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Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to listen to him really get started in a very spontaneous, very earnest way about what he saw as the goals of this country . And it . was not the picture of the wheeler-dealer, the riverboat gambler type of operator, yet there were nuances

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of your own fatigue. Every city looks alike. You know, the approaches to any city in the United States from an airport are identical. A bunch of the used car dealers on the way in, gasoline stations, roadhouses. You get about the same speech. Well, you

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

reserves, dealer reserves � 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/exhibits/show/loh/oh

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a guy that's a wheeler and dealer and a goer and a goer, and he never slowed down. The main relationships in those days I had with him was back in this NYA period. And of course the Authority was entering into some projects during that time. now

Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

calls me. G: And the President got word of this? T: Oh, you bet. Absolutely. So we had to get rid of him, you had those wheelers and dealers. G: He was using his status to impress somebody? T: Yes. Sure, has to be. Yet the guy was a top-notch man

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

great difficulty with them. They thought I was a Texan, a Johnson Texan, a big operator. Several of them wouldn't get very close to me because they didn't think they ought to, a wheeler-dealer. G: Did you work differently with the Republicans than you

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the Altmeyers, Mrs. Ellen Woodward. But all ardent New Dealers. And getting Aubrey Williams off in a corner and talking to him, and him saying that he really thought Lyndon ought to be back and working in a more productive capacity, and that he was going to 24

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the man. G: Let me ask you. You were talking about Maury Maverick as a Young Turk, and it seems that during these New Deal years, in the thirties, both he and your brother were idealistic New Dealers, you know, ready to roll up their sleeves and make

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

were there with some other friends of the President. I remember specifically Jay Smith was there--he used to be an Austin automobile dealer--and old Bob Present, who is the chairman of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)