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Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

as we did in headquarters, not as much as I think we should have, as a matter of fact. But in Chicago we replaced the regional administrator, and the one we selected was not very popular with the Democratic National Committee. I heard--I don't know

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

no difficulty. Prior to appearing before the Senate Commerce Committee, I went up on the Hill and visited with as many of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and I got a job working for Esther Tufty. F: Who's she? C: Well, she's a newspaperwoman. F: How do you spell Tufty? C: T-u-f-t-y. Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, known as the Duchess. I'd beaten the paths around the National Press Building, really

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Wilcox, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

for the agricultural committees and members of Congress on agricultural matters. During that period of time, I had a leave of absence one year with the Food and Agricultural Organization in Chile, and I made two trips to Africa and one to Latin America on a leave

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Methodist University. Now Dean Story had served as a member of the national Commission on Civil Rights, and, as I recall, had reSigned from LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
[For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees

Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

BERTSCH Administrator, Farmers Home Administration Interviewer : Paige E, Mulhollan October 21, 1968 [Mr . Bertsch was discussing his support of the Committee for an Effective Congress when the recorder was turned on] I was contributing money B
Committee for an Effective Congress; George Aiken; biographical information; Resettlement Administration; changes in FHA; needs of rural communities; loans; social purposes of agency; American Farm Bureau Federation opposition; dissemination

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: NANCY DICKERSON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Her office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 D: When I left Wisconsin, I went to Washington and the one place I wanted to work \'/as the Senate Fore,ign Relations Committee. I guess

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

" the National Youth Administration? F: That's right. And he ran in a special election to succeed Congress- man [James P.] Buchanan. P: Yes. I must have met him before that, but thereafter-- F: Were you fairly close to Sam Rayburn in those days who

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh But could you tell if this was having a positive impact on the voters or the people who came in to see you? E: I think most of the people who came in to see us were real Democrats, the straight ticket, and I think they liked
[For interviews 1 and 2] Wartime service in the Red Cross; seeing LBJ during his visit to Paris on a mission; the mission committee; activities during visit; impressions of Eisenhower; flight back to Texas with LBJ; conditions in Europe; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to a House committee hearing on VA hospitals. The President reacted by trying to plant editorials about cost-cutting. This had elements of a couple of men overreacting. It was a break for me that I didn't know [about it] that morning. It's an example of how

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Labor Committee on the one side and then the Senate Labor Committee on the other. Of course, Adam Clayton Powell chaired the House committee. Was there anything unique about your dealings with Powell, a very mercurial guy? S: Adam Clayton Powell

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Where were you at the time of the assassination? H: I was in Lakeland, Florida. I had just concluded a speech at the noon meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Lakeland, and strangely enough I was talking about national unity. I had · returned to my room
of 1958; JFK-LBJ transition; Hays-Moyers relationship; Moyers evaluated; relationship with LBJ hurts Hays in Arkansas; SCOPE (Southern Committee on Political Ethics).

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

been here three times, and we want to have other people. We want to reach around and have somebody else on the Foreign Relations Committee, somebody else in the Democratic leadership." So that a lot of the names that would come from the State Department

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the agencies were. The lead, in terms of the task force in the government to the extent we had a committee or a group, was in the Commerce Department and was taken by Alan Boyd, who was the undersecretary of commerce for transportation. I got a lot of help

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was first offered a job over there six months before the one that I took, it was to spend half my time working on the National Security Council staff with Bundy on Latin America. So he knew that and he also knew that I had--in 1964, the Panamanian riots were

Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

federation. [I] was from that period of time until I went into the government in January, 1963, not only the Director of Research for the AFL-CIO, but also the Director of the Economic Policy Committee. I was also the Director of the Economic Policy

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and that we were now going to see unemployment below 4 per cent, which had been a dream of Democrats for half a century. But Ackley was worried about the inflationary impact of that. We were also worried about the high cost of wages in construction. If both

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 3 (III), 4/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, all of whom had an interest. We all unanimously concluded that we should recommend against the Federal Highway Administrator's plan. We argued that FHWA had never adequately tried to run the National Bureau of Highway Safety under a strong director

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in and say they'd vote for a farm bill if the agriculturists would vote for a food stamp bill and if the committees would allow the bill to progress. But it took a lot of doing over an extended period of time, and it finally passed in 1964 in the fall. And I

Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at San Marcos in the summer of 1928, early, and spoke at Riverside. Do you remember that? J: They could have. I don't recall it. G: Do you recall anything about LBJ going to the Democratic [National] Convention in Houston in 1928? J: Yes. He told
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; Cecil Evans; college years; garage apartment; secretary to Kleburg; college sports; Black Stars; White Stars; LBJ blackballed; 1928 Democratic National Convention; debate team; Cotulla; boarding

Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/show/loh/oh DR. GEORGE DAVIS DOROTHY PIERCE MC SWEENY This interview is with Dr. George Davis, the minister of the National City Christian Church in Washington, D. C. Today is Thursday, February 13, 1969, and we are in his office this morning about
Relationship with LBJ, who was a frequent visitor to Davis' church; service on the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity; the LBJ-Nixon transition period; Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

may be required to take the President to Los Angeles to speak at a Democratic fund-raising dinner, in which case we send a bill to the President. He sends it to the Democratic National Committee and they send us the check, which we in turn send

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in his marriage to Mrs. Johnson? H: Definitely. P: No, he was married in '34 and he had-- H: I am all mixed up in that. P: Not until 1935. H: That's right. P: He had returned here in '34--'33 as the State Director of the National

Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)

into the concert of European nations as a constructive and helpful . and democratic force. But I should also say, going back and thinking about those years> ·that " we were more forgiving, more forthcoming, and more positive in our efforts to help the Italians

Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Congress with whom he was associated, and, of course, we had both Republicans and Democrats. We got into some heated arguments. At that time, also, there was an organization here known as the Little Congress, made up of the personnel of the various
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was there as an honor guest, and also Mrs. Alma Lee Holman, who was the Democratic committeewoman. John Connally gave a talk on the man, Lyndon Johnson, and then naturally they had some singing. There always is. This time it was old familiar Jesse James of KTBC fame. He

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and leading students who were very active and who represented certain committees, don't you see? I was not a member of any of those committees. G: Now, I gather in 1928 Lyndon Johnson went to the Democratic National Convention in Houston. Do you have any

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

through some special assistant at the White House--Joe Califano or someone like that. B: This last summer and the riots in Chicago at the time of the Democratic National Convention, what sort of machinery from your office went into effect there? V

Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)

care to organize the Democratic National Committee, that he doesn't care to exert a,direct influence on it, and so on. My own impression of this is as follows. rest of you agree. I wonder if the As I have known the President, he has never had much
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

what we were doing and how it fit into the President's program. But fantastic impact on the morale and the sense of involvement in national policy. I think that here are maybe two examples--I think there are others. I believe he came over here once
Smith; Labor-Commerce merger; Bill Wirtz; wage/price guidelines; Walter Heller; LBJ’s influence over labor; Bill Martin; Labor Management Advisory Committee; balance of payments; exhilaration of LBJ’s informal talk; Bill Shaw; voluntary and mandatory

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

signatures I took the whole list, photostats of it, in a wheelbarrow into the White House and presented them to [Dwight] Eisenhower, changed our name to Committee of a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until she'll qualify
Kai-shek on Taiwan's economic and industrial success; the Free China Fund/Committee for a Million against admission of Communist China to the United Nations until it met certain qualifications; the Chinese Nationalist Air Force representative misusing

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and went to Houston and worked for the Federal Land Bank as a junior attorney for about a year and a half; then moved to Austin to help my friend LBJ organize and initiate the National Youth Administration program in Texas. That was in the summer of 1935
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

fairly close associates of M r . Johnson, who was Minority Leader at the time. B: Do you remember him taking any role in that at all? No, he didn't. He was a straight Democrat. He wasn't on the Foreign Relations Committee. in it. He went right down

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a professional [job]. Then my brother being chairman of the Senate Re-election Committee, we hired the firm to go into a certain state and help a Democratic senator that we wanted. Well, that's just about all that I know of, but the reason I'm saying

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

allies. Here we were in the United States taking the position that we could sacrifice the lives of American boys in South Viet Nam because our national security and our national interest were so vitally involved there, that if we did not make

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)

and Shivers on the other for control of the Texas Delegation to the National Democratic Party Convention which, of course, at which you gave that keynote address putting Johnson's name in nomination. Was there anything-and why Elliott Roosevelt? C: In D: 1955
Connally did not ever keep a diary or maintain a large quantity of unnecessary papers; going to work for LBJ in 1939; a typical work day; Victor "Cap" Harding; distributing money through an ad hoc Congressional Campaign Committee; joining LBJ’s 1941

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of stay-behind--suspension--and there really wasn't much problem. The government had become a little heavy-handed in some of its political activities. I've forgotten what they called the Democratic Front or something that they had, the National

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

to be more interested in defeating Democrats and getting control of the committee chairmanships then they are in 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

and Hale Boggs, that Charlie Davis had. Boggs'. It might have been at the Charlie Davis, you know, was the chief clerk of the Ways and Means Committee. been earlier. I believe he still was at that time, or he had That's right, he \vas in a Chicago law

Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was an organization to promote business? H: Over the years to that point the Secretary of Commerce had been the business man's defender within a series of Democratic administrations. And his concern, as your question suggested, was mainly promotional and not really

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