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Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • studied at night some under one of the school superintendents. He belonged to a debating club here, and one of the lawyers in the town was so impressed with him; he was a good speaker. I know when he was fourteen years he made the Fourth of July speech
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Tully--I--:15 was more than they had seen each other before, I think. Of course, they would go to the White House congressional receptions and things, but you know there were hundreds of them there, and there wasn't any opportunity
  • a bust of FDR to LBJ and receiving a bust of LBJ; 1955 Democratic Women’s Club meeting in San Antonio; JFK’s invitation for Tully to come to the White House to see if his desk was the same one used by FDR.
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Federated--you know, one of these women's groups-F: Federation of Women's Clubs. H: She is a member of our family and sort of keeps up with the family tree. She had all of this information, and so I furnished it to Mrs. Johnson. Also, I mentioned
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was political. At that time, you see, we didn't have fra- ternities and sororities on the campus. legal. At that time they were not The teachers colleges had literary societies like the Harris Blair, and the Jeffersonians, the Newman Club. But the Black
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • political background was primarily related to the one congressional district for so many years . Bear in mind that at this time he had been a member of Congress for ten years, so that he hadn't gotten around the state as much as a person would have
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the American Association of Adver­ tising Agencies. That's the real power. They are the ones that have the accounts, and the AFA were just these little advertising clubs around the country which were on their last legs anyway. So as far as I was concerned, I
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Detroit. F: What were you W: At that moment? I was having lunch with my lawyer and my CPA over doing~ at that moment here at the Detroit Club. I mean?" The waiter came in and sidled up to me and told me that, and I didn't believe it. As I walked
Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Of course I've been away from there about seven years. Being a former University of Texas student, I have heard stories thatLyndon Johnson helped to integrate the Forty Acres Club. Do you know anything about that? W: Well, th,is' was after my time. I
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh · CARRILLO FLORES -- I -- 4 to the club of people who have suffered from a heart attack. I under- stand that the attack that President Johnson suffered was rather
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Middle Eastern and Israeli matters and that sort of thing. With the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, I should say that most of the Congressional interest is in stimulating support for some hometown operation. The Senators, the Congressmen
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • is. Pearson was entirely out 6£ the congressional One of the guards on the Hill rnentioned the other day that he had once seen Pearson with Wright Patrnan and said, "That was the first LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • -favored nation status, and I think they had thought that perhaps this would mean that this would be forthcoming; and, of course, this was not forthcoming, primarily because of Congressional failure. President Johnson did request the legislation several
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . With regard to being bright in the Senate and exercising good judgment, where did he get the information? get it from you? Did he get it from the Congressional Record? get it from talking to colleagues? Did he Did he LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Lyndon Johnson, named Senator Charles Mathias from Maryland. He's from this congressional district. voted for equal rights. But he has always So he was the senior member on the Senate Judiciary Committee when Ronald Reagan was elected president
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • such as the Population Council, the Ford Foundation, to testify before congressional committees
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCloskey -- I -- 23 was just a different title [McCloskey became assistant secretary of state for congressional
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • absolutely would require congressional action. President didn't want to do that. This is what he meant when he said to me, "I'm being told that I can't do these things. know is what can I do? The What I want to I want to hear that I can do it. II G
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • vote, and that's getting down to the nitty-gritty of the thing. it. That's what finally determined I think that that took place on this measure, I'm not sure. The Congressional Record would indicate it, but I think it took place there. But anyway
  • San Bernardino; Martin’s law office; Herbert and Charlie Henderson; 1937 Congressional campaign; meeting Jack Dempsey; contacts with LBJ in 1928; working for LBJ in congressional office; office assignments; Executive Reorganization Bill, 1938
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and whether their legislation was sufficient to cover it--whether their regulations were sufficient. On the other hand, in a particular case we get lots of calls here, either directly or through the Congressional office, from Congressmen or a variety of people
Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or not, in the 49-47 division, that he felt he could count on Margaret Chase Smith to vote to seat him. F: Good. I'll be back in a bit later. Did you two work pretty closely together on the congressional Naval Affairs Committee? S: Yes. F: Those were busy
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on civil rights legislation, because as soon as the next Congress convened we undertook to get that pledge honored and Mr. Johnson kept his word, and so did Mr. Knowland. I was asked by Congressional Quarterly at that time whether I thought this legislation
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on the ball and were reading the calendar, reading the bills, and calling those of interest to the attention of their Senators, we would hear from them.Occasionally a Senator would come in the next day, having read that a bill had passed in the Congressional
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anything that he didn't say before he got the nomination ought to have his head examined. I can remember that particular day. He did it all in one week. I remember walking into the Headliners Club, and Walter Prescott Webb was at the bar--he and I were
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be an appropriate time to get together . But, frankly, as the Congressional elections impended, it didn't seem likely that the President would wish to do it in that period . l have done a memorandum which is available in the Library . I wrote it to Walt Rostow
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . At the present time, well, for example when he ran for President in 1964, we got about twenty-six thousand more votes in this Congressional district than was needed to carry the district . And the margin in the state was something like forty-six thousand, so
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: JACK ALBRIGHT INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start with the circumstances of your being hired to begin with, General Albright. A: Right. On the twenty-fifth day
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in that sort of position, or were they just two news people that he could trust? J: I think that was basically it. F: He didn't feel he was doing them any disservice? J: No. Bill White was a longtime friend of his, going back to congressional days, and he
  • to support congressional candidates and for non-political reasons; the credibility gap; LBJ as a captive president; LBJ’s respect for the role of presidency; LBJ’s trips to the Ranch; LBJ taking the advice of numerous people; each staff member perceiving his
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIHJEE: CHRISTOPHER WEEKS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Cosmos Club, Washi~9ton, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Weeks. let's start with your involvement in the War on Poverty Task Force. lid like to ask you to trace your earlier
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kellam here, and to meet with different people in this congressional district. Lyndon was going to resign and [become] secretary of the navy and I was going to run for Congress in his place. That was the deal. I never will forget being in Jesse's
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • governor. I was secretary of the Young Republican Club at that time and became involved in a general [way]. [It] at least gave me a general knowledge of politics in Michigan, and I became very interested in that sort of thing. Then of course we came
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of World War II, I was going to school at Oklahoma Baptist University, and he was running for U.S. Senate in 1948. I liked him so I helped organize what we called Young Citizens for Kerr for Senate clubs all over Oklahoma. Then he was elected. After he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The way it really works is that the members of the Senate are constantly piling up money in the bank. They will be doing favors for other people whenever they can possibly do that favor. This is the essence of the inner club. I won't say every member
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • going to live in a place like that? What was going to become of them if they lived in a place like that? She was shocked with Charles Haar. In fact she was going to turn the Sierra Club loose on him if he ever surfaced this proposal anywhere. People
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • one day Charlie Maurine Ray, who was Charlie's secretary at that time and later she became secretary to Governor [John] Connally, came over to the Washington Club trying to find her boss. "Well, here it comes ,II I said. "Now, Charlie, what you
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I'd made four or five letters by that time and I'd been business manager of the annual, the Pedagog. I was that the first year, and I belonged to the dramatic club and everything. But I think they just had Bob in there and they thought
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Washington with the initial term of Richard M. Kleberg, who had been elected to Congress from Corpus Christi . That had at one time been part of the same congressional district with San Antonio . They had split off this Nueces County with sev­ eral other
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , the foreign dignitaries who were there and the congressional leaders. He only gave a brief time, so you told me, to the governors, but he wanted to give him that courtesy. RH: He had a great-- F: Where did you see him, over at the White House? RH: BH: I
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Herman and George Brown had decided to hire Ray Lee, Lyndon's campaign manager at that congressional race. to laughing, I smiled. Houston's brother?" And after this girl got She said, "Don't you know that Lyndon is Sam He said, "Well, hell, I've