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Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

,,:as invited to have dinner at the home of a girl friend I had in Wisconsin whose father was the vi:ce presfdent of Hei:nz 57. The newspaper at their house that night at suppertime had a headl ine in big block letters, IIFDR ask.s 4.8 billion for relief

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

The cathedral was just a couple of blocks back That's the one that got hit a few tiITles, you'll reITleITlber, when they had the parade the year before. And I can reITleITlber, we went in, it was hot, the place was jaITlITled, and thousands and thousands

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

of Uhat b:a~rie, by ay~y chance? I CH-Lak p~aLt it i s tjAe 2600 block of fit. Gabriel . It was a t,vva-story ho-u :oL- vAth a main ro=i that had a ste2,-u? into the dining 4 . there kxtere stairs roorn and One : :althen and then froin that step-u

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tower -- Interview I -- 18 F: Well, I think you and I would be agreed that if they could have blocked the line of succession they would have. T: They would have. And I think one of the reasons that they wanted to get rid of Lyndon

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

of opinion on Section III. Mr. Johnson with his well-known predilection for consensus and for "possibility of what you could get through" felt that Section III was a stumbling block on which the whole bill would founder. We differ with him and we went our

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

says, but we always had tensions in the local civil rights movements. What really put a stumbling block in the movement was the fact that the Kennedy Administration, I think, engineered a federal court injunction against us. We had at that time

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that decade, driving in. It was a circular driveway, probably a couple of blocks long, lined with dogwoods and beautiful typical Virginia plantings. You approached what I expect was the back side of the house, because the front side was a broad veranda

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--when was the first time I talked to him on Sunday? G: It was early. Well, 10:30, 10:27. C: Yes, but that's 7:00 in Los Angeles. Sure. The next morning--we got Brown back in California, but we've got these people killed. We've got twenty blocks

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Department and started talking about people, "in this room were people with blood on their hands" for blocking the bill. Standing in the back of the room, I said, "This is it. We are now at war." Back to my office, Rod Markley, the Ford guy, called me. Henry

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

tried to get the President in the legislative program to take on the insurance industry. Not take it on, but to--and this is my memo of, it's blocked out. But the date of his note to me is January 2, 1967. And [Warren] Magnuson was very much interested

Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

pretty much grown when they'd built the house, so it was just like a brand~new house; They could have bought tlie other halfofthe block and this house for $10,000. (Laughter) That was in 1922. G: Well, $10,000 was- L: My father didn't want the land

Oral history transcript, Cecille Harrison Marshall, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

us our breakfast in the morning, and we ate out the rest of the time. now . We ate at a place called Wukasch's, which is not here It was 6n Guadalupe, on the Drag, about half a block from : where we roomed and we had meal tickets and ate lunch

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

heard a lot, and Russia was always looming in the background. So I went home sometime that fall, early I think, and put Lynda Bird in Miss Hubrick's [?] school, which was just about a block and a half down the street from 1901 Dillman. Community children

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

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the District had finally made application to HUD for funding of the District project on inner blocks. I'd like to continue from where we stopped at that point up until, of course, the end of the administration. If there are any areas that I have further

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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 Ferrari -- Special Interview -- 23 was blocked

Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of practice that can no longer deliver the medical care that society now needs. And they systematically blocked most attempts to alter that. M: How come they didn't block Medicare? Did you deal with the medical profession? G: Oh yes, we dealt with them

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and by the time we were halfway up that one block street, we heard these shots, which were obvious shots to my compatriots and I, sitting on the back ofa .convertible, wide open. We all looked around, and I made a remark to the extent, "These Texans really known

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: No, I haven't. L: They cordon off, like blocks around the hotel. F:. Where were they--at the Waldorf? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

block, and then the latest signatures, we put them back on the presses, and we can change that for each edition. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that we--I think it's a good question as to whether we might not have tried to do it sooner. P: Has this been an effective means to bring back negotiations? R: It apparently took away the major stumbling block to negotiations. negotiators Our became

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

like the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Sam Houston High School at that time was built around a sort of a half of a block, and it had a very large area in the middle. Every day those girls would go out there to practice marching and they would have

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Palmer -- II -- 12 You mentioned Averell Harriman. Later, he's the guy that engineered that whole thing, and he was basically the guy that would block us. He just

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

announced. At an interview done, I think, the week before I was there, Mayor Collins had said,"Lawrence O'Brien knows more people on one block on Pennsylvania Avenue than he knows in the whole of Massachusetts." LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Soviet Union. That was supposed to please them. They must have laughed and said, "Those idiots in America." It's what saved the Communists. That's another whole story. They said they'd get out in six months but they didn't. They stayed there and blocked

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was very pleased. We were upstairs at this 60 Tran Quy Cap, and we shared the top floor there. And we had [John Frederick] "Fritz" Freund--Brigadier General Freund was living there with us and Westmoreland, and I've got a block on Bill's name--he

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it was then, was it? M: No, it was actually the other side of Chicago. I was born in the south side. F: I don't mean Wrigley; I mean Comiskey. M: Comiskey, that's right. In fact, I lived about four blocks from the present mayor of Chicago, Mayor Daley. I used

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

they could argue it d idn't go far enough, they really couldn't stand up and block the passage and prevent any progress. You see, they were in a somewhat different position than the southern Democrats, because the southern Democrats would have been happy

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XX -- 20 R: No. Not the sort of thing that Johnson was thinking about. I think that Kennedy was trying to block him at every possible turn, yes. I think that Kennedy did not want him to be the vice presidential nominee. I think

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and yet he wasn't, shall I say, an enthusiastic follower. And she knew he wasn't too happy with her at times, but he never made her feel left out. G: She was apparently blocking or holding up the Higher Education Bill at one point, evidently asking