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- young man. This launched his career as a national figure. B: Now, to go forward a few years, in 1948 when Mr. Johnson ran for the United States Senate, at that time you were secretary for the [State] Democratic Executive Committee, is that right? K
- Biographical information; Jimmie Allred; Franklin Roosevelt's court packing plan and LBJ's 1938 election; tabulating primary election votes and the work of the state Democratic Executive Committee; administration of the Democratic party in Texas
- of the State Democratic Executive Committee, 1946-48. I've held various otherm.inortype jobs, like president of the Hillsboro School Board for a period of time and things of that sort. I was nominated in the Democratic primary in 1950 for an associate justice
- Biographical information; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; 1948 state convention; State Executive Committee and certification of LBJ as a candidate in 1948
- Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh You're Judge Oren Harris. You served as Democratic representative in the House of Representatives in Washington from 1940 until February 1966, when you became a U. S. district judge
- ; Sherman Adams; Congressman Morgan; Schwartz; Mr. Moulder; Bernard Goldfine; Jack Anderson; Bob Bartlett; 1960 Democratic convention; Arkansas Valley Development; Senator McClellan; JFK’s VP decision; federal judgeship; Attorney General Katzenbach; civil
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , aild would you tell how you would rate him? F: He was a fairly effective member dealing with those subjects in which he specialized, particularly matters of national defense. He was a very close associate of the chairman of the committee, Nr. Vinson
- ) just the general disenchantment of any administration in office, that the Democrats would lose still more and I know Congressman Johnson wanted to be two things: he wanted to be secretary to the Democratic National Committee and also he wanted
- and Pedernales River Authority; preparing for FDR's 1940 presidential campaign; Corcoran's work on LBJ's 1948 election to the U.S. Senate; how LBJ became Senate minority leader; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's and Corcoran's relationship
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- . But I think if Johnson-Nixon had been the candidates, Johnson would have won. M: He was I believe he would have. It's just been said that his political machine, or the Democratic National Committee was not in terribly good shape in the beginning. T
- as a Congressman; McCarthy hearings; LBJ’s cooperation with Eisenhower; rating LBJ as a Senator and Majority Leader; Timmons’ Conventions Record; Democratic and Republican conventions; LBJ and 1960 campaign; Barry Goldwater; “Trial Balloons;” LBJ’s high standing
- . We've had-- F: Do you have sort of a newsletter? P: That's normally done out of the National Democratic Committee. example, we had Vice-President Humphrey down here in 1965; For it was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
- elements. I think that the National Committee was the gathering agency for the bringing of all the states in. He never used any practical old-line Democrats that knew the country. He brought in people from Texas, and they were limited in their knowledge
- campaign for Truman; LBJ’s social legislation while president; labor’s support of social legislation to help working people; wage-price control; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with the Democratic National Committee.
- 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Long -- II -- 2 husband, Stuart Long, had certainly done a great deal to help organize the state that year, and he was on the Democratic Executive Committee, and he
- didn't want to stop you. CG: I'm guessing at, say, a week. How long did you stay down there? We stayed there until the Democratic Executive Committee met in Fort Worth. I don't remember that date. See, it met just ahead of the Democratic state
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- the fact that Mr. Johnson did have a conservative base in his home state, and was also attempting to become a more national Democrat as majority leader •. Was this really causing much of a problem for him and his staff to disassociate themselves from
- ; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic
- him. G: He played a more prominent role, I guess, in national Democratic Party politics-- N: Yes, and he became Senate leader, which was a very, very important job, I think really more important than the vice president, to tell you the truth
- ; Wilmer St. John Garwood's election to the Texas Supreme Court; LBJ's 1948 election to the U.S. Senate; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; the relationship between LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Nash's nomination as an alternate delegate to the United Nations
- : Russell Brown. J: Russell Brown, yes. in Atlantic City. had transpired. I saw Russell Brown at the 1964 Democratic Convention Russell was reminding me of some of the things that Russell Bro~m, I think, was there when Lyndon Johnson LBJ Presidential
- temper and tactics; 1960 Kennedy/Johnson campaign; Hofheinz’ private bill regarding Yorktown Corporation; LBJ’s jokes; 1960 Democratic Convention and LBJ’s acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; assignments LBJ offered James.
- , on the agreement that they'd support them, and then they backed out of that. Because that's the Convention where Mrs. Lloyd Bentsen, Jr. was named for National Committeewoman. I know, I was on the Committee on Nominations. But she finally withdrew because
- Biographical information; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; LBJ’s rapport with Latinos; use of helicopter; interest in Valley drought; LBJ’s role in location of Falcon Dam; 1952 and 1956 State Democratic Conventions; 1960 and 1968 Democratic Conventions
- until I believe it was August 28, 1948 was the primary, and the following Friday they canvassed the returns. I went to the meeting of the Jim Wells County Democratic Executive Committee where they canvassed the returns, and they announced this total
- on in connection with the election and the vote and how it turned out and the controversy and the fact that it had been thrown back by the courts, I guess, onto the [State Democratic Executive] Committee, of which I was a member but not very active at that time
- 1948 election and the State Democratic Executive Committee; Byron Skelton; HST and General Marshall collaborate on the Truman Committee; the 1960 convention in Los Angeles; meeting JFK at Hyannis Port after the convention; Ted Dealey insults JFK
- . And with it being a campaign year, there was an awful lot of political mail. We had an awful lot of volunteers when he was the vice presidential nominee, and through the national committee we had a source LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
- in San Antonio. to meet the train; r~aury and Lyndon was on board. and I did. I remember, I was not on that That was the time I went down ~~e all went down to meet Nr. Truman, The State Democratic Executive Committee of which I was a member had had
- , to a meeting and •..•. PB: Jake Pickle is the present congressman from this district? HP: Yes. PB: What was that campaign? Was that the Hardy Hollers Campaign? HP: That's correct. PB: In other wordS, Hardy Hollers was trying to be the Democratic
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- Biographical information; Labor and Public Welfare Committee staff and their areas of expertise; Lister Hill's work as chair of the committee; bipartisanship on the committee; committee response to Great Society legislation, especially relating
- to the University and had no further part in the war until the early spring of 1918 . In 1918, I enlisted in the Texas National Guard, was commissioned a first lieutenant, was on recruiting duty during most of that spring . I helped to organize and recruit three
- Haley; U.S. position on tariffs in the 1930’s under Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, and after WWII; 1965 battle to head the Texas Democratic Party delegation to the Convention; LBJ vs. Allan Shivers; LBJ as favorite son candidate for President; Texas
- the Democratic campaign committee functioning through its representative in the House was in deep trouble. Some very fine Congressman, I think from Virginia, was supposed to be in charge of the Democratic campaign for reelection of those members of the House
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- in the Texas legislature, the House. I heard about a young whipper- snapper who was in the Congressional race to succeed [James P.] Buchanan who had died. He had been chairman of the Appropriations Committee. I say a young whippersnapper because that's
- weaknesses as President; LBJ’s storytelling and sense of humor; if LBJ had been elected to Appropriations Committee, he would not have run for the Senate
- : Of the Democratic county committee. They're made up, as you know, of a chairman and a--the secretary is appointed, they're not elected, and just whoever the chairman picks. And then however many voting precincts there were, in each voting precinct
- in Precinct 13 in 1948; Dean's role as county attorney in the 1948 Senate election; the makeup and role of the county Democratic Executive Committee; Coke Stevenson going to Texas State Bank to examine the poll list; the location of the ballot boxes; the grand
- and went to Houston and worked for the Federal Land Bank as a junior attorney for about a year and a half; then moved to Austin to help my friend LBJ organize and initiate the National Youth Administration program in Texas. That was in the summer of 1935
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- and we voted that day there in San Diego. And I voted a Democratic ticket, and stayed around there that day--well, for two or three days after that, and then we stayed out at the ranch and then went back to Austin and went back to school. F: Did you
- credited to Stevenson. We got the Democratic county chairman, went out and canvassed these boxes. G: So he was-- S: He supported Johnson, yes. And Carl Estes supported him, but Carl wrote an editorial--now SWEPCO, Southwestern Power and Electric
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- first met him at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1932 when I was up there as a delegate and Franklin Roosevelt was nominated for the first time. I was a delegate from Ector County out at Odessa where I was living at the time
- say not after the 1964 election. Because I was still useful, and I was called up there in January of 1964. Dick Maguire was treasurer of the national Democratic commit- tee, and he and Blundell were real close. I'd met Dick on that LBJ
- to, but that may have been something in Washington. R: It might have been WPA wanting him to, or Washington. I never heard that rumor though. G: Now, he had an advisory committee. R: Yes. G: An advisory board. R: I knew Mr. [Alvin] Wirtz for several
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- the oil people vote for him? Who voted Did businessmen support him? W: Generally speaking, the oil people didn't. close to the New Deal. They thought he was too Of course, that was a Democratic campaign. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in the Capitol when he was Minority and Majority Leader. It was a more important office really when he was Minority Leader, because nobody else had an office in the Capitol. none of the Democrats. They all came up there when they wanted a little snort
- for minorities; LBJ’s relationship with Senators and committee staff members; Johnson Treatment; great raconteur.
- . P: Mrs. Taylor, during his vice presidency--well, let me back this up--in 1960 during the campaign did you work in that campaign? T: I was with the Democratic Policy Committee then, of which he ,vas chairman. And of course I was with the girls
- National Youth administrator. I was a good friend of Congressman Dick Kleberg, and when Kleberg was a representative here in Austin from his district-F: He used to come up here? J: Yes, sir. I had a men's store on Congress Avenue, next
- announced that he would not se election, and several men ran, but Lyndon Johnson and Coke Stevenson were in the runoff, and ran "neck and neck" to finish, with Johnson winning by a majority of only 87 votes. After the State Democratic Executive Committee
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was then chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, but I frankly don't remember the details of the meeting. I know there was such a meeting, but that's about all I could tell you. G: Can you shed any other light on the relationship between Lyndon Johnson
- it. I probably went as an observer. G: Did you go to any of the executive committee meetings? O: Not that I recall. G: That was where the case was argued. O: Well, then I probably [did] I was there when they are arguing it so I must have been
- How Owens got involved in the 1948 Texas Democratic Senate primary investigation; what Owens learned in questioning people in Jim Wells County for the investigation; Owens' relationship with Coke Stevenson; Owens' relationship with the Johnson