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Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

[?], sitting in on committees. I found myself involved with a couple of the PSAC [President’s Science Advisory Committee?] committees, the military aircraft panel and the naval warfare panel, and doing lots of traveling to Washington. And I had never heard
Biographical information; Lehan's work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); Sputnik; leaving Ramel-Wooldridge to start Space Electronics Corporation; consulting for government agencies and committees; how Lehan came to work for the newly formed

Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Urban League, and the NAACP, the three principal organizations and the National Council of Negro Women, the fourth one--were all committed against violence. CORE was comme ci, comme ca; and Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee at that time, despite

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Shriver -- I -- 5 S: That's true. I should have mentioned that earlier. When I was in Chicago my wife, to whom I was not married at that time, received an appointment to be executive secretary of the Continuing Committee of the National
The origin of Shriver’s interest in poverty-related issues; Shriver’s involvement with trade unionism, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the board of education in Chicago; Shriver’s work in the 1940s with Eunice Kennedy on the Continuing Committee

Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Lyndon. Anyhow, Wirtz was very, very I'm quite sure he established that committee for the sQle purpose of getting Wirtz into it. MG: Senator Wirtz had national Yes, into his fold, so to speak. Did you ever see Wirtz' input into the NYA? Did Wirtz
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
engineering office separate from LBJ's in Littlefield Building in Austin; Senator Wirtz on Advisory Committee; Gibb Gilchrist's Texas Highway Department; helping with red tape and paperwork supervising NYA boys on jobs; first roadside park at Onion Creek; Mrs

Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

never had any real relationship with him though until you came up here as Chief Justice, did you? W: Well, I had so many different things before the committees here that I think I did. But I would have a hard time telling you just what it was, because

Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and we voted that day there in San Diego. And I voted a Democratic ticket, and stayed around there that day--well, for two or three days after that, and then we stayed out at the ranch and then went back to Austin and went back to school. F: Did you

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Not at all. One of our senior executives, a member of our board of directors, was very active in the Nixon campaigns, and I guess I'm identified as a Johnson Democrat, and yet we sit in the same meetings. F: Now, you mentioned Arthur Krim. Is there kind
fundraising dinner at the Ambassador Hotel; housing and Proposition 14; Pat Brown; Wasserman’s appointment to the executive committee of the Kennedy Center; LBJ’s ability to be a 'real' person; visits to the Ranch; 1968 election; the 'fatigue factor

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

campaign that Senator Johnson was in I was listed as being on the county committee for him. I likewise in the campaign of 1956--this is an instance I ought to relate. The Democratic Party in Texas has always had a pattern almost back to the days of Sam
[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, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

prob bi-partisan group, and I was appointed as an honest Democrat, which I was and am . M: How did they happen to select you for that, do you know? B: No, I don't really know . When I first started practicing law in Miami, I went into George
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, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the strings that he could back there to get Jesse a job with the superintendent of schools for the state; L. A. Woods was his name. Then when Lyndon was head of the National Youth Administration, he brought Jesse in as assistant director. What I'm trying

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, having had a special committee on agricultural problems, having tried to lead the Midwest Democratic Governors into a policy position on agriculture, he knew how tough it was . He wanted a Cabinet position, but he had said and meant that he didn't want

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: The present recollection that I have is that, as Secretary of Defense, I was a member of an ad hoc committee that was to consider some type of problem in which the Labor Department took the lead. I think it was involved in some manner with government employees

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to address the Democratic National Committee in January. K: I had nothing to do with that. G: Ground breaking at the Hirshhorn Museum? K: I read about it, and Joe Hirshhorn had been a political supporter for a number of years. G: One of the last
; the threat of nuclear confrontation; Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance at the Paris talks; Andre Meyer and the European monetary crisis; National Commission on Violence report; LBJ’s falling out with A.W. Moursund; Krim’s time with LBJ after 1968; Thanksgiving

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of other fellows. Then immediately after the war, I don't know what all had happened--[during] 1944 I was gone--but they got in a big political fight in the old Texas Regulars. They'd had a donnybrook in Texas; they'd had a mean national convention again
station KVET; Coke Stevenson; LBJ using a helicopter to campaign in 1948; monitoring the 1948 election returns; LBJ's kidney stones; Paul Porter; legal action surrounding the 1948 election and box 13 incident; the Democratic Executive Committee vote

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, very knowledge- able--worked with Congressional committees, working with people at the National Institutes of Health and other places. It did involve a lot of people who never participated in such meetings before and whose eyes were really opened

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thomas -- 1-- 10 the newsprint deal, that had a story on it to the effect that the county committee, Democratic committee in Jim Wells County, had met

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

S. STRAUSS INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB DATE: May 22, 1969 PLACE: 2800 Republic National Bank Building, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 [vl: Let me identify this tape first of all. This is an intervie\>/ with Mr. Robert S. Strauss--S-T-R-A-U-S-S

Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

worked with this group? B: I don't recall . I think he was a member of it . elected by his class . I think he was We had to select members from the class to serve on the committee . G: The committee, I guess, had the power to disperse the student
Biographical information; SWTTC; contact with LBJ; Harris Blair debating club; Student Welfare Council; 1928 Democratic Convention; Black Stars; LBJ as Blackman's best man; LBJ's activities and family; President Evans; dating in San Marcos

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Novak -- I --18 Texas, and Mr. Johnson came in with his two daughters. I was there, and they were just cold as hell to me and very nice to Geraldine. M: Still? N: Yes. I was the guest at the game of Bob Strauss, who is the Democratic National

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was in 1963, is that correct? EG: That's correct. G: Did you have any role in the initial legislation? EG: Well, to the extent that the [Public Health] Service had had activities in the retardation area of the National Institutes of Health, primarily

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

role. Moreover, some of our departments, such as the Department of Interior, looking at matters from a national standpoint, are going to come out with different views than the states in that particular river basin may have. And they have to think about
government; the Council on Intergovernmental Relations; the need for effective federal executive boards to coordinate federal activities in a given city; involving the private sector in local government and obstacles to that goal; the National Alliance

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

, such as the WPA. An offshoot from the WPA was the NYA, the National Youth Administra tion . This was a program to help young people, boys and girls from 16 to 25, in part-time jobs, either in the school system that was administered by the school
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Early family relationship between Birdwell and Johnson families; early organization of National Youth Administration Program in Texas; LBJ's first race for Congress (1937); early days in Washington as Secretary to Congressman Johnson; KVET and KTBC

Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he was a great follower of his. He felt like the strength of America was in the people and that the only problem was to get the people to understand what was before the nation and that the answer they would then give would

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh

Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

went through the receiving line, and then came into the state dining room and sort of singled me out, came over to where I was and gave me this remembrance and chatted with me. And the last time I saw him was at the Woman's National Democratic Club

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thought it up. The Democratic National Committee, Carter-- G: Cliff Carter? J: Cliff Carter was over at the Democratic National Committee, and we would have a morning meeting maybe once a week. We'd have a freshman congressman in, and represented

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, that were intended to impose such sanctions, because he was on the Appropriations Committee. G: Didn't he charge that there was a connection between CDGM and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party? B: Oh, there were so many charges of various kinds. I

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but at first he refused to go along with Truman. Later on I think he did raise money for the national ticket. So the Democrats had appointed [Byron] Skelton, but they couldn't get him in somehow; I don't remember the details of the fight. (Interruption) So

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

credited to Stevenson. We got the Democratic county chairman, went out and canvassed these boxes. G: So he was-- S: He supported Johnson, yes. And Carl Estes supported him, but Carl wrote an editorial--now SWEPCO, Southwestern Power and Electric

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the country. My recollection is that someone may have talked to me about it one evening. And if it was, it was someone from the National Committee--Carlos McCormick or somebody like that. But I don't believe anyone did. I remember feeling a little left out

Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have any contact with Mr. Johnson himself? M: No, I did not. Though I understood from the Democratic National Committeeman from Colorado that he had visited with Mr. Johnson about me, so that Mr. Johnson was aware of the consideration of me

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

and the burning questions of free-enterprise and socialist form of government, autocratic form of government versus the democratic form of governments . We spent many hours discussing the pros and cons of each one of these questions . We had a complete meeting

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there and there were some political types in the hotel business, even. I can't remember the fellow's name but he was a member of the state Democratic committee, big politician, friend of mine, friend of Johnson's. He was in the room, people like this, and Dealey

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and Company. I t was sad, and it meant more of a burden .was placed on Louis Ma r t i n . I worked a great de9.1 with the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee mYself, and a couple of others, to play basically IItalent agency," which we had

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

always do that. In the Democratic [National] Convention in 1968, we could not get Daley to move with the force with which we wanted him to move--not force, but with the presence--or get him to agree to let us bring in the kinds of presence we wanted

Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] started to run for office that he was using the [NYA] office as a sort of political committee, that they had already learned the slogan "All the way with LBJ." Now this girl was named Waldridge originally, but as I say, I have not kept in touch with her
of Jimmy Allred to a federal judgeship; 1940 Democratic National Convention; Henry Wallace; favor to Parker when LBJ was in the White House.

Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and incidentally, it's a firm now of a hundred and forty. now. We are probably the fourth or fifth largest firm in the nation The President incidentally refers to it as the fourth largest firm. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

did I go to work in Houston [for Judge James Elkins]? (Interruption) He [Elkins] had become disillusioned kind of, with Roosevelt, you know, and the Democrats, although he wasn't in out-and-out rebellion. And he quit going to national conventions

Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

first met him at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1932 when I was up there as a delegate and Franklin Roosevelt was nominated for the first time. I was a delegate from Ector County out at Odessa where I was living at the time

Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with my own activities, whether in public life as well as in some private affairs, to appear before committees of which he was a member . other than casually . I can't say that I knew him I always found his attitude as a Senator on these committees one
incident; Glassboro meeting; Harriman; Wilson-Kosygin interview; Great Britain peace demonstrations; 3/31 speech; US-British relations during Johnson years; Dean Rusk; George Ball; National Security Advisory in White House

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