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

. My chief activity was with Marvin Jones, and then the Agriculture Committee, on both sides of the Capitol. But I knew him as a young New Dealer, a fellow, congenial New Dealer. And then of course I became better acquainted with him during our

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

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

think he was ever par ticularly effective in understanding the House business . I don't think he was a very great wheeler and dealer in the House after the honeymoon was over . I personally believe that what we got out of the Goldwater Congress

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

. In fact, I just know that to be the case and I think very cor rectly so, because he ran as a 100 per cent New Dealer in the Austin area about the time President Roosevelt was having some controversy with Senator Tom Connally about trying to pack

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

because when he first ran for the House of Representatives in 1937, he had--it was a special election--he had corne out for the President's Court Packing Plan. That instantly and forever identified him as a New Dealer in the minds of many people in Texas