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Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this time. M: Is there any similarity in the style of campaigning between Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson? They are both pretty hard driving men, aren't they? K: Yes, but Truman had a way all his own. great orators. They were both down to earth, just
  • campaign for Truman; LBJ’s social legislation while president; labor’s support of social legislation to help working people; wage-price control; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with the Democratic National Committee.
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh You're Judge Oren Harris. You served as Democratic representative in the House of Representatives in Washington from 1940 until February 1966, when you became a U. S. district judge
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  • Harris, Oren, 1903-1997
  • Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of clients who were old friends of Tampico days . I left Mr . Davies'office . And Harry Polk and I established a partnership, and we were together for about four years, came the Depression . I guess . Then Nobody was making any money and Harry decided
  • activities in Chile with Board of Economic Warfare; LBJ’s 1948 campaign for the Senate; the Taft-Hartley Act and LBJ’s relationship with labor forces; LBJ’s enemies in the 1940’s and 1950’s; Coke Stevenson; Clint Small; Wright Morrow; Dan Moody’ J. Evetts
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • everybody was under attack. Harry Truman While my family was well-known in Montgomery and had been for several generations, they started, when I ran for Congress, to say, II Why • he's been in Washington with Harry Truman," and that sort of thing
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • WEBB -- I -- 11 H: Well, more or less. Well, the thing of it was that here Harry Truman was President. F: Right. W: And he had the train. F: You also had that problem of the revolt. W: Yes,yes, yes. F: (Chuckle) W: (Laughter) F: Yes
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • lost that race, then the war came through, and he ran aga in in 1948. C: 1948, right. M: And thi s ; s where you had some . . . C: This ;s where I began to get in the picture. M: Tell me about 1948. C: 1948 is an interesting story. Let me
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you were wonde rfu!. This morning you were going to let me go out with a rip in the seat of my pants." I hadn't examined the s eat of his pants to See if there was a rip in them. I had to confess. Oh, another funny story. I was traveling with Paul
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 3 I can recall that I had to borrow thirty-five cents from my brother to pay for my dinner that night at Old Mexico. The purpose of the meeting was to get all of the President's friends in Harris County to write to everyone they knew in the Tenth
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to every standard that I would ask for in a man. Never caught him cheating. He'll try to bluff the devil out of you--like Harry Truman in that respect. up. But he generally had something to back it I remember one night we were playing at Sid
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -In, and there Nago Alaniz told him that there was a man waiting inside his garage to kill him. That's why he had told him to come in a taxicab. So Jake had told his son, Jacob S. Floyd, Jr., that he was going to see a Parr man. So the boy, wanting to be with his
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be the potentials--not necessarily in opposition, but sort of the devi1's advocate. I remember, among other things, he finally turned to me and he said, "Well, what would you do if John L. should tell you on a given occasion after you get over there to go out
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was political. At that time, you see, we didn't have fra- ternities and sororities on the campus. legal. At that time they were not The teachers colleges had literary societies like the Harris Blair, and the Jeffersonians, the Newman Club. But the Black
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . on Harry Truman. I bet $1.00 on Lyndon Johnson, and I bet $1.00 And I thought this was a good time to stop while I was ahead, and I haven't bet on an election since. P: Are there any particular events that stand out in your mind--that come to mind
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 27, 1969 S: This interview is with Mr. Jake Jacobsen, former Special Counsel to President Johnson during the years 1965-1967. Today is Tuesday, May 27, 1969, and it's approximately nine in the morning
  • Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the 1948 election
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . S: Kuykendall, as I remember, was from Austin. those lawyers. G: And Truman Phel ps. I knew all those lawyers. I knew him, I knew all LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • : 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
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : December 8, 1983 INTERVIEWEE : BO BYERS INTERVIEWER : Michael L . Gillette PLACE : U .S . Capitol, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start, Mr . Byers, by asking you to briefly trace your background and how you came in a position of covering
  • activity; Truman train through Texas thoughts about the 1948 campaign
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • many conflicting reports. Actually it wasn't really over-- F: Well, you know, Truman and others restored his civil rights. P: That's correct. They gave him a pardon. F: Now, why would the president of the United States worry about this? P: Well
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the job. F: Tell me a little bit about those years on the NYA; I'm not revealing any confidence when I say that I've talked to some of the current Negro leaders who told me that back in the middle 1930's, they didn't know Lyndon Johnson from Adam
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did a lot of thinking and a lot of contemphtion •. I don't know why other than that. just his nature not to be overlys or even normally~ It's· aggressive, probablys in politics or in campaigns. But to go on now, I said earlier s when the tape
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • years that I knew him in the Congress. I'm sure he was quite active on the Arrned Services Committee in those days and confined most of his activity in terms of participation in debate to bi 11 s comi ng out of that committee. t4c: Did he appear
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • of the Democratic Party for a good many years. Mr. Kennedy, what is your present vocation? K: I am president and general manager of television station KZTV and [rad~o s ta t ion] KS I X• B: I should note that prior to establishing radio and television
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • force under Truman. C: There's an intervening time when he had gallstones; maybe it was before or after. F: He had a history of them. C: Maybe it was before this second election. But let's go on--Symington was head of the air force. And the wife