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Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the crowd there and there's Bob Strauss who was working for me when I didn't have three friends in Dallas County, I guess'" knew. So he Dallas has never been really a good town for him, and I went to work here. M: Why was Dallas not ever a good town
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the only top man in the Johnson organization that was in New York. So that was the sum total of my delegate hunting. B: Incidentally, at that time, was the Johnson effort there kind of a for- lorn hope, or was there still belief that he could get
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that campaign was going you know, although he hoped for the best. spoken out innnediately and forthrightly. But no, I think he should have I would have said, "Regardless of the truth or lack of truth of these charges, this man is my long-time friend and still
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • didn't really change the course of events, we were on the wrong side, as it turned out. So I didn't have any objection to coming down. I really wanted to, but I was pretty well tied up. In fact, But I went ahead and made the concession and, as Bob
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 vice-president. But I had already announced through the state that I was going to be for Johnson and hoped the delegation would be for him. Actually, we got more than thirty out of forty votes
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • might be able to do it today. You've got Bob Eckhardt and Henry Gonzalez, who by the way, is also about to fallout with the liberals too, who can pretty well represent a state like Texas and be friendly with the liberals. Now, to get back to your
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --they went in on a mountain peak; then they were naturally excited about that moment, that type of conversation. So they go across and stand in Lafayette Park and began talking that they had such high hopes after the election, with Mr. Kennedy as President
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and a profound respect. I would like to include in my informal statement here one of my hopes that somewhere along in history that Walter Jenkins, the stigma that has been attached to him will somehow be removed, because I think that I'm a realist. I'm