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Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also
- Employment history; organization and operation of the Democratic Study Group; support of the Great Society program; attending bill signing ceremonies; accepting position with the OEO; Sargent Shriver; OEO staff members; problems in Congressional
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- with Rowland Evans, and author of Lyndon B. Johnson, An Exercise in Power, as well as other books, including one now on the Nixons. To begin with, you were still a fairly junior congressional reporter at the time your book begins. How close on that level were
- for him while he was president. I can't remember when it was. G: November, 1966, I think you did some advancing for some congressional elections, didn't you? M: Well, yes, I did. This wasn't that time though. an advance for Johnson out in Cheyenne
- JFK’s 1960 meeting with the greater Houston Ministerial Alliance; LBJ’s 1966 13-state campign trip for congressional candidates and its cancellation; President LBJ’s 1966 rally in Wilminton, Delaware; techniques of advancing a motorcade and a rally
- -on fight. One of the things that hurt me about him--and remember I love the guy as few people do--for instance when he came back in the interim campaign, the congressional campaign for the Congress before the fight, the big fight before the 1968 one
- /oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Well, Congressman Wurzbach was a Republican and had been Congressman for quite a while. Yes, as far as Congressional politics ,"'ere concerned, they had a real
- Biographical information; appointment as Postmaster; politically active; relationship with LBJ while he was secretary to Kleberg; Johnsons' marriage ceremony; first Congressional campaign; 1941 and 1948 Senatorial campaigns; VP nomination; Hatch Act
- came through North Carolina. how we all had to maneuver for our convenience. It was right interesting I was invited to get on the train I think in Ahoskie, North Carolina, which is in the congressional district of Congressman Jones. His predecessor
- coming in to see you and they'll tell you what they want ." So I drew up an amendment to this particular bill . The bill initially related to Congressional employees' retirement, and this then would add improvements for members of Congress . The main
- 30 minute interview with LBJ on appointment as Deputy Postmaster General; contact with Senator Kennedy about congressional retirement program; background of appointment as Assistant Postmaster General for Operations (congressional endorsements
- to the Presidents Club on my own, believing that it was a very important election. with Macy, he didn't ask what my political affiliation was. When I talked I raised the question with him, whether or not membership in the Presidents Club was something which I
- prior to that, I'd begun to make a good living, joined a lovely country club, started going out to Aspen to ski in the winter and living the good life. And Watson was a~king me to come here; they could pay me something like $25,000 a year in a place
- to that. a liberal all my life." He said, "I have been He pointed out a number of things he had done very early in his Congressional career, stands he had taken, particularly stands in behalf of rights of minority people. I feel, first of all, that those labels
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in the Congress in the same congressional district . I was Speaker in the Massachusetts legislature, and I ran for Congress,and he ran for the United States Senate and defeated Lodge in 1952 . something I have to tell you ." I said, "Jack, I have I told him
- frequently in those Congressional days? W: Yes. I saw him--each time I carne to Washington I visited with him. And each time he carne to New York he stayed with us at my horne. F: Did he come frequently? W: Well, no, not very frequently. F: Did you
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential elections
- congressional salary, which at that time was ten thousand dollars. cataclysmic debt, as he described it. wealth he was pictured to be later. This to him was a He was not then the man of In fact, I had the impression in those days he and Mrs. Johnson had
- relationship; 1934 congressional race; Task Force on Income Maintenance; Vietnam; task force recommendations
- . This is the beginning of great publicity for the statehood mo v e m e n t . This is the beginning of the heavy organization of people throughout the United States, people who carried weight, like unions, like the Federated Women's Clubs. [?] I would say
- a political intervention, unless the war. ends for other reasons. 11 One of those things that Westmoreland has been heavily criticized for, the National Press Club speech of the fall of 1967, November, 1967, you go back to it, andyouwill find
- . Dick says we ought to hire you. We'll get you a job. " So he did, and then after a few months there they decided to start up a congressional relations department. There was a fellow named Wilson McCarthy who headed it up and I was Wilson's deputy
- recall the name, the Congressional Women's Club, or something of that kind, which was located just off 16th Street. I happened to go there one evening with Congressman Sieminski [Alfred D.; D/N.J.] a dance. from Jersey City because my son and his
- the President yet, and he called in some Congressional leaders and asked them whether or not he should accept this agreement? Mundt: I don't recall that meeting. M: What about the Dominican Republic? Were you involved in those? Mundt: Several of them, yes
- . But they talked The President used to kid him, too, at the Gridiron Clubs or places like that about Landslide Johnson, by winning his first thing call him Landslide. by a few votes, and in public he used to The very way he said it was with love and affection
- the program never took off because funding wasn't available and people's energies were distracted. N: This was really a problem, the war. Was this administration lack of will, or was it congressional refusal apart from the administration lack
- clubs here in Washington. I was up at the front table because I was making some little comment about the book I was just bringing about. no. That was about all. But I would not say that I knew him, He might have known my name, but he could easily
- . allover: But this was like Pressures were coming in from from clubs, from the Rotary, from the Elks, from allover the country. As I think I told you before, when Bob went to see Sam Rayburn at the beginning of 1958, he practically threw up his LBJ
- Times, assistant to James Reston. I stayed on in Winston-Salem for a number of years. F: Winston-Salem. Is the New York Times running a farm club down there? W: Well, in a way. But I stayed down there for a long time, and ulti- mately, early
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- where it was; the National Democratic Women's Club, I think--and it was a group of maybe fifty people. And the Johnsons were there on that occasion; there were a few instances of that sort where I saw him socially. M: This was still during the Kennedy
- in 1960--my observation is that LBJ confused national presidential politics with congressional politics. He thought that if you had a senator or a congressman who was for you ,that this meant that that state would be for you. The fact, of course
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , increases in the draft, and all the rest of it. Then when I got back here, I gave the Joint Chiefs of Staff a briefing, and we began to work the problem. I also briefed the President and the pertinent members of his Cabinet and certain congressional
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- as and when an assistant secretary would want to bring me in on it, for one reason or another. Hilsman used to keep me very well briefed because we became close friends; that's one way he operates, sort of an after~hours club~ After-hours meaning sort
- --the President occasionally picks up the telephone and calls people. M: I was going to ask about that. D: And once I went to the Cosmos Club with now Assistant Secretary John Leddy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
- -favored nation status, and I think they had thought that perhaps this would mean that this would be forthcoming; and, of course, this was not forthcoming, primarily because of Congressional failure. President Johnson did request the legislation several
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- be an appropriate time to get together . But, frankly, as the Congressional elections impended, it didn't seem likely that the President would wish to do it in that period . l have done a memorandum which is available in the Library . I wrote it to Walt Rostow
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of World War II, I was going to school at Oklahoma Baptist University, and he was running for U.S. Senate in 1948. I liked him so I helped organize what we called Young Citizens for Kerr for Senate clubs all over Oklahoma. Then he was elected. After he
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
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- , or commonwealth, as we call it. On the American side there were three public members who theoretically had no opinions or, if they did, had no way of implementing them. But from the congressional side, there were members who ultimately might be called upon
- , "No, I can't do that. I can't do that." Then I got in touch with some of the Democrats, and I said to them--to Dawson--I had been Dawson's secretary in the Third Ward Republican Club when I was going to school in Chicago. Republican then, and he became
- . That was after the war started, down here in Washington at the Touchdown Club. This was in January. [Must have been 1942 or later]. M: And then you got a law degree from Harvard later. P: After that I went in the Navy, where I was in the submarine service
- 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 I remember decorating his Empire State lunch club
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , educational opportunities, medical care, the general category of morale activities, recreation, and service clubs and other elements of morale; how many stripes are appropriate for a sergeant--which is a subject I don't like to get into. P
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- /oh O'Donnell -- I -- 27 from the National Committee who would rel ate the state pol itical end of it, or John Connally would call him and this is John Bailey's problem; then 11e had a congressional s i de and that would be O' Srien's problem