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Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in law practice in 1964, and it was while I was campaigning, in a sense, for my father, who was running for hi 5 second term. I campai gned, too, for the Johnson-Humphrey ti cket, and sang Saine duets with Lynda Byrd. Arnold, Fortas, and Porter. I

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that the Istop Kennedy' people could do him, fine. In West Virginia we had such obvious Istop Kennedy' people as that bigot Robert Byrd helping us. M: Helping in quotation marks almost there. R: "Helping," yes. But his sole motivation was to stop Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have been that. G: Why was he such an effective majority leader? M: Well, because he just paid attention to every little thing. a lot of what [Robert] Byrd's doing now. to people. He was very accommodating He put a lot of IOUs in the bank and when

Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

? J: It required appropriations. It may have required legislation, but I think we had enough legislative authority if we could get the appropriation for such a development. Senator [Robert] Byrd of West Virginia was bitterly opposed because he

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the spring of 1967, after the freeze had been on for four or five months, a delegation from the Congress called on the President. These were senior members from--I've forgotten just what the makeup was, but I know that two of them were Randolph and Byrd

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Working your way around those personal imperatives can require a good deal of personal persuasion. He was very good at it. the kind of thing that I think Bobby Byrd is doing now. It's The way he got the Senate leadership job, is by having so many

Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barrow -- I -- 28 Medicare!" Beat him by one vote--that was [Senator] Byrd

Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and Speaker McCormack, Hale Boggs,[Carl] Albert, also Byrd [W .Va .], the leadership generally . So as a result, they would have this resume . I suspect that they didn't read it as religiously as the President did . Another thing that happened

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)