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Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • advertising agency around the clock for two straight nights and days and we completed the program. Meanwhile I was working with the advance men on this dinner. My first connection with the trip came when the President and the Vice President landed
  • back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s first night as President; the combined LBJ/JFK staff; Ted Sorenson; LBJ’s State of the Union address and concern over the budget; Senator Harry Byrd; getting the budget under $100 billion; task forces; Negro voting rights
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • met him the same night over at Tex Goldschmidt's, Alvin Wirtz and Kitty Mae. You see, Alvin was a good deal older than (Lyndon], and he had one daughter, but he kind of treated Lyndon like a son. Lyndon had these relationships with older men like
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But it was specifically stated by Russell at that meeting that any senator could speak as long as he wanted to. The day I started that long speech--I started about nine o'clock at night I believe--shortly after lunch that day I went to Russell and I told him, "You know
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • me ." He said that "They got 'em organized here ." I remember one time when I was sergeant-at-arms over there and we were going to have our meeting the same night that Joe Louis was going to fight . F: Oh, no . M: It was in the spring
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . But all this is in the testimony. You might want to read it if you're interested in the subject. G: Right. Okay, now I'd like to turn, if we can, to your present job as Director of the Elections Research Center. Ird like to go back to 1963 where you
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • letters There was one guy I'd have to give an awful lot of credit on this, and that was Clarence Mitchell. Clarence walked those halls morning, noon, and night; and he talked to Senators, and he talked again-all of this, I'm sure he wasn't by himself