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  • or Ho Chi Minh. He did not believe that political leaders should attack each other personally. He also felt that political leaders should not cause each other unnecessary problems.I remember on one occasion Sir Alec Douglas Home, the Prime Minister
  • INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER May 13, 1969 B: This is the interview with Governor Lester Maddox of Georgia. Sir, do you recall if you had any acquaintance or knowledge of Mr. Johnson, say, before the 1960's, when he was a senator? M: Yes, sir, I did, because
  • . DOUGLAS I NTERV I EWER· MIKE GILLETTE WITH COMMENTS BY: EM I LY TAFT DOUGLA 5 PLACE: SENATOR DOUGLAS' HOME IN WASHINGTON D. C. November I, 1974 D: It has now been eight years si nce I served in the Senate and about six years since I finished my
  • See all online interviews with Paul H. Douglas & Emily Taft Douglas
  • Open conflicts between LBJ and Douglas; McCarthy censure; LBJ’s legislative skill; drafting the 1957 Civil Rights Bill; the influence HHH and LBJ had on each other; areas of cooperation between LBJ and Douglas; LBJ’s economic polices; truth
  • Douglas, Paul H.
  • Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Paul H. Douglas
  • , sir. Yes, sir. I was going to school at Texas A&M when he died, and came home for the funeral. Shortly after that I joined the Marine Corps. F: Where did you serve? P: In the South Pacific. F: This was in World War II? LBJ Presidential Library
  • and this is now my fortieth year on Capitol Hill . F: He's finally going home, isn't he? M: I'm just trying to make up my mind . F: No, I don't mean you . M: Oh, oh, yes, sir . F: Colmer . M: Bill Colmer is going home . F: I haven't seen him yet
  • connection with Sam Rayburn? M: No, sir. Mc: What kind of connection have you had with Lyndon Johnson? M: Oh, none. I knew him, but that's all. I met Mr. Johnson a long time ago. I voted against him and for him, and that's about it. Mc: Did you
  • that for granted. F: And you worked. S: Yes, sir. F: Did you go home that night? S: As I recall, I think I did go home about three or four o'clock. I came back very early the next morning. F: Did you get involved at all in the funeral? S: No, sir. F
  • /show/loh/oh -28- Did you have any advance notice that the President wasn't going to run again? P: No, sir. F: Where were you when this happened? P: I was at home listening to his speech on television. F: You were as shocked then as I was? P
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 D: Well, let me back up a bit. on and off. I've been in government almost twenty years, And I first returned to the State Department in 1958 with the then-Under Secretary Douglas Dillon. with him here in State. I spent
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Estes Kefauver; Douglas Dillon; Pierce Salinger; Joseph Laitin; Horace Busby; George Reedy; Henry Fowler; Bill Moyers; Bob McCloskey; Frederick Deming; George Christian; relations with the White
  • Dick Russell's influence had a lot to do with." F: Did Senator Johnson and Senator Russell get pretty close pretty quickly? E: Yes sir, they were close friends. Got to be close friends very quickly. F: Did you, in those early days, see much
  • at this for a year. R: Well, we'll try to do it as objectively as we can. M: Right. You're about my 110th interview. Let's get your identification on here, sir. You're Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., an attorney in Washington, D.C., and you've been associated
  • home. The radio people disagreed with that and they used congressional pressure to get us to change our view. B: Sir, considering the number of large industries that make consumer goods used in the home, the possibilities for that kind of thing would
  • to support Allen even though his appointee was from his home county and it was determined in their convention. The candidate and the Governor split the vote right practically in the middle. It was the difference between Allen being renominated and the judge
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Parnis beach and he did, sir." said~ -~ I ~- 9 "Did you read that chapter?" and I said, "Yes, I He said, "Well, what did
  • of clothes; input on The Vantage Point; items made for the President; visits to the White House; the Ranch Acapulco; McGovern visit to the Ranch; state dinners; LBJ and guests for dinner; LBJ’s visit to Parnis home just previous to publication of Pentagon
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 1, 1971 B: This is the interview with Senator Lister Hill. here very briefly your background. Sir, let me just read You were born here in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1894, and attended the University of Alabama
  • President Johnson. That, too, was concerning the tactics and strategy with respect to the staging of the march on Washington in 1963. B: These were before the march began? R: That's right. B: Who all was at these conferences, sir? R: We had Mr. Roy
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the interview with S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Sir, would you like to just go ahead and start on Mr. Johnson and the Smithsonian? R: My connections with President Johnson began
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Helen Gahagan Douglas
  • Biographical information; first political action; election to Congress; activities/bill introduced in Congress; Richard Nixon; Melvyn Douglas campaign for LBJ at request of FDR; Farm Security Agricultural Department Program; friendship with LBJ
  • Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980
  • Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Helen Gahagan Douglas
  • 8, 1970 INTERVIHJEE: PAUL B. JOHNSON JR. INTERVIEWER: 1. H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Johnson's home, Hattiesburg, Mississippi Tape 1 of 2 B: This is an interview with Paul B. Johnson, Jr., the former governor of fvJississippi. Sir, a brief bit
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cross -- II -- 5 House about eight o'clock that night. watch the speech on television. I wanted to be home in time to And so I left about eight o'clock, and that time of the evening I could drive home, and of course I drove
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE C. WALLACE INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Governor Wallace's office, Montgomery, Alabama Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Governor George Wallace. Sir, do you recall you had any acquaintance with Mr. Johnson before
  • INTERVIEWEE: MELVIN C. WINTERS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Winters' office, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Okay, sir. This is 1961, right after the election when he went back to Washington as vice president, and one of the first
  • visit to the Ranch; the Trinity River Project; John Tower; LBJ's glasses and contacts; Ayub Khan's visit to the Ranch; LBJ's opinion of General Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower; the Cox family in Johnson City; the Elms, the Johnsons' home
  • . And so he said to me--and I'll never forget this either--he said, "Cross, you boys must be getting tired." "Well , yes, sir. And I said, We need to get home and get some clean clothes." He said, "Well, I'll tell you what: you go on back to Bergstrom
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 17, 1969 B: This is the interview with Bayard Rustin. Sir, to start pretty far back in time, did you have any knowledge of Mr. Johnson when he was in the Senate? R: Yes, I did. Of course, I suppose everybody heard
  • INTERVI El~EE: DAVID W. ANGEVINE INTERVIEWER: T. H.l\RRI BAKER PLACE: His office, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with David Angevine, the Administrator of the Farmer Cooperative Service. Sir
  • : You were offered the Secretaryship of the Treasury to replace Douglas Dillon in '65, weren't you? C: That was discussed, yes. B: And you didn't take it. C: That is correct. B: Again, if it's not impertinent, may I ask why, sir? C: Well
  • . He was the first administrator for Texas of the NYA, which must have been 1935-36. B: I think so, sir. When you were on the Georgia staff, he was Texas administrator. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • and Johnson families; advising LBJ and Senator Paul Douglas on krebiozen; instituting regulations that barred krebiozen from interstate shipment; problems related to the use of thalidomide.
  • , "go fishing" [political jargon for sitting on the sidelines]. And if we had to oppose, he would know well in advance of our intended actions - neither my group nor I would ever "blindside" him. The fact that we were on good terms was driven home to me
  • and the creation of the Guaranteed Student Loan Program; LBJ's frustration with rising bank interest rates; Walker's opinion of William Sherrill; how the instability of the dollar and the 1959 Federal deficit led JFK to choose C. Douglas Dillon as secretary
  • INTERVIEHEE: IVAN ALLm, JR. I NTERV IHIER: THO~1AS PLACE: His office, City Hall, Atlanta, Georgia HARRISON BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta. Sir, did you have any acquaintanceship with Mr. Johnson before
  • , and if the ball calls for me to make the throw to home rather than throw to first I'll throw home, although in my own mind I figured I could catch the man coming down to first and the run was going to score on me anyway, if you follow that baseball analogy . Yes
  • things. F: Let's make one correction. Where you said the early 40's I was the founder and first national chairman of CORE. B: Yes sir. I understand those are two separate offices. When, in this career, did you first form any knowledge of Mr. Johnson
  • in partisan politics? Campaigning in elections? L: Yes sir, I was County Democratic Chairman in 1958, 59, and 60. It was during the period of 1960, the campaign--prior to the campaign-that I might say I watched politics more closely. at the time I think
  • , "Yes, that's what I mean by nobody." He said, "Take all the time you want." I said, "Very well, sir." He hung up, and I hung up. I went home and talked to my wife and we discussed the problems, because one was a lifetime job to trade in for a job
  • , I had no call to be of any personal assistance to President Eisenhower . THB : Then, sir, after the election of John F . Kennedy as President, what was your status? B: The election of John F . Kennedy was general news and information to all of us
  • , the so-called Brick House, the Taylor-Andrews House that appears in an historical volume called Early Homes of Texas. M: And Karnack is near the Louisiana border? T: Yes, about fifteen miles. M: And your father did what? T: My father was a country
  • ; visiting the Ranch at the same time as Mexican President Adolfo Lopez-Mateos; trip to Oaxaca to pick up Senator Douglas; returning part of El Paso to Mexico and related events; experiences with Mexican officials at social events; Mrs. Johnson’s success
  • INTERVIEWEES: POLK AND NELL SHELTON INTERVIEWER: PAUL BOLTON PLACE: Home of the Sheltons, Bluff Springs, Texas Tape 1 of 1 PB: We're at Bluff Springs, the small community near Austin, Texas, in the home of Polk Shelton. Mr. Shelton was one
  • . They knew he was a man of great force . This is before he became President . Ba : Did he have any knowledge of British leaders before he became President? Was he acquainted with Mr . Douglas-Home or the future Prime Minister, Mr . Wilson? B: Whether he
  • : On a lone wolf senator like Paul Douglas, who from all I can gather from the sidelines was a man who pretty well kept to himself and never really belonged to the Senate as an organization, did Senator Johnson make any particular effort to get Douglas
  • . !tis. ::-ace ~e Wnen did you first meet him? :::0:&: "the 5e::'.ate. ?5: That ~~: No,sir, I had World War : ...... I ~as I~ your first vote? ~ome out of ~e service in 1945 fcllowiLg and voted for the first time: being 21, I
  • ;. 1969 INTERVIEWEE: GERALD W. SIEGEL · INTERVIEWER: T .: H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Siegel's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Gerald Siegel. Sir, your background·· briefly: born in Iowa; Yale Law graduate. And am .I