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Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : I've been there several times, yes. Mc: What did you go to--a dinner or what? M: I went to receptions, and the meetings of the National Committee. the last thing. I can't tell you how many, but the last committee That's LBJ Presidential Library
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  • History of Democratic conventions; relations with Democratic leaders; First meeting LBJ; NYA; opinion of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • was the precinct chairman for thirty years, and he was on the State Democratic Executive Committee. So we, of course, both went to the convention in San Antonio. The big fight was, of course, the liberals versus the Shivercrats, and whether or not we were going
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  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ in the 1930s when he was state director of the NYA; LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate; 1952 split in Texas Democratic Party (Shivers’ “legal delegation” seated at the 1952 national convention); Texas
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --Republican or Democrat, if doesn't matter. course, I was lucky. And so you get it. Of I got some space nobody wanted, and it turned out to be the best room in the New Senate Office Building when we moved over there. Committees? ments. No, I don't think
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Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that to Mr. Bob Calvert, chief justice, I'm sure could give you a better picture of it. If you remember the [State Democratic] Executive Committee-well, let's go back further. The race was attempted to be contested by Governor Stevenson and Associate
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  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ through National Youth Administration; LBJ’s 1938 campaign for Senate and decision not to contest the loss; details of 1948 Texas Democratic Convention Executive Committee’s certification of LBJ over Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was very inept; I mean I was just a beginner as a stenographer. So I was pretty much on my own~ but I went through the regular political process that all young people do when they go to Washington. I went to the National Committee to get a letter
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  • election as speaker; LBJ’s role as Texas director of the National Youth Administration; LBJ’s campaign for Congress after Buchanan’s death; funding for the campiagn; how LBJ met FDR; how LBJ’s departure affected the Texas NYA; LBJ at Keach’s wedding; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • National Democratic Committee. That committee was floundering around and not doing very much and Lyndon, in effect, set up his own. His money undoubtedly came from oil sources. into the source. I never dug When I caught up with Lyndon he made it very
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Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • committee [for the] NYA. [Alvin] Wirtz was the chairman of it. last time. Senator I think we mentioned that Do you want to talk about any of these other people on it, or what role that committee played? (Interruption) Z: Of course I know Bob Anderson
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Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • practically most of the posts over at the courthouse. P: And ultimately in '34 Richard Kleberg, your candidate, was the first to win in a national contest? B: Let's see. It was not '34; he won in '32. In '34 they had redistricted the Congressional
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Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • commitment all the way through, no question about it. But Mr. Garner didn't like me because I ran against Black. You see, when I came here Black was on the Banking and Currency Committee. And traditionally if a Democrat beats a Democrat or a Republican
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  • rights issue; Nixon’s inflation of economy; LBJ’s sound ideas regarding national economy; interest rates; history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency.
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • areas, the famous interagency youth committee, which was to circumvent the State Department and USIA, or at least the stodgy parts of it. But no, I don't remember specifically. G: Anything on a cabinet-level committee? Did he advocate that to your
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Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , by the National Association of Manufacturers. It was a puff, gut labor bill. They were trying to take advantage of the scandals in the Teamsters and other things that the McClellan Committee had dug up to really land some body blows on organized labor
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Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was, of course, chairman of the Equal Opportunity--what was it called--committee. . . . M: Commission. Y: Commission. The Department of Defense was the most active agency, probably as active as all the other agencies put together, and I had general
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Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Tom Corcoran worked for the RFC, and Ben Cohen worked for a thing called the;;..~ G: The National Power Policy Committee. M: That's still done, too. W: But it is true that later Jim Rowe was a White House assistant, but The day isn't past
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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • and you're down and you're sunk. By and large, if you want to be sure to get across the lake, take the raft. And I remember that again and again. F: Professor Greene, of course, was a Democrat. In terms of the great issues of that day which were being
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Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • , to a meeting and •..•. PB: Jake Pickle is the present congressman from this district? HP: Yes. PB: What was that campaign? Was that the Hardy Hollers Campaign? HP: That's correct. PB: In other wordS, Hardy Hollers was trying to be the Democratic
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  • Biographical information; Labor and Public Welfare Committee staff and their areas of expertise; Lister Hill's work as chair of the committee; bipartisanship on the committee; committee response to Great Society legislation, especially relating
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was in the legislature. He was chairman of the appropriations committee and was on various other committees in Austin there at the legislature. He represented the Lubbock district and he and I were real good friends. Doyle called me from Austin and told me to meet
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Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a meat distribution cold storage room there on the corner where now is the back end of the First National Bank, right across from where Sanger-Harris store is. But also I remember very well that in the Mississippi River at Memphis during the day that I
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  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NRA; LBJ as state director; National Youth Administration; Harry Drought; John Nance Garner; NYA-WPA relationship; roadside parks; 1948 helicopter campaign; LBJ as a Congressman; competition between
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the Secretary? W: Well, it was an interesting story. That was the time when the NRA Codes hearings were being conducted, and a classmate of mine, who had finished law school, and I established the National Committee on Industrial Recovery. We got the various
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  • Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Democratic campaign committee functioning through its representative in the House was in deep trouble. Some very fine Congressman, I think from Virginia, was supposed to be in charge of the Democratic campaign for reelection of those members of the House
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Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Works Progress Adtninistration, it was to start with. The NYA [National Youth Administration] catne along shortly thereafter, which was sort of a junior WPA, and appointed a district director named Z. Starr Armstrong. I was single. Of course, Mr
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Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Congress with whom he was associated, and, of course, we had both Republicans and Democrats. We got into some heated arguments. At that time, also, there was an organization here known as the Little Congress, made up of the personnel of the various
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Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • care to organize the Democratic National Committee, that he doesn't care to exert a,direct influence on it, and so on. My own impression of this is as follows. rest of you agree. I wonder if the As I have known the President, he has never had much
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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and went to Houston and worked for the Federal Land Bank as a junior attorney for about a year and a half; then moved to Austin to help my friend LBJ organize and initiate the National Youth Administration program in Texas. That was in the summer of 1935
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Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Lyndon. Anyhow, Wirtz was very, very I'm quite sure he established that committee for the sQle purpose of getting Wirtz into it. MG: Senator Wirtz had national Yes, into his fold, so to speak. Did you ever see Wirtz' input into the NYA? Did Wirtz
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  • engineering office separate from LBJ's in Littlefield Building in Austin; Senator Wirtz on Advisory Committee; Gibb Gilchrist's Texas Highway Department; helping with red tape and paperwork supervising NYA boys on jobs; first roadside park at Onion Creek; Mrs
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , such as the WPA. An offshoot from the WPA was the NYA, the National Youth Administra­ tion . This was a program to help young people, boys and girls from 16 to 25, in part-time jobs, either in the school system that was administered by the school
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  • Early family relationship between Birdwell and Johnson families; early organization of National Youth Administration Program in Texas; LBJ's first race for Congress (1937); early days in Washington as Secretary to Congressman Johnson; KVET and KTBC
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that'? T: Well, I think I first really met him when he was administrator of the NYA I think, all the pages alike. So then you got through being a page; you outgrew that. [National Youth Administration], when he came here to be the adminis trator. F
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Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it . At that time there was another guy there [who] worked for Commerce . He had worked for a committee of which Mr . Johnson was head when he was senator . Thereafter when the press secretaries would get together, as we did from time to time, to see if we had
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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In 1935, I was going to Texas to meet my in-laws, whom I had not met, and on our way we stopped in every capital city to see the WPA people and othe rs, transient people that I was working with. stopped in Austin. So we The National Youth Administration
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Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Lee -- II -- 8 L: Well, there you get into a question of the ,advisory committee. It's quite possible that the staff of the NYA would come in with some number of projects on a skeleton basis. The advisory committee could give a judgment--yes
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  • Biographical information; NYA; publicity; personnel; visits from national office; Mrs. Roosevelt; project procedures; 1937 Congressional campaign.
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to, but that may have been something in Washington. R: It might have been WPA wanting him to, or Washington. I never heard that rumor though. G: Now, he had an advisory committee. R: Yes. G: An advisory board. R: I knew Mr. [Alvin] Wirtz for several
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Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • as we would like to have it. Would you describe that as fully as you can? WH: That time I recall in detail because I was running for Democratic nomination for a place in the Texas Senate. It was the 19th Senatorial District, composed of six counties
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  • Met LBJ as a student at a political meeting in Blanco, TX; Hopkins campaigned for Democratic party nomination to the Senate from 19th District, TX; Sam Johnson as a friend and supporter; Alvin Wirtz; Richard Kleberg's election to Congress, 1931; LBJ
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a rather forceful speech before the house committee back when there were some problems developing. It's the same time that both Congressman [James] Buchanan and Congressman [Joseph] Mansfield appeared before that committee. He was able to marshal his
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Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was the executive committee, and we went up to see Mrs . Roosevelt at Val-Kill . I remember when the state directors, after they had been to the White House, the meeting that we had with the President and Mrs . Roosevelt and our national advisory committee, at which
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  • National Youth Administration; Aubrey Williams; LBJ
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a separate committee because all of the white members would resign if the committee were integrated . national office finally went along with this . In Washington the Do you recall that issue? B: No . G: Do you remember Juanita Sadler coming to Texas
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Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 2 (II), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on, a measly-- (Interrupti on) Mr. Johnson and his initial staff that he selected immediately got wi th us, as they \'/ere starti ng from scratch. worked out, anything like that. They had no procedures I would imagine that the folks in their national office
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  • National Youth Administration; WPA; personnel; Harry Drought; Alvin Wirtz
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was with him. I would say, offhand, I'm sure that Lyndon was the state director of the National Youth Administration. I would think that maybe Jesse [was with him]; I know he came to later meetings with him. G: What was Lyndon Johnson like in those days
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  • How he met LBJ; impressions of LBJ; Keating’s mediations between Texas’ head of WPA and LBJ as head of National Youth Administration, 1936; finding qualified youths for the Texas NYA project; LBJ’s management of Texas NYA.
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was appointed the state director of the National 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
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Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • , if I may inject this fact, I was in Corpus Christi on a brief vacation and received a wire from the President which said he had been named state director of the National Youth Administration and: me and with me in that organization? days." "Would you
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Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was twenty-nine years of age. I have often thought. that as today in a federal agency it is essential to have a woman executive and a black executive, so in the National Youth Administration, it was essential to have a young executive. symbol of youth. I
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Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • the Congressman’s attention to? K: Oh, yes, there were a number of them, especially in agriculture. In those days, Mr. Kleberg was on the House Agricultural Committee, headed by Marvin Jones. G: How about veterans legislation? K: That’s one of the bills that I
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  • Meeting with LBJ as a debate coach in Houston; working for LBJ on Congressman Kleberg's staff; LBJ's influence on Kleberg; National Youth Administration; first campaign for Congress; contacts with FDR; LBJ's campaign techniques