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Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the press critIcism about him being a wheeler-dealer, conniver, less than anxious to deal with the truth at all times would have been just LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • because when he first ran for the House of Representatives in 1937, he had--it was a special election--he had corne out for the President's Court Packing Plan. That instantly and forever identified him as a New Dealer in the minds of many people in Texas
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to listen to him really get started in a very spontaneous, very earnest way about what he saw as the goals of this country . And it . was not the picture of the wheeler-dealer, the riverboat gambler type of operator, yet there were nuances
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of your own fatigue. Every city looks alike. You know, the approaches to any city in the United States from an airport are identical. A bunch of the used car dealers on the way in, gasoline stations, roadhouses. You get about the same speech. Well, you
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • reserves, dealer reserves � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a guy that's a wheeler and dealer and a goer and a goer, and he never slowed down. The main relationships in those days I had with him was back in this NYA period. And of course the Authority was entering into some projects during that time. now
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • calls me. G: And the President got word of this? T: Oh, you bet. Absolutely. So we had to get rid of him, you had those wheelers and dealers. G: He was using his status to impress somebody? T: Yes. Sure, has to be. Yet the guy was a top-notch man
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 95: Sept. 19‑25, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 39 (Item)
Folder, "Johnson, Lyndon B. [1941-1955]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 14 (Item)
  • Dealer. As such, he com­ mands considerable support from the ranks of the Truman backers. He also has the great political asset of having behind him Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, his political "father," who will be in there fight­ ina for Johnson
Folder, "History I. A Short Narrative History," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (Item)
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1958" (Item)
Folder, "The Message - Vol. II [2 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 2 (Item)
  • "Not disposed to fight the plan on safety. 11 He predicts jurisdictional problems between Ways and Means versus Public Works rathe1· than Public Works versus Commerce. "Auto dealers will fuss. 11 Will gd along with the program "If you don't kick auto makers too
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 64: Feb. 22‑29, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 30 (Item)
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 28, May 16-24, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 16 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • great difficulty with them. They thought I was a Texan, a Johnson Texan, a big operator. Several of them wouldn't get very close to me because they didn't think they ought to, a wheeler-dealer. G: Did you work differently with the Republicans than you
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the Altmeyers, Mrs. Ellen Woodward. But all ardent New Dealers. And getting Aubrey Williams off in a corner and talking to him, and him saying that he really thought Lyndon ought to be back and working in a more productive capacity, and that he was going to 24
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the man. G: Let me ask you. You were talking about Maury Maverick as a Young Turk, and it seems that during these New Deal years, in the thirties, both he and your brother were idealistic New Dealers, you know, ready to roll up their sleeves and make
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • were there with some other friends of the President. I remember specifically Jay Smith was there--he used to be an Austin automobile dealer--and old Bob Present, who is the chairman of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Collection, Papers of James Cato Pattillo (entire collection) (Item)
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 6, June 11-20, 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 8 (Item)
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 9, July 16-31 1966 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 9 (Item)
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Folder, "The Bertrand Russell 'Trial'," Country Files, Vietnam, NSF, Box 191 (Item)
Folder,,"C.F. - FG 170 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (1964-1966) [1 of 2]" WHCF Confidential Files, Box 31 (Item)
  • is my uncle. His wife By way of personal background, He built a huge fortune in real is my mother's older sister. years. He is known as a tough, estate·over the past fifty He is honest, square dealer. He is clean as a whistle. for some fifty retired
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 13, September 15-30, 1966 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 10 (Item)