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  • . 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
  • 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.
  • INFMN. TIME FILED J. C . WILLKVS.R, P:Ut&T V JCll•PllllalDl:NT NEWCOMB CARLTON , P"HIDKNT Send thefollor,,ing meJ3Dge, 3ubjecl lo the terms on back hereof, which"a,e hereby agreed to · Kr. John U. Garner. 5:peak~r, House ot lieproacntat~voo, l I
  • (include visited by) Christian (pl) Johnson Mike Mansfield Rostow Senator t Everett Dirksen Senator John Sparkman ~~MW (pl) "~~ .. . 12:30p t ay_ Secy of State, Nicholas Katzenbach _i Walt ^12:11p t Wednesday i Senator . Wallace Bennett
  • School(Retired), Univ of Utah • y^ John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Hollis Prof of Math and Natural Philosophy, Harvard Ur iv Andreasson, Rolf, Scientific Attache Embassy of Sweden / Downing. Thomas N., Cong. Aines, Col Andrew A. Off , Scienc e and Tech (OSTJ
  • Agenda Foundation Public Relations Seminar Committee Quarterly Report The Rainbow Tree Corporation President Reagan John S. Reed, Vice Chairman Donald T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury China Chips Choice The Citi Approach Citibank History Citicorp
  • 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
  • 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
  • . Urbanovsky tells the audience it is her birthday and presents her with a gift. JOHN BEN SHEPPERD of Odessa, former Texas Attorney General, and advocate of beautifying Texas, compliREAGANHOUSTON,Tom Taylor, Mrs. Lady Bird ~ohnso~ an~ Rep. James Nugent
  • . Urbanovsky tells the audience it is her birthday and presents her with a gift. JOHN BEN SHEPPERD of Odessa, former Texas Attorney General, and advocate of beautifying Texas, compliREAGANHOUSTON,Tom Taylor, Mrs. Lady Bird ~ohnso~ an~ Rep. James Nugent
  • --Illinois Wayne :Morris--Oregon (Republican) Johnston--South Carolina Russell--Georgia Tobey--New Hampshire-(Republican Aiken--Vermont (Republican) Lehman-Hew York Johns,on--Texas Murray--Montana Hayden--Arizona La.nger--N.o rth Dakota (Republican) K11go.r e
  • and subject files of Commissioner Senator Fred R. Harris (Democrat of Oklahoma), Executive Director David Ginsburg, Deputy Executive Director Victor H. Palmieri, and Special Assistant to the Executive Director John A. Koskinen. Records of other administrative
  • 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.
  • Tour Army contract to Weatherhead Co., Cle v eland, Ohio ($7,670,250) Sent Presidential message to Mrs. John Gorni, on occasion of 80th b'day AID contract to the Eico Lubricant Corp., Cle v eland, Ohio ($26, 784) and the Lubrizol Corp., Cle v eland
  • 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
  • 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
  • chair) Orison S. Marden, New York City, President, American Bar Assoc Earl F . Morris. Columbus, Ohio, President-elect, ABA T. Gossett, Detroit, Mich , President-elect nominee, ABA | James D. Fellers, Oklahoma City , Okla. , Chairman of the House
  • Wilbur Mills. Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee __ : Cong. -JHriMBeiig-E Frank Bow, ? Cong John Byrnes. Ranking Minority Member of House Ways and Means Committee J^_ Charles Schultze ;; ^--'i JaaCXXjL?^ ! Joe ;j ____ ____ C Gardner Ackle y
  • 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
  • . by return wire. Sherwin J. Markman, Assistant to the President. BLOUGH,Roger, U.S. Steel Corp COWLF.s,John, Minneapolis Star & Tribune • GRUENTHER, Alfred M., Wash., D.C. KISTIAK
  • 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
  • See all online interviews with John B. Connally
  • Connally, John Bowden, 1917-1993
  • Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek
  • John B. Connally
  • , New Menco ALBERT GORE, TennTHOMAS 0. MORRIS, New Mm.co HENRY M. JACKSON, Wuhlncton JOHN YOUNG, Tena BOURKE B. HIOKENLOOPER, Iowa ORAIO HOSMER, Califomla GEORGE D, ALKEN, Vennonl WILLIAM H. BATES, Muucbu11ettl WALLACE I'. BENNETT, Utah JOHN B. ANDERSON
  • was appointing Morris [Abram] to the Conference Co-Chair, the following occurred. I'd already agreed to be director of the conference, which I then thought was inappropriate because it seemed to me that there should be, as we used to say in those days, "a Negro
  • Bernhard being asked to organize a White House conference on civil rights; problems with conference planning; Morris Abrams, William T. Coleman and Benjamin Heinemann as co-chairmen of the conference; planning session for the conference; LBJ's
  • th.at they, in turn, have a clearer picture .. , . - · AGR - Mrs. Jacobson (by phone) U - Mro Morris .\~) .. AID - Mr. HWIIDOn (by phone) WH . ~- 00D/ISA - Col Kissinger (by phone) i AF - Mr. Fredericks LIMITED OFFICIAL USE i FORM 8-65 0 ~·322
  • is not satislied with th w&y th,~ investigation indicated JOHN KL"lNEDY was ~ssassina-t ed~ He· fee.l s that there 1~ was or is something e·lsre . behind the assa·s sination,, On November 21 9 1966~ BH T=l3 advised ,t hat ROBERT SHELTON was the featu.r ed speaker
  • 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
  • , The Christian Science Monitor. Everett Case, president, Sloan Foundation. Everett R. Clinchy, president, Council on World Tensions, Inc. John Thomas Connor, president, Merck & Co., Inc. Howard A. Cook, president, International House-New York. John Cowles
  • · from some of bills I had drawn from the the best ·!lames .(TriciaNixon, .1 bank and said that was ·what . Mr. and Mrs; ·Stavros Niar1 was going to spend, and chos, ~or ilnd Mrs, John they said, 'All right, we V. Lindsay, Senator and Mrs. . haven't been
  • · from some of bills I had drawn from the the best ·!lames .(TriciaNixon, .1 bank and said that was ·what . Mr. and Mrs; ·Stavros Niar1 was going to spend, and chos, ~or ilnd Mrs, John they said, 'All right, we V. Lindsay, Senator and Mrs. . haven't been
  • a photographic archive. I am very sorry not to be more helpful. John G. Morris 209 G Street, s. W. Washington, D. c. 20024 737-8507 (Area 202) November3, 1965 A NATIONALPHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE On January ]J, 1965, in asking federal departments and agencies
  • in New Orleans. Leberte owns or works at the Scott Street Produce Market where John McFerren of Somerville alleged­ ly overheard a man speaking on the telephone say, on or about the day of the assassination: •shoot him on ·the balccmy, shoot him anywhere
  • and I have kept up through the years from Uncle John Will with the news of you all. Please remember me to the girls when you write them. Thank you so much for your generous remarks about Lyndon. I always hope we will find a quiet enough week or two
  • 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
  • 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
  • with the Texas press, making him look good, and thinking and writing letters, whatever there was to do, because he was pretty cranked up. G: Well, what was the reaction of your friends in Texas, the Ronnie Dugger and Willie Morris types, to your going to work
  • Robert Kerr; John Connally; Jim Rowe; LBJ’s paternalism; LBJ’s temper; how LBJ controlled the Senate; a birthday party LBJ threw for Eleanor Roosevelt; Eckhardt’s personal life during the 1950’s.
  • Bird and President Johnson. Just about six or eight months later, many of the people that had worked with President Johnson were all coming back from the war. Most of them had been in the war. They decided to start a radio station, KVET. That was John
  • with his bare hands. G: Oh, John Dos Passos book. B: Yes, John Dos Passos book. I did have it. I ' v e got it right over there someplace. I d o n ' t know, maybe I ' v e given it away, but I had it. Haven't read that one in several years. literature
  • became active in party affairs within the state, and at that time I lived in Daingerfield, Texas. P: In what capacity did you serve? W: I had no official capacity in 1951. I just worked within my precinct and within the four precincts of Morris County
  • leadership breakfast. During morning he meets with Morris Jaffee, Mayor Gaines of San Antonio, and Cliff Carter; Stanley Marcus, Dale Miller, and John Stemmons to present picture of LBJ Freeway proposed to be built in Dallas; Oscar Chapman; Commissioner