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Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in line with being loyal to the party. A motion was made that he be removed as national committeeman from Texas and that I be elected in his place. That motion carried, and so my name was certified to the Democratic National Committee as having
  • First meeting LBJ in 1948; certification of the election; vote contest; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; Governor Stevenson’s campaign in Texas; Democratic Organizing Committee; Rayburn’s influence in Texas Party; Democratic Advisory Council; 1956
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was he able to muster a majority on that? S: Well, a lot of personal work was done. worked with them. I The Democratic majority in general on the Housing Committee worked with them. G: Lyndon worked with them. And we got them. Can you recall any
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: SENATOR JOHN SPARKMAN (Democrat/Alabama) INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 31, 1940. At that time, of course, I also resigned as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. But before I tell about that resignation, I'll go back and say that in 1928 when Governor Smith was nominated for the Presidency in Houston, when
  • of the U.S.; Hubert Humphrey; law and order issue; Labor Union; open immigration policy of the Democratic Party; LBJ’s place in history; science of politics and LBJ; difference in roles played by Farley and Bailey as National Chairmen of the Democratic Party.
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, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the organizers and chairman of the state executive committee of the Young Democrats of Texas which were organized early in the Roosevelt Administration . As such my interest was connected with the younger gen- eration of men,and particularly Democrats
  • Relationship with LBJ in Congressman Kleberg's office in 1933; airline regulations; LBJ's election to Congress in 1937; Senate campaign in 1941 and 1948; 1956 Democratic Convention; 1960 campaign with JFK; influence of Lady Bird Johnson on LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the only Democratic governor of the United States coming from a state that might have sufficient number of people to make a good campaign with the necessary financial resources . F : There was a good bit of national interest in you at this time
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Cheryl Chessman case; National Advisory Committee; Democratic candidates; 1962 campaign against Richard Nixon; Cuban crisis; Rumford Housing bill; Jess Unruh; Western Governors
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Young Democrats at the'University, and we were all active in that as well as we could in doing whatever we could around town . M: You'd be handing out leaflets and-- B: Anything we could do, yes . M: And talking to people and so forth . B : Yes
  • ; presidency; plans for 1968 campaign; withdrawal from race; 1968 Democratic convention; impressions of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . But I think if Johnson-Nixon had been the candidates, Johnson would have won. M: He was I believe he would have. It's just been said that his political machine, or the Democratic National Committee was not in terribly good shape in the beginning. T
  • as a Congressman; McCarthy hearings; LBJ’s cooperation with Eisenhower; rating LBJ as a Senator and Majority Leader; Timmons’ Conventions Record; Democratic and Republican conventions; LBJ and 1960 campaign; Barry Goldwater; “Trial Balloons;” LBJ’s high standing
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 2 that many of the members of Congress who were criticizing Johnson for would have been afraid to move had it not been for Presidential sponsorship. I think almost all the promises of the Democratic conventions--liberal projects that had been
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • then. Your committee assignments are on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Veterans Affairs Committee. Before running for Congress, from 1933 to 1950, you were a practicing attorney and probate commissioner of Allen County, Indiana. your LLB from
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Truman. In 1946 the President had appointed me the first American permanent chairman of the United States National Commission for UNESCO. I became the Vice Chairman of the delegations to the annual conferences LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . We've had-- F: Do you have sort of a newsletter? P: That's normally done out of the National Democratic Committee. example, we had Vice-President Humphrey down here in 1965; For it was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at a time, because I'm afraid you'd fall into the same category. I think it's very useful. Mc: M: Were you assigned to any other government committees? Yes. I was appointed. I am on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association
  • on housing (Suburbia) in 1965; impressions of Robert Wood and Charles M. Haar; evaluation of task forces; service on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association.
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out of committee. We were able to defeat it in committee, I believe it was, the Public Lands Committee of the Senate where they had before them a resolution declaring that the Tidelands were a part of the national domain. F: Now, whe n
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Waldorf Astoria, sit around in a parlor atmosphere, and just discuss the issues. We had Katie Louchheim, who used to be the Women's National Democratic Chairman, and a number of local women who were articulate and knowledgeable. He was just superb
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • delegate. But the Stevenson thing did roll on. I'm looking for the date of the Democratic convention. Do you have the date of the convention that year? M: No, it's usually in August. You mentioned awhile ago the Ziffren committee. Where does
  • The complex Democratic two-camp division in the 1959-1960 campaign; being confronted by Kennedy about his alliance; Rauh’s version of the Kennedy, Humphrey, Johnson party choice for President and Vice-President; Rauh’s disappointment over JFK’s
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the legislation was ; I'd have to check it out, but Lyndon wanted it out of the Rules Committee . In those days we , had twelve Members in the Rules Committee, eight Democrats and four Republicans . was the chairman . Old man [Howard] Smith, I think, Two
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that happened that got out of hand? M: No, thank goodness, no. F: You're glad to have been spared that. M: I'm glad I wasn't there. F: In 1964 you were sort of unofficial hostess at the Democratic national convention. M: I should say I was. F: Tell
  • Biographical information; envoy to Luxembourg; 1960 campaign; Eleanor Roosevelt; selling her house to LBJ when he was VP; Democratic Women for Nixon in 1960; Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy; Democratic factions
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • one of the best nominees that the Democratic party could have. I had never heard much about Stevenson. I think I'm a one-speech convert. I had never heard him speak. I had been at Chicago at the convention trying to build up a bonfire for Speaker
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but when the war came along . . . . After the war, I knew him better. He was a commander in the navy, as you know. He sometimes has blamed me for getting him into national politics. In fact, he said that out here when he was visiting Denver a couple
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • be buried in Three Rivers, after all, this is where he should be buried, and if not, I promise you that we'll bury him with full military honors at the National Cemetery in Arlington." We continued. We continued trying to get an arrangement and trying
  • .; Council on Economic Opportunity; poll tax repeal; Medicare and Medicaid; Padre Island National Seashore; impressions of the Johnsons.
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • presidential nomi­ nee . F: What did you do, incidentally, during that campaign season? You had Senator Kerr running for re-election, and you had the national Democratic ticket . Did you participate at the national Democratic level, or did you stick
  • Early involvement with Senator Robert Kerr; first contact with LBJ; Sam Rayburn and Kerr; managing Kerr campaigns; Kerr's early interest in LBJ for president; LBJ's work for Oklahoma; organizing Oklahoma for LBJ; 1960 Democratic National Convention
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Where did the impetus for that come from? c: Paul Butler, who was then chairman of the Democratic committee, I had known favorably for some time. Bi 11 Baggs, who at that time was the editor of the Miami Daily News, was a close friend of mine
  • Biographical information; initial contact with LBJ; desegregation plans; 1956 Democratic National Convention; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Collins' selection and role as chairman of the convention; minority
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at several jobs during 1919-1920. You were the treasurer of American National Insurance Company in Galveston. T: That's correct. M: And in 1920-1932, you were Secretary-Treasurer of the Cedar1awn Company. T: Yes, this was a little later in the 1920's
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the fact that Mr. Johnson did have a conservative base in his home state, and was also attempting to become a more national Democrat as majority leader •. Was this really causing much of a problem for him and his staff to disassociate themselves from
  • ; Coke Stevenson; involvement in Washington litigation while LBJ was Senator; the Leland Olds case and the Texas oil industry; Allan Shivers, Adlai Stevenson and Sam Rayburn in the 1952 election; getting the Adlai E. Stevenson/John J. Sparkman Democratic
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on in connection with the election and the vote and how it turned out and the controversy and the fact that it had been thrown back by the courts, I guess, onto the [State Democratic Executive] Committee, of which I was a member but not very active at that time
  • 1948 election and the State Democratic Executive Committee; Byron Skelton; HST and General Marshall collaborate on the Truman Committee; the 1960 convention in Los Angeles; meeting JFK at Hyannis Port after the convention; Ted Dealey insults JFK
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the kind of enthuslastic followers that I felt a person needed. He wouldn't really have the appeal that our national leadership should have provided for the world, at least that's what I thought. If you remember, I was engaged in a primary campaign
  • Biographical information; 1960 campaign; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Luther Hodges; North Carolina politics; VP nomination; environmental health center; Henry Hall Wilson; smoking
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • want to participate in a walkout. So 1 remained away from it. But I was not appointed United States attorney due to the big patronage fight that was going on. I became Democratic National Convention Committeeman from Mississippi in 1952. Yes, I
  • First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on the Democratic committee we had to set up after Shivers and his group went off, I called Rayburn in Austin--oh, yes, he was down there and I called him because Bert Andrews had broken,his story about our man from the National Committee who was down there being
  • Committee; Gerry Siegel; LBJ’s staff members; Sam Rayburn; 1956 fight between Shivers and LBJ; Byron Skelton; Mrs. Loyd Bentsen; Mrs. Frankie Randolph; The Lyndon Johnson Story; LBJ had to work for the 1960 campaign; convention politics; H.L. Hunt’s
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ' committees. Johnson didn't really know much about them until after the campaign was almost over, and then it started hitting him in the face every time he turned around. Then he started getting into my business. We just didn't work well together, as he
  • Plans for the 1968 campaign; working with LBJ; disagreement during 1960 campaign; 1964 campaign involvement; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; LBJ and the Democratic Party; LBJ and RFK; LBJ’s withdrawal; Theodore White; LBJ and HHH during the 1968 campaign
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • needed him. Were there any great blandishments to get Wayne Morse over to the Democratic column, or did they just let that develop naturally? R: Well, he raised money for Wayne Morse. First time, they do it all the time now, but he set up a committee
  • at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • waiting, waiting, and therefore things begin to deaden off. That happened in the Democratic National Committee. It went to pieces because of Mr. Johnson; they kept waiting for him, and he was running things by himself, according to his critics. And I
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Methodist University. Now Dean Story had served as a member of the national Commission on Civil Rights, and, as I recall, had reSigned from LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • campaign that Senator Johnson was in I was listed as being on the county committee for him. I likewise in the campaign of 1956--this is an instance I ought to relate. The Democratic Party in Texas has always had a pattern almost back to the days of Sam
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • S. STRAUSS INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB DATE: May 22, 1969 PLACE: 2800 Republic National Bank Building, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 [vl: Let me identify this tape first of all. This is an intervie\>/ with Mr. Robert S. Strauss--S-T-R-A-U-S-S
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and incidentally, it's a firm now of a hundred and forty. now. We are probably the fourth or fifth largest firm in the nation The President incidentally refers to it as the fourth largest firm. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with my own activities, whether in public life as well as in some private affairs, to appear before committees of which he was a member . other than casually . I can't say that I knew him I always found his attitude as a Senator on these committees one
  • incident; Glassboro meeting; Harriman; Wilson-Kosygin interview; Great Britain peace demonstrations; 3/31 speech; US-British relations during Johnson years; Dean Rusk; George Ball; National Security Advisory in White House
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • not only would remember those moments and he would remember Johnson at that time, but I think he saw him several times recently. Of course, he has worked with him in those last three months when he was at the United Nations, so I certainly would see him
  • ; Russ Wiggins; 1960/1964 Democratic convention; meeting of JFK and Graham regarding the VP nomination; Home Rule; LBJ’s attitude toward the press; beautification; press relations; civil rights; assessment of LBJ’s presidency.