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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It was Morris Abram and-- C: And Bill Coleman for the preliminary and they stayed right through. G: Then Heineman, I think, was involved in the spring. C: You know, there are a lot of flaps and things, which may come out as I start to go through every memo

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and Senator [Morris] Sheppard, who were in the Senate when I first came. I don't mean to say they weren't great senators--they were. But I do know that Lyndon Johnson was very tenacious when it came to resolving problems and obtaining things for his native

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Provence -- I -- 2 M: When did you first meet up with Lyndon Johnson? P: It was in 1941. Senator Morris Sheppard died rather suddenly, and his

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Johnson since then and felt really kind of sad about the fact that I had allowed my temper to get the best of me when somebody threatened to start a paper if I didn't support Johnson in his bobtail race for [Morris] Sheppard's office. While it probably

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

Supreme Court to make it more pliable to the way he wanted to change the government. His vice president, John Garner of Texas, really wasn't in favor of those things. He thought that the young people that President Roosevelt brought in with him to be his
of opinion between Franklin Roosevelt and John Nance Garner; the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Social Security and Old Age Assistance; James and Miriam Ferguson; pari-mutuel betting on horse races; Texas oil; the Railroad Commission's authority

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of. I never ran across those at all. What Justice did-- either Ramsey or Warren called Gossett, I believe it was, at the American Bar Association, or maybe it was Morris--I don't remember who was the head man at the time. But ABA came aboard

Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in Palestine. on that trip. The trains merge there, so they were along Bob Jackson was up there. during the week I got there. Sheppard's secretary. I don't know. I met him Arthur Perry was Senator Morris Arthur lived over at the Grace Dodge, but he

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ever introduced in the Congress was for a comprehensive survey of the Brazos River, which we were able to make and to build the Possum Kingdom--the Morris Shepperd Dam up by Mineral Wells. I have been rather closely associated with the Brazos

Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and these Texas congressmen? W: I remember the one about [John Nance] Garner very well. When Garner was trying to move in on the Texas congressional delegation's patronage, Johnson gave me a story about it and I wrote it. Garner's plot. for a while. It sort

Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was elected later, served there four years, and then Franklin Roosevelt appointed me United States district attorney in 1933. Morris Sheppard and Tom Connally were really responsible for my appointment. The Senate confirmed me, and in August of 1933 I

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

Oral history transcript, Alain C. Enthoven, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of mind. When I got there, there was Harold Brown who was the Secretary of the Air Force; Zbigniew Brzezinski from the State Department; Bill Gorham and John Gardner from HEW; Francis Bator appeared from the White House. Gradually this group all

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

with John Macy on matters affecting pay, conditions of employment, awards for superior service, and things of that sort. Then, of course, there were untold numbers of committees and ad hoc working groups on matters affecting military personnel. I was, I

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

hotshots in there. So I got two of them, the two best in the army: Charley Morris, whose name I've already given you, and the other is Danny Graham, both of them excellent intelligence officers; both of them had worked for me and knew how I worked; both

Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for example or Walter Lippmann who finally left us. But you would talk to Sandy Vanocurs who is perhaps reasonably well known, and you would talk to John Chancellor, but I don't happen to remember him particularly being , of this kind except that h·e
Biographical information; Hodges’ resignation; John Connor; Sandy Trowbridge; Howard Samuels; C.R. Smith; Andrew Brimmer; Herb Holloman; Commerce internal management problems; effectiveness of Commerce Secretary; Georgetown group of Kennedy people

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Tom Kelly Lem Johns 25-27 Recommends changes in the authority structure of the Secret Service 25-27 Mr. Hoover 27,28,29 Personal meetings with the President 29,30 Civil Works Program 30,36 Secretary Reser 31 Standby problems 32 Under

Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was appointing Morris [Abram] to the Conference Co-Chair, the following occurred. I'd already agreed to be director of the conference, which I then thought was inappropriate because it seemed to me that there should be, as we used to say in those days, "a Negro
Bernhard being asked to organize a White House conference on civil rights; problems with conference planning; Morris Abrams, William T. Coleman and Benjamin Heinemann as co-chairmen of the conference; planning session for the conference; LBJ's

Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in getting things for the district? M: Yes. G: Can you recall any particular project that he helped secure for Marshall or Harrison County? M: Well, he gave Patman a tremendous amount of help on the steel mill at Daingerfield [Morris County]. One other

Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

closely identified with President Roosevelt. W: Yes, he made it plain always that he was. In fact, Roosevelt and •.• who was our representative (Senator?) at that time? Sheppard still living? person in Washington Was (Morris) Anyhow, Roosevelt

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

to get the postmastership at this place, that or the other -- and Lyndon of course was quite interested . The Texas Congressmen had the appointment of the postmasterships . The two Senators -- Senator Connally and Senator Morris Shepherd -- had

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I know when he was--was it Morris Sheppard that died? At the moment I was not connected in any job or anything. for that office. I wired him in Washington to tell him to run Maybe I wired him a couple of times. I'd help him every way in the world

Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Parker -- I ..:- 5 P: The Congressman [James Buchanan] died and sent him to Congress. Then he got to the Senate after Senator [Morris] Sheppard died, although it took him two tries before

"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)

Glynn and I went to work for Senator Morris Sheppard, one of the two Senators representing Texas. After his death Glynn went to work for Senator Johnson early in 1942. He wanted me to join his staff at the same time but I had been offered a position

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

? That's a good question, and this is the one that we've asked each other in the last few days. Basically, our memory--and I'm speaking of ours as Danny Graham's, Charlie Morris ' , and mine, and it makes some sense--[is] that as soon as they got within

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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