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Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. mourning. We closed the club. There was a general It was very strange. I remember how I think Mr. [Sterling] Cole maybe was so interested in that kind of reaction from the people. Now they didn't, as I remember, talk much about--I think after

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they responded to some constituent complaining. Send out a hundred letters and check out how rapidly they were delivered. Then come back with their statistics and berate the Postal Service. This congressional activity was grossly exaggerated in terms of failure
involvement in cabinet meetings as postmaster general and congressional liaison; the usefulness of cabinet meetings and how they were conducted; cabinet members taking advantage of travel opportunities to help Democratic candidates who were up for election

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to administer this very carefully because if we moved too fast, gave too many concessions, it would be regarded quite rightly as a giveaway. On the other hand, there was a feeling of some of the congressional people, particularly the ones from these mountain

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Was there a time do you think in LBJ's congressional career before the war when he moved from being relatively isolationist to internationalist or interventionist? R: I think probably it was his committee, being on the Naval Affairs Committee that pushed him
Walter Winchell incident; minimum wage bill; LBJ’s Dies Committee vote; John Nance Garner episode; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s work on the 1940 Congressional campaigns; Appropriations Committee appointment; race for the Senate in 1941; the I

Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the extension service. You had 4-H Clubs; white 4-H clubs, black 4-H clubs. I remember even in the Nixon Administration Marian Edelman--have you talked to Marian? G: She's on my list. I haven't talked to her yet. R: Have you met her? G: No, I don't believe

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-on fight. One of the things that hurt me about him--and remember I love the guy as few people do--for instance when he came back in the interim campaign, the congressional campaign for the Congress before the fight, the big fight before the 1968 one

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

in the afternoon to see the mail that had come in that day. That back office, as we called it, or the Speaker's office, handled his congressional work LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

entirely possible that it could be, but you have to be prepared for the congressional flak that really you've attempted to evade the Russell Rider limitations. Another kind of commission, where you have both government and private 7 LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, as is demonstrated in this file and the correspondence between me and the Congressional Quarterly editor, who was then David Broder, [I noticed] that Johnson was voting more and more as a Westerner. That Johnson wanted to be thought of as a Southwesterner
Democratic Convention; JFK-LBJ rivalry; LBJ’s acceptance of the VP nomination; LBJ’s irritation over his Alfalfa Club Dinner speech and camel driver story; cross off; LBJ’s personal reaction to the JFK assassination; LBJ and the press; RFK; LBJ’s judgment

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

very strongly on that. To shift a bit, one continuing issue throughout your Senatorial career has been the question of whether revenue bonds issued by the Tennessee Valley Authority could be used to install new steam plants without Congressional
with LBJ; LBJ’s decline in popularity; McNamara; Alfalfa Club; Goldwater; LBJ as practical leader; assessment of how history will judge LBJ.

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for him 65 per cent. That was our own congressional district, and it was a great source of satisfaction to Lyndon all of his life long, that in every campaign that district voted somewhere between 62 and 67 per cent for him. He used it and hammered
the Austin magnesium plant property that would become the J. J. Pickle Research Campus; Mrs. Johnson's involvement with the 81st Club and Senate Ladies Club; taking visitors to the Senate Chambers and Capitol.

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into the women's division and what it did and how it operated. J: Marietta Brooks was chairman. Mrs. Bob Long may have been vice chairman, at least she had an important role. She was always president of some woman's civic club. There was an elderly lady of very

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ~each--TI--4 K: No, !-le was the actual secretary. Richard Kle.berg. He was congressional secretary to Hr. Kleberg \.,as elected in a special election when Mr. Wurzbach in San Antonio died. Hr. Kleberg was elected
1948 Congressional campaign in south Texas; LBJ’s visit with all Robstown school children during 1954 campaign for Senate; LBJ’s personality traits (temper, impatience, intelligence); Lady Bird.

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Well, Congressman Wurzbach was a Republican and had been Congressman for quite a while. Yes, as far as Congressional politics ,"'ere concerned, they had a real
Biographical information; appointment as Postmaster; politically active; relationship with LBJ while he was secretary to Kleberg; Johnsons' marriage ceremony; first Congressional campaign; 1941 and 1948 Senatorial campaigns; VP nomination; Hatch Act

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Senator Johnson into Northeast Texas, Congressman Patman's congressional district. He was kind enough to come. He had several speaking engagements. There we presented him a book on the list of those members of Johnson for President Clubs in each

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

anything else. Another man that I would talk to is Bryson Rash, that I would give notes on what I thought. Newsweek. Another one was Sam Shaffer of Those were my three contacts. I met Holmes at the Metropolitan Club to tell him goodbye. said, "What

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a three-shirt day, I would say. Our personal life, our social life, extended about as it had before. I kept on getting a lot of pleasure out of being in the Congressional Club and a member of the 75th 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Driving from Texas to Washington, D.C. with LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; the Columbia Road apartment the Johnsons rented in Washington, D.C. in 1938; taking Rebekah Johnson to a congressional reception hosted by President and Mrs. Franklin

Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. at the Austin Club, a beautiful place, in Austin on Eighth \~olilans and San Antonio, the lovely house that's still there. I was living But Bird often visited me. Then when she got her first degree, her B.A. in journalism in 1933, that's when we went out

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. I tried to do a little differently with our fund-raising group, the President's Club in New York, the younger members. I got a group of people together that ended up as the greatest enemies, I suppose, later on--what's loosely called "New York
of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the tenth of December. It was the night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah--I believe it's Hanukkah around there. Anyhow, that was the night that Hale Boggs was supposed to interview the congressional fellows of the American Political Science Association
JFK presidency; House Rules Committee 1961; Bobby Baker scandal; JFK legislative program; LBJ and John Connally; patronage appointments; Hale Boggs; agriculture bill; “Five O’clock Club;” Walter Jenkins; Bill Moyers; Democratic National Committee

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Where did he get his money in that campaign? Brown was one of the best old-time supporters Johnson ever had. G: You know, they published the New York members of the President's Club in the Congressional Record, and the list just went on for pages

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Congressional Record Quarterly, the last one having appeared on May 15. I think I may have given you a February 20 date last time you were here. On May 15 another list appeared and you might get an idea of who the current ones are if that has any play

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

tense in the city and everything--they opened the trunk and they saw all these golf clubs in there and they thought he was a looter. (Laughter) He had great trouble getting in even though we had cleared him in. Later, a couple of days

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to get to know the Johnsons in the first place. C: I came from the Tenth Congressional District--Austin, to be exact--and for my graduation present from the University of Texas got a trip to Washington. You didn't come to Washington in those days

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the same thing, that from there on out that he wanted to feel that I would take responsibility for everybody who had come as a result of political connections, connections with the committee or with the President's Club. More or less that's what happened

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 G: You said that you had very little social life, not much going out with girls? J: That's right . We used to go to Texas Club dances and things like that and he dated various girls around but he
, required very little sleep, thought movies were a waste of time; LBJ tended to all the duties Congressman Kleberg neglected: veterans' pensions, etc.; attending night sessions of Congress; the Texas Club; LBJ dating in Washington; no hobbies; no reading

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a marvelous story out of it. And the Federated Women's Clubs paid a visit to Washington, and we had a picture on the Capitol steps with them and hosted a coffee. That was the one that I think was in the old Supreme Court chambers, which is one of the noblest
Byrd's annual May Sunday lunch; LBJ's relationship with Harry Byrd; visits from the Federated Women's Club and Texas high school classes; drought and water management in Texas; Luci and Lynda's involvement with Girl Scouts and school friends; Luci's

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Longoria came to see me about discrimination against her deceased husband. We sponsored several groups, one of them we called a young girls club Club -- and the chairman of this group was Miss Sara Moreno. Orchidia Sara Moreno, a young lady

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, apparently Lyndon Johnson made some effort to retain a formalized leadership position even as vice president, and he was advised, which I think he probably should have anticipated, that he was no longer a member of the club. It wasn't personal, but you're
, especially regarding congressional relationships and personnel; advice from Bryce Harlow, Clark Clifford, and Dick Neustadt; JFK's early White House staff; efforts to gain enough votes to expand the House Rules Committee; building a relationship between JFK

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in 1931? B: I know it was at the death of-- Henry McLeary Wurzbach was the then-Congressman and he died. The Congressional district included Bexar County and all the way down to Corpus Christi. P: That's the 14th? B: Fourteenth District, yes

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was organ- izing a campus club, Young Democrats, and asked if I wouldn't be interested. Somehow or other he had gotten my name through Texas Press, Intercollegiate Press Association. But we did organize the first young Democratic club in Denton, County
University; blacks and the NYA; problems of administration; Congressional campaign; Lady Bird.

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

went to Texas during the campaign, but I did nothing about covering it. G: How about the year before, when he handled a lot of the congressional rates for Democratic congressmen? M: The what? G: In 1940 he headed the campaigns for Democratic

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

have found that smaller meetings, coffees in homes and going to whatever meetings you are asked to attend that are ongoing, I mean civic clubs or study clubs or anything else, they appreciate it. I know that I derive a benefit, both from being able

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

telephones and all the rest of it. We had to be particularly careful because there was a congressional rider--because of congressional resentment of the task force that President Kennedy had set up on the domestic volunteer corps, the thing that later

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of November when Richard M. K1eberg, of King Ranch fame, was elected to the 14th Congressional District, and the Chief became his secretary. As might be expected, he was influential in the selection of his successor at Sam Houston, a former fellow student
from government agencies; letters to graduating seniors; courtship of LBJ and Lady Bird; marriage arrangements; job with FHA; Little Congress; 1937 Congressional campaign; office manager of FHA Houston district; rejoined LBJ’s staff; breakdown; mortgage

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the congressional seat from whatever the man's name was that died. G: [James] Buchanan. F: Buchanan. And the way he came to my attention was that we had living with us out here--I lived out in South Austin out at a place which is now called Green Pastures

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

, speaking at a bond rally here or service club there or just to all those hundred towns. G: I'm particularly interested in these Monday sessions. How did he come away from these full days of meeting with constituents who brought problems to him? Did
congressional election in 1944; James "Pa" Ferguson's death and his friendship with LBJ's father; story of LBJ's mother voting for Pat Neff rather than Ferguson; life at 1901 Dillman, including entertaining and the phone on the backyard tree; LBJ's interest

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

came through North Carolina. how we all had to maneuver for our convenience. It was right interesting I was invited to get on the train I think in Ahoskie, North Carolina, which is in the congressional district of Congressman Jones. His predecessor

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the instance of Mr. Hannigan to the Cauliflower Club, which was sort of a political club. I got Mr. Hannigan to give Mr. Johnson a place on the program, and he made a good speech down there, and was able, through his warmth and his ability, to bring--although
; 1948 campaign activities; LBJ's influence in his appointment as Assistant Attorney General by FDR; Cauliflower Club; Board of Education meetings; LBJ becoming Minority Leader; influence of Dick Russell in LBJ becoming Minority Leader; reaction

Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

developed a girls club there, which was a sort of a fascin ating little project . city . lie got Mrs . hte took over a house that belonged to the The city had acquired it I think through a tax sale or such He reconditioned it and cleaned it up
Biographical information; setting up NYA offices; residence programs; staff meetings; NYA visitors; personnel; LBJ techniques; political aspirations; publicity; roadside parks; school projects; 1937 Congressional race; 1941 Senate race

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