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Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Jesse Jones; Charles Marshall; Alvin Wirtz; LCAR; LBJ's personality; war years; LBJ and business; vice presidency; presidency; Vietnam; the Great Society; education; retirement; Lady Bird Johnson
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Foreign Relations Committee; HHH’s 1955 success in establishing an arms control/disarmament subcommittee; defeat of Lewis Strauss nomination as director of the Atomic Energy Commission; Omnibus Farm Bill of 1954; Esma(?) Taft Benson; how LBJ…
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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…
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Social Security Act Amendment; Minimum Wage bill 1955; Arthur Beeson nomination to NLRB; Lewis Strauss nomination; Bricker Amendment; jury trial amendment; Hell's Canyon dam; Bill Knowland; 1957 Civil Rights Bill
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; strategies in passing or defeating bills and in committee appointments; Walter George
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
An incident involving the press access to LBJ at the Ranch; Cassie Mackin; Doug Kiker; Marianne Means; Virginia "Ginny" Thrift; Walter Lippmann and Scotty Reston; Washington Whispers; comparing the number of press conferences held by LBJ and…
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; labor movement in Texas; 1948 Senate race; labor support; Taft-Hartley; LBJ’s legislative abilities and tactics; organizing Senate; McCarthy censure; 1955 tax bill; highway bill; minimum wage bill; civil rights bill;…
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
[For interviews 1 and 2] Sparkman and LBJ's careers in the House of Representatives; the Selective Service extension bill in 1941; FDR's handling of the PWA and WPA; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; economic problems in the South; LBJ as…
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s susceptibility to illness at various times; State Senator Alvin Wirtz; Ku Klux Klan in Texas; receivership of LCRA in Texas; Wirtz as assistant secretary of Interior Department; his expertise on Texas water law; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s…
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz
Thomas’ first meeting with LBJ; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ and newsmen; covering the 1960 campaign; White House press corps; LBJ’s vice-presidential years; Mrs. Johnson’s trip through the South; television and the Vietnam War;…
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; LBJ in the Senate; Senate legislative issues, 1952-1960; LBJ's relationships with other Senators
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ in Senate; Tidelands Bill; Housing Act of 1955; minimum wage; 1955 Tax Bill; Land Bank; LBJ techniques of persuasion; Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills; LBJ and Richard Russell; LBJ's presidency
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Engelhard’s family history; marriage to Fritz Mannheimer; leaving France for Spain to avoid testifying against Mr. Daladier and Mr. Reynaud; conditions and traveling during World War II; fleeing to Argentina and later returning to Europe; moving to…
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Met LBJ when he was in the House while she working for FDR; relationship with LBJ was maintained while he was a Senator, VP and President; LBJ's friendship and his political abilities
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s assistance in Moss’ 1958 Senate campaign in Utah; LBJ’s management and leadership as Senate Majority Leader; conflict over Rule 22; 1960 Civil Rights Act filibuster; LBJ’s use of the Senate rules and vote counting; 1960 Democratic…
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Boggs' earliest memories of the Johnsons in 1941; LBJ's World War II military service; LBJ's 1948 Senate election; socializing with the Johnsons and Sam Rayburn; Boggs' and Rayburn's interaction during the 1960 presidential campaign kick-off; how LBJ…
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's 1955 heart attack at George Brown's home and his health before the heart attack; LBJ's recovery from the heart attack; why LBJ was an effective Senate majority leader; LBJ's relationships with President Dwight Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn;…
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ as Majority Leader; LBJ's relationship with other Senators and with his Senate staff; LBJ's power of persuasion
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Laitin’s work related to the Pope’s visit to New York and meeting with LBJ; press coverage of LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; how LBJ liked to be positioned for photographs; Yoichi Okamoto; advancing trips to visit President Truman; how LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Advancing LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; Laitin’s falling out with LBJ; Bob Fleming as Deputy Press Secretary; trip to Mexico with LBJ; Christmas trip to Rome; Colonel James Swindal; trying to be anonymous in Rome while advancing LBJ’s arrival;…
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s unanimous consent policy; Allan Shivers; Knowland; the Bricker Amendment; Siegel’s involvement in a variety of legislative acts; Farm Bill; Walter George; LBJ’s power of persuasion; LBJ and partisanship; recommital of the Taft-Hartley…
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; how Haselton joined LBJ's staff in 1953; Christmas shopping with LBJ; Haselton's duties as part of LBJ's Washington D.C. staff and what it was like to work for LBJ; LBJ's persuasive and intuitive nature; LBJ's relationships…
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ and the NYA in 1935; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; political philosophies; Griffin-Landrum Bill; Ralph Yarborough; Allan Shivers; LBJ & JFK; Rayburn and the Kennedys
Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's Texas office; work with constituents; LBJ's relationship with staff members and Senate colleagues; LBJ's powers of persuasion; legislation
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; problems of blacks in colleges in the 1940s; appointment to FTC; association with LBJ after U.S. judgeship appointment; meetings and activities following assassination of MLK and related disturbances; work on Federal Jury…
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz
Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; 1948 kidney stone attack; B52s, B70s, B36s; Senate Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; NASA; impressions of LBJ and his…
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
More detailed recollections of the majority leadership; the Policy Committee; Wayne Morse; Robert Taft; nature of bipartisanship under Eisenhower Administration; William Knowland and Hawaii and Alaska statehood
