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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Department and started talking about people, "in this room were people with blood on their hands" for blocking the bill. Standing in the back of the room, I said, "This is it. We are now at war." Back to my office, Rod Markley, the Ford guy, called me. Henry

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

tried to get the President in the legislative program to take on the insurance industry. Not take it on, but to--and this is my memo of, it's blocked out. But the date of his note to me is January 2, 1967. And [Warren] Magnuson was very much interested

Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

pretty much grown when they'd built the house, so it was just like a brand~new house; They could have bought tlie other halfofthe block and this house for $10,000. (Laughter) That was in 1922. G: Well, $10,000 was- L: My father didn't want the land

Oral history transcript, Cecille Harrison Marshall, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

us our breakfast in the morning, and we ate out the rest of the time. now . We ate at a place called Wukasch's, which is not here It was 6n Guadalupe, on the Drag, about half a block from : where we roomed and we had meal tickets and ate lunch

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

heard a lot, and Russia was always looming in the background. So I went home sometime that fall, early I think, and put Lynda Bird in Miss Hubrick's [?] school, which was just about a block and a half down the street from 1901 Dillman. Community children

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the District had finally made application to HUD for funding of the District project on inner blocks. I'd like to continue from where we stopped at that point up until, of course, the end of the administration. If there are any areas that I have further

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ferrari -- Special Interview -- 23 was blocked

Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of practice that can no longer deliver the medical care that society now needs. And they systematically blocked most attempts to alter that. M: How come they didn't block Medicare? Did you deal with the medical profession? G: Oh yes, we dealt with them

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and by the time we were halfway up that one block street, we heard these shots, which were obvious shots to my compatriots and I, sitting on the back ofa .convertible, wide open. We all looked around, and I made a remark to the extent, "These Texans really known

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: No, I haven't. L: They cordon off, like blocks around the hotel. F:. Where were they--at the Waldorf? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

block, and then the latest signatures, we put them back on the presses, and we can change that for each edition. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that we--I think it's a good question as to whether we might not have tried to do it sooner. P: Has this been an effective means to bring back negotiations? R: It apparently took away the major stumbling block to negotiations. negotiators Our became

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

like the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Sam Houston High School at that time was built around a sort of a half of a block, and it had a very large area in the middle. Every day those girls would go out there to practice marching and they would have

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Palmer -- II -- 12 You mentioned Averell Harriman. Later, he's the guy that engineered that whole thing, and he was basically the guy that would block us. He just

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

announced. At an interview done, I think, the week before I was there, Mayor Collins had said,"Lawrence O'Brien knows more people on one block on Pennsylvania Avenue than he knows in the whole of Massachusetts." LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Soviet Union. That was supposed to please them. They must have laughed and said, "Those idiots in America." It's what saved the Communists. That's another whole story. They said they'd get out in six months but they didn't. They stayed there and blocked

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was very pleased. We were upstairs at this 60 Tran Quy Cap, and we shared the top floor there. And we had [John Frederick] "Fritz" Freund--Brigadier General Freund was living there with us and Westmoreland, and I've got a block on Bill's name--he

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it was then, was it? M: No, it was actually the other side of Chicago. I was born in the south side. F: I don't mean Wrigley; I mean Comiskey. M: Comiskey, that's right. In fact, I lived about four blocks from the present mayor of Chicago, Mayor Daley. I used

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

they could argue it d idn't go far enough, they really couldn't stand up and block the passage and prevent any progress. You see, they were in a somewhat different position than the southern Democrats, because the southern Democrats would have been happy

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XX -- 20 R: No. Not the sort of thing that Johnson was thinking about. I think that Kennedy was trying to block him at every possible turn, yes. I think that Kennedy did not want him to be the vice presidential nominee. I think

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and yet he wasn't, shall I say, an enthusiastic follower. And she knew he wasn't too happy with her at times, but he never made her feel left out. G: She was apparently blocking or holding up the Higher Education Bill at one point, evidently asking

Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this because they thought it would be used as an instrument to slow it down. On the other hand, the radical holdouts, who at that point in history for every possible way to block desegregation, didn't like the prospect of having an agency that, as they saw

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

name last night for another reason and now live got a mental block. But the general counsel and general manager of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority was an attorney in San Marcos, and 1111 think of his name one of these days. G: Oh, Cape? B: Yes

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

on it . In those days occasionally you would see--oh, I think at that time you began to see trees felled across the road at times, just to let you know that they were there, out there somewhere ; somebody had cut down a few trees to block the traffic until

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

block as to what his name is because he caused some uncomfortable days . Ba : I'm sure I can track it down . Bi : What happened with the secretary? My remembrance is, and this he could tell you--I believe she later resigned . She was not fired, but I

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, CBS, were the biggest cable operator in North America, but not in the United States. I went to Canada because I was sure that the government here would not allow us to go into the business, and that's the way it turned out. They blocked the door as far

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

to try. So I left the Dillman house very much in a turmoil as you can imagine and went back down to Wooldridge where the rally was to be held. At the appointed time, the Johnson car pulled up on the south side of the block near the public library and Mr

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

big block of the voters whom you couldn't see or you couldn't identify. were, but obviously they were there. You never knew where they No one ever admitted he was for Pappy. 23 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ