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Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh But could you tell if this was having a positive impact on the voters or the people who came in to see you? E: I think most of the people who came in to see us were real Democrats, the straight ticket, and I think they liked
[For interviews 1 and 2] Wartime service in the Red Cross; seeing LBJ during his visit to Paris on a mission; the mission committee; activities during visit; impressions of Eisenhower; flight back to Texas with LBJ; conditions in Europe; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to a House committee hearing on VA hospitals. The President reacted by trying to plant editorials about cost-cutting. This had elements of a couple of men overreacting. It was a break for me that I didn't know [about it] that morning. It's an example of how

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

and Labor Committee on the one side and then the Senate Labor Committee on the other. Of course, Adam Clayton Powell chaired the House committee. Was there anything unique about your dealings with Powell, a very mercurial guy? S: Adam Clayton Powell

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Where were you at the time of the assassination? H: I was in Lakeland, Florida. I had just concluded a speech at the noon meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Lakeland, and strangely enough I was talking about national unity. I had · returned to my room
of 1958; JFK-LBJ transition; Hays-Moyers relationship; Moyers evaluated; relationship with LBJ hurts Hays in Arkansas; SCOPE (Southern Committee on Political Ethics).

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

been here three times, and we want to have other people. We want to reach around and have somebody else on the Foreign Relations Committee, somebody else in the Democratic leadership." So that a lot of the names that would come from the State Department

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the agencies were. The lead, in terms of the task force in the government to the extent we had a committee or a group, was in the Commerce Department and was taken by Alan Boyd, who was the undersecretary of commerce for transportation. I got a lot of help

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was first offered a job over there six months before the one that I took, it was to spend half my time working on the National Security Council staff with Bundy on Latin America. So he knew that and he also knew that I had--in 1964, the Panamanian riots were

Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

federation. [I] was from that period of time until I went into the government in January, 1963, not only the Director of Research for the AFL-CIO, but also the Director of the Economic Policy Committee. I was also the Director of the Economic Policy

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and that we were now going to see unemployment below 4 per cent, which had been a dream of Democrats for half a century. But Ackley was worried about the inflationary impact of that. We were also worried about the high cost of wages in construction. If both

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, all of whom had an interest. We all unanimously concluded that we should recommend against the Federal Highway Administrator's plan. We argued that FHWA had never adequately tried to run the National Bureau of Highway Safety under a strong director

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in and say they'd vote for a farm bill if the agriculturists would vote for a food stamp bill and if the committees would allow the bill to progress. But it took a lot of doing over an extended period of time, and it finally passed in 1964 in the fall. And I

Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at San Marcos in the summer of 1928, early, and spoke at Riverside. Do you remember that? J: They could have. I don't recall it. G: Do you recall anything about LBJ going to the Democratic [National] Convention in Houston in 1928? J: Yes. He told
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; Cecil Evans; college years; garage apartment; secretary to Kleburg; college sports; Black Stars; White Stars; LBJ blackballed; 1928 Democratic National Convention; debate team; Cotulla; boarding

Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/show/loh/oh DR. GEORGE DAVIS DOROTHY PIERCE MC SWEENY This interview is with Dr. George Davis, the minister of the National City Christian Church in Washington, D. C. Today is Thursday, February 13, 1969, and we are in his office this morning about
Relationship with LBJ, who was a frequent visitor to Davis' church; service on the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity; the LBJ-Nixon transition period; Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

may be required to take the President to Los Angeles to speak at a Democratic fund-raising dinner, in which case we send a bill to the President. He sends it to the Democratic National Committee and they send us the check, which we in turn send

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in his marriage to Mrs. Johnson? H: Definitely. P: No, he was married in '34 and he had-- H: I am all mixed up in that. P: Not until 1935. H: That's right. P: He had returned here in '34--'33 as the State Director of the National

Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Congress with whom he was associated, and, of course, we had both Republicans and Democrats. We got into some heated arguments. At that time, also, there was an organization here known as the Little Congress, made up of the personnel of the various
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was there as an honor guest, and also Mrs. Alma Lee Holman, who was the Democratic committeewoman. John Connally gave a talk on the man, Lyndon Johnson, and then naturally they had some singing. There always is. This time it was old familiar Jesse James of KTBC fame. He

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and leading students who were very active and who represented certain committees, don't you see? I was not a member of any of those committees. G: Now, I gather in 1928 Lyndon Johnson went to the Democratic National Convention in Houston. Do you have any

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

through some special assistant at the White House--Joe Califano or someone like that. B: This last summer and the riots in Chicago at the time of the Democratic National Convention, what sort of machinery from your office went into effect there? V

Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

what we were doing and how it fit into the President's program. But fantastic impact on the morale and the sense of involvement in national policy. I think that here are maybe two examples--I think there are others. I believe he came over here once
Smith; Labor-Commerce merger; Bill Wirtz; wage/price guidelines; Walter Heller; LBJ’s influence over labor; Bill Martin; Labor Management Advisory Committee; balance of payments; exhilaration of LBJ’s informal talk; Bill Shaw; voluntary and mandatory

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

signatures I took the whole list, photostats of it, in a wheelbarrow into the White House and presented them to [Dwight] Eisenhower, changed our name to Committee of a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until she'll qualify
Kai-shek on Taiwan's economic and industrial success; the Free China Fund/Committee for a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until it met certain qualifications; the Chinese Nationalist Air Force representative misusing

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

fairly close associates of M r . Johnson, who was Minority Leader at the time. B: Do you remember him taking any role in that at all? No, he didn't. He was a straight Democrat. He wasn't on the Foreign Relations Committee. in it. He went right down

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a professional [job]. Then my brother being chairman of the Senate Re-election Committee, we hired the firm to go into a certain state and help a Democratic senator that we wanted. Well, that's just about all that I know of, but the reason I'm saying

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

allies. Here we were in the United States taking the position that we could sacrifice the lives of American boys in South Viet Nam because our national security and our national interest were so vitally involved there, that if we did not make

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of stay-behind--suspension--and there really wasn't much problem. The government had become a little heavy-handed in some of its political activities. I've forgotten what they called the Democratic Front or something that they had, the National

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

to be more interested in defeating Democrats and getting control of the committee chairmanships then they are in 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

and Hale Boggs, that Charlie Davis had. Boggs'. It might have been at the Charlie Davis, you know, was the chief clerk of the Ways and Means Committee. been earlier. I believe he still was at that time, or he had That's right, he \vas in a Chicago law

Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was an organization to promote business? H: Over the years to that point the Secretary of Commerce had been the business man's defender within a series of Democratic administrations. And his concern, as your question suggested, was mainly promotional and not really

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

[?], sitting in on committees. I found myself involved with a couple of the PSAC [President’s Science Advisory Committee?] committees, the military aircraft panel and the naval warfare panel, and doing lots of traveling to Washington. And I had never heard
Biographical information; Lehan's work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); Sputnik; leaving Ramel-Wooldridge to start Space Electronics Corporation; consulting for government agencies and committees; how Lehan came to work for the newly formed

Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Urban League, and the NAACP, the three principal organizations and the National Council of Negro Women, the fourth one--were all committed against violence. CORE was comme ci, comme ca; and Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee at that time, despite

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

/oh Shriver -- I -- 5 S: That's true. I should have mentioned that earlier. When I was in Chicago my wife, to whom I was not married at that time, received an appointment to be executive secretary of the Continuing Committee of the National
The origin of Shriver’s interest in poverty-related issues; Shriver’s involvement with trade unionism, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the board of education in Chicago; Shriver’s work in the 1940s with Eunice Kennedy on the Continuing Committee

Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Lyndon. Anyhow, Wirtz was very, very I'm quite sure he established that committee for the sQle purpose of getting Wirtz into it. MG: Senator Wirtz had national Yes, into his fold, so to speak. Did you ever see Wirtz' input into the NYA? Did Wirtz
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
engineering office separate from LBJ's in Littlefield Building in Austin; Senator Wirtz on Advisory Committee; Gibb Gilchrist's Texas Highway Department; helping with red tape and paperwork supervising NYA boys on jobs; first roadside park at Onion Creek; Mrs

Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

never had any real relationship with him though until you came up here as Chief Justice, did you? W: Well, I had so many different things before the committees here that I think I did. But I would have a hard time telling you just what it was, because

Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and we voted that day there in San Diego. And I voted a Democratic ticket, and stayed around there that day--well, for two or three days after that, and then we stayed out at the ranch and then went back to Austin and went back to school. F: Did you

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Not at all. One of our senior executives, a member of our board of directors, was very active in the Nixon campaigns, and I guess I'm identified as a Johnson Democrat, and yet we sit in the same meetings. F: Now, you mentioned Arthur Krim. Is there kind
fundraising dinner at the Ambassador Hotel; housing and Proposition 14; Pat Brown; Wasserman’s appointment to the executive committee of the Kennedy Center; LBJ’s ability to be a 'real' person; visits to the Ranch; 1968 election; the 'fatigue factor

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

campaign that Senator Johnson was in I was listed as being on the county committee for him. I likewise in the campaign of 1956--this is an instance I ought to relate. The Democratic Party in Texas has always had a pattern almost back to the days of Sam
[For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

prob bi-partisan group, and I was appointed as an honest Democrat, which I was and am . M: How did they happen to select you for that, do you know? B: No, I don't really know . When I first started practicing law in Miami, I went into George
of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the strings that he could back there to get Jesse a job with the superintendent of schools for the state; L. A. Woods was his name. Then when Lyndon was head of the National Youth Administration, he brought Jesse in as assistant director. What I'm trying

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, having had a special committee on agricultural problems, having tried to lead the Midwest Democratic Governors into a policy position on agriculture, he knew how tough it was . He wanted a Cabinet position, but he had said and meant that he didn't want

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