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Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also
Employment history; organization and operation of the Democratic Study Group; support of the Great Society program; attending bill signing ceremonies; accepting position with the OEO; Sargent Shriver; OEO staff members; problems in Congressional

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with Rowland Evans, and author of Lyndon B. Johnson, An Exercise in Power, as well as other books, including one now on the Nixons. To begin with, you were still a fairly junior congressional reporter at the time your book begins. How close on that level were

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for him while he was president. I can't remember when it was. G: November, 1966, I think you did some advancing for some congressional elections, didn't you? M: Well, yes, I did. This wasn't that time though. an advance for Johnson out in Cheyenne
JFK’s 1960 meeting with the greater Houston Ministerial Alliance; LBJ’s 1966 13-state campign trip for congressional candidates and its cancellation; President LBJ’s 1966 rally in Wilminton, Delaware; techniques of advancing a motorcade and a rally

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/4/1965 (Monday) (Item)

o m i s e d too m u c h , hoped f o r too m uch. A f t e r w a r d we d ro p p e d L u c i a t th e W hite H o u se an d w en t on w ith L y n d a to th e F S t r e e t Club - - th e f i r s t .tim e I h av e b e e n to th e F S t r e e t Club in a g
Congressional relations
Bird to F Street Club with Lynda; Lady Bird visits with Mike Monroney about his trip to Saigon; Lady Bird visits with James Roosevelt about portrait of his father, Franklin Roosevelt

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-on fight. One of the things that hurt me about him--and remember I love the guy as few people do--for instance when he came back in the interim campaign, the congressional campaign for the Congress before the fight, the big fight before the 1968 one

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Well, Congressman Wurzbach was a Republican and had been Congressman for quite a while. Yes, as far as Congressional politics ,"'ere concerned, they had a real
Biographical information; appointment as Postmaster; politically active; relationship with LBJ while he was secretary to Kleberg; Johnsons' marriage ceremony; first Congressional campaign; 1941 and 1948 Senatorial campaigns; VP nomination; Hatch Act

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

came through North Carolina. how we all had to maneuver for our convenience. It was right interesting I was invited to get on the train I think in Ahoskie, North Carolina, which is in the congressional district of Congressman Jones. His predecessor

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

coming in to see you and they'll tell you what they want ." So I drew up an amendment to this particular bill . The bill initially related to Congressional employees' retirement, and this then would add improvements for members of Congress . The main
30 minute interview with LBJ on appointment as Deputy Postmaster General; contact with Senator Kennedy about congressional retirement program; background of appointment as Assistant Postmaster General for Operations (congressional endorsements

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the Presidents Club on my own, believing that it was a very important election. with Macy, he didn't ask what my political affiliation was. When I talked I raised the question with him, whether or not membership in the Presidents Club was something which I

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

prior to that, I'd begun to make a good living, joined a lovely country club, started going out to Aspen to ski in the winter and living the good life. And Watson was a~king me to come here; they could pay me something like $25,000 a year in a place

Folder, "[November 2, 1967 - Meeting with Foreign Policy Advisors on Vietnam]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

to the Citizens Committee on the Marshall Plan) to speak to clubs and organizations. McGcorge Bundy -- Don't let the communications people in New York set th~ tone of the debate. Emphasize ~he 'light at the end of the tunnel' instead of the battles, deaths

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to that. a liberal all my life." He said, "I have been He pointed out a number of things he had done very early in his Congressional career, stands he had taken, particularly stands in behalf of rights of minority people. I feel, first of all, that those labels

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the Congress in the same congressional district . I was Speaker in the Massachusetts legislature, and I ran for Congress,and he ran for the United States Senate and defeated Lodge in 1952 . something I have to tell you ." I said, "Jack, I have I told him

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

frequently in those Congressional days? W: Yes. I saw him--each time I carne to Washington I visited with him. And each time he carne to New York he stayed with us at my horne. F: Did he come frequently? W: Well, no, not very frequently. F: Did you
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential elections

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

congressional salary, which at that time was ten thousand dollars. cataclysmic debt, as he described it. wealth he was pictured to be later. This to him was a He was not then the man of In fact, I had the impression in those days he and Mrs. Johnson had
relationship; 1934 congressional race; Task Force on Income Maintenance; Vietnam; task force recommendations

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/22/1968 (Friday) (Item)

Congressional relations
Office work; Lady Bird has hair styled; photos made for article; Lady Bird to lunch with 75th Club at Senate; ladies reminisce about early years; assessment of Mike Mansfield; Senators greet ladies; Lady Bird & Walter Washington tour Washington, DC

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. This is the beginning of great publicity for the statehood mo v e m e n t . This is the beginning of the heavy organization of people throughout the United States, people who carried weight, like unions, like the Federated Women's Clubs. [?] I would say

Folder, "March 31st Speech, Vol 7, Meeting with the President and Draft Memo," National Security Council Histories, NSF, Box 49 (Item)

is concerned 1 is to rally about seeing for the All-Star of Indianapolis that DoD game, on a returning about hero, J i. about whether program 4-H Clubs are included be in a State Department on Vietnam. We realize cabinet or should

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a political intervention, unless the war. ends for other reasons. 11 One of those things that Westmoreland has been heavily criticized for, the National Press Club speech of the fall of 1967, November, 1967, you go back to it, andyouwill find

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Dick says we ought to hire you. We'll get you a job. " So he did, and then after a few months there they decided to start up a congressional relations department. There was a fellow named Wilson McCarthy who headed it up and I was Wilson's deputy

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

recall the name, the Congressional Women's Club, or something of that kind, which was located just off 16th Street. I happened to go there one evening with Congressman Sieminski [Alfred D.; D/N.J.] a dance. from Jersey City because my son and his

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the President yet, and he called in some Congressional leaders and asked them whether or not he should accept this agreement? Mundt: I don't recall that meeting. M: What about the Dominican Republic? Were you involved in those? Mundt: Several of them, yes

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But they talked The President used to kid him, too, at the Gridiron Clubs or places like that about Landslide Johnson, by winning his first thing call him Landslide. by a few votes, and in public he used to The very way he said it was with love and affection

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the program never took off because funding wasn't available and people's energies were distracted. N: This was really a problem, the war. Was this administration lack of will, or was it congressional refusal apart from the administration lack

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

clubs here in Washington. I was up at the front table because I was making some little comment about the book I was just bringing about. no. That was about all. But I would not say that I knew him, He might have known my name, but he could easily

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/25/1968 (Thursday) (Item)

, m y f i r s t a p p o in tm en t o f th e d a y w a s a happy o n e . I c a lle d B eth P o r t e r P e r m in e r w ho I had run in to th e day b e fo r e a t t h e op en in g o f th e W o m a n 's N a tio n a l D e m o c r a tic Club and a s k e
Congressional relations

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/23/1966 (Saturday) (Item)

LBJ & Lady Bird to AMVETS building dedication; Johnsons and Congressional delegates to Indianapolis where LBJ speaks; LBJ goes to stag luncheon at Indianapolis Athletic Club; Lady Bird attends ladies luncheon; travel to Ft. Campbell, KY; LBJ naps

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. allover: But this was like Pressures were coming in from from clubs, from the Rotary, from the Elks, from allover the country. As I think I told you before, when Bob went to see Sam Rayburn at the beginning of 1958, he practically threw up his LBJ

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/4/1966 (Friday) (Item)

, o r w as i t 913 9 ? W henMr s . R o o s e v e l t was o u r g u e s t o f h o n o r a t t h e 7 5 t h C o n g r e s s i o n a l Club l u n c h e o n . I t was a b e n e f i t b u y a whe e l c h a i r f o r a c r i p p l e d b o y . to T h a t
Congressional relations

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Times, assistant to James Reston. I stayed on in Winston-Salem for a number of years. F: Winston-Salem. Is the New York Times running a farm club down there? W: Well, in a way. But I stayed down there for a long time, and ulti- mately, early

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

where it was; the National Democratic Women's Club, I think--and it was a group of maybe fifty people. And the Johnsons were there on that occasion; there were a few instances of that sort where I saw him socially. M: This was still during the Kennedy

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/8/1968 (Thursday) (Item)

Congressional relations
Lady Bird to memorial service for Merle Patman at Congressional Club; speeches by Ruth Burleson & Wright Patman; controversy over Robert Merrill's songs for evening entertainment; upcoming party for the Bob McNamaras; Lady Bird has medical

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in 1960--my observation is that LBJ confused national presidential politics with congressional politics. He thought that if you had a senator or a congressman who was for you ,that this meant that that state would be for you. The fact, of course

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, increases in the draft, and all the rest of it. Then when I got back here, I gave the Joint Chiefs of Staff a briefing, and we began to work the problem. I also briefed the President and the pertinent members of his Cabinet and certain congressional

Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as and when an assistant secretary would want to bring me in on it, for one reason or another. Hilsman used to keep me very well briefed because we became close friends; that's one way he operates, sort of an after~hours club~ After-hours meaning sort

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

--the President occasionally picks up the telephone and calls people. M: I was going to ask about that. D: And once I went to the Cosmos Club with now Assistant Secretary John Leddy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/5/1966 (Monday) (Item)

e w e r e a c h e d the f a ir g r o u n d s. T he G ard en Club la d ie s p r e s e n te d m e w ith a b ou q u et that w a s a r e a l w o r k o f a r t, ■. 's, ' O nce in the m id d le o f h is s p e e c h th e r e c a m e a s w ift b u r s
Congressional relations

Folder, "October 29, 1968 - 2:30 a.m. Meeting with the President's Foreign Policy Advisors," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)

satisfactory. They keep improving. The President: Do they all have M-16 1 s? General Abrams: The President: Yes. Has that made a difference? General Abrams: Yes. They have more confidence. General Abrams: RF and PF have M-l6 1 s. It's membership in club

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

-favored nation status, and I think they had thought that perhaps this would mean that this would be forthcoming; and, of course, this was not forthcoming, primarily because of Congressional failure. President Johnson did request the legislation several

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