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Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ticket. P: We didn't have too much trouble. We had a good organization here. Judge Hughes was co-chairman with me (Sarah T. Hughes, who is now a federal judge), and Mr. Barefoot Sanders was the campaign manager. So the three of uS had a pretty good

Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to my dispatcher downtown to see how things were progressing in the investigation. Shortly after that Judge Sarah Hughes arrived at Love Field,and I escorted her on the plane. I stood by on the plane while President Johnson took his oath of office

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the best I could. Helped in any way I could. G: Who were his principle political aids here? Advisers? Operatives in Harrison County? T: I guess I was and Dar [?] Sullivan. Do you know Dar Sullivan and Powell? G: Hugh Powell? T: Yes. Hugh Powell. G

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: Do you know how we hired Hugh Robinson? G: No. C: When I was in the Pentagon, Jack Valenti

Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that. PH: Recalling the Legislative battle over creating the LCRA district, I seem to recall that some people who are now prominent in public life you might say, like Judge Sarah Hughes was one of the -SG: Ny memory of tJwt, -- I've gone bock and reod

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

you stayed It was Senator Borah who worked out this Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was in on it. I know that during that fight they worked closely together, although very secretly. Hughes outwardly kept his hands off the struggle, as he should

Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barrow -- I -- 8 B: Yes, I went to Los Angeles. F: Officially or unofficially? B: I went there as an alternate. My friend, Ed Hughes, who was a dear friend of Bob Kerr's

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

military aide, Don Hughes. I had already gone to Chicago with Len to help set up the convention. We heard about it in Chicago, and Don Hughes called me to say that he was meeting with Rockefeller and not to say anything about it. Then of course we had

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

more use for him. G: What about Hugh Roy Cullen? D: He wrote me a letter and said, "Lyndon has promised me that he will vote right." I did not make copies of the letter, but I showed it to Roy Harrington, of the AFL-CIO and let him read

Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

just how I know I worked all the time. G: I guess Hugh Carey would have had a very different-- P: Yes, Hugh Carey--is that who you mentioned? G: Yes. P; Yes, he worked with us all the time, too. He was a great asset to us and he was a great

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be accompanying Premier Kosygin, Therefore Mrs. Johnson would be part of this, and we had to do something with and for the lady. talked to Dick Hughes. The President meantime had He and Betty had thought that a day at a beach with a normal family might

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to the Attorney General, but I'm not aware of that. By the time I came aboard I think that probably the decision was already made. At any rate we determined that we were waiting for Judge Sarah Hughes to come aboard. At that point somebody said, "What's

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

peculiar group including Norbert Schlei [later Assistant Attorney General], Hugh Calkins, a prominent Cleveland lawyer and friend of Adam Yarmolinsky, Dick Boone and Bill Cannon. I didn't come in from the guerrilla war until Jack Conway was picked in April

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

into the Department. It just happened at that time the Court Packing Bill was up. They didn't have many lawyers that had had any trial experience, so when Chief Justice Hughes sent down word to the trial courts to set the Justice Department cases--there happened

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

interested in that book. I thought Hugh Sidey's book was a pretty fair book of both the strengths and weaknesses of the President. The Evans and Novak book purported to be authoritative about so many matters that I know nothing about that I really don't

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

And hell, talk to someone like Hugh Sidey, you really should, about LBJ and the press. Because Hugh was covering him then. He will name instance after instance of LBJ changing a decision already made because it had leaked. He just wanted to prove

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

about Senator McCarthy, Joe McCarthy? W: Not a whole lot, no. G: I have a note that Clint Murchison and Hugh Roy Cullen supported McCarthy but that LBJ-- W: Didn't. G: --didn't. W: I remember that. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 17 factor was. Le t me see if I remember. recommendation was this; appointed. The way the ABA committee had it for they put in a rule after Sarah Hughes got They got forced, they thought

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

when they left Parkland. That was at the time that they had telephoned Irving Goldberg and he helped locate Judge Sarah Hughes to come to the airport. I did not make any effort LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1975 INTERVIEWEE: DORRIS POWELL (MRS. HUGH POWELL) INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, Mrs. Powell, we're recording. P: I had the opportunity of meeting her because my parents lived

Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, they sent for Judge Hughes, Sarah Hughes, because they had to have someone quickly and they were able to get her. M: And then your husband was a witness to this ceremony? T: Yes. M: Then did he fly back to Washington in the plane? T: Yes, he went

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

governors and I guess I never had a sense of political problems with either Nelson Rockefeller or Richard Hughes, the governor of New Jersey. [William] Scranton was always a mixed bag. G: Really? C: I think partly because Scranton was this different kind

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and with Liz, with Sam Hughes of the Bureau of the Budget and with Ed Crafts, director of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. The latter two gentlemen had been carrying on the basic negotiations for the redwood park with the lumber companies

Oral history transcript, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

simply . . . . The President has no . . . . Read Hugh Sidey's account of the comparison between the candy box portrait of Madame Shoumatoff, who has made a great career, [and Petey's]. It has paid her very well, making candy box [portraits]. K

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Force One, with a low ceiling and banks of flourescent light, the lighting was adequate for a 60th at 4, or something like that, which is probably what I shot. So I was ready to go. Things began to shape up at that time. T.] Hughes, showed up right

Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

friend of the family and a friend of ours. out in this precinct, supported me. Judge Calvin Hughes, who lived And the Johnson boys up at the Trading Post, and a number of people--I hate to try to single them out--that supported me, that felt like I did

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

civil rights vote. precisely the details. I've forgotten But it was, I remember, Hugh Scott [of Pennsyl vania that] brought it up. The idea was to embarrass the new Democratic leadership. Johnson was instrumental in quickly and efficiently moving

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of committee members and staff, including Edith Green, Phil Landrum, Carl Perkins, Frank Thompson, Hugh Carey, Peter Frelinghuysen; Arch Moore, Albert Quie, Charles Goodell and John H. Dent; the Economic Opportunity Act and the War on Poverty; efforts to raise

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the sixteenth of February I met with what we had come to call the Tire and Safety Bill with Connor, Boyd, [Charles] Schultze, and Hughes [?]. I don't know if others were there. But Connor was very much opposed to standards right away, and he was very much

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in Califano's office with Charlie Schultz, who was Director of the Budget; Sam Hughes, the Deputy Director of the Budget; Harry McPherson; Doug Cater; Joe Califano and me. of the initial meeting was two-fold. The purpose One, to eliminate ideas that were

Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in and try to recommend to the White House some sensible allocation of responsibilities here. We were deeply involved in that. Sam Hughes, the deputy director then and now, was more involved in this program. The whole question of resource development

Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

something--it may have been in Hugh Davis Graham's book on the transformation of general education policy [The Uncertain Triumph: Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Years] or something like that--that you were appointed assistant director