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Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • candidates? G: That is correct. a candidate. Wayne Morse, to begin with, said he would not be We had a law at that time that you had to sign an affidavit that you were not a candidate. Otherwise your name automatically appeared in what we have
  • Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think I.must.have missed the 1953 Rule 22 fight, if it began at the time· that the Senate was organized, because I wasn't there. 6: Yes, I think.[it was] ·one of the first events of the-­ S: Of course, Wayne Morse's seating at that time ••• you're
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • guess we're still in mid-March looking into some kind of broad-based emergency strike proposal along the lines described in Robson's memo of February 24. And we're headed up to the Hill; Robson takes [Wayne] Morse on March 14 through the proposal
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Senator Hill would accept in the area of health, and what Senator [Wayne] Morse would accept in the area of education, or what Mrs. [Edith] Green would be willing to do. None of these are ideas that you pull out of a hat; they're the next step in a process
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • -election. He felt rather strongly that he didn't want to make a political campaign which would be the political death, in a sense, of guys like Joe Clark, Wayne Morse, and Frank Church, and Gaylord Nelson, and George McGovern, and all of the others who
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in that capacity, which has existed in this country ever since, I guess, the Civil War. Really about the only black friend he had was Hobart Taylor, who at that time was assistant prosecutor of Wayne County in charge of the Civil Division--who is a Texan
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • bad that happened. F: Right. Well, what happened, really, was that Wayne Morse switched parties, but he let the Republicans go ahead with the organization. If the Democrats had taken advantage of his becoming a Democrat, then they could've taken
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Committee on Education and Labor, Adam Clayton Powell, during the first six months of 1961; and then with Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, who was also the new Chairman of the Subcommittee on Education of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was on the Preparedness Committee with him. G: I'm not for sure. They worked together fine. What was your impression of Wayne Morse back then? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on, the Communications Satellite Act; Mike Mansfield's and Wayne Morse's role in the Senate; U.S. involvement in the United Nations; a bill to ban literacy tests in federal election voting registration; early efforts toward addressing civil rights issues
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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/loh/oh r~ooney G: -- I I -- 13 Wayne Morse, whose vote
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • needed him. Were there any great blandishments to get Wayne Morse over to the Democratic column, or did they just let that develop naturally? R: Well, he raised money for Wayne Morse. First time, they do it all the time now, but he set up a committee
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , with the deepest accent I have ever heard, and South Carolina does have a unique one, for me, a real southerner. Liked him, everybody liked him, but we hardly ever really knew what he was talking about. Wayne Morse, I remember--oh, they crossed swords so many times
  • Clinton Anderson, Harry Byrd, Tom Connally, Paul Douglas, James Eastland, Allen Ellender, Allen Frears, Walter George, Theodore Francis Green, Hubert Humphrey and others; Estes Kefauver; Bob Kerr; Russell Long; Joseph McCarthy; George Malone; Wayne Morse
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there on the twenty-eighth of April and had breakfast with Tom, this was Sunday, in the Senate dining room, and Wayne Morse was there, recovering from his record-breaking filibuster against the tidelands legislation. He was pooped. Kuchel introduced me to him
Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , the doves consisted really of Senator Wayne Morse 'way out in front of the committee. three others would go on. And then gradually I think I became convinced about the time when we started losing men and having American men actually fighting
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : B : ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh _22_ heard my Senator from Oregon, Wayne Morse, refer to it as the Education
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Wayne] Morse of Oregon, and the President took him on. Morse's correspondence is in the record; [it] promoted him in very strong terms. Now, you may remember that Morse was a man of very strong views and sharp tongue and a poor reputation for the ability
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • House staff; judicial appointments; a disagreement between Congressman Mike Kirwan and Senator Wayne Morse over Kirwan's efforts to fund a national aquarium in Washington, D.C.; story regarding Congressman D. B. Saund's photo of his grandson with JFK
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the House as well as in the Senate. was somewhat of a late convert. Johnson But he was a convert and he encouraged, I know, Wayne Morse to take leadership in this area, and Wayne did a very skillful job with assistance and coaching support from
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • center. I also remember in 1968 when Nixon came in he wanted to shut them down. There were ten times the hue and cry when they wanted to close a Job Corps center. G: Or when they closed the one in Oregon I guess it was, Fort Benoit, Wayne Morse's. M
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • that only Wayne Morse can make. I've heard them over the years, heard him stand up there and accuse the President of the United States of treason. These kinds of things begin to bother you after awhile. But he took this on as a personal fight against
  • Power of state Economic Opportunity director of governors; veto power and overrides; creation of the National Advisory Council; Perrin’s duties as deputy director of OEO; Senator Morse; involvement of BOB funding; political red tape; GAO
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • record. He was a rather passive person in any case. G: Did Johnson give you any support in that election? M: I don't remember. The only people who came in and campaigned for me were Wayne Morse and Paul Douglas from the Senate, and I asked them
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Committee I sit between Bill Fulbright and Wayne Morse. Actually, Mansfield's supposed to sit on my left, but in a great part of the time he's not able to be there--attending to Senate business, and so Morse sits there. I've often said that I was really
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anything here that you recall in any detail. C: I recall that when Wayne Morse supported the Democrat nominee for president and deserted hi s own party that Senator [Hugh] Butl er of Nebraska advised against punishing him. His advice wasn't taken
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . At any rate as far as my relations with him were concerned, I was on the real ''black list" all through the winter of '64- '65. classify me with Wayne Morse. He used to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were calling for I didn't have any insight on it and I voted for the resolution and I thought [Wayne] Morse and [Ernest] Gruening were just being sort of prima donnas, in a wa~ in voting against it. G: When did your own concern about Vietnam begin
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for censure, but I know that he was opposed to it. He later talked to me about censuring Wayne Morse for something that he said, and I remember Lyndon urged that people not consider it. He believed in the tradition of the Senate. He was pretty much a senator's
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , increasingly, and I think understandably, Lyndon became personally indignant against the doves of his own party. He felt, I can understand, a Republican who might do it for political reasons, but why should he get stabbed in the back by the [Wayne] Morses
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Friday, the machinists voted [on] the agreement and voted it down. And there he was left, and of course he had had this wild dash to a TV station to announce the agreement. Did he have egg on his face. After that, what he did, he called in Wayne Morse
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that was then outlined by Wayne Morse. The Senate Labor Committee met in the Cabinet Room--the President excused himself--but failed to, at that time, agree on the legislation. Eventually they had some hearings and eventually the legislation was actually defeated. I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think he gave me credit for something Wayne Morse may have done. I can't remember. And Pearson said, "Well, the point is I told you I'd make up to you what I said before." Pearson was very much used in those days. He was used by the President [who] would
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , Chal Roberts is trying to play President now." So this is the kind of thing that he did. Just as he used to--to me and others--talk about General [Joseph] Alsop and General Morse [Wayne Morse]. Morse wants me to pullout. He'd say, "General
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • why Mike replaced him as the assistant leader. Everybody respected Mike, that was the big thing. I can't think of anybody in the Senate that didn't. G: There is some indication that Johnson helped improve the relationship between Wayne Morse
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . isolationist sentiment. behind the program. There got to be a quasi- It was hard even to get internationalists, They came along but--for example, Hayne Morse, who sponsored it in the Senate put me--as he had every right to do and did a good j ob-- t.:hrough
  • ; John Rooney and the Appropriations Committee create problems for State Department programs; characterizes Wayne Hays, John Brademas, John Tunney, Donald Fraser, Peter Frelinghuysen, Benjamin Rosenthal, Albert Quie; Patsy Mink, Wayne Morse, George
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • being authorized and then appropriated for. But my recollection is that because of Johnson's friendship with Senator [Richard L.] Neuberger from Oregon and Wayne Morse, while Neuberger and Morse disliked each other intensely, Johnson was friendly
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ; Head Start; Cooke’s report; “Pancho” film; Child Development Group of Mississippi; attacks by Senators Stennis and Eastland; Freedom Democratic Party; Mississippi Action for Progress; Educational Testing Service; Dominick Amendment; Wayne Morse; Oregon
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • my family closer to where I think they were going. We were all going on a rafting trip down the Salmon River or something of that sort. I got on the plane to fly throughout the night, and it happened that Wayne Morse was there, on the plane. I sat