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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, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

acquainted with Mr. Johnson? First of It must go back to his congressional days. s: I think I first became acquainted with him after President Roosevelt was inaugurated in January 1945; when later-to-be-Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder and I gave

Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

could read it. something like this, it said: IIDear Jim. He said there was As I recall it went For the last three or four years you fellows over in the War Department have been sending congressional parties over here to the European of operations
of Eisenhower. Knowland’s interest in Asian countries, his opinion of Senator Joe McCarthy, the supposed usurpation of congressional authority by the executive branch, the Civil Rights bill of 1957, the beginning of the space program, running for governor

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to that. a liberal all my life." He said, "I have been He pointed out a number of things he had done very early in his Congressional career, stands he had taken, particularly stands in behalf of rights of minority people. I feel, first of all, that those labels

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

frequently in those Congressional days? W: Yes. I saw him--each time I carne to Washington I visited with him. And each time he carne to New York he stayed with us at my horne. F: Did he come frequently? W: Well, no, not very frequently. F: Did you
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential elections

think, a graduate of Yale, and he was a hard-working fellow, but the club was against him and that was the only reason. And if I had my life to live over again, I would never in my life have recommended that he be precluded from going to the Foreign

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But they talked The President used to kid him, too, at the Gridiron Clubs or places like that about Landslide Johnson, by winning his first thing call him Landslide. by a few votes, and in public he used to The very way he said it was with love and affection

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, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in 1960--my observation is that LBJ confused national presidential politics with congressional politics. He thought that if you had a senator or a congressman who was for you ,that this meant that that state would be for you. The fact, of course

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 remarkable comeback from '62 to '68 . The man never stopped . He campaigned for Congressional

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

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Club, and I know some of the Senators that I have interviewed have told me that either they were rever a member of the Club, or after some time they came to be accepted and so on. So far as LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Candidacy for the Senate; first acquaintance with LBJ; Minority Leadership; Senate Club; FEPC and Tidelands; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVI EWEE: CLIFFORD P. CASE INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Perhaps we can just proceed chronologically. C: All right. G: Do you recall your first association with Lyndon Johnson? C
rights filibuster; Senate club; legislative issues

Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to NATO the Senator upon arrival was rather tired, and rightfully so, so he went to bed rather early that night. Johnson, who I think is one of the Mrs. finest women I have ever met, also a very brilliant woman, had never seen the Lido Club. She had

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Of course, in my state when I was in business, I was called a radical by my competitors because I started the five-day week, the thirty-six hour week, the first profit-sharing plan of any business in the state, a summer cabin for the employees, a flying club

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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