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  • Construction before he died. Truman type politics when you say that. But that's Harry I don't say that they had him in his vest pocket, but if the McNamara Line had been completed in Vietnam--you remember McNamara wanted a Maginot Line fortification-just
  • . He was one of those--President Truman would have 7 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
  • ; the relationship between LBJ and Richard Russell; Robert Taft; tidelands controversy; Felix Longoria's burial; a letter from Herbert Hoover to Harry Truman regarding Hoover's public service; buying souvenir pieces of the White House during its renovation; Paul
  • for him arid found hi s off; ce, and came up to his office. Lindsey. He talked with me before he saw Judge The Judge was busy at the moment, so I took him in another room and had a good visit with him. I found out all about him, and found out who he
  • Biographical information; Judge Ben B. Lindsey; Harold Ickes; Alvin Wirtz; FDR; LBJ techniques; Harry Truman; tidelands; civil rights; 1960 Democratic convention; Chapman's health; national lawyer's group for Johnson-Humphrey in 1964; conservation
  • it that the people that knew him best voted for him. So those are sort of four major guideposts as we launched into the long next month. Meanwhile, on the big front, all sorts of important things were happening. President [Harry] Truman signed executive orders ending
  • of state from certifying LBJ as the Democratic candidate; LBJ joining President Truman on his train trip through Texas; Hugo Black's ruling that Davidson did not have the authority to interfere with a state election; LBJ's relationship with Homer Thornberry
  • was very hot for rural electrification, as a matter of fact Truman offered me the job as administrator of REA when he came in, and I wanted to get back to my typewriter. F: But I was very much interested in it. Did you get the feeling in those days
  • Administration; role of White House press secretary in 1945; impressions of other press secretaries; recollections of LBJ's early days in Washington and his race for Senate; support for Truman; Democratic Party allegiance; 1960 Democratic Party convention
  • the White House for Associated Press. Is this background information correct and complete? S: That is correct except from May of '63 until the late summer of '64 I was with the Motion Picture Association of America as assistant to the President, then Eric
  • of our colleges and in putting taxe s on- -for education. I think I favored ITlore of that than Harry Byrd did, but I was with his organization, and as I say, I was six years in the State Senate and at that time was known as a liberal. I was one
  • ; General Douglas MacArthur; Harry Byrd; conservation; Civil Rights Acts; major changes in U.S. government in 35 years; accomplishments of the American people
  • CIA. M: So, on Vietnam, to use Truman's old phrase, the buck really did stop at the President? S: He listened to the arguments and the presentations and the papers. And on occasion, out of that Tuesday lunch he'd go to the bigger group--the Security
  • of unfair coverage in Vietnam, or unfair analysis? S: Oh, yes. Bill Moyers did, and Bob McNamara did. But that went with the turf. You know, Truman did, Eisenhower did. We did a debate with Khrushchev--no, not a debate; we did "Face the Nation
  • INTERVIEWEE: MERRELL F. SMALL INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Small's residence, Sacramento, California Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with your going to work for Senator [Thomas] Kuchel. S: Well, Eisenhower was elected in 1952
  • was saying, "Don't worry about that, we'll I don't know where I'll be." But he was pressing me. And then Lou Harris was a student at Chapel Hill when I was, I had known him-F: You're talking about the pollster? S: Yes. I'd kept in touch with him
  • with the White House and with Mr. Truman in the 1948 campaign. Ba: This is when you were associate director of public relations for the National Committee? Bi: That's correct. That was the title which basically hid the fact that there were a group of us
  • that Harry Truman admired Lyndon Johnson. F: You were very much involved in things like the Truman Doctrine and the Palestinean question and so on. Did Senator Johnson show much interest in that, or was he primarily interested in domestic affairs? P
  • at the University of North Dakota, I received a telegram from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U . S . Department of Labor inquiring as to whether I was available as a statistical clerk, CAF-2, $1,440 per year . This was in the spring of 1935 . I replied
  • all else in life - friendship. Working at speech-writing in Washington I had favorably caught the eye of the wonderful man, Eugene Meyer, owner of the Washington Post, father of the present owner, Katherine Graham. He was so close to Harry Truman
  • received worldwide as the founder of Flair; Cowles' work as a "personal ambassador" of President Dwight Eisenhower; Cowles' friendships with foreign dignitaries; how Cowles got involved with government work during President Harry Truman's administration
  • Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton
  • : In health or what? CL: Yes. It's about the health insurance struggle under the Truman Administration. It's a good book [Harry Truman Versus the Medical Lobby: The Genesis of Medicare]. ML: Is it? CL: You're mentioned in there many times I would say
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boyd -- I -- 9 crossways. G: There's a story that's told that after the [1948 primary] election, when Truman came through Texas on that whistlestop tour--and I think spent the night at Bonham, didn't
  • it related to Harry Truman becoming president; LBJ's 1956 victory over Allan Shivers for control of the Texas delegation to the Democratic National Convention; U.S. Senator Bill Blakely; LBJ's use of district managers to organize his campaigns; Estes
  • and pushed by [President Harry] Truman. On the other hand, Truman vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act. Lyndon had voted for it. There were lots of big things going that we were to hear a lot about in a build-up over the years. The Supreme Court passed a ruling
  • with Stuart Symington; tidelands legislation; LBJ's relationship with the oil industry; President Harry Truman's speech announcing the establishment of a commission on civil rights; LBJ's opinion of the Fair Employment Practices Commission and poll taxes
  • an appointment as Economic Adviser to the U. S. Mission for Economic Affairs in London and applied from that point for commission in the United States Navy, thinking I might with a 2-20 vision, very bad eye sight, become a Navy man overseas, and not have
  • O’Brian; U.S. Mission for Economic Affairs; Lend-Lease; D-Day invasion; Morgenthau; Krupp industrial empire; German occupation; Potsdam Meeting; Cold War; private law practice; Harry Truman; Joseph McCarthy; Tax Reduction Bill; 1964 Revenue Act; JFK-LBJ
  • . So the impression I got when I was a kid [was] that Grandmama didn't like boys, because she said Lyndon wouldn't mind her. See, that's just all it was. She'd ask him to do something and he was gone, and that's just about hi s character, too
  • to be certain that anything he did did not contribute to creating an awkward situation between the Vice President and the President. M: Of course he had been in the White House himself under the Truman years and knew-- S: He'd been in the Bureau
  • it will be no recommendation. take about three ,.;reeks. We can battle it out on the floor.· I can't tell you how i t ' l l go." Harry Truman ,.;ras always good-natured. He kind of grinned and said, "You told me there'd be trouble about this thing." say anything
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- I -- 3 fourteen in January of 1943, which means that I met and had known and had gone through World War II with all the trials and tribulations of the war with Harry Truman and President
  • of clients who were old friends of Tampico days . I left Mr . Davies'office . And Harry Polk and I established a partnership, and we were together for about four years, came the Depression . I guess . Then Nobody was making any money and Harry decided
  • activities in Chile with Board of Economic Warfare; LBJ’s 1948 campaign for the Senate; the Taft-Hartley Act and LBJ’s relationship with labor forces; LBJ’s enemies in the 1940’s and 1950’s; Coke Stevenson; Clint Small; Wright Morrow; Dan Moody’ J. Evetts
  • , but not lately." Henry Wallace was going around the country decrying our policy, Truman's policy, of getting tough with Russia. He was making statements that irked a whole lot of folks, including us, and finally eventually Truman himself, enough that he asked
  • at KTBC; attending the State of the Union Message; 1947 legislative issues; Aunt Effie's estate; President Truman sending Herbert Hoover to Europe to study food and fuel shortages; Mrs. Johnson's pregnancy; the backyard and garden at the 30th Place house
  • to do, and Mr. Rayburn used that as a means of calming us down. As he used to say to me, "Johnny, I wish you'd quit doing whatever you're doing to make Harry Truman mad. He calls me before breakfast and says, 'Your man allows
  • . It was very ilTlportant to lTle. I calTle hone for ChristlTlas in 1899 and lTly father died in February, so I never went back to Stanford or graduated. He had this flour lTlill and general lTlerchandise busines s and I took it over. SOlTle other people
  • and go on myself. There was also a German correspondent in Vietnam at the time I arrived there. M: A West German? S: Yes. He had come in like ten days or two weeks before r was there. Then, as you probably know . . . What's his name? Harry
  • . Now, to get back to your contacts with Mr. Johnson, you were, in the 1930's you were connected with the Austin American-Statesman, I believe, at the time when he was Director of the NYA. SL: Yes, when he was with the NYA and I was working
  • ; eviction of Fort Worth delegation; Truman; Sam Rayburn; LBJ and Texas water problem; “Burleigh’s Ditch;” Long’s relationship with LBJ; 1956 Favorite Son nomination; Sivercrats and 1956 Texas Convention; EK 13 tickets; Long’s opinion of LBJ as a man
  • was a very good lobbyist with Johnson on behalf of moderating ideas, you might say, to some of his more impulsive attitudes. B: I gather then that you would have first noticed by-then-Senator Lyndon Johnson during the Truman years after he was in the Senate
  • First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956
  • everybody was under attack. Harry Truman While my family was well-known in Montgomery and had been for several generations, they started, when I ran for Congress, to say, II Why • he's been in Washington with Harry Truman," and that sort of thing
  • the State Departmene s view, that should be at the funeral. I there talked to President Truman and Governor Harriman before I went over to the White House. r carne back that night, it was a Saturday, and it was rather late, and I went to church
  • , liked, and went along with Truman. Sometimes they would have a pretty tough exchange of letters when they disagreed. G: Do you recall Marshall's reaction to the investigations? Was Marshall supportive of the subcommittee? J: He testified before
  • broken leg; Lady Astor; Mrs. Woodrow Wilson; LBJ's subcommittee work in 1951; tension between Truman and General Douglas MacArthur; MacArthur's dismissal and his testimony before a joint committee hearing; the Johnsons' interest in starting a television
  • on tidelands worked out by Speaker Sam Rayburn with President Truman had been effectuated and had not been killed by influential people and officials of Texas. The compromise agreement missed was since the states have oil and gas conservation departments
  • was accessible, too. He sought conferences with the Negro leaders. I recall President Truman, for instance, was a man committed to civil rights, but he was not as accessible as President Johnson. B: Sir, this accessibility, is this just a mechanical thing
  • on open housing legislation; MLK; conference with Truman on discrimination in armed forces; JFK and discrimination in armed forces; Eisenhower and civil rights, black separatism and militancy; civil rights movement today
  • WEBB -- I -- 11 H: Well, more or less. Well, the thing of it was that here Harry Truman was President. F: Right. W: And he had the train. F: You also had that problem of the revolt. W: Yes,yes, yes. F: (Chuckle) W: (Laughter) F: Yes
  • , same thing, pretty much the same thing. I think it was Connelly again. Then he said, "Just a minute, I'll put the President on." He put Harry Truman on. He said, "Mr. Gorman, I understand that you don't want to volunteer for this job." I said, "Well
  • health commission; writing the book Every Other Bed; Gorman's wife's work and his change to freelance writing; joining the National Committee Against Mental Illness under President Truman; finding support for national health insurance legislation
  • to their church as his running mate. So that's one of the reasons why Harry Truman had been selected. Because Bob Hannegan was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, he was a Catholic, he knew of the anti-Byrnes feeling of Catholics and he was able
  • Price Daniel and the Senate Judiciary Committee; Democratic Steering Committee; Drew Pearson; Commerce Committee; Senator Alben Barkley; selection of Harry Truman as 1944 vice-presidential candidate; use of Skeeter Johnston's office for lunch
  • 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 George L-P T;leaver :S. INTEnVIE
  • and took pictures and so on. Afterwards President Truman said, "Well, I’d like to go back to the airport with you," and Bess Truman just said, "No. Harry, it's time for your nap. I'm sorry, you're not going to the airport." He turned to Lyndon and said
  • Visiting President Truman and a trip to the Truman Library; phones and photographers in the Truman home; lessons learned on a trip to Honolulu; why LBJ did not travel outside the US more often; incident involving LBJ purchasing a dead horse