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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to go with my eyes out on stems. I remember going to the Mexican embassy. The [Don Francisco Castillo] Nájeras, I believe, were ambassador then. I went with the wife of--Gladys Dempsey from New Mexico, a very pretty societyminded congressional wife
Lady Bird Johnson's daily activities in Washington, D.C., while LBJ was serving in the navy in 1942; LBJ's congressional office staff and Lady Bird Johnson's role as manager of the office in LBJ's absence; correspondence with constituents; living

Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

have a feeling that since--without assaying candidates at all--that you were the more progessive candidate in the congressional election of '54, that part of the Star-Telegram's opposition to you was a carry-over from that, the fear that you might

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in winning a Rotary Club scholarship to Oxford. Mr. Kellam and I sought no mortgages on his future, but it is an understatement to say that we were surprised when he turned upon Mr. Johnson wi th such ferocity when he became a worki ng journalist. Not too
Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

days. As I understand it, neither house has disapproved within thirty days, and the pay raises do go into effect. But in any event, this is a fairly precarious kind of a technique which itself has congressional opposition. This opposition manifests
on the issue of reorganization; congressional voting patterns; Wozencraft's meeting with Congresswoman Margaret Heckler; getting Wilbur Mills' support for the reorganization; House of Representative reorganization supporters John McCormack, Chet Holifield

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Without any question, and this made Secretary Celebrezze, in particular, very unhappy because he was in the unfortunate position of almost being ordered to lie to the congressional committees and to the others interested in the cause by saying that you

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

coming in to see you and they'll tell you what they want ." So I drew up an amendment to this particular bill . The bill initially related to Congressional employees' retirement, and this then would add improvements for members of Congress . The main
30 minute interview with LBJ on appointment as Deputy Postmaster General; contact with Senator Kennedy about congressional retirement program; background of appointment as Assistant Postmaster General for Operations (congressional endorsements

Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of rapport and affection and mutual interest. So that's really my first recollection of a Johnson, an act, as usual, of kindness and friendliness and devotion to making the congressional family feel as one. G: Did they give you any suggestions on how

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

acquainted with Mr. Johnson? First of It must go back to his congressional days. s: I think I first became acquainted with him after President Roosevelt was inaugurated in January 1945; when later-to-be-Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder and I gave

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the Presidents Club on my own, believing that it was a very important election. with Macy, he didn't ask what my political affiliation was. When I talked I raised the question with him, whether or not membership in the Presidents Club was something which I

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

G. Preston Smith; LBJ as debate coach; M.E. Foster; banquets; debates; Johnson family; classes; Uncle George; tournaments; LBJ as Congressional secretary; Dick Kleberg; office procedures; Dodge Hotel; Corpus Christi law office; House votes; Mrs

Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Lyndon Johnson when he was a senator and I was a congressional intern, but I've never met him [or ] shaken hands with him. I don't know; I'm not an authority on what he's thinking. I've just written an argument. And then I watched that speech, and I can

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

turned into just a massive civil rights club, and that was all, that we were totally embroiled in this issue, and [there was] a lot of frustration reflected there. This issue of de facto segregation began to rear its head, with the South, incidentally

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

walking across there. I remember that. I remember him telling me that a little later. M: In the days immediately following there were several meetings of Congressional leaders. A: Yes. M: Were you among some of those? A: Oh, yes, I was invited down

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was true. Bedell Smith told me that one vote was needed. General Walter At that time, I think General Smith was the congressional liaison with the Pentagon on this. General Smith was a great fisherman, and he invited a congress- man who always wanted

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- IV -- 7 was in the little theatre [Curtain Club] and everything at the University of Texas when [she was] Ida Nell Brill, so she was interested in dramatics. And John had been

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

. And of course, they were, as I have repeated over and over in this dialogue, in the Congressional Club, and the Senate Ladies Red Cross Tuesdays, and the Seventy-fifth and Eighty-first clubs, both of which I belonged to and attended with some regularity

Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

could read it. something like this, it said: IIDear Jim. He said there was As I recall it went For the last three or four years you fellows over in the War Department have been sending congressional parties over here to the European of operations
of Eisenhower. Knowland’s interest in Asian countries, his opinion of Senator Joe McCarthy, the supposed usurpation of congressional authority by the executive branch, the Civil Rights bill of 1957, the beginning of the space program, running for governor

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

prior to that, I'd begun to make a good living, joined a lovely country club, started going out to Aspen to ski in the winter and living the good life. And Watson was a~king me to come here; they could pay me something like $25,000 a year in a place

Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

came along too, and the country club Republicans vs. the old--the Jesse Helms group, the congressional club--the factions there. I don't know that I'm doing much but rambling, but that was the general division. Maybe if I talked about specific times

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to that. a liberal all my life." He said, "I have been He pointed out a number of things he had done very early in his Congressional career, stands he had taken, particularly stands in behalf of rights of minority people. I feel, first of all, that those labels

Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

be juggling several laws at the same time and doing each of his assignments equally well. B: There has been some Congressional criticism of slowness in your Division. Senator Jackson has complained particularly about delays in Indian Claims Affairs
Biographical information; reorganization of division; Indian Claims Commission; Atomic Energy Commission; Roger P. Marquis; Interagency Land Acquisition Conference; Safe Streets program; Sierra Club; cancer protection; evaluation of LBJ

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Fort Worth, there was a night club, a huge sort of building. It looked like a castle over there on the side of the hill, and those girls were dying to see inside. Oh, it was just something that they had heard, probably, stories about; I don't know

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

outstanding results for the Tenth Congressional District and for the state of Texas at large . During this period, he declined an appointment proffered by President Roosevelt to be national administrator for the Rural Electrification Administration . His

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

them as well? C: Well, I don't think the congressional people felt either good or bad about it. I don't think it really destroyed any of his relationships in Congress; it made people work faster than ever before. And you have to recognize
[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Democratic Clubs and the purpose of this activity was to organize and develop the active clubs of young Democrats in every county and in every city in Texas, primarily to generate interest in a campaign for the Presidency of Vice-President Garner
Biographical information; assisted LBJ in Congressional and Senate campaigns; private practice; military service; assistant attorney general of Texas; election code; Commissioner for ICC and Chairman; Senators Yarborough and Tower; LBJ’s interest

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the second time and was elected. M: What did you do then? S: During the 1948 campaign, I was his district campaign manager in this congressional district. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Congress in the same congressional district . I was Speaker in the Massachusetts legislature, and I ran for Congress,and he ran for the United States Senate and defeated Lodge in 1952 . something I have to tell you ." I said, "Jack, I have I told him

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

on the fourth floor of the old Congressional Office Building about the campaign. brought this helicopter up. I I was a flyer in World War II, and he used to like to talk to me about flying in the Eighth Air Force and that sort of thing. We talked a lot about

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

years of experience on the Hill and the ability of congressional committees to investigate and see if you spent money wisely or unwisely had something to do with that. He was very serious about using economy and good sense in spending White House funds

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you think it was money that was the factor? LG: I think this was a club that gave the government a chance to insist on it. There's no question without Medicare and other governmental [programs] there wasn't anything one could effectively use

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the session. I remember one session in which we were trying to get the votes for Ways and Means, and it turned out one of the key members we needed--I've forgotten his name--was holed up in the Congressional Hotel on some sort of binge. We had to send his

Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 area. It depends on the kind of informal and personal relationships that have been established. M: How far can you go in answering a question, say, to a congressional committee without consulting the White House? H

Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

: No, I was not responsible for that. The Embassy handled all those details. But I met him during that time both at a reception in the Embassy and also he addressed the American Club in Rome of which I was a member. M: When did you meet him next? J

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

do that on his own. How did they work his Congressional budget in those days for his office? Congressman have the same size budget? Did each LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
; LBJ’s sensitivity; Mary Rather; Dorothy Plyler; helicopter campaign; Lady Bird; JFK assassination; 1964 campaign; first woman to work for LBJ; living in Johnson City; Congressional Ball; LBJ’s friendship with Senator Alvin Wirtz; former political enemies

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Yes. He was of course the congressman from the old 10th congressional district then. F: Temporarily that has been redistricted out, I don't know what the outcome is. T: Right. F: When did you decide to make that run in '60 against him? T: Well

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

1. F: Did you get any opportunity at all to observe Vice President Johnson when either the Bay of Pigs or the missile crisis was on? H: I seldom saw him in that nine months period in which I served as assistant secretary for congressional

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the President's Club account, of approximately six hundred thousand dollars that had been collected, I think, from corporations in some sort of published volume, I think, back in 1964, 1965. I know that people in the Humphrey campaign wanted this money freed up
access to President's Club money and a membership list; Robert Short's fund-raising efforts as treasurer of Humphrey's campaign; whether LBJ was not willing to help with Humphrey's campaign or he was not asked; LBJ's efforts to find solutions with regard

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

His Life.'" was that article written by Jack Harrison Pollak. G: I don't recall the author. R: Frank Denius. I think that Was it? I didn't go with him on that trip to Raymondville or the McAllen Country Club. G: You did go with him
. Rebekah Johnson; Sherman Adams' resignation; crisis of Quemoy and Matsu; rally with Vance Hartke; Democratic sweep of Congressional election; Paul Butler and the Democratic National Committee; LBJ's address to the U.N.; LBJ's meeting with Lopez Mateos

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MILLER -- I -- 5 Secretary's Club . F: Yes . M: And that is now giving the boys and the girls in the offices a chance to mix and mingle with each other

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

. But he [Lyndon Johnson] was the chairman of the Space Committee of the Senate, I think. F: Yes, right. S: And that's basically when I first met him. I know something about him earlier than that, you know, in terms of his congressional career

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