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Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there. on a bluff, and he would come on around. house. I lived up He would visit or stay at my He would go in the refrigerator just like it was his own home and help himself. He came in as if it were his own home. blocks down the street, Ed Clark lived

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to her house from school, which was not too many--where his Boyhood Home now is--maybe eight or ten blocks. They had a fireplace room, we called it, and we all gathered there and sometimes sat in chairs, sometimes on the floor. But we all gathered

Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

to each other for two or three years and then we moved to another house further away. WF: The TF: We moved just a few blocks aVlay from the old house. WF: But Lyndon had lived out on the farm until he moved in at five years Fawcett~ built a new home

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that something had to be done. Was he reluctant to--? He had been convinced by the deadlock between 1959 and 1961 that Howard Smith would, in order to get his way, block legislation even of a Democratic president. And he was very much afraid that unless

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] along well with Bob Kennedy. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bob Kennedy blocked his appointment--as I understand the story, he was supposed to have been Kennedy's first Internal

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and get the views of Henry Ford and George Meany and Joseph Block of Inland Steel and Tom Watson of IBM and then the public members. He had Arthur Burns, who was subsequently made the chief economic adviser to President Nixon and now chairman

Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these years." Observer. In other words, that we were financ ing the Texas And gosh, that sort of shocked me because I thought everybody knew better than that. We subscribed to it, and in fact we'd take out a block subscription for our executive board

Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, I don't know. But r just sort of offered it and I was a little surprised it passed. G: I thi.nk there was al so an attempt to remove telephone and transportation taxes that he blocked. M: Do you recall? I think that was a little different. I

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

up, so-and-so bill out? out?" '~en What's holding it up? are you going to get that Can't you get busy and get it And he didn't hesitate if he felt you were blocking it to call you LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, we had blocked off part of the hall because we had feared that we wouldn't be able to fill the hall . We had called all the union people and senior citizens people to get them into the hall . We had to tear down the part of the partition that we

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

stayed there until the next January probably. And beginning the next January, I moved a little closer--I moved on the same floor, but around a little closer to the front door and saved about a two-block walk. I believe at that same time that he moved

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-floor house. I remem- ber it was over west of the school, but it was several blocks over. I remember he paid thirty dollars for the month's rent, and they didn't move down there. So he wanted to get some use out of the house, so I lived at Lockhart

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that. If we had broken that thing up or blocked it . . . . But Kennedy had just done his homework, and he had some kind of organization. G: There was a lot of bitterness between the Kennedy and Johnson forces in that convention. W: Yes. Connally's talked

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

accept the separation or not get a department. We just didn't have the votes. M: You did prevent, however, a separate-- Z: Maritime, yes. They could have passed it in the House, but we always knew we could have blocked it in the Senate. I think

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

control task force going. I feel very strongly that that's a very important area, and that that task force should be continued. I think we're-that there is not only a potential, let's say, blocking of air transportation that is likely to occur

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on its face. After that he called Wayne Morse in and Morse took them a few blocks down the street and hannnered out a negotiation--at which he was damned good. F: Did Johnson ever express his displeasure with Morse's attitudes? R: No, for some reason

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

has been around here for very long has a great sympathy for that job regardless of who's in there . And with the feeling of "Well, gee, it's a killing job, and don't oppose or throw road blocks just to be in opposition � � � LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

walk in the office at seven- fifteen. I'm over at the Civil Service Commission, which is just two blocks from here, and I'm dictating cases like mad to try to turn them over to another investigator. a quarter of ten. We get through

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

groups or neighborhood block groups and that sort of stuff, and then some kind of a representation structure that would lead to a public forum, a convention kind of thing. I was a single organization type, rather than a federation type. I guess

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

said, "Yes, sir, but I've been about my Vice President's business," and he grinned and didn't say a word ! So we went on out to dinner and oddly enough Nixon was in Chasen's! So he was just about getting ready to leave, so we circled the block--the Vice

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Department the responsibility for the territories and for Indians, and transferring them"--they never said exactly where, I assumed this meant HEW--and this became a kind of stumbling block. These were not resource problems except in an important way

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

got along pretty good. So I said, "You block me, and I'll block you. It doesn't make any difference. I'll throw up some [inaudible] around here so you can't do your damned work." (Laughter) And we got along pretty good; lined [winded?] it out and done

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barr -- III -- 12 cent limitation is putting the blocks to us. I think we ought to get rid of it." Patman got up and said, "Oh, you couldn't

Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in Washington--it was only a couple of blocks--to talk to her, or she'd have Liz Carpenter call us to work out some detail. B: Youmenioned a while back that at times during this there were matters that were confidential, I think were your words. What sort

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. (Interruption) The problem that first struck me was the preparation of a legislative program for 1966. And that meant the organization of task forces and blocking out of areas of interest. Within a few days two things were very clear to me. One was that while

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the attacks, you see. But today you would want to know the extent of it, where the blocks are. And from that, and with all of the natural history studies we've made on these patients, and with the advances made in perfecting angioplasty and coronary bypass

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

for the President when he got out, and all the photographers would get it. And I thought Dubinsky was right behind me. It turned out he had stayed up on the tenth floor. I looked down, and a block-and-a-half away came the President of the United States. He didn't

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a fellow named Price was with Senator [Edward J.] Thye, and they were very big in the Alaska statehood movement and he took me along with him. I think it was down at the Mayflower Hotel here where you're staying. I remember they had a huge block of ice

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of his heroes; education was one of his advocacies. I knew none of this. As the new kid on the block, I fixed up a statement. Without knowing it, I just happened to hit it pretty right. But I found not too long thereafter, and included in that statement

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--I've got a mental block- B: We can pick it up. F: He worked hard on this, but when it would get over to Viet Nam it was 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ginsburg -- I -- 4 over, and I did. My office was then located at 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, just a block away. I walked over and talked with him about the origins

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to be uncooperative and unproductive, and they used a few other adjectives in reference to the fact that the legislative program, the Administration's program, was blocked in many ways in an attempt to get it through Congress. What was your assessment of this? A: I

Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)

Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)

Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)

Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)