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Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was constitutionally dissolved. And during World War I somebody had done this very irresponsibly, I think it was on a naval appropriations bill or something. That wasn't what the filibuster was on, but that's what they blocked. And separate and apart from doing a hell

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the same year of school and the same sorority and the same set of circumstances. They were pretty inseparable, but this was more because life blocked it out that way. F: Did the press try to get Warrie Lynn segregated so they could talk to her

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

he already knew through Lyndon, some he didn't. Part of the time Wirtz was here, he rented a house over in Alexandria just about two blocks from where I lived; and he and Kitty Mae stayed there and we saw a great deal of them. But from beginning

Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and Jimmy Stewart, the movie actor, and the Kempners in Galveston, they didn't know any better, and they filed for it and moved it to Houston. Now this is one of the things we tried to block, and we did hold them out for about three years. I think that's

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Geissinger -- I -- 26 [about] a place a block away. And as we were walking up toward the place, it had a red light outside of it. red light. I mean

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

to do with the passage? S: Well, the election of that overwhelming majority in the House had a great deal to do with it, yes. M: Now, [Speaker John] McCormack, as I recall, blocked the final vote. S: He did, and in retrospect it was a very, very

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 15 House; it is very exposed. They don't block off the street when you get in the limousine; they hold people at bay while you climb down the stairs and into the limousine, so that they don't actually cross in front of you. They don't clear

Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

arrive at a community there and I would generally walk out in the middle of the street and several hundred people would gather around me and I would walk along the streets for many blocks, you know, and I could see that there were a number

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

friends ,.,7ho hL·d played together, so when I·]e got up there we found that George and Joanne had just purchased a home in McLean, Virginia. ~fuen I\'e started looking for a house, \·le found one about half-a-block from them clOim the street

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

dmm there, for eXiJ.'J':ple--George Christ-ior " indic ; ···"~d to you e::.rl ;. gr:.' - dOHn \Q just lived a block apart. the White House to help work on the ane! I had not been involved on helping llith the He and I, as I I knew :~1.ics ffi

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Thornberrys were very close friends of the Johnsons. apart. They lived about three blocks They lived on Davenport Street and President and Mrs. Johnson lived on 32nd Street in northwest Washington. Congressman and Mrs. Thornberry were very dear to me

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

dinner or supper or sandwiches, and I know I didn't leave the room from the time we got there. I didn't go around the block. I would say, my guess would be twelve hours. We stayed there, Pretty intense. Everybody was there. F: Had it pretty well

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. And that offends my legal soul to the roots. But beyond that I've done nothing more than cry a little at night for the profession. B: Then this was the area that was more or less blocked out for you when you arrived? G: Because nobody else was doing

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and printed these tags "Love that Lyndon." made a serious effort. thing. B: And he Well, the Truman thing didn't amount to any- Stevenson had it blocked up. I was going to say, did the Truman announcement scare the Stevenson camp badly? H: Oh, yes, sure

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Tuesday." It will be called up again before the committee next He said, "What? What's that got to do with the RFC?" said, "That's for you to answer. block knocked off. I I tried to answer it and got my You answer it!" (Laughter) He said

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to me, "Hey, something has happened here." Our station was only four blocks away. So with the thought in mind, you know, whatever has happened here, the best story in the world is not worth a damn unless you can get it out, my first move was to get

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that some people had: The ball game was over. I could count. if we can block Kennedy on the first ballot, then we can get them to pick a second choice. R: Kennedy had the votes well before the convention. people and he had them counted. He had damn good

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And I was standing next to Johnson when [Sen. John G.] Tower confronted him and stood and blocked his way for fifteen or twenty minutes, you know, demanding--and the press just grinding away-F: Do you think Alger organized that? S: He was key

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on that. The President went up and down on this block grant approach that the Republicans had. I remember he called me one day and said, ''Well, what's wrong with their approach?" Well, my feeling at the time was that it was wasteful to funnel money through a state

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

on. Then there are some that are done on a 25 per cent sample, and there are some that are done on even smaller samples than that. The desire, of course, is to get meaningful data at the small unit level, even down to the block if necessary, certainly the enumeration

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and wanted to enjoy those grandkids. That this was a fact. But I think an overriding factor was also his own conviction that his image, whatever that image was, had become a psychological block and the chances for a breakthrough for some kind of slowing

Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it, and as county attorney I can remember being called out to several polling places to settle problems that would come up. I don't know whether it happened at Precinct 13, which was the old Nayer School down off of South Cameron, about three or four blocks from

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)