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Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : The present recollection that I have is that, as Secretary of Defense, I was a member of an ad hoc committee that was to consider some type of problem in which the Labor Department took the lead. I think it was involved in some manner with government employees
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to address the Democratic National Committee in January. K: I had nothing to do with that. G: Ground breaking at the Hirshhorn Museum? K: I read about it, and Joe Hirshhorn had been a political supporter for a number of years. G: One of the last
  • ; the threat of nuclear confrontation; Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance at the Paris talks; Andre Meyer and the European monetary crisis; National Commission on Violence report; LBJ’s falling out with A.W. Moursund; Krim’s time with LBJ after 1968; Thanksgiving
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of other fellows. Then immediately after the war, I don't know what all had happened--[during] 1944 I was gone--but they got in a big political fight in the old Texas Regulars. They'd had a donnybrook in Texas; they'd had a mean national convention again
  • station KVET; Coke Stevenson; LBJ using a helicopter to campaign in 1948; monitoring the 1948 election returns; LBJ's kidney stones; Paul Porter; legal action surrounding the 1948 election and box 13 incident; the Democratic Executive Committee vote
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , very knowledge- able--worked with Congressional committees, working with people at the National Institutes of Health and other places. It did involve a lot of people who never participated in such meetings before and whose eyes were really opened
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thomas -- 1-- 10 the newsprint deal, that had a story on it to the effect that the county committee, Democratic committee in Jim Wells County, had met
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • S. STRAUSS INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB DATE: May 22, 1969 PLACE: 2800 Republic National Bank Building, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 [vl: Let me identify this tape first of all. This is an intervie\>/ with Mr. Robert S. Strauss--S-T-R-A-U-S-S
Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • worked with this group? B: I don't recall . I think he was a member of it . elected by his class . I think he was We had to select members from the class to serve on the committee . G: The committee, I guess, had the power to disperse the student
  • Biographical information; SWTTC; contact with LBJ; Harris Blair debating club; Student Welfare Council; 1928 Democratic Convention; Black Stars; LBJ as Blackman's best man; LBJ's activities and family; President Evans; dating in San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Novak -- I --18 Texas, and Mr. Johnson came in with his two daughters. I was there, and they were just cold as hell to me and very nice to Geraldine. M: Still? N: Yes. I was the guest at the game of Bob Strauss, who is the Democratic National
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was in 1963, is that correct? EG: That's correct. G: Did you have any role in the initial legislation? EG: Well, to the extent that the [Public Health] Service had had activities in the retardation area of the National Institutes of Health, primarily
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • role. Moreover, some of our departments, such as the Department of Interior, looking at matters from a national standpoint, are going to come out with different views than the states in that particular river basin may have. And they have to think about
  • government; the Council on Intergovernmental Relations; the need for effective federal executive boards to coordinate federal activities in a given city; involving the private sector in local government and obstacles to that goal; the National Alliance
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , such as the WPA. An offshoot from the WPA was the NYA, the National Youth Administra­ tion . This was a program to help young people, boys and girls from 16 to 25, in part-time jobs, either in the school system that was administered by the school
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • Early family relationship between Birdwell and Johnson families; early organization of National Youth Administration Program in Texas; LBJ's first race for Congress (1937); early days in Washington as Secretary to Congressman Johnson; KVET and KTBC
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he was a great follower of his. He felt like the strength of America was in the people and that the only problem was to get the people to understand what was before the nation and that the answer they would then give would
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • went through the receiving line, and then came into the state dining room and sort of singled me out, came over to where I was and gave me this remembrance and chatted with me. And the last time I saw him was at the Woman's National Democratic Club
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thought it up. The Democratic National Committee, Carter-- G: Cliff Carter? J: Cliff Carter was over at the Democratic National Committee, and we would have a morning meeting maybe once a week. We'd have a freshman congressman in, and represented
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , that were intended to impose such sanctions, because he was on the Appropriations Committee. G: Didn't he charge that there was a connection between CDGM and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party? B: Oh, there were so many charges of various kinds. I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but at first he refused to go along with Truman. Later on I think he did raise money for the national ticket. So the Democrats had appointed [Byron] Skelton, but they couldn't get him in somehow; I don't remember the details of the fight. (Interruption) So
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • credited to Stevenson. We got the Democratic county chairman, went out and canvassed these boxes. G: So he was-- S: He supported Johnson, yes. And Carl Estes supported him, but Carl wrote an editorial--now SWEPCO, Southwestern Power and Electric
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the country. My recollection is that someone may have talked to me about it one evening. And if it was, it was someone from the National Committee--Carlos McCormick or somebody like that. But I don't believe anyone did. I remember feeling a little left out
Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • have any contact with Mr. Johnson himself? M: No, I did not. Though I understood from the Democratic National Committeeman from Colorado that he had visited with Mr. Johnson about me, so that Mr. Johnson was aware of the consideration of me
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • and the burning questions of free-enterprise and socialist form of government, autocratic form of government versus the democratic form of governments . We spent many hours discussing the pros and cons of each one of these questions . We had a complete meeting
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there and there were some political types in the hotel business, even. I can't remember the fellow's name but he was a member of the state Democratic committee, big politician, friend of mine, friend of Johnson's. He was in the room, people like this, and Dealey
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Company. I t was sad, and it meant more of a burden .was placed on Louis Ma r t i n . I worked a great de9.1 with the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee mYself, and a couple of others, to play basically IItalent agency," which we had
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • always do that. In the Democratic [National] Convention in 1968, we could not get Daley to move with the force with which we wanted him to move--not force, but with the presence--or get him to agree to let us bring in the kinds of presence we wanted
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] started to run for office that he was using the [NYA] office as a sort of political committee, that they had already learned the slogan "All the way with LBJ." Now this girl was named Waldridge originally, but as I say, I have not kept in touch with her
  • of Jimmy Allred to a federal judgeship; 1940 Democratic National Convention; Henry Wallace; favor to Parker when LBJ was in the White House.
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and incidentally, it's a firm now of a hundred and forty. now. We are probably the fourth or fifth largest firm in the nation The President incidentally refers to it as the fourth largest firm. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did I go to work in Houston [for Judge James Elkins]? (Interruption) He [Elkins] had become disillusioned kind of, with Roosevelt, you know, and the Democrats, although he wasn't in out-and-out rebellion. And he quit going to national conventions
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • first met him at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1932 when I was up there as a delegate and Franklin Roosevelt was nominated for the first time. I was a delegate from Ector County out at Odessa where I was living at the time
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with my own activities, whether in public life as well as in some private affairs, to appear before committees of which he was a member . other than casually . I can't say that I knew him I always found his attitude as a Senator on these committees one
  • incident; Glassboro meeting; Harriman; Wilson-Kosygin interview; Great Britain peace demonstrations; 3/31 speech; US-British relations during Johnson years; Dean Rusk; George Ball; National Security Advisory in White House
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • other prominent state officials were running for governor--they were actually running for the Democratic nomination, but that was the only race--before any of them announced. I guess he did this work in 1945 right after he had returned from the war. He
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weeks -- I -- 21 involved then in program issues was through the preparation of testi- mony before House and Senate committees and responding to questions that came out
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Security Agency. In the 1950s [you held] a number of government positions, including assistant counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime; general counsel of the AntiTrust Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee; trade
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that'? T: Well, I think I first really met him when he was administrator of the NYA I think, all the pages alike. So then you got through being a page; you outgrew that. [National Youth Administration], when he came here to be the adminis trator. F
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • campaign, particularly the convention in Los Never said a thing. Angeles? H: Oh yes, yes. F: Did you have any opinion about him about by then, either as a national news source or as a possible Presidential candidate? H: Yes, he was running seriously
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before the House Foreign Relations Committee. R: Right. Foreign Affairs Committee. G: Yes. Foreign Affairs. Do you have any recollection of that testimony? R: I know what he said. The testimony was actually written by Carl Rowan, who punched
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . They finally decided on a list of three from Pennsylvania, and then they started a final check out on them. One of them turned out to be the chairman of the county Democratic committee, and the whole thing was a kind of a fiasco. Then they fell into a pot
  • How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for his
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , no one whose name is known generally, but someone who has done something, who has achieved something for the community or nationally. Those whom the President has known with some degree of personal association or friendship, why they frequently fall
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the National Defense Education Act back in 1958 [or] 1959. Jack Kennedy had reported the bill out of a labor committee. All the universities were hot for it to repeal it. And many of them were threatening to have nothing further to do with the NDEA as long
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Underwood was the biggest cotton broker in West Texas, one of the biggest in the United States. And he was in big supporter of the Democratic Party. Great friend of Rayburn and some of the rest of them. Archie Underwood's name on there. That wouldn't mean
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, 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
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a Democratic member of the legislature who ran for the Democratic senatorial nomination. B. Johnson. The incumbent was Lyndon I had won a contested primary election in 1952 to the 1egislature,and while I was in the legislature I introduced a drought relief