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Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the suggestion of moving the [Democratic National] Convention from Chicago? J: No. There had been, early on, a lot of FBI reports on what to expect and all of that, and I think there had been some recommendations about considering another site and all
  • Democratic convention; LBJ’s relationships with Nguyen Cao Ky and Nguyen Van Thieu; LBJ’s 1969 farewell address to Congress; the Fortas/Thornberry Supreme Court incident; LBJ farewell get-together at the White House; LBJ’s problem with TV appearances; Robert
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the fact that Mr. Johnson did have a conservative base in his home state, and was also attempting to become a more national Democrat as majority leader •. Was this really causing much of a problem for him and his staff to disassociate themselves from
  • ; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at the national level 9 Chicago telephone strike before 1968 convention 10,11,12 1960 Democratic Convention � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Oral History
  • Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • President Eisenhower and Johnson. K: Didn't they-- There was a great deal to that. We'll come to that in a minute. let's stay on Truman for a little bit. But Johnson felt that under Paul Butler particularly, the Democratic National Committee
  • Democratic Convention; JFK-LBJ rivalry; LBJ’s acceptance of the VP nomination; LBJ’s irritation over his Alfalfa Club Dinner speech and camel driver story; cross off; LBJ’s personal reaction to the JFK assassination; LBJ and the press; RFK; LBJ’s judgment
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in '64, he loved working on the Hill--was working with the House Judiciary Committee, first on the hearings on the bill. This was Mr. [Emanuel] Celler's committee. called the mark-up ot the bill. And then on what's I sat with the subcommittee
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : And a lot of committee chairmen as well. H: That's right. That's right. But I think he was frustrated when he became vice president because he couldn't really crack the whip and get things done, and that's sort of a lonesome spot anyway, I think. But I
Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • [Brown] as a friend and saw him, talked to him from time to time was [when] he was here with a job as [state director of the] National Youth Administration, just a little bureaucratic job, nothing. It was just one of those programs that they had going. He
  • and people in the oil industry; LBJ's campaigns against Hardy Hollers and Buck Taylor; the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947; how LBJ was offered a position on the House Naval Affairs Committee; attending the funeral for LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr.; Billie Sol
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you begin to build up a fair acquaintance across the state with politicians? D: Not too many, just those that I'd gone to school with. I knew Frank Oltorf, who was in the legislature at the state level. I went to the Democratic convention in 1948
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- II -- 2 began to trickle in, that 5000 votes that he was ahead of Pappy O'Daniel began to dwindle. I was administrative assistant to the regional director of the National Youth Administration in Memphis
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the so­ called establishment of the Senate. F: No senator was ever just sort of frozen out? No Democratic senator? J: I know of none. Even Morse, who came into the Democratic Party, I believe, while Senator Johnson was majority leader, was invited
  • The majority leadership period; LBJ’s committee assignments; relationships with various senators; civil rights; the office and the mail; presidential possibilities; the space program; the 1960 Democratic National Convention; the vice presidency
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Officially, what were you? R: I was counsel to the Democratic Policy Committee. there. Gerry Siegel was Have you talked to Gerry? F: Not yet. R: You should. He can do better on Johnson on the Hill than anybody. He is a pretty objective fellow
  • Biographical information; early recollections of LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with FDR; LBJ’s interests; LBJ’s 1941 campaign; LBJ’s relationship with Sam Rayburn; Maury Maverick; 1948 race; Walter Winchell episode; counsel to Democratic Policy Committee
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • left the OEO setting, I formed the Center for Community Change and tested out some of my community-organizing ideas much more carefully and built in a number of communities \.,that we called community unions. The Watts Labor Community Action Committee
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BASKIN -- I -- 4 B: The t1a.y one when they overthrew the Shivers-dominated State Democratic Executive Committee
  • First contacts with LBJ in 1953 in Texas campaigning; Johnson's role in Texas state politics in 1956; Sam Rayburn's selection of LBJ as favorite son in 1956; DOT (Democrats of Texas); contacts with LBJ in Senate; LBJ-Ralph Yarborough as senators
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • finally got stationed back there, I think, in mid-June. Jesse Kellam would come through every now and then. Sometime along the way that year he got assigned to--he was in the navy. He'd gotten out of the NYA [National Youth Administration] and gone
  • , 1944; press support for LBJ; LBJ's work in the 1944 election; Mrs. Johnson's trip to New Hampshire to christen the U.S.S. Tench; family members hospitalized in the summer of 1944; the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; LBJ winning his
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • commitments. But I repeat that the thirty years I've been around, I would certainly have to say that both the Democratic and Republican administrations have supported reclamation as being in the national interest. And I doubt if you could single out any real
  • Natural resources and national parks
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , by the National Association of Manufacturers. It was a puff, gut labor bill. They were trying to take advantage of the scandals in the Teamsters and other things that the McClellan Committee had dug up to really land some body blows on organized labor
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , that Johnson's position that you detailed there Wl really the Committee's position or somebody else's position? R: That was a position that was a complex of reasons I guess. was a Democratic party position in a sense. There There was also a legislative
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • roles that the FBI or you performed in terms of the Johnson Administration, in dealing directly with the White House? D: Yes, in many instances. The 1964 Democratic National Convention is an example. Walter Jenkins called and said that the President
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  • Commission; the 1964 Democratic National Convention; allegations of microphone on Nixon’s plane; calls made from Spiro Agnew’s plane; Anna Chennault. DeLoach’s relationship with Walter Jenkins, Marvin Watson. Jenkins’ departure from the White House staff
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • had been state executive director for Governor Stevenson's Presidential campaign in 1956. In 1960 I had served on Governor Stevenson's national staff for a period through his defeat in the Los Angeles National Democratic Convention. Mc
  • Biographical information; work on Credentials Committee at 1964 Democratic Convention; support for Adlai Stevenson at 1956 and 1960 Conventions; JFK’s nomination at 1960 Convention; becaming a State Dept. employee 1965; contact with Senator Robert
Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • pUlpit had been cut almost in half, and almost forgot his opening prayer. I later got a contribution to rectify the damage from the Democratic National Committee. We sent them $65. I hope it covered it. But Senator Johnson said afterward
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • McKinney [Frank E. McKinney, ex-Democratic national chairman] said don't bother, because this is one place that Kennedy won't make it. I went to the--if it wasn't the state convention, it was· a big dinner out there, and Kennedy had a way coming late, so
  • to food and China; the problem of being under a committee system; East-West trade and U.S. trade policies; Nixon’s proposal to open international trade; the Department of Agriculture; how Symington became assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the organization of the United Nations. In preparation for this assignment, I went first to Washington and spent considerable time in the office of Senator Tom Connally of Texas, then chairman of the Foreign Affairs [Committee] for the Senate. I rode
  • Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • official position with the Johnson Administration at its close was as United States representative to the United Nations, a position to which Mr. Johnson appointed you in the fall of 1968, and you served for a few months. Before that you had been
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Roosevelt said he did. But Byrnes can be very forthright when he wants to be. F: During the ~ifti~s, you, I know, went to the Democratic national conventions, certainly in 1952, that's when they nominated Adlai Stevenson. D: Yes, I was there. F
  • Administration; role of White House press secretary in 1945; impressions of other press secretaries; recollections of LBJ's early days in Washington and his race for Senate; support for Truman; Democratic Party allegiance; 1960 Democratic Party convention
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him. G: He played a more prominent role, I guess, in national Democratic Party politics-- N: Yes, and he became Senate leader, which was a very, very important job, I think really more important than the vice president, to tell you the truth
  • ; Wilmer St. John Garwood's election to the Texas Supreme Court; LBJ's 1948 election to the U.S. Senate; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; the relationship between LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Nash's nomination as an alternate delegate to the United Nations
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 5 (V), 4/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Can you describe the trip? They had a roadster, one-and-a-half seat car, you remember them. I'm real highly prejudiced against John Connally because he's the guy in the United States that hurt Lyndon the most deep down when he deserted the Democratic
  • Visit to Karnack; John Connally; Woods' appointment as area census director; national Congressional campaign support; 1941 campaign; Austin office; Alvin Wirtz's role in campaign; election night
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • booth, there's President Johnson on the telephone. CA: (Laughter) Can I tell one of my Johnson experiences? In the summer of 1964, during the Republican National Convention, the Democrats as usual had a recess. So we recessed until they finished
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1976 INTERVIEHEE: WRI GHT PATi,1AN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Representative Patman's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 (Recording begins in mid-sentence) P: A photograph taken of our committee, Banking and Currency. It's
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think Stanley Fike was involved a little bit. Committee. The money was from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign But, I was never sure whether that was oil money or Democratic National Committee money. was oil money, but 11m not sure. My feeling
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to it. Then he very skillfully made plans for the September convention to pay Mrs. Randolph back. Mrs. Randolph was now National Democratic committee- woman; she was the head of the Harris County delegation at the September Democratic convention in Fort Worth
  • Meeting LBJ in 1937 and early interactions; John Connally; Jimmy Allred; Alvin Wirtz; George and Herman Brown; Sam Rayburn's influence on LBJ’s decision-making; roles of Allan Shivers and John Connally in the Democratic convention of 1956; Parten’s
Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • public schools, and also because John was the head of the Carnegie Corporation. I had been involved in a great many activities in education that the Carnegie Corporation was interested in--committees and commissions and planning for educational change
  • Biographical information; John Gardner; McGeorge Bundy; Frank Keppel; talk with LBJ regarding commissionership; LBJ’s deep concern regarding education; Guaranteed Loan Program; National Defense Education Loan Program; easy access to White House
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Okay. That trip was one in which the Democratic National Cormiittee gave me a bunch of tickets and an itinerary, which turned out to be a very faulty itinerary in many respects. It gave us an awful lot of trouble. going to Seattle. And we took off
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the committee that had national implications, but Powell never lost his desire to achieve benefits for his congressional constituency, and that was a conflict that he had. But I don't think that diminished his overall support for the program generally. G: He
Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , then, to the Democratic ticket in 1960? J: Well ~ I was a bit surprised. I thought that Lyndon Johnson would either take the presidency or not take anything at all. surprised~ I was really, that he took the way out that he did. Of course, Mississippi was against
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • himself to me several times. By coincidence, Governor Meyner's the Democratic candidate for governor this year. I have served two terms. This is the final year LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: The National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: We're in time now to 1967 when you became the presidential advisor on National Capital Affairs. I think I
  • AActivities as presidential adviser on National Capital Affairs; reorganization to commission and council system; selection of Walter Washington as mayor; council members; evaluation of White House staff operation; Pollak’s nomination of assistant
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Russell Brown. J: Russell Brown, yes. in Atlantic City. had transpired. I saw Russell Brown at the 1964 Democratic Convention Russell was reminding me of some of the things that Russell Bro~m, I think, was there when Lyndon Johnson LBJ Presidential
  • temper and tactics; 1960 Kennedy/Johnson campaign; Hofheinz’ private bill regarding Yorktown Corporation; LBJ’s jokes; 1960 Democratic Convention and LBJ’s acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; assignments LBJ offered James.
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : No. G: Was it cold? W: It was pretty cold, as well as I remember. G: There was a fight that year early in 1949 over who was going to be Texas Democratic national committeeman. And there was a committee of Central Texas Democrats that asked Truman
  • smoking; Shivercrats in 1952; LBJ's relationship with Ralph Yarborough; dedication of the Alvin Wirtz Dam in Marble Falls; the 1952 Democratic National Convention; the Johnsons acquiring a permit to start operating a television station in Austin; the 1952
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • passing over me. I finally got the pen, however, when I just walked up and practically took one out of his hand! M: Did that change of attitude have anything to do also with your activities with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party that same summer
  • 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
Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the National Bank of Washington here and a member of their Executive Committee--if you don't have more losses than that, as the IDB did, then you're not making enough loans. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B