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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [research and development], accepted the realities of life regarding the unions. Then [we] organized national advertisers to do public service, selling zip code. Here you are, with a volume of mail equal the volume of the entire rest of the world, growing
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • beginning to get more and more of this expression of concern of people in their states, and they're thinking more about it. But who has the answer? Who has the answer? Again, it's the loneliest office in the world, the presidency of the United States
  • ; the rail strike settlement; funding proposals for rat control; William Manchester's book, The Death of a President; Doris Kearns' involvement in a 1967 New Republic article that was critical of LBJ; a July 1967 memo regarding Irish airlines' opposition
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee, a significant debt. We had been able to scurry around to pay current obligations, the ones that you had to pay. That was primarily media. But as far as the other debt, travel, airlines, telephone, all of that added up to several million dollars
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • notes from one of the meetings indicates that this literature was targeted specifically at Protestant ministers and airline personnel. Did you find this to be true? 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral
Telephone conversation # 10501, sound recording, LBJ and MIKE MANSFIELD, 8/1/1966, 9:42AM (Item)
  • WH MEETING ON AIRLINE STRIKE; LBJ'S EFFORTS TO SETTLE STRIKE; EVERETT DIRKSEN, WAYNE MORSE, ROBERT GRIFFIN RESOLUTIONS; NEGATIVE EFFECT OF GRIFFIN PLAN ON DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS AND ON NEGOTIATIONS; VIEWS OF DEMOCRATS ON LABOR
Telephone conversation # 10507, sound recording, LARRY O'BRIEN and ANDREW BIEMILLER, 8/1/1966, 4:38PM (Item)
  • O'BRIEN ASKS FOR UPDATE ON SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE ACTION ON AIRLINE STRIKE BILL; BIEMILLER SAYS LABOR PREFERS NO LEGISLATION BUT WOULD ACCEPT WAYNE MORSE RESOLUTION, TELLS O'BRIEN THAT ADAM CLAYTON POWELL WILL HAVE NO MEETINGS ON STRIKE BILL
Telephone conversation # 10518, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 8/1/1966, 9:55PM (Item)
  • LEGAL PROBLEM WITH SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE RESOLUTION GIVING PRESIDENT, NOT CONGRESS, AUTHORITY TO ORDER AIRLINE STRIKERS BACK TO WORK; DEMOCRATIC SENATORS' VOTES IN COMMITTEE; LBJ SUGGESTS AMENDED WAYNE MORSE RESOLUTION BE SUBSTITUTED
Telephone conversation # 10559, sound recording, LBJ and LARRY O'BRIEN, 8/4/1966, 6:55PM (Item)
  • O'BRIEN REPORTS ON TALKS WITH JOHN MCCORMACK, CARL ALBERT ON AIRLINE STRIKE BILL; HOUSE INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE COMMITTEE HEARING TOMORROW; O'BRIEN GIVES HEAD COUNT OF PROBABLE VOTES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS; WEST VIRGINIA SENATORS' VOTES
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)