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Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

is awfully hard to say. We just were never able to get very good evidence about that. B: This book published by the Washington Post staff, Ten Blocks from the White House, indicates that there were some people who at least after the fact said they were

Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

occupancy of housing. We thought that the movement was slow by way of achieving this objective and of course the President recognized that, too. Of course, he wasn't only responsible for that. The Congress was the main block. But he pushed that himself. B

Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

up anybody unless I told them to pick up somebody, unless a fight occurred or violence. I remember all the doors got blocked one morning, and I was sitting in my office. I got a call from a lawyer over at the Pitts Motor Hotel, "So-and-So calling." He

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sauvageot -- I -- 5 indicate the tones and how to put these together. That gave me the building blocks to purchase Vietnamese newspapers and develop vocabulary, both by reading

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: "Are you giving up a lot or a little?" There was continuing difference of view as to what bombing was accomplishing. M: And they were not blocked off by the President's refusal to hear that point of view, or by part of the bureaucracy who didn't let

Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to court and try to avoid deportation, and we had to get permission from the Chinese Communists to let them land. That, of course, was trivial. Then the courts blocked these things. In other words, the Chinese would appeal to the courts and get

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of by the Community Action board to meet the needs of the people, if they were not looked with favor upon by the total council, went down the drain . sort of blocked . They were � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson and Barry Goldwater? S: No, because President Johnson blocked that from the very outset. [John] Pastore had put the legislation through the Senate side. The House had still not acted, but was prepared to act just about the time that President

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that this can be a racial :.ss::.e," because he really believed that an awful lot of the people ~ere blocking his reorganization plan for that very reason. So he thought he would throw the gauntlet down to them. Well, I don't know how oany of them were
The appointment of Robert Weaver to HUD; acting as gift adviser to CTJ and Clark Clifford, drawing up guidelines for wedding gifts; CTJ responds to the Jenkins incident; LBJ's insistence that staff be on call; LBJ's blocks the transfer of Perry

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- XXVI -- 8 entire new cities. And that ultimately evolved among other things into the "new-town-intown" concept which I guess comes later somewhere. G: And the block grants as well. C: Well, we talked about block grants but I don't think anybody

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ran for re-election in 1946, came back to Congress in 1947, and I remember the 1948 campaign so well because the day of the election, we were on board a ship going to Europe in 1948. Oh, dear! I'm having a mental block on the senator from Texas, a dear

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the University of Indiana and some of the staff people, and there is a report which was one of the building blocks that went toward some of the thinking that went on in the much larger conception that was F: ~ of the International Education Bill

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

us something about that? FR: Well, it was located on Hopkins Street, which was approximately three blocks from the main square, and it was run by Mrs. Mattie Hopper who moved from Lufkin, Texas. She had a son, Ardis Hopper, who was a senior

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

felt very strongly we should have mined Haiphong harbor at a time when it was not used very often, and therefore ships that would have entered subsequently would have been coming in at their own risk, rather than having them already in and blocking them

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. McCormack were working for President Kennedy at the time, and you and Mr. Rayburn, of course, with Senator Johnson. P: But not for vice president. You know, Mr. Rayburn almost blocked Johnson getting the vice presidency because he felt like it was kind

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in Oregon, and I asked him if he would ask the Senator what he intended to do about this, that I wanted to know now whether he was going to continue to block it, or was [he] willing to try to let it go through. Within a couple of hours, I had word back

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to pay any attention to that? No. We've all got to run because the navy wants this and the air force wants so and so. But if we just block that two hundred miles they can't get through!" He was broken-hearted most of the time because they didn't follow

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nitze -- IV -- 8 Toward the end of his tour of duty, some of the Congressmen came to resent the fact that Mr. McNamara had been so successful during the preceding years, and began to throw road blocks in his

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Levinson -- IV -- 3 in Packaging bill. And at that point the soap and detergent lobby particularly was very powerful in getting the item blocked. Now, where the breakthrough came in, it seemed to me was that in either 1966

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. But still, for the independent input to come from me, it took a little longer to develop. The pressure points is another very important area. You have to know where something can be blocked if it's bad. An example of this would be in the air pollution

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Kennedy -- I -- 10 F: The Attorney General felt that this was definitely a move to block him

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the honeymoon hadn't quite come by then. K: No, it hadn't. F: When support began to build up for Senator Robert Kennedy to run for the presidency in 1968 instead of what was popularly supposed--waiting until 1972--did Johnson make any attempt to try to block

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the cabinet officers felt like options were blocked. Was there a great deal of friction as far as your staff was concerned and the departments? C: You'll have to ask them. M: You saw one side of it. C: Yes, you may not--I thought I had no problems

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXII -- 14 building. It's a great big building. It's a square block." I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There was some movie--we used to joke about the fact that we never got to see damn thing. We should at least see it. G: Flaming Creatures. C: Fortas had said [it] shouldn't be blocked or should be shown or something. That became an issue. Go ahead on American

Oral history transcript, Radcliffe Killam, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and the efforts of others were blocked by the Supreme Court ruling, and shortly thereafter, if my memory doesn't fail me, there was a fire that--something happened to Box 13. I believe that's correct. I'm not- G: It wouldn't have been the first time

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. And then he'd go over to another part where another group of them were, say, the blocking force, and he'd see how they were doing. G: Why was there this tendency in those days to avoid contact with the--? L: Oh, I think that, one, they were criticized

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of violation of the constitutional separation of powers; O'Brien's work for Congressman Foster Furcolo; the need for a Rules Committee change so that it could no longer block all liberal proposals; the process of a head count; how O'Brien came to be in charge

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

colonel, had been there a year, and he told me that General Westmoreland thought that if he stayed another year, he could get him promoted to a general. Therefore, I was blocked; he [was] extended. It didn't turn out that way. I got promoted and he didn't

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to those days. We had a deputy counsel, deputy to Hobart [Taylor], who was Jerry's guy from Texas, from Austin, Texas, a lawyer, begins with a K. Jerry--I'm drawing a block on his name--left the committee, went back to Texas, bought a brewery and is a beer

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

which had become the stumbling blocks. So he began our discussion a little bit upbeat because he had Dean Rusk's support--he thought he did at the time. But it was clear by the end of our conversation, and I described it to him in somewhat greater detail

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a feeling that some aides were trying to block out memoranda or ideas from other aides? Was there a competitive--? B: Oh, sure, we had lots of that! (Laughter) The first one in, the first one to get their perspective in, the first one to get their views

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- IV -- 21 street and they got about a block, two blocks away and D. B. stopped. He said, "What have we

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

," and so forth. I didn't realize until afterwards that he probably had an ulterior motive in asking me to go up, because on the way back he began to put the pressure on me to buy a block of land that Senator Wirtz had owned over on Red River Street

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there. on a bluff, and he would come on around. house. I lived up He would visit or stay at my He would go in the refrigerator just like it was his own home and help himself. He came in as if it were his own home. blocks down the street, Ed Clark lived

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to her house from school, which was not too many--where his Boyhood Home now is--maybe eight or ten blocks. They had a fireplace room, we called it, and we all gathered there and sometimes sat in chairs, sometimes on the floor. But we all gathered

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