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Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Democratic vote in favor of censure. G: Before we turned on the tape you also mentioned 1952 and Sam Rayburn's role in that in the Stevenson campaign. D: That's right. Lyndon did not take very much of a forward position in the Adlai Stevenson campaign
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • you also did a similar action at the Democratic convention, didn't you? M: I believe it was at the Democratic convention first. B: Yes, it probably would have been. M: And then the White House. B: With similar results at the Democratic
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , when he retired after ten terms. He I became his AA in 1955 and served until May of 1960. Starting in 1956 or 1957, we organized a small group of administrative assistants to Democratic congressmen as an informal luncheon group. We shared copies
  • Employment history; organization and operation of the Democratic Study Group; support of the Great Society program; attending bill signing ceremonies; accepting position with the OEO; Sargent Shriver; OEO staff members; problems in Congressional
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the leader of a coalition in the Senate. Because his own party was split ideologically in such a way that he was unable to bring complete unity among the Democrats for the positions which he espoused as a leader, or sometimes the policy sent down from
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on into his Presidency. You first began to make trips to Latin America for the government right at the beginning of your brother's inauguration. E: No, much earlier than that. My work took me into Latin America, as well as elsewhere, under President
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • When President Kennedy initiated American action, I agree entirely and said so in our own Parliament. And with President Johnson I didn't ever have any differences whatever. F: Now, you had a bit of a problem with regard to Malaysia at this same
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Community Action and over the opposition to Job Corps programs; that the local elected officials who were extremely unhappy, and being so many of the big cities were controlled by Democrats, that they had an open channel to the President to express
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ; it would be too much of a substantial increase. Maybe he didn't say it, but I felt that maybe he felt that it was too much for the workers of America to earn $1.00 an hour. And naturally he must have had a lot of opposition from his friends, too
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the Democratic Party in the Congress during the eight years of President Eisenhower's two administrations was a constructive influence. We certainly took the opposite to many of the actions of our Republican colleagues while Democrats were in ---a President
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • down in the Board of Education, when he was the Democratic leader and Mr. Rayburn was the Speaker, and as Carl Albert mentioned yesterday in some things he said about me, I was always welcome at the Board of Education. Actually, a lot of things
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Senate. Democrat it gave him a one-vote majority. Did he talk to you before you came up to Washington to find out your intentions? T: I don't recall his talking with me himself. body else talked to me about it. I think probably some- But I had told
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • watcher in America, then you'd have a pretty good survey. But this would be so enormously expensive nobody would do it. I just don't know enough about their techniques to make any judgment. I had a feeling when I was at the Bureau, and I think
  • ; 1965 Voting Rights Act; Democratic party politics; THIS U.S.A.; Vietnam elections; Election Research Center; HHH; assessment of LBJ; polling industry.
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the oil business. F: The reason I ask the question, you know some of them [businessmen] really look on any brand of Democrat as a kind of pariah and a liberal Democrat as something unspeakable. P: Oh, yes, there are many people that do. are like
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • mTERVIB~EE: FRANK CHURCH INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Senator Church's office, OS08 405, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin simply by identifying you, sir. You're Frank Church, senator, Democratic senator from Idaho. You came
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . So I wanted to go very slow on that one. Likewise, I was also mindful that with an election coming up also in 1966--Congressional elections--that it was entirely possible that the Democrats would lose some seats and therefore I would be locked off
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mean it was almost automatic that there would be a Community Action department, there would be a Job Corps division. There would be something that would handle education, congressional relations, et cetera. I don't recall at this moment any major
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was one of the founders of ADA. Americans for Democratic Action basically was a group of people in the United States who felt that the communists were trying to take over the liberal movement, and they fought them. effect. They fought for the soul
  • of Americans for Democratic Action; the Democratic Farm-Labor Party; the Sino-Soviet bloc; Humphrey's good relationship with JFK; Ed Lansdale; Humphrey's relationship with LBJ; the Diem assassination; Humphrey's trips as VP to Vietnam, India and other places
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with him during the '50s, during the period he was majority leader. I took a good deal of interest in the Democratic party because I was a member of the Advisory Council to the National Committee. The two leaders in the Senate and the House, both
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 2 that many of the members of Congress who were criticizing Johnson for would have been afraid to move had it not been for Presidential sponsorship. I think almost all the promises of the Democratic conventions--liberal projects that had been
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of all, tell us just a little bit about what brought you from Indiana and DePauw University, and so forth, right on into a life in Washington. B: Mr. Frantz, back in 1958 the Democratic party in Indiana faced a peculiar circumstance. As in many big
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the possibility that this degree of coolness on our part would encourage other elements, and specifically the military, to take some action to overthrow him, which is of course what happened . I, myself, participated in that policy very closely ; I went
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and the time you came back into government service as an Ambassador to NATO in 1961? F: I doubt it. During all that time after I left the Air Force in 1953 when the Democratic administration went out and the Republican administration came in, my political
  • Biographical information; Finletter Report; 70-group Air Force; George Mahon; Adlai Stevenson; Vietnam; decline in power of Democratic party; John Foster Dulles; NATO; meeting with LBJ on 4/10/64 on MLF; lack of support of MLF; Ottawa speech; Non
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , on that trip doing anything more than out of the ordinary to aid Democratic politics in Utah? M: Well, I don't know whether you'd say out of the ordinary. attempting, of course, to help us in Utah. He was Walter Granger had run for the Senate just two
  • LBJ’s assistance in Moss’ 1958 Senate campaign in Utah; LBJ’s management and leadership as Senate Majority Leader; conflict over Rule 22; 1960 Civil Rights Act filibuster; LBJ’s use of the Senate rules and vote counting; 1960 Democratic Convention
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the Democrats quite well and faithfully--everyone from Truman forward as President. I wonder how you first came into contact with Lyndon Johnson. M: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in 1950 or 1951 when I was Under Secretary of the Air Force during
  • Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • consistent expressions of understanding of what needed to be done convinced me that, given leadership of both the Democratic party and the country, that he would be able to induce a greater understanding of the need for civil rights advance. He had none
  • of statehood; Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City; White House influence on Convention; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; showboating at convention; 1964 ticket; LBJ’s options concerning poverty; opinions on black and women cabinet members
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , and this was a deliberate action on my part. an appropriate response to it. I had to think of Probably had my wife not been with me, I would have said it wasn't worth the trouble, but since she was with me, I resolved to do something about it. And then I resolved to do
  • Address; LBJ’s 1963 Gettysburg speech; Jack Brooks; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; critics of LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the arrogant part of what we did in Vietnam was to say that we can cure a basic civil war and create some kind of an ideal democratic society at one and the same time. [That] was the fundamental arrogance of American policy in Vietnam. You cannot do
  • Biographical information relating to Vietnam; fall of the Diem regime; Thieu; General McChristian and order of battle techniques; discrepancies in the figures; the crossover point; "The Uncounted Enemy;" actions of General Westmoreland; Giap
Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • have been of group nature rather than individual nature. B= Have all of these meetings been in connection with the work of the Soil Conservation Service? W: Related to work of the Soil Conservation Service. For example, the Keep America Beautiful
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Keep America Beautiful; LBJ strong support of conservation and development; Soil Conservation Service; Lady Bird’s interest in the outdoors and natural beautification; Great Plains Conservation Program
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 Federal Reserve took some action in the monetary field, and the administration went down with a tax increase bill which was essentially in two pieces. It deferred the further cuts in the excise taxes and again put them
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WHEELER -- I -- 3 first time I had ever seen him in action, and I was very much struck by one characteristic which I saw him display thereafter on many occasions. Mainly, he insisted that if we decided
Oral history transcript, Rutherford M. Poats, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the problems with India, the problems with Pakistan to some degree over Vietnam, as well as the India-Pakistan conflict, were evident major factors in his decision. I think he has several times indicated by action what his rationale was. He did not want loans
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • other countries--the Dutch were very much for it, and there were one or two-M: Very much for taking some action? B: For both the delcaration and for doing something. But there was a very real hesitation on the part of some of the other countries
  • Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . In a sense, Germany overcame problems that remained from the war and sought to throw off the influence of our country, to become more independent in its actions. M: Mc: And we adjusted to that change realistically? Yes. The difference occurred
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : The combination didn't cause you difficulty with your other delegates and the Ohio Democrats? C: You mean Johnsorrs? M: Yes. C: No, we accepted Johnson. M: When you went to Washington then for President Kennedy, were there any particular areas of HEW
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • for any office goes down there and files on that day. Anyhow 9 the leaders of the Democratic Party came down and persuaded me that I should not file for the state senate but should file for secretary of state--over my best judgment! I did 9 I had never
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • one of the best nominees that the Democratic party could have. I had never heard much about Stevenson. I think I'm a one-speech convert. I had never heard him speak. I had been at Chicago at the convention trying to build up a bonfire for Speaker
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the Vietnamese issue, made it impossible for him to adopt a course of action on the Middle East which ran the risk either of alienating support that � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Not at that time. I don't think I'm getting ahead of myself here, but there was a--I'm sure we will talk about this a little later--very warm and close feeling between the leaders of the Congress, or the Democratic leaders of the Congress and President Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Dulles was a very controversial fellow, but underneath they thought he was an awfully smart fellow. Many Democrats used to say to me, "Well, if we've got to have the Republicans in, very few Russians get up early enough in the morning to be able
  • ; weakness of the United Nations; State Department’s reputation of representing foreigners rather than America.
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a real economic analysis of it--and this should have been the essential theme of the economic report because poverty in America, the private poverty or thirty odd million people, the depravation of another thirty million people, means short falls