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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-02-26 (remove)

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  • chairman of the National Committee in '59. M: That's correct. After the '58 election, which really was one of the worst debacles in the history of the Republican party. Here we had the White House, and we took a terrific beating in the Congressional
  • on national politics. I was organization manager for the state of Texas in the Adlai Stevenson campaign in 1952. Then in 1953 and 1954, I worked part-time for the Democratic National Committee under Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell and Speaker Sam Rayburn
  • one of the best nominees that the Democratic party could have. I had never heard much about Stevenson. I think I'm a one-speech convert. I had never heard him speak. I had been at Chicago at the convention trying to build up a bonfire for Speaker
  • be either legislative or constitutional. For instance, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, which is a constitutional capacity, he can issue executive orders involving national defense. He also issues a lot of orders under his power
  • or departmental regulations rather than by legislation; the impact of government contracting power and unions; penalties for violating the National Labor Relations Act; congressional concern that the executive branch would act beyond its proper authority
  • guess dating back to 1965, RPP&E had been charged with construction of the so-called Five Year Plan or the National Anti-Poverty Plan and in the incorporation of the budget process within your division as well. L: No. Did these two have any relation