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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, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and everybody panicked. But Orval was one of the old populist boys, and he fancied himself as being kind of the Rayburn style of politican and was quite in good favor with Harry Truman. He'd come along with Sid McMath, who was a great favorite of Truman's
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Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with President Roosevelt. B: Still on into the 40's-- M: Oh, yes. B: Presumably his association with Mr. Truman, too. M: Yes, I think so, although he was never as closely identified in the public mind down there with Truman as he was with Roosevelt

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with our family relationship with President Johnson that arose over thirty years ago through my father's friendship with Harry Hopkins who was then, of course, President Roosevelt's personal adviser and assistant. Roosevelt, it is well known, took

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

expense and other things were under attack in the Truman Administration and I think by Truman, as a matter of fact, as early as 1948. Yet, as I mentioned, it was only some oil people that had a keen interest in supporting Johnson. Once again in the mid

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Miller -- I -- 18 M: This is Ed Daley; he owns World Air Ways. plaque. That's my picture on the They say, "You look more like Harry Truman." The Goddard Trophy is awarded every year to the man who

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of his head, which ;s the part of Kennedy's skull that had been blown out, a.nd said, III can't tell YOU,ll and then unconsciously reached Up and indicated where he had been hit. wa.s much milling around. Then the press bus arrived. There Everybody
and successor General Creighton Abrams; 1968 campaign and transition; LBJ’ s relationship with black civil rights leaders; the organization of LBJ’s staff; LBJ’s credibility and faults; Roberts’ current activities.

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Interviewer: Thomas H. Baker Secretary Smith's Office, Department of Commerce, October 24, 1968 B: Do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? S: I don't remember the date; I don't even remember the year. Sam Rayburn was a friend of mine; I knew him

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F: You were seeing the world? N: Seeing the world! F: Did you have any kind of a New Year 1 s Eve on the train? N: No. F: It was a quiet trip? N: Yes. John Connally took Walter [Jenkins] and me the next night

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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
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Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, with Charlie Murphy and Dave Lloyd, who were Truman's top people. the Hill. He had a lot of good speech writers on It never worked, and I never could find out why it didn't work. My theory--I went traveling with Johnson several times to see what happened

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the staff. There was no justification for having an agricultural economist as a member of the council, even though that had been the tradition under Eisenhower and Truman, I guess. F: Did the President ever voice the opinion that in one sense agriculture

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

relations together. We were in Washington together and other places. Also, I had seen him, not on any regular basis, but just very occasionally over the years. I had known the President, I guess, when I was doing work in Washington, oh, back in the 50's

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

/loh/oh 7 liked me. It's an interesting story Cliff told me some years later. I was making a speech at Prairie View back in the early 1950's, and it was taped and re-broadcast over the educational station at Texas A & lYl. Cliff was driving down

Humphrey in his acceptance speech on the floor. Nobody ever mentioned his name. You talked about Roosevelt, Truman, but it was blank on Johnson until Humphrey mentioned it. G: Did he show a preference for Humphrey over Nixon during the campaign? R

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