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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-04-22 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that something had to be done. Was he reluctant to--? He had been convinced by the deadlock between 1959 and 1961 that Howard Smith would, in order to get his way, block legislation even of a Democratic president. And he was very much afraid that unless
  • JFK presidency; House Rules Committee 1961; Bobby Baker scandal; JFK legislative program; LBJ and John Connally; patronage appointments; Hale Boggs; agriculture bill; “Five O’clock Club;” Walter Jenkins; Bill Moyers; Democratic National Committee
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • friends. I had been a supporter and an admirer of Senator Johnson and well acquainted with him in both his role as Majority Leader and as a leading Democrat and as a member of the Virginia delegation in the convention. We had supported Senator Johnson
  • of Ten; International Monetary Fund; 1968 Action Program Advisory Commission on International Monetary Arrangements; Joint Economic Committee; Special Drawing Rights; 1967 pound devaluation; gold crisis; 2-tier gold system; gold pool.
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • came in that de Gaulle had decided not to devalue the franc. That was a surprising develop- ment, but not ruled out in the briefing we had given him. didn't know what action he would take. statement that he would not devalue. we had a further