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Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Council. That's right. Paul Butler was then the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. I was retained as special counsel by the Democratic National Committee. the committee voted to establish the advisory with the charter, the form of and so
[For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority

with this as I am to his reaction to ADA things. This was Paul Butler's effort to give the Democratic Party the image of all-out liberalism and take the leadership away from what he considered the JohnsonRayburn image of the national Party, and I think that he

Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--and majority. Certainly I don't think they should have been bound by a policy that was completely partisan in nature. B: Is it possible that in that antagonism there 1.]ere personalities too--that Mr. Johnson and Paul Butler just didn't get along? D: I'm
Biographical information; Senator McFarland; Sam Rayburn; relationship between Truman and Senator Johnson; Paul Butler; 1956, 1960 and 1964 conventions and campaigns; JFK; Jim Rowe; Hubert Humphrey; Abe Ribicoff; RFK; LBJ as Vice President; DNC; 3

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

[For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

are going to be written in the record that the party makes in the Congress when you're out of power. And so Paul Butler came forward at the urging of many of these people with the Democratic Advisory Council. B: Was it his idea? H: I have no idea. I

. Go down to Dick Russell's coming out here ." So I rushed down there and got two cases of Black Label, and I came back up and got one in the basement and a couple of bottles under the bar . The Senator came and told the butler--I can't think of who

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that was the occasion where Paul Douglas went over to walk the bill over and it was already gone by the time he got there. Do you recall any of these circumstances here? H: I wasn't there at the time. G: Really? H: I didn't get there until 1957. Before 1957 I

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to assemble there--Jim Abercrombie, Brown, Gus Wortham, George Butler--and kind of just talk things over. G: I guess that big business in Texas was pretty much divided on Lyndon Johnson, weren't they? N: Yes, he was a very controversial figure. Of course

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