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Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

called me "his legislative angel ." But those tyro--Mr . Rayburn and Mr .,Johnson--are two of the greatest people I think I've ever known in my time here on the Hill . F: I judge the Speaker and McCormack became close friends with Lyndon Johnson? M: Oh

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

well on the record except for one thing. Why was Congressman Powell so insistent upon separating you from Dr. King? R: The Democratic convention that year of '60 was in August, was it? B: Yes, sir, in Los Angeles. R: In Los Angeles. Now in July

Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--in Los Angeles at that time--and Fritz Hollings was for Kennedy. We both made speeches to the South Carolina delegation for our candidates. I cited Lyndon's Senate record and showed it was much more conservative than John Kennedy's Senate record

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

great crusade when I lived in Washington. It remained my crusade, and it still is in a way because I'm still fighting to get people out to vote. When I first knew Lyndon and Bird, which was about 1937, wasn't it, at that time I had just begun to catch

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that as a preliminary. S: All right. F: How did you get involved in it, how was it broached to you, and what in effect were you supposed to do? S: At that time, I went up to Justice Department from Dallas the last of February 1965. So as you recall the Selma

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

administration as I had with the State department. So I accepted this appointment, taking leave from my present work. I wasn't quite sure at the time how long I would stay over there, and I never talked to the President about it personally prior

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

seem to want the trip made itself, think it was necessary? Y: As I understood it, the trip was really pretty much against his wishes. I don't think he really wanted Kennedy to come to Texas at that time. F: It was part of a package to Texas

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Owen, who was in the division at that time and then became my first assistant. I went to the ~Jhite r~r. Owen replaced me \