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  • Coleman -- I -- 2 it a pretty good organization while he was president? F: ~las C: Well, he had been speaker of it before I got to Capitol Hill but evidently, it must have been, because after his term as speaker for a long time his leadership generally
  • of knowledge, why I had no interest particularly in Stevenson until I heard this midnight speech which was, I think, one of the great speeches of all times. Instantly I took up the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • with Mr . Johnson . When did you first meet the man and have knowledge of him? B: I first met President Johnson when he was a Senator . As you know, he occupied a particularly commanding'position there and I had occasion from time to time in connection
  • : But it worked out that we won it by a single vote. Can you recall how you got that one vote majority? Was it a question of getting some member to change his vote? S: No, it was a question of getting some members here on time to vote. G: Is that right? S
  • ? B: The first time I met him, to really meet him, was at a party in Washington . I would say it was about 1958, for that S & H green stamps, it has a name-­ F: Sperry and Hutchins? B: Yes . I didn't know that they were giving the party
  • . One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Waldron -- I -- 2 W: Yes. I knew Senator Wirtz before he died. G: What were your impressions of him at that time? W: Truly~ my impression
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES H. ROWE, JR. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Rowe's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: We were talking last time about the election of 1956, and I thought today we would go on forward chronologically
  • . More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Who else was there? Lady Bird, Watson, [Larry] O'Brien some of the time, about just how to organize and how to get started. G: Was there a general strategy for 1968? R
  • have because he was a friend of Mr. Truman and I was very close to Truman. F: Now, he became a senator the same time that you became the envoy to Luxembourg. Did he ever visit you while you were over there? M: No. F: In 1959 when Premier
  • counsel of the inaugural. B: Do you recall any particular difficulties, problems, incidents, in connection with that? V: I can remember it seemed like one mass of problems because you have a very short period of time to really establish and run
  • INTERVIEWEE: 'JOSEPH L. RAUH, JR. INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Rauh's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: We had agreed this time to start with 1960, and perhaps a good way to do that would be to ask first was there any really overt