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Oral history transcript, Harry J. Middleton, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1979, by William C. Spragens (Item)
  • OF INTERVIEW CONDUCTED WITH MR. HARRY MIDDL LIBRARY, THE AT E OFFIC DIRECTOR, LYNDON B. JOHNSON LIBRARY, IN HIS AUSTIN, TEXAS, JUNE 20, 1979. (inter view condu cted by Willia m C. Univ ersity ) 1. Spragens~ Bowli ng Green State How long did you serve
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  • Middleton, Harry Joseph, 1921
  • Oral history transcript, Harry J. Middleton, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1979, by William C. Spragens
  • Harry J. Middleton
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C., Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last time you were talking about briefing former President Truman on the behalf of President Johnson, and after the tape
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  • [For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority
  • Murphy, Charles S. (Charles Springs), 1909-1983
  • Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • Charles S. Murphy
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : ~- II 6 You were in a unique position as a close friend of President Truman to gauge the relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman. How would you characterize it? S: Johnson was not majority leader when Truman was president. Very
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • begin with Adlai Stevenson and LBJ's attitude toward him. B: Adlai Stevenson in 1952, if my memory serves me correctly, was the governor of Illinois. Evidently Stevenson had been elected in 1948 when Truman had won, so he probably was serving out
  • Adlai Stevenson; 1952 presidential election; Dwight Eisenhower; Harry Truman; Gene McCarthy; John Sparkman; Amon Carter; Senator Richard Russell; Kentucky Derby; LBJ’s relationship with President Eisenhower; economics
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: F. EDWARD HEBERT INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: Congressman H e b e r t 's O f f i c e , Rayburn O f f ic e Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: This in terv ie w i s with F. Edward Hebert, Democrat from th e F i r s t D i
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was asked to do. The best way to describe my activities in that campaign was a gofer. G: Is that right? S: Yes. G: Who headed his campaign here in Harris County? S: I knew you were going to ask me that. I bel ieve, I may be wrong, it seems like
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of your government service - - when you were a staff member of the Bureau of the Budget, and later an administrative assistant to Mr. Truman. Did you ever have occasion in those years to encounter Mr. Johnson, B: then S e n a t o r Johnson
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • has been a continuation of what was once known as the Truman Committee, is it not? s: --a straight line of progression there? Yeah, I suppose you could--I would suppose that there, if my memory is right, there was an interval of several years after
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was sort of administrative assistant to Kleberg. F: When did you come on the court? C: '49. F: Mr. Truman appointed you? C: Yes. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and a lot of resistance from our members. Lyndon didn't come out against Taft- Hartley; Lyndon voted for the Taft-Hartley Act and he voted to override Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act. But we sort of swallowed our emotions over that out
  • Organization of Democratic Advisory Council; Sam Rayburn; LBJ and labor; the black community; Brown and Root; Harris County Democrats; Frankie Randolph; precinct organization; 1956 State Democratic Convention; committeeman/committeewoman controversy
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 17, 1972 F: This is an interview with Senator John C. Stennis in his office in the Senate Office Building in Washington, D. C. on June 17, 1972. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. S: You have some good questions here
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , I visited every group--. And Our group, by the way, contained a man who was in the Senate at the time, by the name of Harry S. Truman. We went down together to visit Panama, and, in fact, he and I roomed together on that trip. On our way down
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be. G: Was the commission at that time inclined to reflect the views of President Roosevelt, do you think? S: More so than some other administrations, but I think the current FCC is very reflective of President Reagan's views. Harry Truman certainly
  • Meeting LBJ in regard to a CBS affiliate in Austin; LBJ’s involvement with, and knowledge of, the radio business; Jesse Kellam; radio stations as investments in the 1940’s; how LBJ obtained a television station; Larry Fly; the involvement of several
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there, that Roosevelt had said he'd take Bill Douglas or Harry Truman and they switched the names. They said they'd take Harry Truman and if you can't get Harry Truman, well, they'll take Bill Douglas. When Lyndon got [to be] chairman of this committee, Truman
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Preparedness Committee, because he remembered very well that during World War II Harry Truman had been selected as Roosevelt's running mate because of the reputation he made from the old War Preparedness Committee that Truman was the chairman of. I think
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • : How about Harry Truman? DC: He did not have two full terms. And I was there, you were there: Harry Truman, when he left office, even though he had the surprise reelection--not reelection, election--of 1948, by the time 1952 had come even Adlai
  • to the public; Library Director, Harry Middleton; how Middleton made and maintained ties to the University of Texas, the LBJ School of Public Affairs and former LBJ staffers; the JFK School of Government; possible inaccuracies in oral histories; LBJ's use
  • Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • their responsibilities to society, and so forth. So this wasn't anything new. G: Were the other series you referred to conducted? Did you do some other leaders--? S: Oh, you mean the Truman thing and the others? G: Well, no, not Truman and Eisenhower, but other
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the battle, and as it turned out, we all know, a losing battle. But Lyndon was fighting for it right up until the end, and he had a very tart exchange with Truman on the subject. And who wouldn't, in Texas, be 6 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)
  • . McKinzie, Harry S. Truman Library The Harry S. Truman Library Independe nce, Missouri October, 1978 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] ~:. More
  • Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that Mr. Truman ... ·. had gotten himself in:a ·similar committee. S: . .. No question, no question about that. He wa_s indeed interested in his . public image. And I sensed early, although I was not i.nvolved fo the conversations about
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • , 1996 INTERVIEWEES: Harry Middleton and George Christian and LBJ School Students PLACE: LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas M: Max Sherman [dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs] says that he is not going to say anything
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  • Middleton, Harry Joseph, 1921
  • Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996
  • Harry Middleton
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , spoke out quite loudly for either Sam Rayburn himself, or a man like him to be our candidate . We didn't get him, but we did get Harry Truman rather than Henry Wallace . And it was during those years that I first met and knew our great President
  • ; controversy over seating of Mississippi delegation; Fred Harris as chairman of DNC; 3/31 announcement; impact of TV on conventions; funding; assessment of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this time. M: Is there any similarity in the style of campaigning between Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson? They are both pretty hard driving men, aren't they? K: Yes, but Truman had a way all his own. great orators. They were both down to earth, just
  • campaign for Truman; LBJ’s social legislation while president; labor’s support of social legislation to help working people; wage-price control; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with the Democratic National Committee.
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the structure of the Senate, the tone, the atmosphere, the environment of the whole Congress was not sympathetic to my kind of politics. And I think it's a fair statement that it wasn't. They weren't even sympathetic or friendly to Harry Truman. Truman had won
  • Initial awareness of LBJ; Senate run by Southerners; Tidelands; political albatross; DC’s Southern atmosphere; Dick Russell; Harry Byrd; Eugene Milligan; Bob Taft; LBJ as a political operator; LBJ’s relationship with David Dubinsky; Walter George
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of mine. And the Congressional Club would go through its routine of a party for President and Mrs. Truman, and later on, a party for the Chief Justice and Mrs. [Fred] Vinson. Luci was going to be all dressed up in a lovely ballet costume and model
  • stance on tidelands issues; the Morocco Air Force Base; Harry Truman's 1952 decision to not run for re-election; Lynda's birthday party; canasta parties; Fred Vinson's appointment as chief justice and his wife's reaction; Senator Burnet Maybank; Senator
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and things of that nature . So to that extent, the answer would have to be yes, but this constant carping about trying to invade the Highway Trust Fund is, in Harry Truman's phrase, a real "red herring ." And I'm convinced that a lot of it comes from some
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  • Boyd, Alan S. (Alan Stephenson), 1922-
  • Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Alan S. Boyd
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • HARRIS INTERVIEWER: STEVE GOODELL May 19, 1969 S: This is an interview with Patricia Roberts Harris, presently with the law school at Howard University. Today's date is May 19, 1969. I'd just like to begin this interview by asking you to state
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  • ; LBJ’s speech at Howard University; Moynihan Report; race problem; LBJ’s release of Kerner Commission Report; ambassador to Luxembourg; protocol incident; re-ranking of spouses; Harris ruling; ambassador’s staff and running of the position; position
  • Harris, Patricia, 1924-1985
  • Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Patricia Roberts Harris
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • M: What about Truman and Eisenhower? Did you do any travelling with them? B: I didn't do any travelling with Eisenhower. But with Truman the only travelling I did was in the campaign trip in 1951--is that when it w a s - - ' 5 2 , when
  • Duties at the White House; Judge Rosenman; Eisenhower and Truman Administrations; Charlie Murphy; Bill Moyers; Joe Califano; meeting LBJ, 1935-1936; Johnson Presidential years; met FDR at Warm Springs, GA; Marvin McIntyre; Grace Tully; working
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 S o after the war, he came back to Texas. And after living in McAllen about ten months, he
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with Robert Kennedy and with others, to some extent, that he would have been far wiser to have discharged them and taken the fallout. There would have been fallout, but taken it, as Harry Truman took it when he discharged Jimmy Byrnes on his right and Henry
  • See all online interviews with William S. White
  • White, William S.
  • Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
  • William S. White
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to the appointment. G: Who contacted you? S: I think Lou Harris. He had done, you know, the polling work for the Kennedy people in 1960. to me about it first. I knew Lou, and I think he was the one that talked Yes. Then I think one or two of the people who
  • Biographical information; Bureau of the Census; Lou Harris; Luther Hodges; 1960 census; invasion of privacy; survey techniques; Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration; President’s Commission on Registration and Voting Participation
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh You're Judge Oren Harris. You served as Democratic representative in the House of Representatives in Washington from 1940 until February 1966, when you became a U. S. district judge
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  • Harris, Oren, 1903-1997
  • Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Oren Harris
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that Senator Byrd's going to support me." "Senator, I'm afraid he's not going to support you." how he did Harry Truman." I said, I said, "You know I was Attorney General then and I campaigned in the State for Harry Truman and he called me on the mat
  • LBJ as a congressman; civil rights as an issue in Virginia; the 1960 Democratic Convention and the selection of LBJ as a candidate for VP; Senator Harry Byrd; JFK as President
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • official involved, on the 6 S D F H & R X Q F L O and on the Marine Council. 6R I have to deal with problems dealing with the sea bed, with matters affecting space, but then primarily my work has been in the Russian field. To prepare I was told by Secretary
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on which Douglas wanted to go on ·the Finance Committee, and Harry Byrd didn't want him on the Finance ·conunittee. S: This was a way of keeping him off Finance. In those days,-there were a lot of reasons for assignments, reasons of that kind
Oral history transcript, Sam V. Stone, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • or five weeks in which to get about. So Mr. C. N. Avery of Austin, a well-known person over the District, and Polk Shelton, another well-known attorney in Austin, and Merton Harris of Smithville, and of course they all had more funds than I had
Oral history transcript, Henry M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conservative stance in his votes on domestic issues. He was always an internationalist and he strongly supported the foreign policy of Harry Truman. But I observed after the war his changing position on domestic issues. This was in keeping with his
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the problems of the world do change. NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] was coming into being, the long torturous steps of being proposed by [Harry] Truman and nations signing it, and then its having to go through both bodies. And foreign aid, both
  • surplus and storage; programs that Harry Truman supported; Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson; tidelands; dispersal of surplus government facilities, such as the Austin magnesium plant, which became what is now the Pickle Research Campus at the University
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • distinguished guests, among them Harry Truman, William O. Douglas. Do you recall this event and the people who were there? J: I don't, actually, although I know every last one of those people and the roles they filled in our life. I've seen your list of them
  • death; Harry Truman receiving the news of FDR's death at Sam Rayburn's "board of education;" LBJ's relationship with FDR; Milo and Tharon Perkins; President Truman's friends; LBJ's level of conservatism, especially following FDR's death; KTBC sending