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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Contributor > Albert, Carl Bert, 1908-2000 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • all those books about how if you always told the truth you'd be all right. So lid say, "Oh, no sir, I don't have to go to bed till eight o'clock." And one time I was brash enough--I was in a conversation with the Speaker, it was maybe at the Ranch
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • by telephone. M: Was there a telephone on the platform connected with Mr. Johnson? A: I talked to him from a trailer that I had behind the platform. I had a trailer office out there. That's where I talked to him. I talked to him at least twice. Once he said
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ushers or police or service or something, a small room with a telephone. So just as I looked into the Blue Room and saw I couldn't go in there, the President came up--President Kennedy. He said, "Let's go over in this room." He was down early, too. So we
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • be wrong, this is just an impression, but based on conversations that I had with him and watching him move around the House. He was very quick and walked fast between here and the Cannon Building. I'd meet him in the tunnel; he'd be walking very fast
  • ; Barkley; Rayburn-Johnson conversation regarding the Democratic nomination for president; LBJ's working relationship with Eisenhower; Rayburn; Civil Rights Act; Federal aid to education; Gerald Ford
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . You were one of the eleven Southern Democrats who supported that. Could you tell me what you thought was the strategy, or what you developed as the strategy to gain passage for this bill, and also what conversations you would have had with Mr. Johnson