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Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Bird and President Johnson. Just about six or eight months later, many of the people that had worked with President Johnson were all coming back from the war. Most of them had been in the war. They decided to start a radio station, KVET. That was John
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with his bare hands. G: Oh, John Dos Passos book. B: Yes, John Dos Passos book. I did have it. I ' v e got it right over there someplace. I d o n ' t know, maybe I ' v e given it away, but I had it. Haven't read that one in several years. literature
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • became active in party affairs within the state, and at that time I lived in Daingerfield, Texas. P: In what capacity did you serve? W: I had no official capacity in 1951. I just worked within my precinct and within the four precincts of Morris County
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before he went to Washington. The lawsuit lasted so long that it was kind of embarrassing to Senator Wirtz to take such a long leave of absence. So when his year was up at the Interior Department he felt he ought to stay a few more months. Senator [Morris
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and carrying the big stick, but the words should not be bellicose. And if you recall, they had campaigned in part on that theory, that [John Foster] Dulles' words had been too bellicose and that we'd-- F: Nixon's kitchen confrontation-- LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and good friend. G: Morris Sheppard. B: No. G: Oh, [Tom] Connally, I guess. B: It was Connally. Well, Mrs. Connally was the liaison between those two; she was both Mrs. Sheppard and Mrs. Connally. The Connallys were aboard ship with us. I remember
  • LBJ was convinced to be John F. Kennedy's running mate; LBJ's and Hale Boggs' dedication to the War on Poverty and civil rights, especially in the South; Lynda Johnson dating George Hamilton; Hale Boggs' involvement in Adlai Stevenson's 1956
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , sir, I wanted to ask you about that. To back up into the '40 IS, even if you had not met Mr. Johns·--a had you formed an opinion about him? Had you classified him as a Congressman? M: Yes, I had. I was a pretty conservative young man, and it seemed
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • sort of looked after her. Mrs. Joseph at that tim~ lived with Carrie [?] Garner, who was Vice President [John Nance] Garner's niece. She and Mrs. Joseph lived with the Terrells and Gene Boehringer lived upstairs, as did the two nieces of Beauford
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • governor of South Carolina, Earl Morris, Jr., who was a candidate for governor and who was defeated. I moved to Pickens. My father was the village carrier, then became postmaster during Eisenhower's administration, thanks to Senator LBJ Presidential
  • Baker’s career in the Senate; LBJ as Senator; Taft-Hartley Act; Senator Russell; Senator Taft; Joe McCarthy; the Smith Amendment; Senator John Bricker; Senator Walter George; the Cloakroom
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: JOHN W. MACY JR. (Tape #4) INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Macy, John W. (John Williams), 1917-1986
  • Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb
  • John W. Macy
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And that young John, the younger boy, started to whimper that why couldn't he go, too. His mother said no, you can't go. And finally the young boy, John, said, "But Bubba's been two wheres and I ain't been nowheres." Johnson said, "I then said to them, 'Look
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • , of course. CL: He left you to do that, I guess. ML: Yes. And if I told him, well, all right, and I thought so, he thought, "well, I agree with her in general." And Mike Gorman was very friendly with him, too. CL: Yes. John Fogarty al so was hel pful
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the U .S . Senate to suc- ceed the great Senator Morris Sheppard who had died in office . I believe he made his announcement from the steps of the White House and received the endorsement of President Roosevelt . Shortly after his announcement
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to hi:m, "I don't see why I can't get so:mebody to do for me what John Connally does for you. " So he suggested that he talk to :me. Then he and Mrs. Johnson came right to my ho:me and said they had made the recotntnendation. Mr. Rayburn called me over
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN CONNALLY INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Governor Connally's office in Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Governor, you and I, I think, share experiences in this. We must have both been undergraduates at the time that Lyndon
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  • Connally, John Bowden, 1917-1993
  • Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • John B. Connally
Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and I met him on the morning after the nomination in Los Angeles. What had happened was that I had been campaigning for President [John F.] Kennedy for about three or four years on a part-time basis. I hadn't left my office, but I would go out on trips
  • Lawson's work for John F. Kennedy in 1958-1959; gaining support for JFK among African American delegates; Kennedy's announcement that LBJ would be the vice-presidential nominee; Mary McLeod Bethune's opinion of LBJ; Lawson's recommendation
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from Orange County, which is the John Birch county in the state, but he developed quite a lot in Sacramento. He was a member of the assembly; he got his law degree in 1932, and he was elected to the assembly in 1936, to the Senate in 1940, went to war
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • then, I don't recall it. B: That was the election in which Mr. Johnson was running against Pappy O'Daniel? C: That's right, and quite a few others, as I recall it, in a special election to the Senate. I guess it was Morris Sheppard's seat
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and John Connally, but you probably have read that they had been bitter enemies for some time. G: No. J: Never heard about it? They were. Ed Clark, to go back into hi s history, he comes from East Texas, and when Jimmie Allred was attorney general
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and they certainly had a healthy respect of each other. I might say that makes me think of the period when Lyndon had unsuccessfully run for the Senate first to fill a vacancy created by the death of Morris Sheppard. So W. Lee LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • isolated? Could anybody go to him and work? G: Anybody could, but a lot of them wouldn't. They thought they could beat him on the floor, and I've never seen Johnson lose many that he was interested in. He had, as you know, a very violent temper, and John
  • temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
  • Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was Mrs. [Morris] Cafritz, who gave the party. The cast showed up. The President was tired I believe. John Bailey had officially escorted him that night, and I was the official escort for Hubert Humphrey. I forget what night that was, whether it was before
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that spring was when John Nance Garner announced that he was going to start a Stop Roosevelt campaign. Do you remember anything about that? W: No, just talk, is all. I don't know details. G: Did LBJ ever ask you to do any political work in that connection
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • one day Charlie Maurine Ray, who was Charlie's secretary at that time and later she became secretary to Governor [John] Connally, came over to the Washington Club trying to find her boss. "Well, here it comes ,II I said. "Now, Charlie, what you
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Indiana. His name was [John Worth] Kern; he was from Wilson would send a message up to Congress. a Democratic caucus. Kern could call He could always get a 51 per cent vote in the Democratic caucus, and since the Democrats controlled the Senate
  • for the presidential nomination; JFK’s campaign; civil rights bill; U-2 incident and LBJ’s reaction to it; the federal pay raise; the Sugar Act; Medicare; pre-convention campaign trip opening and closing of national campaign headquarters; John Connally and the campaign
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as representative in the House which gave the majority to the Democrats for the first time in the thirties in that particular era, which, when they reorganized the House, that's when John Garner became speaker. So, when Mr. Kleberg was elected as a Democrat
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of their lawyers who I think did some work for the Johnsons. And John Connally became a member of that law firm for a time, and John did some law work. So starting in 1944 most of my representation, as I told you the other day, was to read [speeches] and confer
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • institutional. Ther~after Tom and Ben [Cohen] worked so closely with him, and Mr. Rayburn was so very effective, that the President wished him to be speaker. The first claim on that was John O'Connor of New York of the Rules Committee, who was a bete noire
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into World War II. N: I did. Immediately preceding my going into the war, though, I had my first contact with President Johnson, and it came in this way. Senator Morris Sheppard died, and there was a special election for the United States Senate. President
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Ranch to, among other things, tell the President he [McNamara] wanted to do this and that he was going to do it. When he came back the next day and he came in he wanted a meeting held. I remember I had Tom Morris [in my office], who was the assistant
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, 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 Johnson -- XIX -- 8 on somebody with a sizable request. G: John Connally
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the commission as a professional staffer under Governor [John] Battle of Virginia, his appointment. Howard stayed on. He had not wanted to continue with the commission, either, and at President Johnson's request, he agreed to stay on as acting director
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : There was Guy McFarland, I believe there was John Boyle, C. M. PlCk.Sd},\~ . ...l~ attorney--and there were several others. I cannot recall their names right now. P: Mr. Quill ? B: No, Mr. Quill was not an original member of the Citizens League. He
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on losing the nomination; JFK’s visit to LBJ’s suite; RFK’s visit; reaction to LBJ’s accepting the vice presidential nomination; LBJ’s explanation for his decision; LBJ’s persuasiveness; Hickman attitude about JFK for president; the debate; John Connally
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the United States Senate about 1912 or 1913--Morris Sheppard took his place, Senator Sheppard--that my father carried me to a speaking in Big Sandy where Daddy was teaching and where a man was speaking in behalf of Senator Bailey . To show you how interested
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • really got to feel that I knew the man. Then when he ran for the Senate in 1941, as soon as Morris Sheppard died, as soon as we got word, my newspaper partner Alex LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 1953 to early 1964 was pretty much standard. I was running the bank. volved in the banking activities that are normal. I became in- I became involved in Robert Morris Associates and in the NABAC, which was then the National Association of Bank
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • do good and you'll certainly get more than thirty-five bucks." I don't know what they paid me in the beginning but about forty-five. "At least you can move up and you can do what I'm doing." This is John Radosta, R-A-D-O-S-T-A. He said, "I do magazine
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , on their side were [George] Carver and [Daniel] Graham. And the consensus is among the jurors that Carver and Graham were not good witnesses for their side. The best witness was Westmoreland; McNamara was thought to be a good one. There's a guy called [John F
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this is a long time ago, but who do you think was ultimately responsible for helping secure that appropriation? B: I -think Johnson did it almost by himself . G: Did he really? B: Oh, yes, he had Ickes' ear . G: There was a fellow named John Page, I guess