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Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES A. MORRIS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: The Hilton Inn, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 3 G: You [first] came to Vietnam in June 1964? M: June 1964 through June of 1965. My assignments during that period, for about
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  • Morris, Charles A.
  • Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger
  • Charles A. Morris
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MORRIS ABRAM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Abram's office, New York City Tape 1 of 2 A: I don't know the year, but it was probably around l963-64. Arthur Krim called me and asked whether or not I would be willing to be the president
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  • advisory council; Sargent Shriver’s involvement in the War o Poverty; the Child Development Group in Mississippi; John Stennis and James Eastland; Abram’s desire to be a judge.
  • Abram, Morris
  • Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Morris Abram
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MORRIS ABRAM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's just start at the beginning. You're from Georgia. I have to ask you about Senator Russell and your acquaintance with him. A: I grew up
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  • Abram, Morris
  • Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Morris Abram
Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: MORRIS ROBERTS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Roberts' office, Victoria, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Mr. Roberts, when did you begin participating in Democratic Party activities? R: Ever since I've been voting age
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  • Roberts, Morris
  • Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger
  • Morris Roberts
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of a fellow who later got, I believe, terminated from the University of Texas; it was Dr. Nelson Peach, who had been a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins and who became a close personal friend and used to go down to Stockdale and visit with me some on weekends
  • relationship with John Connally; the staff's view of LBJ and how he treated them; LBJ's correspondence; indications in early 1941 that U.S. war involvement was imminent; LBJ's early White House contacts; defense-related requests and communication from around
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • may exist for a whole different reason. There was an oversight committee established on the poverty program on which I served too, chaired by Morrie [Maurice] Leibman in Chicago. [It] had just a little bit of heft on it. While reading the Atlantic I
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • campaign. I believe you indicated you were at the University of Texas at the time. S: Right. I was in summer school in 1941 and John Connally was managing Johnson's campaign for [the Senate]. Sheppard had died. I believe it was Senator Morris
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  • Singleton, John Virgil, Jr., 1918-2015
  • Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • John V. Singleton, Jr.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , do you remember John Connally being appointed to the board? J: Vaguely I do, yes, and I think that would have been direct result of whatever pressure 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • ; LBJ's and Alvin Wirtz's continued interest in the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA); Welly Hopkins' work with United Mine Workers and John L. Lewis; visits to Harold Ickes' home; hosting other Texans; Tom Corcoran playing the accordion
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN G. FEILD INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Feild's office, Potomac Institute, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 F: We're talking about the Plans for Progress controversy within the [President's] Committee [on Equal Employment
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  • by Arthur Goldberg to honor Vice President LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; refusing to relax the EE requirements as a political favor; Donald Cook; John Wheeler; Silliman Evans; public utilities' exemption from executive order; cutting off Houston Light and Power
  • Feild, John G., 1922-2006
  • Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • John G. Feild
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this up. And we started to get some liberals with us. [Morris] Mo Udall when Irv Sprague talks to him, says, "If it's close, I'll go with you. I'd rather not." We began to have a sense that we could . . . And the Chicago delegation which had gone the other
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was running the campaign [in 1941] and to describe pretty much the campaign organization, if you would. J: Well, nominally I guess Claude Wild was running the campaign. Am I getting 1941 mixed up? G: No, I think you're right. J: But actually John
  • Recollections of campaigns and people involved, 1941-1946; Claud Wilde; John Connally; Charles Herring; Everett Looney; Jenkins’ contacts with LBJ during WWII army service; KVET and KTBC
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . He was living over at the Littlefield Campus, and right next door to him was Jake Pickle and John Connally. I look back and I wonder what they were doing still living there because they were out of school at the time. And Hondo Crouch 4 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • together and at the Driskill Hotel in Austin together. had a strong gro~p two of them. In fact~ one of his problems was that he of supporters over the state. Let's name one or John Connally, for example, was his campaign manager, but John had never
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- II -- 8 don't know, maybe we ought to pay more attention to that." And in fact of the matter, there was one guy in our headquarters who also thought that that would happen, and that was old Charlie Morris, who
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • couldn't get a local fellow like Morris Donahue, I would be willing to step into that role. The President was very appreciative and mentioned that on several occasions and, of course, that petered out. But there was that kind of peripheral involvement. G
  • for LBJ in California and Wisconsin; organizational structure of LBJ's campaign and O'Brien's role in it; the powerlessness of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 1967; John Bailey as chairman of the DNC; DNC finances; the 1967 Detroit riots and how
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : May I ask, sir, was that at your own initiative, or were you invited or encouraged by the administration to do that? A: President Kennedy apparently sent Morris Abrams who had been a prominent young lawyer here in Atlanta, who had then gone to New
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the situation. In 1941 Senator Morris Sheppard died and my brother ran for the vacancy. At that time the law said that the governor could name a successor up until an election was held and then the high man--it didn't take a majority, you see--would
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • long enough to hear this interview, and his name was John Burns, who presently is governor of Hawaii, but his term will expire January 3, 1975. He has terminal cancer. Speaker Rayburn was a fantastic person when i t came to determining the character
  • Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • picture of Morris Sheppard up on his wall, and Rayburn was having a drink and it made him feel rather nervous. He told Johnson finally, "I just find it hard to drink with Morris Sheppard's picture up there." prohibition amendment. Sheppard who
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • John Kennedy to consult him as the senior Interior Committee chairman on the merits of different candidates. Kennedy had not consulted him, and taken a whippersnapper from off his committee named Udall and put him in. Aspinall had never gotten over
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: JOHN W. HECHINGER INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Tobriner; Warren Christopher; James Newmyer; Polly Shackleton; George Christian; Katie Loucheim; Mary Lasker; Mrs. Astor; Laurance Rockefeller; Lady Bird as First Lady; LBJ’s interest in development of the DC Council; LBJ’s responses to 4/68 riots; John
  • Hechinger, John W.
  • Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb
  • John W. Hechinger
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that elected him. P: Were you just in San Antonio during this time, or did you go with him to campaign? H: I went up to Austin several times to see friends of mine on behalf of Lyndon. One in particular that I remember was John Ross, a very dear friend who
  • Biographical information; formation of Citizens League; Walter McAllister; Joseph Sheldon; Maury Maverick; Dan Quill; Roy Miller; LBJ’s marriage ceremony; speech writing during court packing controversy; John Ross; LBJ’s campaigns; appendicitis
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Justice Bill Douglas was early a friend of ours; Jerome Frank, who I think took his place as chairman of the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission]; Leon Henderson, an economist; and by now our old friends, Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen and John Carmody
  • with Charles and Alice Marsh at Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; Charles Marsh's discussion of world events; new staff members Dorothy Jackson, John Connally and Walter Jenkins and their duties; new office and apartment in Johnson City
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know Morris Sheppard was going to die. G: Then you went to Washington in January of 1940? J: Yes. G: And you talked some about staying at the Dodge Hotel. J: Yes. John Connally and I roomed together at the Dodge Hotel right at first
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --8 up an office, and that since I was familiar with some of the people who were in the real estate field here in Washington, . could I obtain satisfactory space. Well, I knew Morris Cafritz, who owned a large number of buildings. tenant of one
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? In other words, how did you set up your campaign in that year? M: Senator 'Morris Sheppard died, and I felt that W. Lee O'Daniel was going to run. I didn't know that Johnson was going to run. I felt like I was running against O'Daniel because he
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)
  • sure that's true, and it wasn't that the planners of the conference had any animus toward Moynihan. Far from it, I knew and liked him and had worked with him, and I don't think Berl or, for that matter, Morris Abram or Bill Coleman, as the co-chairs
  • of Ben Heineman, Morris Abram and Bill Coleman; communication between conference organizers and the White House; security considerations at the conference; funding the conference; the decision to focus on African-Americans and not include other minority
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The Massachusetts delegation was at the Statler Hotel ; we had our headquarters there . All the delegates were stationed there, but we had our headquarters for the Massachusetts delegation . We had a special room for John McCormack because he was the Majority
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was that I get Joe Montoya on Appropriations or something else, and Tom Morris, who was another congressman from New Mexico. Anyway, just almost impossible committee assignments because the committee had already adjourned. And of course to lesser men you
  • of the vice-presidential nomination; Homer Thornberry; Sam Rayburn; 1960-1961 presidential campaign; John Connally; oil industry in the 1960’s.
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Court fight. At that time the Texas delegation that attorned to Mr. [John Nance] Garner in particular took a position against Mr. Roosevelt in the Court fight. I remember particularly Mr. Hatton Sumners, who was at that time the chairman of the Judiciary
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 I could even quote a very distinguished liberal on this--MOrris Abram, who is now president of Brandeis
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • in that. G: Let me ask you to recall that convention, if you can, in detail. B: Well, it was in Fort Worth. Mr. Rayburn had had a very hard race. In fact, he had several very hard races even after he was speaker. State Senator G. C. Morris from Greenville
  • with his role as vice president; LBJ bringing Mexican comedian, Cantinflas, to San Antonio to support Henry B. Gonzalez' 1961 congressional election; LBJ's relationship with John Connally; Boyd's relationship with lawyer, Kent Hance.
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • election to Congress . My first active participation in Lyndon Johnson's political career came in 1941 . And that was when Senator Morris Sheppard died and there was a great scramble of candidates to succeed him in a special election . In those days
  • Biographical information; Low’s father’s work in LBJ’s 1937 Congressional campaign; 1941 special election to fulfill Senator Morris Sheppard’s term; explanation of the east Texas ballots that allowed W. Lee O’Daniel to win over LBJ; Low’s WWII
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • platform and said, "Here I now want you to meet the man that casts more Democratic votes than anybody else in the state." G: Well now, let's go on to 1949. (Laughter) The correspondence that year, early in the year--of course, John Connally's gone back
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mean, Sylvester was hanging out there. You have to understand, Sylvester started with credibility in the Cuban Missile Crisis when the press made a big issue over [John] Kennedy's saying he had a cold and what have you. And Sylvester said
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: John Connally INTERVIEWER: Robert Dallek PLACE: Governor Connally's office in Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: --everything being in writing, and about making memos of everything, and consequently, I have not, during my entire career
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  • Connally, John Bowden, 1917-1993
  • Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek
  • John B. Connally
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of John McCormack or Sam Rayburn who were right on top of the situation. B: Do you recall any specific legislative fights in those days to illustrate how Rayburn and Johnson worked together? order. H: I know that's a tall Skip it if it's too vague
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a very persuasive 1-nan, and I'm supposed to see him again next week . " Well, the next time I saw John, he said he was going to Washington with'Lyndon Johnson. Well, in [1941], Senator Morris Sheppard died, and there was a special election for the Senate
  • Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the seniority rule enough to give every Democratic freshman at least one important committee assignment. He put Stu Symington on Armed Services, and Mike Mansfield and Hubert Humphrey on Foreign Relations, and John Kennedy on Labor and Public Welfare, and Henry