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Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and the smoke-filled room type of operation. B: He was generally viewed as just a southern politician, a wheeler-dealer type? C: Well, I think he was looked upon as a wheeler-dealer type. I think even in Wisconsin there's still some recognition

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

from reading the newspapers that here was a big, gangly, wheeler-dealer politician, the type of which I knew so well in Oklahoma, which is the old courthouse politician. So I had a very negative impression of him as someone who was hard and cold

Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -5busted banks. The young New Dealers became very friendly with a great deal of interchange between the various departments. There was a great deal of mutual discovery

Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

; Texas Power & Light; transmission and distribution lines; cost of LCRA System; Pedernales Electric Cooperative; Bluebonnet Electric; pooling systems; Lake LBJ; Young "New Dealers"

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

sobered up from that FDR binge." L: (Laughter) That's the way he wrote to him. B: So apparently LBJ was perceived as much more conservative than he had been when he was a staunch New Dealer in the late 1930s and early 1940s. L: Yes, he had to do

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

felt down in the bottom of his heart that they didn't vote for him, they voted against Goldwater. And Lyndon was one of these guys who, being a wheeler-dealer in a sense that he was a compromiser, always had an idea that somehow the Kennedys would get

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, some people used to refer to Lyndon as a wheeler and a dealer, and Lyndon was pretty sharp. But I'm not so sure that he would have ever set himself up cold turkey to tell a fellow member of the Senate, "You can't have this bill unless you vote

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and the press, and the young New Dealers who were the real excitement to me. End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview XI 19 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and there's a recall of this, or that, or you get the notice in the mail from your auto dealer. In those days, those recalls were devastating. They were big; they were front-page news often. That was what we regarded as the real deterrent. We also had

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in. If you find, you might say, a "wheeler-dealer" type, you are going to find a lot of borderline loans and investments in the bank. Sometimes they become too earnings-conscious. On the other hand, and this is somewhat of a criticism in and of itself, you

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

. In fact, I just know that to be the case and I think very cor rectly so, because he ran as a 100 per cent New Dealer in the Austin area about the time President Roosevelt was having some controversy with Senator Tom Connally about trying to pack

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, [William S.] Knudsen was in charge of it, and the build-up, it was evident to even the most ardent New Dealers that we had to put all the muscle we could behind defense and pick up the crumbs, so to speak, for the domestic programs. I was always partial

Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-dealer as majority leader, someone who could always get together enough votes to pass a bill or defeat a bill. Did you observe him in that role? C: Oh yes, I saw him on the floor working on people, tugging on their lapels and so forth. He was just very

Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was the last of the New Dealers, do you think that stands up, or do you think he carved his own direction? E: I think he carved his own record. I think Lyndon was--there are a lo.t of things that I didn't agree with, of course, but I think Lyndon made

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

particularly qualified for one committee or another. But although he did these things that were so correct and so good and so proper, he frequently did them in a way that got people annoyed and gave him the image of being a wheeler-dealer. B: Did any of his

Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. What the Kaisers had done, I think quite foolishly, is wired all of their automobile dealers in New Hampshire to work against Bridges. Had you heard about that? Well, Bridges naturally was not pleased. What else? G: Well-- B: Let me tell you

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

days everybody didn't have a radio set and the dealers would put one out on the street for World Series games and big speeches--Roosevelt was making a big speech, and he was giving the malefactors of great wealth hell in his way. o~m superior And two

Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

per adult. And the liquor dealers in some of these areas were quite upset by this. M: So you lowered the actual amount on certain items? J: Just on liquor. M: Just on liquor? J: However, this did have an effect; I mean, it reduced the-- M

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of the Supreme Court, which I believed in firmly in the light of the way the then members of the Court had been throwing practically all the best New Deal measures out the window. I was very, very much a New Dealer at heart and took it very seriously

Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that? How did he get Molly [George W.] Malone to We had to in those days. vote with him? M: Well, because Lyndon worked with them on some things. Lyndon, although some critics say he was nothing but a New Dealer, was actually a moderate. the times. been

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- of course, that was right after the depression. And there were more people sympathetic to the New Deal than claimed to be New Dealers. And here was a young fellow who had come along, and was carrying it out, so they went for him. I would say generally

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the day down at her father's store after her mother passed away, is this right? P: She did. On occasion they would bring her there. She loved coming to the store. Mr. Taylor was truly a dealer in everything. He also had coffins upstairs where they kept

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with [George] Humphrey, because Humphrey thought he was smarter than Eisenhower and he was domineering. The staff didn't like Humphrey, because he was arrogant with his wealth and he was always a self-dealer. Anderson did not have those characteristics

Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

club, so I didn't get to know him there . Lyndon was not But my impres sion of Lyndon was that he was a kind of wheeler-dealer . what Lyndon thought nor where he stood . I never knew And I think he learned many of his political skills when he

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson was big about was having no scandal. He just didn't want any scandal. He was very conscious of the wheeler-dealer problem. Indeed, I don't think we had a single scandal. The Bobby Baker thing occurred in the Senate. He used to say it occurred

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Dealers make me sick, because where would you be if you could not get people like me elected to Congress?" That was a ve ry characte ristic thing for him to say. He was always cons cious of the Texas electorate breathing down his neck. I have a poor

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

, it's going to be one-holer because if it was a two-haler, before that Governor could make up his mind, it would be too late!" Well, Dan Moody proved this again in this case. Moody had been a New Dealer up to this time and later became violently

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

assistants and his advisers--they called themselves the New Dealers--and John Garner said, "They weren't Democrats. They were just New Dealers or socialists, whatever you wanted to call them." So the vice president and the president didn't see eye-to-eye

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXVIII -- 9 of you." And she said, "Oh, have you got room to put it in the trunk of the car?" The antique dealer said, "Well, if you'll let me prop the trunk up and rope it tight we can get it in there." So he did. And dadgummit, we

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And all this razzle-dazzle over the budget; Bobby Baker--all this had a cumulative effect and people began to think of LBJ as the wheeler-dealer. And his critics certainly helped to make sure that image was emblazoned wherever they could, and he had

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

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

from the White House during the election, because he ran as a New Dealer, a New Deal candidate. nut the President was fishing in the Gulf, and after this fishing trip he landed at Galveston. Marvin McIntyre, who was his secretary at the time, had all

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of implementing legislation, in terms of setting the moral tone in our country. Here is a man who was looked upon as a wheeler-dealer, but this has been a very clean administration. 'I'le haven't had any scandals. We haven't had a serious scandal in the five