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Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it not been for the March 31 speech. I think the timing of that speech was such that it changed the tempo of both his campaign and of Senator Kennedy's campaign. B; Incidentally, someone said that the Democratic National Committee at that time and indeed

Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)

several months, June, July and August 1965, proceed on the basis of the understandings that you reached in the spring of 1965. T: That's correct. G: You testified and issued statements to the various congressional committees that met to consider

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. In that context, I felt that last Friday evening's meeting following the President's departure was a debacle." I also sent a note to Rowe appreciating receiving his critique. He had suggested coordination with the national committee; I pointed out to him that I
continued advocacy work for postal reform as co-chair of a citizen's committee; legislation enacted under Richard Nixon to give the Post Office Department more independence and the ability to self-finance; lack of political interest in the Post Office

Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. 1953- 54 . I was speaker of the house in one of those terms, I ran for governor in 1956 and was defeated . again in 1960 and was successful . I ran In the meantime, I had been to a couple of Democratic national conventions . I was chairman
Political career background; 1960 National Convention and presidential campaign; Cuban refugee problem in Florida; Bay of Pigs incident; 1964 Freedom Riders; Office of Emergency Planning; 1966 trip to Asia with LBJ

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Democratic voters. With Goldwater as the candidate, it was felt that the President would get all the Democratic votes. Jim Rowe headed up the National Citizens for Johnson-Humphrey organization, and I worked on obtaining the support of what they called

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to finance this, but they decided to finance it by appropriation instead. Do you recall any of the background to that? W: No, I sure don't. G: The Democratic National Committee didn't like that bill. They preferred a bill being offered by Senator Gore. Do
swimming pool; the 1956 split between LBJ and Allan Shivers; LBJ's 1956 relationship with organized labor; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's and Winters' opinion of JFK in 1956; Ben Jack Cage and Winters' dealings with the Cage Brothers

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

worked fairly well with Morse, and [Styles] Bridges, a Republican, who was anathema to a lot of Democrats, was our good friend and he visited us down here at the Ranch. G: Let me ask you as long as we're on the subject of the committee, about committee
friends of Luci and Lynda who regularly attended their parties; LBJ's appointment to a Senate Preparedness Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee; Don Cook of the Securities Exchange Commission; a barbeque hosted by Senator Bob Kerr where no alcohol

Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the war or overseas? B: No. Oh, I think we talked some, but I don't remember. G: Okay. Anything on his role in national Democratic politics during the forties? He headed a congressional campaign committee in 1940 to help Democratic congressmen get

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

foundations that are working on federal money that in effect you supplied for them. H: Well, I'll tell you. When I got to be chairman of the Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee and handled those appropriations, the National Institutes of Health
Biographical information; first contact with LBJ; General Pershing; FDR and TVA Act; Muscle Shoals; LBJ’s ambition; civil rights; Richard Russell; George Wallace; integration; tidelands; Joe McCarthy; 1956 and 1960 Democratic conventions; Woodrow

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Waldorf Astoria, sit around in a parlor atmosphere, and just discuss the issues. We had Katie Louchheim, who used to be the Women's National Democratic Chairman, and a number of local women who were articulate and knowledgeable. He was just superb

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

are talking about. But after he was nominated in 1952 we were out in Denver, and the politicos came out, the Republican National Committee, campaign managers and everything. In the first meeting they had with Mr. Eisenhower, when they were arranging

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as Democrat; he had the kind of rapport whereby they would pretty well work out all the various conditions of the piece of legislation. Again, this was the hard, conscientious worker that Hill was. But pretty much by the time it came out of committee, it would

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

Lyndon as majority leader had to do with that. I thought that came from some committee in the Senate. Was it an appointment delivered by the Majority Leader? M: The Senate Democratic Steering Committee gives the committee assignments, but the majority
of a restroom; a 1956 birthday party for LBJ with several senators in attendance; LBJ's relationship with Senator William Fulbright; socializing with Walter Lippmann and other members of the press; the National Guard presence in Arkansas to allow desegregation

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Democrat from the St. Louis area in Missouri even at that time. And Tom had the same problems at that time as he got into subsequently. In other words, he learned to drink too much, which led to his demise--not as a senator; he's still there, and very
senator; Keith's involvement in the 1960 presidential election and Hubert Humphrey's 1960 campaign; LBJ's strategy at the 1960 Democratic National Convention; reaction to LBJ's vice presidential nomination; the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) political party

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as the in-house Democrat. Arthur Fleming was chosen by the President as the out-house Republican and also as chairman of the commission and did a fine job. The first problem that we ran into was that the Speaker and the senators who were on the committee regarded
interagency committees; Wozencraft's involvement in the President's Commission of the Observance of Human Rights Year 1968 and related conferences; the difference between government- and non-government-employed commission members; the Panel

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

said to me, "Now, Fred, you're going to run the department, but you're not to touch anything affecting the White House or the National Committee ." Mr . Bishop was given that assignment because he was the personal confidential aide to Mr . Day when

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and Democrats--I guess most of them were Democrats--had proposed various far-reaching new conservation bills. President Kennedy, fortunately, sponsored the Cape Cod national seashore. There were others that were beginning to push for saving large pieces

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

then on he went back and he took hold of this thing in the Senate. It was only his tenaciousness and his guts in seeing about the investigating committees, the preparedness committees, the tenacity with which he held on to appropriating that money during
; Corcoran's work for LBJ at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; Corcoran's efforts to convince Sam Rayburn that LBJ should accept the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Mike Mansfield as Senator Majority Leader; Jim Landis; Ambassador

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

committee [for the] NYA. [Alvin] Wirtz was the chairman of it. last time. Senator I think we mentioned that Do you want to talk about any of these other people on it, or what role that committee played? (Interruption) Z: Of course I know Bob Anderson
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a lot of that was the feeling that Johnson was still a New Dealer, a Roosevelt man, or a loy~l or liberal Democrat. _and Joe Kil gore and Ray Le.e and· Gordon· ful cher;. Buck· Hood; Tom . « · Mill er·, tne mayor: Bob Phinney; myself; and one
Wheeler-dealer charges; Gene Autry; 1948 Senate campaign; helicopter; Coke Stevenson; George Parr; State Democratic Executive Committee, 1948.

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to go to the national Democratic convention in Chicago. When was this, in June that we're talking about? G: May. I think late May. R: May. Well, the national one met in June or July, probably July. Both groups went to the 14 LBJ Presidential
for his daughters; the death of Rather's mother; the 1944 state democratic convention and later national convention; friction between Democrats who supported FDR and those who did not.

Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)

to deal fully with it. So, as a result, I was, for all these reasons, frequently in conflict with my committees. But I didn't consider that a failure. To the extent that the committees were not representative of the national interest and were pursuing
and congressional military committees relations with Defense. Role of Presidential Tuesday lunches; domestic policy.

Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Employment, which again grew out of my being on a special Senate committee studying unemployment problems which Johnson largely instituted in 1959 and was headed by Senator Eugene McCarthy. I was general counsel to that Select Senate Committee
Biographical information; War on Poverty; Labor Department; President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency; Model Cities; Job Corps; Neighborhood Youth Corps; personal impressions of LBJ; Adam Clayton Powell; legislation

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was just before the collapse of the German armies in Europe and just before the time of the San Francisco conference. M: And you were a consultant at the United Nations at that conference. Is that right? F: I was a consultant. After I retired
Biographical information; Finletter Report; 70-group Air Force; George Mahon; Adlai Stevenson; Vietnam; decline in power of Democratic party; John Foster Dulles; NATO; meeting with LBJ on 4/10/64 on MLF; lack of support of MLF; Ottawa speech; Non

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

delegate. But the Stevenson thing did roll on. I'm looking for the date of the Democratic convention. Do you have the date of the convention that year? M: No, it's usually in August. You mentioned awhile ago the Ziffren committee. Where does
The complex Democratic two-camp division in the 1959-1960 campaign; being confronted by Kennedy about his alliance; Rauh’s version of the Kennedy, Humphrey, Johnson party choice for President and Vice-President; Rauh’s disappointment over JFK’s

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

White House room at a rather late hour. l'larry Jersi 9 of San Antoni 0 and hi s wi fe occupi ed the apartment across the corridor from mine. During 1966 the President appointed me a member of the National Advisory Council for the War on Poverty
First meeting LBJ; the invocation at LBJ's inauguration; Chancellor Kiesinger of Germany; Hugo Black; Harry Jersig; the National Advisory Council for OEO; Sargent Shriver; Maury Maverick, Jr.; 1967 trip to South Vietnam to observe national elections

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

is a union is a union. One of their biggest targets was the so-called closed shop. Now to most of the members of both the House corrrnittee and the Senate committee at the time of the Taft-Hartley Act, the closed shop was merely a monopoly of labor
Dubinsky in reforms of the Taft-Hartley Act; Arthur Goldberg as chief counsel AFL-CIO; the Kennedy bill; McClellan bill of rights; secondary boycott provision; picketing; the conference committee; the Landrum-Griffin bill; barbecue at the Ranch for Lopez

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

control of the Senate. If you I think I'm right on this; you may want to double check some of my facts, but I'm sure I'm right. They were going to contest this before the Senate Rules Committee. But the Democrats won control of the Senate
Biographical information; regional staff; appointment to Naval Affairs Committee; Albert Thomas; 1941 Senate campaign; Colorado River dam projects; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

a substantive committee. And the substantive committees were concerned and they wanted to keep control, and one way was to make us come back. Of course, when you had a Democratic President and a Congress that was made up of Republicans and conservative
of senators; procedures in preparing bills; Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act; the Young Americans Act; grant program controversy; National Institutes of Public Health

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in this area and that their expertise would be brought to bear at the local level rather than through the national organization. r: .. ~ There was a pilot program that the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency was running in West Virginia, I think

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and served in that capacity with some leaves of absence for brief service periods in government up until 1962. Well, I took a year's leave of absence and went up to Wesleyan University as a Fellow. After that I became national affairs editor of The Reporter

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

see him carrying the big states. So myself, in my own mind, as we moved on into '59 and '60--and I was then as the big national issues were concerned, I was deeply involved with the Labor Reform fight because I was on that committee, and all of us felt
Biographical information; Rayburn; JFK; 1960 Democratic campaign; LBJ’s vice presidency; Lady Bird; Interior; Job Corps; RFK and LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Committee fight. If we had no hesitancy in 1961 to engage in head counts and work with the House Democratic leadership to bring about the increase in membership of the Rules Committee, why in 1965 not express an interest and state a position? The position
Efforts to enlist the help of Katharine Graham and the Washington Post staff to get support for D.C. home rule; LBJ's support for House Rules Committee reform that would help the liberal members of the House; the regional medical centers program

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

: At Middleburg . George Brown, at the time had been on several commissions ; one, under President Truman, the [William S .] Paley Committee, I believe it was called, on the needs of this nation for raw materials for the next twenty or thirty years . Eisenhower
Senate campaign for LBJ and using the helicopter; work and campaign style; controversy over Hispanic soldier being buried at Arlington National Cemetery and subsequent legislative investigation; LBJ’s relationship with Herman and George Brown; LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: In this capacity, did you attend any of the general sessions? A: Oh, yes, I attended all of them. For most of them I served as a member of the US delegation to the United Nations and in that capacity I was the US representative on the Fourth Committee which

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and giving every man his day in court. He [Vinson] handled his committee masterfully. G: How so? K: Well, just what I said. and Democrats alike. He gave every man his opportunity, Republicans He had strong support on the Republican side, which made

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://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 Wozencraft -- VIII -- 2 side and the Democrats on the other by delegation

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

you wouldn't need the committees at all if you analyzed the problem properly. The old people needed bigger pay checks through their Social Security benefits. And the economic problem was to figure out how much the nation could afford to increase

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the end of the day. He, for the first time that I recall, started telling me his worries about the Democratic National Committee. He felt they were mishandling money. He felt that they were disorganized. He felt that he personally had an obligation to see
October 1965 visit to the Ranch; LBJ’s relationship with the press; activities at the Ranch; LBJ’s desire to pay off Democratic National Committee debt and Krim’s involvement; Cliff Carter; John Criswell; political discussions at the Ranch; Francis

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

. But it came before the committee PB: State Democratic - - - CH: State Democratic Executive Committee of the State Convention held in Fort Worth in the Blackstone Hotel, as I recall. The committee voted by a narrow margin, actually, one vote, to put his
to depend on public polls; LBJ winning by a small margin in 1948; one vote put his name on Democratic ballot; LBJ as a popular President, except in 1968;

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