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Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

several of us, including--oh, I always block on his name, the man who had been co-chairman of SANE before me, editor and publisher of the Saturday Review of Literature--Norman Cousins. Norman Cousins was there at this two thousand-person conference

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of professional experience in the academic world. But I also realized that I was probably blocked by virtue of the rather loose rule of thumb in the Senate that a member could not be on the Appropriations Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. enough

Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and said, ilHey, Al, He rushed over to me and looped that long arm around wait a minute!" my shoulder, stuck,his head down right next to mine as if in confidential conversation, and we walked together to the end of the block. He didn't say a word. He got

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

out at the Adolphus Hotel. And Lyndon was just beside himself. He said, IlFred, I wish to hell you would find out where you're going before you start out!" Anyway, we circled a couple of blocks and we finally got to the entra Adolphus Hotel. lobby

Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. With my engine still backfiring, I'd blocked it up to about thirty-one inches manifold pressure, where it wasn't giving me too much trouble, and re-set my prop, and headed down into the fray. 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall nit-picking and questioning. Members of Congress would attempt to put roadblocks in your path, seriously questioning some of the activities. It didn't become a war, formalized by resolutions or committee actions to block activities. G

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It was awful living in Washington because there were so many people there. Many of them had been called to duty there by one of the military services. If you tried to go to the picture show, the line went down to the corner and halfway down the next block

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the whole White House staff. Let me think for a second. It was rather interesting. There had been one case where Johnson was going to hire a man who very definitely was homosexual and made no bones about it, and Walter was the one who blocked it. G

Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)

that? That was about a thirty-minute episode, and we aired that at the same time that this other gentleman was giving his speech, and we blocked him out of lots of time. Now, nobody asked me to do that, and that was just--but you know, that's advertising. G: Right. S

Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that. [Inaudible]. G: A little before seven. T: Oh yeah. P: Then it wasn't, because Larry was missing his supper and for that kid to miss supper was something else. He was standing--see, we worked maybe a block and a half from the runway. We lived on Bentwood

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, because even if the decision opposes you, it's better to have a rule in this kind of case than to have chaos. Chaos, of course, rather favors the scheduled airlines, because they have their routes, and, as long as these companies are being blocked out

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the summer down to White Sulphur Springs with Charles and Alice. I believe that was the time when Charles talked to Lyndon about selling him, at a very moderate price, some of his oil properties in which he was involved with Sid Richardson. It was a big block

Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the standpoint of breadth of coverage and financial practicability within the Social Security structures. B: One of the major stumbling blocks was Congressman Wilbur Mills, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. And in the fall of 1963

Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and too frequent contact, too frequent nned for contact. You couldn't get to Rostow or to Bundy. M: I take it from what you're saying that they didn't generally feel that their opinions were being blocked out by the White House staff. F: That I would

Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

obnoxious tome and I don't want him." Of course, in the Senate, well, that ends it. So the Clark boys came to me. One of them had married the daughter of one of my real good friends .. That gave him an excuse, and they lived just a block away~ So

Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

was the so-called building block approach and one of the first blocks of that building block technique was the Head Start program in order to weld the Community Action agencies. Is this the case? S: Yes, it developed that way. Now there are, I think

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

race, F: You had a little bit of the same experience I did. My closest friend until I was about 6 years old was a little Negro boy named Charles Fred, who lived five or six blocks from where I did and used to come over when his mother would come

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

knew to go to the rear. V: Yes, I suppose, I'm not sure. But I do know there was a big crowd then of people that blocked the passageway and, indeed, President Johnson was blocked off. We simply could not move until that coffin had gone, because

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Graham -- I -- 9 to receive the support of those machine counties as he had in the past, he'd have won by a pretty good, big majority. G: They always voted in blocks out there. CG: Yes, and let me say this. I think that from what little I know about

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

probably was one of the stumbling blocks in the fact that those men--they had an opportunity, in my view, where the Vietnamese people would have followed them anywhere, but the leadership just wasn't obviously there. G: Tell me about the opinions within

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, the test type of interview. Neither was there even a hint of psychological testing, of questions and answers, of pushing blocks into little holes. I remember truly enjoying my final regional interview in New York City. It was given in Columbia University

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the administration was able to defeat that? O: I knew that Birch, who was a friend and always a solid fellow with us, was not going to be deterred. Of course, we were left in the position of trying to block him. He gave it his all, and we had to devote time

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Fund for recreational purposes. We're doing a small amount of purchasing to block out SOme of our units where the ownership is still quite scattered and exchanging lands for the purpose of blocking up. The Park Service, of course, has had some national

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of.conservative Republican-southern Democratic block? A: That's right; that's what stopped it. Then Nixon came up with the funny money scheme, which is now law, where the commission can bring lawsuits, which is unlike any other administrative regulatory

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, for exampl~, .the -W hite House sit-in cases of college students who sat in at the White House and blocked the tourist line, and ultimat ely were taken out and arrested . I also prosecu ted cases involvin g the Capitol itself. I had planned to spend

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. It was very funny. His office was two blocks away on New York Avenue, but we had called the garage for a car to take us over there. Well, the garage cars were all out, so we waited ten or fifteen minutes sort of standing out on the curb cooling our heels

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

block in Congress, that you sort of had to plow around? H: No, we didn't have that. We were fortunate. I know that there are some areas of legislation in which there is a tough guy to get around, but we never had that. F: You mean now? H: Now

Oral history transcript, Victor Jaeggli, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

could have heard him for three blocks. (Laughter) This was an unusual thing. Of course, I stopped. He wanted to see me about something else that he'd thought up. Old Fenner was down there. He was a district director at that time. Fenner and I are very

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, spent my time just preparing all those files. 11 unquote. I We took the charges one by one and I went back in the records and looked them all up, prepared replies. I remember that first speech down at the--well, just a few blocks from here. G

Oral history transcript, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

. During the time after we moved out and got a little apartment. It was only about four or five blocks from where we had lived with the Brights. B: So usually, then, all of you would eat breakfast together and dinner together. RB: Oh, yes. Yes, we ate

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or even acknowledge his existence. So he motioned me to follow him down the back stairs, and the back stairs of this apartment led out onto a garbage place, little rock patio, and theres' a great big bush that blocked it from the view of the patio. So he

Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the Eastern Intellectual Block, and their growing dislike or disagreement with Mr. Johnson. You are of this element. K: No, I'm not. M: Only in that you come from the east and you have been at what is considered the Ivy League institutions. how this began

Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

an effort by the Stevenson people to bring about a change of the results or a blocking of the certification of Johnson. B: r understand that you were asked to advise with the then-Senator Johnson concerning at least one of his subsequent campaigns

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

: Yes, it is, if the word gets back. Shannon also I think tried to block Dr. De8akey's artificial heart project as I recall. ML: Oh, yes. Someone had made one. CL: What did you think of Cohen? Was he very much involved in what you were trying to do

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of Delaware in the last year or two--and Rhode Island. Or it might be a county, it might be a large city, it might be a township, it might be just a few blocks that are being annexed to a city--a lot of different sizes. B: And they pay you simply your costs