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Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • his place, and then it just finally happened very gradually. I know some people made their places into "clubs" to keep out blacks. But then we went even further than that in that--1968, I guess it was. We passed an ordinance just about the time--maybe
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for [the Senate] office. had nothing to do with his congressional race. I was a real close friend of Ray Roberts who's now a congressman, and Ray Roberts was I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Times, assistant to James Reston. I stayed on in Winston-Salem for a number of years. F: Winston-Salem. Is the New York Times running a farm club down there? W: Well, in a way. But I stayed down there for a long time, and ulti- mately, early
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • people would even go so far as to cut out chunks of the telephone book. or course, it was easy enough in the morning, because you had the Washington Post, the New York Times , the Congressional Record , the Federal Register, and then whatever memoranda
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • took had belonged to Jake Jacobsen. The job that I took so far as the duties were primarily those Henry Wilson had had, working with the House of Representatives on Congressional relations with the President and the Administration's legislative
  • Attorney General; Tower delayed his confirmation for six weeks; Civil rights division in the early 1960s; relationship between Ramsey Clark and Nicholas Katzenbach; Congressional relations assigned to assistant deputy; legislative counsel to the President
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • where it was; the National Democratic Women's Club, I think--and it was a group of maybe fifty people. And the Johnsons were there on that occasion; there were a few instances of that sort where I saw him socially. M: This was still during the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • getting my mail here at Route 2, Gladewater about thirtyone years and have been in this same house about thirty-one years, and incidentally, have had the office you see in my yard about thirty-one years . This was my congressional office, the only office
  • Home congressional office facilities; family background; father's county school superintendent campaign; 1928 Democratic convention in Houston; college education data; 1936 race for state representative; introduction to LBJ in 1936; 1938 campaign
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an advertisement in which he had lifted from the Congressional Record, something that was pretty near an indication that Johnson had endorsed Malone. Well, he thought very kindly toward Malone as I did. Malone was one Republican that was kind of my assignment when
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , it was not Chevy Chase, I don't belong to any golf club--Averell Harriman and [Roger] Hilsman appeared in a great sweat. They had a telegram that they wanted me to approve because I was acting secretary, [a telegram] that could be sent to Saigon. So we went back
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • enthusiastic, and he was full of energy. He formed, at that time, some sort of a club among the secretaries, people up in Washington. When he came back down here, he was married. go back to Washington. [He] didn't want to He was a good friend of Jimmie
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • didn't think Roosevelt was going to run for a third term. M: Do you recall thinking back there in his early congressional years that he had a possibly long political career ahead of him? T: I never had any doubt about it from the time he got
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and then the Defense Department on top of the services; it has grown to be larger in bureaucrats probably than any of the individual services are now, although it was never intended to develop that way. And you've got the tremendous Congressional pressures
  • 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, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in 1960--my observation is that LBJ confused national presidential politics with congressional politics. He thought that if you had a senator or a congressman who was for you ,that this meant that that state would be for you. The fact, of course
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • saw Bob the next day, walking down the street, on K Street. I was going to the club, and he was going in the other direction. Bob looked so depressed, and so I said to him: "Bob, why the hell are you frowning? You should be smiling!" He looked at me
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • became assistant secretary of state for congressional relations]. It stayed that way all the way through the Nixon and Ford Administrations, [until] Hodding Carter came in and argued to put it back in the Bureau of Public Affairs. See, the assistant
  • ; McCloskey's role as assistant secretary of state for congressional relations under Secretary of State William Rogers; William Jorden; Arthur Sylvester's statement that the government has the right to lie; the renewal of a U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • worked out the crowd so much as it just came. P: Oh, yes, it just came. They knew he was going to be the main speaker. F: Right. P: He spoke, and then we went to the Chicago Society, which is a kind of club of Polish businessmen, lawyers
  • ; Walter Krawiec giving a painting to LBJ; LBJ's choices regarding Vietnam and his sense of responsibility toward Vietnam; why LBJ was successful as a politician; Congressional support for LBJ in 1964 and 1965; how LBJ dealt with creating his own image
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Texas politics, they called the suicidal liberals. Yes. Well, I'd say this: I think of him as a populist. And .liberal labels, I think, early, became an anathema to him because they · represented· a very exclusive club to ·which he didn't belong; his
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 remarkable comeback from '62 to '68 . The man never stopped . He campaigned for Congressional
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I never will forget--talking on this sUbject--that Frank Ikard, who had defeated Walter Jenkins for the congressional seat from Wichita Falls, first thing Mr. Rayburn did was make certain that they made a friend out of Frank and they secured one
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson's district man organization worked. Did you actually represent a congressional district for Johnson or was it basically a county-wide--? S: Basically it was a Houston-Harris County situation. thought it was very unusual. The general had
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , your counterparts in Congress and other congressmen and so on? J: Very muchly so. He felt that we could do a much better job for his con­ stituents if we were active in the Congressional Secretaries Club, in Little Congress, and particularly if we
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : What was the congressional objection to that? Was it interest rate that had to be paid, or what? H: I think it was partly rational and partly emotional. The NDEA loan program is a very popular program in the Congress; a very popular piece
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , increases in the draft, and all the rest of it. Then when I got back here, I gave the Joint Chiefs of Staff a briefing, and we began to work the problem. I also briefed the President and the pertinent members of his Cabinet and certain congressional
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • this period, in 1963, there was what was called a rather informal task force group that was set up. this was the "Saturday Club ating prior to ~hat. ll I'm not sure whether or \'/hether there was another one oper- How did the membership of this group
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as and when an assistant secretary would want to bring me in on it, for one reason or another. Hilsman used to keep me very well briefed because we became close friends; that's one way he operates, sort of an after~hours club~ After-hours meaning sort
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the President I didn't think utilized him to the extent that he should have. F: You didn't see much of Johnson in a congressional liaison role? M: No, no, none at all. Now he may have been in that capacity in the Senate, I wouldn't have known about
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy wanted the vice president to represent him, right? C: Right at the independence of an African Republic--Senegal. dent asked me to go along. of two or three people. And the Presi­ We took a plane and a congressional delegation I remember
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --the President occasionally picks up the telephone and calls people. M: I was going to ask about that. D: And once I went to the Cosmos Club with now Assistant Secretary John Leddy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • before that. I had met him as majority leader a couple of times, and I had met him as vice president. It was as majority [leader] and vice president that I met him three or four times at, among other things, Alfalfa Club Dinners. A friend of mine
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : August 3, 1971 INTERVIEWEE : FRA14K "POSH" OLTORF INTERVIEWER : DAVID G . McCOHB PLACE : f1r . Oltorf's home, Country Club Road, Marlin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 PYi : First off, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before it can operate well, and it is not going to have political stability on the eve of a convention where even then it was recognized as being close. That whole congressional session was pretty much a waste of time. It should never have been held
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , by that time, for at least eight years put on a very active campaign as we had in 1948 for Truman. r~y husband had been president of the Truman-Barkley Club in 1948. Then Mr. Rayburn organized a group that he called the Democratic Advisory Council, which
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Texas . Realizing that Congressman Johnson was not known very widely outside of the Tenth Congressional District, we made a pretty good campaign . In fact, on the morning after the election, the Dalla s Morni ng Nevus had a headline, "Congressman
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • did not build at this time; we moved to the Driskill [Hotel]. And I think the Headliners Club was also in the Driskill. It was sort of--the Driskill had a long heyday, and the sixties were a high point in its life, I expect, although all the governors
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out in your memory. F: No. J: Then, when did you begin to draw closer to Mr. Johnson--Congressman Johnson by now? Or did you draw more closely during his Congressional days? F: I don't know. I would see him every now and then, mostly on social