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Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

reached agreement on that. This was the reason why, when the Nassif interests started construction on the largest privately owned building in Washington on Seventh Street, Southwest, about a block and a half from FOB lOA, and when GSA was able to lease

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was two or three blocks. I think we clapped loud and were very happy to be there and see. G: How would you characterize LBJ's speaking style in that campaign? E: Homey. I think he always felt so at home in Austin that he probably made a little

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of streets? G: I think so. W: Congress, Colorado, Lavaca. southwest corner. It was on 8th and Lavaca, I believe the Now I may have that off a block or two. It was downtown Austin, within a stone's throw of the City Hall. G: Did you do any work for him

Oral history transcript, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. R: We also considered those lands where we had scattered holdings-the lands that should be considered for disposal. Our planning efforts were concentrated mainly in the well-blocked areas, because these areas offered the greatest opportunities

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

?" said, "Yes ." He said, "How come John's a member and I'm not?" I I said, "Well, John was born to it . He was president of the student body at the University of Texas ." We drove two more blocks, three more blocks over towards the Texas, and we

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to block the merger, was supporting a request for a preliminary injunction and supporting the request that the commission (inaudible) sent this back to the commission. The threejudge court denied these requests and Harlan gave it to the court. In the middle

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would lay the basis for some kind of emergency legislation to block the striking. It just lays out what we need for Vietnam. Vietnam was not enough. When you look at Vance's memo and you see he's talking about Titan, Minuteman, Polaris [missiles] moving

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the Montgomery Fair, which was about two blocks from where I lived at the time. She was a seamstress as I remember for the Montgomery Fair. I don't remember the chronology of that whole boycott but, you see, we were out of session maybe a couple of months, so
Wallace blocking entrance to the University of Alabama in 1963; the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march; Selma mayor Joseph Smitherman; Hill's opinion of the racial unrest; concern about how all legislative issues could relate to civil rights; the purpose

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

of the deficit. There's no way around it, Joe. We can't deliver these numbers to you. You’ve got to tell him that. Charlie’s trying to tell him that.” It made no difference. It made no difference. K: Why? Why wouldn't it? C: The President had a block

Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for peaceful purposes by way of explosions if any debris would float over any other country. And that practically blocked what we called the "Plowshare Program." That is the Program of digging harbors, things of that kind. M: And this was in the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and he removed the road- blocks in the Congress and in the Rules Committee. He had a big job of doing that. G: Do you know how he did it? P: Well, he'd call them down there through persuasion and he could-Howard Smith was chairman of the Rules

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

anything about Mr. Harris. for fear of building him up. and we were afraid of him. We completely ignored him We knew he had a solid block down there We had a very popular county judge in Williamson County and we were somewhat afraid of him if he could

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

building down Congress Avenue about two blocks or three blocks below Scarbroughs, which is at 6th and Congress, and Hardy Hollers had an office also on Congress Avenue, I think. But he was claiming a great military record during the war, and we found out he

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, which is within a couple of blocks of the Washington Post, and just a few more blocks away from my bachelor apartment. I encountered a minister there by the name of George Davis. And I told George that I was an ordained Disciple minister, that I had just

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, let's say, six blocks from here. F: Was the Vice President interested in your reaction to things as a first-timer? C: Oh, yes. In fact, it made him enjoy them more. F: Did he kind of act as a tour guide? C: That night I don't think so. I remember

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

to pass Nothing could have been You know, the southerners still controlled the power to block anything that would look to a nonsoutherner as though it were unrea sonable. I think to many of the nonsoutherners, mostly in the West, it would have looked

Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. That was about two The Ku Klux hall at that time was down about two blocks east of the [CongressJ Avenue on Fifth Street. It was the Brown Furniture Company and up above on the second floor they had the Ku Klux hall. So Papa went down there on Thursday night

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the bill could have been blocked, yes, but my God, the consequences of that would have been really horrible. Everybody would have suffered. was no way the debate could be blocked. But there And I think the Jack Bell story--! wish I could remember what

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Risner -- I -- 27 everyone into the camp in downtown Hanoi, behind one wall, which covered almost a block, so that we were all together for the first time. G: You mentioned the so-called

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to this institutional block that I have found so often. I ran across a little bit in the Pentagon and I ran across it here, too. They had set up by that time--the war of course [for us--JJH] had started in 1965--you had the Gulf of Tonkin situation in 1964 and by 1965

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that lies Now, we got to figure-- He also accused you of blocking reports, didn't he? At least that's the way it sounded. DG: I don't know whether that was Meacham or Cooley that accused me of that. G: Maybe it was Meacham, I don't know. No, you're ri

Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

- learning. The experiment was, how do you upgrade the neighborhood, upgrade the people, and get industry to move in, also? One of the hunks of the experiment was that working with the community residents we chose six blocks in which the complete fronts

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

." I said, "That's all right. He said, "Oh, but that's We'll tell them about it So that first night the marine commander moved that line about three blocks out, quietly in the night, and in the morning when the rebels woke up, the group

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. That was a big one. Absolutely. G: And you blocked that. P: Paul Douglas and I used to fight over that. He wanted to divert it for the Chicago River, and of course it lowered the level of the lake and it had an adverse effect on Wisconsin ports

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy - V - 13 blocking at least a proposal to do something about a situation that in Europe was terribly serious. in the hotels. Paris. I remember we couldn't even get

Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of Saigon, but Phan Thanh Gian is the street that goes from downtown toward the Bien Hoa Bridge. The Bien Hoa Bridge is just two blocks from number 47 and it's the edge of the city, it's the northeastern part of the city. One of the major--well, first about

Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)

Silver -- I -- 12 C: Now when this was passed, the Partnership for Health legislation, they rearranged how they gave out the money, they started giving the states block grants-- S: They didn't increase the money. C: They didn't increase the money

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

me at this point lay a bit of a context of my personal philosophic view on this, which is quite fully developed, and I can expound it at length and indeed, have. I think that the Congress has as its greatest mission being a blocking force against

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. At that time, as you of course know, riots were escalating all over the country. There is a good book which has a lot of detail on this as to what was happening in Washington called Ten Blocks from the White House. So I came back to the White House and spent

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the exact cause of that process. But it's a process in which the inner lining of the arteries becomes thickened and rough and gradually blocks the flow of blood in the arteries. You have to have a normal amount of blood flow in the coronary arteries

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with that is that sounds all right, but you may start with a riot that involves two square blocks and then you say, "Okay, we'll teach these people a lesson." By morning you've got a riot on your hands that covers ten square blocks and then pretty soon the whole city

Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to block me a lot. White was the guy who he had out there. He used to try to block me quite a few times. But I would always sneak a note in of some kind to let him know I was out there. And I could always go through the Rose Garden and sometimes get

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

by him and the late Naury San Antonio. Antonio. ~laverick, was the La Villita project in The project encompassed the restoration of old San Within a half dozen blocks of downtown San Antonio is the little block called Old San Antonio. it was a bunch

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

there's some evidence of a little organized looting, so a criminal element may take advantage of it in that way. B: Well, for example, in the Washington riot of April '68, a recent book, Ten Blocks from the White House, attempts to indicate
Urban disorders; Pentagon demonstration; floating federal force; Detroit riots; Control Center-Communication Centers; riots in Chicago; Baltimore riot; Ten Blocks from the White House; Daniel Walker Report: “Rights in Conflict;” Bobby Baker’s case

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the courthouse that had business there and that was about all. The only gathering place in the community other than churches and schools was the street, the one-block street where all the stores were, and there'd be some benches sitting out in front

Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, we all did. M: Did you take a lunch to school or did you go home? l: We took a lunch to school part of the time. I just lived about a block from school and Lyndon's home of course was about two or three blocks, but some of the times

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