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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson. I worked for Jackie in the National Committee. He had such high expectations of himself, and he had the same of other people. ILthings didn't go right, I'm sure he didn't like it a bit. But I can't tell you firsthand any [campaign stories). G
  • ; Walter Jenkins; Bobby Baker; Mrs. Johnson’s and Rowe’s work on the Beautification Committee; taking Mrs. Johnson on a tour of Washington D.C. public housing; Mrs. Johnson’s personality and role as wife; visiting LBJ at the Ranch.
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the members of the committee, particularly on the Democratic side, didn't feel that this was a partisan charge. But, as I say, because of the sensitivity of the charges at that particular point in the preelection period, it inevitably became a partisan issue
  • Sputnik; Senate Preparedness Sub-Committee; LBJ’s relationship with Symington; General James M. Gavin; Special Committee on Space and Aeronautics; missile gap investigation; 1960 Democratic National Convention and campaign; LBJ as VP; Panama Crisis
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or something, and my boss happened to be on the committee that was dealing with the national parks, Interior Committee. So it was a total different concept when the Kennedy crowd came in. G: Was it a creation of Larry O'Brien? 0: Yes. Larry created
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • suggested that LBJ take the chair:manship of the Deluocratic National Committee [instead of the vicepresidential nomination]. W: That's right. G: Can you recall perhaps froIT1 one of the IT1en who was in that room what was said? W: The story I got
  • Biographical information; initial association with LBJ; 1948 Senate campaign; Carl Estes; 1952 campaign and Texas Democrats; Texas delegation to Chicago Democratic National Convention, 1956; Lady Bird; racism and civil rights; Democratic State
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on to Washington. We'd come in 1933, but I hadn't gotten into any kind of action or done anything there. I had gone to work for the Democratic National Committee in the Women's Division, but only as a volunteer. see, in those days you had servants. You Even
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ~ Mr. Fulbright; the number two man on the Foreign Relations Committee, which in those days was Senator Hickenlooper--in other words, the senior Democrat and the senior Republican--and then Senator Mansfield as the Majority Leader. He's also on foreign
  • ; not involved in policy making; Fulbright letter and the ruckus McCarthy made; February 1967, the National Student Association problem; Pueblo Mission; Tuesday lunches in 1967; halt of bombing in Vietnam; 3/31 speech; Six Day War; Kosygin on hot line; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • assistant secretary of defense for manpower. McS: Were you in need of any political credentials in this job? Did you necessarily have to belong to the Democratic Party? McG: Not that I am aware of. I imagine it didn't hurt, but I am not aware
  • with White House staff; meetings with Joe Califano; McGiffert's responsibilities relating to legislative affairs; McNamara's relationship with members of Congress; a preparedness subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding public statements
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • revolution without losing their democratic stability I don't know whether they can do it. I'd be very interested in what you think. is going on down there. No question but what Allende is a Marxist. There's no question but what he is going to nationalize
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • briefly, a summary of an active career, you were born in Marshall, Texas, and went to Wiley College there, and then to Howard in Washington. F: That's correct. B: And in the 40's you were one of the founders and the first National Director of CORE
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , I worked with Senator Humphrey from 1955 through the time he went into the vice presidency and then went over with him as his chief of staff in the vice presidency and held a somewhat ambiguous subtitle of assistant for national security. I had
  • Duties with Humphrey; foreign policy assistants; development of Humphrey's thinking on Vietnam; Humphrey's interest in arms control; Food for Peace; the development of democratic institutions; health research; civil rights; NATP; founding
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Clarence had simply settled here, regrettably, and nobody had gotten the county lines changed, because Lyndon voted in Blanco [County] always, from the beginning, as I still do. The Republican National Committee met in Chicago. [Robert] Taft's drive simply
  • Furniture for the LBJ Ranch; living at the Ranch for the first time in the summer of 1952; LBJ's legislative work in 1952, including military waste and tidelands; the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago; controversy surrounding
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Mexican extraction or Mexican descent, whatever phrase you want to use. And we were never aware of any particular discrimination insofar as people belonging to different religions or belonging to different nationalities. raised in the same kind
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • back the southern Democratic opposition in the old southern Democrat-Republican coalition. We used to carefully monitor our roll calls and committee action to see if we were making progress in that area. And we were. We were reducing, little by little
  • as co-chair of the Citizen's Committee for Postal Reform; LBJ's 1965 gall bladder surgery.
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to add to what you wrote in the book? M: I don't think so. G: One of the questions I want to ask you about that is with regard to the selection of Democratic members of that censure committee. Do you recall any effort by LBJ to appoint a Democratic
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that they should be televised, but I'm not sure of that. He didn't really get into the McCarthy thing too actively till right near the end. G: Now, Senator [John] McClellan was, I guess, the ranking Democrat on that Government Operations Committee
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Truman. In 1946 the President had appointed me the first American permanent chairman of the United States National Commission for UNESCO. I became the Vice Chairman of the delegations to the annual conferences LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)
  • , and we're now about a forty-five man law firm. I'm politically a Democrat, and I have worked as an advisor on the edges of government and in various political campaigns, in the course of which I've come to know the president and also President Kennedy. live
  • Biographical information; role of lawyers in government service; Tightrope Committee/Federal Aviation Administration; service with OEO; Business Leadership Advisory Council; Job Corps; Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; opinion of LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Robert B. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Mr . Johnson then, you would say, did have some interest in foreign policy prior to the time he became the national officer, unlike what some of his critics would have you believe? A: One cannot serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • remember Governor Daniel, he was chairman, I believe--I forget whether he or Rayburn, they were the two leaders of the delegation--went up to the then-chairman of the Democratic National Committee--I forget his name--but anyway, to try to get some tickets
  • Biographical information; met LBJ in 1937 through Baines family tree research with LBJ’s mother; LBJ’s six years as Democratic Majority leader in Senate; JFK nomination; LBJ as VP; Heath as Ambassador to Sweden; as Chairman of UT Board of Regents
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? P: Johnson has had a long record of being his own political boss. He doesn't bother much with party machinery. I think it's actually a mistake. I think that he let the Democratic Committee run down and didn't use it. F: Did you have any connection
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to work with. G: Of course with Daniel's election LBJ suddenly became the senior sena­ tor from Texas and at the same time I guess the Democratic leader. This would have been 1953. J: Yes, he became the minority leader, not the majority leader, which I
  • LBJ the rancher; the tidelands issue; Senate Preparedness Subcommittee investigation; Shivers takes control of Texas Democratic Party; Russell campaign for president
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . We've had-- F: Do you have sort of a newsletter? P: That's normally done out of the National Democratic Committee. example, we had Vice-President Humphrey down here in 1965; For it was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Now, you also as I understand represented the National Committee against Mental Illness. 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • ; research funding from Congress; support for health issues from Senators Claude Pepper, Lister Hill, and Edward Thye; support for health issues from Congressman John Fogarty; Mike Gorman's work for the Committee Against Mental Illness; Mahoney's work
Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the Senate, both Republicans and Democrats, particularly when he tried to put over legislation of a national character. In other words when there was no bipartisanship, and I attended many of these conferences and he had the leaders of the various--he had
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in northern California. This organization was the political vehicle for Republicans, Independents and dissident Democrats who wished to support the KennedyJohnson ticket. When I"say dissident Democrats, I mean Democrats who did not want to vote within
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • movement all along to get-­ F: Were you doing anything? P: No. Except that I was then serving as executive director of the St ate Democratic Executive Committee under Governor Daniel. Then Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn had a general
  • election of 1960; John Tower elected; LBJ-Pickle relationship in the vice-presidential years; LBJ's generosity; Ed Lyles; "Dollars for Democrats;" Homer Thornberry and Pickle; Gene Fondren, Charles Herring, and Pickle reach agreement on running for Congress
Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Leader. F: Right. Let I s talk very briefly about the period when you T,qe re the leading Democrat in the Senate, and Mr. Johnson served as junior senator but was definitely on his way. One of the things that came up T,-las the confirmation of Leland
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • : Yes. G: And then from 1966 to 1967 you were the chairman of the United States Select Committee on Western Hemisphere Imigration. S: Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration. G: I'm sorry, my mistake. You are a member of various
  • ; 1965 Voting Rights Act; Democratic party politics; THIS U.S.A.; Vietnam elections; Election Research Center; HHH; assessment of LBJ; polling industry.
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • National Municipal Association, which is now the National League of Cities. We had with us Mayor Daley of Chicago, Mayor Dilworth of Philadelphia, and Bob Wagner of New York was the mayor of New York at that time, to call on the then Democratic leader
  • Contact with LBJ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; 1963 Philadelphia speech; Green funeral; 1963 meeting of American Municipal Association in Houston; city program; HHH; urban disorder; 3/31 announcement; 1968 campaign
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to twelve noon. And somehow or another from 12:30 to 12:40 he met just with the Democratic members--he met with the Senate committee people alone. And here Kennedy said to him--Teddy Kennedy--picking up on the [question of whether the] President should ask
Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • you're Republicans or Democrats; frankly, I don't give a damn. because yru're professionals. You're here I want you to understand that you don't owe a thing to me personally, I don't owe a thing to you, but we both are here to serve our country
  • Biographical information; Contact with President Johnson; President's Committee on Marine Sciences, Resource and Engineering; Environmental Service Administration; Sea Lab III; travel as Under Secretary; Assistant Secretary position; impression
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • overwhelmed legislatively by the Democrats most of the time. Of course I think that Kennedy could have been considered pretty much of an anathema to Republicans and there was very little communication between the White House and the Republican members
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • for a newspaper at that time. I was a committee clerk in the legislature, the only job I could get, and I saw Mrs. Ferguson's inauguration. It was for her last term. And the legislature then was--it was more of an unpaid body of people than it is now. They met
  • News' lack of support for LBJ; Texas Democrats in the 1900s and late 1800s; the rise of Republicans in 1960; Governor Beauford Jester and his campaign against Homer Rainey; Jester overhauling the Texas prison system and state hospitals; the Texas
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 5, Side 1 G: Let me ask you first to review some of the episodes at the 1960 [Democratic National] Convention
  • John F. Kennedy's (JFK) plan regarding primaries going into the 1960 Democratic National Convention; assigning JFK staffers to specific state delegations; JFK's decision to address the Texas delegation; JFK's decision to ask Lyndon Johnson (LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • either national security, or health and welfare, or severe damage to the economy and that he doubted whether a case could be made here. And we talked about the people that ride the airlines, that it really didn't have LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was in a Washington firm, Abe was a great friend of the President, so I had some feeling then of the association, although it was kind of secondary to me. It's from that law job that I was appointed executive director of his [Robert Kennedy] Committee on Juvenile
  • Symington’s limited contact with LBJ after 1960; relationship between LBJ and RFK; 1964 campaign; the Poverty Program; Dave Hackett; how Symington became the Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and his work to get
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at a time, because I'm afraid you'd fall into the same category. I think it's very useful. Mc: M: Were you assigned to any other government committees? Yes. I was appointed. I am on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association
  • on housing (Suburbia) in 1965; impressions of Robert Wood and Charles M. Haar; evaluation of task forces; service on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association.
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the DNC later or--? O: Once the extension I referred to was agreed to, I took over the chairman's office of the [Democratic] National Committee. Our plan was to take over the national committee and, as needed, supplement the existing staff. This would
  • Support for Hubert Humphrey's nomination from George McGovern and Edward Kennedy, but not Eugene McCarthy; McCarthy's complaint that the Democratic National Convention had not been fair; O'Brien's August 27, 1968, memo discussing the campaign
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be interested in your ideas of why. C: Basically, I believe that President Johnson did not attach any real significance to the Democratic National Committee. I believe that his background on the Hill had a good deal to do with that. I recall after the election
  • Abe Fortas; deterioration of Democratic Party machinery; John Bailey; prior knowledge of 3/31 announcement; Homer Thornberry; 1968 Democratic Convention; relationship with President eroded in 1968 over Vietnam; McNamara’s move to the World Bank.
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in his office at the University of Texas. The date is July 19, 1971, and it is 9:10 in the morning. My name is David McComb. Last time we left off with the first committee being dissolved and the Regents appointing a committee to search for a dean. L
  • The creation of a new committee related to the LBJ School of Public Affairs; how the committee members were appointed; the committee duties of administration, budgeting, architectural planning and searching for a dean; Norman Hackerman; considering