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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that-- C: Pardon me? G: I said could it be because his role at the White House was one dealing with electoral politics rather than-- C: That's what I'm saying. The Democrat--yes, it may have been the Democratic National Committee thing, but I'm

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

the Democrats that It's recognized by everybody as the most powerful committee in the House, and the next one is the Appropriations Committee. That's a very much larger committee. Only 25 on the Tax Committee and there are 50 on the Appropriations Committee

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and then Texas Law School. I only say that because it was as a result of being at Texas Law School that I lucked into the job with Lyndon Johnson. Gerry Siegel was the counsel of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. He was a Yale graduate, law graduate

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the thing. That involved a big reception at the State Department in connection with a major national conference that the President's Committee was 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
; Herbert Hill; examples of Hill's cases against non-compliant companies, including Southern Bell, General Motors, California Light and Power, Mississippi Light and Power; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; why Feild left the committee; NASA compliance issues; RFK's

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the day I introduced the suit that whatever resolution would ultimately be reached involving damages, my proceeds would be turned over to the Democratic National Committee. The last thing I wanted was to gain a nickel from what I considered a national
; O'Brien's legal fees for his civil suit; obstacles and delays in giving the remaining settlement money to the Democratic National Committee (DNC); how well the listening devices worked in O'Brien's office; listening devices on Spencer Oliver's phone; FBI

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/show/loh/oh SIEGEL - I -~ 9 paradox of being in a sense, the true and clearlyoutstanding leader . of the Democratic Party, but unable, because of politics being .what they are nationally, to win a national nominating convention. · and probably
experience from Korea in Vietnam decision-making relating to wage and price controls; work on the Senate Democratic Policy Committee; LBJ’s early staff; LBJ’s tactics in making legislative change; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; LBJ and “liberals”; Southern Senators

Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Mr. Stevenson often spent some of his vacation [with Jenkins], and that's how I got to know Mr. Stevenson during those visits. Dick Jenkins was the chairman of the Democratic central committee and I was the vice-chairman until I was elected Mayor
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1956 convention; 1960 convention; Ernest McFarland; mayor of Tucson; President of the National League of Cities

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the delegates at a national convention. So a lot of people [wanted to nominate Eisenhower]. Olin Johnston from my state of South Carolina flew over to talk to Eisenhower about Eisenhower being the Democratic nominee. And there were a lot of stories

Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Committee on the Library. Previous to your election to the Senate, you were active in Democratic party affairs both in your state and national. Also, in the late '40's and '50's .you have had government service in the State Department both in Washington
; the High Speed Railroad Transportation Act; JFK and LBJ compared on foreign policy; congressional White House briefings characterized; doubt that LBJ moved as he should have in peace initiatives; LBJ and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; the antiwar

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lawson -- I -- 3 Democratic National Committee and who had helped me in supporting Kennedy. And we, all of us together, agreed that the best thing to do would be to have a meeting, and that it should be called by Mr. Dawson
; Theodore Kheel; the work of committee members and staff; how LBJ and JFK grew in their understanding of civil rights on a national level; Lawson's work as chairman of the civil rights section of the Kennedy-Johnson campaign and people who tried to undermine

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

--Republican or Democrat, if doesn't matter. course, I was lucky. And so you get it. Of I got some space nobody wanted, and it turned out to be the best room in the New Senate Office Building when we moved over there. Committees? ments. No, I don't think
National Youth Administration (U.S.)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but not at that particular time. G: The Democrats had as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Theodore Green who was, I guess, in his early nineties at this point. R: Easily. G: It seems that early, even before Congress actually convened, LBJ had discussions
LBJ’s Capitol office; P-38; Castro assumed power in Cuba; resignation of Theodore Green as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; annual battle over Rule 22; LBJ’s motion to change rules to two-thirds of those present and voting than

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- III -- 24 active in the National Democratic Committee; he was a real political appointee. G: Did the committee receive pressure from Capitol Hill? I know that a lot of the southern senators resented these committees that had not been authorized
Abe Fortas' role in the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; how LBJ's control of the Committee was undermined; John Macy; discrimination in White House hiring; NASA; federal workforce turnover; Feild's involvement

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

on patent policy which had been raised by Senator [Russell B.] Long [Democrat of Louisiana]. I think the committee, when the hearing was over, was clearly convinced that I had no bias with respect to civilian personnel and no bias with respect to a sound

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

." But this I think is a forerunner of how the campaign committee was set up after the time of the national election. With respect to the national convention 20 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
duties in LBJ's 1964 campaign in the Office of Regional Coordinators at the Democratic National Committee; monitoring public support at campaign headquarters; Crooker's nomination to membership on the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB); staffing Crooker's law

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

had a feeling that he was kind of recovering for lost time, though I certainly did not hold that against him. He had many other things on his mind besides my election. However, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which at that time

Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

office in the Capitol called a Senate hideaway, to trips abroad of various gradations, appointments to special committees, campaign funds. G: Would the campaign funds be limited to Democrats or would he find money for Republicans that supported him? J
and Title II; LBJ’s pre-presidential policy with regards to the Middle East; the National Defense Education Act in 1958.

Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that pressure is not too effective on me. M: Again, you're not on the inside of the Democratic Party and don't have the pressure on you then? A: They have advised me of their position on various matters which have been coming before the committee and before

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on in as much detail as you can. Let me ask you first generally about foreign policy during the [Dwight D.] Eisenhower years and how bipartisan it was. The Democrats controlled Congress through much of that time and the Republicans--many of them--had a more
of church and state in the South; initiation of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA), changes made to the Act and how it was passed; Senator Lister Hill's support for reciprocal trade; Hill's and Estes Kefauver's involvement in a 1955 bill relating

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

to the national conven:ion and to instruct them in whatever way it chose. The one in September elected the State Democratic Executive Committee. Wel'ianted the State Democratic Executive Committee replaced in May, and we made a deal that if he would replace

Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Okay. Of course, after they had the National Security Act and under Truman set up the watchdog committee, he was one of that group that oversaw our intelligence activity, along with Russell who was chairman of Armed Services. Who else served
boundaries for Hayden; Hayden's memory; Hayden's investigation of Joseph McCarthy; McCarthy's censure; Hayden's work to prevent the Bricker Amendment from passing; Mike Mansfield's intelligence committee resolution; Hayden's committee assignments; Hayden's

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

if that resolution would have passed until he made the many misstatements that he did and the brutal statements that he did about some of those six people that were on the McCarthy committee. G: Do you think that the selection of the Democratic members
[For interviews 1 and 2] First impressions of LBJ; LBJ's visits to Kentucky Derby; the McCarthy censure; LBJ's powers of persuasion; LBJ's speaking engagements for Democratic candidates; 1960 campaign; how LBJ became VP candidate; Social Security

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the major factors in the national Democratic Party. But over and above that on labor relations, I think he understood the excesses of labor very well in a general way. Nevertheless in this eternal struggle between labor and management, what he was trying

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

~ or was it nationally based? Johnson~ I should say? L: David Lloyd was a director of the committee, and he had been an administrative assistant of President Truman's. You may remember him, I don't know. He was a highly intelligent person. He and I both felt
Castro; Committee for National Health Insurance; beautification stamps; 1968 campaign; dedication of Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park in Fredricksburg; Laurance Rockefeller and Mrs. Aston; how to spread beautification around a city.

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Gillette PLACE: Kozy Korner Cafe, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 B: In that Nicholas Lemann piece the name of a commission jumped out at me, the committee or commission on juvenile delinquency, and I thought for a moment--well, longer than

Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Perkins -- I -- 2 people when I came here. I'd get a bill to the Rules Committee similar to the old Civilian Conservation Corps to try to put the youth in the forests of the nation
First knowledge of pending legislation to fight poverty; personal interest in and involvement in legislation of this kind; LBJ and unemployment; War on Poverty; steering legislation through committee; Adam Clayton Powell as chairman; LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/16/1970, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Mr. President. It has been remembered by Thomas Corcoran that when you were about to resign your NYA [National Youth Administration] post to run for the congressional seat, the Administration, especially Aubrey Williams, thought that you were doing

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the Democratic Policy Committee, where a lot of this kind of conversation went on, was closed to everybody except George Reedy, who took some notes on it but did not write minutes. He just kept the notes for Johnson's use in case he wanted to remember what
of a 1958 labor bill supported by Senator John F. Kennedy; how LBJ would gain votes for other senators' bills; LBJ's ability to get Republican senators to vote in support of Democratic plans; Senator Bill Langer's vote; how opposing senators would help each

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

presidential campaign specifically? A: I was on the payroll of the Democratic National Committee, working for Lyndon Johnson's campaign staff. B: Was that the group headed by Charles Murphy here in Washington? A: No, Charlie Murphy was in charge
Meeting LBJ in 1955; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; Abell's father-in-law Senator Earle Clement's career; LBJ trying to do favors for his colleagues; adjourning Congress for the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Relations, which had previously been called the Detroit Interracial Committee. It was established following the race riots during World War II. When I came back out of the army, after finishing my degree I went to work for that committee in 1947. So I worked
Career history leading up to Feilds’ work with the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; Phil Hart; the consolidation of the President’s Committee on Government Contracts and the President’s Committee on Government Employment Policy

Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

make some rather elaborate efforts . I know that Dick Maguire stayed on, for example, at the Democratic National Committee because Johnson specifically asked him to and said that he needed him . M: Robert Kennedy stayed on for a while . B: Yes, Bob
Biographical information; impressions of LBJ when he was majority leader; covering the Democratic National Convention in 1960; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 H: Champ Clark was the Speaker when I came here and they had the Democratic National Convention over in Baltimore. day after day. I went over there He could get a majority but he couldn't
Biographical information; candidacy for Congress; Senate Committee assignment; first contact with LBJ; longest record of service in the Senate; Reclamation Act of 1902; Colorado River Commission; Boulder Canyon Project; Udall family; Central Arizona

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

: That's right. Ed Smith was a prominent attorney in Houston and very active in politics there. His wife was on the State Democratic Executive Committee for a long time. That was pretty early to even consider a black in any court at that time; it would have
to LBJ; J.E. McDonald; 1952 Democratic Conventions – state and national; Governor Shivers for Eisenhower against Democrat Adlai Stevenson; 1972 Democratic National Convention; 1960 Democratic National Convention; contacts with LBJ while President.

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

out. I believe there was a committee appointed that held an investigation and the committee came up with what I'm going to call a "slap-on-the-wrist" sort of thing. And I think it all went by the wayside. But that's right. Francis Case was a major-domo
of a Democratic majority in the Senate in 1958 and how that changed the character of the Senate; LBJ's relationships with Bill Knowland and Everett Dirksen; LBJ's reputation in the Senate; the Senate majority leader's power; Senate Rule Twenty-Two allowing

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Accordingly you may have to nudge this a little bit. Perhaps, if everything else is equal or close to equal, then it's going to work. However, in much of this our referral would be to the Democratic National Committee. While we retained the active interest
the announcements locally; Dick Donahue's work with patronage and members of Congress' efforts to get jobs for their constituents; the role of the Democratic National Committee; criteria for ambassadorships; career versus political appointees; politicians' view

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

because he was too busy. M: I would have been very embarrassed. How did he happen to make these appointments of you to these national committees? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org B: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the President and the head of the Democratic National Committee, [who] was a venerable and very nice old gentleman, but I don't think he was very active-was that Drury [Flynn]? G: It may have been. J: It resulted in Lyndon being asked to take over
to Washington, D.C.; Dorothy Jackson's marriage to Philip Nichols; anticipation of a world war; Charles Marsh telling the Johnsons about the dangers of Adolf Hitler; Welly Hopkins' work for United Mine Workers; the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

legislative chairman for the Oregon Congress of Parents and Teachers and was on the national legislative committee. In 1946 in Oregon there was a major education bill and I became involved in that. K: So you actually did some lobbying on behalf [of the bill

Oral history transcript, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for Lyndon Johnson, along with others who also participated. At that time the story was that Allan Shivers was going to support the Republican nominee. I felt that we should keep the delegation committed to whomsoever the Democratic nominee was going to be. I
Election to Congress in 1948; Sam Rayburn; Homer Thornberry; Johnson-Rayburn relationship; early relationship with LBJ; Drew Pearson; support of LBJ over Shivers in 1956; selection of Mrs. Bentsen as committeewoman; Secretary for the Committee

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, in part, because he originally also lived in Madison, Wisconsin, years before. That brought him and his family into contact with Altmeyer and myself. I also knew Mrs. Ellen Woodward, who also was the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee
[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

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