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Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that. The vote was taken and Johnson was But he was recorded in favor of the bill. He could have just been recorded absent, but he recorded himself in favor of the will, which Bob sincerely hoped for but hardly believed would come to pass. It was a senti
  • Senator Bob Bartlett's Washington assignments and positions during periods of LBJ's service; statehood movement for Alaska and Hawaii and role of LBJ in the controversy; the Tennessee Plan for statehood acts; events of the day when statehood bill
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the little corridor that leaves the Oval Room--I was still within sight of him but was part way down the hall--he turned and called out after me that he hoped that I realized that I had just extracted this large sum of money from him and that he hoped that I
  • Act; transition to the new administration; Bob Seamans.
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MRS. E. L. (BOB) BARTLETT INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: Mrs. Bartlett's home at 2343 49th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: This interview is with Mrs. E. L. Bob Bartlett, wife of the late Senator Bob Bartlett
  • Senator Bob Bartlett's Washington assignments and positions during periods of LBJ's service; statehood movement for Alaska and Hawaii and role of LBJ in the controversy; the Tennessee Plan for statehood acts; events of the day when statehood bill
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • 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 INTERVIEW WITH MR. BOB PHINNEY PB
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  • Friendship with LBJ; Dr. Bob Montgomery; LBJ couldn't stand mediocrity; Ink Lake Park Project; Herman Brown; depression; WPA and NYA projects; C.N. "Pap" Avery; investigation of Army Mail Service; 1946 campaign plans; Senator Alvin Wirtz; KVET Radio
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Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be visible in the staff positions, the appointive positions, and reflected in the kind of humor that they use on both. sides. The President has his people, and of course Humphrey had his little set of people, and Bob had his, inherited and some new ones. I
Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at the beginning with a very brief statement by you on hmv you carne to get into the Senate. M: You mean personally. F: Yes, a little bit of your background. M: Well, like Lyndon Johnson and Bob Kerr and some of them, I came up the hard way. I carne to Arizona
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of ITT. It is rather amazing that I relied on news clips in the early seventies regarding Congressman [Bob] Wilson and the $400,000 and the potential site for the Republican convention, and direct correspondence with Mitchell and Kleindienst. They had
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but the money wasn't there. This went on for probably ninety days or longer and you hoped to see daylight. You didn't have time to regret what you had done. You had made a commitment and tried to fulfill it. It was a very depressing situation. But you continued
  • DNC chairmanship meant to O'Brien Associates; problems within the DNC under Fred Harris; the need to make the party more appealing to Congress and middle-of-the-road Democrats; Bob Strauss' work to raise funds and restructure staff and staff
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Did you have an opportunity to meet Lyndon Johnson before you went back? P: I met Lyndon Johnson in Washington in 1934 before we went to Marlin and Dallas for the campaign. G: Can you recall that epi sode? P: No, but I think that Bob Jackson very
  • Biographical information; early association with LBJ; the Dodge Hotel; the Capitol and Capitol staffs; summer of 1935 in Austin; LBJ’s plans to run for Congress; LBJ and other staff members; the Little Congress; Bob Jackson and Arthur Perry
Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to regardless of how they were sent to vote. And that was, to me, a pretty good shocker. There's where my immaturity showed up, you see, I suppose. I didn't know that people did that. So after some length of time, I got up and got Bob Calvert's attention. He
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • have done so. I can't remember everything. The most vivid memory I have is Bob Taft coming in during the general electi.on and saying, "I've known Stuart Symington a long time; I admire and respect him greatly. I hope you'll vote for the Republican
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the morning press which (I hoped) would also be positive. Much more important, my idea was that I felt certain I could get my old Treasury boss, Bob Anderson ­ Dillon's predecessor, who was held in high esteem abroad to come down from New York City
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • However, there were people who had been grandfathered in on that as exceptions to lead me to hope that somehow it might be possible to achieve that combination. F: Could you explain for our future audience what "grandfathered" means? M: Well
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not a traitor and I keep my commit- Unless you advise me to make the speech, I will just, when they call the roll, vote for Lyndon Johnson, which I told you I would do." At this time I had learned that there was no hope with Governor Lawrence
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was present. He outlined the campaign as he saw it, the need for broadening support and the hope that those present would enthusiastically join in. That settled things down. They were receptive to Gary and receptive to the comments I made. What transpired from
  • election night; candidates for DNC chairman following the presidential election and the selection of Bob Strauss to replace Jean Westwood.
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the United States like that. He said, "What are you trying to do, Bob Hope me?" (Laughter) The LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • fellow. I thought to send this telegram to Lodge, who had just arrived there, was probably all right. So he approved it. He said, "Where's Bob?" I said, "He's away." He said, "Get hold of Ros Gilpatric and see that it's cleared with him." So I left
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the Vice President was like on the road. You ought to have an interview with Bob Komer, who was his [aide on some trips]. M: Right. We're supposed to talk to him ultimately. B: Well, get him to do it and seal it in lead, because the President would go up
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Look at those in attendance: the treasurer, Bob Short; Louis Martin on black issues; George Mitchell representing the vice presidential candidate; Joe Napolitan, media; Fred Gates, fund-raising; Fred Harris, Max Kampelman, Jim Rowe, Bob McCandless; Al
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , how you're going to preserve the President's position. I was at Bob Kennedy's house one evening and as the evening closed out, I made a point of getting Teddy in a corner as we were both about to leave. I put it to him directly. This was very close
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and looked at Bob, and he said, "You want me to tell him?" you tell him ." And he said, "Yes, He [Rayburn] said, "Everybody thinks they're the one should be groomed ." I thought it was pretty clever . F: Right . When did you first meet Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • relations between the White House and the broadcasting industry? M: Oh, I don't think I'm qualified to talk about that. You can look at it on the high level of personal relationships with men like Frank Stanton, Bob Kintner. Mc: Was Kintner brought
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . was long and involved here. Bob Hanger, a good friend of mine, was a lawyer on the other side representing Texas Power and Light. I think'the latter part of Wirtz' professional career undoubtedly was taken up in big part by a running feud
  • to California; LBJ’s Uncle George; LBJ’s election to Congress; Bob Jackson; Charlie Marsh; occupational alternatives to NYA appointment; E. H. Perry, Sr,; Joe Bailey; Ferguson family; 1941 senatorial campaign; WWII experience; third-term issue.
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • precious gasoline we're sending to keep this war going?" I thought to myself, "If it's exposed that will lead to enough public sentiment so they'll stop it." He replied that he thought this was a reasonable request, and he hoped it could be done early
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , that Bob Fleming had b een hired as Deputy Press Secretary, and at the time had been identifie d by the President as his press secretary . So I assumed at the time that at some point Moyers would probably go into some other line of work here at the White
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and sundry other bills where Louisiana and Texas had a community of interest. He and Bob Kerr were very dear friends. I got along with Lyndon, I guess, better than I did Bob Kerr in the beginning. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It was something else. And she had already been head of WACS [Women's Army Corps]. But he took her under his wing, and he was introducing her to all the senators and escorting her to her confirmation hearings. She was an old friend, as indeed was Bob Anderson, who
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the administration building at Ole Miss. I relayed on to Bob Kennedy who was over at the White House with the recommendation that the authority not be given, and it never was. I remember Bob Kennedy frequently after that would comment that that was the critical time
Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there. I remember that I and Clint Small and Dan Moody were there arguing for Coke at the meeting. Of course, we were all hoping that we could win, but we had the noses counted and there was one man that was counted on that ran out on us, and so-- G: Who
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Federal Building, Austin, Texas, March 26, 1969 F: Bob, tell us a little bit about who Mr. Hardesty is--where he came from and how you got to here. H: Well, I was born in St. Louis in 1931. I went to Washington originally
  • Biographical information; John Gronouski 1964, Post Master General, called Hardesty to be speech writer; Jack Valenti chief editor; first session, 89th Congress; LBJ and production of bill signing: two or three a day; Indian affairs speech; Bob
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • looked over and he said, "Well, we're all going to be going our separate ways. This is the last meeting. I'll be going back to Texas, where I hope to be able to spend some time sitting on my rocking chair in the front, dealing with the Library and my
  • Shall Overcome" speech and Richard Goodwin; the Subversive Activities Control Board; LBJ naming Simon McHugh to the SACB; Mary Wells' auto safety and minimum wage speeches; LBJ receiving communication media advice; Bob Kintner; keeping LBJ informed
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a week or two he had Rostow down to the Ranch, and we spent a couple of days together. The President was full of praise for Walt and what he. . . . G: Did the President consider others for that position, like Bob Komer or U. Alexis Johnson? K: If he
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , but apparently he was appointed--the President had been looking for a job for Re for a long time. He had wanted to make him a judge, but Bob Kennedy had always prevented that when he was a Senator from New York. For some reason he and Re were at odds.So
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 2 G: Who was involved, do you recall? B: Generally it was people like Sam Low, J. Edwin Smith, Chris Dixie, Bob Eckhardt, Arthur Combs. G: Was it largely Houston-based? B: Well, those are the ones I know and was working with at the time
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the earlier situation. But there's no question that Lyndon Johnson in the war period did have a reputation as a Texas liberal, and that was considered unique and hopeful and helpful and useful, so I guess in that respect I expected more than I feel has come
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and you can replace me by putting Bob Smart in my place, who's on the staff now. He's experienced and he can succeed me and you can roll right along. And I'd like to get some Senate service. exciting to be around. Of course, Lyndon is kind of What do
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • all over the world in the entertainment [field]; well, I liked the idea, at least I wanted to pursue it. And before I was able to say yes or no, I got a call either from Bob Benjamin or Krim, I forget which--I think it was Krim--saying
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of legal representation against the American Bar .Association the Lawyers Guild was formed. Morris Ernst, Thurman Arnold, Randolph Paul, I think Bill Douglas, Bob Jackson, the whole bunch of.us--"Who stands by the President?" palace guard was born. So
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 W: I would say that the only comparison is the fact that Bob McNamara had the feeling that the General Counsel's
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 2 (II), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was going to be dependent upon us, hoped that we would do everything we could to help them get things started. for him. course. We p~omised that.we'd pullout all the stops All of us were very impressed with him from the start, of He was just that kind
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