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- recall it. They had had a temporary or ad hoc one as The Democratic leadership didn't want this, but they couldn't stop the matter coming up on the adoption of the rules. So that happened. Rankin, he was a member from Mississippi, was a professional
Oral history transcript, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- it. M: The Democratic critics once accused him of making divided government work by surrendering to President Eisenhower. Would you say that was-- H: No, I don't think so. I think he surrendered to expediency. M: I see. H: I think wherever he
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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- overwhelming victory in November '62 filled the national party with some jubilation . I think that they were all very anxious to see that Richard Nixon was defeated . He wasn't very well liked in Washington . I had the support, I think, of the Democratic Party
- that the Americans for Democratic Action hopped on both you and Senator Johnson for not pushing the select committee to give its verdict before November, and said that you were deliberately trying to delay until after the election. Do you go along with that charge
- Knowland’s career before entering the Senate in the 1940’s, his Senate career in relation to that of LBJ, his relationship with Senator Tom Connally, the relationship between Democrats and Republicans, Eisenhower’s election and his view
- 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
- Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections
- as whip in the early 1950's? A: I hope so. I don't know for sure, but I was the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1950. And for a short time the Democratic party nationwide was sort of leaderless because the then chairman
- . Not at that time. I don't think I'm getting ahead of myself here, but there was a--I'm sure we will talk about this a little later--very warm and close feeling between the leaders of the Congress, or the Democratic leaders of the Congress and President Eisenhower
- no need to appoint bad people, but their wants and needs ought to be considered, and also help in their political campaigns. Now Johnson, in my view, neglected his functions as leader of the Democratic Party which substantially contributed to his
- of the Democratic Party; Young Citizens for LBJ in 1964; Birch Bayh; ran Associates Division of President’s Club; McSurley case; 5th Amendment; Bill Moyers; importance of Jack Valenti; reason Katzenbach moved to State; comparison of Katzenbach and Clark; Task Force
- a filibuster, and that stopped us because the Democratic leader Mansfield would not try to break the filibuster. You see, the way you break the filibuster is by meeting around the clock, just keep on meeting, and Mansfield absolutely refused to do
- Kennedy-F: Did you get the impression he'd placed too much faith in the power of the Senate? H: That, and I think he also placed too much faith in the power of his old friend, the House Speaker, Sam Rayburn, and a few of the key Democrats throughout
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
- in the United States, and I predict that one of these days it will be the greatest bulwark of strength that the United States government will have in financial institutions. F: Of course it has gone beyond that. I've seen it in Latin America where in some
- of . opinion. Then the Senate was on trial as a whole. This talk that the Democrats voted for censure as a bloc, there's nothing to that, that's not true. F: This was not a political vote? S: No, no, not a word of truth in that. The act of the issue
- , this was true of the Reserves as well. He didn't want to be in the middle of a social campaign or a social-action campaign when he had to use this force as a military force. Well, I remember on that same occasion, we said "We don't want to embarrass you, Mr
- . Johnson indicated that the Congress itself had been ahead of the Administration in urging action, and he did that all the way through. But his record is a very interesting one LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
- for [the Democratic 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 Wilson -- I -- 9 presidential
- this time. I might complete the actions that happened here, although they are not chronologically all together, by stating that the final resolution between Mr. Zwick and myself came about in the Presidentrs office on a final occasion when the President had
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reynolds -- I -- 2 was the key to legislative action on the Hill. G: Do you know why you were selected for this assignment? Had you had experience in working [in this area]? R: I had
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- 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 14 actions taken then or thereafter, I'm not about
- action on a cabinet department probably since the first Congress set up initial departments in 1787. M: Last time you gave some hint as to why this occurred, that being the people in the executive branch going up and to testify for it, people like
- to meet that threat. It's part of the action-reaction cycle. It may cause you to put in more ABM's because you don't want those MIRVS to get in and kill you, you see. M: It's that type of thing that we get heavily involved in. General, does the Arms