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Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. I tried to do a little differently with our fund-raising group, the President's Club in New York, the younger members. I got a group of people together that ended up as the greatest enemies, I suppose, later on--what's loosely called "New York
of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Where did he get his money in that campaign? Brown was one of the best old-time supporters Johnson ever had. G: You know, they published the New York members of the President's Club in the Congressional Record, and the list just went on for pages

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

do that on his own. How did they work his Congressional budget in those days for his office? Congressman have the same size budget? Did each LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
; LBJ’s sensitivity; Mary Rather; Dorothy Plyler; helicopter campaign; Lady Bird; JFK assassination; 1964 campaign; first woman to work for LBJ; living in Johnson City; Congressional Ball; LBJ’s friendship with Senator Alvin Wirtz; former political enemies

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

to the newpapers in Texas. I wrote some of his speeches. I wrote statements for the Congressional Record. Of course, George Reedy 'vas his principal writer, especially in his capacity as floor leader. Then later--Johnson had a yen for what he called flwarm

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and perpetually to the Senate club up there. Lyndon would very often have lunch" and I would be there but I didn't have any political contact with him at that time because there was no use in my trying to influence him--he was already for everything I was. So I

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and then the Defense Department on top of the services; it has grown to be larger in bureaucrats probably than any of the individual services are now, although it was never intended to develop that way. And you've got the tremendous Congressional pressures
of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force

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

this period, in 1963, there was what was called a rather informal task force group that was set up. this was the "Saturday Club ating prior to ~hat. ll I'm not sure whether or \'/hether there was another one oper- How did the membership of this group

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to get a little bit happy. He was feeling pretty good, and it was a little problem getting him to leave, so I was elected to help get him to leave. F: He liked this club he was playing. A: He liked it, it was a pretty good gig. problem. He was going

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-six. F: In your senatorial career then, after being named to the Appropriations Committee, did you have much of a relationship with Mr. Johnson or were you--? M: Not intimate, that is, I wasn't on the inner club. I was not one of his confidants

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of those problems and decisions, primarily because everybody has their own club and he really wasn't in the Kennedy club. G: He was not Harvard. He wasn't Boston. In particular that Kennedy civil rights bill was one example where perhaps LBJ's

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