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- with the White House and with Mr. Truman in the 1948 campaign. Ba: This is when you were associate director of public relations for the National Committee? Bi: That's correct. That was the title which basically hid the fact that there were a group of us
- 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
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Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh George L-P T;leaver :S. INTEnVIE
- Houston of feuding a great deal. So the Democratic party was divided, and we decided to have a harmony meeting in Dallas and invited Mr. Truman to be the speaker. At the time the two leading hotels in Dallas--one was the Adolphus--the suite
- members, actually a breakfast for P r e s i d e n t Truman. Of course, I had not seen Truman in a long time, because I had been out of Congress four years. You know I ran for the United States Senate in 1952 and was defeated. I said to him, "Mr
- for Congress; Washington visits with LBJ in 1938; FDR-LBJ relationship; legislation for terminal leave for enlisted men; Truman campaign in Texas; member of US Customs Court; Sam Rayburn-LBJ relationship; JFK assassination; agriculture and farm problems; role
- Delhi was in an awful jam, because we couldn't blame LBJ or blame the U .S . Government . Yet we had to explain to India why we weren't giving them wheat, or looked as through we were about not to give it to them . This has always puzzled me ; I
- ' neighbors. from it. Even my state of Arkansas suffered I was defeated in 1958 largely because of this dissident feeling of my opponent who said during the campaign, "Mr. Hays is a national Democrat and I am an Arkansas Democrat. Mr. Hays is a Harry
- place of friends and have lunch and things like that. F: On these Board of Education meetings, did they just sort of develop? P: They sort of developed. Say, Truman would some in--that's when Truman was President--he'd come over about 5 o'clock
- into the Eisenhower period of the 1950's. You were going to tell me about your appoint- ment to the Civil Service Commission. M: Yes. This was an interesting series of events that related to the transition between the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. As I
- that name? G: M-E-L-A-S-K-Y. Harris A. Melasky. He'll be mentioned later. I then came to Dallas and became house counselor for the Murray Company, which company was engaged in the manufacture of cotton gins and sold in all the cotton-producing states
- Biographical information; met LBJ in 1930s through Texas attorneys Harris Melasky and Martin Winfrey; 1943 subcommittee on naval affairs; 1948 Senate race and subsequent lawsuit; advice to LBJ regarding running for Senate Minority leader in 1952
- 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
- remember when President Roosevelt died; Harry Hopkins called the Cabinet together, and he said, I~e must all resign in..11ediately and insist on President Truman taking our resignation, because no matter what President Truman did, lve would always say
- index : Page or estimated time on tape Subiect(s) covered 1 Biographical 2,3 Organized labor's view of Senator Johnson 4,5 Trying to put across a new labor view in Texas 6 Communication Workers of America 7 Local union 8 Union
- never forget this--he said, "I remember when President Roosevelt died, in Warm Springs, Georgia, I said, "President Harry S Truman?" And those words have stuck with me. You don't know, and you never should prejudge. It was a great lesson LBJ
- of a little local problem that had arisen there. And he talked to Mike Monroney, Jr. who seemed at the time to be rather in favor of Vice President Humphrey's candidacy. Mike Monroney, Jr.'s father, who is a Senator from Oklahoma, said that he would try
- president taking office after the death of a president had ever been before. And I think this came about after Harry Truman's bad experience with that, because it had just been more institutionalized for the [vice] president to be kept informed. F
- . Truman had in 1948 when he ran so well in the rural areas where he wasn't supposed to run well . They took a look at Mr . [Thomas] Dewey with his little mustache and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
- . 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
- an article two days after Kennedy's assassination, in which I said that I didn't think people ought to be fearful; that Truman had a fairly atrocious record as a senator, but that in fact it was Truman who began to open up, with the commission he appointed
- proud of. He was a political appointee when Harry Truman appointed him to be our ambassador in the Argentine, and I guess from then on his service was as distinguished as anybody that we've ever had. He was in the same mold as David Bruce and Governor
- 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.
- started in December '63, so he has had that problem on his plate throughout his entire term. And, of course, it's still going on, although it has s±mmered down considerably. However, I, for one, would not be surprised if we had another flareup, because
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- : 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
- . 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
- years? S: I had been appointed deputy director of the Budget Bureau by President Truman in 1950 and had decided to go to Marshall Field and Company at the invitation of the president of the company, who had been a consultant to the Budget Bureau during
- . In the meantime the story goe s that Wright Mor row personally guaranteed- -he's a man of considerable means--a national television broadcast for President Truman. By reason of that he, in a way, ingratiated himself with the people on the National Committee
- S. STRAUSS INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB DATE: May 22, 1969 PLACE: 2800 Republic National Bank Building, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 [vl: Let me identify this tape first of all. This is an intervie\>/ with Mr. Robert S. Strauss--S-T-R-A-U-S-S
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- Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb
- Robert S. Strauss
- . But the Kennedys presumably because I had one unique qualification--not only was I a northerner, a northern liberal who was very close to Rayburn, but I also was very close to Truman--the Kennedys, through Bobby, gave me three jobs which were incompatible . You
- INTERVIEWEE: CARL SANDERS INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Sanders' office in Atlanta, Georgia Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, do you recall if you met Mr. Johnson any time before the 1960s while he was still a senator? S: Oh, yes, I had met Mr
- ://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
- . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 M: Mr. Truman, I believe it was, was quoted in last Sunday's paper in an article about your organization as saying
- . McCORMACK INTERVIEWER: T. Harrison Baker September 23, 1968 B; Back in the 1930's, you had been in the House of Representatives for about ten years, I believe, when the then freshman Congressman Lyndon Johnson arrived. Do you remember any first
- First impressions of LBJ; close relationship with LBJ; FDR-LBJ relationship; Truman was close to LBJ; LBJ’s national outlook; LBJ’s leadership in the Senate; progressive; Board of Education meetings; bill to admit Hawaii and Alaska; minimum
- do, and how did you happen to get into the photography business. S: Well, I was born and raised in Iowa for twenty years. F: Whereabouts in Iowa? S: Oskaloosa, Iowa. [I was] attendin.g William Penn College and decided that I would see what
- Stoughton’s background and how he became involved in photography while serving in the Air Force in WWII; Stoughton’s newsreel camera business in the 1950’s; his work in the Army and as a space program photographer at Cape Canaveral; experiences
- 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
- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: GOVERNOR LUTHER HODGES INTERVIEWER: T. HARRI BAKER More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
- than any other. B: Was that work in the early '60's in any way frustrating--more advisory than action? H: Yes. But again it has prepared me--see, the present commission on which I serve--of course this is a full time responsibility--but I'm trying
- and the Democrats quite well and faithfully--everyone from Truman forward as President. I wonder how you first came into contact with Lyndon Johnson. M: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in 1950 or 1951 when I was Under Secretary of the Air Force during
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- up there . We were listening to the Speaker and he looked up at the clock and he said, "Well, it's five minutes to seven . tell you something . Fish, let me Now, I want you to know that old John W .'s going to come by here," speaking of Mr