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Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 State Department has submitted such legislation to Congress several times, and I believe it was largely blocked by Senator Morse--at least that was my

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Roosevelt's commission, which reported in the fall of 1934 I reckon, they had recommended an expansion and continuation of programs that had been initiated under the Resettlement Administration and its predecessor agencies who buy land in big blocks, say like

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

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, packaged, replicated by getting them accepted by communities to extend it. G: Was this the building block approach? B: Yes, that's right. While many communities came in with tutorial education--there was a heavy orientation toward education

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Scarbrough's to trade and you couldn't park within a block of it, you would just turn around and go home and wait until tomorrow . So I imagine that since space had to be bid on, that that had a lot to do with it . I never did know . I know that when we

Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the nature of this type of questioning get to the President? V: Oh, yes. M: It was not blocked away from him? And the people who felt that did voice their questions and not hold them at a private low level? V: Well, I really don't know all that went

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

history, and why it ought to go through and i.;hy if I was the S'~Y that was blocking it, I should unblock it. I had to get a meo~randum down to the President. I remember that And while the Johnson record was playing, a stray thought came through my

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

that? W: Oh, I knew all about it, but I don't know if I can remember it in detail. G: Then in September they had the crisis in Little Rock, when Governor [Orval] Faubus blocked the integration of the schools down there, and they had to send

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Street, about the 4500 block. studio there. It's They have a little Little--it would hold about fifty, and if you could get fifty people in there, you could make a lot of noise and have good sound effects and enthusiasm. I remember that we chose

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

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- V -- 10 building block with Lyndon Johnson, which was you had to--you know, if he did get interested

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Each ti me he tried to get support or money, I think he finally just decided that since they were blocking him so totally in one field, that he would just run for governor instead. I don't think he originally intended to run for governor back

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

snack after the vote. F: Where? P: No. Here in the Cannon Building? The party was at the Rotunda, which is about a block and a half from here. I know the Rotunda. F: Oh, over at the restau rant. P: Tiger [Congressman Oli n] Teague had

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

most to the Potomac River and had to double back another three or four blocks until somebody finally pointed out the Rotunda. Tiger had forgotte n to tell me that the "underpass 11 was under the ground, that I couldn' t see it. F: It's kind of up

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

moved as bride and groom; and they died there. We sold it only four or five years ago; it is two blocks from the Franciscan monastery. F: Was it an integrated neighborhood? W: Yes, there were about six Negro families in a community of about 2

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

point in time we were told to evacuate the building, because it was dangerous. And it was. And . . /e moved from the Court of Claims Building to an old hospital building about two blocks away. So in a period of three or four months, on top

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

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh O'Brien -- Interview XXV -- 13 deal of publicity. What was happening was an effort in the Senate to block this legislation to protect Nixon from debating Humphrey, who Nixon feared. We were looking for any edge we could get. With that, you were

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, which is where actually I lived, the life of the poor only six blocks away was a real eye opener to me. I worked as a member of that Society for eight years or so when I lived in Chicago. My experience with the St. Vincent de Paul Society was one

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that no southerner had since the Civil War, other than Wilson, who wasn't really from the South. He had been born in the South, but- F: Did Mr. Sam somewhat buttress that opinion? J: Yes, I think so. F: So that you were just geographically blocked. J: I

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. B. West to go with me. I can recall going up to Clark Clifford's office, which then seemed to me about half a block long, and sitting down. Clark Clifford talked and talked and talked and talked. He talked for at least forty-five minutes. I didn't

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was constitutionally dissolved. And during World War I somebody had done this very irresponsibly, I think it was on a naval appropriations bill or something. That wasn't what the filibuster was on, but that's what they blocked. And separate and apart from doing a hell

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

in the same year of school and the same sorority and the same set of circumstances. They were pretty inseparable, but this was more because life blocked it out that way. F: Did the press try to get Warrie Lynn segregated so they could talk to her

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

he already knew through Lyndon, some he didn't. Part of the time Wirtz was here, he rented a house over in Alexandria just about two blocks from where I lived; and he and Kitty Mae stayed there and we saw a great deal of them. But from beginning

Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and Jimmy Stewart, the movie actor, and the Kempners in Galveston, they didn't know any better, and they filed for it and moved it to Houston. Now this is one of the things we tried to block, and we did hold them out for about three years. I think that's