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said, liMy God, this is my administration. is Kennedy. I called Steve Young, And by God I'm delighted. This is my party. This Tell the President on my behalf I'm personally going to call the editor of the Cleveland Plain LBJ Presidential Library

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

, Z K R used to be number 2 in the 1$72 delegation to Harlan Cleveland in Paris, and who is a first-class officer. And he has a rather large group of people under him Z K R really work in direct liaison ZLWth the Pentagon at all levels, and he is so

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was heavy-handed; he was high-handed, he was a dealer. You could go to him in private and say, "I'd like to get this done. Now how am I going to do it?" And he'd say, "Well, you do this for me and I'll do that for you." He was a great back scratcher. I don't

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh FISHER -- I -- 14 F: I think so. Me: He had a reputation, or gained a reputation, during his majority leadership days, as a wheeler-dealer. Do you recall any events or examples of legislation that really required his very
Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1943; casual relationship with LBJ in House for six years; controversial 1948 election of LBJ over Coke Stevenson; LBJ’s reputation as a wheeler-dealer; insecure politically in Texas; dedication of Medical

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

. That's the kind of operation now. You know he had a reputation of being a wheeler-dealer, and I wouldn't say it came from intimate experience that would cause me to say that. I was pretty young and a freshman in '58 and new in the Congress, you know

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

felt down in the bottom of his heart that they didn't vote for him, they voted against Goldwater. And Lyndon was one of these guys who, being a wheeler-dealer in a sense that he was a compromiser, always had an idea that somehow the Kennedys would get

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

days everybody didn't have a radio set and the dealers would put one out on the street for World Series games and big speeches--Roosevelt was making a big speech, and he was giving the malefactors of great wealth hell in his way. o~m superior And two

Dealers make me sick, because where would you be if you could not get people like me elected to Congress?" That was a ve ry characte ristic thing for him to say. He was always cons cious of the Texas electorate breathing down his neck. I have a poor

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

--that little town, poor boy beginning . He had become, in my mind, what I'd always thought of as a wheeler-dealer in Texas, whereas Johnson never did show that . Now their speed of mind, of both of them, is astounding . Even before the question had formed

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

were there with some other friends of the President. I remember specifically Jay Smith was there--he used to be an Austin automobile dealer--and old Bob Present, who is the chairman of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

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