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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- INTERVIEWER: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: The first thing I want to ask you about is the Southern Manifesto, which was certainly an issue in 1956. Can you recall
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- McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929-
- Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
- Harry C. McPherson
- the civil rights plank that we tried to incorporate. Humphrey had made the speech in Philadelphia when Truman [was nominated] in 1948, I guess it would be. F: Right. S: This was 1956. We're now with the next big push on that sort of thing, voting rights
- with President Truman? 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/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 M: I'm sure I must
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McPherson -- IX -- 7 that Johnson was unprepared in the foreign policy area. In that he was not unlike Harry Truman, who didn't spend much time thinking about it either. But you see, Johnson makes a lot of the outer-space
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- McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929-
- Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
- Harry C. McPherson
- to Rayburn for a partnership. Paul Butler of course had a different function. And, of course, I knmv sorr.e.thL'"lg about it because in 1954 I ,,,as a candidate for national chairman Hi.th }ir.-Truman's implied, and very often his implicit, s·-=?port. Sa
- Biographical information; Senator McFarland; Sam Rayburn; relationship between Truman and Senator Johnson; Paul Butler; 1956, 1960 and 1964 conventions and campaigns; JFK; Jim Rowe; Hubert Humphrey; Abe Ribicoff; RFK; LBJ as Vice President; DNC; 3
- on the force now. This man told me he came in Truman's time, so he didn't see anything of me, except if I went to the White House. F: Well, we'll get started then. When did you first meet the Johnsons? T: I've been trying to think of that. when I was up
- Humphrey; Democratic conventions and FDR’s selection of Truman as a running mate; Senator Johnson’s Senate Committee appointments and why he chose JFK for Foreign Relations Committee; comparison between FDR and LBJ as leaders; story about Tully giving
- could legally in the '48 campaign to help Mr. Truman, but being based here [Washington] I did most of it back through Massachusetts. In '55, I guess, Kefauver began his drive for the primary, and I was at the University of Wisconsin. He asked me
- . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 M: Mr. Truman, I believe it was, was quoted in last Sunday's paper in an article about your organization as saying
- , with anybody you talk to, is always, "What's it going to be built out of? What kind of stone?" He took me to show me a stone . You know, we kind of developed a program with the U .S . Archives . I went on a trip to see Truman's Library with--I can't
- Architect of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill firm; appointment to Commission on Fine Arts, 1963; Hirshhorn Museum; Johnson's interest in the arts; planning of Johnson Library; day at the Ranch; Truman Library; UT budget decisions; impressions of LBJ
- [of that]. "They were just getting even," I believe was the comment that was made then. G: You knew Mr. Truman Phelps, I believe. K: Quite well, yes. G: Was he asked to do anything in connection with an investigation that you know of? K: Well, my understanding
- , and then he voted to override Truman's veto. Were there two votes on overriding veto? Did they pass it twice? G: I'm not sure. B: I guess not. There's some duality in there somewhere that I've forgotten about. But anyway, he voted to override the veto
- LBJ's opinion of the Taft-Hartley legislation, Coke Stevenson's campaign methods, Dr. Homer Rainey?s dismissal and resulting University of Texas student demonstration, LBJ's campaign strategy involving the Ferguson family and small town visits, how
- of these occasions? H: Yes. Well, especially--you know Harry Truman used to have a luncheon on the opening day of the baseball season, and I'm sure that Lyndon Johnson was there and Ed Johnson, and quite a few of the different senators went to the Truman's luncheon
- ; that was when Mr. Latta passeq away, early in that year, and I was elevated to the senior executive clerkship by President Truman in-I'm guessing now--probably Mayor June of 1948. B: As the duties evolved, by the time of the Johnson years, what did the position
- , by making applications for big clinical trials. That was the idea of the commission, this is the point of its report. It was loused up by Oren Harris' letting the AMA get into it and make it subject to local committees overseeing what was done
- in the commission’s work; the Kennedy Center; Samuel Rosenman; a national health insurance program and President Truman; getting LBJ’s approval for the commission after President Kennedy’s death; desalinization of water; Senator Lister Hill; health and research
- ://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 SYMINGTON -- I -- 2 the Truman Administration, and my grandfather simply said
- . McCORMACK INTERVIEWER: T. Harrison Baker September 23, 1968 B; Back in the 1930's, you had been in the House of Representatives for about ten years, I believe, when the then freshman Congressman Lyndon Johnson arrived. Do you remember any first
- First impressions of LBJ; close relationship with LBJ; FDR-LBJ relationship; Truman was close to LBJ; LBJ’s national outlook; LBJ’s leadership in the Senate; progressive; Board of Education meetings; bill to admit Hawaii and Alaska; minimum
- persuasive and worked as hard on it as I ever remember him working on any one thing. G: Was he disappointed when Truman vetoed it? J: Oh, yes. G: How did you find out about the veto? J: I don't remember. I think I told you how disappointed Mr
- do, and how did you happen to get into the photography business. S: Well, I was born and raised in Iowa for twenty years. F: Whereabouts in Iowa? S: Oskaloosa, Iowa. [I was] attendin.g William Penn College and decided that I would see what
- Stoughton’s background and how he became involved in photography while serving in the Air Force in WWII; Stoughton’s newsreel camera business in the 1950’s; his work in the Army and as a space program photographer at Cape Canaveral; experiences
- on to 1948. Do you know who LBJ backed in the 1948 presidential election? Was he for Truman? I know [Alvin] Wirtz wanted Eisenhower to run for the Democrats. W: Lyndon was for Eisenhower. G: You think he was? W: I know definitely. G: Yes. What did he
- Stevenson's sheep so Stevenson would have time to debate LBJ; LBJ using helicopters in his 1948 Senate campaign; Homer Thornberry's 1948 campaign; Harry Truman campaigning in San Antonio in 1948; LBJ's and Winters' opinion of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
- say that the first real visits that they had on the subject of statehood for Alaska were probably in 1948. At that time the statehood bill was· reported out and P·resident Truman issued a s·pecial message to Congress on statehood, embodying his
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Well, let's start with the beginning of 1957. As you've looked over that outline is there anything
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- McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929-
- Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
- Harry C. McPherson
- Commission. He went back to Truman. He had been reappointed a couple of times and had been in the Eisenhower years I know and of course the Kennedy years, since John F. Kennedy was very fond of his son, or at least leaned on him. I would presume he was fond
- history project; Paige Mulhollan; funding the oral history project; George Brown’s involvement with the oral history project; dealing with UT through Harry Ransom and Frank Erwin; the end of UT’s funding of the oral history project; hiring oral history
- the Vice-President. F: Going back a minute, in 1948 when you were so very close to Truman, you had some difficulty with Mr. Truman's campaign that you didn't have much opportunity to take notice of Mr. Johnson's senatorial campaign that year, did you? P
- Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; 1948, 1956 and 1960 conventions; 1964 campaign; LBJ as VP; UT administration; 3/31 announcement; relationship with Truman and LBJ
- believe in." "You're turning your back on Roosevelt," is what he meant. "You're abandoning him." See, all this was still very much under the influence of the fact that Roosevelt was gone and Truman was in no way considered an adequate replacement. He said
- , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: DONALD S. THOMAS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Casa Leonor, Acapulco, Mexico Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start briefly with your background. You're from Pagoda? T: Bogata, B-O-G-A-T-A, Red River County, Texas. I'm fifty
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- Thomas, Donald S.
- Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
- Donald S. Thomas
- : Hoover, Eisenhower. First of all after Hoover, Roosevelt; and after Roosevelt, Truman; then Eisenhower; Kennedy; Johnson. six Presidents. topics. This is with five, Naturally all this time we had conversations on various I would not say the same
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Truman announced that he would not seek re-election. J: Yes, I remember. G: What was LBJ's reaction to that? J: I think some disappointment. He liked Truman, felt like Truman could be re-elected if he wanted to be. G: Did he have any
- a domestic legislative program--a liberal program--through if you had let South Viet Nam go down the drain. Harry Truman found out what it was like to be soft on Communists and to try to push a domestic legislative program of a liberal stripe through
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- McPherson, Harry C. (Harry Cummings), 1929-
- Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker
- Harry C. McPherson
- was the county chairman in 1946, when I first ran for office after I got back here and began to find out where everything was. But Clarence Martens was, at the time of the 1948 election. I think he was replaced by Harry Lee Adams. G: H. L. Adams, yes. D
- and other election paperwork may have gone; Luis Salas' account of events and role in the election; Dean's banking experience involving U.S. congressmen from Texas; shaking hands with President Truman in San Antonio following his 1948 election and Dean's
- for Adlai Stevenson. G: What did you do in Hyannis Port, do you remember? M: Well, on the plane we stopped in Kansas City, I believe it was, where Mr. Truman was, and we all went over and went to some state building. Our group went up and sat down, and Mr
- 1948 election and the State Democratic Executive Committee; Byron Skelton; HST and General Marshall collaborate on the Truman Committee; the 1960 convention in Los Angeles; meeting JFK at Hyannis Port after the convention; Ted Dealey insults JFK
- : Was that the Harris County delegation? L: Yes, it was Harris County, and there were a lot of conservatives there supporting Coke Stevenson, and they didn't seat that delegation and seated the contesting one, and then that was the big fight, and it called for a roll
- a motion--now this was before the convention had even been organized--to exclude the Harris County delegation because it was contested. Now, [are] you following that particular thing? That was just as illegal as anything could be, as I recall it. Now, I
- as I know because I know many times the boys were down there. Ev (Everett) Dirksen, I found out about it through Jerry (Gerald) Ford. They were there many times you understand, and that's the way it's gotta be. Truman. I used to go down
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 20, 1969; U. S. Senate B: This is the interview with Senator Clinton P. Anderson. Sir, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? When you arrived in the House in 1941, he was already there, was he
- support for civil rights legislation; 1965 legislation topics; the possibility that Robert Kennedy would be asked to run for the vice presidency; Wilbur Mills; LBJ visiting President Harry Truman; Homer Thornberry's and James Coleman's appointments; LBJ's
- could then pass judgment on the kind of report it desired to make and give to the full committee, and indeed to the various elements of the defense establishment, this being prior to unification, as well as to the President. S: Did you see anything
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- quite differently than the way Truman And of course MacArthur wanted a lot more equipment and troops and everything else than he got; he wasn't going to get it. G: Did that experience change Johnson? Was he different when he came back from the Pacific
- we can cover it in the time left. LG: Sure. Sure. But I'll tell you who has excellent documents on that. It's Clark Clifford, and he put them in the Harry Truman Library. I mean, all the papers that were done in the Pentagon on the Phantoms were
- with events in the '20's that you discovered that the temper of Congress is the temper of the country. Do you believe that's still true? C: I think that's true. B: That Congress-- C: Congress mirrors the country. I mean particularly the lower House
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
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- : Yes. Yes, but I do want you to cover it in detail when we get to it. Okay. Also in April, Sukarno arrived in Washington, and there were several functions in his honor, and then immediately after that, you went with Johnson and others to brief Truman