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Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the agriculture field? F: Yes. I talked to the chairman and some of the leading members of each of the committees, and they were luke wann to this proposal, to say the most. But they were reasonably cooperative; it was a new Administration, and they didn't
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] LBJ as a liberal-conservative; LBJ record up to 1960; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 and 1964 conventions and elections; Freeman’s personal interest in the Vice-Presidency; JFK problems in Minnesota; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this award. K: Each year at the Women's National Press Club, for many years an award has been given to an outstanding woman. On this particular occasion, President Johnson was to be the speaker. It's a dinner honoring Mrs. Roosevelt and the women who
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and me, which I had read to Abe Fortas and Clifford. The next day--or that day, since it was two a.m. in the morning--we had a Democratic leadership breakfast, a bipartisan leadership at 10:15, a meeting of the House Commerce Committee and the Senate
Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • go in and work with Mike." And so I went in the beginning of September first, maybe even August, to work with Mike Feldman handling the research activities of the Democratic National Committee. We worked during the campaign. M: Worked on through
Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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 Douglas--5 Democratic Pol icy Committee, which was largely
  • in lending legislation; National Commission on Urban Problems; defeat of Douglas; LBJ’s relationship with Dirksen; LBJ’s admiration for Douglas; Douglas’ interest in Texas
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • . So I said, "Well, I just don't know what to do. I come here--" Well, eventually, to make this story short, I came. Now, when I got here I found the first of a number of obstacles chosen for me. The chairman of the Democratic National Committee
  • 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
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • then. Your committee assignments are on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Veterans Affairs Committee. Before running for Congress, from 1933 to 1950, you were a practicing attorney and probate commissioner of Allen County, Indiana. your LLB from
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for Humphrey by Johnson. Did you think that Johnson was pulling the wires? S: I don't know really. My guess is that through his Democratic National Committee people that he pretty well decided how he thought it ought to be run, and they were doing
  • Education; Heller plan; James Farmer; open accommodations ordinance; Chapel Hill; 1964 Lady Bird’s whistle stop tour; Governor Dan Moore; possible cabinet position; 1968 Democratic National Convention; Richard Nixon and Duke University; Sam Ervin
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of what he would or wouldn't do. He has there the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council, plus the senators and congressmen who have the Foreign Relations Committees. I just can't say what I think Johnson thought. I hope he has written
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in a while and go by and see him. He worked in the Democratic Policy Committee Room for a while. I don't know what he did. I think there was a lot of affection, deep affection, between Lyndon and Sam Houston. Houston. I know there was on the part of Sam
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • hours of most days, in organizing business support for the candidacy of the President in the forthcoming election. This took the form of working with various individuals to set up and organize something called the National Independent Committee
  • of Ten; International Monetary Fund; 1968 Action Program Advisory Commission on International Monetary Arrangements; Joint Economic Committee; Special Drawing Rights; 1967 pound devaluation; gold crisis; 2-tier gold system; gold pool.
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • REYNOLDS -- I -- 2 I think it's fair to say, a measure of mutual respect and, indeed, mutual affection. Some years before that period I'm speaking of now, which was through the 1950s, I had been a member of the National Labor Relations Board, appointed
  • Reynolds’ relationship with Arthur Goldberg; Reynolds’ term on the National Labor Relations Board; work in the Navy with labor matters; the Landrum-Griffin Act; Reynolds’ duties as Assistant Secretary of Labor; first impressions of LBJ; LBJ giving
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the position it was a National Democratic Party-- T: The national Democratic Party had taken positions that \'/ere repugnant to many of the Southern states, and our people were in rebellion about it. Georgia went for the Republican candidate in the 1964
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 B: Did this involve you in national Democratic politics? C: To a limited degree. I wouldn 1 t ~.;rant
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . This came up prior to completion of my thesis. M: This was the Citizens National Bank of Los Angeles? R: This was the Citizens National, right. It is now the southern division of a very large West Coast bank called Crocker. I was directed
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 sion in the study for national recreation ways and we pioneered that concept in a sense on a national basis, although the Forest Service had built some recreation ways
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was named vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 2 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
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by appointment of Governor [William B.] Umstead, and then who had been elected--I mean he was appointed and then elected to finish out the term. But he was senior senator and he had been put on the committee to study the Joe McCarthy problem, six-member, three
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . I'm trying to think back. I may have with the Johnson-Humphrey ticket. That may Of course, you see, there you have got the Democratic National Committee handling the Ching. There was no money raising for the job of being nominated, because
  • Biographical information; early political contacts; early relationship with LBJ and John Connally; impressions of LBJ in the 1950s; 1960, 1962, 1964 campaigns; role of Locke in campaigns; Democratic State Chairman; political dinners with LBJ and JFK
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • seats in the 1966 elections, and the ratio in the Senate was sixty-four Democrats to thirty-six Republicans, so you still had a significant advantage there. O: Yes, my recollection is that the forty-seven seat loss in the House in an off-year election
  • The loss of Democrats in the Congress in 1967, especially in the House of Representatives; O'Brien's continued involvement in the legislative program in 1967 while advocating for postal reform and a change in postal rates; the strength of House
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • at the Democratic National Committee. Monroe I had known for a long 16 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
  • [For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Green, Democrat of Oregon and a very savvy lady, that the LBJ program should be melded with the private-sector effort. Lyndon would have none of that. Over Rep. Green's objections, he in effect bullied his proposal through her committee and the entire
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Martin – II – 2 I was very interested in his doing it because occasionally he would call me over at the [Democratic National] Committee and ask me questions about something. He showed me over the first
  • Vice President LBJ’s meeting with black cabinet, resulting in blacks helping with Democrats by distribution of literature through barber shops and beauty shops, use of radio, the press, and the influence of black ministers, especially Marshall
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • been traditionally a woman's position, and also, he told me that Margaret Price was interested in leaving the National Committee. We did not know at that time that Margaret's illness was terminal, but she was wanting to get out from under the pressure
  • Biographical information; Business and Professional Women's Clubs; Sarah Hughes; Commission on Civil Disorders; Detroit riots; Kerner Commission Report; 1964 Democratic National Convention and campaign; Peden's Senate race; Doers Luncheon; Eartha
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Committee certifying Johnson as the official nominee of the Democratic Party. It got down that close, and my memory was that it was a tie vote in the State Democratic Executive Committee. Charlie Gibson was the committeeman from Amarillo, Potter County
  • joins Senate staff; involvement in later campaigns; LBJ and the 1960 nomination; period after the assassination; social contacts; appointment to and work on the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have an uninstructed delegation go to the Democratic National Committee. And [Joseph] McCarthy, that show was still going on. He was suing Senator [William] Benton for libel, and Senator Benton was proposing his ouster from the Senate. 12 LBJ
  • committee work and tidelands issues; the dedication of the Alvin Wirtz Dam; the Paley Report on the use of natural resources; Coke Stevenson's possible run against LBJ in 1954 and other political races; Christmas 1951 and visiting with the extended Johnson
Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was the chairman of the [State Democratic] Executive Committee. G: Now, let me understand, you had already voted? HD: I had already voted for Johnson against my own better wishes. G: Were you told that you had to do this, were you told this was an instructed
  • Mrs. Dorbandt’s vote in the 1948 Democratic Executive Committee meeting that certified LBJ as the senatorial nominee; bringing Charlie Gibson in to break the tie in the 1948 Senate Executive Committee meeting.
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Like, for instance, you were against me. Johnson. You were against Lyndon You're on the [State Democratic] Executive Committee. You're from Cameron, Texas. You've had your name up there. I was walking around in the lobby; nearly everybody knew who
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • States senator. .. So I didn't think he ought As between Tower and Carr, I decided to support Tower, and so notified Tower. F: So did a lot of Democrats, as you recall. W: Tower asked me to do something in his campaign, and I headed a committee
  • Meeting LBJ in 1948; the 1960 Democratic convention at Los Angeles; the 1960 campaign; the Texas Senate campaign; the Texas gubernatorial race in 1960 and 1962; Billie Sol Estes and the Agriculture Department; Wilson shifts to the Republican Party
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they'll suffer from a Republican victory." Another kind of a thorn in Lyndon's side, as I remember, was that he wasn't really simpatico with the new head of the Democratic National Committee. I believe it was Steve Mitchell. They were just on different
  • The presidential campaign in the fall of 1952 and LBJ's involvement; controversy surrounding LBJ's support for Adlai Stevenson; LBJ's travel to campaign for fellow Democrats; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriage in the fall of 1952; Senator Ernest
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and there's no point in repeating what occurred at them. I began to develop working relationships with a number of members of the committee, very particularly Walter Washington, who was head of the National Capitol Housing Authority at that time and who always
  • [For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • will then be placed in the Library, to be administered by the people at the National Archives incidentally, and this will be used as Mr. Beckworth wishes. B: Thank you. That's very fine. M: This is an interview with Mr. Lindley Beckworth. outside of Gladewater
  • Home congressional office facilities; family background; father's county school superintendent campaign; 1928 Democratic convention in Houston; college education data; 1936 race for state representative; introduction to LBJ in 1936; 1938 campaign
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Truman on the phone and talked to Truman and told him what I had done, that I had appointed the chairman of that committee a Republican national committeeman from West Virginia. Now to tell you to be honest and true, this is exactly the way I ran
  • measures under Eisenhower; relationship with LBJ; 1944 Democratic National Convention; Adlai Stevenson; Eisenhower; LBJ's leadership; McCarthy period; Johnson for President Committee, 1960; ethics; Johnson
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the controversy about the Democratic Advisory Cormnittee in those years. F: Not directly, but I was on the Advisory Committee. before. This was a little bit I think the Advisory Committee didn't really get rolling effectively until about 1959, but that might
  • [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] LBJ as a liberal-conservative; LBJ record up to 1960; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 and 1964 conventions and elections; Freeman’s personal interest in the Vice-Presidency; JFK problems in Minnesota; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 18, 1969 This is the interview with Dr. Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council from '61 to '69. Sir, to start back before you joined the Space Council, back when you were
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , on the campaign. R: Right. B: And you also said you thought Mr. Johnson needed some help after you looked at the White House staff. R: Oh, yes. B: What does that latter part mean? R: Oh, it was in very bad shape, as was the Democratic National Committee
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . On the committee were (this was in the House) Mike Monroney, then a Congressman, Wright Patman, then a Congressman, and a man who is now dead named Buchanan, I believe from Pennsylvania [Rep. Frank Buchanan?]. They were all good, sort of Fair Deal Democrats. And so
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? R: Not that I know of. G: In addition, there's some indication that Johnson favored Jim Rowe for Democratic national chairman. 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Democratic National Convention, 1956; VP candidate decision; Adlai Stevenson; 1956 Presidential campaign; earlier Fort Worth state convention; NATO conference; legislative issues in 1956
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • politician. And yet when you came back to the United States permanently this year, you found by what seems by all accounts a fairly thoroughly demoralized, non-active Democratic National Committee. G: There was no committee. And I think it relates
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Boggs -- Interview II -- 6 B: Was it they who saw to it that none of the Congressmen proposed to that committee actually served? Bo: I'm sure it was. B: Did that create any divisions within the Democratic National Committee itself
  • [For interview 1 and 2] Biographical information; Rayburn-Johnson relationship; early signs of leadership in the House; meetings to coordinate Senate and House leadership; 1956 and 1960 conventions; role of Democratic Advisory Council; 1957 Civil