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  • and the Democrats quite well and faithfully--everyone from Truman forward as President. I wonder how you first came into contact with Lyndon Johnson. M: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in 1950 or 1951 when I was Under Secretary of the Air Force during
  • ; CIA role exaggerated by press; National Students Association; Watts and racial problems; Kerner Report; CIA relationship with other organizations in Vietnam; raw information provided for by the CIA
  • of platform that he drew such national attention to. At that time I was Democratic national committeeman from Arkansas. I went on the national committee and was a Roosevelt man very early. I was the youngest member of the national committee. hadn't reached
  • ; Community Relations Service; Roy Wilkins; Pope Paul; Southern Committee on Political Ethics, 1967-1968.
  • to get unanimous agreement from the committee on every issue, from both Republicans and Democrats; and we succeeded in getting that. As a matter of fact, the Republicans accepted me as their adviser; I think that is one of the few times that a Democrat
  • 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
  • . Combs--and I did not run against him, though some people suggested it as a possibility . I rather liked him and he was a moderate Democrat, and a Johnson supporter and a friend of Johnson's, so in 1950 I did not run, but rather supported Combs
  • will then be placed in the Library, to be administered by the people at the National Archives incidentally, and this will be used as Mr. Beckworth wishes. B: Thank you. That's very fine. M: This is an interview with Mr. Lindley Beckworth. outside of Gladewater
  • 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
  • to Governor Price Daniel, who was a young lawyer in Liberty, Texas during the 1930's and whose political star was beginning to rise. I supported him actively. F: You knew Price Daniel then back in your young Democratic days? H: Yes, I first met Price
  • in work of ICC; JFK assassination; President of National Trade Association for Inter-City Motor Bus Industry; return to government service in DOT; maritime industry; Urban Mass Transit; formation of DOT; Alan Boyd; party for Luci and Pat; LBJ established
  • important precedent. And, as I remember, Lyndon Johnson did work for that bill. B: Yes, he did. Then what was your attitude toward the 1960 Democratic ticket of Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson? R: Quite frankly, I was very distressed when Mr. Johnson
  • the fact that Mr. Johnson did have a conservative base in his home state, and was also attempting to become a more national Democrat as majority leader •. Was this really causing much of a problem for him and his staff to disassociate themselves from
  • ; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic
  • at the national level 9 Chicago telephone strike before 1968 convention 10,11,12 1960 Democratic Convention � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Oral History
  • Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BASKIN -- I -- 4 B: The t1a.y one when they overthrew the Shivers-dominated State Democratic Executive Committee
  • First contacts with LBJ in 1953 in Texas campaigning; Johnson's role in Texas state politics in 1956; Sam Rayburn's selection of LBJ as favorite son in 1956; DOT (Democrats of Texas); contacts with LBJ in Senate; LBJ-Ralph Yarborough as senators
  • in 1961--to make greater use of those restrictions. B: What was the State department's attitude toward the self-help idea? One could imagine a possible conflict of interest there--the State department is trying to keep other nations happy, and you
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: STEPHEN J. POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: This is an interview with Stephen Pollak, formerly assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division
  • Biographical information; Tidelands Act; Old Miss and the James Meredith crisis; early work in anticipation of the Peace Corps; VISTA and poverty program; National Service Program; Sargent Shriver; recollections of day of the JFK assassination; RFK
  • Worth? G: Yes. Where [they had] the one-vote margin. That was Fort Worth, wasn't it, Joe? When the [State Democratic] Executive Committee voted to put him on the ballot by one vote, where was that convention held? F: I believe that was Fort Worth
  • ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; Walter Jenkins; Goldberg suggesting that LBJ take the oath of office in Dallas from Judge Sarah Hughes after the JFK assassination; appointment to Court of Appeals; Court of Appeals procedures from 1966-1969
  • on the Democratic committee we had to set up after Shivers and his group went off, I called Rayburn in Austin--oh, yes, he was down there and I called him because Bert Andrews had broken,his story about our man from the National Committee who was down there being
  • Committee; Gerry Siegel; LBJ’s staff members; Sam Rayburn; 1956 fight between Shivers and LBJ; Byron Skelton; Mrs. Loyd Bentsen; Mrs. Frankie Randolph; The Lyndon Johnson Story; LBJ had to work for the 1960 campaign; convention politics; H.L. Hunt’s
  • , possibly came through here one time, but not any real campaign. B: During the Kennedy years you became governor of Georgia, ran in 1962 and took office in 1963. Did you get any help from the national party in campaigning? S: None at all. You mean
  • Methodist University. Now Dean Story had served as a member of the national Commission on Civil Rights, and, as I recall, had reSigned from LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees
  • INTERVIEWEE: NANCY DICKERSON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Her office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 D: When I left Wisconsin, I went to Washington and the one place I wanted to work \'/as the Senate Fore,ign Relations Committee. I guess
  • and went to Houston and worked for the Federal Land Bank as a junior attorney for about a year and a half; then moved to Austin to help my friend LBJ organize and initiate the National Youth Administration program in Texas. That was in the summer of 1935
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • and Hale Boggs, that Charlie Davis had. Boggs'. It might have been at the Charlie Davis, you know, was the chief clerk of the Ways and Means Committee. been earlier. I believe he still was at that time, or he had That's right, he \vas in a Chicago law
  • campaign that Senator Johnson was in I was listed as being on the county committee for him. I likewise in the campaign of 1956--this is an instance I ought to relate. The Democratic Party in Texas has always had a pattern almost back to the days of Sam
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees
  • campaign, particularly the convention in Los Never said a thing. Angeles? H: Oh yes, yes. F: Did you have any opinion about him about by then, either as a national news source or as a possible Presidential candidate? H: Yes, he was running seriously
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DATE RESTRICTION 1130170 A 1/30178 A 8118170 A .. FILE LOCATION Robert W. Komer Oral History Interviews RESTRICTION COCES (AI Closed by Executive Order 12358'governing access to national security information. (B
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  • in that fight. They were our unions. I testified before a Senate committee in which this thing was being handled. I was deep in the middle of that with President Johnson, too. MU: That's the first time that he used this technique of calling some
  • , I guess you 8ight call it the White House liaison with this organization. well and worked closely with him. I kneH t·;arvin l"Jatson very Of course, Marvin, at that time, was at the Democratic National Committee. F: Yes. S: Cliff Carter went
  • to Washington. I learned how the press functioned on a national scale, especially on a trip. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 F: Who set up your schedule? T: This was set up by the Democratic National Committee. F: Any idea when the germ first sort of got planted for the settlement
  • in Washington now--somewhat dates back to the emphasis that was put in this meeting. It was also an effort to get the media of communications involved. If you could visualize a meeting nationally of the Community Relations Committee, as President Johnson would
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees
  • of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new board. The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera- tions of the federal government. B: Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in those
  • in a lot of these difficulties we receive the assist~~ce pria~ions of the ?olice. This is in that testimony of one of the appro- hearings by one of the secretaries of the Dillon Committee, in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • basis in 1954. M: How did you know Arthur Burns? P: Through professional contact. My thesis was published as a paper in one of the volumes that the National Bureau had published four or five years earlier. I had met him at meetings and so
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
  • that the Vice President was chairing on the other hand? S: I don't remember any overlapping on that. F: When President Kennedy was killed, you were named to a state committee to look into the assassination. S: Yes. What happened was that as soon