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Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there. Senator Harry F. Byrd viaS, you know , p r e s e r v i n g hi s golden silence and the people of Virginia were not turned on at all. The train pulled off a little quicker than [usual]. Johnson was still on the platform talking and the train started
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Hubert went around shaking hands with every southern Senator, congratulating them on having passed an FEPC bill. ~~ell, really, there was pandemonium. Senator Byrd, this was the old man you know, who had this high squeaky voice to begin with, he just
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Russell Long's support was very elusive. G: Why was that? O: Probably basically his own views. He wasn't as elusive as [Harry] Byrd, [Sr.], of Virginia, but-- G: Okay. Do you feel like there was an expanded women's role in this campaign? I know
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Fred Harris of Oklahoma and others. You know Oklahoma has a large Indian population. This was a result though of two or three things. Number one, the Indian didn't have the type of leadership. He wasn't an activist in politics. A lot of the Indians like
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . In West Vi rginia it became very , very obvious when Senator Byrd really took off after John Kennedy that he was being spo nsored by Lyndon Johnson . Our only concern at that moment, despite \'le had our own political pr oblems, was Bobby Baker . Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Services Committee. Senator [Richard] Russell was chairman. Styles Bridges was the senior Republican. Lyndon was number three on the committee on the Democratic side, Russell being the chairman and Harry Byrd, Sr. of Virginia, now deceased, the next in rank
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with this whole coITUTiunist issue and saying, "They're trying to tell you there are nothing but a bunch of corrmunists among the Democrats in Washington. that good old red communist Harry Flood Byrd." would get a laugh out of the crowd. I suppose they mean Well
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on which Douglas wanted to go on ·the Finance Committee, and Harry Byrd didn't want him on the Finance ·conunittee. S: This was a way of keeping him off Finance. In those days,-there were a lot of reasons for assignments, reasons of that kind
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I never will forget what Lyndon Johnson yelled out, he said, "What has Richard Nixon ever done for Culpeper, Virginia!" The press picked it up. He liked Lyndon Johnson, and we lost Virginia. Harry Byrd was for Nixon. But I had been in business
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But for some reason there were some sweetheart union contracts in some southern states [so] that there was a little heat on like Senator Harry Byrd from Virginia. believe it was the tobacco people. I Virginia probably is the biggest tobacco manufacturing
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • personal and working relationship with soce of the older souther~ Democrats--Harry Byrd, and Russell, a.."ld that crowd. And I heard him. say that Johnson was a pretty foxy old Qc-u,· who • how to get things done and that he was a good leader. k~ew
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • president taking office after the death of a president had ever been before. And I think this came about after Harry Truman's bad experience with that, because it had just been more institutionalized for the [vice] president to be kept informed. F
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Philadelphia, drove there with a couple of cousins and watched the nomination of Harry Truman. F: Were you still waiting up at three in the morniog when he came in from that train on the siding to get the nomination? D: I thought he was in an alley waiting
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 5 (V), 5/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I think all of the cabinet officers could have, but very seldom did they ask for it. Normally it went the other way around, that the President would set up meetings working through Joe or Doug Cater or Harry McPherson to deal with a certain
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • House. 11 Then I tried to get hold of somebody in the White House but couldn't find anybody. He was tied up in a Cabinet meeting, and Harry McPherson was tied up in something, Califano was tied up in something. And late that afternoon I got
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and [Harry] Truman was going out. I was with him for seven months, until the middle of June of 1953, and all of a sudden I got called to active duty, going to the Korean War, which I always like to tell how valiantly I fought it over in Germany and France
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around a bit, come in under a hundred billion and a lot of people have forgotten why that was an important number. That was the number that seemed to be necessary to get one of the great barons of the Senate, Harry Byrd, to agree to the tax cut. So
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to get it through was to come in with a tight budget. Now at what stage you've got to come in under a hundred was explicitly formulated by Harry Byrd and some of the other people, I don't know. But it soon became clear to the President that he couldn't
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that we hadn't had in the state in a long time. The fact of the business is that at the time Mr. Connally made up his mind that he did not want to seek another term as governor. In polls that I saw~ the Belden poll .and the Louis Harris poll both showed
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , several freshmen did receive some choice appointments, 1ike Robert Byrd, Thomas Dodd, Gale McGee on Appropriations; Clair Engle, [E. L. Bob] Bartlett, and [Howard] Cannon on Armed Services. Any significance to these appointments? R: That's just Johnson
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with President Carter. (Interruption) [There] developed a shortage of ammunition in Korea and a special committee was appointed. Virginia was chairman. Johnson. I remember Senator [Harry Flood] Byrd of I was on the committee and so was Senator We found out
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the Senate. And Senator Byrd,at that time chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, chose to stall. hearings on it. He wouldn't even start Now after Dallas, President Johnson called in Byrd and made a deal with him that he would limit the budget
  • congressmen for a vote; red-tagging memos to LBJ; logrolling and congressional favors; the problems in passing home rule and beautification; Otto Passman; LBJ gets Senator Byrd to commit to hearings on the tax cut.
Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that he would do that for the football coaches’ association. It was a highlight of a lot of our careers. G: Sure. Tape 1 of 1, Side 2 G: I have a note here from March of 1967, about noon, that you were out at the Ranch with Colonel Harold Byrd. Do you
  • at the White House; Bear Bryant; visiting the Ranch with Colonel Harold Byrd; LBJ’s death; LBJ’s leisure time; LBJ’s health; how Royal met LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Mr. President." "Well, why in the hell didn't you tell me?" (Laughter) So that was just prior to the time that he asked for this tax, and he knew I didn't like deficits; he knew [Robert] Byrd didn't like deficits and he was chairman of the Finance
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • reasonably intact, in good forIYl. The probleIYl was that Senator Byrd was holding out for SOIYle sort of gesture of saving IYloney, of being careful in expenditure control, that he could tie with the bill. Mr. Mills had his gesture, because we passed
Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • firsthand experience with [Mike] Mansfield and Bob Byrd, so I couldn't answer that. End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview I 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The first time we had an opportunity was when I told him that Bob Byrd and Jennings Randolph were going to win by a landslide in West Virginia. You know he could get a little blustery at times, but he finally agreed to speak in West Virginia under certain
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasker -- I -- 9 And they came. They were [Alan] Bible, [Gale] McGee and--I think it was [Robert] Byrd of West Virginia. They were new in 1960. F
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Then almost invariably I would talk to the minority leaders or General Persons, who was General Eisenhower's chief of congressional liaison. So, yes, I talked to Senator Johnson. I talked to Senator Byrd because Senator Byrd was the ranking Democrat
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • them. She drove over those muddy red clay roads, and sometimes, when there would be a real rainy spell for a week, she would stay with some friends in Marshall, one of them being Helen Byrd, the Episcopal rector's daughter. She stayed at the rectory
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and Admiral Dick Byrd, who had been his aide when he was Vice President. Also, that was immediately prior to the Israeli-U.A.R. confrontation, and, as a matter of fact, Prime Minister Wilson was in the White House at the time, LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the Desegregation Bill, and the economy, the issue of the anti-inflation tax is all on the front page. G: New York Times, yes. C: In any case, as you might expect, the South not liking them, and the North. . . . Here's Bob Byrd fighting the guidelines. It's
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in law practice in 1964, and it was while I was campaigning, in a sense, for my father, who was running for hi 5 second term. I campai gned, too, for the Johnson-Humphrey ti cket, and sang Saine duets with Lynda Byrd. Arnold, Fortas, and Porter. I