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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • some allegiance to a leader that tells them what they should do. But Roy Reuther, who was traveling with us--Walter Reuther's brother, an extremely able and active fellow in the labor movement--was purposely on the team that traveled with me, because we
  • ) Senate campaign; conflict among New York Democrats over distribution of funds raised in New York; LBJ campaigning with RFK; how the RFK/Kenneth Keating race compared to the 1952 JFK/Henry Cabot Lodge election; Walter Jenkins' arrest; October 23, 1964
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was not making a move at that point. G: Would it be correct that Kennedy had more support among the [Walter] Reuther people than he did among the [George] Meany, AFL [people]? O: That's right. But as far as any mass organized effort by labor you'd have
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Jack assigned his brother, Bob, who was to go up and visit with Governor G. Mennen Williams and Walter Reuther, and advise them of the decision. G: Was this at that early meeting that he asked his brother to--? O: Once it was determined that Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ads, finances, Humphrey's biographical film, poll results and final plans; O'Brien's overall impressions of the campaign policy committee; records of the policy committee meetings; the role of Walter Mondale and Orville Freeman in the campaign