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Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CUNEO -- I -- 6 This resulted in an investigation of the magistrate courts by Seabury. The governor of the state was Franklin Delano Roosevelt after 1928, and as the Depression deepened it became obvious that he
  • Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • inordinately admired, had captured the Bryan movement, that the Republican Party could not assimilate it, that thereafter Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought it back into the Democratic Party. Almost from the first I think he made due LBJ Presidential Library
  • Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's administration
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 25 (XXV), 8/7/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • being the president. And of course his great hero was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was successful in keeping quite a few things secret, but only because it was wartime. I think that's something else that he didn't fully realize, that in wartime you can
Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the Senate. That's when they really teamed up, and whether the administration was Democratic or Republican, they really came pretty close to running the government between them. M: Did Johnson work closely and admire Franklin Delano Roosevelt? V: Yes
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 3 own, so they tied it onto the coattail of WPA, you might say. Unfortunately, it was about that time [Franklin] Delano Roosevelt and [John Nance] Garner, who was a good friend of mine, didn't see eye to eye on everything. They had
  • As Engineer met LBJ, the NYA director; WPA started by Roosevelt, NYA started by Mrs. Roosevelt; NYA tagged onto WPA for financing through Congress; WPA located in San Antonio, NYA in Austin; LBJ as state of Texas administrator of the NYA; Griffith's
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • or more during the war; I saw more of him during the war than I did while he was President, although I then saw him a few times. B: Have you ever been politically active, sir? s: No, not at all. I knew Franklin Delano Roosevelt better than any
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • working for a saint like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, how can you work for a son-of-a-bitch like Lyndon Baines Johnson?" To which Miss Grace began a rather long reply, with the introductory statement that she questioned both premises that Dr. Schaffer had
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Administration marks the end of a political era stretching from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the present time. Do you agree with this? R: I think it's quite likely that we are moving into a period in which the issues are going to be different
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • faster. He actually ate a lot and ate well and gained I think quite a lot of weight. Then, the important thing of that time was him going to meet President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt in Galveston. Now just how he got there I don't know, and isn't
  • Visitors during LBJ's hospitalization after appendix surgery in 1937; LBJ's efforts to befriend political opponents, such as C. N. Avery and Polk Shelton; LBJ meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's trip to Washington, D.C
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he was a great follower of his. He felt like the strength of America was in the people and that the only problem was to get the people to understand what was before the nation and that the answer they would then give would
Oral history transcript, John N. Luft, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that at this time I don't believe that we knew definitely what their farm policy would be, but personally I felt that with President Johnson's background and his knowledge of agriculture and his close relationship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt through the years
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee, he worked for everything that he could to beef up our navy, our whole defense posture. He became sort of one of FDR's [Franklin Delano Roosevelt's] champions in persuading the Congress to spend dollars on naval ship construction and fortifications
  • Visiting the home of Evalyn Walsh McLean and socializing in 1941; Lady Bird's participation in a 75th Club luncheon honoring Eleanor Roosevelt; riding in Sam Rayburn's car; diversity in the 10th District; Lady Bird Johnson using her movie camera
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the estate. So they had gotten close over the years, but that would figure, you see, because Tommy fell out with FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt]; that's when he came 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was of a New Deal philosophy. the New Deal. Naturally, I worked for And I credited the New Deal with being able to get me a job when, they were awfully hard to get. And Lyndon absolutely in my opinion. idolized Franklin Delano Roosevelt, quoted him
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gotten the idea that we were a thrifty set. There was a backdrop that followed us everywhere and it was the picture of Lyndon shaking hands with FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] and he's being introduced by [James] Allred. In this particular instance
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of business. Yet I think he respected the office. He had gone through the FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] days. He had been up to the White House many times. He used to go up to FDR's bedroom there and negotiate this and that with him and so on and so forth
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mind from then on. But of course the two dominating things in the year of 1945 that I remember are just what everybody else remembers, the death of FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] and the end of the war. G: Bill Deason got married, had the reception
  • A January 1945 dinner for Grover Sellers at the Johnsons' home; Franklin Roosevelt's 1945 inauguration; the relationship between Senator Alvin Wirtz and Secretary Harold Ickes; the Johnsons' relationship with the Henry Wallace family; LBJ's work
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • I had missed. During our visit in Washington, one of my friends--a former editor that I had worked for on the Oklahoma News--said, "Well, Franklin D. Roosevelt is going to have a press conference. Don't you want to come and hear it?" Of course, I
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • often lead to a rebellion of the Senate. One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's worst mistakes was to veto a tax bill, which led Alben Barkley to resign his majority leadership and led Roosevelt to apologize all over the place to get the Senate back
Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • these years that Congressman Johnson was a good friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Do you know if that's true or not? Do you have any insight into that? B: What I know on that score is hearsay. I know that the Congressman supported his programs
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Rayburn, too, in his district. J: Yes. He was seldom without opposition, but he weathered it all. Once back in town Lyndon--I saw a memo where he wanted to go in and see FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt], and FDR scribbled on the bottom of the note: "Sneak
  • -country; Christmas 1943 with the Pickles, Connallys and others playing dominos; the 1901 Dillman Street house; Jesse Kellam's and Albert Caster's help to the Johnsons; LBJ's opposition in 1944; LBJ's meetings with Franklin Roosevelt; the birth
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • comptroller. surmise by his name. He was kin to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as you may So he was comptroller almost fourteen years, as I recall, which is the longest term of any comptroller. Since the inception of this office in 1863, there have been twenty
  • Biographical information; Sam Rayburn; Comptroller; career; Senator Couzens and Ford Auto Company; Roosevelt bank moratorium; commissioned as examiner; bank examination facets; FDIC; money deposits overseas; banking crisis; "Eurodollar;" secrecy
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a little bit, even as young as I was. M: Why was that? L: Mostly on account of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I think he has done much for many people, but mostly I believe for the Mexican-American-in this respect, that when we have a period of economic
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was. Of course, though I have spoken of this as a constructive learning experience, I'm sure that there were down moments for Lyndon. One of the things that helped bolster him and buoy him up was a visit with FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] soon after he 2 LBJ
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • targets for years from Franklin Delano Roosevelt on through to Johnson's time--substantial numbers of these were passed. Slum clearance, housing, the poverty programs, the interstate highway systems, airline and airport legislation, and the development
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HILLER -- I -- 2 F: Yes . i%l : But we came here with Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • we did. I remember--no, maybe that was later; yes, it must have been later--standing outside taking a picture of [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt as he came out in his long black car with the Secret Service men standing on the fenders behind him. G
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , the national party--and he was a national Democrat primarily--and it started back in the 1930s with a coalition of what you can call special interest groups, if you want to, and Franklin Roosevelt saw this well. He organized union leadership, which was a very
  • and the 1947 Texas right-to-work law; organizing urban African Americans in the 1930s under Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Price Daniel's 1952 U.S. Senate campaign based on tidelands issues; the Heman Sweatt lawsuit against the University of Texas Law School
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ;JlJnity. from a quite discrete world) the most fantastic political leader of \merican history, one Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has become President of the United States. \'lith bewildering speed he began prescribing ne\
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a game of [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt's. Roosevelt was always trying to trap newspapermen into writing phony stories, and Johnson's admiration for Roosevelt was really very deep, and he imitated Roosevelt every way he possibly could. However, I think he
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the phone so that earpiece just about shook my ear off. He said, "Goddammit, it was good enough for Frankl in Delano Roosevelt!" "Well," I said, "it's not good enough now. We can't stay there. What are we going to do?" He said, "Look, Bar Harbor is just
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in effect calling him into his command headquarters to censor him for something, maybe going on that mission. LBJ pointedly reminding him that he was still a congressman, that he was going back to Washington very quickly under Roosevelt's orders
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the party. The other wing was the old Democratic Party, which was Catholicoriented. And they are the same we found in Iowa--these were old Catholics that [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt brought into the party in the Depression. And, basically, it's not [because
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the records, that library was then the concept. . learn. But he also had to He was a very busy man, as we all know. and he never sat down and thought about the Roosevelt Library and the Truman Library as such, as it applied to him. But when he started
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Philadelphia, got my early education there, and then went to Groton School where my grandfather was headmaster. He was also the headmaster of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and he was still headmaster throughout the time that I was there. FDR was President
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . This was new. There was no pattern I believe I was the second one to be appointed. However, they had agreed that all of the five appointments would be announced at one time. The first appointment was that of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. As everyone knows
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to try for anything. Each man, well, Mr. McIntyre died on me, so he couldn't very well suggest that I work for the next man. But at the time, you see, when I was working for Marvin McIntyre and Judge Rosenman during the Franklin Roosevelt days
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And that job--oh, I guess, it was about fifteen or sixteen months later, they took those papers up to Hyde Park. And that ended that. Then, in a little while, we opened up the Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation office here on 18th Street. of the Foundation
  • , including relationships with Southern friends and Mrs. Roosevelt; Tully’s work with the Preparedness Committee; LBJ’s selection of staff for his senatorial and vice-presidential offices; Tully’s activities since her retirement in 1965; Joe McCarthy; Hubert
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • passed by one vote. G: This was the one in 1941, right before World War II? H: Yes, that was in 1941. G: Let's go back now to the early years. I wanted to ask you again if you can elaborate on the friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon