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Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

convention which first named Stevenson that you had that problem of the FEPC [Fair Employment Practices Commission] plank and your compromise on that, that the Labor Department would act by persuasion instead of compulsion in developing the FEPC. Did you ever

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and clean working conditions for labor, adequate aid to and care for veterans . He opposes the federal lecting production tax on our natural government controlling and colresources ." I mentioned to this group that that was about what I said and wrote

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

to go a step further with respect to tidelands, when Daniel got to Washington, his big issue had been tidelands and Johnson was completely responsible for him being made a member of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee which was the committee

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

down a little. B: Brought down there by whom? M: An employee of the Department of Agriculture. B: With the knm.,rledge of the Administration? M: Oh, yes. B: That's an interesting point. M: It's interesting. B: You recall the names of those

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or something like that. Or maybe they'd have somebody from the execu- tive department to explain a particular project in which Texas was interested. It.was the closed door sessions of the Texas group where the decisions [were madeJ--where they really got

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

--it was a seesaw affair up until the last minute. P: Were you in doubt: of Mr. Johnson winning that election? How did you feel about it before the actual voting day? T: There were only two elections I have ever bet on in my life--both of those were that summer

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Johnson felt like his vote won for him also. B; Had any of the ca:mpaign bitterness lingered over into that co:m:mittee :meeting? S: Oh, yes. place. It was a heated affair and bitterness was very evident all over the Everybody was working feverishly

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it was part the romance, but also the great interest I had in foreign affairs. F: As an undergraduate, had you been interested in political science? D; Marginally. I was a Spanish and Portuguese major. South America and set the world on fire. I wanted

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Mahon--I--ll M: The dominant force there was Vinson. some of the areas. But Johnson was rather active in But there wasn't much chance for a man on the Naval Affairs Committee to distinguish himself~ as I see it. I'm

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

have to come back right in a hucry ." So when Mr . McCormack got out of shot, he says, "Fish, that's a sweet affair, I'm sure . we ain't tied down that close?" But aren't you glad that You know, Joe, for forty years, more than forty years now