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Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a fellow t1aIT.eG DeVier Pierson who later beca..'1'.e an operative on his mID, but at that ti~2 sort of was an assistant to Harry. consider-a.:; -:'12 amount of speech been a lic:-:le 0it of he ~·l2.S (1 ~.Jriti.n;;. Harry ",as doing a The Special
  • Temple’s role as White House liaison with the Department of Justice; the Presidential appointment process; Temple’s relationship with Harry McPherson; McPherson’s duties; office locations; bedroom duty; lines of responsibility under Connally
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • commentator, debating with another man last night about eight o'clock, I believe it was. One man was debating in favor of Nixon and the other one came along and he came on strong telling them about McGovern. He said, "Thi,s is what you say about McGovern
  • 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
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • candidate for president? Because as you know he was a lot of Democrats' choice in 1948 over Harry Truman. -7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Well
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wife was very outgoing. Mrs. Truman's annual luncheon for the Senate ladies took place in the garden of Blair House that year. Blair House itself would be pretty crowded, which meant that there were less social affairs during the years that they were
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Houston of feuding a great deal. So the Democratic party was divided, and we decided to have a harmony meeting in Dallas and invited Mr. Truman to be the speaker. At the time the two leading hotels in Dallas--one was the Adolphus--the suite
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Mayor and Albert had after the campaign was over--and we were very good friends and have been with the Holcombe family--Mayor Holcombe was making a speech and he said, "Why would you elect a newcomer to Congress? I know all the problems of Harris County
  • Biographical information about Albert Thomas; Thomas’ race for Congress in 1936; appointment to House Appropriations Committee; Thomas’ contributions to Houston and Harris County; First acquaintance with LBJ; role of a politician’s wife; Lady
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • lost that race, then the war came through, and he ran aga in in 1948. C: 1948, right. M: And thi s ; s where you had some . . . C: This ;s where I began to get in the picture. M: Tell me about 1948. C: 1948 is an interesting story. Let me
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , is a marvelous story he had about Harry Truman. When the communists first started building the Wall, Clay's concept was to counter by flying supplies into Berlin, which of course involved a considerable risk. The General's staff was against it. Most of Truman's
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • members, actually a breakfast for P r e s i d e n t Truman. Of course, I had not seen Truman in a long time, because I had been out of Congress four years. You know I ran for the United States Senate in 1952 and was defeated. I said to him, "Mr
  • for Congress; Washington visits with LBJ in 1938; FDR-LBJ relationship; legislation for terminal leave for enlisted men; Truman campaign in Texas; member of US Customs Court; Sam Rayburn-LBJ relationship; JFK assassination; agriculture and farm problems; role
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • representing the President to go, notified them and Did you go? And Harry Vaughan went? Did he get Harry Vaughan to go, do you know? 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson was shouting to George about how Truman had done this and so on. George, who had this great pipe organ voice said to him, "Now, Lyndon, I wouldn't be too upset. Knowing Harry, it's lucky he didn't say he was tired of your kissing both cheeks
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  • Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you were wonde rfu!. This morning you were going to let me go out with a rip in the seat of my pants." I hadn't examined the s eat of his pants to See if there was a rip in them. I had to confess. Oh, another funny story. I was traveling with Paul
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • difficult at all. It started out very modestly, as you 11 recall . I R: Something happened there. What was it? I think that may have been when Harry Truman was starting to get in some rather straitened circumstances. I'm just not clear, but I have
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XLI covering 1960 DATE: August 1994 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Harry Middleton
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Party back to Congressman Aime Forand from Rhode Island and from 1961 now into 1965. If you could accomplish this twenty-year goal that went back even to attempts of Harry Truman to secure action, if you had nothing else, the first session of the Eighty
  • -Wilbur Mills alternative to Medicare; Mills' changing views of Medicare legislation; LBJ's surprise meeting with Harry Byrd, Sr., regarding Medicare and the televised results of the meeting; Russell Long misusing William Fulbright's and Albert Gore, Sr.'s
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Mansfield. He came to me and told me that he wanted me to serve on the Foreign Relations Committee. He said, "Frankly, we've got to keep an eye on this fellow Dulles. We Democrats have got a foreign policy that Roosevelt and Truman have worked out, and we
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to that, and then of course including that day? H: I've read so many versions of it I don't even understand it myself anymore. Sitting in the White House, I was on the periphery of a two-month operation, basically managed by Harry McPherson. This, as I remember
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : This is the history of it, you know. Arthur Vandenburg when he came down and talked to--Harry Truman said the only way you're going to get foreign aid is by scaring the hell out of the American people. And they did get it and when that scare began to disappear 10
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Kennedy people, and the man who told you to do that--Harry Truman--Iearned it the hard way." I don't care how loyal they are to their country, when they get in ajob their feelings run that job. And McNamara was to me to most dangerous man we've ever had
  • understanding of foreign affairs; Melasky's efforts to educate the public regarding Vietnam; LBJ's vice-presidency; LBJ's familiarity with military operations; John Tower; Ralph Yarborough; 1964 election and campaign; comparing the economy of 1960's to 1971
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it did something else: it brought him to the attention of Harry Truman. LBJ told me this story, that the whole committee went down to the White House to see Truman, not only because he was president but because of Truman's war investigating committee
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was president of the World Bank I was an international civil servant and I had no particular dealings with the U. S. government . The dealings with the U. S. govern­ ment as far as the World Bank was concerned were done through the American director who
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • by the time I left the President asked me if Harry in my view was ready, and I said, "Hy God, he 1 s so ready. He's just great!" And he was. But there were additional assignments. Just to give you one 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , "Walter, here's what you've got to keep in mind. No politician can operate both on a state and national level with the exception of Harry Byrd. senator. He runs Virginia and he's also an influential But every other national politician has to look upon
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that time while he was Congressman, he used to have open house 2 GIift;;;s ~ 3 Sunday and I'd go by to see him--my wife and I would go by. quite a lot. P: Well, he was in the war; there was not much-- Do you think he had a special alliance to Franklin
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a good part of my life. My father had been an early contributor, because we were kin to hirn, to Harry Byrd of Virginia, and was arnong thos e that financed Mr. Byrd' s carnpaign for governor when he was elected governor of Virginia. I went to Washington
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 3 I can recall that I had to borrow thirty-five cents from my brother to pay for my dinner that night at Old Mexico. The purpose of the meeting was to get all of the President's friends in Harris County to write to everyone they knew in the Tenth
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Delhi was in an awful jam, because we couldn't blame LBJ or blame the U .S . Government . Yet we had to explain to India why we weren't giving them wheat, or looked as through we were about not to give it to them . This has always puzzled me ; I
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the train and rode through North Dakota with Harry Truman and openly endorsed him. Yes, he was a maverick. He was a maverick, of the old--what's that league?--Non-Partisan League out there, really a farm bloc. That's what it amounted to. He was another
  • and the Medicare bill; Kerr's involvement in hiring an assistant for Jim Webb of NASA; the Bricker Amendment; Harry Byrd's work on the Finance Committee; Kerr's meeting with the head of DuPont, Crawford Greenewalt; Kerr's opinions on Social Security and Medicare
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • high-ranking officers sitting in Washington. Lyndon went on the Joint Economic Committee, because Senator Tom Connally was going to be leaving at the end of the term. Something very good had happened. Truman signed the G.I. Bill of Rights for the Korean
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1968 INTERVIEWEE: RAMSEY CLARK INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER PLACE: Attorney General's Office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Mr. Clark, may we begin with where you first met Mr. Johnson--what time and circumstances? C: Well, I don't recall
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Harry Truman was very scrappy, and he loved He was a little banty rooster as my mother would have said. And I don't think that he was very understanding of the Johnson prob­ lem or of the Johnson strategy. Johnson, by the way, did succeed in making
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of peeling off people, but more or less a wide open situation in which you had to convince them, I gather. C: Yes, of course, I guess even in 1948 there was some polarization of liberals and conservatives in Harris County, and in a Johnson versus Stevenson
  • Biographical information; high school debate interactions with LBJ; LBJ's 1948 campaign; Crooker's naval service; LBJ's 1956 campaign; LBJ's chances of being made the Democratic presidential candidate in 1960; the Harris County LBJ for President
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Dick's father was living at the time that Dick Kleberg was elected to Congress. He was elected to fill an unexpired term in 1931 at the death of Harry M. Wurzbach, who happened to be a Republican, one of the few Republicans that Texas ever [elected
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the 1944 convention, the Bonham member of Congress would have been the vice presidential nominee rather than Harry Truman. Rayburn and Johnson were extremely close; Rayburn always considered Johnson as one of his protégés. tion becomes obvious
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM S. LIVINGSTON INTERVIEWER: David McComb PLACE: Livingston's office at the University of Texas at Austin Tape 2 of 4 M: Let me identify this tape, too. This is a second session with Dr. William Livingston. Again, I'm
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  • , Ralph Huitt, Charles Schultze, Bob Wood, David Truman, Gardner Ackley, David Bell, and Willard Wirtz; Frank Erwin’s suggestions: Otis Singletary, Dean Rusk, and Eric Goldman; specifications that candidates be academically respectable, have government
  • Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb
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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XL -- 17 didn't care what happened personally in regard to elections. M: After you returned to Washington, you then went to Boston to attend a diamond jubilee birthday dinner for President [Harry] Truman on the occasion
  • ; Mary Lasker and Florence Mahoney; LBJ 's interest in purchasing a plane; LBJ's driving style; LBJ's feelings about funerals; story about Jimmie Allred giving LBJ advice about what sort of hat to wear; Tommy Taylor's diagnosis of pancreatic cancer; Joe
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --this isn't necessary anymore and it doesn't even work anymore." And then he reminisced with me about when Harry Truman came to Texas in 1948. How he was one of the only, I think the only Texas politician that dared to get on the train with him when he
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : I think it's a disingenuous book. I'm not disappointed because I kind of expected it, but also it doesn't read much like Lyndon Johnson. You read the Truman memoirs, and Harry Truman jumps out at you even when he's not telling the truth. Even
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  • Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Robert D. S. Novak
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said that publicly, it was quite true. That's when Dave McDonald said that. I think he said it in 1952. And it was because of the great support that P h i l Murray gave to Harry Truman. That's when it was. But all through the years
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • is administrative and current--and generally they don't make good Presidents, and vice versa. How do you feel about this now? W: I don't withdraw the statement. I think he's an exception to it. Indeed, I think actually Harry Truman was an exception
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  • Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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