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Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

from the White House during the election, because he ran as a New Dealer, a New Deal candidate. nut the President was fishing in the Gulf, and after this fishing trip he landed at Galveston. Marvin McIntyre, who was his secretary at the time, had all

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of implementing legislation, in terms of setting the moral tone in our country. Here is a man who was looked upon as a wheeler-dealer, but this has been a very clean administration. 'I'le haven't had any scandals. We haven't had a serious scandal in the five

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

you come to Roosevelt being popular, he always got the votes. But I think Mr. Johnson thought that that would be favorable to him. He was labeled as a New Dealer, and I cannot understand, have never been able to understand, during the more recent

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

contest of his primary election in Texas? R: No. Actually, like most of the other young New Dealers around town, I met then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson in the early '40's, but it's not a clear recollection for me. I guess I remember him mostly as sort

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on creating legislation. He was a great manipulator -- to use that word in its best sense. F: He has been accused of being an arm twister and wheeler-dealer and so forth. S: Would you care to comment on that? Whether you saw any evidence of it? Well, I

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

suspected the wheeler-dealer image, and both of these certainly 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

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? Was one more of a New Dealer and the other one more of a traditional Democrat? 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

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and LBJ and some of the New Dealers were supporting Roosevelt. forces? Do you recall that issue, the stop-Roosevelt LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org L: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Eisenhower. Mc As you know, Mr. Johnson had the reputation of a political wheeler-dealer during his Majority Leadership. In 1955 he managed to get through"-or you, I think, managed to get through a very sizeable increase in public housing. Didn't you work

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

in the race. 80th of them I should characterize as quite conservative -- cert,ainly not "New Dealers" by anybody I s computations; and ti~e he was Editor of the Austi.n FAl'L 80lTOK: selected him as his fact-" ] ee -- I believe at that :~ay ~werican

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphey -- I -~ 13 that he thought Lyndon was an opportunist, that Lyndon was a New Dealer, whom Mr. Stevenson utterly

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in administration circles up to that point ; Isador Lubin who was the Director of Labor Statistics in the Labor Department . All of them I would call New Dealers . Jerry Frank, a whole coterie of people--some of them dead--most of them moved to other walks of life

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

business of applying to Black as a Justice, I had kept Black as a Roosevelt New Dealer aware about what was going on in the Texas election. Black has always been one of my best friends. He did me a last great favor about two years ago--he appointed my

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And then these same people had a· high regard for him and I can remember-F: Vlho were they, may I ask? K: It was Cl ifford Durr, D-U-R-R, who ~"as Communications Comrnission, and his ~"ife. New Dealers. Mrs. Durr was the a member of the Federal They were

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

he should have had one. He has got that tremendous reputation as a wheeler-dealer, and yet I'm sure that his opposition then and his successors since have looked deeply to find something, for there seems to be a certain amount of, "Well, we're

Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of his skills and all of his talents to produce legislative results designed to accomplish this, that he picked up instead the image of a kind of a Texas wheeler-dealer. And since IilOSt people who are unthinking, and either not terribly educated

Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- III -- 17 who has a big furniture store now, who was later president of the Texas Furniture Dealers Association . I think he lived at Killeen, somewhere in that neighborhood . There was one other big project and that was the Inks Dam Project

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--that little town, poor boy beginning . He had become, in my mind, what I'd always thought of as a wheeler-dealer in Texas, whereas Johnson never did show that . Now their speed of mind, of both of them, is astounding . Even before the question had formed

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, something like that? G: Yes. W: He wanted everybody to have something. At the same time, he didn't want them to throw it away, or something--I don't know. G: Was he a New Dealer, do you think? Was that his chief political heritage? 29 LBJ

Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

value and proceed from that basis because he almost always turned out to be right. Well, he had that kind of a gut reaction about Bobby Baker, as I recall. G: What was that reaction? P: That here was a fast operator, a wheeler-dealer, and someone

Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

encounter some of the best conversation. They were two old New Dealers from the very beginning. Then there was a newspaper man named Bob Sherrod. Was he with Time? I forget. I think so. We'd go to his house for cocktails, and indeed, we went to a goodly

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that the reputation he had of being a Texas wheeler-dealer is something he did not want history to confirm that that reputation ever existed while he was president. And I would imagine that he was personally hurt by things like Bobby Baker and Walter Jenkins. He just

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was of course famous for being a wheeler-dealer in the Senate long before anybody considered him as a potential president. Anyway, I marked this in my mind. Cliff had told me to take a biography over to the President, over to Juanita Roberts. So I got

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

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the press critIcism about him being a wheeler-dealer, conniver, less than anxious to deal with the truth at all times would have been just LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

because when he first ran for the House of Representatives in 1937, he had--it was a special election--he had corne out for the President's Court Packing Plan. That instantly and forever identified him as a New Dealer in the minds of many people in Texas