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Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- and this is now my fortieth year on Capitol Hill . F: He's finally going home, isn't he? M: I'm just trying to make up my mind . F: No, I don't mean you . M: Oh, oh, yes, sir . F: Colmer . M: Bill Colmer is going home . F: I haven't seen him yet
- that for granted. F: And you worked. S: Yes, sir. F: Did you go home that night? S: As I recall, I think I did go home about three or four o'clock. I came back very early the next morning. F: Did you get involved at all in the funeral? S: No, sir. F
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 17, 1969 B: This is the interview with Bayard Rustin. Sir, to start pretty far back in time, did you have any knowledge of Mr. Johnson when he was in the Senate? R: Yes, I did. Of course, I suppose everybody heard
- INTERVIEHEE: IVAN ALLm, JR. I NTERV IHIER: THO~1AS PLACE: His office, City Hall, Atlanta, Georgia HARRISON BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta. Sir, did you have any acquaintanceship with Mr. Johnson before
- Lyndon the prime mover in this? D: Well, he was certainly one of the prime ones, yes, sir. I might relate one incident which will show you that even at the age of eighteen or nineteen he had some of the qualities which later came forward in his
- to Congress. B; Yes, sir, as a Congressional Secretary. Was Mr. Johnson a protégé of some of the older hands in the House, like Mr. Rayburn and Carl Vinson? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org M: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
- INTERVIEHEE; HARREN J:-L CHRISTOPHER INTERVIE\.JER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Department o~ Justice, Washington, D,C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, if we may start out with your background, I have a question that may be purely a personal interest. C: What's
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968, Washington, D. C. B: Sir, to begin with, do you remember the first time you met Lyndon Johnson? K: Yes. I wrote something about that in a book I recently published [Memoirs: Sixty Years ~ the Firing
- to catch up. M: Were you surprised when Lyndon Johnson accepted the vice presidential nomination? P: At that time, yes, sir, very much. It's sometimes difficult to look far back with all the things that've happened since then and really appreciate how
- doing some research work . Then Tom [Thomas C .] Hennings [Jr .], who was running for the Senate in Missouri, asked me to come back--Missouri happens to be my home state- asked me to come back and work in his campaign . I, in a sense, went back
- of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
- INTERVIEWEE: CARL SANDERS INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Sanders' office in Atlanta, Georgia Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, do you recall if you met Mr. Johnson any time before the 1960s while he was still a senator? S: Oh, yes, I had met Mr
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 8, 1968, in his part-time home in New Orleans, Louisiana B: I have the machine on now, so if we can go ahead and start. I'd think a logical starting place, sir, would be with when you first met Mr. Johnson. C
- a murder -- a capital GENERAL CIARK: always been, try find more than one person will StatP. of Tennessee, as a possible will sir, anticipate with the evidence 1n the future, be in which you expect time, of· command. that .you can you say what
- INTERVIEWEE: JACK VALENTI INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: His office in Washington Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Jack Valenti. Sir, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? V: Yes, I do. Houston. I met him sometime in, I believe
- : Also, sir, in that primary campaign so far as Mr. Johnson's campaign speeches and so on went, was he going pretty well down the line with the Truman administration? S: Yes. He was, and with the Democratic Party generally. We considered him of course
- /exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape ff:3) July 29, 1969 B: This is a continuation of the interview with the Reverend Luther Holcomb. Sir, before we get back into the chronology-- H: Excuse me, have you met Judy Miller? B: We've been talking out there. H
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- impressed In the official meetings I wasn't present. I was present later at the Ambassador s--I believe it was Ambassador [Douglas] MacArthur [II] at the time--at his home when he had a private party for the. Prime Minister. The Prime Minister slicing
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 8, 1969 B: This is a continuation, the second interview with Rev. Holcomb. Sir, we left this after about 1961 or so. The next thing would be in '62 when you were appointed by President Kennedy as chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton
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- of age at that time, and I would go out on the patio of our home to practice my lines and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
- Texas; Van Cliburn; St. Mary’s Catholic High School chorus; Diaz Ordaz visit; “The Fandango;” Sir Gilbert Peake.
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 13, 1969 B: This is an interview with Patrick V. Murphy., former Director of Public Safety of the District of Columbia, and later Director of the Law Enforcement and Assistance Administration. Sir, to start with your
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Nay 13, 1969 F: This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New York on Hay 13, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right? W: Yes, sir. F: Tell us a little
- : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
- of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
- moved out in their [areas] back home, they would swing delegates. didn't ,happen It just that way. M: It didn't work that way. S: No. M: Did you go to Los Angeles? s: Oh, yes, I went to Los Angeles. M: Were you a member of the Texas
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 24, 1969 B: This is the interview with Luther Holcomb. Sir, to begin in the beginning, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? H: Yes, I can reconstruct. It was during the campaign of--the one when W. Lee
- , 1968 INTERVIEHEE: WARREN M. CHRISTOPHER INTERVIEWER: THO~IAS PLACE: Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, there is one whole area here involving urban disorders, the major city riots, which I believe you've been
- , "Well look, go home and get it and bring it to Sarg." Strange request; you could have gotten a black tie anywhere. "Bring it to Sarg over at the White House. cleared at the northwest gate." Mind you, I'd never been in the place before. the tie
- is worried about staff, and I think you ought to go out there with him." And they invited me up to the family home in Beverly, north of Boston--I was in Washington--to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
- INTERV I a'IEE: FREDERICK G. DUTTON HnERVIE~JER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, let me mention some things here because I think they ought to be in the transcript. 0: Right. B: You were the Organizing Director
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968 B: This is the interview with Mr. John A. Schnittker, the Under Secretary of Agriculture. Sir, would you start by outlining your career up to the time of your appointment as Under Secretary here? S: Yes
- INTERVIEWEE: LINDLEY BECKWORTH INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Beckworth's home near Gladewater, Texas Tape 1 of 2 M: I've just been talking to Mr. Beckworth about the use of this information, and I've explained that the tape and the transcript
- Home congressional office facilities; family background; father's county school superintendent campaign; 1928 Democratic convention in Houston; college education data; 1936 race for state representative; introduction to LBJ in 1936; 1938 campaign
- : Not in quite such a hurry to get home . B: That's right . I was not married then, Joe . I'd work in my office until 6 :30, sometime a little later, and then I'd stop over there and have a drink with Mr . Rayburn and visit with him . There were probably
- , sir, I wanted to ask you about that. To back up into the '40 IS, even if you had not met Mr. Johns·--a had you formed an opinion about him? Had you classified him as a Congressman? M: Yes, I had. I was a pretty conservative young man, and it seemed
- : In 139. He had an office there. In the Co-op. [Pedernales Electric] From September 15 when I went to "vork until the first of the year, we worked there. And then the boys drove up to Washington and I spent Christmas with Bird at her home in Karnack
- from General Taylor, now chief of staff, U.S. Army. He wanted to know if there was any cogent reason why I shouldn't go to South Vietnam to relieve, or to replace General Mike, or Iron Mike, O'Daniel. G: Excuse me, sir, you called him Iron Mike. H
- , but we can fix you up in the dining room. And I don't believe you'll be identified if we just go in two at a time. We arranged that, in order to avoid creating a scene, there would just be two or three cars going to my place. I said, "I'll drive home
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- I NTERVIEl~EE : KENNETH O' DONNELL INTERV I EHER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr . O'Donnell' s office , Park Square Building , Boston , Massachusetts Tape of 2 M: let ' s get your i dentification on the beg i nning of the tape here , sir
- , and it was all over before I really got my breath. I don't suppose I had been there ten minutes till it was all over. G: And then you flew back to Nashville the next day? M: I went back to Nashville the next morning. I came on home to Temple, where I had
- to be governor. S: Well, I got into politics a long time before 1968. F: Yes, sir. S: My first venture into politics was in 1932, when I felt not an obligation, but felt that I wanted to help the Democratic candidate for governor at the time who was Henry
- you had dinner?" I said, "No, sir." "Le t 's go ea t . " And as we walked down the hall into the mansion and up the elevator, he said, ''How would you like to be the deputy mayor of Washington, D. C.?" As a matter of fact, he said, ''How would you