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- . But it was a colorful thing. They sang, liThe Yellow Rose of Texas lt and there was a lot of activity. It got off to a bad start which is a famous story by now about the first stop outside of Washington was Culpepper, Virginia and there were about fifteen people out
- and went to Houston and worked for the Federal Land Bank as a junior attorney for about a year and a half; then moved to Austin to help my friend LBJ organize and initiate the National Youth Administration program in Texas. That was in the summer of 1935
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- was another. But this was just part of the more or less top level of breakthrough. Here you had our mission in the United Nations not reflecting this nation; had our mission rejecting, as I understood it, a series of people who had been sent up
- was responsible for setting up and organizing training programs for the Latin American countries in the aviation field. And I was in charge of the maintenance of their airplanes and actually the housing of their people LBJ Presidential Library http
- was right and to be a strong advocate of Roosevelt's policies and programs. He seemed not to have his own interests foremost, except that he subscribed to whatever his interpretation was of Roosevelt's political philosophy and wanted to advance it. B: Do
- First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956
- was viewed by our people as being much more conservative. prevailed until he actually became the Majority Leader. This His attitude toward the things that we were interested in, I would say, became more favorable as time went. But still
- will then be placed in the Library, to be administered by the people at the National Archives incidentally, and this will be used as Mr. Beckworth wishes. B: Thank you. That's very fine. M: This is an interview with Mr. Lindley Beckworth. outside of Gladewater
- was up at the United Nations. And so his first inclination was to choose his own staff, when he had the clout to do it. President Kennedy did tell him he could take anyone to Saigon who was willing to go, and he could send anyone home whether he
- experience, such as in partisan politics at the state level in California or at the national level? C: I've never run for office. I was, in 1959 for four months, special counsel to Governor Brown of California. At that time, I helped him \vith his firat
- . That was, first place. my first real association of any kind with Lyndon B. Johnson. As you may remember, 1957 was the year of the first civil rights bill. F: Right. W: Which I was naturally interested in, as a southern correspondent. More than that. I went
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- the early part of 1965 . Is that cor rec t ? O: In addition to that, Doctor , I v1as a l so execu t ive director of the [ Democratic] National Con1nittee . I held two posit i ons at the same time . M: You had been i n Washington beg i nn i ng i n
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- /exhibits/show/loh/oh Pollak-- I -- 15 P: That there was some feeling of that kind. The group that I became associated with that was working on the National Service Program included a number of people who had worked with the President's Council
- Biographical information; Tidelands Act; Old Miss and the James Meredith crisis; early work in anticipation of the Peace Corps; VISTA and poverty program; National Service Program; Sargent Shriver; recollections of day of the JFK assassination; RFK
- I know are reconstructed Southerners. I'm a Southerner myself, and I know that Southerners--I have yet to see a single Southerner who didn't have the capacity to like, if not love, and feel very close to individual black people, though the problem
- government positions; reaction to Kerner Commission report; MLK; Vietnam War criticized by black people; innate compassionate nature of LBJ
- more than they actually developed. The mayors are the pick and shovel people of the nation. We're so close to the problem and we're so beset with unstopping today's sewer that we really don't havea chance to do the thinking that is required. And I'm
- career, subject to additions and corrections, you were born in 1911 in Jersey City ; you worked as an instrument repairman for Western Electric ; and in 1938 organized and became the president of the National Association of Telephone Equipment Workers
- 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
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- that he met with were people like the Deltas or the National Bar Association--the Deltas being a black female professional sorority. I remember him having a meeting of two and a half hours or so with them. It was going to be a sort of courtesy call
- a relationship . I had also been at the National Committee and at least knew the people in the National Committee and knew a lot of the people that were associated with the Stevenson campaign in 1952 . So the fact--not because I was any thing special but just
- Crusade; Larry O'Brien; Clement J. Zablocki; 3/31 announcement; Citizens for Humphrey; Humphrey's campaign; Kennedy people's rivalry and friction after assassination; Bill Moyers; LBJ's knowledge of the Department of Agriculture; Department
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- to come up and reoccur, both in Texas politics and in national politics and in your position in the White House, and so I'd like to ask you if you would classify your political philosophy? W: I'll be happy to classify it. Some people often refer to me
- publicity because it had drawn the support and attention of Dr. Martin Luther King and his associate, Dr. [Ralph] Abernathy. It had ceased to be strictly a labor dispute, but emerged as a matter of the dignity of minority people in Memphis. i~volved
- Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Chicago Belt Railroad threatened to halt Democratic National Convention.
- , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD HELMS INTERVIEWER: ' TED GITTINGER PLACE: Ambassador Helms' office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Ambassador, if it's all right, we'll start. H: Okay. G: How far back does your association with the CIA go? H
- and Lloyd Croslin worked together in the Little Congress, all their shenanigans and so forth when the staff people had their Little Congress. I don't know whether they still have that kind of thing or not. F: It's not very noticeable anymore ,is it? M
- the President's involvement in Texas politics. mention~ You asked I didn't and I should have because it goes to the heart of something else, I'm national committeeman from Texas and I was one of the two or three people responsible for the campaign in Texas
- , about 1957. I met him in The locale was a coffee, I think is what it was called. in the afternoon of a weekday. It was It was organized by Warren Woodward. Its objective was, as Woody told me, for the then-majority leader to meet with young people
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
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- and then walk down with the color guard, so that we would receive the state guests as a foursome, the President and the Vice President . Every time we had a private party, which was about five times I think in the time we were there, we'd always ask
- the United Nations. I think we got the word of that assassina- tion after getting inside of the White House, and the planes with people to accompany him were already loaded at Andrews. going. I was not Marie Fehmer went on that trip, and I came back
- The day and night of March 31, 1968; meeting with RFK; HHH's bid for the Presidency; MLK assassination; Fortas nomination; RFK assassination; 1968 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's night reading
- the Secre- taries Association here on the Hill, just the House of Representatives. That's the first association of its kind that was organized, and it shows too that he was always on the job doing somethings, organizing, getting people working with him
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- rights issue; Nixon’s inflation of economy; LBJ’s sound ideas regarding national economy; interest rates; history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency.
- these people that could and would testify--in advance. Meanwhile, Hess just sat there with a kind of frozen face and wouldn't say or do anything. But he had been assigned two good German lawyers. After we all--Jackson and I and the two German lawyers--had
- in that campaign of his in '48 . B: Well, actually, I was involved in it to a limited extent . work, typing work . work, just paid letters on manual typewriters . I did some That's when they used to type form That was the hard, slow way . Some people don't
- and simply a need to return to more productive employment. F: This was April 1, 1965. Just what were your duties as president of the National Association of Motor Bus OWners? H: Well, the association is the National Trade Association for the Inter-City
- in work of ICC; JFK assassination; President of National Trade Association for Inter-City Motor Bus Industry; return to government service in DOT; maritime industry; Urban Mass Transit; formation of DOT; Alan Boyd; party for Luci and Pat; LBJ established
- . And I remember a meeting in the Cabinet Room--in fact it was almost the first day I reported for work in the summer of '62--with Kennedy and Wi 1bur Mills, and I don t know whether Mahon was there, I but one or two other people from the Congress were
- . And you're also right now Executive Director of the Robert F. Kennedy f:lemorial. nay I ask, do you plan to have a historical project in connection with Robert Kennedy? D: Yes. The National Archives--What's his name? John Stewart is actually organizing
- had perspective. Johnson seemed to handle both the sort of small town voter as well as the city voter. S: Very well. You know, even in a motorcade, he'd stop the motorcade I don't know how many times, and he'd get out amongst the people. When he
- His political background; campaigning with LBJ in IL in 1964; Martin Luther King’s assassination and subsequent activities in Chicago; Shapiro’s involvement with the 1968 Chicago convention; the National Guard at the 1968 Chicago convention
- and former presi dent of the State Bar of Texas, and I guess one of the outstanding people in the legal field in Texas, perhaps the nation--a partner in one of the leading law firms in Houston ; the ex-Ambassador to Australia, Edward Clark ; Mr . Will Wilson
- and there was no program. F: Who was advancing for the Kennedys? Was O'Donnell on that? V: Not O'Donnell. The key Kennedy advance man was Marty Underwood. One of the best advance men for the Secret Service was Ron Pontius. I began to work on the program. I worked my
- crime; it's any large continuous criminal conspiracy made up of people who make a career of crime. B: Is national included in that definition? V: Not necessarily, no. In order for us to be interested in it, however, it must be a substantial
- of the nation and abroad. After LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldberg
- on various I saw him there. I met him as a U.S. Senator, because I always went to the Congress and said hello to the people. But I had a chance to know him better in the late fifties when I was Governor of North Carolina and he was invited to make
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- the schedule is set up and they have said, "Yes, I will go there," then nobody but the candidate can really blame. But if he got angry or didn't like where we were, well, then he blamed it on the advance men or the national committee for scheduling him
- this or that is because the Secret Service was opposed to it, you know, from a security standpoint. But he did say and very eloquently that one of the great people that he would miss when he left office was the Secret Service. M: I think that is a fairly common comment