinski in a 1972 Senate race against Charles Percy; allegations of misconduct against Charles Robb in Vietnam; a trip to Chicago with Vice President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to his deputy, Charles Haar. Charles Haar was a real hard \IJorker. He's the one that put the drive in the task force without any question. Mc: Did you have much contact with H: Yes. Me: Do you have any impressions about him as secretary of HUD
  • on housing (Suburbia) in 1965; impressions of Robert Wood and Charles M. Haar; evaluation of task forces; service on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recollection is that he practically just wound up by giving Lyndon, or offering him, everything that he had in his bank account. Oh, Mr. A. J. Eilers, he was a businessman in Austin. G: How about Mr. [Percy] Brigham? Do you remember him? J: Oh, indeed I do
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was 1935 until December, 1937. And I came back up here. Was that in 1935? Bill Clark and Percy Rice had gotten the franchise arrangement for Texas for a title insurance company called Lawyers Title, a Virginia Company, Lawyers Title of Virginia. formed
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Austin. The Percy V. Pennybacker wrote a history of Texas which was a textbook which we had studied in school. So I happened to see the paper that morn- ing--the Austin American-Statesman, I suppose--announcing the death of this member. It wasn't
Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on a particular piece of legislation. M: Is the clearinghouse function limited at all just to the Budget matters? H: No, but it had its origin in purely Budget matters. The first Budget Director, who established the process in its original form, Charles Dawes
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Engelhard. Charles Engelhard was brought to dinner by some friends. G: I have read that you thought that it was Mr. Engelhard, Sr. rather than Mr. Engelhard, Jr. E: George Murnane, Jr. was having dinner with me, and a mutual friend of ours called
  • to the United States and involvement in the microfilm business; New York Governor Alfred Smith; a plane crashing into the Empire State Building; marrying Charles Engelhard; Engelhard’s political career; Engelhard’s involvement in the gold business; race
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • drafted this legislation and went up to Bulwinkle's subcommittee and had to make modifications. And I think Bulwinkle left; I think he was defeated or he didn't come back, and a fellow by the name of [J.] Percy [Priest] became chairman
Oral history transcript, Percy Brigham, interview 01 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: PERCY BRIGHAM INTERVIEWER: Eric Goldman **This interview was conducted by telephone from TV station KTBC in Austin, Texas, to Mr. Brigham in a hospital. G: Hello, Mr. Brigham. I'm sorry to bother you when you feel so badly' and I won't
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  • Brigham, Percy
  • Oral history transcript, Percy Brigham, interview 01 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman
  • Percy Brigham
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , which has been widely circulated for several years, is correct about him borrowing a hundred and twenty-five dollars from Percy Brigham, a banker at Blanco, Texas. G: I've seen some letters on that, I think. that? Or how did you--? Did he ever talk
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to pressures from Senator Paul Douglas to designate Percy Williams as the deputy executive director for government contract compliance. I recommended the other deputy and Holleman quickly agreed to it. The other deputy was a guy named John Hope [Franklin]. John
  • ; affirmative action; Jerry Holleman; John Hope Franklin; Gwendolyn Tice; Percy Williams; Jerry Bruno; staffing and funding the commission; Bobby Troutman and the conflict between LBJ and RFK; Richard Russell; the Lockheed plant in Marietta, Georgia; Plan
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thought the job was going to him. I said, "I went in there and asked him and he just told me." Now, a few months, or weeks, later, Percy Rice [?J, who was a lawyer in Dallas and who was the chairman of the Senator's 1934 campaign, tola me that--how did
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that you became part of the House leadership. H: Thatrs the time I emerged. Then Percy Priest, follOWing the Republican regime in that Congress, died during his first term as chairman of the committee. Percy Priest was from NashVille, Tennessee. He
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Percy had been a friend of mine for a long time: I knew him when he was head of Bell and Howell. He was a Republican. I can't remember whether it was at a hearing on the Job Corps, but Chuck Percy was very supportive of me and the program, which
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then to move the delegates to support their joint agreement and [work] with Chuck Percy, who was the platform committee chairman, to reflect that view, and that was a pretty good struggle. We worked all night through two nights to bring that about, and he had
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • legislation. Senator Brooke, Senator Percy, Senator Javits, worked very hard without any reservations, and were major factors. While people still think in terms of Dr. King's assassination as having made the passage of open housing possible, the fact
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Marland, Sidney Percy.
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in local government or in what was happening upstate. that Percy Brigham was there from Blanco~ I don't know but he was a local leader and banker and real close friend of the Baineses, Rebekah's grandparents. G: Now, in 1927, when LBJ enrolled
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Oaxaca, Mexico, to pick up then Senator Douglas. Douglas wanted to retire, didn't want to get in that ring with that heavyweight Percy, I guess, and was resting and writing a book in Oaxaca. Lyndon was trying to persuade him to run. a plane down one
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by the budget director, wno was then Percy Brundage. nand. It was too big a budget and was out of George Humphrey, the Treasury secretary, was outraged by it and he protested to the President. He had a press conference in which he said that if this budget
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • friend over in the bank in Blanco--his son is over at the American National Bank, Ben Brigham--Mr. Percy Brigham, I believe his name was. Anyway we called all thepeople and were getting a crowd. ! was just beginning to hear a little bit of a rumor
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)