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Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Astronautics Committee was set up, Overton Brooks became its first chairman. Did you know Brooks? F: No. M: Well, Brooks was from Louisiana. [Overton] Brooks was the ranking Democrat under Vinson on the committee on Armed Services. fellow who did
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • believe Senator [Joseph] Clark of Pennsylvania was still in the Senate. And the Senator from Massachusetts, [Edward] Brooke, was not there, the black senator. He was in Africa at the time on LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1978 INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD JOSEPH INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Joseph's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: That's a point that I'd like to get on tape. We're talking about Sam Houston Johnson, the President's brother. J: I've
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  • Joseph, Edward
  • Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Edward Joseph
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD JOSEPH INTERVIE~JER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: t~r. Joseph's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 F: We'll make this informal, Eddie. Are you an Austin boy? J: Yes, sir, I was born and raised in Austin. F: That's what I thought. J
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  • Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Edward Joseph
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [John F.] Collins couldn't beat [Edward] Brooke. Was that the--? O: Yes, that was the substance of it. There were suggestions made, and I think probably even polls were taken. I guess I may have mentioned it before, but in this context Arthur Goldberg
  • against Edward Brooke; how Kenneth O'Donnell's gubernatorial campaign in Massachusetts affected O'Brien's relationship with O'Donnell; the eventual Senate race between Endicott Peabody and Brooke; the role of postal unions; problems in the postal service
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • all running together . Will Edward Odom was my candidate tried to organize my precinct. for chairman of the precinct . But in this particular one I had This precinct, at that time--I don't know what its boundaries are now, but at that time
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: DR. EDWARD C. WELSH INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER DATE: B: More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Welsh, Edward Cristy, 1909-1990
  • Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • Edward C. Welsh
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1968 INTERVIEWEE: KERMIT GORDON INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Gordon's office, Brookings Institution, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Kermit Gordon who is president of the Brookings Institution. To start off
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by simply identifying you. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh You're Edward Fried. You're currently with the Brookings Institution, but your service in the government in the Johnson Administration
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  • Fried, Edward R.
  • Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Edward R. Fried
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the States, had he had any prior consultation with you? Had he arrived at this independently? I know that you at least embraced the principle, if not the specifics. S: No, I think that work was done primarily at Brookings with Joseph Pechman doing a good
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it did that, it will be the basis for his position in history which will be excellent, I think. M: You eventually ran a campaign against Edward Brooke for the Senate, did you not? P: I did. M: Did the president--did Lyndon Johnson, take sides
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Ed Cape. G: Ed Cape. B: Edward Cape. Cape and Wirtz were pretty close, and between the two of them they developed a lot of attorneys I fees, but they worked out the deal. Now, therels a senate investigation on that matter, and I have
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • received. Anyhow, at the christening there was all the family and such old-timers as Bess Beeman and her husband, and Sherman and Delle Birdwell, and Paul and Dolly Bolton. Paul was with us at KTBC. (Interruption) Max and Marietta Brooks and Herman Brown
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • about that time, the Ladies for Lyndon movement. Predictably, Marietta Brooks was a big factor in it, and a lady named Mrs. W. A. Griffis, from, I believe, San Angelo. Later on they wore darling little red, white, and blue costumes, girlish straw hats
  • Governor Pat Brown, his wife, Bernice, and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies; India Edwards; friends such as Zendra Pipkin and Richard and Maureen Neuberger; LBJ's battle with Tom Miller over what Austin citizens had to pay for electricity; Luci's
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a stenographer present, but not everything was taken down. I would usually indicate what would be taken down, what would not be taken down, and all of these records are in the archives. MG: You had, in addition to Fred Harris, Edward Brooke from Massachusetts
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the circle that received the Inauguration tickets and so we went down and met the Vice President at that point. My next political activity was essentially in 1962, when Ted was running against Eddie, [Edward J. McCormack Jr.] Ted Kennedy verses Eddie
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Reedy, George E. (George Edward), 1917-1999
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: The Elms. O: And Bobby Baker was there with his wife, my wife and I, and a Texas congressman--Brooks. G: Jack Brooks? O: Jack Brooks and his wife. We spent the entire evening discussing strategies and how to go about congressional
  • in working with the Senate; Mike Mansfield's personality; an evening at LBJ's home, The Elms with LBJ, Bobby Baker, Jack Brooks, and their wives; Frank Valeo's role as bridge between Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's office and the White House congressional
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • system from what he considered to be excess regulation. Jimmy was probably ahead of himself, and he proceeded to do that but he would brook no opposition from anyone. The Comptroller of the Currency is a one-man operation--no board, no nothing--he's
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , an old riata, the Edwards Plateau Historical guess still all sorts of artifacts, old and things of this sort for furnishings for the exhibits and for the historic B: The of Frederieksburg and the Gillespie County Historical Society participated
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • York--and also I'm practically sure he was Republican, but that never made any difference to Lyndon--and [Edward] Hébert of Louisiana and Bill Hess and Warren Magnuson, Maggie, who was on Naval Affairs until he went to the Senate in--when was it? Did he
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • graduation year. Joe lived in Brooks Hall in one of the suites up on the fourth floor, top floor, which were inter-open-connecting about four or five rooms. the days when they still had hazing at Baylor. That was in The students who lived in that suite
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Meantime, we were considering moving back into my apartment. We told the Edwards that we would like to have it back April the first. I planned to ask Mary Rather to move in with me. It had been marvelous living with Nellie Connally, but it was possible
  • impression of Australians, including Dame Mabel Brooks; President Franklin Roosevelt ordering congressmen and senators who were on active duty to return to Washington, D.C.; LBJ's meeting with Roosevelt to discuss problems in the military; the Johnsons
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and strangely enough. Jack Edwards of Mobile, Alabama. It was an example of.how a meritorious proposal, when ventilated in hearings where people have their say, can draw to its support people who for political reasons might take a different position
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • legislation passed more easily; the passage of the Medicare bill; Wilbur Mills' involvement in 1963 legislation; Wayne Morse; extension of the temporary feed grain program; John Gronouski replacing Edward Day as U.S. postmaster general; how Henry Cabot Lodge
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Senator [Edward] Brooke, for instance, was sent to Africa by the President. was absent during that period of time. He But I think with the responsi- bilities that all of the commission members had, the attendance was remarkable. I do not know whether
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went back to Massachusetts and ran for governor. And as it turned out, Saltonstall didn't run; that's when [Edward] Brooke ran and was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts. He was the first black senator. I don't recall in 1964 but people would say
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Dick Brown, as I recall, had been a disc jockey on a radio station in Colorado. He had been active in politics and was affiliated with the Josephine Roche-Senator [Edward] Costigan faction in Colorado. He came to NYA under Josephine Roche's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • with consummate skill and a quick gavel. M: Well, all I can think of is chairman. J: Chairman, I guess he was. And she, she may have had the title of secretary. And she would make the announcements. M: Was that Indiana Edwards? J: No. Beautiful Alabama
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • closely interwoven with the Johnson campaign. we planned a few things together. India Edwards and I met, and I came to Washington several times, and I advised with him, and he took none of my advice. G: Had you committed yourself? T: I committed
  • Address; LBJ’s 1963 Gettysburg speech; Jack Brooks; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; critics of LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 1932 when Lyndon Johnson was also a secretary to a congressman. Did you see anything of each other in those days? W: I cannot recall any contacts in those days. I was working with Edward W. Pou, the chairman of the Rules Committee, and many
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John E. Stavast, interview 1 (I), 3/12/84, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Reedy, George E. (George Edward), 1917-1999
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • point than any other time I've ever seen him. Because you know this is a fairly impressive list, Martin Agronsky, Popham, Walter Mansell, Paul Scott-­ who's a real nut; that's a little bit harsh, he's quite fanatical-­ Bill Stringer, Ray Brooks, Ray
  • Reedy, George E. (George Edward), 1917-1999
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • at this time, and had no knowledge whatsoever of Washington. Along in August of 1946, I set up a meeting in Austin between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Teague. And Mr. Teague came from San Antonio Army Hospital (Brooke Medical Hospital) and we met at the Stephen F