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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-03-04 (remove)

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  • index : Page or estimated time on tape Subiect(s) covered 1 Biographical 2,3 Organized labor's view of Senator Johnson 4,5 Trying to put across a new labor view in Texas 6 Communication Workers of America 7 Local union 8 Union
  • Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
  • : The nickname "Chub" came to me at Groton School from the junior headmaster Jared Billings, who had given it to my father when he was at the school some twenty-five years earlier. On me it stuck because all the new boys thought that was my name, when he called
  • say, the FBI--to the FBI agent in the Embassy that would say, "A known Chicago gangster had left New York and is arriving in Zurich on such-andsuch a day. Was there any way we can find out what he is doing there." Things like that, you know
  • to plan it. Because we were new in this type of endeavor, she was very specific, saying, IIIf I ever catch any of you in any of the pictures, I'm going to break your damned necks," and she-F: I can hear that. C: --and she meant it. That stuck with me
  • The Grand Teton trips; Appalachian trip; New England trip; the Crossroads trip;