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Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

[to], it was a big Democratic Party or something like that. I went there and I just couldn't get it out of my head, and all day Sunday I was in a terrific depression as to what I would do. Now, I decided by Monday morning I would forget about it. I mean, I cannot do
health commission; writing the book Every Other Bed; Gorman's wife's work and his change to freelance writing; joining the National Committee Against Mental Illness under President Truman; finding support for national health insurance legislation

Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, when Alabama started to go Republican it was the three big cities. The country stayed Democratic, and Sparkman knew that, and that's the way he played the political game down there. Also, Sparkman had been the vice presidential candidate in 1952 and had

Folder, "IDA (Institute for Defense Analysis)," Records of the NCCPV (Eisenhower Commission), Series 11, Box 4 (Item)

Mrs. Norma L. Morrison Senator Frank E. Moss Bishop Reuben H. Mueller Dr. Kenneth G. Neigh James Patton Mrs. Esther Peterson Bishop W. Kenneth Pope Lawrence 5. Phillips Jacob Potofsky Walter P. Reuther Mr. James Kirkham National Commission
Records of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (Eisenhower Commission)

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

were united and all the Democrats were united, but most of the issues on health and the National Science Foundation and some of the others did not readily lend itself to a partisan view. I was told--I had a predecessor named Roy James, the late Roy
immediately after the authorizing legislation was passed; the role of the minority party and lobbyists; the increase in lobbying and associations in Washington D.C.; political debates based on politicians' home state rather than political party; Millenson's

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Martin – II – 2 I was very interested in his doing it because occasionally he would call me over at the [Democratic National] Committee and ask me questions about something. He showed me over the first
Vice President LBJ’s meeting with black cabinet, resulting in blacks helping with Democrats by distribution of literature through barber shops and beauty shops, use of radio, the press, and the influence of black ministers, especially Marshall

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the position it was a National Democratic Party-- T: The national Democratic Party had taken positions that \'/ere repugnant to many of the Southern states, and our people were in rebellion about it. Georgia went for the Republican candidate in the 1964

Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Administration was chairman--Kenny O'Donnell [was the one I was thinking of], who was the only seasoned, knowledgeable, skillful ward-county-type politician in the whole damn Democratic national campaign. F: We interviewed him. S: Did you? Before he died
presidential nominee in 1968; how to organize a major fund-raising event; efforts to get LBJ to support Humphrey in 1968; the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the Minnesota delegation; 1968 Democratic rally for Humphrey at the Astrodome; problems fund

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--for telling you this. But there was a night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1956 when Johnson became so convinced himself that he had a good chance to be nominated president that-F: In 1956? C: In 1956--that he started telling people

Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was in my mind. a great many political figures, state and national, because was chairman of the Republican Party once. I met father my At that time luckily we were on the Southern Railroad and speakers would stop there. Candi- dates for vice president

Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

impression that a staff needs someone like Califano who's an activist and aggressive and can put together a program? B: Well, I think it depends what your goals of your administration are . I think, if I can be political for a minute, the Democratic Party

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the Democratic Club, the Women's National Democratic Club on New Hampshire. A great gathering of the clan, lots of Texans, lots of other congressmen, and just all the family of the Rayburns that could be present. It was a much-looked forward to, and very special
on television; visits to historic sites around the Washington, D.C. area with guests; the 75th Club, the Congressional Club, and Women's National Democratic Club; Mrs. Johnson's interest in interior design; LBJ's decision to run for the Senate in 1948

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: We didn't have the Dixiecrat factor the way South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi, and the others did, and on this we would relate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention, which was held in Philadelphia. Many of those states I just mentioned got

Folder, "[Visitors - Foreign] Adenauer, Konrad [April 1961] 2 of 2," LBJA, Subject Files, Box 90 (Item)

the Christian Democratic Union, a party which for the first Protestant and Catholic political leaders been the strongest Following service in the state constitution this Council, which after Law. When the first together in a single legislature

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

really associated with the liberal side of the party and never associated with the Young Democrats, but has turned out now to be one of the liberalizing forces in the State. He said, "Well, history knocks seldom and when it does, you'd better open up
Biographical information; 1960 campaign; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Luther Hodges; North Carolina politics; VP nomination; environmental health center; Henry Hall Wilson; smoking

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the very first time you met Mr. Johnson and how this came about? I: I met President Johnson for the first time in 1956 in Chicago. It was during the Democratic National Convention. I was attending this convention as one of the delegates from Hawaii. He
[For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; first meeting LBJ and Sam Rayburn at the 1956 Democratic convention in Chicago; made an honorary Texan; LBJ and statehood for Hawaii; LBJ and the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the labor people and the political people. Where they were working together we joined right in with _b~ them, and where there wasn't much of an organization as far as the Democratic Party was concerned then we'd try to build up the strength of the labor
campaign for Truman; LBJ’s social legislation while president; labor’s support of social legislation to help working people; wage-price control; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with the Democratic National Committee.

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/30/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

having a party fo r Edith R ile y , w h o 's been with the White House fo r 30 or m o r e y e a r s , back into the R o o s e v e lt days. Now she's leavin g and this was just a little happy goodby, and say " W e ' l l be calling on you whenever we
as Queen Shenandoah; Lady Bird meets with Clark Clifford about Committee for Preservation of the White House; reception for Japanese Governors and wives; dinner with Jack Valenti; LBJ speaks to Democratic Women's Conference

Folder, "Korea - Vol. 1 , Memos, 11/63 - 6/64," Country Files, NSF, Box 254 (Item)

to la:it, it had to be worked out by the ~10 eovz:-n:-:onts on tho basis or what each considered its true national 1:.t~rc:lt3. We have f'elt thnt tho uS should avoid evld.enco of' zuch ~rc~t concern or 1mpat1ence ea po:s1bly to lead the parties to b·~lic
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Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Johnson attention, Unruh stole the show. I blame Unruh for the loss of these last elections more than any other person in the Democratic party. F: You don't think that Johnson then could have courted Unruh and brought him around, that he was already

Folder, "Diary: Vol. #8, 6/6/67 – 3/29/68," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 11 (Item)

as was the case in the Cuba affair. When one of these blows the President works with the National Security Council, those people who are in the decision-making process and the rest of us ·in Government are pretty much left out. I was gone last week when he held

Folder, "Ramparts - NSA - CIA, 2/67 - 9/67," Subject Files, NSF, Box 44 (Item)

· ! . ·THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR NEll POLITICS WAS.HELD IN . O~E THROUGH .SEPTEMBER FOUR, ONE NINE SIX SEVEN, FOR THE PURPOSE or·ESTABLISHING ' A COALITION OF ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING BLACK POWER~ ANTIWAR AN~ · CAMPUS LEFT-~ING MOV!MENTS. THE COMMUNIST . PARTY
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National Security Files

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

President--I was up at Wesleyan at that time, but I was down for a party that was held at the Women's Democratic Club. It was a group that, I believe, still meets once a month, and has a dinner and dance. He was there that evening, and he took me aside

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Was there an attempt on behalf of the Democrats to sort of showcase the party nominee, Jack Kennedy, and to make him look more important than perhaps he had been in the past? R: No, there wasn't any particular effort to do that. It was too late. G: Okay. Now
Allen Dulles' 1960 visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's visit with JFK in Hyannis Port following the 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's attempts to identify with farmers on the campaign trail; Congress' inability to make progress in the session

Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [1964 - 1967]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)

~t1on·in the past advised on :V...a.y 14-16~ 1962, the.t Jackson .was . ·present at a four day enlarged meeting.of the National' Committee of the·Commmist .Party, USA, held 011 )la.y, 10..;.13, 1962, •at Co:mr4unist Party, USANational Headquarters, New
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Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

these also delegates to the convention? T: Most of these men later became delegates to the Democratic national convention, yes. G: And that was the very convention delegation from Michigan that rebelled apparently when it was learned that Johnson
Address; LBJ’s 1963 Gettysburg speech; Jack Brooks; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; critics of LBJ.

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

who thought that he was the spokesman for the Democratic Party, and he had nothing but contempt for the congressional leadership. He had been a very strong advocate of Adlai Stevenson. So I think that the fact that Allan Shivers and Lyndon Johnson
; defense appropriation bill; Senator Earle Clements; LBJ’s drinking and smoking; LBJ’s heart attack and its effects on him; 1956 Democratic National Convention; Mrs. Johnson; LBJ’s insurance and Don Reynolds; LBJ’s success in business; LBJ’s secret office

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would come to see us about twice a year and stay two or three months. It added up to a total of about a fourth of the time of the year, or perhaps a half. Then she would go back to Alabama to visit other relatives. She loved the spring in Washington
, 1944; press support for LBJ; LBJ's work in the 1944 election; Mrs. Johnson's trip to New Hampshire to christen the U.S.S. Tench; family members hospitalized in the summer of 1944; the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; LBJ winning his

Folder, "Lynch, Connie Charles," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 10 (Item)

) ½:__ ;031, 115th · DIO 1 JOHN C. O'NEILL 9/25/67 . -~ ·FU• I·: 157-759 ~lice, Los Angeles., · California Bureau ftl• I: 157-141~ CONNIE CHARLES LYNCH RACIAL MATTERS~NATIONAL STATES RIGHTS PARTY CONNIE CHARLES LYNCH attended a meeting
American States' Rights Party
Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

continue to try to apply pressure on that stand or did he abandon it? Y: There was a little pressure. There was pressure from others in the civil rights movement, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, and Bayard--and the labor wing, especially. The Democratic party

Oral history transcript, David W. Angevine, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to this time had any direct political activity in the form of participating in campaigns and so on? A: Yes. In 1952 in Clay County, Missouri, I served as a poll watcher for the Democratic Party; in 1954 and 1960 I was active in Senator LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

like frightened quail before The two boys, my brother and I--our mother was in bad health for a number of years, and we went to live in Alabama with relatives. Just about the time I became of school age, seven years, we returned to Texas, and I knew

Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

we were coming, and I got in touch with a number of my friends in the Republican Party to tell them I was going to leave, and they said, "No, don't leave. We're going to form a party for the Democrats, but it will be a Republican group." I said
appointments; black attitudes toward LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; RFK, Truman, Humphrey and John Macy; Nabrit’s switch to Democratic Party in 1964; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s seating fight at 1964 Convention; advising President on civil rights

Folder, "Diary: Vol. #9, 3/31 – 10/19/68," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 12 (Item)

had 100 people. They were the old folks, a few labor leaders, older farmers, and fbr the most pa.rt the patronage controlling, historic, normal,rather unexciting Democratic Party types. Nonetheless very good folks, and they do represent a residue

Folder, "C.F.- CO 151 Korea - 1964, 1965, 1966," WHCF Confidential Files, Box 10 (Item)

-Republicon Party Mr. Sung Hee Kim Democratic-Republican Party Mr. Sang Kook Han H.E. Mr. Yong Shik Kim and Mn. Kim Republic of Korea to the United Nations Mr. and Mn. Un Yong Kim Republic of Korea to the United Nations In view of the fact that President

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

will then be placed in the Library, to be administered by the people at the National Archives incidentally, and this will be used as Mr. Beckworth wishes. B: Thank you. That's very fine. M: This is an interview with Mr. Lindley Beckworth. outside of Gladewater
Home congressional office facilities; family background; father's county school superintendent campaign; 1928 Democratic convention in Houston; college education data; 1936 race for state representative; introduction to LBJ in 1936; 1938 campaign

Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [Jan. 1968]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)

at Valparaiso University today. Brown is an outspoken militant who in the past has advocated the use of dynamite to bomb the Democratic National Convention to be held in Chicago du in the Sun.1~r.of 1968. The Valparaiso Police Departmen and the Indiana State
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Records of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)

Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

disenchantment with the Democratic party? W: Not at all. No. F: This all developed later. W: Right. F: Okay. And I was there when it occurred. (Laughter). We'll come to that, because it's part of the story. Did you see Senator Johnson down here, or up

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 7, June 21-30, 1966 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 8 (Item)

~~-e~~/t}-1J--9'1 Nt,-:f9f- 3'3~ Bowi~ t Pres±clent- from W. Ro stow enH-dential ti re: Robert Bowie 2•- - -1.06/24-/66 A 1/ from Ros.tow e: (, - }i 1' Argentina N L J g 7 -I 7 - FILE LOCATION NATIONAL SECURITY FILE, Memos to the President
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National Security Files

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

anybody going in and encouraging persons to become active in politics. We were not encouraging them to be active in politics for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or the Socialist Party or any party. We were trying to tell them, these are your

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

historically, that the Democratic Party had been best for the people, and "the common people" was the phrase used then without all that much pejorative as it perhaps is now, a feeling. And so, not that Adlai Stevenson was cut from the same cloth that Lyndon
; the Johnsons' relationship with Senator Wayne Morse; LBJ becoming Senate Majority Leader; LBJ's secretaries; Mrs. Johnson's feelings about riding in an airplane; the Johnsons' relationship with Drew Pearson; the Johnsons' party for Bess and Tyler Abell; family

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