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Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. But it quickly illus- trates the things that are so apparent to us are stumbling blocks to the deaf. Puns! Play on words! They don't get them, you see. So it's a problem. M: And you would agree then with Helen Keller that blindness is the less of the-- E

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

one of our carpenters make it from a block of walnut, and then I made the holder part with two small pieces of the deerskin. It was the suede part and the pipe fits in it fine. When I went back to Mrs. Dunaway who happens to be the person who does

Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a year I, and some of my associates, went over the ground of what was the problem. We were up again then for more funds - -as happened subsequently and had before. We got nowhere, particularly with Mr. Rooney's committee, so we were blocked on money

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

before. And that people in the neighborhood felt, "well now, for the first time we are being listened to." And it worked where there evolved a sense that there was some real power in the neighborhood, power in the sense of the ability to block. One

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

importance--the Non-Proliferation Treaty ,vas he fore the Senate. There were other legislative programs that had to go through that this was blocking. F: If you had to sacrifice anything, in a was T: ~he sense~ sacrificing Abe Fortas easiest thing

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

their prices? G: Well, one of the companies that didn't move at that time was Inland Steel, as I remember. Inland Steel 'was headed then, and I think still is, by Joseph Block who is a very thoughtful statesmanlike person deeply concerned about the health

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the ideas that carne out of HEW, or from the Office of Education, were blocked by the staff rather than reaching the President. H: Is this true? I would say that it was more likely that many of the pieces of legislation that we went to the Hill with were

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

because Dallas is, the early part of next year, going to have ceremonies for '\ Kennedy Memorial, which will be some block and a half from the actual site. design. It's to be a rather simple It's to carry the passage of scripture from Ecclesiastes about

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

this straight. You were in favor of the court packing, or you were against it? R: I was not favorable to that particular method of resolving the issue, but I did feel that some kind of reform needed to be made to prevent the Supreme Court from blocking

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

from The Elms with the cars and the Secret Service following along behind. office. He'd walk a few blocks and then come on to the He gave no evidence at all, and I'm sure he felt no impa- tience or inconvenience for not moving in. Mrs. Kennedy wrote

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the rearrangement of finances between the federal and state governments~ about where it stands; though and I still think today that that's I think the first step which was the blocking up of a great many of the categorical grants is being accomplished. I

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

me up at Titche's to go to our house, I think. I'm pretty sure we went to our house first and then went together. came to pick me up. came in. But anyway, Lyndon Bird was driving around the block, and Lyndon Well, I must have met him before

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Smith -- I -- 27 S: Right downtown. They later made a sort of a business office out of it, and it was right down there not more than two blocks from the Rice Hotel, east I would say from the Rice Hotel. ES: Across the street from the post office

Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

then in the neighborhood that that voting precinct encompasses you build alliances of people who are willing to have coffee visitations with ladies in their block and hold meetings in their neighborhood to build up interest and concern, usually in people's homes. You do

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be a meeting between Kennedy and Johnson at the Biltmore Hotel which was campaign headquarters. We would go from there directly to the television program, but it would give us an hour to talk things over and to get ready. I arranged for a block of rooms

Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

back." She called back and said, "Mrs. Johnson likes the idea, so we'll get hold of Cliburn." And they did. Then they got to thinking that perhaps the weather might prove to be a stumbling block, and the forecast was not favorable, so they decided

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

office and started over toward the Rotary Club, which was about two blocks away, with a couple of other guys. twelve. When I got over there it was about, oh, ten minutes till We started at twelve-fifteen. said, "They want you on the telephone

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

find a field across town or a few blocks away that was adequate, so they'd come back, and Joe Phipps would apologize, over the loud speaker, and he'd say, "Well, our pilot tells us that it wouldn't be very wise to land there. We'd blow the dust all over

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I think Estes Kefauver was being nominated, and he was opposed by Texans, who supported John F. Kennedy. Is it true that Walter Reuther blocked that Kennedy move? N: I don't think so. I think it was more or less of an inspiration on Kennedy. I

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to block the access of a cabinet officer to the President. I think the answer to that is that the President has said time and again that anytime a cabinet officer desires to raise an issue with him, the President's door is always open. I believe

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh McCarthy -- II -- 24 Johnson to be the director, I guess, of OEO. Morse wouldn't stand for it, and he never did get appointed. And Morse was the guy that [blocked it]. Again, this was Bert's own problem in that we live in a political

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

. And if that was the understanding, it worked out very well. There was none of this negative--very little of this negative stuff that is going on now with the Congress, especially the Republicans, trying to block what the administration is doing. I know some of the right wingers

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. The hospital was just--it was about two blocks from the White House. Walked in, and there was Johnson and Pierre, and I forget who else. And there I was informed that I was the press secretary, and Pierre took me out and introduced me as the press secretary

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

felt I had to do it, and I did, but what--it was a--we didn't get out of there until after three in the afternoon, and that was the time that I'd already been told that sometimes Communist units came out on the road and blocked it and stuff like

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

shirt at it . wrong time . 19th--it's not called job was to build an apartment house just off Congress on 19th, 19th Street now--about three blocks down from right in there . Johnson Of course, the word all over town was that owned that apartment

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

just didn't think we could do it . But that suited me, because I didn't think we ought to . M: You mean the Congress would block it? B: Yes . Congress has a peculiar relationship with the regulatory agencies, which I think it wants to maintain

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

opinions, a man who his strong opinions . was rather difficult to know because of He was a well versed person and a philosopher and a close friend of our brother Herman who lived only a block from him . PB : In Austin? GB : In Austin . PB

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

relations. B: ~{no are the leaders of those three groups you just outlined? Are they the obvious ones--McClellan, Dirksen, and Hart? c: \~ell, Se;J.ator Eastland is the chairman of the committee--is the leader of that southern block on judicial

Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to be recorded. M: Oh, you can edit it out or restrict it, either one. C: [He] drove a few blocks and said, "I'm a man of few words. you or won't you?" were saying. And she said, "Where?" Will So they knew what we We said, seriously, that we would do

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

go over six blocks from home. This is hard to believe, but we were trying to get into the cities, particularly in the poor areas where the people are. One of the things we did was to finance I don't know how many swimming pools in the cities, all

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the southern support. He was not blocking it, and he wasn't pushing it. G: As you look back on that period, particularly in terms of civil rights and social issues, what was his political philosophy? How did you regard him? C: That comes back to my

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

,,:as invited to have dinner at the home of a girl friend I had in Wisconsin whose father was the vi:ce presfdent of Hei:nz 57. The newspaper at their house that night at suppertime had a headl ine in big block letters, IIFDR ask.s 4.8 billion for relief

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

The cathedral was just a couple of blocks back That's the one that got hit a few tiITles, you'll reITleITlber, when they had the parade the year before. And I can reITleITlber, we went in, it was hot, the place was jaITlITled, and thousands and thousands

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

of Uhat b:a~rie, by ay~y chance? I CH-Lak p~aLt it i s tjAe 2600 block of fit. Gabriel . It was a t,vva-story ho-u :oL- vAth a main ro=i that had a ste2,-u? into the dining 4 . there kxtere stairs roorn and One : :althen and then froin that step-u

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tower -- Interview I -- 18 F: Well, I think you and I would be agreed that if they could have blocked the line of succession they would have. T: They would have. And I think one of the reasons that they wanted to get rid of Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of opinion on Section III. Mr. Johnson with his well-known predilection for consensus and for "possibility of what you could get through" felt that Section III was a stumbling block on which the whole bill would founder. We differ with him and we went our

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

says, but we always had tensions in the local civil rights movements. What really put a stumbling block in the movement was the fact that the Kennedy Administration, I think, engineered a federal court injunction against us. We had at that time

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that decade, driving in. It was a circular driveway, probably a couple of blocks long, lined with dogwoods and beautiful typical Virginia plantings. You approached what I expect was the back side of the house, because the front side was a broad veranda

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--when was the first time I talked to him on Sunday? G: It was early. Well, 10:30, 10:27. C: Yes, but that's 7:00 in Los Angeles. Sure. The next morning--we got Brown back in California, but we've got these people killed. We've got twenty blocks