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Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to and including (interrupted for telephone call). time in 1967 to those programs. We devoted a lot of We looked for programs to create an urban-rural balance to stop the migration of rural people to the cities piling up in the ghettos. We looked

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

I could do." M: Were you in Washington, D.C. at the time of the assassination? B: Yes, I was •. M: Did you have any immediate conversation with Mr. Johnson or members of his staff? B: No, none. I stayed pretty far away during that early

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

you, and i t ' s a rather interesting incident, l think it lends some [insight]. The only time that I even remotely knew of a conversation with the Majority Leader was when at the end of the 1958 election, the Democrats had won that very large

Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, including myself, on the telephone. I'm sure he called many others about certain pieces of legislation, pointing out that he felt a deep urgency that we ought to get the Kennedy program on the road. was stalled dead-center. It hadn't been. It He used

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in office, and that played a part in the campaign. I think all those three were factors but insofar as political organization and drive were concerned, it didn't exist. M: Did you have any particular conversations with Johnson during this period of time

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

no notion to whom he had been introduced. So I would say it was at that level, the way people know public figures in Washington. S: By repute and by various brief contacts. H: And by very brief contacts and small, small conversations. I'm sure he