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Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Johnson and some of the Virginia leaders, like Howard Smith or Harry Byrd? A: I never saw anything that I can recall relative to his relationship with Senator Byrd. I do know that he highly respected Congressman Smith. I'm sure he didn't always agree
LBJ as a congressman; civil rights as an issue in Virginia; the 1960 Democratic Convention and the selection of LBJ as a candidate for VP; Senator Harry Byrd; JFK as President

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Harry Byrd on that? G: My memory isn't sharp enough to say whether--let me take that back. I remember the situation, the answer to your question is yes. As The major obstacle was Harry Byrd, who was then of course chairman of the Senate Finance

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the Eisenhower Administration's measure. You know, he wanted a twenty dollar tax- L: That's right. That's right. G: Both Harry Byrd and Senator George on the Finance Committee with you were opposed to LBJ's version, and yet you got the Democrats to vote

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to us a little later. We went once more to Rosemont to Senator [Harry] Byrd's, to his annual May 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Byrd's annual May Sunday lunch; LBJ's relationship with Harry Byrd; visits from the Federated Women's Club and Texas high school classes; drought and water management in Texas; Luci and Lynda's involvement with Girl Scouts and school friends; Luci's

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

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh wanted to get my judgment of what was going on in Harris County. But mainly I think he just wanted me there, and since I had done the program this was a way of saying, "I thank you, and come on. Let's go on to the Austin
back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s first night as President; the combined LBJ/JFK staff; Ted Sorenson; LBJ’s State of the Union address and concern over the budget; Senator Harry Byrd; getting the budget under $100 billion; task forces; Negro voting rights

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was up here a while I needed a job, applied with him and got one in 1953 and was with him until he died. I expect Kerr and maybe Johnson and Harry Byrd of Virginia had the least turnover in the top people of the staffs of anybody up there. We never had
and the Medicare bill; Kerr's involvement in hiring an assistant for Jim Webb of NASA; the Bricker Amendment; Harry Byrd's work on the Finance Committee; Kerr's meeting with the head of DuPont, Crawford Greenewalt; Kerr's opinions on Social Security and Medicare

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

being added to his committee. G: Wasn't [Harry] Byrd, [Sr.], still chairman of Finance? O: Yes. G: It seems like that Long is exercising more control over the committee than perhaps would be normal if he were not the chairman. How do you explain
-Wilbur Mills alternative to Medicare; Mills' changing views of Medicare legislation; LBJ's surprise meeting with Harry Byrd, Sr., regarding Medicare and the televised results of the meeting; Russell Long misusing William Fulbright's and Albert Gore, Sr.'s

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

of the sort of social life I've been describing, and the home life, the wheels of the process of working up toward trying to become the nominee of the Democratic Party went on. But if I have not mentioned our Sunday trips down to Senator [Harry] Byrd's home
African-American employees; Sunday meals at Senator Harry Byrd's home; Byrd's personality and interests; story of LBJ getting stopped for speeding on the way to the Byrd home; uses for the Sequoia; the Senate Ladies Club; decorating LBJ's office with items
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that will authorize the state to borrow up to $81,000,000. That's one per cent roughly of the assessed value of the land in Virginia. But pay-as-you-go was one of the things that Harry Byrd put through, and I helped him to do it. We wouldn't issue bonds to build
; General Douglas MacArthur; Harry Byrd; conservation; Civil Rights Acts; major changes in U.S. government in 35 years; accomplishments of the American people

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that they all did their best. F: Did you find Carl Hayden fairly easy to work with? B: Yes. F: He had not lost his grasp? B: He had not. The old gentleman was a wonderful gentleman. He was amazingly astute. I found all of them--Senator Harry Byrd
appointment as Under Secretary; appointment as Secretary; Representative Mahon; Chairman Mills; Mr. Burns; Carl Hayden; Senator Harry Byrd; Senator Kerr; John Williams; tax cut; funding of IDA; coinage problems; 1965 tax law regarding excise taxes; repeal

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But he was looked upon, he and Harry Byrd--Harry Byrd was the more conservative by far--but they were looked upon as the powers in the Democratic southern bloc. And then in the Republican side there was Eugene Milligan of Colorado, and there was Bob Taft
Initial awareness of LBJ; Senate run by Southerners; Tidelands; political albatross; DC’s Southern atmosphere; Dick Russell; Harry Byrd; Eugene Milligan; Bob Taft; LBJ as a political operator; LBJ’s relationship with David Dubinsky; Walter George

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and might become the subject of votes, might become, quote, "Democratic policy." And once you had something called Democratic policy that Russell and [Harry] Byrd and [John] Stennis and [Allen] Ellender and those fellows could not support, then you really
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McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929-
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Harry C. McPherson

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

no bones about it. They didn't attempt to be nonpartisan or bipartisan or anything else. They were after their own state and their own industries. Period. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. He said, "They call old Harry Byrd the protector of the budget. If I
; Sam Rayburn and Judge Howard Smith; Barr's relationship with Sam Rayburn; bond interest rates; time Barr spent with the Senate and House; Harry Byrd, Sr.; Robert Kerr; funding the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT); backdoor spending; Social

Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://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/loh/oh Case -- I -- 21 I remember one story about old Senator Byrd, young Harry's father

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on that Byrd, did not go along with it. ~ssociation committee~ Walter George and Harry I'm wondering if you can recall his with senators like Walter George and Dick Russell ~ who were sentor members of the [Senate]. C: r think Harry he had a good

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[NAID 24617781] I don't know, I don't. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I remember some conversation about Virginia was very bad at it, and Harry Byrd was sort of the leader of that place and he

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, even in legislative initiatives. R: Oh, yes. But don't forget, a lot of the thoughts in Webb s book came 1 out of that study that Harry Burleigh ran for the reclamation service, which was a study that had really been launched by Johnson. not at all

Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, there wasn't much in 1958 to I don't remember much in the way of pressure on particular issues. G: Did he defer to Harry Byrd? M: lAlell, everybody sort of deferred to Harry. person. He was sort of a nice He was carrying on in the tradition of old

Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

close until Senator Robert Byrd came along. In the Fifties Senator Russell had an office at the corner of First and Constitution, close by one of the main entrances and exits to what is now the Russell Office Building but was then the only Senate

Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to him. He agreed with the strategy that we should walk off that subcommittee. Which we did, all three of us. And that was the beginning, too, of--I remember Senator Harry Byrd, Sr. getting up in the Senate, attacking McCarthy that day for appointing

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 19 To be an influence nationally, you have got to play the media. You've got to know what their problems are, their schedules. The best media user when we're talking about senators was Harry Flood Byrd from Virginia. Now here was a man
Adlai Stevenson; 1952 presidential election; Dwight Eisenhower; Harry Truman; Gene McCarthy; John Sparkman; Amon Carter; Senator Richard Russell; Kentucky Derby; LBJ’s relationship with President Eisenhower; economics

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Treasury] George Humphrey was not one of his favorites. In this one, I think that LBJ got all of the Democratic votes over the opposition of Harry Byrd and George, which is really no small ordeal. But he tried hard to get George. He almost had him. Then he

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: These are really tremendously exciting years [1958-59]. One of them I always thought was as spectacular a year
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McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929-
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Harry C. McPherson

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, or they themselves, want it, if they want it badly. They'll tell you ahead of time. My relationship was very good with Bob Kerr always, and Bob and I would meet. He was not the chairman of the committee, but he was acting chairman. [Harry] Byrd was in his dotage

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

INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: This is the interview with Harry McPherson. Mr. McPherson, very briefly, your background is this:born in Tyler, Texas in 1929; bachelor's
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McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929-
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker
Harry C. McPherson

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there at Harry Byrd's I mentioned--I think I mentioned it that day when I saw him--sometime when he was making one of these trips we would love to have an article about his trip because Vie thought it was real geography and human interest said,] you t'~~hy, j
Contact with LBJ; dedication of Richard Byrd Memorial Statue; award for the Hubbard Medal; Senator Byrd's garden party; Jane N. Smith Medal; building dedication; White House Historical Association; presidents book; The Living White House; LBJ

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

like that. G: Did he play a role in the highway legislation, to establish the interstate highway system? T: Well, Senator Harry Byrd came before our Public Works Committee in 1956, and opposed that bill on the method of financing and helped to defeat

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

here, that Harry Byrd and Senator George voted against him, and we lost it on a pretty close vote, 44-50. G: Reportedly that was the only party vote that the Democrats lost that year. If you'll turn over to page three, there was a reciprocal trade

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of a tax bill as opposed to the administration's. It seems that the Democrats promoted a twenty-dollar per person cut and Harry Byrd supported an administration version that was aimed more at the higher income brackets, it seems. B: Oh, I recall
Price Daniel and the Senate Judiciary Committee; Democratic Steering Committee; Drew Pearson; Commerce Committee; Senator Alben Barkley; selection of Harry Truman as 1944 vice-presidential candidate; use of Skeeter Johnston's office for lunch

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

face to find out that a vote he had counted on had been taken away from him. I remember one time Knowland thought that he had Harry Byrd's vote. Byrd was downtown somewhere and Johnson sent somebody to talk to him and then caught him before he came

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and make sure they felt they could get something out of it and had a stake in it. That's what went to this feeling about the civil rights voting act. I can remember him, for example, listening to Harry Byrd one evening bitch about VISTA volunteers in West

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Virginia; O'Brien's work with Paul Douglas; temporary unemployment compensation legislation; O'Brien's contact with Harry Byrd and the Senate Finance Committee; the difference between a teller vote and a roll call; aid for dependent children; Medicare

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was the senior Republican on that committee. Senator Russell who was the chairman of our committee made Senator Johnson chairman of that sub-committee because Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia was the Finance Committee LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mentioned, but which I think this was the very first year that we went to it, was dinner at Berryville, Senator [Harry] Byrd's at Rosemont. That broad veranda, that white-columned house, looking out to the Blue Ridge and to the apple orchards stretching
visit to Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Johnson's trip with them to New York City; F Street Club; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; visits to Senator Harry Byrd's home; "Byrd houses" along the Appalachian Trail; socializing with the Texas delegation; Tony Buford

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

out very much like the Navy had done Antarctic exploration in the earlier days with Admiral Byrd. They felt genuinely that this was an important element of national power, national capability, that they had the capability to do it, and that they were

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to get the best tax bill I spent a good deal of time on it . that we could . This was a case where he was opposed by Harry Byrd on the Finance Committee . 0: Well, [Byrd opposed him] on nearly every issue . in Social Every improvement Security

Oral history transcript, Milton R. Young, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember walking back with Senator Harry Byrd, Sr. one time, a very conservative senator. He voted for one provision that many conservative senators voted against. I said, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

also had a meeting with Senator Harry Byrd, Sr.-- I remember, because I sat in on that meeting-- where he told Senator Byrd he wanted to get his tax cut out of the Finance Committee, and Byrd said, "I just don't see how we can do it. That budget's too

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't think so. In fact, I think about the only Senate leader who had made that effort was Bob Byrd, strangely enough. did. Mansfield never In fact, Mansfield felt that wasn't his function. Byrd seemed to want a record of making sure that all
Rights Bill; impressions of Wayne Morse; LBJ's sources of power; counting votes; LBJ and Eisenhower; Alaska-Hawaii statehood; Harris-Fulbright natural gas bill; views on support of education; issue of regulation of electronic media; unemployment

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