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  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HILLER -- I -- 2 F: Yes . i%l : But we came here with Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933
  • Galbraith RecalIs FDR's 'Revolution' The rrnblic part of the symposium opened on March 3 with an address by Harvard University economist John Ken­ neth Galbraith. Excerpt~ from the Galbraith speech: IL was Franklin D. Roosevelt who in the Uni1ed States led
  • additions and betterments to our defenses there• ' With all good wishes, personal, politioal and Presi­ dential, I am, Sincerely yours FRANKLIN D• ROOSEVELT I· I I I Mrs• Nan Wood Honeyman Demooratic Candidate for Congress 1728 Southwest Prospeot Drive
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
  • to make this an even better land. The new American, his children and his grandchildren have been a major force in this nati.o n ever since there was an America. lt is true, as Franklin Roosevelt said, that aU Americans are descended from immigrants. We
  • we did. I remember--no, maybe that was later; yes, it must have been later--standing outside taking a picture of [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt as he came out in his long black car with the Secret Service men standing on the fenders behind him. G
  • . And that job--oh, I guess, it was about fifteen or sixteen months later, they took those papers up to Hyde Park. And that ended that. Then, in a little while, we opened up the Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation office here on 18th Street. of the Foundation
  • , including relationships with Southern friends and Mrs. Roosevelt; Tully’s work with the Preparedness Committee; LBJ’s selection of staff for his senatorial and vice-presidential offices; Tully’s activities since her retirement in 1965; Joe McCarthy; Hubert
  • not to vote for Lyndon Johnson. I with great sincerity say that I don ' t want the enemies of Franklin Roosevelt to be the friends or Lyndon Johnson , for 1n my humble way , working with Rooseve l t for Texas , I do not care to be a i ded by the double cross
  • and their families. The material is subdivided by the name of the President (of First Lady). There a separate folders for President John F. Kennedy, Mrs. John F. Kennedy, President Harry S. Truman, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org FOLDER TITLE LIST Box Number 3 07/03/17 Folder Title George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan – Presidential prerogatives in Undeclared War] 4
  • , the national party--and he was a national Democrat primarily--and it started back in the 1930s with a coalition of what you can call special interest groups, if you want to, and Franklin Roosevelt saw this well. He organized union leadership, which was a very
  • and the 1947 Texas right-to-work law; organizing urban African Americans in the 1930s under Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Price Daniel's 1952 U.S. Senate campaign based on tidelands issues; the Heman Sweatt lawsuit against the University of Texas Law School
  • ;JlJnity. from a quite discrete world) the most fantastic political leader of \merican history, one Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has become President of the United States. \'lith bewildering speed he began prescribing ne\
  • a game of [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt's. Roosevelt was always trying to trap newspapermen into writing phony stories, and Johnson's admiration for Roosevelt was really very deep, and he imitated Roosevelt every way he possibly could. However, I think he
  • passed by one vote. G: This was the one in 1941, right before World War II? H: Yes, that was in 1941. G: Let's go back now to the early years. I wanted to ask you again if you can elaborate on the friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon
  • the phone so that earpiece just about shook my ear off. He said, "Goddammit, it was good enough for Frankl in Delano Roosevelt!" "Well," I said, "it's not good enough now. We can't stay there. What are we going to do?" He said, "Look, Bar Harbor is just
  • of Lyndon Johnson at Granger, Texas Speech by Lyndon Johnson in Wichita Falls, Texas Statement of Lyndon B. Johnson Concerning Democrats Victory Statement for Papers SENATE JOURNAL, Austin, Texas. Senate Resolution 61, "In Memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • in effect calling him into his command headquarters to censor him for something, maybe going on that mission. LBJ pointedly reminding him that he was still a congressman, that he was going back to Washington very quickly under Roosevelt's orders
  • of the party. The other wing was the old Democratic Party, which was Catholicoriented. And they are the same we found in Iowa--these were old Catholics that [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt brought into the party in the Depression. And, basically, it's not [because
  • for the Progressives to join the Democrats. Henry Wallace and Franklin Roosevelt. I called it the party of Henry Wallace was something of a hero of mine at that time because, of course, he was identified with my issue, the agricultural problems. My father had
  • it, but in 1932 with the New Deal, you know what happened at that time. were elected in that year. Two, good people One is Franklin Roosevelt, and the other one is David Dubinsky--two presidents. He was elected President of the United States, and I
  • with me, which I think derived from some of his talks with Roosevelt, which in turn was one of the reasons I couldn't help Lyndon as much as I should have helped Lyndon. The LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES ROOSEVELT INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Roosevelt's office, Irvine, California Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Did you have any knowledge of LBJ when he was NYA [National Youth Administration] director [for the state of Texas
  • See all online interviews with James Roosevelt
  • LBJ's election to Congress in 1937 and Franklin Roosevelt's (FDR's) appreciation for his support in Texas; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee and FDR's feelings regarding the appointment; Roosevelt's duties with regard to members
  • Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991
  • Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
  • James Roosevelt
  • proposed plan by President Franklin Roosevelt to reorganize the Supreme Court by adding a great many members to it. The obvious objective here was to gain support which would validate a great many of Roosevelt's This, of course, focused attention
  • Biographical information; Jimmie Allred; Franklin Roosevelt's court packing plan and LBJ's 1938 election; tabulating primary election votes and the work of the state Democratic Executive Committee; administration of the Democratic party in Texas
  • . Stadiu m an d enrout e t o W H , stoppe d a t th e dedicatio n of th e Franklin Delan o Roosevelt Memorakl a t 8t h and Penn. Avenue , N W at 4:0 6 pm April 12. 1965 White House Monday Arrived a t the White House - - upstairs To the office w/ MW
  • and no youngster to go unschooled. There are those of you here today who remember Franklin Roosevelt's sad recounting of the one-third of our nation who were ill-clad, ill-housed, and ill-fed. Today, we are still shamed by the one-fifth of our citiz ens who live
  • will be wise in proportion as they are directed by a trained generation which really cares. I remember, not many years after I graduated from college, listening on the radio to a great American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. He came to the part of his
  • to Washington, D.C. by Franklin D. Roosevelt on an occasion or two in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • in the records, that library was then the concept. . learn. But he also had to He was a very busy man, as we all know. and he never sat down and thought about the Roosevelt Library and the Truman Library as such, as it applied to him. But when he started
  • and protocol. W1l on. The7 are Th 7 are siok to deat h of pro­ 'Ibey are 11 t ening tor the noble words ot a They are hop tul still ot the pr otloal lad r hip ot a Roosevelt . It I hav heard it once I have heard it a hu.ndr d times , 3 "If Roosevelt
  • , M r s . F. D. R o o s e v e lt III, M rs Franklin D. R o o s e v e lt," j r . ; M r. and M r s . John R o o s e v e lt; tiny, liv e l y M r s . K e r m it R o o s e v e lt, and M is s Nina R o o s e v e lt. MEMORANDUM THE W HITE HOUSE WASHINGTON
  • LBJ and Railroad Strike; Lady Bird to first anniversary luncheon of the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation in New York; Lady Bird & Jean Kintner to Needlework Shop to design needlepoint pillows for White House; Lady Bird mentions many people
  • . • . .. CAUTION--RELEASE ON DELIVERY THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1964 1:00 P. M. (EST) Office of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Johnson THE WHITE HOUSE TRIBUTE TO ELEANOR ROOSEVELT BY MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON ELEANOR ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FIRST
  • Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
  • Press release, "Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation First Anniversary Luncheon, Hilton Hotel, New York, 4/9/1964"
  • right Roosevelt Roosevelt State and then it was that Presidency Big Jim took on the chairmanship Big 1im decided that some ➔ .tates Roosevelt. was really to its votes, candidate for the Big 1im right then him Frank, nor even having
  • and Franklin Roosevelt? P: I don't remember what all we have gone into in the past, but of course Lyndon's association with Roosevelt was very close over a number of years and was the most important factor, I suppose, both in his election and in his
  • LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
  • approval to all of our staff people saying from now on they could call it "insurance." But at that moment of time, of course, everybody was very worried, and I would like to add this--that the greatest contribution that Franklin Roosevelt made to all
  • [For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ
  • April 30, 1964 (Cont'd) Benjamin S. Rosenthal - Congressman from New York - Jerry Walsh's district Undersecretary of Labor John F. Henning Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt. Jr. Edward A. McDermott - Director of OEP Cmdr Douglas H
  • Jack Valenti fr mansion Congressman Clif Davis Tennessee fr Mansion Undersecretary Franklin D Roosevelt Jr fr mansion Bill Moyers fr mansion Congressman Carl Albert fr mansion Cong Phil Landrum fr mansion Georgia Congressman Asst Secy Charles Murphy
  • months to make some pretty harsh statements - I have my own political situation, too. But I have tried to make it clear that the farmer 1 s problems have existed for more than fifteen years. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. once said that the American farmer
  • about the new America young people are helping to build. Years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt spoke in moving words about the future of America. "One day, 11 he said, "a generation may possess this land, blessed beyond a..,ything we now know; blessed
  • alwaysref1erto the Navy as I us.Ill Onthis daythirty yearsago, in 1933,Franklin D. Roosevelt wasthe speakerhere -- and he.awarded the Bachelorof Sciencedegreefor the fiirst time in the NavalAcademy'shistory. I knoweachof you is r- proudof yoDr newcommission. I am
  • ages. Park. J(leh.; Dr. Blue Canuuoa. WMll!astoa. D. C.: hnuim A. In 1935, when the man that both of us loved so much, g:lbJ', Sebea~N. Y.: ,1Com~ult. N. ,1,; W. G. ,.i., 8oal--, ,; Ganld l'lna. J1 N. 'l!'.; Dr. Anlaur Franklin Delano Roosevelt, signed
  • clouds of war in Europe, and the continuing question, which indeed had begun in 1939, "Is [President Franklin] Roosevelt going to run for a third term? Nobody's ever done it. Is he going to? And if he runs, can he win?" Because we think of him now
  • Questions in 1940 about whether Franklin Roosevelt would run for a third presidential term; the Marshall Ford Dam; social activities in Washington, D.C. in 1940; the death of LBJ's uncle, George Desha Johnson; Rebekah Johnson's 1940 visit