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Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Senate? I wouldn't say that I knew him well. However, while I served on the House side, I would get over to the Senate side from time to time to see the Senate in action. Of course, Lyndon Johnson was very prominent in those days as the Senate's
rights; LBJ’s speech at University of Michigan launching the Great Society legislative program; LBJ’s success dealing with Congress was legendary; objections to Justice Fortas in 1968 as political maneuver to prevent Nixon making an appointment; Democrats

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the oil business. F: The reason I ask the question, you know some of them [businessmen] really look on any brand of Democrat as a kind of pariah and a liberal Democrat as something unspeakable. P: Oh, yes, there are many people that do. are like

Folder, "Bowles 11/3/63-1965 [2 of 4]," Files of Robert W. Komer, NSF, Box 13 (Item)

EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA New Delhi, India, December 2 2, Dear Bob: I am enclosing a photostat of a. recent essay by Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times in which he analyzes the forces which are shaping Asia and comes up

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not want action patching up the 1957 bill to be solely on the initiative of a Republican president. stamp on it in his judgment. G: Had to have a Democratic And that's why he introduced the bill. There was one difference between his bill and Eisenhower's

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Democratic Policy Committee of the Senate. How did you get that position? M: Through good luck. I had a cousin working on Senator Johnson's staff named Jack Hight, who was an administrative secretary to the Senator. He told me that Gerald Siegel, who
Biographical information; implication of Joe McCarthy era prompted him into law and public services; Democratic Policy Committee; General Counsel; calendar calls; LBJ’s degrees of interest in legislation; 1946 Legislative Reorganization Act; 1957

Folder, "Steinbeck, John [Copies from the Social File]," White House Famous Names, Box 9 (Item)

• . CD I J 't·'.· ,. ~ i : :- . '·-) • I 1964 Democratic ·, Party Platform Pol~cy.Plank Foreign :..! !; .i .. ~ l .., ... ' •.. .I I -I .. jj • ..·. •·.~\/Peace a~d freedom are America's business. Peace affects t J

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

overwhelming victory in November '62 filled the national party with some jubilation . I think that they were all very anxious to see that Richard Nixon was defeated . He wasn't very well liked in Washington . I had the support, I think, of the Democratic Party

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Curtis -- I -- 3 G: The Democrats had taken over the majority by one or two votes, I believe it was, a very

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

mTERVIB~EE: FRANK CHURCH INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Senator Church's office, OS08 405, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin simply by identifying you, sir. You're Frank Church, senator, Democratic senator from Idaho. You came

Folder, "Whistle Stop [4 of 6]," Liz Carpenter Subject Files, White House Social Files, Box 11 (Item)

in 1963, formerly served as president of the University of South Carolina from 1952 to 1957. Mrs. Boggs• husband has been Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives since 1960. The train schedule is still incomplete, but it is planned that the train

Folder, "March 13, 1965, #38, Backup Material For the President’s Press Conferences, Press Office Files, Box 71 (Item)

, the bloodthat was shed, the life that was los~ must strengthen our determination to bring justice to all our people . This is not just the policy of your government or your President . It is the heart and the purpose and the maning of America . ~ 3 We all

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Inspection at the OEO. It was run by Edgar May. His mandate included everything that we did, so he was out evaluating Community Action and Job Corps and Head Start and everything, and he did--or his evaluators did--make many studies or evaluations of Job
teaching experience in Cotulla, Texas; Head Start Director Dr. Julius Richmond and early Head Start office facilities; why Congress could support programs like Head Start but not Community Action; giving leadership roles to intended program participants

Folder, "National Security Council - 1961 [2 of 3]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4 (Item)

tq tolerate actions active This encouragement to avoid so far as possible opposition. certain seemingly qy Amini which do not really s. The U. should be anti-American damage any major America;q. interest~ 3. against T~at the should

Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the auspices of the Americans for Democratic Action, of which I was a member and which George Lambert then was heading. I'm rambling on your question because I can't think of any specifics. I've had dealings with Rayburn, but not in those years in any
Contact with LBJ in the 1940s; Democratic Advisory Council; Rayburn's role; Ralph Yarborough; 1956 state and national Democratic conventions and labor; CIO and Texas politics; Frankie Randolph; Texas Observer; committeeman/committeewoman controversy

Folder, "V.P. Johnson's Trip to Middle East, August - September, 1962 [4 of 4]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 2 (Item)

the problems that you face and tho aspirations that • you have, than do your friends in America. Wo, too, Mt-. Vice President., aro a young nation. We, too., made tho choico to walk the wa:, of independence that Cyprus is walking. Wo, too, were blessed

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Frontier-Great Society period that what was needed was dramatic and drastic action in these areas. It fitted perfectly into our concept of the federal role. G: One of the controversial aspects of this bill was the discretionary authority given
14(B) of the Taft-Hartley Act; combining 14(b) with a farm bill so that urban and rural Democrats would support each other; Orville Freeman's involvement in lobbying for the farm bill; the Appalachian Regional Development Act and the Public Works

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to kind of stay in the middle and keep both sides together. G: Russell gave an interview I think to U.S. News and declined to say whether he would support the Democratic ticket or would refuse to head a 5 LBJ Presidential Library http
Observations from 1952-1953; the Smithwick suicide; LBJ’s membership on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; Texas backing of Eisenhower for president; the Bricker Amendment; LBJ and the White House liaison staff; LBJ and the Democratic National

Folder, "Boutelle, Paul Benjamin," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 7 (Item)

1, 1967 39205 PAULBENJAMIN BOUTELLE SECURITY MA'lTERSOCIALISTWORKERS PARTY On October 5, 1967, confidential source number one advised that a meeting sponsored by the Tougaloo College Political Action Committee, Tougaloo, Mississippi, was held

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that it was possible to have a greater impact on a national committee of that sort than in our own small vineyard putting up signs and carrying banners. F: Are you a Democrat by political persuasion, are you apolitical or-- L: No, I am a Democrat. I've been
for the Performing Arts; relationship with the Kennedys; Bill Moyers; Tommy Thompson; Lincoln Gordon; the Dominican Republic crisis; Castro and Cuba; Free Trade Association meets in Montevideo; Central America foreign ministers meet in San José; Fernando Eleta

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

crises at the same time like the Middle East and Viet Nam. Was that a distinct distraction from government action? R: That's just not true. Viet Nam was never such a problem as to cause us to neglect other areas.There were times when for weeks on end

Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the New Deal politics was a good way to do that. My husband became discouraged when Allan Shivers took the Democratic machinery into a Republican presidential campaign, but I haven't become discouraged yet. (Laughter) M: Did you campaign for Roosevelt
Background in politics and participating in the New Deal; Democratic party state machinery in Texas; 1956 Democrat Party convention; role of Texas Democrats in national conventions and elections

Folder, "C.F. - Oversized Attachments, Packet 4," WHCF Confidential Files, Box 193 (Item)

and their various subsidiary and front organizations which are operating in the Free World •• •All of these situations call for an even more vigorous effort on our part to supplement present activ ities and to develop further programs of action, overt and covert

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. So I wanted to go very slow on that one. Likewise, I was also mindful that with an election coming up also in 1966--Congressional elections--that it was entirely possible that the Democrats would lose some seats and therefore I would be locked off

Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

anything necessary to do. Our actions, as I've already remarked, are such that we have not incurred oppowition from any Republican leaders, nor from any Democratic leaders, since the one congressman who was defeated in 1964. The Republican commissioners

Folder, "41, Japan," National Intelligence Estimates, NSF, Box 6 (Item)

on major foreign policy issues. The government has pursued a pragmatic foreign policy, con sciously executed to further Japanese commercial interests by taking as few actions as possible that would create enemies in any quarter. Al home, despite

Folder, "Adenauer, Ho. Konrad. Chancellor of West Germany, 1956-57," LBJA, Famous Names, Box 1 (Item)

. Heinrich Christian an invitation by the United States Krone, Chairman of the Parliamentary Democratic - Christian Bundestag, will visit Government, Group of the Social Union in the German the United States between July 25 and September 7. I

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mean it was almost automatic that there would be a Community Action department, there would be a Job Corps division. There would be something that would handle education, congressional relations, et cetera. I don't recall at this moment any major

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was one of the founders of ADA. Americans for Democratic Action basically was a group of people in the United States who felt that the communists were trying to take over the liberal movement, and they fought them. effect. They fought for the soul
of Americans for Democratic Action; the Democratic Farm-Labor Party; the Sino-Soviet bloc; Humphrey's good relationship with JFK; Ed Lansdale; Humphrey's relationship with LBJ; the Diem assassination; Humphrey's trips as VP to Vietnam, India and other places

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that in the interest of the Democratic Party that he should accept it, and he just wanted us to know that before it was announced to the public. F: He wasn't really asking for a vote to go ahead or not to go ahead, but just really informational? Y: At that point he

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

write to the President or send a wire. I no longer got the personal response, which I'd received before. M: It was that action right there that did it! F: Yes. From that point on, I received a form letter from an assistant to the assistant. M
LBJ asking for a moratorium on demonstrations; John Lewis and Farmer against moratorium; antagonism toward Farmer; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Selma March; Community Relations Division of Justice Department; CORE’s resolution regarding

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 18, January 1 - 14, 1967 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 12 [1 of 2] (Item)

(including the conference) would take you to each o! the eleven countries in South Atnerica-. even if only for a few hours. Given Latin sensibilities, it ie politic not to skip any country in the southern co11tinent. Central America and the Caribbean can

Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with him during the '50s, during the period he was majority leader. I took a good deal of interest in the Democratic party because I was a member of the Advisory Council to the National Committee. The two leaders in the Senate and the House, both

Folder, "Pepper, Claude (Senator) - Notes [1940-1943] [1 of 2]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 11 (Item)

President; I am talking about the Presi dent of the United States of America whoever he may be. I speak in the shadow of another election which will give the people of America in the democratic way-which, thank God, still a little while longer will live

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 7, June 21-30, 1966 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 8 (Item)

, Sec. 3.4 NLJ g7-l7SNARA, Date 8 -s -tg' < , Action Proposed I refer to my memorandum of April 28, 1966, in which I recommended an AID loan of .$4 million to Ecuador to assist the Government in its current financial crisis. My recommenda tion

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 79: May 25‑31, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 35 (Item)

.-rncnt or Bank loan totaling $1 million a~ a sta~ter. W. VI;. Rostow /· Mer.iorandum to the IADB. from Felipe Herrera on Australia• s contribution AIDE l-ID-10IBE RE: Australia - Possible Coopero.tion with La.tin America. throueh tbe Inter

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1952" (Item)

. . . .I saw one statement that Army officials shouldn’t marry such women--or that wives shouldn’t be allowed overseas.” 5/17 Over the weekend, in a speech to Americans for Democratic Action, President Truman denounces the oil lobby and offers

Folder, "Jamaica, Volume 1, 11/63 - 6/68 [2 of 3]," Country Files, NSF, Box 58 (Item)

INCOMING TELEGRAM Department of State LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 43 Control: 7018 Rec'd: April Action 8, 1964 7:37 p.m. ARA FROM: Kingston ACTION: Secstate Info ss G SP H DATE: April 332 8, 5 p.m. CAP EUR GOJ will issue following PR AID

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that we did not retaliate with violence; that this would weaken our cause, this would weaken the support that all America was willing to give to what we were striving for. But they never said that blacks having to sit in separate waiting rooms or on backs
of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; work on minimum wage; the Neshoba County deaths; Council of Federated Organizations movement; FBI opens new office in Mississippi; RFK, Hoover and LBJ told FBI to get on the job in Mississippi; Freedom Democratic Party

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as a Congressman? B: Well, not especially at that time . Of course, he had plans of running for the Senate and was spending quite a bit of time in shaping up future actions . As a matter of fact, I had felt back from early days--and I suppose that maybe I

Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. They try to pick some Republicans who are pretty liberal- it's largely Democrats . Guess it's pretty hard to find liberal Republicans . Each year they pick out a couple--they picked [Sen . Thomas] Kuchel and [Sen. George] Aiken, and they also try to pick

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