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Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • we were so democratic I traveled with my maid, who was Spanish and had at that point joined me. It took forty-one days to go from Portugal to Buenos Aires, because the British decided there were a lot of spies on the boat. They stopped us--I forget
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the Texas legislature, the House. I heard about a young whipper- snapper who was in the Congressional race to succeed [James P.] Buchanan who had died. He had been chairman of the Appropriations Committee. I say a young whippersnapper because that's
  • weaknesses as President; LBJ’s storytelling and sense of humor; if LBJ had been elected to Appropriations Committee, he would not have run for the Senate
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Hampshire primary a little bit, I don't think he ever did anything affirmative to get in thereo I think that Johnson over-reacted by ordering Bobby to fire a fellow called Paul Corbin from the Democratic National Committee. Paul Corbin, C-O-R-B-I-N, had
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • really didn't have enough money in the budget to do the things that he thought were important. F: So he was very active as long as he was there, you know. Now, any congressional official who sits on a committee that oversees you is a person to think
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • for John Bailey, and I had been doing some minir:;2l li.aison work ,-lith the Democratic National Committee trying to stay. And there were a few other people who were doing it. Roche was doing i t , and I guess McPherson in a different way was doing