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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

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: 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

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: 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

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

, 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

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

: 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

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

people's minds that knew anything about it that this fellow Dougherty could ever beat Johnson. M: Did Mr. Johnson discuss or members of his staff talk very much about his political base and broadening his political base at home? He had, of course

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that was about it. He hadn't been home; he had been very much i.nyolved with foreign policy, and when you get to that exalted position-at that time) you know, they were fussing around a lot about starting the Uni.ted Nations; Chiang Kai-shek; Madame Chiang

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

thought the course we were following was right and because the President had almost unanimous support of the people he represented • If you crossed FDR on any kind of a vote, the people back home said, "Hey, what is wrong with you,Congressman? getting

in debt, and ,vas planning to go home and start out the next morning looking for a job. That afternoon Ralph Shinn called me alld asked if Dorothy Plyler had reached me; said she had been trying to get me about a job. I called Dorothy and she asked me

she would call me here in Washington to give me a little report of what was going on. So she waited until twelve o'clock midnight because of a two hour difference. She knew it'd be ten o'clock here, just about the time I'd be getting home

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1971 INTERVIEWEE: BROOKS HAYS INTERVIEHER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Congressman Hays' home, 314 2nd Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: I'll make a little introduction here, just for identification. This is an interview with former

as legislative institutions . And Mr . Johnson gave me the impression of being a person who had never been fully at home in the House with its procedures . I have no reason to disagree with my early assessment that he never was as effective a House man as he

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