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Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Norbert A. Schlei, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? $: The meeting was held over in the poverty task force headquarters, which I probably couldn't find, but it was somewhere north of the White House about three blocks. G: Well, they had several locations. Can you refresh my recollection? Let's see, one

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

not directed towards that type of war. G: Focused on Europe? S: Yes. G: Was there a counterinsurgency course or block of instruction? S: There must have been, but I don't remember anything about it. didn't make any impression on me. It See, I had been

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

only 1500 votes in Travis County. Polk Shelton was high man in Lee County, which is Giddings, but he got about 20 per cent of the vote in Travis County. Of the 12,000 votes cast in Travis County, he got a big block. Sam Stone was high man

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

aircraft. But we let them know that they were not blocking us out of our rights of access to Berlin. He was afraid that on some of the rather sensitive incidents that we had with guards on the auto route, which is about 110 miles long, that someday

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

presented that to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, which approved the idea, reported it out, and our bill passed the Senate, but it got blocked in the House. And I remember Senator [George] Aiken--I had renamed those counties for various presidents

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and water and doing whatever was necessary. So we drove up to this fellow's house out in the very beautiful part of Beaumont, big rich homes everywhere. down the block. I parked the car back A lot of cars were already there when we arrived. So we got

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

have an idea that--it's very easy to block any action in Washington. After all, there are a number of agencies involved in these little things aside from the State Department, the Defense establishment, the Treasury, Labor, Agriculture, and so forth

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Oliver -- I -- 1 1 0: Just been elected . He had defeated a little block of liberals that were led by Hubert Humphrey, as a matter of fact . G: I have

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: Blocking you out, you mean? P: Right, and not letting me get to the President when some of the situations were rather tight, especially during my fight with the advertisers. For example, when they had asked me to speak--that is, the AFA, the American

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

think it's the job of any who's in a staff capacity--I tried to see that these things got into the President. I tried to be an avenue of access and not a road block for him, but I'm sure I wasn't a hundred per cent successful with him. Me: What were

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

that shows that the 89th Congress was a "Rubber-Stamp Congress" and rushed things through. G: Let's take the '63-'64 session when, as you've suggested, a good deal of the Kennedy legislation had been blocked in the Congress. took some of this and added some

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of '61 and the fact that it wa.s so chaotic and the fact that the voter was on the horns of a dilemma. He knew the man he might want to vote for, but he's also voting against the house. You're trying to vote sometimes to block somebody and he's trying

Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it difficult to answer the argument. It wasn't difficult to answer; it was difficult to articulate in such a way that the people would understand. You may recall that there was a Herblock [Herb Block] cartoon at the time that showed Eisenhower--in his usual

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to object to unani- mous consent agreement requests because if they did, then they of course would be looked on as the stumbling blocks in getting things done. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the job. Finally Russell gave Lyndon the job, but it was considered to be a most dangerous thing for a fellow in the political currents of Texas to take at the time. You were risking your neck on the block. Hill prophesized to him that Johnson would lose

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and talked [with him] knew that he had a very high regard for Johnson so that he was accepted . B: What was the stumbling block against Senator Kennedy? Was it his Catholicism or his youth? J: It was both . Interestingly enough, one of the very able men

Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to go directly. It wasn't a very great distance to the Palace, a few blocks; that we would have to fly- F: I was there in the beginning of '65 and saw some of that area which was still gutted and unrepaired. M: That it would be much safer to go

Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was the CIA piece, and the other one was everything else. And the only way we could get around the country was Air America, because all the highways were blocked, and there was no way to go from A to B by highway. So we had choppers and Beechcraft [?] and all

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the White House in July and we were beginning to block out legislative programs-- M: 1965? L: July of 1965, the legislative program. We had taken a look at the field of housing in this country and the government programs for housing and found

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

purposely blocked me that day of the signing." I said, "Come on." And I started to laugh. I said, "You know that's not true." He said, "I know it is; I know it, and you're never going to convince me otherwise." And I must say for him, he then laughed

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 17 (XVII), 12/17/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. The only point is that any time you were in the position of trying to block increased benefits, you were cast in the role of an ogre. It's pretty hard to quarrel inordinately with Prouty when he wanted to extend it. It didn't belong in this bill

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, we'll say, · of Brenham, circling the square,. with a loudspeaker coming ··from the ' . . . . . clouds, you know, "Come to Fireman Park, 11 which is only two blocks off the square, people out. 11 and hear 11 Senator 11 Lyndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

apparently living in this hamlet along with the villagers at Ap Bac, and they attacked pretty shortly after these blocking forces moved into that region. Before they moved all the helicopters into the area, the fog and the weather conditions had made

Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Quite a man. P: A beautiful story about Mr. Sam: Mr. Sam never called me Pucinski; he had some sort of a mental block. Every time I was in the well seeking recognition he would say, "The gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Puccini." He did that for, oh

Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

School, and right up this alley was right to his house about a block away. Just in the back of my mind I think that's where I must have met him, because every kid in town would come out there and play softball. 10 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

piece of legislation with which I have ever had to deal, and as I remarked to you yesterday, this was one field of legislation where Johnson had no understanding whatso ever. I think the man had some sort of a psychological block to it, because most

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

father went out and bought a new one and let him drive it twice around the main block of town in Johnson City so that everybody would see him driving and everybody knew that his father trusted him. He just insisted that we had to trust our children

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to establish the policy of new senators getting one good · major co11111ittee assignment before passing out other assignments to the older senators. G: He himself moved from Conunerce to Finance. S: Again, that would have been to block, probably

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to have many, many meetings on the question of aid to primary and secondary education. And the major stumbling block, of course, was the First Amendment of the Constitution, separation of church and state. Though I think we were reading that provision

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the Civil Rights Commission was not viewed as a great boon to most federal agencies, and so we had to walk softly in our relationships with most federal agencies. And this is part of what I've just been saying to you about we being a new boy on the block

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

York Avenue. It was a block and a half away. As a consequence he didn't have much contact with the staff during the time I was there. That was mostly my job. NYA had an advisory council of five people, as I recall; Arthur Altmeyer, Josephinne Roche