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Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

war situation has a special burden and involves a great deal of manpower. When the North Vietnamese sent their regular divisions into South Viet Nam, you did get a certain amount of conventional war in the classical sense.You had large unit actions
Canal; LBJ and crises during the vice presidency; Latin America; the Dominican Republic Affair; LBJ and Mexico.

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, in New York City. It was called into existence in part because of the philosophic conceptions that were behind it, some of which came from Europe. It was like the Christian Democratic movement in Europe. There was a big
of Labor Willard Wirtz’s job program ideas; comparing Community Action to the work of the Peace Corps; LBJ’s role in establishing the Peace Corps as an independent agency; the work of the International Cooperation Administration and later the Agency

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Boston Marriott Hotel, Newton, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 G: Now, at the beginning of 1957, [Frank] Lausche voted with the Democrats. R: Yes. G: Giving them a two-vote

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on into his Presidency. You first began to make trips to Latin America for the government right at the beginning of your brother's inauguration. E: No, much earlier than that. My work took me into Latin America, as well as elsewhere, under President

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Governor Shivers went to Illinois to see Governor Adlai Stevenson, who was the Democratic nominee, and asked him if he would be willing to support the Texas title of ownership--it was even--the matter was in Congress at the time. Stevenson said no, he
Texas tideland issues in the 1950s; cross-filing, which allowed Democrats to support Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election; Allan Shivers' support for Republicans; LBJ's and Sam Rayburn's devotion to the Democratic Party; John Tower's

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

against Coke Stevenson in 1948 and a closer winner in the State Democratic Executive Committee. Did you have anything at all to do with getting him legally certified , that is, in the litigatio n that followed? That was really left to Alvin Wirtz
for Democrats;" the "Port Arthur story" hurts Yarborough; LBJ-Yarborough relationship

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

be represented by Mr. Johnson, in the Senate. They either knew him or knew about him, and felt that he was a real Roosevelt Democrat who would make a constructive contribution. B: Were they that enthusiastic about Mr. Johnson, or were they more opposed to Coke
branch; Humphrey’s revision of Voting Rights Act of 1957; liberal image; JFK’s contact with African Americans; 1960 dissatisfaction with Democratic nominees; NAACP position regarding LBJ as the VP candidate; Democratic record on civil rights; effect

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: At this point, it wasn't a manner in the sense of punching the proper button and everything automatically going into action? You really had to work it out? C: We really had to work it out. We had some experience with it but not enough. The troops--we got some
April riots; Washington riots; role of military troops; interest of foreign military groups in American example of dealing with riots; Resurrection City; 1968 Democratic Convention; involvement in inflation fights; LBJ’s relationship with William

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in terms of the old military versus However, it's quite clear from his actions that he was rather firmly committed to the concept of civilian control over the military- so firmly committed to it that he really didn't have to discuss it. I'd say

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

state in America as far as cigarettes and things like that, around Richmond. So I mean, his vote with us, where we had forty-eight Democrats voting unanimously, I believe it was the first and only time this had ever happened on a labor issue. shocked

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for the executive branch because blocking action is necessary by the Senate or the House rather than affirmative action being necessary, and that is a good deal simpler problem from the standpoint of the administration. All they have to do is stave off the adverse
of Representatives; Wozencraft's work with the Democrats and Republicans on the Government Operations Committee; the opinion of Treasury and HEW administrators; House subcommittee hearings; Congressman Jack Edwards and Johns Erlenborn's initiation of a floor fight

Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

When President Kennedy initiated American action, I agree entirely and said so in our own Parliament. And with President Johnson I didn't ever have any differences whatever. F: Now, you had a bit of a problem with regard to Malaysia at this same

Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh You're Judge Oren Harris. You served as Democratic representative in the House of Representatives in Washington from 1940 until February 1966, when you became a U. S. district judge
; Sherman Adams; Congressman Morgan; Schwartz; Mr. Moulder; Bernard Goldfine; Jack Anderson; Bob Bartlett; 1960 Democratic convention; Arkansas Valley Development; Senator McClellan; JFK’s VP decision; federal judgeship; Attorney General Katzenbach; civil

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Community Action and over the opposition to Job Corps programs; that the local elected officials who were extremely unhappy, and being so many of the big cities were controlled by Democrats, that they had an open channel to the President to express

Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for something, I'm sure that he would try to accommodate them. I wouldn't say there were no deals any time, but he knew how to accommodate people and get things done. G: I wanted to ask you about the Community Action Program and how you yourself -- P
leadership with legislation; the Community Action Program; the church-state issue; the Appalachian program; the Job Corps; Edith Green; Sargent Shriver; LBJ steers bill through Rules Committee; Perkins’ election as chairman of the House Education and Labor

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was happening in each city. And this gave a personal touch and assurance to the mayors. He built great support from the mayors of America. Of course, Vice President Humphrey carried every major city in America. Whether it was a Democratic or Republican mayor
Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America

Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, there's a one-sided arrangement now with the Democrats having almost twice as many members of the Senate, and they have enough so they can afford to split among themselves which they could not do when Lyndon was Majority Leader. They had to have every vote

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

note of appreciation as well as to say thanks for your congratulatory message of September 14." I'm not sure what my congratulatory message was-- F: He probably had passed certification by the State Democratic Convention which meets after

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Democratic Party and you responded you were trying to read him into the party. O: That's right. G: Did you shift in your attitude toward Wallace as he picked up delegate strength? O: I believe so. At the early stage there was no action on my part
; labor's response to the changes; controversy surrounding the reforms, leadership of the Credentials Committee and the Democratic National Committee (DNC); Harold Hughes and Patricia Harris; Harris' election as Credentials Committee chair; the Credentials

Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; it would be too much of a substantial increase. Maybe he didn't say it, but I felt that maybe he felt that it was too much for the workers of America to earn $1.00 an hour. And naturally he must have had a lot of opposition from his friends, too

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

prepare, or a group of people would prepare, a paper on Manpower or Community Action or something like that, and then it would be discussed more generally. Do you remember that function? B: I know that it was going on, but even though I was called
; "maximum feasible participation": how poverty programs helped people understand the potentials of the democratic system; public involvement in poverty programs; Community Representatives Advisory Committee; Humphrey meeting with the CRAC people; union

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, both for Congress and presidential, and I felt that the elections in Salvador, being for Latin America, were just-- F: Reasonably well run. C: Reasonably well run and possibly as democratic as one could conceive of Latin America having. I'd say
Salvador and Honduras; Castro's preparations for LBJ's visit to El Salvador; the successful outcome of LBJ's visit to Central America; the success of the Common Market, the Agency for International Development and the Alliance for Progress in El Salvador

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that the Democratic Party in the Congress during the eight years of President Eisenhower's two administrations was a constructive influence. We certainly took the opposite to many of the actions of our Republican colleagues while Democrats were in ---a President

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of things like Dresch~01 educa- tion and so on would have different applications in different areas and they would all sort of get swept under the rug of Community Action. up: There were all sorts of things that were brought adult literacy, for example

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

down in the Board of Education, when he was the Democratic leader and Mr. Rayburn was the Speaker, and as Carl Albert mentioned yesterday in some things he said about me, I was always welcome at the Board of Education. Actually, a lot of things

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

brother seemed to be very much committed to making sure that Senator [John] McClellan was there on any action that the Democrats took, and included in this. Why was this? Why was McClellan impor- tant to, let's say, the Democratic Party's action here

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Johnson when he became Democratic leader in the 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
; John Kenneth Galbraith recommends people to LBJ; "skinny dipping" in the White House pool; producing My Hope for America; the 1964 campaign; genesis of the task forces; Oscar Cox, Walter Lippman, and LBJ's interest in education; ESEA and the church

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the hell was going on. Because I saw, as he saw, that when you were sitting there at the top and something went wrong, who is the first one they called? It was Shriver. It could be something wrong in VISTA [Volunteers In Service To America]; it could
in the Community Action Amendment giving mayors more control; Joe Loftus' article about the "Green amendment;" Green's efforts to have quotas for female positions in the Job Corps; changes in OEO, including the idea that OEO should give control of its programs

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in Chicago, the summer before the Democratic convention, there was a telephone strike which for awhile threatened to foul up the whole convention. B: They were not Communication Workers of America . Ba : They were not Communication Workers? B

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, not a mayor, and secondly, it's very Republican. And Dallas is very conservative. Lots of people attacked the War on Poverty as being too liberal, but one of the most conservative mayors in America, namely the mayor of Dallas, and one of the most independent
on the Community Action Program; why the War on Poverty was unable to get the funding Shriver thought it needed; lack of publicity for War on Poverty success stories; lesser-known War on Poverty programs providing legal and medical services to the poor

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

the Senate. Democrat it gave him a one-vote majority. Did he talk to you before you came up to Washington to find out your intentions? T: I don't recall his talking with me himself. body else talked to me about it. I think probably some- But I had told

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in very sensitive and extremely important major legislative actions. G: Who would you add as a third to this? O: I want to look through this. I think NASA falls a little bit in that category, too. You're talking about some basics legislatively affecting
of congressional liaison staff in LBJ's 1964 presidential campaign; the 1960 JFK-Nixon debates; presidential debates since 1960, such as the Reagan-Mondale debates of 1984; campaign finance issues; the rise of political action committees (PACs) and lobbying

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this history [of] chairing this poverty oversight thing. He's traditionally a Democrat although I don't know when he last voted Democratic. Known all over everywhere. I've known several men like this, who can always have a part in anything. They find a way

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

watcher in America, then you'd have a pretty good survey. But this would be so enormously expensive nobody would do it. I just don't know enough about their techniques to make any judgment. I had a feeling when I was at the Bureau, and I think
; 1965 Voting Rights Act; Democratic party politics; THIS U.S.A.; Vietnam elections; Election Research Center; HHH; assessment of LBJ; polling industry.

Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)

subcommittees during his membership on the committee. I will now attempt to outline some of the actions that Mr. Johnson was involved in during the time he was on the old Naval Affairs Committee that stand out most in my mind. When the history of Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Senate? I wouldn't say that I knew him well. However, while I served on the House side, I would get over to the Senate side from time to time to see the Senate in action. Of course, Lyndon Johnson was very prominent in those days as the Senate's
rights; LBJ’s speech at University of Michigan launching the Great Society legislative program; LBJ’s success dealing with Congress was legendary; objections to Justice Fortas in 1968 as political maneuver to prevent Nixon making an appointment; Democrats

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the oil business. F: The reason I ask the question, you know some of them [businessmen] really look on any brand of Democrat as a kind of pariah and a liberal Democrat as something unspeakable. P: Oh, yes, there are many people that do. are like

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not want action patching up the 1957 bill to be solely on the initiative of a Republican president. stamp on it in his judgment. G: Had to have a Democratic And that's why he introduced the bill. There was one difference between his bill and Eisenhower's

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Democratic Policy Committee of the Senate. How did you get that position? M: Through good luck. I had a cousin working on Senator Johnson's staff named Jack Hight, who was an administrative secretary to the Senator. He told me that Gerald Siegel, who
Biographical information; implication of Joe McCarthy era prompted him into law and public services; Democratic Policy Committee; General Counsel; calendar calls; LBJ’s degrees of interest in legislation; 1946 Legislative Reorganization Act; 1957

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

overwhelming victory in November '62 filled the national party with some jubilation . I think that they were all very anxious to see that Richard Nixon was defeated . He wasn't very well liked in Washington . I had the support, I think, of the Democratic Party

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