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Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • unusual when I went on the Policy Committee than it was when he selected me as the whip. G: You were on the Policy Committee as a junior member. C: I was on the Policy Committee. I hadn't even hardly got dry behind the ears. But Virgil Chapman
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when Barkley became the Vice President. I had been in the House and my colleague from Kentucky, Virgil Chapman, had served those years that Johnson was the secretary to Kleberg. Virgil and I had been students together at the University of 1 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXVII -- 28 Tony Buford was a good friend of those days. He worked for Budweiser-Busch and particularly for Mr. Gussie [Bush]. One of Lyndon's good friends, Senator Virgil Chapman of Kentucky
  • station; the choice between VHF and UHF in television and AM and FM in radio; Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners; Senator Virgil Chapman; Walter Jenkins' run for Congress; tidelands; Lynda's weight; Wesley West's daughter, Betty Ann's visit to Washington, D.C
Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is a very tender-hearted man. emotional. He works hard--he's a hard worker. things for people. He's kind of But he likes to do He likes to do things for his friends. r might give you a little example of when Senator Chapman from Kentucky had
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't get to go to. Now Virgil Chapman of Kentucky, wonderful storyteller, was not there very long, but he had that sort of closeness with Lyndon that southerners--as a Kentuckian he was [from a] borderline state, but we thought of them as southerners
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to know him then, and of course knew him every day as directing the Democratic forces. G: You replaced Virgil Chapman after he was killed in the automobile wreck? C: Yes. That was the reason I came back, when he was killed. He had defeated me in 1948
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: OSCAR CHAPMAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Chapman's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: In 1956, when he [Johnson] was kind of a dark horse against Stevenson. C: Yes, kind of. F: Stevenson ran in 1952
  • See all online interviews with Oscar L. Chapman
  • Biographical information; Judge Ben B. Lindsey; Harold Ickes; Alvin Wirtz; FDR; LBJ techniques; Harry Truman; tidelands; civil rights; 1960 Democratic convention; Chapman's health; national lawyer's group for Johnson-Humphrey in 1964; conservation
  • Chapman, Oscar L. (Oscar Littleton), 1896-1978
  • Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Oscar L. Chapman
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: OSCAR L. CHAPMAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Chapman's office in the Penn Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: You started out in Denver, didn't you? C: Yes, I started my public service in Colorado as an assistant to Judge
  • See all online interviews with Oscar L. Chapman
  • Biographical information; Judge Ben B. Lindsey; Harold Ickes; Alvin Wirtz; FDR; LBJ techniques; Harry Truman; tidelands; civil rights; 1960 Democratic convention; Chapman's health; national lawyer's group for Johnson-Humphrey in 1964; conservation
  • Chapman, Oscar L. (Oscar Littleton), 1896-1978
  • Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Oscar L. Chapman
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Chapman and we became members of a firm that was actually known as Chapman, Walsh, their Washington partner . on with that firm . and O'Connell in those days and I was We opened the Washington office and I continued The firm changed from time to time
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • his suite in the Biltmore. Oscar Chapman and May Oliver (?), I believe it was, we all were using this room, but mainly Chapman and I were using it. F: Did you have the feeling that you had started late? Y: Yes. And the Kennedy operation was so well
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Lyndon Johnson was the best equipped man--that he was the one that ought to get the nomination. F: Now, you became co-chairman with Oscar Chapman? E: Yes. F: Of the Citizens for Johnson National Committee. Tell us how you came into that position. E
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and making sure that we were taking good care of twenty-seven thousand delegates who had arrived, and we had so little in the way of space for them, I had a call from Oscar Chapman, who was the under secretary of interior . When I came home late Mrs . Brown
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a lawyer associated with--well, who was the former secretary of the interior that-- G: [Harold] Ickes? R: No, no, no, no. G: Chapman? R: Chapman. G: Oscar Chapman. R: I think it was one of Oscar Chapman's partners. It was very nasty stuff. He
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Semple, who are the two New York Times reporters that covered the White House while I was there, were so--and the Times was so much better than any paper, even the Post. Those two reporters just--I forget who covered it for the Post; I guess Bill Chapman
Oral history transcript, Ross D. Davis, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , it is not an unusual occurrence. I'm thinking for example of Oscar Chapman, who used to be Secretary of the Interior under Hr. Truman. My recollection is that he made it practically from step one all the way up to Secretary. But this kind of progression depends
  • Background; Oscar Chapman; SBA; Eugene Foley; relationship between White House staff and agencies; coordination; OEO program for Indians; AID; Economic Development Administration's programs
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , as far as Daddy's brother, Tom Johnson, Mother got along fine, but not with his wife. Mother had quite a few difficulties. G: What [were they]? J: Well, you see, there was a family of Chapmans there. Uncle Tom married Kittie Chapman. Mabel Chapman
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , get the clipping from the Post. It's a William Chapman story, I notice. No, it must have been related to the House action. I thought it might have been related to the conference. "Perhaps in the garment district, a minimum wage increase." Then we had
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)
  • Johnson, Jr., married Rebekah Baines in 1907, the 20th day of August, and it also shows in Fredericksburg in the Court House in the Clerk's Office that they married August 20, 1907; Tom Jessie [who married] Kittie Clyde Chapman; George Desha Johnson; Katie
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PARTEN -- I -- 14 Chapman, the Secretary of the Interior. He told me that the President
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and as combustible in the early thirties as dairy milk was. Senator Costigin had had three young sprouts help him in his campaign get elected the first time: John L. Lewis' sister, who \'las head of District Fifty, a fellow by the name of Oscar Chapman
Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • we were. We had practically nothing. In 1951, when Newt retired as director--he retired the end of March--[A. E.] Demaray took office the first of April and he stayed on nine months until December. It was something Secretary Amos Chapman did
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gathering of the Democratic Party and all sorts of social things were Mrs. [Charles] Brannon of Agriculture and Mrs. [Oscar] Chapman of Interior. I liked them both. I saw more of them than anybody. Certainly the cabinet member that aroused the most hostility
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XIII -- 26 Potter, [Edward] Thye--who was a fairly decent man--[Chapman] Revercomb, [George] Malone, [Arthur] Watkins. I
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oscar Chapman, the former secretary of the interior, it would have included all kinds of New Deal officials. Jim Rowe finally gave in and went over to the Humphrey campaign for a while, but after West Virginia Jim came to the conclusion
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was curious about : it seems that when Lyndon Johnson was a congressman he had extremely close ties with the Interior Department when Harold Ickes was secretary . B: He did, and Chapman was there and Fortas was there, see . And those ties continued . G
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and take up to Sam and Rebekah, because I know they won't have one. We've got two extras out there." And Mother said, "Yes, we do. That would be nice. We'll have one and we'll take that one up to Grandma and Grandfather Chapman. They don't have one." He
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)