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Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson and some of the Virginia leaders, like Howard Smith or Harry Byrd? A: I never saw anything that I can recall relative to his relationship with Senator Byrd. I do know that he highly respected Congressman Smith. I'm sure he didn't always agree
  • LBJ as a congressman; civil rights as an issue in Virginia; the 1960 Democratic Convention and the selection of LBJ as a candidate for VP; Senator Harry Byrd; JFK as President
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Harry Byrd on that? G: My memory isn't sharp enough to say whether--let me take that back. I remember the situation, the answer to your question is yes. As The major obstacle was Harry Byrd, who was then of course chairman of the Senate Finance
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JUANITA ROBERTS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Roberts' home, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Okay, Mrs. Roberts, I want you to start with the March 31, [1968J speech. were. R: Yes. Just tell what you remember about
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  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Roberts, Juanita, 1913-1983
  • Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Juanita Roberts
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of the sort of social life I've been describing, and the home life, the wheels of the process of working up toward trying to become the nominee of the Democratic Party went on. But if I have not mentioned our Sunday trips down to Senator [Harry] Byrd's home
  • African-American employees; Sunday meals at Senator Harry Byrd's home; Byrd's personality and interests; story of LBJ getting stopped for speeding on the way to the Byrd home; uses for the Sequoia; the Senate Ladies Club; decorating LBJ's office with items
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's office, Olney, Maryland Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with 1952. We talked a little bit about it last time, but did not cover a lot of the areas. Let's
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  • Baker, Robert G.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Senate was on a steady ascendancy. He was minority leader opposite Senator [Robert] Taft, who had only a few months to go then, before illness took him from the scene. Early April was always a time when I was moved to get out in the garden and finish up
  • Byrd's annual May Sunday lunch; LBJ's relationship with Harry Byrd; visits from the Federated Women's Club and Texas high school classes; drought and water management in Texas; Luci and Lynda's involvement with Girl Scouts and school friends; Luci's
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there all my life except for World War II and the years I spent in Washington. I have no desire to live anywhere else. Any particular point which you want to [start with]? G: How did you get into Senator [Robert] Kerr's orbit? R: When I got out
  • How Reynolds came to work for Senator Robert Kerr in 1953; LBJ's relationship with Kerr and Richard Russell, especially regarding civil rights; cooperation and leadership among Russell, Kerr, and LBJ and why they were successful; Senator Robert
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • his way, was the Attorney General, Mr. Robert Kennedy, who came really racing through, neither looking to the right nor to the left to get to the back of the plane. The only thing that I noticed was that I remember that he passed President Johnson
  • back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s first night as President; the combined LBJ/JFK staff; Ted Sorenson; LBJ’s State of the Union address and concern over the budget; Senator Harry Byrd; getting the budget under $100 billion; task forces; Negro voting rights
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • close until Senator Robert Byrd came along. In the Fifties Senator Russell had an office at the corner of First and Constitution, close by one of the main entrances and exits to what is now the Russell Office Building but was then the only Senate
  • /refusal to change as times changed; LBJ’s change from a 'southern’ to a ‘western’ outlook; Russell as LBJ’s senate mentor; LBJ’s dominant personality and power of persuasion; Senator Robert Kerr; Jordan’s activities as advance man for LBJ in the 1960
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Byrd, [Sr.], by this time? B: He was an old man by that time and like old men, at least the way old men used to be, he had his good days and his bad days. Usually to protect himself he had Senator Bob Kerr alongside him when I was up making
  • ; Sam Rayburn and Judge Howard Smith; Barr's relationship with Sam Rayburn; bond interest rates; time Barr spent with the Senate and House; Harry Byrd, Sr.; Robert Kerr; funding the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT); backdoor spending; Social
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE : ROBERT OLIVER INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Oliver's home, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start out with your background basically, where you came from and how you became interested and involved
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  • Oliver, Robert
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert Oliver
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was very close, yes. G: And that two votes switched, Byrd, although I think he was talking about Robert Byrd. M: It must have been Bobby Byrd, because Harry wouldn't switch on that, yes. G: And the other one was [J. Allen] Frear, I think, Senator
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Silver Spring, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 B: You know, in your January 2, 1955 [chronology], your paragraph says that Drew Pearson criticized LBJ's support of Price
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  • Baker, Robert G.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • reasonably intact, in good forIYl. The probleIYl was that Senator Byrd was holding out for SOIYle sort of gesture of saving IYloney, of being careful in expenditure control, that he could tie with the bill. Mr. Mills had his gesture, because we passed
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that Byrd, did not go along with it. ~ssociation committee~ Walter George and Harry I'm wondering if you can recall his with senators like Walter George and Dick Russell ~ who were sentor members of the [Senate]. C: r think Harry he had a good
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to him. He agreed with the strategy that we should walk off that subcommittee. Which we did, all three of us. And that was the beginning, too, of--I remember Senator Harry Byrd, Sr. getting up in the Senate, attacking McCarthy that day for appointing
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , or they themselves, want it, if they want it badly. They'll tell you ahead of time. My relationship was very good with Bob Kerr always, and Bob and I would meet. He was not the chairman of the committee, but he was acting chairman. [Harry] Byrd was in his dotage
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Mr. President." "Well, why in the hell didn't you tell me?" (Laughter) So that was just prior to the time that he asked for this tax, and he knew I didn't like deficits; he knew [Robert] Byrd didn't like deficits and he was chairman of the Finance
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -hand now. I guess I was working for [Robert] McNamara by this time. Yarmolinsky had literally moved out of the Pentagon. Bob would not let him. He wanted to keep his hat as special assistant to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense and McNamara
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Virginia; O'Brien's work with Paul Douglas; temporary unemployment compensation legislation; O'Brien's contact with Harry Byrd and the Senate Finance Committee; the difference between a teller vote and a roll call; aid for dependent children; Medicare
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • here, that Harry Byrd and Senator George voted against him, and we lost it on a pretty close vote, 44-50. G: Reportedly that was the only party vote that the Democrats lost that year. If you'll turn over to page three, there was a reciprocal trade
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for Lyndon Johnson, he's the best man in the state ... and so on. My first direct contact came in mid-1959. I had gone to Washington from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to serve as special assistant and economic adviser to Texan Robert B. Anderson
  • of the treasury and Henry Fowler and Robert Roosa as undersecretaries; LBJ's request that Walker praise Fowler's abilities to the press; publicity for an ABA-sponsored luncheon attended by Robert Anderson, Robert Roosa, Douglas Dillon, and Henry Fowler; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • also had a meeting with Senator Harry Byrd, Sr.-- I remember, because I sat in on that meeting-- where he told Senator Byrd he wanted to get his tax cut out of the Finance Committee, and Byrd said, "I just don't see how we can do it. That budget's too
Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Robert] Taft have a close working relationship? Do you have any insight on that? Y: I think he had a great admiration for Taft. Taft wasn't nearly as conservative as a lot of people thought he was. He was one of the sponsors of federal aid
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Of course, he was annoyed very much by Senator [Joseph] Clark of Pennsylvania. He also greatly admired Senator [Harry] Byrd [Sr.] of Virginia despite the fact that Byrd and he were often on opposite sides. Clark and Gore-- what he called the liberals
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • domestic programs, and perhaps in the civil rights field, schools, and so on. When I was in Justice under Robert Kennedy, he was the head of a delegation, I think, to discuss a Peace Corps equivilence throughout the Caribbean, down in Puerto Rico
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasker -- I -- 9 And they came. They were [Alan] Bible, [Gale] McGee and--I think it was [Robert] Byrd of West Virginia. They were new in 1960. F
  • in Washington D.C.; Lasker’s relationship with Mrs. Johnson; supporting Robert Kennedy; encouraging Mrs. Johnson’s interest in beautification and health; beautification projects in Washington D.C.; National Institutes of Health and clinical research goals; Nash
Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't think so. In fact, I think about the only Senate leader who had made that effort was Bob Byrd, strangely enough. did. Mansfield never In fact, Mansfield felt that wasn't his function. Byrd seemed to want a record of making sure that all
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
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  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
  • Baskin, Robert E.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert E. Baskin
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it in his book. Some parts of his book are not completely reliable but I believe that is. G: Do you rec211 the initial relationship b2tvJeen Lyndon Johnson and Bill Knowland after Senator [Robert] Taft had to leave? M: It was always a fairly cordial
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • go back a minute and say something about that. In the 1946 Legislative Reorganization Act, the one that [Robert M.] LaFollette [Jr. R.-Wisc.] and [A.S. Mike] Monroney [D.-Okla.] put through the Congress and was the last great legislative
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and might become the subject of votes, might become, quote, "Democratic policy." And once you had something called Democratic policy that Russell and [Harry] Byrd and [John] Stennis and [Allen] Ellender and those fellows could not support, then you really
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • interested in housing. We got a daily report or a weekly report out of [Robert] Weaver on how many LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: The first thing I wanted to ask you about was Johnson and Steve Mitchell, because Mitchell is really in the picture here in 1953. B
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  • Baker, Robert G.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a good part of my life. My father had been an early contributor, because we were kin to hirn, to Harry Byrd of Virginia, and was arnong thos e that financed Mr. Byrd' s carnpaign for governor when he was elected governor of Virginia. I went to Washington
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1974 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: I believe, Mr. Baker, you're from Pickens, South Carolina. B: That's correct. Pickens is the county seat
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  • Baker, Robert G.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Who were they? L: They are both [in the Senate] now. West Virginia [Senator Robert] Byrd and West Virginia [Senator Jennings] Randolph. IISettle that God damn thing." "You got it settled yet?" So Jack Valenti said, He \'Iould call me up all
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • out very much like the Navy had done Antarctic exploration in the earlier days with Admiral Byrd. They felt genuinely that this was an important element of national power, national capability, that they had the capability to do it, and that they were