Discover Our Collections


  • Collection > LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Contributor > Corcoran, Thomas G., 1900-1981 (remove)

3 results

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be represented by someone else. I don't know whether he did this because he was afraid of protest on the floor by some outside Kennedy groups or not. But at any rate he decided that John McCormack should stand in for him. He sent Jim Rowe down to talk to John
  • ; 1964 vice presidential nominee possibilities, including Robert Kennedy; relationship between LBJ, Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey; Corcoran's belief that LBJ brought an equilibrium to the US; how LBJ was deceived by Robert McNamara
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ] Shiel of Chicago, in turn a friend of Bishop [Robert Emmet] Lucey of Texas. I had never met Johnson. But I had known well his chief Aubrey Williams, who was also a Texan, who was the [national] head of the Youth Administration. One day Aubrey Williams
  • with the Kennedy family; Joe Kennedy's proposal to make LBJ run for president in 1960 with JFK as his running mate.
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the difficult periods that made it possible--even if Mr. Kennedy talked about going to the moon--for us to actually get to the moon. I particularly remember that night because the one who accompanied us on the walk was Mary Margaret [Wiley Valenti]. Somewhere
  • to Mexico, Robert Hill; LBJ's regret over accepting the vice presidential nomination; Corcoran's campaign strategies; the increased availability of a college education.