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- set aside who wrote Mr. Truman's speeches for the campaign. I think at that time I met Mr. Johnson briefly when he was here for some trip. Really I first got to know him in 1951 when I came here to work with the Democratic Congressional Campaign
- of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
- , as is demonstrated in this file and the correspondence between me and the Congressional Quarterly editor, who was then David Broder, [I noticed] that Johnson was voting more and more as a Westerner. That Johnson wanted to be thought of as a Southwesterner
- Democratic Convention; JFK-LBJ rivalry; LBJ’s acceptance of the VP nomination; LBJ’s irritation over his Alfalfa Club Dinner speech and camel driver story; cross off; LBJ’s personal reaction to the JFK assassination; LBJ and the press; RFK; LBJ’s judgment
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- Senator Johnson into Northeast Texas, Congressman Patman's congressional district. He was kind enough to come. He had several speaking engagements. There we presented him a book on the list of those members of Johnson for President Clubs in each
- have found that smaller meetings, coffees in homes and going to whatever meetings you are asked to attend that are ongoing, I mean civic clubs or study clubs or anything else, they appreciate it. I know that I derive a benefit, both from being able
- to that. a liberal all my life." He said, "I have been He pointed out a number of things he had done very early in his Congressional career, stands he had taken, particularly stands in behalf of rights of minority people. I feel, first of all, that those labels
- Democratic Clubs and the purpose of this activity was to organize and develop the active clubs of young Democrats in every county and in every city in Texas, primarily to generate interest in a campaign for the Presidency of Vice-President Garner
- Biographical information; assisted LBJ in Congressional and Senate campaigns; private practice; military service; assistant attorney general of Texas; election code; Commissioner for ICC and Chairman; Senators Yarborough and Tower; LBJ’s interest
- do that on his own. How did they work his Congressional budget in those days for his office? Congressman have the same size budget? Did each LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
- ; LBJ’s sensitivity; Mary Rather; Dorothy Plyler; helicopter campaign; Lady Bird; JFK assassination; 1964 campaign; first woman to work for LBJ; living in Johnson City; Congressional Ball; LBJ’s friendship with Senator Alvin Wirtz; former political enemies
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MILLER -- I -- 5 Secretary's Club . F: Yes . M: And that is now giving the boys and the girls in the offices a chance to mix and mingle with each other
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- of it was quite overt. Yes, people thought of it perhaps as, well, we just never thought of that. "But they did think the negative. They thought the exclusion through pretty carefully and thought of it as more Or less a male club that they wanted to run
- frequently in those Congressional days? W: Yes. I saw him--each time I carne to Washington I visited with him. And each time he carne to New York he stayed with us at my horne. F: Did he come frequently? W: Well, no, not very frequently. F: Did you
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential elections
- tried to get out into the country. you know, born on a farm. I was a farm boy, So Dick and I would play golf some and did for all of his years in Congress out at Burning Tree or the Army-Navy Country Club. And so it is true that Lyndon had a rather
- of NYA. F: Now, he had had a good job with the NYA; why did he quit it to take the chance on getting defeated as a Congressional candidate? D: Well, I think that having served as a Congressman's secretary in Washington, that he appreciated the work
- . Dick says we ought to hire you. We'll get you a job. " So he did, and then after a few months there they decided to start up a congressional relations department. There was a fellow named Wilson McCarthy who headed it up and I was Wilson's deputy
- on Capitol Hi 11 . VM: Terrific drive. Di~: Tremendous drive, tremendous energy. And in almost no time at all, he became president of the congressional secretaries club. What did they call that in those years? VM: I've forgotten. F: Called
- to the newpapers in Texas. I wrote some of his speeches. I wrote statements for the Congressional Record. Of course, George Reedy 'vas his principal writer, especially in his capacity as floor leader. Then later--Johnson had a yen for what he called flwarm
- Times, assistant to James Reston. I stayed on in Winston-Salem for a number of years. F: Winston-Salem. Is the New York Times running a farm club down there? W: Well, in a way. But I stayed down there for a long time, and ulti- mately, early
- getting my mail here at Route 2, Gladewater about thirtyone years and have been in this same house about thirty-one years, and incidentally, have had the office you see in my yard about thirty-one years . This was my congressional office, the only office
- Home congressional office facilities; family background; father's county school superintendent campaign; 1928 Democratic convention in Houston; college education data; 1936 race for state representative; introduction to LBJ in 1936; 1938 campaign
- Tobriner, I went to lunch with him at the Cosmos Club before I had taken on my position. We talked. I pledged to him that I had no desire to be a public figure in that job. That incidentally was one of the things that I determined upon as I went
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- . They aren't the kinds of strides that I was at all happy with, but they were again light years from where they were. But there was agai n a timidity to - challenge the structure. There vIas the old club atmosphere, and there was no real help from the top
- in Congressional liaison--who had been former state Democratic chairman of Iowa and resigned later from the Department, and now runs the Washington Farm Letter . of set the thing up . He had sort Freeman ; Clyde Ellis, who was then general manager
- of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- /oh O'Donnell -- I -- 27 from the National Committee who would rel ate the state pol itical end of it, or John Connally would call him and this is John Bailey's problem; then 11e had a congressional s i de and that would be O' Srien's problem
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- have been organized, but he really put it on the map. the Hill. We had clubs on I don't know vJhether they even exist any more, but they ~"ere very strong in those early years, [clubs] of the donkeys and the elephants. We were called the Burros
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton
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- . The first was an evening affair around the swimming pool. I organized a water show to be presented in the swimming pool. We got the Austin Aquatic Club and teamed them up with the San Antonio Aquatic Club with the help of my brother, Wally, who
- Press Club here. And the person making [the presentation?], just casually, just like you were lifting something from a biographical sketch, mentioned that I was to be serving as chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee on Civil Rights, and a member
- INTERVIEWEE: FREDERICK W. FLOTT INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Mr. Flott, could we begin with the first question: what were the circumstances of your assignment to Saigon in 1963? F: Well
- , " and signs outside of restaurants, "No Dogs or Indians Allowed." And there were still clubs when I went to India for the first time that were exclusively white men's clubs. thank Heaven! They're all gone now, But these things hurt them and affected them
- his He's a powerful, forceful man, as everybody knows, and so of course he made an impression. I didn't see him much after that until one night maybe a year later I was on the board of the Women's Press Club. was sea,ted at the head table. di nner
- 10, 1972 INTERVIEWEE : MAURICE M . BERNBAUM INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : Room C, Cosmos Club, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 F: Mr . Ambassador, you came into the Foreign Service from outside, as my notes tell me . B: Oh, yes, I did
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of those problems and decisions, primarily because everybody has their own club and he really wasn't in the Kennedy club. G: He was not Harvard. He wasn't Boston. In particular that Kennedy civil rights bill was one example where perhaps LBJ's
- a club? should have been, but this gives you [an idea]. interfere? What could a court do Not suggesting that it To what extent do you Does the federal government [interfere]? The federal judiciary, can it interfere with a state election