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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-05-08 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . The man who was really involved in it vIas Gerry Siegel, and Gerry was counsel at the Democratic Po1 icy Committee at the time. really the main honcho on this thing. Gerry \'Jas He was the guy that gathered the staff together; he was the guy that came
  • LBJ's Senate office; Defense Preparedness Subcommittee; Senate Aeronautical and Space Science Committee; National Aeronautics and Space Council; NASA; development of space program
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • presidential campaign specifically? A: I was on the payroll of the Democratic National Committee, working for Lyndon Johnson's campaign staff. B: Was that the group headed by Charles Murphy here in Washington? A: No, Charlie Murphy was in charge
  • Meeting LBJ in 1955; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; Abell's father-in-law Senator Earle Clement's career; LBJ trying to do favors for his colleagues; adjourning Congress for the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , aild would you tell how you would rate him? F: He was a fairly effective member dealing with those subjects in which he specialized, particularly matters of national defense. He was a very close associate of the chairman of the committee, Nr. Vinson
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • both with Senator Pastore and Senator Magnuson and the staff man, Nick Zappel. The Senate side was keenly interested in this area. I also worked with the chairman of the House committee and worked with Paul Rogers on the committee, who helped make