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Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • reached agreement on that. This was the reason why, when the Nassif interests started construction on the largest privately owned building in Washington on Seventh Street, Southwest, about a block and a half from FOB lOA, and when GSA was able to lease
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • admirable possession he has is the sign on his storefront. I have seen men step out the front door of their business and look up at their beautiful neon sign without any realization that if he stepped three feet back, he'd find it was blocked entirely
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • just didn't think we could do it . But that suited me, because I didn't think we ought to . M: You mean the Congress would block it? B: Yes . Congress has a peculiar relationship with the regulatory agencies, which I think it wants to maintain
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • go over six blocks from home. This is hard to believe, but we were trying to get into the cities, particularly in the poor areas where the people are. One of the things we did was to finance I don't know how many swimming pools in the cities, all
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • have much, much more. If those few hundred trees gave so much joy, why not spread it around! Then Kenwood, the suburb of Washington, is so marvelous. It's about forty square blocks all planted in Yoshino cherries. So Mrs. Johnson did a very good
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to do with the passage? S: Well, the election of that overwhelming majority in the House had a great deal to do with it, yes. M: Now, [Speaker John] McCormack, as I recall, blocked the final vote. S: He did, and in retrospect it was a very, very
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but it was not a transplant of a heart. was a bypass of the main artery in my chest. This It was completely blocking me off, and I only had ten per cent of the necessary oxygen going into my heart at the time I went into the hospital. F: It's a wonder you made it at all