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Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the legislation so that the congressional delegation of power was directly to the president of the United States and not to any secretary, which was quite unusual. That enabled Larry O'Brien, Mike Manatos, his Senate assistant, and the late Hank Wilson, his House

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the House perhaps except in the days of the caucus, in the Wilson days of Clark and Underwood . And we've only been precise on the number once, and that involved four switches, two each way . That was on that Rules fight in 1961, and that was probably

Oral history transcript, Victor Jaeggli, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of "Bull" Elkins, Wilson Elkins; in fact, I went to high school with him in San Antonio and then went to Schreiner with him and then went to the university with him, and I roomed with him. I am sure you are familiar somewhat with Bull Elkins' background. He

Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, Jasper Wilson, was the adviser to Khanh, and when Khanh came back to Saigon, Wilson was with him, and the whereabouts of Khanh were well known to the Americans, very well known to the Americans. So the Vietnamese generals, particularly Kim and Don

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have been abolished. They're both still there; they're both perking along, they're both hiring people left and right. The point I'm making about in-house is that the pattern, the history--keep something in mind: as recently as Woodrow Wilson, blacks

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the speech writers, and my wife worked there as a secretary part of the time. I was working in that building for awhile because Wilson McCarthy and I were, I guess, the first ones that were sort of reconstituted after the convention. What happened

Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

never obtain a majority, in part due to the fact that the IIImmortal Forty," as the Texas delegation at that convention was called, headed by [Senator Tom -Connally and] Colonel E. M~ House, held out for Wilson and finally brought about the nomination

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/loh/oh DEASON -- IV -- 15 Sam Fore was the power in Wilson County~ really in a lot of South Texas. But he had the leading paper in Wilson County, the Floresville ChronicleJournal. A very, very dynamic man. And they were close friends. Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: This was an area that I wasn't personally involved in, because in the latter days, the latter part of the spring when the activity on the Hill was mounting rapidly and people like Wilson McCa rthy were up LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

add very significantly to this history because he was very much involved. One of the people on our OEO congressional staff was Augusta Wilson, a Mississippian, who took a very strong personal interest in the program. As a matter of fact, she

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

area and in the health, education, and welfare area. We then added in time Fred Bohen, who was an assistant dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, to work on the District of Columbia and to formulate the housing program. M: The people who

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, April 22. It has to do with passing the [John] McClellan bill of rights amendment to the labor reform bill.I'm sure you've had some chance to talk to Jim Wilson about that. He was the author of a memo to Johnson saying--this was after Johnson and Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

started that way; it wasn't a matter of any moment. M: It wasn't a new draft of a previously drafted letter? Chester Cooper was in London apparently giving some kind of initiative to Wilson to give to Kosygin at the time. 12 LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to be a federal judge . Did you say that?" I answered that I did, and Sid said, "Well, you are a federal judge ." And I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "Judge Jim Wilson has written a letter to the Justice Department indicating that he intends to resign

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the British economy. This put them under heavy strain and when the Wilson government came into office, they were faced with a very heavy crisis. We had to get up several billion dollars ourselves with our partners to make available to the British to buy up

Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

involving a similar situation--an opinion written by Will Wilson who, prior to that time, was a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (Williams v . Huntress, 272 SW(2)84) . At the time that we brought the suit he was Attorney General of the State of Texas

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the Research Triangle of North Carolina. He had been very active during the 1960 political campaign, and he asked President Kennedy for this for North Carolina. The President had on his congressional liaison staff Mr. Henry Hall Wilson, who was a congressional

Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

was a Democrat. Were there any particular public figures that Professor Greene especially liked or disliked, do you recall? LH: I don't recall. In those days I didn't pay too much attention to Democrats and Republicans. EG: Did he particularly admire Wilson

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the transcript and tape recording may be deposited in or loaned to institutions other than the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. (4) Donor E. Ernest Goldstein Date 24-XI-91 Don W. Wilson Archivist of the United States Date 12-12-91

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and Admiral Dick Byrd, who had been his aide when he was Vice President. Also, that was immediately prior to the Israeli-U.A.R. confrontation, and, as a matter of fact, Prime Minister Wilson was in the White House at the time, LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, subject to the terms, conditions and restrictions set out herein. Signed by Lawrence F. O'Brien on April 5, 1990. Accepted by Donald Wilson, Archivist of the United States, April 25, 1990. Original Deed of Gift on file

Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was full of fun, but he was also an important factor in the formation of policies in the Democratic Party. He knew everyone, and everyone liked him. He had access to the highest councils starting from Mr. Wilson. The President knew and liked him, Jim

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people that stood out in these meetings that you subsequently brought into the administration? C: I have to just go through the list. Whether we brought them into the administration or not, there were several of them, like [?] Dunlop, Jim Wilson

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 5 its feet by that State of the Union Message because of all the proposals. They'd thought they'd have a rest. I notice here in these papers one memo of Henry Wilson['s] saying [that] the Speaker [John McCormack] and Carl Albert are just bone tired

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 9 because [Henry Hall] Wilson sends him a memo saying that The [New York]Times is asking what we are going to do, and Ackley, and Johnson says, "I would not get firm in any statements." G: You said in your memo to him on February 23

Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

committee. All of In these areas I would hasten to add that he took exception with Eisenhower and with the secretaries that were involved, [Charles E.] Wilson initially, secretary of defense. G: Let me ask you about President Eisenhower's proposal

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to alienate somebody." And then he took about twenty minutes and traced the history of other presidents, including Franklin D. Roosevelt in connection with his 1936 campaign and the court-packing plan; he traced Wilson and other people. And he says

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

to--the presidency, except for a few people like Woodrow Wilson and I guess Harding died of something. We don't-- L: [We] don't know for sure yet. C: We don't know for sure. But for most presidents, they not only have enjoyed good health in the White House

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

lawyer from a look at it. whom you Wilson~ Austin~ to take He started reading it, and lid pretty much come to my conclusion when Jim Wilson [was] reading it. laugh of any man I have ever heard in my life. Jim had the loudest live never seen

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of his own party who didn't want him to run and so on and so on. Wilson went through hell when he was trying to establish a sensible world order after World War L Roosevelt went through severe criticism. Harry Truman was going to be impeached

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for a job in August of 1946. I got here the week that Wilson Wyatt resigned as Administrator of the then Nat ional Hous ing Agency and the Truman housing pl;ogram bJ;'oke up under congressional attack. In some ways it's probably the most fortunate thing

Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. And Will Wilson, the Texas attorney general, developed a technique of putting out of business gambling housing by obtaining an injunction. And gamblers didn't object much to being raided and being fined, but when the district judge or judges, and in this case

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

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

Party in 1956? P: In 1956? No, I wasn't in on that. (Laughter) I've heard enough about it. M: Sounds almost as if you're ,happy you weren't. P: I sure am. That was a trauma. (Laughter) Judge Wilson, who died here last Friday night
Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wildenthal -- I -- 12 there for sixteen months and saw people continually afterward that dealt with him. He communicated at a different level. I'll skip ahead to when I went to work for Will Wilson