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Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, on other usual campaign things. It disappointed a lot of my staff, disappointed some of the local people, but we wound up with a little surplus instead of a deficit, and I was able to send the Democratic national committee about $35,000 at the end. And I
1941, 1948, 1954, 1960 and 1964 campaigns; Tarrant County politics; 1956 Texas Democratic fight; relationship of LBJ to local political groups

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in particular that were demanding that they be put on the committee. One of them was John F. Kennedy, who said he needed the prestige of the committee because he was getting ready to run for national office. The second was Hubert Humphrey, the whip
Biographical information; Appropriations Committee seat; Strauss and Fortas confirmation hearings; LBJ as Majority Leader; 1960 and 1964 campaigns; JFK; 3/31 announcement; foreign relations; his wife; exchange of committee assignment with Russell

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in Texas, and became very friendly with Johnson. Although I've always been active in Democratic politics, when Johnson became a Senator we helped him as much as we could. We worked on his Preparedness Committee at one point, and in his campaign
Natural resources and national parks
of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Johnson in the United States Senate and talk a little about the inception of the missile and satellite programs, how this got kicked off and how you became involved. W: The missile and satellite program investigation by the Johnson committee
Natural resources and national parks
of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and Astronautics Committee was set up, Overton Brooks became its first chairman. Did you know Brooks? F: No. M: Well, Brooks was from Louisiana. [Overton] Brooks was the ranking Democrat under Vinson on the committee on Armed Services. fellow who did

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the position it was a National Democratic Party-- T: The national Democratic Party had taken positions that \'/ere repugnant to many of the Southern states, and our people were in rebellion about it. Georgia went for the Republican candidate in the 1964

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. I'm trying to think back. I may have with the Johnson-Humphrey ticket. That may Of course, you see, there you have got the Democratic National Committee handling the Ching. There was no money raising for the job of being nominated, because
Biographical information; early political contacts; early relationship with LBJ and John Connally; impressions of LBJ in the 1950s; 1960, 1962, 1964 campaigns; role of Locke in campaigns; Democratic State Chairman; political dinners with LBJ and JFK

Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of Mexican extraction or Mexican descent, whatever phrase you want to use. And we were never aware of any particular discrimination insofar as people belonging to different religions or belonging to different nationalities. raised in the same kind

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was in a Washington firm, Abe was a great friend of the President, so I had some feeling then of the association, although it was kind of secondary to me. It's from that law job that I was appointed executive director of his [Robert Kennedy] Committee on Juvenile
Symington’s limited contact with LBJ after 1960; relationship between LBJ and RFK; 1964 campaign; the Poverty Program; Dave Hackett; how Symington became the Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and his work to get

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

elements. I think that the National Committee was the gathering agency for the bringing of all the states in. He never used any practical old-line Democrats that knew the country. He brought in people from Texas, and they were limited in their knowledge
campaign for Truman; LBJ’s social legislation while president; labor’s support of social legislation to help working people; wage-price control; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with the Democratic National Committee.

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: The combination didn't cause you difficulty with your other delegates and the Ohio Democrats? C: You mean Johnsorrs? M: Yes. C: No, we accepted Johnson. M: When you went to Washington then for President Kennedy, were there any particular areas of HEW

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

these also delegates to the convention? T: Most of these men later became delegates to the Democratic national convention, yes. G: And that was the very convention delegation from Michigan that rebelled apparently when it was learned that Johnson
Address; LBJ’s 1963 Gettysburg speech; Jack Brooks; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; critics of LBJ.

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with it a brevet status in the national Democratic Party. Of course in the time that I was in Arkansas we had an extraordinarily influential Washington delegation from Arkansas. In fact they still do, with LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; Democratic political campaigns leading to 1956 Convention; Central High School integration; 1960 Democratic Convention and Kennedy-Johnson nomination; relations with LBJ as VP; ghost writing for Lady

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the time he was in Congress I was Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, and I paid attention to most Democratic Congressmen, particularly those who would be influential in raising money, and he was one of them. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and that was more than my father was making. Between the two of us, we kept the family going. I had an opportunity, later on, to go to Cheyenne to work for the National Park Service as a clerk-typist. I stayed there for about six months, and was asked if lid

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the Democratic committee we had to set up after Shivers and his group went off, I called Rayburn in Austin--oh, yes, he was down there and I called him because Bert Andrews had broken,his story about our man from the National Committee who was down there being
Committee; Gerry Siegel; LBJ’s staff members; Sam Rayburn; 1956 fight between Shivers and LBJ; Byron Skelton; Mrs. Loyd Bentsen; Mrs. Frankie Randolph; The Lyndon Johnson Story; LBJ had to work for the 1960 campaign; convention politics; H.L. Hunt’s

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

' committees. Johnson didn't really know much about them until after the campaign was almost over, and then it started hitting him in the face every time he turned around. Then he started getting into my business. We just didn't work well together, as he
Plans for the 1968 campaign; working with LBJ; disagreement during 1960 campaign; 1964 campaign involvement; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; LBJ and the Democratic Party; LBJ and RFK; LBJ’s withdrawal; Theodore White; LBJ and HHH during the 1968 campaign

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of commerce? S: Yes, I think so. G: Did you? S: First time that he talked to me about the cabinet I was over in the Okay. White House. G: Do you know if he ever considered changing the site of the [Democratic National] Convention, moving it from
[For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ and the business community; businessmen’s committee for LBJ in the 1964 campaign; money-raising; the SST; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; purpose of Cabinet meetings; Department of Commerce; 3/31 announcement

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

needed him. Were there any great blandishments to get Wayne Morse over to the Democratic column, or did they just let that develop naturally? R: Well, he raised money for Wayne Morse. First time, they do it all the time now, but he set up a committee
at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh SUNDQUIST -- I -- 2 From 1953 to 1954, you were the assistant to the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. From 1955 to 1956 you were

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be President Johnson himself. I think that most campaigns are an amalgam of the leader's desires and the peculiarities of the situation. The Democratic National Committee played practically no role at all in the campaign. The way the campaign structure

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

USIS cultural/ informational job and an advisory and psychological operations job. There was a so-called coordinating committee. That coordinating com- mittee, when it decided issues, which wasn't too often, did it by vote, and it wasn't even a vote

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I guess you 8ight call it the White House liaison with this organization. well and worked closely with him. I kneH t·;arvin l"Jatson very Of course, Marvin, at that time, was at the Democratic National Committee. F: Yes. S: Cliff Carter went

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had gotten involved in the poverty question in doing a paper for Senator Paul Douglas' Joint Economic Committee of the Congress on the question of low income population in the United States. It was a kind of response to John Kenneth Galbraith's book

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. lady Bird said something like, I caught the words, "All the nation mourns your husband." And I remember Chief Curry saying to her, "You've had a hard day, little lady. You'd better go lie down and get some rest," or words to that effect. I quoted

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; Adlai Stevenson’s briefing on Dominican Republic; relationship between LBJ and Robert Kennedy; 1968 presidential campaign; LBJ’s control of 1968 Democratic convention; Hubert H. Humphrey’s campaign.

Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for what he had done for the nation and for him, et cetera, over there . Did the President ever talk to you about the possibility of dropping Vice President Johnson? 0: No, never . wouldn't it? Sometimes that would be in the papers or something, I don't

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

not an Arkansan on that sort of thing, he's a national politician on that? A: He's a national politician. He brings along a lot of unsophisticated elements in his approach to these problems. But he's pretty savvy and obviously works very hard, and knows
Contact with LBJ; assassination; tax issues; Wilbur Mills; comparing JFK and LBJ; CEA; War on Poverty; committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament; procedures; agriculture issues; 1964 campaign; Walter Heller; Wright Patman; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the Hous e when he was on the N: ~\ayy He never gave up. Watchdog Committee:? Well, he ?:.::: me to work on it. I was supposed to be a go-between between r.ci:::: and the investigators. for awhile. We worked down in the Navy It was understood
became staunch friends; Navy Watchdog Committee; LBJ never expressed a preference for a candidate before a primary.

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Secretary of Commerce on the basis of qualification, because business is an important area of our whole national welfare. The business community on the whole generates most of the income we need to support the government. Most of the tax money comes from
[For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ and the business community; businessmen’s committee for LBJ in the 1964 campaign; money-raising; the SST; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; purpose of Cabinet meetings; Department of Commerce; 3/31 announcement

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

- national Affairs at Princeton on the expropriation of American property in Cuba in 1959. After the election and the inaugural in 1961, Bill and Sarge were very helpful getting me interviews with certain people I needed in the State Department for my

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