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

. In fact, I just know that to be the case and I think very cor rectly so, because he ran as a 100 per cent New Dealer in the Austin area about the time President Roosevelt was having some controversy with Senator Tom Connally about trying to pack

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, [William S.] Knudsen was in charge of it, and the build-up, it was evident to even the most ardent New Dealers that we had to put all the muscle we could behind defense and pick up the crumbs, so to speak, for the domestic programs. I was always partial

Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-dealer as majority leader, someone who could always get together enough votes to pass a bill or defeat a bill. Did you observe him in that role? C: Oh yes, I saw him on the floor working on people, tugging on their lapels and so forth. He was just very

Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was the last of the New Dealers, do you think that stands up, or do you think he carved his own direction? E: I think he carved his own record. I think Lyndon was--there are a lo.t of things that I didn't agree with, of course, but I think Lyndon made

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

particularly qualified for one committee or another. But although he did these things that were so correct and so good and so proper, he frequently did them in a way that got people annoyed and gave him the image of being a wheeler-dealer. B: Did any of his

Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. What the Kaisers had done, I think quite foolishly, is wired all of their automobile dealers in New Hampshire to work against Bridges. Had you heard about that? Well, Bridges naturally was not pleased. What else? G: Well-- B: Let me tell you

Folder, "Klu Klux Klan (KKK) - Miscellaneous," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 16 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

days everybody didn't have a radio set and the dealers would put one out on the street for World Series games and big speeches--Roosevelt was making a big speech, and he was giving the malefactors of great wealth hell in his way. o~m superior And two

Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

per adult. And the liquor dealers in some of these areas were quite upset by this. M: So you lowered the actual amount on certain items? J: Just on liquor. M: Just on liquor? J: However, this did have an effect; I mean, it reduced the-- M

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of the Supreme Court, which I believed in firmly in the light of the way the then members of the Court had been throwing practically all the best New Deal measures out the window. I was very, very much a New Dealer at heart and took it very seriously

Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that? How did he get Molly [George W.] Malone to We had to in those days. vote with him? M: Well, because Lyndon worked with them on some things. Lyndon, although some critics say he was nothing but a New Dealer, was actually a moderate. the times. been

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- of course, that was right after the depression. And there were more people sympathetic to the New Deal than claimed to be New Dealers. And here was a young fellow who had come along, and was carrying it out, so they went for him. I would say generally

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the day down at her father's store after her mother passed away, is this right? P: She did. On occasion they would bring her there. She loved coming to the store. Mr. Taylor was truly a dealer in everything. He also had coffins upstairs where they kept

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with [George] Humphrey, because Humphrey thought he was smarter than Eisenhower and he was domineering. The staff didn't like Humphrey, because he was arrogant with his wealth and he was always a self-dealer. Anderson did not have those characteristics

Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

club, so I didn't get to know him there . Lyndon was not But my impres sion of Lyndon was that he was a kind of wheeler-dealer . what Lyndon thought nor where he stood . I never knew And I think he learned many of his political skills when he

Folder, "United Afro-American Association (UAAA) - Miscellaneous," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 20 (Item)

to scene of major events (f) · see firearms (g) rumors that police (h) obtain dealers there copies and pawnbrokers are Negro corpses hidden of Lomax speech before by NAACP (i) Tie in speeches giveµ in area before, during, after, etc. I . (j

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 80, January 2003," LBJ Library (Item)

hus bands and thirteen children, for I had told him often enough." Mrs. Johnson recalled her father's country store, and its sign over the door: "T. J. Taylor, Dealer in Everything.'' '·Jgrew up listening to the wind in the pine trees of the East Texas

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 89, February 2008," LBJ Library (Item)

we are pr iding a :upp m r gr m for drug dealers and liqu r tore'. If we nly had a ten-perc nt succ rat in trcat in0 prison r , th co ·t f treating all f them would b rec up d \\·ithin a year. "And the impact on our crime problem would be enormous

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Legacy of the Sixties, 1999," LBJ Library (Item)

,'· "arm-I wisting," "wheeler-dealer: .. -When Senator Richard Russell declined to serve on the Warren 01111111s1011. LBJ retorted, ··y u're my man on that commission! And you're gem' do it! I can't arrest ou, and f'm not going to put th FBI on you

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson was big about was having no scandal. He just didn't want any scandal. He was very conscious of the wheeler-dealer problem. Indeed, I don't think we had a single scandal. The Bobby Baker thing occurred in the Senate. He used to say it occurred

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Dealers make me sick, because where would you be if you could not get people like me elected to Congress?" That was a ve ry characte ristic thing for him to say. He was always cons cious of the Texas electorate breathing down his neck. I have a poor

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, it's going to be one-holer because if it was a two-haler, before that Governor could make up his mind, it would be too late!" Well, Dan Moody proved this again in this case. Moody had been a New Dealer up to this time and later became violently

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

assistants and his advisers--they called themselves the New Dealers--and John Garner said, "They weren't Democrats. They were just New Dealers or socialists, whatever you wanted to call them." So the vice president and the president didn't see eye-to-eye

Folder, "Misc. Correspondence - 1968," Office Files of Yoichi Okamoto, Box 1 (Item)

TO: BRUCE THOMAS FROM: OKAMOTO My wife baa a good friend, Mr. Michael Arpad, the antique dealer in Georaetown, who i• a rabid Lyndon B. Johnson fan. Would it be poaaible to get a regular signed portrait to Michael A rpad? Many thank•. September

Folder, "[Visitors - Foreign] Adenauer, Konrad [April 1961] 1 of 2," LBJA, Subject Files, Box 90 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 42, September 15-20, 1967 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 22 [2 of 2] (Item)

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 101: Oct. 23‑28, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 41 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXVIII -- 9 of you." And she said, "Oh, have you got room to put it in the trunk of the car?" The antique dealer said, "Well, if you'll let me prop the trunk up and rope it tight we can get it in there." So he did. And dadgummit, we

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And all this razzle-dazzle over the budget; Bobby Baker--all this had a cumulative effect and people began to think of LBJ as the wheeler-dealer. And his critics certainly helped to make sure that image was emblazoned wherever they could, and he had

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

from the White House during the election, because he ran as a New Dealer, a New Deal candidate. nut the President was fishing in the Gulf, and after this fishing trip he landed at Galveston. Marvin McIntyre, who was his secretary at the time, had all

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of implementing legislation, in terms of setting the moral tone in our country. Here is a man who was looked upon as a wheeler-dealer, but this has been a very clean administration. 'I'le haven't had any scandals. We haven't had a serious scandal in the five

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)