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Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Exactly, More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh You see, the White House has benefitted but little from Congressional appropriations for special things
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of it was quite overt. Yes, people thought of it perhaps as, well, we just never thought of that. "But they did think the negative. They thought the exclusion through pretty carefully and thought of it as more Or less a male club that they wanted to run
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIE~IEE: CHRISTOPHER WEEKS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 2 G: There is an indication that preschool the task force. education was discussed in Why didn't it appear
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and member of the board of Directors of the Sierra Club. He represented the most idealistic faction of the club in terms of preserving large tracts of unspoiled land in park and wilderness areas. He said that he and a number of California supporters
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the struggles we had on the task force. F: H: Ladies' garden clubs and so forth. Ladies' garden clubs. You throw a few flowers, and the blacks are supposed to be happy inside the ghetto. that kind of incongruity about it. I mean, it has Now, when Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . She was the one that unconsciously had advised him and helped him along. She is a wonderful person. She had a lot of personality, she had a lot of savvy, and she was very knowledgeable in the matter of his congressional business as well as his
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to come back here to Washington occasionally on matters concerning crime prevention, and on welfare matters and things of that kind. And along the line some place, I met President Johnson. F: This is probably in his congressional days? W: I'm not sure
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and down the streets where the big boats came and docked. That was one of the most fascinating things that I did. G: I have a note on the Casino de Paris Hotel and the Paradise Club. J: That must have been our nightclub! I remember there was a person
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had a lot of friends like Joe Kilgore and Jake Pickle and people who had been involved back in that congressional campaign. So for that reason I was interested in his senatorial efforts. Then after that I don't guess I really had much contact with him
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • frequently in those Congressional days? W: Yes. I saw him--each time I carne to Washington I visited with him. And each time he carne to New York he stayed with us at my horne. F: Did he come frequently? W: Well, no, not very frequently. F: Did you
  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential elections
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: I think we were just at the point of going into the question of Robert Kennedy's view of whether a new agency was needed
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Democrats than Republicans, although it supported some of both. And in 1956 I was asked to run for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Third Congressional District on the Democratic ticket. B: That's really when I got back in to active politics
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • congressional salary, which at that time was ten thousand dollars. cataclysmic debt, as he described it. wealth he was pictured to be later. This to him was a He was not then the man of In fact, I had the impression in those days he and Mrs. Johnson had
  • relationship; 1934 congressional race; Task Force on Income Maintenance; Vietnam; task force recommendations
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had this in every busi- nessman's club, every chamber of commerce. Any time there was a formal or informal structural group, we tried to pinpoint our man and his responsibility. M: And you'd talk to them about this, I suppose? R: Yes. Utah
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Club here in Houston not long ago. M: The color photograph? J: Yes. t1: Which shows Lyndon Johnson and you-- J: And my wife. M: And your wife. J: And the person half-hidden is Congressman Bob Eckhardt. M: Yes. J: It was a party. What
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Club here in Houston not long ago. M: The color photograph? J: Yes. t1: Which shows Lyndon Johnson and you-- J: And my wife. M: And your wife. J: And the person half-hidden is Congressman Bob Eckhardt. M: Yes. J: It was a party. What
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Club which made the press back here and I gather about which the State Department was delighted. At least, as a matter of fact, when I came back they told me they were greatly pleased by the press reports. Now I understand that everywhere I went
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • met President Johnson. Actually my first meeting with him was at a Gridiron Club dinner in March, 1963. I was there with Paul Miller, who is now head of the Associated Press and head of Gannett newspapers and there was a little party after
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • friendly with the Texas delegation, used to many times at lunch, rid be the only outsider sitting with Sam at the Texas table in our private congressional dining room. F: When you came on back to California, did you stay in touch? Y: After I was defeated
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • combination. G: Do you recall the Preparedness Committee's interest in getting the Gaither Report from the White House? M: Yes, I just remember that; I don't recall anything more about it. They certainly used it, Johnson used it, as a club to beat up
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the past about the increasing influence of Vietnam on the congressional attitudes. Apart from that, was there an increasing reluctance of Congress, do you think, to promote Great Society legislation? Was there a feeling that the country needed time
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the � � 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/oh 2 Young Democratic Clubs of America
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . This is the beginning of great publicity for the statehood mo v e m e n t . This is the beginning of the heavy organization of people throughout the United States, people who carried weight, like unions, like the Federated Women's Clubs. [?] I would say
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that they had much difficulty in persuading him to run as a Republican rather than as a Democrat. He would have been elected on whatever ticket he was nominated on, at that time. JBF: Did Mr. Johnson, in his younger Congressional days, ever ask you for any
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in those years, Mrs. Washington? BW: Yes, I did. Our two daughters were at the same school, so we met in the mothers' club and we met with planning for school affairs at National Cathedral School, where Luci and my daughter Bennetta were classmates. B
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it's significant. A lot of letters came in to Mrs. Johnson about the Grand Canyon. During 1965 and 1966 the Bureau of Reclamation within the Department of the Interior under Udall, with a lot of congressional support from the Southwest, was hell-bent
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a good many others over the years. On the political side, the notion of a strong progressive democratic thrust was represented by the so-called Caribbean Club: Muñoz Marín himself; President Lleras Camargo of Colombia; Pépé [José] Figueres of Costa Rica
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thirteen or fourteen. He had been the governor of Georgia and was trying for the Senate seat being vacated by I think Senator [William Julius] Harris. The other contestant was Charles R. Crisp, from my congressional district, the Third Congressional
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • tried to get out into the country. you know, born on a farm. I was a farm boy, So Dick and I would play golf some and did for all of his years in Congress out at Burning Tree or the Army-Navy Country Club. And so it is true that Lyndon had a rather
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But my congressman was here. Albert Thomas I guess became the congressman in a special election in about 1936 and then was elected. If I were involved in any congressional race, it was in Albert's district rather than in a district in which I didn't live
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as easy for him to be a conservative as it was for him to be a liberal. G: Vance Trimble did a story on the nepotism in congressional offices, in Senate offices, and one of the items that they homed in on was the 11 - - - - - - - - - - - - -----LBJ
  • a constitutional two-thirds; change in the Republican Party; Knowland and Dirksen; nepotism in Congressional offices; Sam Houston Johnson; LBJ’s disinterest in the Senate; civil rights bill and related activities; committee assignments; William Proxmire; party
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • County, which was a part of the 10th Congressional District of Texas. Our Congressman, Buchanan, had dropped dead, and they were having a special election to select his successor. And at various weekends when I was home in Smithville, from Schreiner
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I think he called him about four or five times that day, and Raymond would say, "Go on and get in, Lyndon. Quit horsing around. whatever it was. them. I'm here at the Oil and Petroleum Club," or But I'll never forget how many calls he made
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It wasn't by state; these were congressional districts where we had a good chance of picking up seats. So that was eight districts. In each instance, in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Utah and Colorado. Then I went
Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It could have been the next winter, you know, November, December of 1932. G: We went the first of January. I believe you're right on that date. What about his reading habits? or the Congressional Record? Did he read lots of newspapers LBJ Presidential
  • Biographical information; Roy Miller; Richard Kleberg; Little Congress; congressional duties; Bonus March; Al Smith; LBJ as Kleberg’s secretary; LBJ as president.
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • campaigns. B: Did you have anything to do with other campaign mechanics like this group I've read about, the five o'clock club, or the Department of Dirty Tricks, to think up ways to bedevil the opposition? R: No. That was a childish sort of operation
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 16, 1980 INTERVIEWEE : H . V . "DICK" BIRD INTERVIEWER : Michael L . Gillette PLACE : The University Club, San Diego, California Tape 1 of 1 G: You indicated that you had met Lyndon Johnson shortly after he came to Washington B: Yes . G
  • ; shipbuilding operations; contractor, etc.; Bird as congressional liaison; Bird as naval aide to LBJ; LBJ and blacks; LBJ as VP; LBJ and Truman; Bay of Pigs; LBJ and Adenauer
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • could use if I wanted to use it, and I did not use it because I didn't want to be in a caucus squabble that was already a foregone conclusion and endless. But I came out of the caucus and I met some lady I was introduced to in a hotel, a prominent club
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to describe that President's Club dinner in New York at the Waldorf. J: Let me ask a question then. Were there two Waldorf dinners while I was there? G: There could easily have been. Could have had one each year. J: Yes. I don't think I went
  • the Kennedy family; Adam Clayton Powell; a party LBJ hosted for congressional aides; staying at the LBJ Ranch; the telephone system used by LBJ and staff; radio communication at the Ranch; having picketers near the Ranch arrested and later invited to the Ranch
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . And I just knew that I was going to be called before a congressional committee to testify as to why I had bought this substandard � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • Biographical information; Low’s father’s work in LBJ’s 1937 Congressional campaign; 1941 special election to fulfill Senator Morris Sheppard’s term; explanation of the east Texas ballots that allowed W. Lee O’Daniel to win over LBJ; Low’s WWII