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Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a straight support Roosevelt candidate. That's the way he got elected to the Congress in 1936 or 1937 or 1938, whenever it was along in there. Governor O'Daniel was never a pro-Roosevelt man or really a Democrat, identified as such. 4 LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Democratic committees of those counties. Now I went down to represent them, both in Duval and Zapata Counties, assisted Judge Raymond in representing them. PB: Judge Raymond was a district judge. PS: He was the county judge of Laredo at that time. PB

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, as a moral issue. I think he knew, if not exactly, he had a good sense of what it would do to the Democratic Party over time. But he thought these rights were more important than the Democratic Party basically. Crudely put. He never said that, but I always

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

with the Secretary? W: Well, it was an interesting story. That was the time when the NRA Codes hearings were being conducted, and a classmate of mine, who had finished law school, and I established the National Committee on Industrial Recovery. We got the various
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Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to the Democratic state meeting in Albuquerque, and at the time John Kennedy was probably my personal choice. But anyhow the publisher of the New Mexican was a friend of Lyndon Johnson's and I went to Albuquerque myself. As I recall, I was editor by that LBJ

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

general. As a matter of fact, we were both of the same rank [lieutenant colonel--JJH] at that time. And Danny Graham at this time in 1962, I think a couple of months after I went to the Office of Current Intelligence, he went to the Office of National
crisis on Soviet politics; Hagerty’s work in the Office of National Estimates; George Carver and Bill Hyland’s involvement in Vietnam task force; Chinese obstruction of Soviet military support to North Vietnam; the Soviet and Chinese positions toward

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was in that office; Sam Beer had it from 1960 to 1962--on official ADA stationery wrote every delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1960 a little letter which suggested that Lyndon Johnson, not by name as I recall, was a racist. It was a little private

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

are you going to do about Japan and Asia? And so the Foreign Affairs Committee sent a group of us over there. [Inaudible] was on that group. Always worked out carefully. Sent him to Europe. And this was a Republican Congress [Congress had a Democratic
and discussing the development of Taiwan; communist tactics in defeating other countries; Judd's interaction with Joe McCarthy and McCarthy's list of communists in Washington, DC; Judd's work with the United Nations; the organization of US supporters of Chiang

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

urban concept in describing the role of the new department. Exactly when the word urban crept into the title I forget, but it wasn't until very late, and i t really waEin't I think until the growing national concern about the crisis of the cities

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 1 3 of the full committee . George and John Kluczynski, Bob Jones [Democrat] from Alabama, who
of the Department of Transportation; Urban Mass Transit; Maritime Administration; National Transportation Safety Board; appointment as Secretary and confirmation; reflections on LBJ; domestic legislative achievements; international relations; effects of Vietnam War

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

the Democratic campaign committee functioning through its representative in the House was in deep trouble. Some very fine Congressman, I think from Virginia, was supposed to be in charge of the Democratic campaign for reelection of those members of the House
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Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)

with VIRGINIA FOSTER DURR October 17, 1967 The National Archives By Mary Walton Livingston Larry Hackman also present For the Lyndon B. Johnson Library LIVINGSTON: This interview is for the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and is given by Mrs. Clifford J. Durr

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

we were so democratic I traveled with my maid, who was Spanish and had at that point joined me. It took forty-one days to go from Portugal to Buenos Aires, because the British decided there were a lot of spies on the boat. They stopped us--I forget
relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

for that special condition. Obviously, it wasn't strong enough. G: In this kind of development with the addition of the national emphasis programs and the evolution of guidelines in Community Action, has there been a tendency to take away the flexibility

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-- 12 Here's a memorandum that describes the way I was feeling frequently. This is a memorandum written on May 13, 1966. The President had gone to the [D.C.] Armory the night before to a Democratic Congressional campaign committee fund-raising and made

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was the chairman of the Senate Defense Committee, and they went into what we called defense contracts to try to-- F: The old Truman Committee? C: Yes. --to try to protect the country. So whenever they'd have a hearing the senator, as he was then, would send

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

of law school . I was in the National Guard at the time and when the Korean War came along, my unit was activated and I spent some 21 months in the service, all in the state of Washington in an anti-aircraft batallion. When I came out of the Army, I

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

several years working as a reporter and editor, I came to Washington as a national correspondent for a large chain of newspapers, the Newhouse newspapers. I left that organization in September, 1963. At that time I had been covering the labor field

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to get it through. I recall, we went in to see President Kennedy one day with a set of our unnegotiable demands on civil rights, things we thought absolutely had to be done; one of them had to do with integrating the National Guard, which doesn't seem
House Conference on Civil Rights; Cliff Alexander; National Science Foundation Board; Jim Webb's acceptance of Administrator of NASA; campus unrest; Vietnam; Perkins Commission; Walt Rostow's Policy Planning Commission; Wise Men; role as Vatican

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of developing the appropriations for the National Institutes of Health and so forth. Mrs. Krim was the wife of Mr. Arthur Krim. He became a very close friend of the President's and raised money for the Democratic Party. Mr. and Mrs. Krim also have a ranch close
[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the campaign; all we wanted was for the thing to be over. But obviously we had to carry on, and we had been given a credit card to use, which we all assumed was a Democratic National Committee credit card. And at this rally in Queens, there was no place from
Allen Dulles' 1960 visit to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's visit with JFK in Hyannis Port following the 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's attempts to identify with farmers on the campaign trail; Congress' inability to make progress in the session

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, or anything else. When I was on the State Democratic Executive Committee I had a brief encounter in San Angelo at a committee meeting with then-still-Senator LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--wasn't it called, something like that? F: That's right. Democrats of Texas. S: Yes, as opposed to the national organization. the Texas and the national organizations. to Johnson as they were to me. They were going outside They were almost as opposed

Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of attention in the national press with the problems of " LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
[For interviews 1 and 2] JFK campaign in West Virginia; decline of coal use after WWII; unemployment; national press on Appalachia; Mike Feldman; Ted Sorenson; Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.; public law 89-4 in 1965; Highway System first authority vested

Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with something then called the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, that seemed to function out of the Justice Department. the first staff person to that. of a senior person. I, in effect, became Lloyd Ohlin was on board then as sort My job became

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 M: This is the kind of thing K: And it was a major national persuada forced M: Senator Johnson becomes a national issue. You
[Description is for all three Katzenbach interviews] LBJ's focus on military waste while on Preparedness Subcommittee; LBJ's concern with constitutional authority for his powers as vice president; LBJ and the PCEEO; Space Committee; JFK and LBJ

Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)

rights and, see, have a bunch of Dernccrats speaking cons ntly in the Senate and some in the House, leaving the Democratic Party with an image of anti-NE-1gro. Now, I don't think that necessarily needs to be. \'/e I think that g•)t to do our home
LBJ’s views of Vietnam while he was Senate leader through his presidency; the views of various senators about bombing; comparison of financial and physical support from the U.S. and the United Nations; Bobby Kennedy’s desire to see Rusk removed

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that, in order to get the establishment to listen, we needed a commission to do that . According to my knowledge, there was no problem with your confirmation . No . Mr . [Richard] Helms appeared before the committee the same day . That's CIA . B: Yes . F: B

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was to keep on all of the Kennedy people that he possibly could. But he wanted to be elected in his own right. Now Hubert Humphrey was not in any way connected with the Kennedys. In fact, during the primaries, he had run against Kennedy for the Democratic

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, they wanted a system and put in place a system in which the departments would, at the announcement level, let Democratic senators or congressmen know that a big contract was going to be awarded in their state or district and make the announcement. The Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the Texas legislature, the House. I heard about a young whipper- snapper who was in the Congressional race to succeed [James P.] Buchanan who had died. He had been chairman of the Appropriations Committee. I say a young whippersnapper because that's
weaknesses as President; LBJ’s storytelling and sense of humor; if LBJ had been elected to Appropriations Committee, he would not have run for the Senate

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

: Of the Democratic county committee. They're made up, as you know, of a chairman and a--the secretary is appointed, they're not elected, and just whoever the chairman picks. And then however many voting precincts there were, in each voting precinct
in Precinct 13 in 1948; Dean's role as county attorney in the 1948 Senate election; the makeup and role of the county Democratic Executive Committee; Coke Stevenson going to Texas State Bank to examine the poll list; the location of the ballot boxes; the grand

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

with it. No. That was the beginning of the end. G: Did you witness any of Hayden's response to this? R: Didn't have to. I re member Dick Russell in a meeting of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee one day, when Johnson was building up forces to get a civil rights bill

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Democratic Party dinner in New York. He came right from the airport to the dinner and delivered a rather flowery tribute to the President. That sort of stilled things for a while. But it wouldn't stay down, and I think the President r s response

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on through, even until the Democratic convention when he was put on the ticket in the second spot in Los Angeles, because it was Rayburn's hand always that was moving the cards. S: What was Johnson himself like in those early days? You say you don't

Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

taught for a year at the University of Pennsylvania. Then in '49 I left teaching and went to Bolivia as the director of the Bi-national Cultural Center there, which was about the best job I've ever had with the exception of my current position. F

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Republican or Democrat, and I never was sure who was who. Somewhere along the line Maggie--Warren Magnuson--was a member of Naval Affairs. Lyndon got the Chairman to appoint a committee to investigate naval personnel itself, to make sure that able-bodied men
LBJ's involvement with the Naval Affairs Committee in 1943 and efforts to stop absenteeism in navy jobs; food rationing in World War II; how life in the United States changed during WWII; attitudes toward military service; German-American

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

I'd known the family a little bit. The particular advisory committee that I'm referring to on education was headed by President Hovde of Purdue and had several members on it. We came up with a report that if Mr. Kennedy had adopted, w'ould probably

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Works Progress Adtninistration, it was to start with. The NYA [National Youth Administration] catne along shortly thereafter, which was sort of a junior WPA, and appointed a district director named Z. Starr Armstrong. I was single. Of course, Mr
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Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and I had an appointment with John Bailey, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Also these appoint- ments were to compensate for some bad staff work on the part of the White House. Giaimo and Bailey heard about my appointment on the radio

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