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Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

School, and right up this alley was right to his house about a block away. Just in the back of my mind I think that's where I must have met him, because every kid in town would come out there and play softball. 10 LBJ Presidential Library http

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

piece of legislation with which I have ever had to deal, and as I remarked to you yesterday, this was one field of legislation where Johnson had no understanding whatso ever. I think the man had some sort of a psychological block to it, because most

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

father went out and bought a new one and let him drive it twice around the main block of town in Johnson City so that everybody would see him driving and everybody knew that his father trusted him. He just insisted that we had to trust our children

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to establish the policy of new senators getting one good · major co11111ittee assignment before passing out other assignments to the older senators. G: He himself moved from Conunerce to Finance. S: Again, that would have been to block, probably

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to have many, many meetings on the question of aid to primary and secondary education. And the major stumbling block, of course, was the First Amendment of the Constitution, separation of church and state. Though I think we were reading that provision

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the Civil Rights Commission was not viewed as a great boon to most federal agencies, and so we had to walk softly in our relationships with most federal agencies. And this is part of what I've just been saying to you about we being a new boy on the block

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

York Avenue. It was a block and a half away. As a consequence he didn't have much contact with the staff during the time I was there. That was mostly my job. NYA had an advisory council of five people, as I recall; Arthur Altmeyer, Josephinne Roche

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

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 State Department has submitted such legislation to Congress several times, and I believe it was largely blocked by Senator Morse--at least that was my

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Roosevelt's commission, which reported in the fall of 1934 I reckon, they had recommended an expansion and continuation of programs that had been initiated under the Resettlement Administration and its predecessor agencies who buy land in big blocks, say like

Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, packaged, replicated by getting them accepted by communities to extend it. G: Was this the building block approach? B: Yes, that's right. While many communities came in with tutorial education--there was a heavy orientation toward education

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Scarbrough's to trade and you couldn't park within a block of it, you would just turn around and go home and wait until tomorrow . So I imagine that since space had to be bid on, that that had a lot to do with it . I never did know . I know that when we

Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the nature of this type of questioning get to the President? V: Oh, yes. M: It was not blocked away from him? And the people who felt that did voice their questions and not hold them at a private low level? V: Well, I really don't know all that went

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

history, and why it ought to go through and i.;hy if I was the S'~Y that was blocking it, I should unblock it. I had to get a meo~randum down to the President. I remember that And while the Johnson record was playing, a stray thought came through my

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

that? W: Oh, I knew all about it, but I don't know if I can remember it in detail. G: Then in September they had the crisis in Little Rock, when Governor [Orval] Faubus blocked the integration of the schools down there, and they had to send

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Street, about the 4500 block. studio there. It's They have a little Little--it would hold about fifty, and if you could get fifty people in there, you could make a lot of noise and have good sound effects and enthusiasm. I remember that we chose

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- V -- 10 building block with Lyndon Johnson, which was you had to--you know, if he did get interested

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview S-I, 7/18/1968, by John Singerhoff (Item)

ar.r educa tion peop1!3 cC:.-.:.cat-:. o:i associ? .tions.; ."."'eve n to the point the unfr-ie~~liY-1 ~ss .of th~ t1ro, blocke d p;?.ssage of th~t and the this rift, or n~edcd. legis lation . Do 7cu fc;el t.ha.t you brougJ .t these assoc

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Each ti me he tried to get support or money, I think he finally just decided that since they were blocking him so totally in one field, that he would just run for governor instead. I don't think he originally intended to run for governor back

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

snack after the vote. F: Where? P: No. Here in the Cannon Building? The party was at the Rotunda, which is about a block and a half from here. I know the Rotunda. F: Oh, over at the restau rant. P: Tiger [Congressman Oli n] Teague had

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

most to the Potomac River and had to double back another three or four blocks until somebody finally pointed out the Rotunda. Tiger had forgotte n to tell me that the "underpass 11 was under the ground, that I couldn' t see it. F: It's kind of up

Oral history transcript, Wayne O. Reed, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1968, by Broudy (Item)

were only a few blocks apart, and I used to: pick him up every morning on the way to work and carry hira home H e~~ry night. I saw i;'. ! !~ him when he was fresh, and I saw him when he wasi ·:l weary after a long !fi i~ i:: LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

moved as bride and groom; and they died there. We sold it only four or five years ago; it is two blocks from the Franciscan monastery. F: Was it an integrated neighborhood? W: Yes, there were about six Negro families in a community of about 2

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

point in time we were told to evacuate the building, because it was dangerous. And it was. And . . /e moved from the Court of Claims Building to an old hospital building about two blocks away. So in a period of three or four months, on top

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh O'Brien -- Interview XXV -- 13 deal of publicity. What was happening was an effort in the Senate to block this legislation to protect Nixon from debating Humphrey, who Nixon feared. We were looking for any edge we could get. With that, you were

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, which is where actually I lived, the life of the poor only six blocks away was a real eye opener to me. I worked as a member of that Society for eight years or so when I lived in Chicago. My experience with the St. Vincent de Paul Society was one

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

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

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that no southerner had since the Civil War, other than Wilson, who wasn't really from the South. He had been born in the South, but- F: Did Mr. Sam somewhat buttress that opinion? J: Yes, I think so. F: So that you were just geographically blocked. J: I

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. B. West to go with me. I can recall going up to Clark Clifford's office, which then seemed to me about half a block long, and sitting down. Clark Clifford talked and talked and talked and talked. He talked for at least forty-five minutes. I didn't