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Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

against Coke Stevenson in 1948 and a closer winner in the State Democratic Executive Committee. Did you have anything at all to do with getting him legally certified , that is, in the litigatio n that followed? That was really left to Alvin Wirtz
for Democrats;" the "Port Arthur story" hurts Yarborough; LBJ-Yarborough relationship

Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Congressional Campaign Committee. J: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in a wire that I received from him after having been nominated on the Democratic ticket for Congress from the Second District of Washington. The wire advised that I was to receive
LBJ as congressman; Joseph McCarthy; bipartisan foreign policy under DDE; Space Committee; statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; LBJ legislative strategy as majority leader; 1955 Minimum Wage Bill; Hell's Canyon; Senator Richard Russell; Senator Dirksen

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

movement all along to get- F: Were you doing anything? P: No. Except that I was then serving as executive director of the St ate Democratic Executive Committee under Governor Daniel. Then Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn had a general
election of 1960; John Tower elected; LBJ-Pickle relationship in the vice-presidential years; LBJ's generosity; Ed Lyles; "Dollars for Democrats;" Homer Thornberry and Pickle; Gene Fondren, Charles Herring, and Pickle reach agreement on running for Congress

out of committee. We were able to defeat it in committee, I believe it was, the Public Lands Committee of the Senate where they had before them a resolution declaring that the Tidelands were a part of the national domain. F: Now, whe n

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--for telling you this. But there was a night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1956 when Johnson became so convinced himself that he had a good chance to be nominated president that-F: In 1956? C: In 1956--that he started telling people

rights and, see, have a bunch of Dernccrats speaking cons ntly in the Senate and some in the House, leaving the Democratic Party with an image of anti-NE-1gro. Now, I don't think that necessarily needs to be. \'/e I think that g•)t to do our home
LBJ’s views of Vietnam while he was Senate leader through his presidency; the views of various senators about bombing; comparison of financial and physical support from the U.S. and the United Nations; Bobby Kennedy’s desire to see Rusk removed

Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Telephone conversation # 12816, transcript, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 3/14/1968, 5:57PM (Item)

of your announcing your own committee headed by Clifford? -5 P: They say that will just pull the rug out from under us and be the most encouraging thing Hanoi has had. We have said in public testimony that Clifford is examining this from A to Z
National politics
MONETARY CRISIS; CLARK CLIFFORD'S MEETING WITH RFK TODAY; RFK'S DEMAND FOR REAPPRAISAL OF VIETNAM POLICY; DEAN ACHESON'S ADVICE TO LBJ; DALEY SUGGESTS LBJ APPOINT HIS OWN COMMITTEE TO STUDY POLICY; RFK'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY; NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/10/1969 (Friday) (Item)

the Advisory Committee for the National Parks to get some briefing on i t ) , and Orville and Jane, C.R., B ill and Jane Wirtz, and Wilbur and Eloise Cohen, our bridge playing friends the Alan Boyds, Bob Weaver without Ella, who has been absent from a ll

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/4/1969 (Saturday) (Item)

Harry Middleton in the Yellow Oval Room about our films, a never-ending project. And then on into the Treaty Room for our last meeting of the Audio-Visual Committee. I think when this is over I want to declare a long moratorium on several words
Brief conference with Abe Fortas; meeting with Henry Middleton about films; meeting of LBJ Library Audiovisual Committee; to theater to view "The President's House;" office work & telephone calls; hair styled; portrait party at the White House; Lady

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