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Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

because it could have beat him out there. If we had put a tax on them they would have said, "Well, here's our senior senator out there, been back there these many years, and can't block it." So there was a lot of ramification to it. That's when Kerr told

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the White House, the sentence or paragraph slipped through, and in the next morning's press all hell broke loose. It is the word "policy" that is the stumbling block. Some writers are conscious of "policy" as they sit at their typewriters,. would

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 16 (XVI), 11/21/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- Interview XVI -- 14 O: It was the level of the effort they expended to block us. It was at a level of sleaziness that was despicable. G: Was it negative campaigning or was it--? O: From our position we were convinced it involved expenditures of monies

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be some effort to block Wallace from participation, that he should be drummed out of the party officially. None of that occurred. Meanwhile, Wallace was showing considerable strength. Again, in my role, what could be done in the interest of harmony? Have

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

there at one o'clock. And we went up on the Rice Roof, and as we were going over from the Post Building, which was downtown Houston then, over to the Rice, about four blocks--he told me that a man who owned the Queen Theatre and the Zoe in Houston and owned

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Motor Company. So in the 1930s, when Couzens was still in the Senate, it is thought by many--and I am one of those--that Senator Couzens was instrumental [in] blocking federal aid from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the First National Bank

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

handled it from a police standpoint, et cetera. Governor Romney didn't march in that march and was severely criticized for it. So when the Selma thing took place, it was sort of a spon- taneous march here in Detroit. I went up a few blocks from City

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, but it was not a transplant of a heart. was a bypass of the main artery in my chest. This It was completely blocking me off, and I only had ten per cent of the necessary oxygen going into my heart at the time I went into the hospital. F: It's a wonder you made it at all

Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

which would be below the minimum rate, that there would be a lot of criticism or blocking of the program. So that wasn't done, and as a result it took a long time to get the programs going. So I think the immediate impact which Shriver had hoped

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Blundell-- 2 8 Tape 2 of 2 G: All right . B: Only in reference to what he said . G: Policy . We were talking about West Virginia . Well, how about a strategy of blocking Kennedy in West Virginia

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

lived about two blocks from the school in a big, rambling, old house with a sister and two brothers and an absolutely pixie, delightful family. The house was full of books and old family possessions, and it was just the sort of family you could write

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and dishes and silver, of a sort, plate I'm sure, in two houses so that moving wasn't quite the chore that it had been for so many years. The backyard at Dillman was one of the experiences of my life, great big, half a city block, with lots of trees

Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

having that tremendous fight. Remember that? Well, they really had a fight. Well, I was about three blocks from there, so I had to go past that, eventually. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Ralph Flynt, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)

Block of 24 25 th e · f~;.; ;·~ i s t 8.n t t o S ccrcto.2-y ToJ.:-J m:1 LD.d r:ovl the J?rBsidcnt I 1 · II LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org .~ I! I i. l.' ~ More on LBJ Library oral histories: I : http

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

near the hotel conven tion headquarters which was the Biltmore. So they gave us the New International Clark, which was two and a half to three blocks from the Biltmore. But it was an old, dilapidated, horrible hotel~ · dark, dingy; the beds swayed

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there, they had two of them standing by. Of course, those things are a block long. So as we pulled up there, Rayburn saw those two gigantic planes there. Because Eisen- hower had commandeered General LeMay's plane to take it to India, LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

got to the downtown section. At each occasion he would get out with his bullhorn and tell the people how much he loved them, how much he was for them and they were for him, and so forth. And then he got into Congress Square, which is two blocks up

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the Post Office Department, which is just down from the White House a block or two. G: Were these paratroops, or do you recall? C: They were some paratroops, I believe, and some other infantry troops. We had quite a contingent of people. G: But never

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

all over the world. But in Rio it was a most dramatic thing. We opened a book at the chancery and another one at our residence, and over that weekend we had a line of people stretching for three or four blocks. It was continuous, day and night

Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and the story of how he was prevented from getting off of the plane with the Kennedy casket is known. I was not witness to it because I was in the forward part of the plane at the time, but I do know the aisle was blocked. And, again, this was the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was when I was out at Aspen on vacation. M: Naturally not when you were not two blocks away. R: I don't think he knew where I was. I was in from skiing and was taking a bath, and my wife tells me that the White House is on the line, so I wrapped

Oral history transcript, W. Stanley Kruger, interview S-I, 8/13/1968 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and l intend to put it just the way it i s . This is just cheap pol i t i cs . If you want to •1ork foi· t~'? labor peopl e, you go work for the labor people, but I'm going to work for the Un i ted States Senate ." you could hear it for ten blocks