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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 C: At some point in early November [1965], before we had rolled aluminum back--we're in the middle
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- was frequently when I was mayor, and Cliff Carter wanted me to come in and see the Vice President. And I did. I spoke with him in his office right off the Senate chambers. I recall it very vividly because I remember he said, among other things, when he sat
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- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- see enough in that brief encounter to see where young Congressman Johnson would have felt impelled in his direction. W: Well, let me say . . . F: You don't see young Congressman Johnson without realizing it. W: That's right. And I can see where
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- as unique. F: Did you take any particular interest in his first race for the Senate against Pappy O'Daniel in 1941? P: Yes. F: Did he seek your advice? P: vJe 11, I doni t know that he sought my advi ce, but I di d recall hi s lamentations. F: I see
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- Courthouse campaign- ing when he was setting up his campaign. He came in, and one of my assistants was a young fellow then named Henry Wade. He came by to see if he could get Henry Lvade to be his Dallas County campaign manager. F: Wade, as I recall
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- encountered Lyndon Johnson. When did you first see him? Do you recall that? DG: Yes, I recall a few of the things, yes. I recall him coming over; he came over around December, kind of at mid-year, and he took over 1928 or 1927 in January, the teachers
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- the machinery, the procedures--all incoming mail is examined and that which the President might wish personally to see is channelled one way so that it reaches his office. If he wishes to respond personally that is done separately by in large, although every
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- Shoemaker, Arthur Whitney, Jr., 1920-2003
- very much and had a very high regard for him. So I started in trying to see what could be lined up on the campaign and just kind of scouting the situation out. I can't remember exactly when--but before too long he called me and asked me- - - said he'd
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- to the effect that the purpose is not to point the finger at anyone but to see what we can do in order to get us back into a position of leadership. B: What was Mr. Johnson's attitude at the time toward military? W: Well, Mr. Johnson, of course, was a member
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Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- before or afterwards? B: He always gave me the impression of having a hell of a lot of important things to do when I would go up from the paper and go by to see him as Senator . He'd always be glad to see you, but he'd give you the impres sion, "Boy
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- -- 2 understand the issue, just the big fat oil boys versus the poor people. There's a hell of a lot more involved than that, and you can see the wisdom of Lyndon Johnson's position. Those people who represented states who lived on the water wanted
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- . In the second primary, first of all, Congress. . . . You see, at the 1948 Democratic National Committee [Convention] Truman in his aggressive, feisty acceptance speech said that he was going to [be] tarring and feathering the Republican Congress
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- in the Midwest than here in the South? H: Yes. You see, the South is always a whipping-boy on these things of prejudice. We had had the Al Smith situation in our own state--first time in a hundred years we went Republican was for Al Smith as a Democratic
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- 1954-58; memo 85th-93rd Congresses, 1st Dist. Minn.; memo com. edn. and labor. Recipient Young Man of Year award Minn. Jr. CofC, 1957; Distinguished Service award N.E.A.; Legislative Statesmanship citation Council for Exceptional Children, 1969
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- when he ran for Congress. Edwin Weisl, who was a dear friend of the President's and at that point in time was attorney and an old friend of mine. He was our attorney corporately and my personal attorney in the East. F: I've interviewed both Ed, Jr
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- . Johnson invited me down to Texas to see the dam and to see this group of contractors, which is where I first met the Browns, George and Herman. I remember--although my dates are not completely clear but I can establish it from my own memoranda--I
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- governor of South Carolina, Earl Morris, Jr., who was a candidate for governor and who was defeated. I moved to Pickens. My father was the village carrier, then became postmaster during Eisenhower's administration, thanks to Senator LBJ Presidential
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Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of arrogant with me about my friendship with Clint, Jr. and Bob Thompson [?]. He was always leery, I suppose ever since he got that letter, of big fat cats trying to tell him how to run his business. He was skeptical of them. G: The suggestion
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- , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Joe, let's talk today about some of the reorganizational problems and talk in the beginning about the formation
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- , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Joe, we're going to talk about various bits and pieces today, and I thought we'd go back and cover that period
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- , and the others, to just bulldoze the house down, but we were making a big gamble to see if we could take this old place and turn it into a livable home for forever. I went down in a grey, bleak February weather, stayed with Mrs. Johnson in Austin, would drive out
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Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- not there, but they're just not as well known, and they don't really have the reputations of these other schools. And it's also kind of a circular process; you tend to see here in Washington top academic people from Harvard and Yale and Cal and Stanford; but you really
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- Califano, Joseph A., Jr., 1931-
- to the Republicans~ So we looked kindly on Mr. Sam all the time. The only thing that we wanted from him that I suppose he never could see fit to give is that we wanted liberal speakers to come into Texas. In fact, for years and years it was our feeling
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Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- /show/loh/oh Cikins -- I -- 4 Taylor became staff director later--and I of course had been very close to Rogerson--I realized that while Taylor and I are to this day very good friends and we see each other occasionally, I wasn't really his alter ego
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- , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: You had some experience with General Edwin Walker both at Oxford, [Mississippi] and then later when he was sent
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- liked everything that Mr. Mannheimer had. Someplace in my correspondence there is a letter from Goering to Seyss-Inquart to me. Where it has disappeared to today, I don't know, but I'm sure, as you see how disorganized we are, we will find it. In 1941
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- involved, as I see it, to do all these things. B: At that time whom did you deal with in the administration? Did you talk in those years, beginning in 1961, directly with the attorney general, Robert Kennedy? H: No, we were dealing more with John Doar
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- . For example, it would seem to me to be fairly easy to see just another southern senator, particularly in regard to racial matters. W: I think beyond racial matters I had occasion particularly to watch his performance with respect to legislation, which
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Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Mr. Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. in the West Wing of the White House. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Sanders, very briefly run down the account of your life and how you came to be where you
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- to be the recipient of legislation by both the House and the Senate, giving him his salary for life when he retires? And I said, "Yes, that would be nice." He stated, "The boss"--meaning Mr. Hoover--"wants you to handle it. I suggest that you see somebody like Lyndon
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- with Martin Luther King, Jr. FBI role vs. Secret Service role; FBI jurisdiction in cases; FBI involvement in civil rights cases, especially the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and Viola Liuzzo murder.
- in the short time that he had been governor, to see him very differently than when I had been a student. He had called me in once before. This is again digression, but he'd called me in the previous fall because he was greatly devoted to the University of Texas
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- NSC structure. I was the deputy member of the planning board, so I had three years of seeing how intelligence linked up with policy and how the Eisenhower Administration formulated National Security Policy. unimpressed. I was rather I thought
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- Bobby,"--which among other things included a judgeship fight-G: This was the Morrissey--? O: No, this was New York and this was the feeling that he didn't support Frank O'Connor enthusiastically. G: I see. O: "There's a general feeling," I
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- and Cesar Chavez's support for RFK; McCarthy's young supporters; RFK as attorney general and surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr.; RFK's personality; RFK's response to McCarthy's criticisms; public interest in, and perception of, the Kennedys
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XVII -- 2 R: Okay. G: You stopped on the way to see Truman in Kansas City, if that helps. R: That's right
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- up the things to get her to help me with my elocution and public [speaking]. Well, Uncle Sam [Ealy Johnson, Jr.], now, so many people don't give him credit for what he really did for his family, but now let me tell you, he was in there working
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- for health, whom I had known for some period of time but had not seen in twenty years, asking if I could come to Washington to see him, which I did. He asked me to chair a committee of consultants on medical research for the Senate Appropriations Committee
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- a cryptic remark that President Kennedy was going to see that Yarborough didn't act this foolishly and that they were going to do something about it, but I wasn't privy to what they did. I know that Thomas knew about it too and was rather upset about
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- [Creighton Williams] Abrams [Jr.]? D: No, I didn't know him. General Abrams was in the 4th Armored Division, but I had fought at Bastogne with the people that were surrounded there. There was a combat command, the 10th Armored with the 101st Airborne
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Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 3, 1969 F: This interview is number three with Harold Barefoot Sanders, Jr. in his office in Dallas on November 3, 1969. The interviewer is still Joe B. Frantz. Barefoot, let's talk a little bit
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- , or they have an opening on the commission and the chairman of the commission has some idea of what he wants in the way of a replacement for the vacancy. And that means coordinating with John Macy and his bunch and seeing that the recommendation that goes
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