Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz

Title:

Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz

Number of Pages:

40

Description:

How Tully came to know LBJ; FDR’s relationship with LBJ and other congressmen; FDR’s recording decisions made in Cabinet meetings; how Tully came to work for FDR; FDR’s decision to call congressmen back from the service in WWII; Tully’s jobs after FDR’s death and coming to work for LBJ in 1955; Democratic Policy committee procedures and how members were chosen; comparison of how the Policy Committee ran under Senator Johnson and then Senator Mansfield; LBJ’s work on civil rights legislation, 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 Humphrey; Democratic conventions and FDR’s selection of Truman as a running mate; Senator Johnson’s Senate Committee appointments and why he chose JFK for Foreign Relations Committee; comparison between FDR and LBJ as leaders; story about Tully giving a bust of FDR to LBJ and receiving a bust of LBJ; 1955 Democratic Women’s Club meeting in San Antonio; JFK’s invitation for Tully to come to the White House to see if his desk was the same one used by FDR.

Contributor:

Tully, Grace, 1900-1984

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Grace Tully

Subject:

Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details