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  • was a segregationist. I don't remember whether Johnson got involved or not. G: Any recollections of the highway bill? R: No. G: Really? R: No. Senator Gore's interest in supporting that, Albert Gore? But Johnson was for it, wasn't he? He didn't like Gore
  • from the New York Times index. G: Yes. It's an article by [John Warren] Finney of the New York Times and then another one, a column by [James] Reston. Albert Gore is the sinner, I think, but we'll get into that. But that I think I might say
  • Talks with the Chinese about “no first use” agreement, Test Ban Treaty, offer to exchange medicine, scholars, etc.; attempts to break down formality with the Chinese, Senator Albert Gore divulging information to the press, LBJ’s building bridges
  • ://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 Fisher -- I -- 12 McKellar had been defeated by Albert Gore [D-Tenn.]. Now Gore's
  • Neustadt; Dean Acheson; Bob Kerr; Brien McMahon; John Sparkman; James Webb; Senator Richard Russell; Secretary Marshall; General Bradley; Forrest Sherman; General Vandenberg; Lawton Collins; joined Covington & Burling; Albert Gore; lobbyist for Theodore
  • Albert Gore was con­ testing for the Tennessee delegation because he wanted to be the vice presidential candidate . One of the things that I recall was about eleven o'clock one night I was sitting out in this big area near the elevator in the Conrad
  • found out about it, that the Senator was of another opinion, naturally he was angry with our inability to hold him in our camp . Senator Gore, I remember especially . M: You had an indication that Gore was going to be in your favor? B: Yes . M
  • : In a contest with Tennessee's Kefauver. E: Tennessee's Kefauver. wouldn't go. You know, Tennessee was all torn up and they They had Albert Gore at that time, he was running for vice president; Frank Clement was the governor at that time, and he
  • Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Senator Kerr; LBJ for President in 1956; Earle Clements; Senator from Kentucky; Wallace from Alabama; JFK; Al Gore; Frank Clement of Tennessee; Estes Kefauver; civil rights; Governor Faubus of Arkansas; Fulbright; Lester Maddox
  • [Ralph] Yarborough's when he himself was vice president. W: It may have been. G: It depends on whose ox is being gored. W: Yes, entirely. G: How about the soldiers ' bonus? W: Yes. Entirely. Do you remember that? As a matter of fact, I remember
  • [Federal Reserve Board] was too independent and we should make them reduce interest rates. Johnson looked at the Senate [Finance] Committee. He thought he had Long, [John] Williams, Smathers, [Clinton] Anderson, [Paul] Douglas and [Albert] Gore on our side
  • think I've got a chance for it if I can only get Texas. Where is Lyndon?" And we suddenly realized we were talking to Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee, who both Jim and I had known and known well for at least twenty years and we didn't recognize him
  • Nixon's period. It depends on whose executive agree­ ments are being gored, I guess. Reciprocal trade: Albert Gore is my recollection of the man thai:: led really that whole legislative fight. I don't remember any­ thing about change in the personnel
  • amendment; the Gore Amendment; St. Lawrence Seaway; Hawaiian and Alaskan Statehood; Communist Control Act; the McCarthy censure; committee assignments for senators; LBJ’s chances of being a serious candidate as a Southerner; tax bill of 1955; Capehart
  • loved, of him sitting in his office and grouped around him were Senator [Stuart] Symington, and Dick Russell, and Earl Clements of Kentucky, and Albert Gore of Tennessee, son now in the Senate, and [George] Smathers of Florida, [Thomas] Hennings
  • where he could more or less point to his support of both sides at times. That was one of the times he and [Albert] Gore worked together peaceably. G: Do you recall the give and take on that? M: No, I don't think I do. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • ] please, have signed it. Clinton and Al Gore, both right there signed it. And I've got Lloyd Bentsen, and Dan Rostenkowski, and Jim Wright, and Price Daniel, and Tom Connally. It goes way back to Marvin Jones is on there. Marvin Jones wrote much
  • Goodling, Al Gore, Bob Graves, Bill and Bernice Greeter, Nan Gulahr [?], Steve Gunderson, Claire H., Ralph Handing, Bob Hardesty, Bill Hefner, Jack Hightower, Hogg Family, Lloyd and Kathleen Hopwood, Walter Hornaday, Amory Houghton, Steny Hoyer, Elizabeth
  • agents from around the country, with about 130 of them from California. Kuchel, in the meantime, had voted--this was where he worked with the Democrats. Albert Gore introduced the first defense highway legislation, and Kuchel was a co-author. About
  • senators. But I think primarily during this period the thing that surprised me is how many times I talked to people or they talked to me about the gas bill and reported on their conversations with [Albert] Gore or [Stuart] Symington or different senators
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 Mc Who were the other members of the board of education? M: Oh, they ranged from Wilbur Mills to Albert Gore--Senator Albert Gore now, Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and some of the rather
  • . Gore withdrew. I remember Mike Monroney rushing down the aisle and saying to me, "Brooks, why in the world are you all not lining up with Albert here! Can't you do something with Arkansas? They should be helping our friend Albert Gore." But you'll
  • a bunch of people on the committee who'd be in a position to vote him down on that. He already had Paul Douglas on the committee and Albert Gore and some other people that he couldn't influence in that way. G: So I think that that was the reason. Had
  • . Bob Kerr, of course, was on that committee; Albert Gore was on that committee. They had views and the committee would have had those views, too. Their views would have been sustained in that committee. They had something like a discussion of maybe
  • ? Was there a measure of truth in them? AG: Well, that's hard to say because I am prejudiced. From my point of view, having worked for him, I thought Proxmire and [Albert] Gore were extremely out of line; they were probably the worst as far as public criticism
  • switched my loyalties and my allegiance. G: They also seemed to have opposed Estes Kefauver for the vice presidential nominee and even went to [Albert] Gore and to [John] Kennedy and [Hubert] Humphrey. Do you remember that, their efforts there to organize
  • in Houston than Albert Thomas? R: I wouldn't say who was more responsible. I'm not sure we would have had it in Tulsa, but there was a lot of speculation that we would have been in the running if we'd have had the [water]. I expect Kennedy was just
  • a caucus of the labor delegates late the night before, and they had decided to support Kefauver for it. Mr. Rayburn in our first caucus recommended that we support Albert Gore from Tennessee and carried the vote. Mr. Rayburn disliked Estes Kefauver
  • were you when the draft went on?" So these four people--and I'm fuzzy on this, youlll have to recheck this, but I know that one was Albert Gore of Tennessee, and one was John Fogarty of Rhode Island. And I think one was Lyndon Johnson of Texas
  • [of correspondence deposited at Princeton], one reference he made to Senator [Albert] Gore of Tennessee, who was one of his pet dislikes, is very revealing of the fact that the conversations were not what you might call all political but often were personal. B: Did
  • years and who were so strong for a Johnson-Kennedy relationship. II I remember very \" well then the difficulty that Mr. Rayburn had in accomrnooating himself. but he did it very bravely in finally supporting Jack Kennedy. gone with Albert Gore, whom
  • were you lost by one vote on a-- B: Oh, really? G: Yes. Carl Albert had introduced a substitute to the Republican version and you lost by a teller vote of one vote in 1961. You don't remember that? B: No. G: Well, why don't we talk about tax
  • recollection of the Albert Beeson nomination to be National Labor Relations Board--? C: Not really. G: It was a close, partisan vote. C: I remember it, but you asked me do I have any working recollection; not really. G: Okay. I wanted to ask you
  • Energy] for some years, so Scoop Jackson or Albert Gore would know more about that. G: How about the atomic peace ship? Do you remember that? The first year that that came up for a vote the Democrats opposed it. S: I don't remember. I think
  • with the leadership, reflecting on the election returns. You have to remember the leaders had their frustrations. Sam Rayburn and McCormack and [Carl] Albert and [Hale] Boggs, along with Democratic members, had a great feeling of frustration regarding the Rules
  • -Wilbur Mills alternative to Medicare; Mills' changing views of Medicare legislation; LBJ's surprise meeting with Harry Byrd, Sr., regarding Medicare and the televised results of the meeting; Russell Long misusing William Fulbright's and Albert Gore, Sr.'s
  • if LBJ was urged to sign it? M: I don't. He simply didn't, and neither did Albert Gore, [nor did] I believe [Estes] Kefauver, someone else. And their defection from it really reduced its clout very substantially. He, I'm sure, told Dick Russell
  • was-- C: As you well know, Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn threw Texas votes to Kennedy on the second ballot. They went for Albert Gore the first time. Not because they were for Kennedy, but because they hated Estes Kefauver so much. I don't mean hated
  • . What's the background on that? W: Well, I was for Kennedy from the beginning. ning. I say from the begin- I was for him when it came to the point of its being Kennedy or Kefauver. If I'm not mistaken, I think our first ballots went to Albert Gore
  • on domestic issues, to be honest about it. He came up with a few bum ones, like the [Albert] Beeson appointment, that was a very important one. We almost welcomed anything where you could get the Democrats together on an anti-Eisenhower vote. There weren
  • bother him, do you think? J: To some extent, yes. I remember that his relations with [Senator Joseph] Clark were not close. I do not think it disturbed his relations with [Senator Albert] Gore. Of course, he did run the Senate with a pretty dictatorial
  • chimed in: Albert Gore, Gaylord Nelson, Church and I, of course, and Mark Hatfield from the Republican side, this young senator from New York--I can't think of his name right now. His son is the football commissioner. No, the baseball commissioner
  • the highway bill was not [Albert] 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 Curtis
  • really happened was that you had head-to-head combat between a great many powerful economic forces. AT&T, for instance, wanted to run the whole thing. Senator [Albert] Gore and others felt that the whole thing ought to be public because we had