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Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 20 Bi : Yes . Well, in 1957 and 1958 I was finance director of the Democratic National Committee . Paul Butler was the chairman, Matt McCloskey
  • 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, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the House of Repre­ sentatives . He didn't work hard at his job . He was .getting a lot of publicity from his glamour [as a] senator . bloc . He was in the liberal-­ He voted with Senator [Joseph S .] Clark, Paul Douglas and what Johnson considered
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • problems with the Democratic Party with Paul Butler. But by that time, I don't think the Democratic Advisory Committee, or whatever Butler called it--well, it was prominent; it was noisy in Texas. The people who were aligned with Butler, they were raucous
  • Allan Shivers and Democrats for Eisenhower in 1952; the role of LBJ and Sam Rayburn in the 1956 Texas State Democratic Convention; Paul Butler and the Democratic Advisory Committee; party at Dewey Bradford's house; how LBJ won county and precinct
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into this place--I didn't know he was going to do it, I walked in with him. He went up to--who the hell was that guy? G: Was it Steve Mitchell or Paul Butler? R: Paul Butler. And he just cussed him out publicly, I never heard a man being cussed out [like
  • Southern Manifesto; farm legislation; Francis Case; social security; LBJ and Paul Butler; LBJ and Nixon; 1956 Democratic National Convention
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the passage of that 1957 Civil Rights Act, was one of the things that many of the national Democratic liberals, such as Paul Butler, at the time DNe chairman, and some of the people you were working with, with the Democratic National Committee, used as one
  • Meeting LBJ in the 1930’s; whether or not LBJ’s personality changed over the years; confrontations between Texas liberals and conservatives with LBJ cought in the middle; Paul Butler’s attempts to gain power and to make the Democratic party more
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Council. That's right. Paul Butler was then the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. I was retained as special counsel by the Democratic National Committee. the committee voted to establish the advisory with the charter, the form of and so
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for chairman of the convention. What happened? Bo: I think that's probably correct.Strange thing--what happened was we ran into Paul Butler again. B: It was he who prevented-- Bo: Well, he said no, and of course Mr. Butler is not with us any more
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at the convention . Ba : Before we get into the '60 campaign, this pertains to more-or-less directly national committee business . In the late '50s--after 1958 when Paul Butler was chairman--there was created the Democratic Advisory Council as a policy matter
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; admiration of Rayburn; women in South for VP Johnson; Paul Butler; Democratic Advisory Councilom 1948, 1960, 1968 campaigns and conventions; Southern train trip; Mrs. Johnson as a campaigner
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with this as I am to his reaction to ADA things. This was Paul Butler's effort to give the Democratic Party the image of all-out liberalism and take the leadership away from what he considered the JohnsonRayburn image of the national Party, and I think that he
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the people, they were ready to take over that convention hall. But Kennedy was smart. known. How they bribed Paul Butler I have never But Paul Butler was the chairman of the Democratic Party and he hated Johnson and Mr. Rayburn because they had been
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] Jenkins -­ XV -­ 7 sashays at having some harmony. He met with [Paul] Butler I remember and I think met with Rayburn and praised Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rayburn, maybe even Butler, I don't remember. But when he got right down to it, at the end
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the purpose of those? R: Just to bring them into camp. It was to make friends with them early. I remember Paul Butler and the civil rights controversy. "Johnsons and Alsops go fishing"--God! If you knew how funny that line was, "Johnsons and Alsops go
  • . Rebekah Johnson; Sherman Adams' resignation; crisis of Quemoy and Matsu; rally with Vance Hartke; Democratic sweep of Congressional election; Paul Butler and the Democratic National Committee; LBJ's address to the U.N.; LBJ's meeting with Lopez Mateos
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • incident; Lewis Strauss nomination as Secretary of Commerce; James Eastland and appointments; Congressional strengths; LBJ and Herman Talmadge; the loyalty oath; Paul Butler; Joe Rauh.
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --and majority. Certainly I don't think they should have been bound by a policy that was completely partisan in nature. B: Is it possible that in that antagonism there 1.]ere personalities too--that Mr. Johnson and Paul Butler just didn't get along? D: I'm
  • Biographical information; Senator McFarland; Sam Rayburn; relationship between Truman and Senator Johnson; Paul Butler; 1956, 1960 and 1964 conventions and campaigns; JFK; Jim Rowe; Hubert Humphrey; Abe Ribicoff; RFK; LBJ as Vice President; DNC; 3
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • groups wanted to see. Mrs. [Eleanor] Roosevelt was not for Lyndon Johnson; Herbert Lehman was not, Paul Butler was not, and so on. And they were firing away at him. This image that was before the country of the second most powerful man, the brilliant
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was pursuing this end of questioning. To see if you knew of any of the early ties and associations. But to continue on, during the 1956 Democratic Convention, you described in your previous interview Sam Rayburn's intervention on behalf of Paul Butler
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : April 8, 1981 INTERVIEWEE : PAUL BOLTON [with occasional comments by Dolly Bolton] INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Bolton's home, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr . Bolton, let's start today with some of the events in Lyndon
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  • Bolton, Paul, 1903-1986
  • Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Paul Bolton
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • commitments he couldn't back out. G: It was a strange situation. I want you to talk about this in detail as we get further into the year. Let me ask you about Paul Butler's role. Here was a case where the Democratic [National] Chairman was very much
  • Composition of the Policy Committee; Rayburn’s decision not to serve as chairman of the Democratic National Convention; Paul Butler and his role; liberals and the Democratic National Committee; LBJ’s lack of commitment to his candidacy
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • nomination." Actually in my own judgment, looking upon it in retrospect, I think that Kefauver was probably about as good as he could have done. He wasn't going to win the election that year anyway. He couldn't have won the election if we'd had Paul Butler
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Where did the impetus for that come from? c: Paul Butler, who was then chairman of the Democratic committee, I had known favorably for some time. Bi 11 Baggs, who at that time was the editor of the Miami Daily News, was a close friend of mine
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a pledge to Kennedy, nor to Paul Butler, who was then the Democratic National Chairman; but I had told Butler that if chosen as Keynote Speaker, I would refrain from siding with one camp or another until I had delivered my Keynote speech; then I would make
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the Executive Office Building. He didn't know who was a butler and who was an official. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , why both he and Rayburn opposed the Democratic Advisory Council which Paul Butler, in 1958, recommended be created and that Johnson and Rayburn take part in it. When you looked at the membership of that Democratic Advisory Council--Eleanor Roosevelt
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • President Eisenhower and Johnson. K: Didn't they-- There was a great deal to that. We'll come to that in a minute. let's stay on Truman for a little bit. But Johnson felt that under Paul Butler particularly, the Democratic National Committee
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Butler, for example, used to say that Mr. Johnson made divided government work by surrendering to President Eisenhower. Do you think that's accurate? Mundt: I think you must mean Paul Douglas. M: Well, Mr. Butler was Chairman of the Democratic
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as the senator for Coca-Cola. (Laughter) G: Okay. Now, Allan Shivers made a trip to Washington that spring, and LBJ seems to have been in a position of trying to promote harmony between Shivers and Paul Butler and bring Shivers back into camp. Do you recall
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ and the Majority Leadership and various Senate activities, 1955; committee assignments; LBJ and Drew Pearson; LBJ and the oil industry; foreign aid; LBJ and organized labor; Paul Butler; LBJ and Eisenhower; LBJ's heart attack; Whitney speech
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- I -- 14 G: Do you think this could be traced to the Johnson rivalry with the national committee. M: Yes, I think it started to happen in the fifties, yes, when Paul Butler was the chairman and they began to take
Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • after 1958? C: No, I was not. B: The agency that paul Butler established in connection with the National Committee. C: I was not a member. B: Were you asked to be a member of it? C: I was not. B: I was asking because Mr. Johnson and Mr
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Oh, yes, sure. G: Any recollection of Lyndon Johnson at the 1956 convention, for example? S: Not clear about 1956, but certainly clear about 1960. 1956, I guess, was that when [Paul] Butler was chairman of the party, Chicago convention? 24 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : I believe that Steve Mitchell was an Irish attorney from Chicago, but respected. I mean, he was not the bombastic type that Paul Butler was. He was a fellow that professionals could deal with, could talk to, and he would not violate a confidence
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think Johnson understood that until it was explained to him, but I think that he instinctively grasped the explanation as soon as it was offered. G: Those who came down to the Ranch were General [Joe W.] Kelly, Major Swindell and Senator Paul Douglas
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by what he saw in Paul Kattenburg, who was the country director for Vietnamese affairs, who's presently a professor at the University of South Carolina, after early retirement from the department. G: What was he disturbed about? F: It was sort of ad
  • Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attempt to make peace with Paul Butler and other party officials with whom he had little in common and little rapport. But he would react more to articles written by liberals criticizing him than from conservatives. I'm searching, unsuccessfully
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ? M: They gave us a little tiny headquarters about half the size of this small office we're in now. I would say about 6x12 for our headquarters. the chairman of the Democratic party was the late Mr. [Paul] Butler. Kennedy very strongly. You see, He
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and delayed and delayed the building of their stations to kind of get a chance to take a longer look at how the industry was going to develop. Now, Roy Butler, the then-owner of radio station KVET here in Austin, later got a construction permit for a UHF
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a bunch of people on the committee who'd be in a position to vote him down on that. He already had Paul Douglas on the committee and Albert Gore and some other people that he couldn't influence in that way. G: So I think that that was the reason. Had
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE INTERVIEWER: Ted PLACE: JACOBSON Gittinger Colonel Jacobson's residence, Reston, Virginia Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: You just said that you would like to say some words about your friend, John Paul Vann. J: Yes. I think
  • Jacobson's opinion of John Paul Vann; Vann's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam and his death; Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) relations with the press, including Joseph Alsop, Don Oberdorfer, Peter Braestrup