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  • 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/oh Redford -- III -- 24 see Grandma Chaplan, Grandma Gore
  • Pauline Gore. Lyndon was anti-party. I liked parties, so I very often went with other Senate wives or members of the Texas delegation. G: There was a story regarding Senator Green sitting next to you at a party when Mr. Johnson was working late on a piece
  • --well, let me put it this way; not so much as joining Lyndon as his philosophy agreeing with Lyndon's on many big and important things. Then there was Kefauver; [Al, Sr.] Gore--no surprise--and [George] Smathers. M: Some surprise there. J: I am
  • from a few men--from Senator Fulbright and Gore, Senator Young from my old state of Ohio. You could pick out ei.ght or ten who were really the focus of perhaps 50 per cent of the criticism. M: Is this where the critics got their ammunition, mainly
  • presided over the caucus. that with Senator Gore, who was with me on this fight. I'd like to clarify LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
  • , you haven't got enough blood and gore, if you will. field. Get out to that battle- We want casualties, we want a war on the screen, otherwise we don't get our audience. Journalists out there would very often com- plain, but they knew where
  • , there are those who think Fulbright is a luminary of our party, although wrong on this issue.I talked to a couple of these who were embarrassed to see him gored like that. "Lastly, there was nothing perceptive or careful or restrained in it. Even a political
  • a lot of that was the feeling that Johnson was still a New Dealer, a Roosevelt man, or a loy~l or liberal Democrat. _and Joe Kil gore and Ray Le.e and· Gordon· ful cher;. Buck· Hood; Tom . « · Mill er·, tne mayor: Bob Phinney; myself; and one
  • of them were staged in order to prevent some of the railroad land steals. You know, the filibuster really began as a progressive weapon used by people like the LaFollettes and George Norris and Tom Walsh and the old Senator [Thomas] Gore, not the one
  • for you to come up with the equities. no equities. In a sense there are In a sense what most of these disputes are is whether labor is getting what it wants or whether management is getting what it wants. Whose ox is gored? The equities are terribly
  • to finance this, but they decided to finance it by appropriation instead. Do you recall any of the background to that? W: No, I sure don't. G: The Democratic National Committee didn't like that bill. They preferred a bill being offered by Senator Gore. Do
  • was. And there was an awful lot of conferring. People would--and always in and out, in and out, was Senator [Al, Sr.] Gore among 22 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • ." Also he told Sam Rayburn the same, Jerry Persons did. F: In that same period Senator Gore used to claim that you had usurped the powers of President Eisenhower. H: That's a lot of nonsense. F: Was he an indecisive president? H
  • feeling, that they had pushed it beyond the proper limits. Whose ox is being gored? There's a little bit of Rashomon in this, too. Arthur Schlesinger, seeing this from his viewpoint, could very well have that conclusion. Without knowing what you were just
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Levinson -- V -- 6 down and sex and violence and gore, and all this. And if this is the way you want to spend your life, working for people that make
  • Works Committee on the Federal Aid Highway Bill. This was the time when the Interstate System was being proposed. Senator Gore was one of the principal. F: This was during the Eisenhower Administration. C: When President Johnson was the Majority
  • the big industrial states, including Texas, California, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio, and New York. So when Stevenson got the nomination, then S e n a t o Gore wanted to be vice president, Senator Kefauver wanted to be vice president, Senator Kennedy wanted
  • from the Senate that had never been there before. about four votes, and I'm kind of glad I did. I lost by Then my manager, old Gore Henges [?] [inaudible] very intelligently and said, "Sam, you won by one vote." "Why?" He said, "Because none
  • a politician. B: Like other noted authors. W: That's right. Gore Vidal, for example--losing campaign. He lost also, and [James A.] Michener lost. in Connecticut. I can't think of anybody who \von. He ran I guess Roy Neuburger was an author
  • /show/loh/oh Nelson -- I -- 2 us during the summer?" I did and I stayed--never got to Cha rlottesville. I became the administrative assistant to Shriver. But there were only a half dozen of us at the time in the Peace Corps. It was Nancy Gore