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

seem to want the trip made itself, think it was necessary? Y: As I understood it, the trip was really pretty much against his wishes. I don't think he really wanted Kennedy to come to Texas at that time. F: It was part of a package to Texas

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of stature . We used to have men who were here that would do nothing but center their fire on certain aspects of a question . I remember one time when Hatton W . Sumners from Dallas, Texas was chairman of the Judiciary Committee . Just let the word be known

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that as a preliminary. S: All right. F: How did you get involved in it, how was it broached to you, and what in effect were you supposed to do? S: At that time, I went up to Justice Department from Dallas the last of February 1965. So as you recall the Selma

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to report to President Kennedy just after he came back from Dallas. Then it did report finally to President Johnson just before Christmas of '63--had a meeting with President Johnson in the White House. G: Was that the first time you had met President

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

great crusade when I lived in Washington. It remained my crusade, and it still is in a way because I'm still fighting to get people out to vote. When I first knew Lyndon and Bird, which was about 1937, wasn't it, at that time I had just begun to catch

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 17, 1969 B: This is the interview with Bayard Rustin. Sir, to start pretty far back in time, did you have any knowledge of Mr. Johnson when he was in the Senate? R: Yes, I did. Of course, I suppose everybody heard

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Thurmond -- I -- 2 they felt the nominee would be sure to be elected. At that time the nominee would normally have been elected but in view of the special circumstances arising we were able to win the race. Senator [Burnet R.] Maybank died

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Owen, who was in the division at that time and then became my first assistant. I went to the ~Jhite r~r. Owen replaced me \