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Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the Astrodome. Those were ourr 8th Congressional District leader s District I can't remember. district. The 9th Congress'ional The lOth--Ed Clarkmainly looked after that This was Austin and Ed Clark, Jake Pickle, a whole group of those looked after the',lOth

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

index : Page or estimated time on tape Subiect(s) covered 1 Biographical 2,3 Organized labor's view of Senator Johnson 4,5 Trying to put across a new labor view in Texas 6 Communication Workers of America 7 Local union 8 Union

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Louchheim -- I -- 7 called Harry Jersig. Has anybody put this story into the record? M: Not that I know of. L: Well, I met him on the banks of the Pedernales, on a trip that I took when
Meeting LBJ in the 1930’s; whether or not LBJ’s personality changed over the years; confrontations between Texas liberals and conservatives with LBJ cought in the middle; Paul Butler’s attempts to gain power and to make the Democratic party more

Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, 1969 INTERVIEWEE: HERBERT JENKINS INTERVIE~JER: T'.. HARRI. BAKER . Chief Jenkins• office, Police Headquarters, . Atlanta, Georgia .PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 B: · This is tfte interview with Herf>ert Jenkins, chief of police of Atlanta

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the convention. Following Kennedy's election, I was involved in the kitchen cabinet crowd around Kennedy. I was working closely with Sarge Shriver and with a guy named Harris Wofford--Harris Wofford was later appointed to the White House staff--and closely
in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s; Lockheed’s exemplary compliance with affirmative action-related policy changes.

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

: August 1994 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: HARRY MIDDLETON PLACE: Martha's Vineyard Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 M: Oral history, Lady Bird Johnson, year 1955. Mrs. Johnson, the big event of that year, obviously, was the President's heart
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in Philadelphia, drove there with a couple of cousins and watched the nomination of Harry Truman. F: Were you still waiting up at three in the morniog when he came in from that train on the siding to get the nomination? D: I thought he was in an alley waiting

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it was that kind of a pride. S: Even in those days maybe like thinking of higher office? E: I don't think there was ever any question that Mr. Sam was always grooming Lyndon Johnson to go higher. question about it. I don't think there's any I think that came
; Carl Sanders and Terry Sanford; John McKeithen of Louisiana; Paul Johnson of Mississippi; Ned Breathitt of Kentucky; being in the White House with LBJ; Watson White, Califano and McNamara; OEP and aluminum; Reynolds Aluminum; Cliff Alexander; Harry

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. Bd. Minn. Council Exceptional Children, 1973. Interviewer Stephen Goodell Position or relationship to narrator ____~U~.~T~.~O~r~a~l~H~i~s~t~o~ryL_~P~r~o~j~e~c~t~____________ Accession Record Number 75-33 --------------------------------- General

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

never forget this--he said, "I remember when President Roosevelt died, in Warm Springs, Georgia, I said, "President Harry S Truman?" And those words have stuck with me. You don't know, and you never should prejudge. It was a great lesson LBJ

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

or briefing memo for the meeting often with specific suggestions or questions to ask Bill Martin. we were all equals in his eyes. But once we got with the President I would sometimes open the meeting by sayi ng, "We thought we ought to di scuss thi s
Troika; Quadriad; Council of Economic Advisers; administration differences; details of tax cut; trade-offs with Congress on budget cuts; Wilbur Mills; Harry Byrd; origin of tax cut; Samuelson Task Force; “new economics;” tax increases; Vietnam’s

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

at Littauer in the Bureau of the Budget. My class had mostly gone to Washington. I worked for three years in the Budget Bureau through the transition, Truman to Eisenhower. M: That was about 1951 to 1954? W: That's 1951 to 1954. I got my early

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of all the conditions he did the only things that might have produced any votes. Because you have to realize a very important factor, and that is that Stevenson's campaigning- not Kefauver s, but Stevenson's campaigning--actually lost votes. 1

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was still with us, writing speeches. So that was a foursome. They all roomed, I believe, at the Truman Fawcetts' house, and we were at the hotel. G: Why did you decide to have the office in Johnson City, rather than, say, Austin? J: I cannot imagine

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Millenson. M-I-L-L-E-N-S-O-N. I first went to the Hill in 1949 in the Eighty-first Congress, which is the first Congress after the historic Republican Eightieth Congress. That was when Harry Truman was inaugurated as president, and I was legislative

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

columnist, as a national reporter. I remember when you wrote out that first book on the Washington Merry-Go-Round. P: I wouldn't call myself established. I was just beginning with the New Deal, I had started a column with Robert S. Allen in December, 1932

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: To continue on this, in the early 1940's, during Lyndon Johnson's career in the House, do you feel that he did have a special relationship or special lines to Speaker Rayburn and President Roosevelt? L: Yes, I think he did. I didn't see so much of him when

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

expense and other things were under attack in the Truman Administration and I think by Truman, as a matter of fact, as early as 1948. Yet, as I mentioned, it was only some oil people that had a keen interest in supporting Johnson. Once again in the mid

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

gave me a quizical look as though saying to himself, II I s thi s man with me or against me?" Then he smil ed ina ki ndly fashi on. There were interesting talks at the dinner, including cordial remarks by Chancellor Kiesinger and I returned to my
First meeting LBJ; the invocation at LBJ's inauguration; Chancellor Kiesinger of Germany; Hugo Black; Harry Jersig; the National Advisory Council for OEO; Sargent Shriver; Maury Maverick, Jr.; 1967 trip to South Vietnam to observe national elections

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was. t1: Are you aware of the activity he carried on in behalf of t4r. Johnson's nomination in 1960--the events leading up to Mr. Johnson's [nomination at the] convention? W: Yes, indeed. Yes, that's a little bit written out and of course there s

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

State of the Union. We had two parallel acts. I sat in with the task force, as did Harry McPherson; the President asked both of us to participate in it. He showed a continuing interest in it through the fall. I don't recall that there were any big issues
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Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
S. Douglass Cater

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was a problem of course and I was looking for a job all the time. Ultimately, I made contact here with the Chicago Defender and Mr. Robert S. Abbott, who was then the publisher and owner of the paper. And February 18, 1936, I came on as a reporter

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

at Harry Truman's Diamond Jubilee, I guess they called it. Johnson spoke in Boston at the same time other Democratic leaders were speaking at other places all over the country. M: Did you then campaign for Kennedy and Johnson in 1960? P: Yes, I did

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

had remembered that Marshall, years before, had gone to Korea after Harry Truman had ordered the armed forces integrated in 1948, to see how well that integration had worked. So I wanted to tell Marshall that it was really working in Vietnam. And he

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Tower -- Interview III -- 10 burdens involved, and the difficulty in making hard decisions. I don't recall that Truman

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh XIV ~- 18 the bill that was finally passed really wasn't worth passing except that one had to have a bill after all that sturm und drang. G: Why did LBJ introduce the bill in the first place? R: First of all, the 1iberal s

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

it was Harry McPherson working on it in the White House--to review the current phrasing of that portion of the speech. But I had no advance--I hadn't really seen the President for some days, by reason of having been in Sweden. be informed. And there would

Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the records, that library was then the concept. . learn. But he also had to He was a very busy man, as we all know. and he never sat down and thought about the Roosevelt Library and the Truman Library as such, as it applied to him. But when he started

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

it's just his They tend to compare him with people who have made a profession [of it], who probably took professional training for television. d: But his stump speaking is very effective. K: He was very much in the Harry Truman style of 'give 'em

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of a little local problem that had arisen there. And he talked to Mike Monroney, Jr. who seemed at the time to be rather in favor of Vice President Humphrey's candidacy. Mike Monroney, Jr.'s father, who is a Senator from Oklahoma, said that he would try

Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in 1944 as a You're from Massachusetts? correspondent for the Boston Herald , at which point I met President Roosevelt, who was simply wonderful to me . I met Harry Truman . Later Then I married Bill and stopped working . G: You became a housewife
June (Mrs. Will S.) White

Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1974 INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM H. JORDAN, JR. INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: U. S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of I G: This is an interview with Mr. William H. Jordan, Jr. in the Conference Room of the Senate Appropriations Committee

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bundy -- II -- 5 simply tell the generals what they ought to do, that for different reasons both General [Dwight] Eisenhower, because he had more stars than they did, and Mr. [Harry] Truman, because he just didn't give a damn

Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and Judge Ingraham enjoined us." And I said, Senator?" '~ell, I know Judge Ingraham very well Where are you, He gave me hi s telephone number, and I said, "Stay there a few minutes, and I'll call you back." I called him at home. said, ''Yes.'' I asked

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but it s not going to create jobs 1 real quick. I remember at one point Johnson was under very heavy criticism for not having said anything about the unemployment situa tion, the economic situation, until it had come forward as a political issue

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- XVI -- 22 R: He was in a way, but not with his own money. peculiar things. Again, that•s one of the If you're General Motors or something like that, you can go out and you can make a loan from any bank. If you're a very wealthy candidate, all

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

not only his relationship with Harry Hopkins but also Tom's relation[s] with Felix Frankfurter. A young fellow came in who was a protégé, really, of Fred Vinson's. Fred Vinson was a great friend of Mr. Rayburn's from Kentucky, and he brought a young fellow
How Connally became aware of LBJ in the 1930's; LBJ's 1938 campaign; 1938 Ernest Thompson gubernatorial campaign; Eddie Joseph; how Connally became LBJ's congressional secretary; Connally's work/duties in Washington D.C.; letter-writing for LBJ

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It was political. At that time, you see, we didn't have fra- ternities and sororities on the campus. legal. At that time they were not The teachers colleges had literary societies like the Harris Blair, and the Jeffersonians, the Newman Club. But the Black

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

president taking office after the death of a president had ever been before. And I think this came about after Harry Truman's bad experience with that, because it had just been more institutionalized for the [vice] president to be kept informed. F

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Miller -- I -- 18 M: This is Ed Daley; he owns World Air Ways. plaque. That's my picture on the They say, "You look more like Harry Truman." The Goddard Trophy is awarded every year to the man who

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