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- and Hale Boggs, that Charlie Davis had. Boggs'. It might have been at the Charlie Davis, you know, was the chief clerk of the Ways and Means Committee. been earlier. I believe he still was at that time, or he had That's right, he \vas in a Chicago law
- , well mannered, has adjusted very nicely to his new environ ment and making many new friends.'' Continuing investigation into Sirhan's background indicates, according to his brother Sharif Bishara Sirhan, the assailant had little association
- impression that the White House tried to let the new D.C. government stand on its own feet without too much direct supervision from the White House? M: From what I could see of the operation of District government, certainly the mayor gave me a very free
- believe Paul Ylvisaker was the principal spokesman for the state of New Jersey at which there were also representatives from the city of Newark, I continued to play a coordinating role for the goods and services that were made available by the federal
- . and Chicago riots; police violence; D.C. city council
- /loh/oh 2 K: Because he was new and Douglas knew that I didn't know him and he thought perhaps, I imagine he thought, that I could be of use to Johnson in his career and that Johnson would eventually be a man of influence that I should know because
- one, was quite conservative. paper~ I Jim Free of Birmingham, I think, as southerners go, is quite liberal; certainly more so than the . Birmingham paper. I was. Bruce Jolly, of the Greensboro Daily News, at that time, was I thought more liberal
- what I was getting to. VM: He ran in 1941 and was defeated. OM: That's right. F: You were still pretty new on the ground yourself. OM: Well, that was the year we moved to Washington, you see. No. I misunderstood the date. That's the one you
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- and then they changed that title . Incidentally that job paid a new sum of $1800 . F: Oh, you got a big raise . M: So I got a raise . here . That was during the time that Mr . Johnson was Lyndon was here and he and Lady Bird were the office forces around here
- a job that I thought would be constructive . Government Operations fitted that category . be done . It was available, it could They were putting some new members on it . The Republicans controlled the Congress, you understand, in January of '53
- . B: Did you see or [lear any signs of presidential ambition, say, in 1956? S: I didn't. I was not that close to him. I was not in Chicago in 1956 \vhen Jack Kennedy almost got the nomination for vice president, so I really \vas not that close
- HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldberg -- I -- 17 me copies of the briefs that were submitted to New Orleans and to New York. F
- notes," "economic news notes." And it was about the last thing we did every night, sometimes it was 3 a.m., but we always got off our daily news note on the statistics of the day and what they meant. They were not designed really to advocate a policy
- there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab." to stay. So I
- either late, late the night of the speech or early the next morning to go tv Chicago on the morning of April 1. F: This was a sudden decision--the overt part of it was sudd0n? T: Well, it was something he'd sort of been holding in abeyance
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
- and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter
- ticket for Governor Stevenson and Sparkman, and Governor Stevenson and Senator Kefauver. F: Were you a delegate to either of the conventions? T: Yes, I was a delegate, I believe, to the Chicago convention, which renominated Stevenson. F: So you
- willing to assign that man. R: Well, yes, certainly, because there's a rapport there, and when a new man comes in it's an advantage because there's an understanding there and and it makes it much easier for us to present our problems to the extent
- by political philosophy or conviction? A: Yes, I would have looked on Mr. Johnson in those days as part of the New Deal, a young man that came up during the Roosevelt days that had been liberal and progressive in his thoughts. Of course he came from what
- daily? N: Not daily, 0:: Cape Cod at the time of the second primary? but I telephoned. I bought the New York Times. Boston pa?ers didn't report anything. The The New York Times would have very confusing information, and I remember I called
- for the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who has just started this new thing called the Peace Corps." had read about it. do." He said, "Do you want a job?" I said I I said, "I think I So he wrote on a piece of paper in his notebook the name "Bill
- great peeves of all peeves; everything was just haywire that afternoon, as you can well imagine it was. The Johnsons had a new Chrysler--an~vay, some new car that I was driving, and I always drove those new cars like I was handling glass an~Nay
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
- of January of the year after one's election. I was a candidate in 1934 in the new district, the Nineteenth District, that cut Marvin Jones' district about half in two. I ran along with--there were nine of us--no incumbent [who] ran for the position and I
- How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- accurately predicted the coming results of the election. He was very pessimistic about Governor StevEmson and Senator lIIcF'arland's chances of election. I remember Hr. Symington suggesting - they were discussing who the new I'Iajority Leader should
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- the country, testing the water. I had never been with him in a campaign for office in Texas. I had never campaigned with him. so it was a new experience to see how much he enjoyed it. He just had to reach the people, you know. The Secret Service had one
Cable, at 1805 GMT, 11/22/63
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- J MI-5 CALL REPORTED THAT AT 1805 GMT 22 NOV AN ANONYMOUS WAS MADE IN CAMBRIDGE, OF THE CAMBRIDGE NEWS RPT ENGLAND CAMBRIDGE SAID ONLY THAT THE REPORTER EMBASSY IN LONDON LAST NIGHT AFTER RECEIVED INFORMED CALL AND THE THING
- DISCUSSION OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE JFK ASSASSINATION AND OF TEXAS STATE INVESTIGATION OF ASSASSINATION; STOREY MENTIONS DALLAS MORNING NEWS STORY ON COMMISSION, MENTIONS HIS WORK ON WORLD PEACE THROUGH LAW AND OFFERS HELP ON CIVIL
- RUSK APOLOGIZES FOR UNFAVORABLE STORY IN US NEWS & WORLD REPORT ABOUT LBJ RECEIVING FOREIGN DIGNITARIES FOLLOWING JFK'S FUNERAL, SAYS HE WILL REFUTE IT AT TODAY'S PRESS BRIEFING; LBJ SAYS THERE WILL BE MORE SUCH STORIES BECAUSE THE HONEYMOON IS OVER
- New York
- LBJ ASKS FELDMAN TO CHECK ON PRESS LEAK OF J. EDGAR HOOVER'S TESTIMONY TO WARREN COMMISSION AND ON GOVT'S MOTION TO DISMISS ESPIONAGE INDICTMENT OF ALEKSANDR SOKOLOV; FELDMAN REPORTS ON POSSIBLE NEW ETHICS CHARGES AGAINST WILLIAM MILLER
Telephone conversation # 11404, sound recording, LBJ and NICHOLAS KATZENBACH, 1/25/1967, 7:45PM
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- LBJ'S MEETING WITH HOUSE COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN; PRESS LEAKS FROM CRIME COMMISSION; KATZENBACH DEFENDS COMMISSION; J. EDGAR HOOVER'S VIEWS ON CONSULAR CONVENTION; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT DEMOCRATIC DISSENT IN CONGRESS; NEW HARRIS POLL; WILLIAM MANCHESTER
- LBJ SAYS BOBBY BAKER CASE WAS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED; LBJ READS NEW HARRIS POLL SHOWING DROP IN RFK'S POPULARITY FOLLOWING WILLIAM MANCHESTER BOOK CONTROVERSY; LBJ'S STANDINGS IN POLL; RFK'S UPCOMING TRIP TO EUROPE
- and registered in Embassy, Moscow. 2. August 1963 - Arrested for breaking the peace in New Orleans apparently in connection with his distribution of "hands off Cuba" handbills. In interrogation following arrest admitted membership in New Orleans Connnittee
- with the 1941 campaign was four or five days after the election and when the Texas Election Bureau made another late return. F: It looked as if he had won, didn't it? K: It looked that way long enough that, as I remember, the Dallas [Morning] News
- .... be ablN4 tbat l do appreelate 1•r COllrhtlJ la fuml•ldaa thla la.for• •tl•• allll lt wf.11 realw appropriate eouU.ratlea. With klade•t repr4• ucl beat SlMerelJe dr wf. ■he•• I aa D'ISTRICT PARISH STATE 2700 NEW JIM GARRISON DISTRICT ATTORNEY
- - I 4:30 T.sae Time -11-22-63 From the Preaideadal a.lrplaDe • The Prealdeat called Mn. Nellie Con nally: LBJ NeWe, do you 'Mar me ? We are prayt-. with you. darUaa. ad I know that everytlUDc l• 10lD& to be all ript. l•a't It? bl••• you
- LINCOLN PRAISES LBJ'S SPEECH TO JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS FOLLOWING JFK ASSASSINATION; LBJ DISCUSSES REACTION OF ROBERT ANDERSON AND OTHER BUSINESSMEN TO SPEECH, REMINISCES ABOUT NEWS STORY LINCOLN WROTE IN 1932 ABOUT LBJ'S ELECTION TO LITTLE
- APPOINTMENT OF GUSTAVE ROSENBERG AS FEDERAL DISTRICT JUDGE; AGE FACTOR; NEED TO OBTAIN RFK'S APPROVAL; WILLIAM VANDEN HEUVEL AS NEW YORK POVERTY PROGRAM DIRECTOR; NEWSWEEK STORY ON KENNEDYS' REACTION TO STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH; SARAH HUGHES
- "WASHINGTON"; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; LBJ INTERRUPTS CONVERSATION TO LISTEN TO TV NEWS ABOUT POLITICS, POST OFFICE DELIVERIES; CONTINUES ON NEXT 2 RECORDINGS; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART ON TAPE K66.01, PNO 7
- "WASHINGTON"; TV NEWS ABOUT VIETNAM, FEDERAL BUDGET AUDIBLE IN BACKGROUND AT TIMES; CONTINUES FROM 2 PREVIOUS RECORDINGS; PREVIOUSLY OPENED IN PART ON TAPE K66.01, PNO 9