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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Committee. Key Pittman, a Democrat, was in charge of that, but he didn't have much power. There was [Arthur] Vandenberg on there, there was [William] Borah on there, and there was Gerald P. Nye on that committee, I know. Roosevelt called the men
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Ernest Lefever, who was working with Congressman Hale Boggs, chairman of the Platform Committee, and after dozens of telephone calls--I tried to hammer out an agreed draft. By Sunday I thought we had a draft that would be generally acceptable, and I gave
  • Working with Vice President Hubert Humphrey to develop his campaign platform before the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; working on a Vietnam speech for Humphrey to give in Chicago; LBJ and Humphrey's views on Vietnam; consulting
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would come up here, as r remember it, but I had almost no connection with him when he was with the National Youth Administration. He was not one of my congressmen. That is to say, we had no paper in Austin, and my contacts with him were never
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was, of course, chairman of the Equal Opportunity--what was it called--committee. . . . M: Commission. Y: Commission. The Department of Defense was the most active agency, probably as active as all the other agencies put together, and I had general
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, it was the President's Space Council, that is, Advisory Committee on Outer Space Sciences, Engineering and Technology [National Aeronautics and Space Council], which at first set the goal of landing a man on the moon before 1980. I still remember
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and that was more than my father was making. Between the two of us, we kept the family going. I had an opportunity, later on, to go to Cheyenne to work for the National Park Service as a clerk-typist. I stayed there for about six months, and was asked if lid
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Tom Corcoran worked for the RFC, and Ben Cohen worked for a thing called the;;..~ G: The National Power Policy Committee. M: That's still done, too. W: But it is true that later Jim Rowe was a White House assistant, but The day isn't past
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • that, I was teaching and trying to research on the side in community efforts with the prepaid group practice and home care. So I was pretty busy and I published a great many things, and I was busy speaking and working for Medicare and national health
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • concessions: I think this is a weakness in his presidency, a weakness in that he was not political enough. The point I'm making essentially is that--oh, the other thing of course is the decay of the Democratic National Committee, which was another example
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • --by a considerable number of Maritime powers, maybe a dozen--that the Strait of Tiran was an international waterway, and that innocent passage through the Strait of Tiran was available for all nations, and for ships carrying all flags.The second stage
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little bit of showing a muscle, you know, so he wouldn't have to kowtow to the liberal-labor group so much. G: Right. Flexing of the muscle. There was also the issue of the State Democratic Executive Committee. The liberals wanted to have
  • Association; theory of LBJ’s success as a legislator; 1956 precinct fight; LBJ and Shivers; 1956 national committeewoman controversy; 1956 Democratic National Convention; LBJ and Yarborough; LBJ’s 1960 Presidential aspirations; reaction to acceptance of VP
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , on the agreement that they'd support them, and then they backed out of that. Because that's the Convention where Mrs. Lloyd Bentsen, Jr. was named for National Committeewoman. I know, I was on the Committee on Nominations. But she finally withdrew because
  • Biographical information; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; LBJ’s rapport with Latinos; use of helicopter; interest in Valley drought; LBJ’s role in location of Falcon Dam; 1952 and 1956 State Democratic Conventions; 1960 and 1968 Democratic Conventions
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Office Department, I don't know whether he was then or not. But he and his wife, he's from South Carolina-- he was then at the Democratic National Committee, that's one of the reasons he was there, and his responsibility was the southern states. So
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Birthplace? J: From where you would cross the river on the dam, the low water dam. You do not now cross it; nobody does. The National Park Service has closed that entrance. But then you 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on and the closer the time came, the more we were in disrespect and out of kilter with the Democratic Committee . They wouldn't have iir . Johnson . They They wouldn't have Mr . Rayburn . didn't like Fishbait because he was a Rayburn-Johnson man
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • until I believe it was August 28, 1948 was the primary, and the following Friday they canvassed the returns. I went to the meeting of the Jim Wells County Democratic Executive Committee where they canvassed the returns, and they announced this total
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Views" of twelve of the Judiciary Committee members which included a good number of the Democrats and a good number of the Republicans, including Dirksen. The twelve constituted a majority of the comnittee. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on in connection with the election and the vote and how it turned out and the controversy and the fact that it had been thrown back by the courts, I guess, onto the [State Democratic Executive] Committee, of which I was a member but not very active at that time
  • 1948 election and the State Democratic Executive Committee; Byron Skelton; HST and General Marshall collaborate on the Truman Committee; the 1960 convention in Los Angeles; meeting JFK at Hyannis Port after the convention; Ted Dealey insults JFK
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson himself raised a lot of it, just called everybody he John went down there. knew that had any and tol d them how important it was to keep a Democratic Congress. I guess he got some from the Democratic National Committee, I don't remember
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to become the commissioner . F: Were there any problems of confirmation? B: No, there weren't any problems as far as I personally was concerned . The Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs did have some
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And with it being a campaign year, there was an awful lot of political mail. We had an awful lot of volunteers when he was the vice presidential nominee, and through the national committee we had a source LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • to Washington. The next thing, I heard Connally was in town at the Mayflower. It was about October 15 or November l. And he had had a meeting with the President. In 1968 they said I had let the Democratic Committee down. They said that because I wouldn't shake
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before he left, that the President wanted me to be treasurer of the national committee, and I rejected that. I didn't want to get into a legal line of fire. But I did agree to be chairman of the National Finance Committee. That came somewhat after
  • of the President’s Club and its growth; LBJ offering Mrs. Krim Presidential appointments; Krim’s support of Robert Kennedy; fundraising nationwide for LBJ; entertainment celebrities attending political fundraisers; 1964 Democratic National Convention; Don Cook
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , you could then appoint an executive committee to handle it. The National Security Council can be used or not by the president. I have doubts whether the Congress constitutionally can tell the president how to do his business. The law did provide
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not employ wiretapping or surreptitious bugging of premises except in the national security area. And we've taken that position consistently, publicly, and before congressional committees. As you know, the administration was opposed to the Title III
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a congressman? P: I was elected in 1958 and I remained in Congress for fourteen years, and then I ran for the Senate. I ran against Chuck Percy in 1972. I gave up a [House seat]. F: Which wasn't a good year for Democrats. P: No, it wasn't a good year
  • and the volatile nature of the 1960s; a dispute between Francis Keppel, the Office of Education and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley; problems with funding under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act [ESEA]; the 1968 Democratic National Convention and LBJ's
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Johnson? S: Yes. Pat McNamara was, even though somewhat junior in status in the Senate, nevertheless by the fortuitous set of circumstances that resulted in the selection of the right committees when he came in in '54 had already advanced
  • Furness; National Transportation Safety Board; renewal of Highway Act; need for expansion of DOT to include economic and regulatory functions; inter-modal approach key to future of transportation.
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • know this at the time, but Busby was about ready to leave and so was Dick Goodwin and they were short of writers over in the White House. He said that he had called the Democratic National Committee and asked for the fifty best campaign speeches
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • night, I understand. J: Yes. Well, Wooldridge Park was the place, I don't know what the agora was really like in the life of democratic, so-called democratic Athens, but I gather it was a place where everybody went and spoke their piece. Well
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • went on all during that period. But the degree to which he was active I think was somewhat limited; he was not particularly engaged in political pursuits at that stage although he was on the Democratic Study Group, or the Policy Committee I guess
  • Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • is the assistant for National Security Affairs. years. That was a rather less-clear assignment in the Truman Admiral Sydney S o u e r s , assisted by Jimmy Lay, had responsi- bility for many elements of that job in the Truman years, aide to the President, Robert
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was to be in a position where my members would call me when they wanted something. Also, through the Democratic National Committee, we would talk with members to determine what they needed in their District in the way of government grants or projects, and if we could help
  • ; LBJ's activities at the Ranch; Jacobsen's and LBJ's relationships with A.W. Moursund; Dale Malechek's work at the Ranch; the House Rules Committee and Howard Smith holding up bills; LBJ's opinion of speechwriters; LBJ's speech at Howard University; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was a member of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, \'Jhich Nr. Vinson was chairman of then. I went to a small military prep school and junior college in Milledgeville and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1959 with a degree in journalism. From
Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • was a Democrat. Were there any particular public figures that Professor Greene especially liked or disliked, do you recall? LH: I don't recall. In those days I didn't pay too much attention to Democrats and Republicans. EG: Did he particularly admire Wilson
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , financial supporter, of the Democratic Party, or at least the Lyndon Johnson Democratic Party. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the House Committee on Government Operations. That was the so-called , [Congressman John L]" Moss committee, which was attempting to suppress secrecy around the world, but principally in the United States. The situation in San Francisco had become very
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 2 (II), 1/6/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think he indicated in some way that he was thinking about it himself. G: With regard to André Meyer, did you also talk about other bankers? E: He talked about forming this committee and asked my advice on several bankers. I told him what I thought
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , or some huge damn place; tables all around, a big Democratic affair. And they asked me to come down the Friday night before, because the Senator was going to have a breakfast for the Democratic National Committee in the Democratic Caucus Room I guess
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: STEPHEN POLLAK INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: National Archives Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: Sir, beginning in 1964 you served as counsel to the President's Task Force on the War on Poverty, I believe. Would
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the kind of enthuslastic followers that I felt a person needed. He wouldn't really have the appeal that our national leadership should have provided for the world, at least that's what I thought. If you remember, I was engaged in a primary campaign
  • Biographical information; 1960 campaign; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Luther Hodges; North Carolina politics; VP nomination; environmental health center; Henry Hall Wilson; smoking