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  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Provence -- I -- 15 P: Oh, yes. Yes, we went down, Harlon Fentress and a man named Kultgen here, a Ford dealer-M: How do you spell that? P: K-U-L-T-G-E-N, Jack Kultgen, J. H. Kultgen. and just a real leader among men
  • . respect. I never thought of Lyndon in that We've had some members who I hav~ thought of as populists, but I never really thought Lyndon was a populist. In those days we thought of him as a New Dealer and not the old term of populist, I guess. G: I
  • LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
  • donated by various dealers. G: Really? Were they new cars? N: Yes. There were--in fact, one morning we were following one of the other cars. One of the young guys who was going to be the drummer as it were, he passed us, and I had LBJ Presidential
  • will be there and will refuel us." I got up early the next morning and went out here to see E. K. Bennett, who was the Skelly dealer. He got a man to drive a truck, we loaded the truck full of gas, and it stayed ahead of him from here. He left Marshall, went to Jefferson
  • ://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
  • 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
  • -- 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
  • you come to Roosevelt being popular, he always got the votes. But I think Mr. Johnson thought that that would be favorable to him. He was labeled as a New Dealer, and I cannot understand, have never been able to understand, during the more recent
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphey -- I -~ 13 that he thought Lyndon was an opportunist, that Lyndon was a New Dealer, whom Mr. Stevenson utterly
  • business of applying to Black as a Justice, I had kept Black as a Roosevelt New Dealer aware about what was going on in the Texas election. Black has always been one of my best friends. He did me a last great favor about two years ago--he appointed my