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Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- as it was with the Paul Butler crowd. I say that because after the conventions, including the national convention--it would have been in the fall around September, early October--Dewey Bradford had a party [in Austin]. He had one of the first houses in Rollingwood. It had
- Allan Shivers and Democrats for Eisenhower in 1952; the role of LBJ and Sam Rayburn in the 1956 Texas State Democratic Convention; Paul Butler and the Democratic Advisory Committee; party at Dewey Bradford's house; how LBJ won county and precinct
- of gold Representatives) Director Charles Schultz OFF problem _ RECORD \ e ' Califano _ Joe Secy Henry Fowler Frederick L._ Deming Under Secy for Wm. McC. Ma rtin, Jr. Chmn. Board of J Dewey Daane • Bd. of GOVernors Monetary Governors
- to the A stro n au ts. B u t not fo r m e - - I w a s s le e p in g soundly. But a t 8:00 I w a s e a g e r l y aw a k e b e c a u s e I w a n te d to s e e an d h e a r G o v e r n o r Dewey. He h a d c o m e dow n to t a l k to L yndon the d ay b e f o r e
- Governor Tom Dewey, LBJ and Lady Bird have breakfast and talk about crime; Lucius Clay; ABC film on beautification; telephone conversation with Lynda Johnson; Luci Johnson receives Stingray car for graduation/birthday gift; Johnsons to Camp David
- to tell them? Johnson - Tell them it is the first time since George Washington that a President has had a long range draft bill. This Dewey Short is an isolationist. Truman - Dewey Johnson - ? Truman - That Short was too bad about Johnson
- ? K: Yes, I predicted it from my experience from riding with him. I was one of the few fellows that would come back after following Dewey and following Truman and predict Truman's election. I told some of my friends and they went out and made some
- Rev. Wm J. McDonald, DD Rector, and Mrs. Roger L. Stevens ^ Catholic Univ..Hon. of Am. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Merrill—singer Mr. Dewey D. StoneChmn, United Israel Appe Cong. and Mrs. Abraham J. Multer Instruments Co Mr. Alfred A. Strelsin Cinco Sen
- would ha•• a cted and certainly Dewey would ha•• been tuzz;y. But the plain Bal'1"7 Trwaan haa spoken . ia in Korea or in France. Harry does not care llhether the agression To Harry it is plain agre aion. He can see Joe Stalin's mind and hie own
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLI -- 5 C: I can't remember. You might take a look. Ask--it's actually in the--Dewey Ballantine [law firm] represented Borden's and they've recently done a redo
- and we became very good friends. So, the third time, in 1948, I was a staff member of a special committee created to investigate the petroleum industry, chaired by 'Congressman Dewey Short of Missouri. Lyndon Johnson was the senior Democrat
- be elected." And when you asked me when I was conscious that Lyndon Johnson would ever become president, I think I would have to tell you the story after the 1948 campaign in which Truman beat Dewey. I saw President Truman and he asked me, "Paul, when did
- of the Senate and the titular head of the Re publican Party, For in his address Mr. Dulles declared that he had cleared his speech with the Senator from Michigan and Governor Dewey. In order to understand clearly how far Mr. Dulles and the Republican Party pro
- in New York with a young cous in of mine. M: Sullivan and Cromwell, wasn't it? B: I've forgotten. M: Yes. B: So at least some good Democrats carne out of Dewey's office. It was in Dewey's office. But Joe kept in close contact. I'm going back
- that the Midwest except under unusual cir cumstances votes Republican in presidential elections. Truman carried it strong in '48, but that was because Dewey just didn't sell and because they made some mistakes. One of them was in agriculture. very aggressively
- . This I cannot tell you. was when I got the news he was shot. I know where I I was with Tom Dewey at lunch. But when we got together and when he called, this the record would show, and I don't know. F: I have a record that you were down in EOB
- ran for C o u n t y Judge and was elected and served out that term; before the end of the term, [he] ran for Congress, and was elected to the Congress in '48. He went up at the time that Truman had the very surprising victory over Dewey. M: That's
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in two minutes Gerry Rosberg can tell you how the--or Konrad Alt, the associate, Konrad Alt [Rosberg and Alt were attorneys with Califano at Dewey Ballantine at the time of the interview] can give you the--ask him to give you a one-pager on the time
- , vetera n o f 50 y e a r s of school teaching in the public schools, was there, b less her heart. She's one o f those people who always keeps the fa m ily together by w ritin g and telling what each one of us is doing. # Even Dewey T a y lo r with his
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and Television Committee, "'Friendsof Dewey." New York Hospital, removal of ulcer. Third published book: "Ulcers-Fact of Fiction?" (Yorkville Press, N. Y .) Milto~ Berle Scholarship at N. B. C. (New Brooklyn College) for ad vanced studies in videodynamics
- a to add t \ion& t m&ke veby a pol i ti.cal Y-lat.ory, 1D a dti1ocr 1e state. major.tty ia now eD11plitied bT Thi and vbiapen ~o th ~ am fart. Dewey Cathol.ica and the ?ol ali ena:f,eu nobody, .but loa a eGl.~ while Mlos op -. Rooaevel.t
- to New York to practice law with Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, a large Wall Street law firm. F: Did it matter that you were a Democrat by persuasion? C: No. As a matter of fact, I wasn't really either a Democrat or a Republican
- is that these people weren't very practical, but he would tease them and he would tease me--teasing with a cutting edge in which he was saying in effect, give all this away and run around dewey-eyed. nYou just can't You've got to be a little practical as to what
- Perkins, Carl Dewey, 1912-1984
- . I do not think the .Me.rshall Plan is tough. I think it is reali stic. I oelieve under Marshall there is lit. better ' ohanae for p~ce than under Wallace or Dewey. I oelieve that under a democratic con tinuance l.lnder Marshall l&it.dership, we have
- supported Harry Truman when Strom Thurmond and Dewey \\'ere running, and I was a budding politician of Cumberland County. I supported him openly and to the dismay of the local Democratic leadership, and as a brash young man offered to debate the state
- : No, not then or after. M: Well, now, this is not completely the end of the fight. C: No, they had some 1awsu i ts, dnd there was even a contest fi 1ed in the Senate. It was abandoned later. Truman was elected. It was abandoned when If Dewey had been elected
- . That never came through. He was not quite Tom Dewey on the wedding cake, but he was the elocution student, really, on camera; he didn't sound natural. And I've seen him take a group of businessmen and others and charm them right out of the trees
- ntl p11611•htr,111011 iau~ frltnd of Publlaha- Walker for many Junction and the Crand ,·allty. )'ttn, 1ut1 • , ..ii,.,. thla ls llr. nrle1'• flM ,·11 l to Grand James A.Farley Sees Truman, Dewey Asl TopMen;VisitsWalterWalkerHere I• 0,.,.d
- voter has ever experienced. The surprise won't be in the outconie of the balloting, as it was when liarry Truman, beat Gov. Dewey in '48. The surprise may be that 2i hours, possibly a week after the Presidential polls have closed, possibly months later
- or whatever--negotiations; from the Federal Reserve Board it was either [William McChesney] Bill Martin or Dewey Dane; and two or three other people--Ed Fried, myself, and Fred [Frederick L.] Deming [Under Secretary of Treasury for Monetary Affairs] and Winn
- on Johnson City boyhood home; astronauts and wives to Paris Air Show; to State Department reception; astronaut wives borrow clothing from Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson; dinner with Governor Tom Dewey
- for Monetary Affairs; [J.] Dewey Daane, one of the Governors of the Federal Reserve System; myself; and the White House staff man on these matters, who was originally Francis Bator, now teaching at Harvard, and then he was replaced by one of my deputies, Ed
Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- for Eisenhower in 1952 and had previously worked for Dewey on three of his campaigns, and also as research assistant for John Foster Dulles. pretty solidly Republican background. many years. So it was a However, it did go back a good I've retained my
- behind or ahead he was either. D: Exactly. None of us did. I remember coming home to vote, and being at my desk at the office and getting a story from the AP about the cabinet that Dewey had already picked. and about four we're in." 0' And I stayed
- than Dewey to support an independent State of Israel, they voted for Truman in 1948. They preferred Stevenson to Eisenhower, though by a smaller margin. - 3 - 2. 1968 As Compared With The Previous Two Elections Goldwater, regardless of any elements
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- /exhibits/show/loh/oh Knott -- I :..- 4 those days, we had a Republican Congress about 1952 or so. So he was out of the chair, and his ranking Republican friend from Missouri, Mr. [Dewey] Short, was chairman for a while. And you never really saw much