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

was a great New Dealer in my own thinking, not with any government association although I did do a little WPA project at one time. But Johnson, when he got involved with the youth-F: ._C: National Youth Administration . National Youth Administration
Biographical information; initial contact with LBJ; desegregation plans; 1956 Democratic National Convention; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Collins' selection and role as chairman of the convention; minority

Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

afterwards, really, that I was doing a lot of work with National COPE and also with the Retail Clerks and our own people. I would go into various cities and work with the labor movement. G: You said he would reserve some of the worst ones for you
Biographical information; Joseph McCarthy; LBJ’s techniques; minimum wage; labor; Jim Suffridge; Dave Dubinsky; 1960 campaign and convention; Esther Coopersmith; West Virginia primary; Arizona delegation; Wyoming delegation; Kennedy machine; advance

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the presidency in a most crucial time in the nation's history, he did an excellent job, and he soon convinced the American people that he was a man of real ability, of common sense, and great courage and great integrity. And he did much during the years of his
for Vice President; 1960 campaign; 1940 election; motion for abrogation of 2/3s rule; contact with LBJ when he was Senate Majority Leader; Paul O’Dwyer and Allard Lowenstein; Dump Johnson movement; LBJ legislation proposed and enacted to help the people

Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or really was the manager, I guess you would say, I think he carried the title of treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. He's now very active for Mr. Humphrey. I think he actually is the one who originated the idea. F: Do you get people

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a chance between stops to visit with some rif the local people and to make himself known as a human being and not just as a politician. The problem that I find which [makes] national campaigning so awful and so gruesome is that a plane lands, and you run
Biographical information; Senator Wirtz; associations with the Johnsons; travels with LBJ; impressions of LBJ; 1960 campaign and convention; vice presidency; NATO trip; LBJ and art; LBJ’s humor; Adenauer visit to the Ranch; Pakistan camel driver

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

was after all a young senator, would have the kind of support that he actually developed. We divided the nation into six regions. I will try to recall for you some of the people who were involved. Krueger, who had the Northwest. South. Culp Cliff Carter

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. In the meantime the story goe s that Wright Mor row personally guaranteed- -he's a man of considerable means--a national television broadcast for President Truman. By reason of that he, in a way, ingratiated himself with the people on the National Committee
and 1960 campaigns; Democratic National Committeeman; Los Angeles Democratic Convention; JFK’s meeting with Houston ministers; LBJ’s running for Senate and VP; LBJ relationship with John Connally; LBJ as VP; reasons for the 1963 Dallas trip; wrote letters

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

no choice in the matter. F: This is something you did without any guidelines. E: It was very distasteful, I may say. Then after 90 days--and I had moved 120,000 people in 90 days--I became Associate Director of War Information and stayed

Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was still sufficiently junior upon the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that I was not often called to the White House for briefings upon any of those matters. My active participation and association with Mr. Johnson and the people in the White House

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of running for political office when I was in high school, and so one step led to another and it turned out that I did manage to win a couple of offices. A great many other people, especially when I was in college, had ambitions. lone time thought
Biographical information; 1960 campaign; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Luther Hodges; North Carolina politics; VP nomination; environmental health center; Henry Hall Wilson; smoking

Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

think so because the way that I see it these children making their debuts have to just go so hard during the Christmas holidays, and people who'd like to entertain can't get all the parties in. M: Well, you grew up then in Galveston? MT: Yes. M

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

be on the side that Texas was on, irrespective of the fact that he did occupy some national position. However, among the informed people, this was not really a major problem. They understood that he had a dual function and they understood that he had to take
Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the 1948 election

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that their presence was known to the audience . This helped him and helped the reporter too, and also made the town feel good, and when you're in a town of eight or nine hundred people why they like to know that a representative--or they like to see the base

Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as that . But it did happen, before, for example,there was going to be a presentation on some subject and Mr . Wilson had his own people with him, and President Johnson had some of the members of the National Security Council or Cabinet officers . President Johnson
incident; Glassboro meeting; Harriman; Wilson-Kosygin interview; Great Britain peace demonstrations; 3/31 speech; US-British relations during Johnson years; Dean Rusk; George Ball; National Security Advisory in White House

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

and the people who are the bi g shots, the power structure in the G~~A, the Groceries r'1anufacturers Association, the corn products people, and so on. All you need to - do is take the list of people who testified against the truth-in-lend ing bill

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Candidates ," and it was so difficult to get speakers even to debate Republican speakers on a national hookup of free time, that I had to fill in some of those myself. I enjoyed terrifically debating people like Sherman Adams, who was the campaign manager

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Mrs . Johnson and my wife and the President reached the point where he was detailing how he studied at night, he was associating himself with those people at West, finding a common point of interest . He detailed how at night after they had dinner why

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

as Texas state administrator for the National Youth Administration by appointment of President Franklin Roosevelt, I became aware of his outstanding achievements which became a challenge to the nation in youth administration, notwithstanding he

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

remember his first responsibility in Texas with the government was as head of the NYA, the National Youth Administration . So he was interested in young people, and we were interested in young people . At that time I was fairly young--10 years older

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

he made an impression upon people when he met And then when the War came on in 1942--1941 is when it started- Lyndon entered the Navy--. Did not resign his seat in Congress, but he was commissioned in the Navy, I believe, as a Lieutenant Commander

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Pandora's box. He persuaded me that he felt that the national security alone justified the oil depletion allowance, but that he was just sorry that some of the major beneficiaries of the oil depletion allowance were people that he didn't have a very high

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, as you And people in the United States don't seem to me to be patriotic enough, or thrilled enough about the nation's c~pital. F: They don't see Washington as their big national monument. L: No, they don't. So the death of Kennedy gave many people
in Washington D.C.; Lasker’s relationship with Mrs. Johnson; supporting Robert Kennedy; encouraging Mrs. Johnson’s interest in beautification and health; beautification projects in Washington D.C.; National Institutes of Health and clinical research goals; Nash

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the only Democratic governor of the United States coming from a state that might have sufficient number of people to make a good campaign with the necessary financial resources . F : There was a good bit of national interest in you at this time
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Cheryl Chessman case; National Advisory Committee; Democratic candidates; 1962 campaign against Richard Nixon; Cuban crisis; Rumford Housing bill; Jess Unruh; Western Governors

Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

at a time, because I'm afraid you'd fall into the same category. I think it's very useful. Mc: M: Were you assigned to any other government committees? Yes. I was appointed. I am on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association
on housing (Suburbia) in 1965; impressions of Robert Wood and Charles M. Haar; evaluation of task forces; service on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association.

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Nashville, Tennessee, which had a Texas connection because the owner had been a man named Silliman Evans, and his son was in fact named Amon Carter Evans, and they were connected to the Texas people. Therefore it had been a paper that had a particular
Early contact with LBJ during 1960 campaign; going to Vietnam for the first time; learning about Vietnam and gaining the confidence of the people there; deciphering the motivation of the officers that spoke to him; Homer Bigart; John Vann; John

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 25 influenced. I felt fairly confident that because of my past associations that I would possibly that I would be received with favor by the people in the White House, but I was not in any sense a White

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the President's involvement in Texas politics. mention~ You asked I didn't and I should have because it goes to the heart of something else, I'm national committeeman from Texas and I was one of the two or three people responsible for the campaign in Texas

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, about 1957. I met him in The locale was a coffee, I think is what it was called. in the afternoon of a weekday. It was It was organized by Warren Woodward. Its objective was, as Woody told me, for the then-majority leader to meet with young people

Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was not involved or associated with the National Youth Administration in that work at all. F: You said you met Mr. Johnson while you were Secretary of State--socially or in a business sense? M: I became interested in President Johnson when he became a candidate

Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and then walk down with the color guard, so that we would receive the state guests as a foursome, the President and the Vice President . Every time we had a private party, which was about five times I think in the time we were there, we'd always ask

Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and incidentally, it's a firm now of a hundred and forty. now. We are probably the fourth or fifth largest firm in the nation The President incidentally refers to it as the fourth largest firm. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the National Press Club and I'd see him around the Capitol when I'd go up there. But when you have seen just thousands and thousands of members of Congress and people up there, it's pretty hard to--I didn't think he was going to be President. be President. I

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

advanced up the ladder? R: I don't know. I think the jobs, in a sense, are not comparable, because it was much easier to have security in the Senate. He was dealing with a handful of people, senators, and I think he could more or less do all
at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

against many people who would rather have not passed the 10 per cent surtax in an election year. Me Did you talk with him about the possibilities of that passage? M: No, it was pretty clear to me that it was going to pass. I wasn't on that committee

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Congress. Anyhow, a report came out saying that the South was the great economic problem of the country. G: The nation's number one economic problem. S: That's right, the nation's number one economic problem. After ano- ther year or so, anyhow when

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on various I saw him there. I met him as a U.S. Senator, because I always went to the Congress and said hello to the people. But I had a chance to know him better in the late fifties when I was Governor of North Carolina and he was invited to make

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh T . O'Neill--I-- 2 and everybody wanted him in their section of the state . innovation took place : advance men in politics . send probably twenty people into the area . An They would They would

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

interesting experience because, as I men- tioned in the earlier interview, one of Mr. Johnson's closest and long time associates was Irving Goldberg, who now serves as a judge on the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Goldberg agreed to become vice chairman of the Texas

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

voting before all the people were there. Because I had told them I was coming--I think Skelton told them --I guess they knew 1 was coming, because when I walked in it was like sitting at an Irish wake. Everybody was sitting there like statues

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. He'd made a good governor, most people in And it ,,,as a political race, and feelings were aroused. Naturally I was working as hard for my man as I could. B: What made Hr. Johnson seem liberal? M: I suppose association in the minds of many people

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