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there all my life except for World War II and the years I spent in Washington. I have no desire to live anywhere else. Any particular point which you want to [start with]? G: How did you get into Senator [Robert] Kerr's orbit? R: When I got out
How Reynolds came to work for Senator Robert Kerr in 1953; LBJ's relationship with Kerr and Richard Russell, especially regarding civil rights; cooperation and leadership among Russell, Kerr, and LBJ and why they were successful; Senator Robert

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

th e l ate 1950s with the Racket s Committee invest i gating staff, with , l ater, Senator Robert Kennedy . 0: No . Did you get to know Mr . Johnson at all du r i ng t hat time? I had seen him , but I ' d never met [h im) . The fi r st time I
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

up a little ticket of Harry Byrd for president and you for vice president. Did that ever have your blessing? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's

. Working your way around those personal imperatives can require a good deal of personal persuasion. He was very good at it. the kind of thing that I think Bobby Byrd is doing now. It's The way he got the Senate leadership job, is by having so many

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

, it was deliberately used against him. ·There's no question of that. In a state like Texas, most of the midwestern states. I remember Robert Kennedy, who was the campaign manager, telling me that he thought that the Catholic issue hurt worse in the Midwest than

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that they all did their best. F: Did you find Carl Hayden fairly easy to work with? B: Yes. F: He had not lost his grasp? B: He had not. The old gentleman was a wonderful gentleman. He was amazingly astute. I found all of them--Senator Harry Byrd
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, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that will authorize the state to borrow up to $81,000,000. That's one per cent roughly of the assessed value of the land in Virginia. But pay-as-you-go was one of the things that Harry Byrd put through, and I helped him to do it. We wouldn't issue bonds to build
; General Douglas MacArthur; Harry Byrd; conservation; Civil Rights Acts; major changes in U.S. government in 35 years; accomplishments of the American people

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

like that. G: Did he play a role in the highway legislation, to establish the interstate highway system? T: Well, Senator Harry Byrd came before our Public Works Committee in 1956, and opposed that bill on the method of financing and helped to defeat

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

for them and what they might ask him to do in the future. He had great per- sonal contact with the senators and great sense of evaluation, which made it possible for him, for example, to pass the tax cut bill, because he was close to Harry Byrd. M

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of it that was substantive was that we were afraid, obviously, that if you let the Harry Byrds of the Congress dictate the terms, the danger was that badly needed expenditures would go down the drain. He needed not only the expenditures for their own sake
Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s

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, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

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

in the spring of 1967, after the freeze had been on for four or five months, a delegation from the Congress called on the President. These were senior members from--I've forgotten just what the makeup was, but I know that two of them were Randolph and Byrd

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