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Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a general merchandise store? T: Yes. G: Let me ask you to describe it. T: It was just a big, big stone building, two-story. It had a sign on it, "Dealer in Everything," and he tried to live up to that. He wasn't afraid to tackle anything. G: Did he

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 17, 15 August 1979," LBJ Library (Item)

Welfare Administration at that university, is often called the "Father of Social Security,'' because he helped draft the original legislation as a young ew Dealer in the 1930s. In his presentation, Cohen disputed the contention that the social security

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 30, 15 March 1984," LBJ Library (Item)

the longtime activist for civil rights and ot er causes recount some of the experiences in her eventful and colorful life. Now 80 Mrs. Durr was a transplanted Alabamian in Washington dur·ng the 1930's. She and her late husband, Clifford, were ardent New Dealers

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 34, 15 July 1985," LBJ Library (Item)

was the last of the original New Dealers to occupy the White House and like FDR despite his cautious tendencies-and like FDR he was cautious-he was will ing to experiment. Ht: thought there would be time to find out what worked and what didn't. Helping once

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 71, 30 April 1999," LBJ Library (Item)

, there was the unconditional love of her Grandpa Patton. a junk dealer and ex-convict. He told her she was spe cial and worthy of God's love. Then there was the Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church with its emphasis on respectability, educa tion, and responsibility

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/11/1942 (Item)

•••• The ~ Aubrey Williams, Maury Mavericks, Mrs. John Corson, Alt"' meyers, a Mrs. Ellen Woodw~rd of Mississippi--quite a sle of ardent New Dealers, that now nearly extinct breed. Mr. Corson has been drafted by Altmeyer into holding three · jobs, one of which, re

Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jackson -- I -- 2 the fact that he came from Texas and was in the thirties, as I understand it, a New Dealer. And that liberal image in the eyes of Mr. Roosevelt gave

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1944" (Item)

Jimmie Allred writes LBJ letter of thanks for treatment LBJ gave him in Washington when he was there and for “wonderful gathering out at your home.” 2/16 Banquet of New Dealers in Austin, attended by Texas federal, state and county officials

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. H: That's right. But Johnson never was a captive of the southern bloc. He was trying to be a captain of them, rather than a captive. You see, being a Roosevelt New Dealer and being a protege of Sam Rayburn, he obviously couldn't be a real

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Folder, "Pest and Disease Control [folder includes scrapie in sheep, screwworm, and rats]," 1958 Subject Files, Senate Papers, Box 582 (Item)

be no better anti coagulant bait. LURAT bait is safest to use. The LURAY self-feeder carton is the most effecient, economical, and effective way to feed anti-coagulant bait. The cost is insignificant compared to the loss that rats and mice inflict. DEALER

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh FISHER -- I -- 14 F: I think so. Me: He had a reputation, or gained a reputation, during his majority leadership days, as a wheeler-dealer. Do you recall any events or examples of legislation that really required his very
Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1943; casual relationship with LBJ in House for six years; controversial 1948 election of LBJ over Coke Stevenson; LBJ’s reputation as a wheeler-dealer; insecure politically in Texas; dedication of Medical

Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he started out. R: Oh no, no, nobody had ever heard of him. No. Here's a man whose county had only been attached to the district for two years. He was a New Dealer in the time when that wasn't necessarily popular. I don't know whether you have

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24617781] G: I know that FDR did that. R: I don't either. G: Was FDR criticized for that move? R: A little bit by the New Dealers. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I'm not sure it was tied to-- No, I

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and naturally he and Johnson had sort of a political affinity . to Roosevelt . He was a New Dealer . Johnson was close Jimmie Allred was a New Dealer . Johnson supported Jimmie Allred very strongly when he ran for the Senate, and Jimmie Allred supported

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Congressman Kleberg. Now those were the days--we were contempo- raries of a sort--where the young New Dealers around Washington congregated at all hours of the day and night, particularly at night. I came to Washington in 1933. F: You P

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. That's the kind of operation now. You know he had a reputation of being a wheeler-dealer, and I wouldn't say it came from intimate experience that would cause me to say that. I was pretty young and a freshman in '58 and new in the Congress, you know

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

matter to the dealer, if he got the stamps, and he didn't follow strictly the rules . It could go for purposes for which it wasn't intended, and it was generally regarded as a difficult thing to handle . I think this was the main reason . And in fact

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

couldn't get together; they were divided by too many issues. The ultraliberals, for instance, for whom Kennedy wasn't liberal enough; the old New Dealers who kind of looked upon Kennedy as the son of the man who had given Roosevelt a lot of trouble

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Small -- I -- 4 postmaster general? [Arthur Summerfield]. He was a Chevrolet dealer from Detroit. He called a meeting with the Republican senators and announced that he was going to get rid of every

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

think he was ever par ticularly effective in understanding the House business . I don't think he was a very great wheeler and dealer in the House after the honeymoon was over . I personally believe that what we got out of the Goldwater Congress

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 11 and [he thought they] would consider him an obnoxious young New Dealer. Brown says he was convinced that Johnson could sell himself--there's that Treatment A again--if he had the opportunity, and he arranged the opportunity, a meeting in a Houston

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and the smoke-filled room type of operation. B: He was generally viewed as just a southern politician, a wheeler-dealer type? C: Well, I think he was looked upon as a wheeler-dealer type. I think even in Wisconsin there's still some recognition

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

from reading the newspapers that here was a big, gangly, wheeler-dealer politician, the type of which I knew so well in Oklahoma, which is the old courthouse politician. So I had a very negative impression of him as someone who was hard and cold

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)

Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -5busted banks. The young New Dealers became very friendly with a great deal of interchange between the various departments. There was a great deal of mutual discovery

Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

; Texas Power & Light; transmission and distribution lines; cost of LCRA System; Pedernales Electric Cooperative; Bluebonnet Electric; pooling systems; Lake LBJ; Young "New Dealers"

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

sobered up from that FDR binge." L: (Laughter) That's the way he wrote to him. B: So apparently LBJ was perceived as much more conservative than he had been when he was a staunch New Dealer in the late 1930s and early 1940s. L: Yes, he had to do

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

felt down in the bottom of his heart that they didn't vote for him, they voted against Goldwater. And Lyndon was one of these guys who, being a wheeler-dealer in a sense that he was a compromiser, always had an idea that somehow the Kennedys would get

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, some people used to refer to Lyndon as a wheeler and a dealer, and Lyndon was pretty sharp. But I'm not so sure that he would have ever set himself up cold turkey to tell a fellow member of the Senate, "You can't have this bill unless you vote

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and the press, and the young New Dealers who were the real excitement to me. End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview XI 19 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Folder, "Farley, James #1," Papers of Drew Pearson, Farm Series, Box F 437 (Item)

, and not the mail contracts. just as he has done many times betore, and other New Dealers. lie took it during all those -17bitter days ot the beginning damned him tor not ot the administration, th,1fi ♦Xag ant when Congressmen ot Jobs~ He took it whe

Folder, "Memos to the President – 1967," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 1 (Item)

working at his job full-time and doing the best he knows how." If I were the same voter and saw th~ usual photograph we put out, I would say "There's old Johnson, trying to look like a plaster saint, when everybody knows 11 he's a wheeler-dealer politician

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 82, October 2003," LBJ Library (Item)

good, he could also be ruthless, Caro told the audience, as when he destroyed the ca reer of Leland Olds, "an idealistic Ne, Dealer. He had worked for Franklin Roosevelt all his life .... His field of ex pertise was public power; power from dams

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and there's a recall of this, or that, or you get the notice in the mail from your auto dealer. In those days, those recalls were devastating. They were big; they were front-page news often. That was what we regarded as the real deterrent. We also had

Folder, "Minutemen - FBI Reports," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 16 (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in. If you find, you might say, a "wheeler-dealer" type, you are going to find a lot of borderline loans and investments in the bank. Sometimes they become too earnings-conscious. On the other hand, and this is somewhat of a criticism in and of itself, you

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