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Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was a very good lobbyist with Johnson on behalf of moderating ideas, you might say, to some of his more impulsive attitudes. B: I gather then that you would have first noticed by-then-Senator Lyndon Johnson during the Truman years after he was in the Senate
First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956

-- 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, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

at Littauer in the Bureau of the Budget. My class had mostly gone to Washington. I worked for three years in the Budget Bureau through the transition, Truman to Eisenhower. M: That was about 1951 to 1954? W: That's 1951 to 1954. I got my early

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, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. I have an Illinois My father came from down between Virden and Girard, and then a whole group of Frantzls have lived out at Sterling. So I'm not unfamiliar with how the state is set up politically. S: Well, I was in the campaign with Truman

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

to Congressman George M. Rhodes of Reading, Pennsylvania, which is my home state. fourth term. He was a very able member who was then beginning his He was first elected to Congress in 1948, the Truman year. George was a former labor official, which fit in very

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