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Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think he was a statesman by a hell of a sight. I know Malone wasn't. G: Yes. How about Margaret Chase Smith? How did Johnson appeal to her? S: I think he admired her because she was a very independent person. She was the first woman to take the floor
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Lyndon Johnson was much more serious, much more of a doer and--maybe history would record--much more of a statesman. That we'll never know, because time didn't allow one to really set the mark of the other. G: In terms of cultivating relationships
President's Daily Diary entry, 1/31/1967 (Item)
  • l Johnson , Edito r - Ne w Statesman is no w w/ th e DOS . U . S. \ Willia m Donaldso n Clark, Directo r o f the Overseas Developmen t Institute Embassy, Rome , Ital y I \ S! Thi s grou p o f Britis h Journalist s i s i n tow n t o tape a 4 0 minut e
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that Lyndon Johnson was a great statesman, a scholar and the best man of the time, or something to that effect. Anything less was not quite good enough. K: Yes, yes. G: Can you remember any specific time he tried to manipulate the news through you
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that if the Hawaii amendment was added to that Alaskan bi.11, it would probably mean that neither of them would become a state. It was a statesman-like thing for John Burns. He did that and risked his political life doing it, and Lyndon Johnson delivered on his
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • exactly, but by flattery to an elder statesman. Capehart he had no use for. G: Did you ever hear him talk about Capehart? M: Not except when [Robert] Kerr called him on the floor a tub of rancid ignorance or something. me about it. He laughed like
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)