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Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with me, which I think derived from some of his talks with Roosevelt, which in turn was one of the reasons I couldn't help Lyndon as much as I should have helped Lyndon. The LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES ROOSEVELT INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Roosevelt's office, Irvine, California Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Did you have any knowledge of LBJ when he was NYA [National Youth Administration] director [for the state of Texas
  • See all online interviews with James Roosevelt
  • LBJ's election to Congress in 1937 and Franklin Roosevelt's (FDR's) appreciation for his support in Texas; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee and FDR's feelings regarding the appointment; Roosevelt's duties with regard to members
  • Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991
  • Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
  • James Roosevelt
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • proposed plan by President Franklin Roosevelt to reorganize the Supreme Court by adding a great many members to it. The obvious objective here was to gain support which would validate a great many of Roosevelt's This, of course, focused attention
  • Biographical information; Jimmie Allred; Franklin Roosevelt's court packing plan and LBJ's 1938 election; tabulating primary election votes and the work of the state Democratic Executive Committee; administration of the Democratic party in Texas
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/12/1965 (Item)
  • . Stadiu m an d enrout e t o W H , stoppe d a t th e dedicatio n of th e Franklin Delan o Roosevelt Memorakl a t 8t h and Penn. Avenue , N W at 4:0 6 pm April 12. 1965 White House Monday Arrived a t the White House - - upstairs To the office w/ MW
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs Annual Convention in Lexington, KY, 5/21/1964" (Item)
  • and no youngster to go unschooled. There are those of you here today who remember Franklin Roosevelt's sad recounting of the one-third of our nation who were ill-clad, ill-housed, and ill-fed. Today, we are still shamed by the one-fifth of our citiz ens who live
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 6/3/1965" (Item)
  • will be wise in proportion as they are directed by a trained generation which really cares. I remember, not many years after I graduated from college, listening on the radio to a great American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. He came to the part of his
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to Washington, D.C. by Franklin D. Roosevelt on an occasion or two in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Folder, "Pepper, Claude (Senator) [1946]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 29 (Item)
  • and protocol. W1l on. The7 are Th 7 are siok to deat h of pro­ 'Ibey are 11 t ening tor the noble words ot a They are hop tul still ot the pr otloal lad r hip ot a Roosevelt . It I hav heard it once I have heard it a hu.ndr d times , 3 "If Roosevelt
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/9/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • , M r s . F. D. R o o s e v e lt III, M rs Franklin D. R o o s e v e lt," j r . ; M r. and M r s . John R o o s e v e lt; tiny, liv e l y M r s . K e r m it R o o s e v e lt, and M is s Nina R o o s e v e lt. MEMORANDUM THE W HITE HOUSE WASHINGTON
  • LBJ and Railroad Strike; Lady Bird to first anniversary luncheon of the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation in New York; Lady Bird & Jean Kintner to Needlework Shop to design needlepoint pillows for White House; Lady Bird mentions many people
Folder, "Farley, James #1," Papers of Drew Pearson, Farm Series, Box F 437 (Item)
  • right Roosevelt Roosevelt State and then it was that Presidency Big Jim took on the chairmanship Big 1im decided that some ➔ .tates Roosevelt. was really to its votes, candidate for the Big 1im right then him Frank, nor even having
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Franklin Roosevelt? P: I don't remember what all we have gone into in the past, but of course Lyndon's association with Roosevelt was very close over a number of years and was the most important factor, I suppose, both in his election and in his
  • LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • approval to all of our staff people saying from now on they could call it "insurance." But at that moment of time, of course, everybody was very worried, and I would like to add this--that the greatest contribution that Franklin Roosevelt made to all
  • [For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/30/1964 (Item)
  • April 30, 1964 (Cont'd) Benjamin S. Rosenthal - Congressman from New York - Jerry Walsh's district Undersecretary of Labor John F. Henning Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt. Jr. Edward A. McDermott - Director of OEP Cmdr Douglas H
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/21/1964 (Item)
  • Jack Valenti fr mansion Congressman Clif Davis Tennessee fr Mansion Undersecretary Franklin D Roosevelt Jr fr mansion Bill Moyers fr mansion Congressman Carl Albert fr mansion Cong Phil Landrum fr mansion Georgia Congressman Asst Secy Charles Murphy
Folder, "[August 11, 1967 - 1:00 p.m. Meeting with O. L. Staley, NFO Pres., Secretary Freeman, and Others]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • months to make some pretty harsh statements - I have my own political situation, too. But I have tried to make it clear that the farmer 1 s problems have existed for more than fifteen years. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. once said that the American farmer
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, World Food Exposition Youth Day - Madison, Wisconsin, 9/23/1967" (Item)
  • about the new America young people are helping to build. Years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt spoke in moving words about the future of America. "One day, 11 he said, "a generation may possess this land, blessed beyond a..,ything we now know; blessed
Reading copy, Remarks by Vice President at Graduation Exercises, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 6/5/63 (Item)
  • alwaysref1erto the Navy as I us.Ill Onthis daythirty yearsago, in 1933,Franklin D. Roosevelt wasthe speakerhere -- and he.awarded the Bachelorof Sciencedegreefor the fiirst time in the NavalAcademy'shistory. I knoweachof you is r- proudof yoDr newcommission. I am
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • clouds of war in Europe, and the continuing question, which indeed had begun in 1939, "Is [President Franklin] Roosevelt going to run for a third term? Nobody's ever done it. Is he going to? And if he runs, can he win?" Because we think of him now
  • Questions in 1940 about whether Franklin Roosevelt would run for a third presidential term; the Marshall Ford Dam; social activities in Washington, D.C. in 1940; the death of LBJ's uncle, George Desha Johnson; Rebekah Johnson's 1940 visit
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • remember he was always very interested in what was happening in Russia with the religion and so on. F: Did he ever ask you anything about Franklin Roosevelt's last moments? S: No, that was one thing I didn't want. F: Right. S: No, no. F: Well
Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the day he was fired. G: Did he seem surprised? M: A guy brought in the slip and he put it in his pocket and we went on with lunch. G: He knew what it was. Let me ask you about Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt. Did you get a sense then that he
  • Appointment to Naval Affairs Committee in 1936; how he met LBJ; trip to Central America to evaluate a second canal; war service; President Roosevelt and LBJ; LBJ as senate majority leader; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • say. delivery is clear and quite good. Personally I think the President's He hasn't the magnetism--personal magnetism-- or voice of a Franklin D. Roosevelt, which was an amazing thing. When Mr. Roosevelt said, "My friends," everybody just moved up
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to work for Anheuser-Busch to begin with and just give a little of your own background. B: Well, of course, back in 19--before [Franklin] Roosevelt even ran, Mr. Busch, Sr. wanted to get somebody to be able to fit into the thing, because it was going
  • How Buford met LBJ; how Buford went to work for Anheuser-Busch; support for Franklin Roosevelt and how Buford met Sam Rayburn; LBJ's conservatism in the early 1940s; Anheuser-Busch business relations with KTBC; a Washington D.C. party the Johnsons
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was really in earnest building up an organization for a Senate race. He had a good head start over most all the congress- men, no matter how long they'd been here, because of his close relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Roosevelt family. Elliot
Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)
  • tax that you're speaking of? DURR: Federal. LIVINGSTON: A federal bill to abolish the poll tax. DURR: By federal action. You see, this was backed by [Franklin D.] Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt, and it was a bill that in federal elections would
Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and I think that, in the early days at least, r4r. Johnson was pretty well a student of Hr. Sam Rayburn. Sam Rayburn was his mentor, more or 1ess. i~: In the same line, the books also write that Franklin D. Roosevelt also boosted Lyndon Johnson. G
Folder, "Pepper, Claude (Senator) - Notes [1940-1943] [2 of 2]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 11 (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , we don't worry about dates. H: But I first became aware of him, [did] not meet him, but became aware of him when I was working with President [Franklin D.] Roosevelt as sort of an all-around handmaiden or advisor. I would go to Washington
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tom Clark -- Interview I -- 2 F: Had you known Mr. Truman fairly well? C: Yes. Roosevelt first appointed me in the Department of Justice
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a court reporter. Roosevelt liked Jimmy Byrnes. In fact, Franklin Roosevelt wanted James Francis Byrnes to be his running LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the convention in New York City, and I also carried the New York banner in the convention when he was nominated, placed in nomination, by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Governor Roosevelt placed his name for nomination in '24 in Madison Square Garden and again
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 78, July 2002," LBJ Library (Item)
  • path the history of Europe would have taken if an anony­ mou an;her in l 066 had not gotten incredibly lucky. Finally, Geoffrey Ward considered how things might have gone had not Franklin Roosevelt defied the odds and been elected president. Everyone
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 57, 1 April 1994," LBJ Library (Item)
  • helped if for some reason he is turned into a folk hero:· He gave this assessment of recent U.S. presidents: Franklin Roosevelt: "Pretty uniformly seen as a great President. There has been less fluctuation than almost any other case we can think
Record copy, Senator Johnson Announces His Candidacy for U.S. President, Auditorium, New Senate Office Building, 7/5/60 (Item)
  • in it .... intimately. I cannot truthfully say that any man is qualified for it in advance. In days gone by, Democra,ts Franklin Roosevelts and Al Smiths. nominated these giants opened with was nominated on the first ballot., Stevenson was not chosen until the have had
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • supporter of Franklin Roosevelt. President Roosevelt urged me to run for Tom Ford's seat. The Democrats did not want to lose this vote and they didn't think anyone else could hold the district. Mrs. Roosevelt had been in California shortly before I agreed
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • days, no. The Republicans didn't really arrive on the scene until after Franklin Roosevelt made them mad. P: Referring to Garner again, in 1939 there was a big issue about John L. Lewis calling Garner a poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, evil old man
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • George Marshall, who was picked by Franklin Roosevelt. So a lot of political commenta- tors thought that Ike was a good guy and was more liberal than [Robert] Taft and the Republican Party, and that he would make a great Democratic nominee. I am
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of '37, and then Hugo Black was appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin Roosevelt in August 1937. My friends here called me on the long distance telephone to tell me I ought to come on home and run for the Senate. So I came home as soon as I could
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • remember Lyndon Johnson meeting Franklin Roosevelt? K: Yes, this I remember very distinctly. 11: \.Jhat happened? That was right after the election, wasn't it? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • since. But I'm sure there will be one for others. C: Do you realize that the FDR memorial, the Franklin Roosevelt memorial, is finally being built-- M: I know. Isn't that amazing. C: --after all of these years. (Laughter) 10 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the time I was about three months old until I left there in December of 1942, when I was fourteen. G: You began in the Senate as a page, I understand. B: Yes. I was appointed as a page boy by the late Burnett Maybank, whom Franklin Roosevelt, our late