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Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and I have a lot of pictures of that period, of that event. That happened to be during the last few days of the Joe McCarthy censure debate, and as you know, Senator Sam Ervin, who had just come to the Senate in May of that year, succeeding Clyde R. Hoey
  • majority leader; Joe McCarthy; political divisions in North Carolina; Samuel James Ervin; Kerr Scott’s regard for LBJ; Robert Rice Reynolds; William B. Whitley; LBJ’s power in the Senate; Bobby Baker investigation; Bill Knowland; the issue of tobacco 1954
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • elected chairman. So Hodges sent me word that he knew that I could beat him, but he really would appreciate it, and I thought we might as well start putting the party back together, so we elected him. At that meeting I said to Jordan and to Sam Ervin
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Coast-- S: Of course this has to be his university because whatever college that is, it's not anything like Duke University Law School. F: I didn't mean to get off on that. So be it. Did you consider seriously running against Sam Ervin
  • Education; Heller plan; James Farmer; open accommodations ordinance; Chapel Hill; 1964 Lady Bird’s whistle stop tour; Governor Dan Moore; possible cabinet position; 1968 Democratic National Convention; Richard Nixon and Duke University; Sam Ervin
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Stennis and Sam Ervin. S am Ervin was a great constitutional lawyer and, as I recall, the dominant figure. Is that right? G: Well, Ed Johnson was, I think, the senior Democrat on that. Stennis and Ervin at this point were fairly young. J: Well, I
  • Social events of the 1950s; Senator Theodore Francis Green; Sam Rayburn; Senator Walter George; Herbert Hoover; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriages in 1954; the political situation in Vietnam in 1954; the Texas governor's race between Allan Shivers
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • important. MG: Let's talk about three in particular: [Sam] Ervin, [James] Eastland and [Richard] Russell. RG: All three of them, of course, voted against cloture, which was the key vote. Most of the southerners, the key southerners, did not support
  • defeated nomination; Ervin, Eastland and Russell were key votes; disregard of the separation of powers and ethics.
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1978 INTERVIEWEE: W. ERVIN II REDII JAt1ES INTERVI HJER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. James' office, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: I first met Lyndon B. Johnson sometime in the mid 1930s. I was a clerk in the old WPA. At that time Aubrey
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  • Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to knmv as not only a very bright, very able, and a very tough man--was a very tormented man throughout thos whole nomination process because he was not able to fight back. say to Sam Erv:Ln when Sam Ervin said, "Justice Fortas, I He couldn't think
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and 1972; John Erlichman's, Johnny Walters', and Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz's involvement in the IRS activities; the Senate Watergate Committee, also known as the Ervin Committee; Terry Lenzner's and Sam Dash's theory regarding the reason
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: "Years later, when I was on Johnson's staff, Sam Houston felt only irritation when the Majority Leader was hailed in newspapers
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . No, I don't knew why he selected [Edwin] Johnson, [John] Stennis, and [Sam] Ervin. This is something interesting (reading an outline): "Senator [Arthur] Watkins wrote that LBJ urged the senators to delete from the censure resolution the charge
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the Senate. F: I don't know when Bailey went out. D: Yes, Sam Ervin had gotten there. memory gets pretty raggedy. F: Of course Sam Ervin was there a long time. I think Sam Ervin succeeded Bailey. My I think he got along pretty well with our senators
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • leaking problems but I just think it was pure turf. They were afraid they'd be under the Civil Rights Division. G: It's interesting that two of the Senate opponents were Sam Ervin and Jacob Javits. C: Can I just mention something here
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • other examples of how he was able to get these majorities on narrow votes? L: We had a fight at one time over the civil rights bill. Sam Ervin made the issue about jury trial, when someone was cited for contempt by these federal judges. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ] Fulbright. No surprise at all [about] Senators [Sam] Ervin and Kerr, and Senator [William] Knowland, who was his opposition, the Republican minority leader who had--it was a knife edge, absolutely knife edge, forty-nine [to] forty-seven. And so Knowland
  • ; Arthur Godfrey's farm; Sam Houston Johnson's broken leg and his wife, Mary; LBJ's relationships with Bill Moyers and Sam Houston Johnson; Sam Houston Johnson's book My Brother Lyndon; LBJ's relationship with Senator John Pastore; the 1957 Civil Rights
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of this year." He said, "Who's that?" I said, "Sam Ervin. The reason I know that is because his brother was in the Congress when I was, in the House when I was and when you were, and he was my next-door neighbor, and he took his life. The committee met in North
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to serve or--? J: No, I think Johnson was willing to serve and felt it was needed. G: The others were Sam Ervin and John Stennis, is that right? J: Yes, Ervin and all of them had a good deal of guts. G: Yes. The story is told that at one point when
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for an appointment. know what I \'Janted to discuss. I told them. They wanted to I carried Senator Sam Ervin with me because I thought he was the best constitutional authori ty we had in the Senate. ~Jhen I got there, the Presi dent and the Vice President
Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and then Lyndon. The Democrats consisted [of]--I can't remember all of them, I don't believe, but [Estes] Kefauver, Scoop [Henry] Jackson, Sam Ervin, Senator [John] Stennis, of course. And the 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • wearing contact lenses; LBJ becoming vice president and Belieu going to work for John Connally; Belieu's reaction to LBJ's temper; LBJ's attempts to manipulate Sarah McLendon through Belieu; Sam Houston Johnson's relationship with LBJ; the influence of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that they had found the real reason for the break-in. It was just an ego trip. However, as this unfolded, it went beyond the [Sam] Ervin Committee to the House Judiciary Committee, and of course the record is replete with documentation of what occurred during
  • and Harold Geneen of ITT, and other memos that would be harmful if leaked; Mitchell's and Kleindienst's denials of knowledge or involvement in ITT; Terry Lenzner's and Sam Dash's demand that Robert Maheu's replacement, Chester Davis, provide them
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Reedy’s role as policy advisor while LBJ was Senator; airline machinists’ strike of 1966; influencing LBJ’s decisions; writing memos to LBJ; Richard Russell; Eugene Millikin; Sam Rayburn; what makes a good Senator; Millard Tyding’s loss to Joseph
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • " the National Youth Administration? F: That's right. And he ran in a special election to succeed Congress- man [James P.] Buchanan. P: Yes. I must have met him before that, but thereafter-- F: Were you fairly close to Sam Rayburn in those days who
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Interaction with LBJ, Sam Rayburn, and other politicians; LBJ’s senate race and maneuver to get on Texas ballot; conflict with oil industry because LBJ did not support mandatory oil increase; supporting Kennedy; Nixon’s Supreme Court argument; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . else. It seems to me there was something I can't recall it, though, at the moment. some other matter. It had to do with As a matter of fact, it might have had something to do with that jury trial amendment. If I recall correctly, Sam Ervin
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~ But I think this was part of this reaction: and we've got to win." tion that a lot of southerners took. I find that is a posi- Sam Ervin~ who is a delightful person on the Constitution, says, "We should have cleaned them up down there." And I said
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • subject me to this?" G: Did he sing while he was there? J: I am pretty sure he sang "Back in the Saddle Again," one small song perhaps at each one of those rallies. G: He was originally from Sam Rayburn's district, wasn't he? From a little Texas town
  • led on horseback with Lynda; Henry Wallace; LBJ's hospitalization for a bronchial infection; Aunt Effie Pattillo's worsening health; Sam Rayburn becoming minority leader; Stuart Symington and Paul Porter; KTBC's success; Stuart Long; LBJ aging; where
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anyone I've ever seen. Even Sam Ervin will tell you that, although he used to call Sam his constitutional lawyer. But the old man really knew a lot about the Constitution. Then he knew that legislative process backwards and forwards. What I really
  • relationship with LBJ; Hayden's support for foreign aid; how committee assignments were made; concerns that Sam Rayburn's death would interfere with an Arizona fund raiser for Hayden with JFK and LBJ in attendance; LBJ's and Richard Russell's presence
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Was there discussion about how far you should go in challenging the Supreme Court's authority in this area? C: I don't remember ever getting to challenging the Supreme Court. We had staff meetings. We elected--Senator Sam Ervin was the head, as I recall
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • difficulty, gone the other way. I don't think it was a burning issue. I think once we had organization of course--Senator Sam Ervin was sort of our leader--once we decided a position, I think he 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. G: How did Senator Hill feel about Johnson's espousal of the Voting Rights Act? C: I think Senator Hill felt that there was some bit of hypocrisy there, not because a Dick Russell or a Sam Ervin or the southern group issued a statement
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . F: No, but I mean your public career does. T: Well, I guess that's part of it. The President's father was a member of the House. I remember Mr. Sam Johnson, and it may be that I did see Mr. Johnson's family, including the President, when he
  • Sam Ealy Johnson; getting to know LBJ when LBJ was NYA Administrator; LBJ’s involvement with local (Austin) issues as a senator; how LBJ helped Thornberry as a junior congressman; Rayburn’s 'Board of Education' sessions; the 1952 and 1956
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of members he was a great lobbyist. One of the first things that we did was to sponsor a series of breakfast meetings with small groups of fifteen or twenty members. Sam Gibbons would get a dining room up here in one of the office buildings and he'd
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on the same day. Mrs. Johnson asked whether the Park Service was starting design work for Kingman Lake in Anacostia. I said I didn't think they had the money budgeted for it, and she said, "Would it be too hard to get the planning started?" So I called Sam
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the McCarthy censure in your earlier interview. S: Well then, if I've covered it, there's no reason to go over it again. There is a question that you raise here about why did Senator Johnson ; appoint Ed Johnson, John Stennis, and Sam Ervin
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • .] Talmadge [D.-Ga]. Senator [Sam J.] Ervin [Jr. D.-N.C.] and Senator [Alan] Bible [D.-Nev.] served on it at one time; later, Senator [Edmund] Muskie [D.-Me.], Senator [Daniel K.] Inouye [D.-Hawaii], Senator Dan Brewster [D.-Md.]. The function
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • an honest record. One of them was Senator [Sam] Ervin from North Carolina. That's understandable because of a good many North Carolina ties that I have. And one of them was Senator Ed Muskie, whom I hardlY knew before that time. I don't think
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • [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, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and with Liz, with Sam Hughes of the Bureau of the Budget and with Ed Crafts, director of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. The latter two gentlemen had been carrying on the basic negotiations for the redwood park with the lumber companies
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • their vote. I don't mean to say we snubbed them. Everybody talked to them, but there's not much accomplished. Because even if you had convinced them, they weren't going to be with you and they coulddt. Ervin you remember, he was great in this. LBJ
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Judiciary Committee, but I held him in the corrmittee until after the Republican convention, because I knew then that the Republicans would defeat the nomination after their convention and after .they had a ticket. F: Well, now, Sam Ervin was one
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a good Democrat, as Paul Butler would have it in the Democratic Advisory Council, then Dick Russell and Sam Ervin and John Stennis and Olin Johnston and Allen Ellender and Herman Talmadge, even maybe George Smathers and Spessard Holland, all those guys
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there that day, his brothers and sisters, including his sister from Fredericksburg that later died, I believe. Well, Sam Johnson wasn't there, I don't believe, and Mrs. Johnson had not got home. Washington, Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson. She was still in But anyway
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • reservations about LBJ's heath as running mate; first civil rights act; LBJ's accessibility; a "democratic" man; LBJ's 1960 campaign visit to Mississippi; visit to LBJ at the ranch in 1960; friendship with Sam Rayburn; contacts with JFK; 1964 visit with LBJ