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Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
The transition from John F. Kennedy to LBJ and comparing the two men; the 1964 civil rights bill; moral versus legal arguments regarding civil rights; Alabama's opposition to civil rights legislation; the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955; George…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
1960 Democratic National Convention; Alabama citizens' opinion of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon; the Kennedy/Nixon debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; LBJ's and Lady Bird Johnson's 1960 campaign trip through Alabama; LBJ's ambition; LBJ as vice…
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s staff; Pierre Salinger; LBJ and the press; Reedy appointed as press secretary; railroad strike and machinists’ strike; LBJ’s understanding of Latin America; Alliance for Progress; War on Poverty; tax bill; civil rights bill; LBJ’s…
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's 1941 U.S. Senate campaign loss; extension of the Selective Service Act; the bombing of Pearl Harbor; LBJ volunteering for active military duty; LBJ and John Connally in California; LBJ's contact with his congressional office while he served in…
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Faulk’s boarders, Mr. And Mrs. John Talley; how Faulk came to know of LBJ; J. Frank Dobie; Nazi Germany; racism; Faulk’s father; Faulk’s experience with black people; John Connally; LBJ’s career in the 1950s; 1956 Presidential election;…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
The natural gas bill of 1956; Senator Lister Hill's reputation for being pro-labor; labor legislation in the 1950s; President Eisenhower's 1958 veto of the rivers and harbors bill; Alaskan statehood; Eisenhower as president; the election of a…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Foreign policy during the Dwight Eisenhower administration; Robert Taft and the Hill-Burton Act; partisanship in the Senate during the Eisenhower administration; the Bricker Amendment; support for organized labor in southern states; separation of…
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Business community's views of LBJ; financial burden of social programs; Chairman Martin; Arthur Krim; Medicare and Medicaid fight; voluntary balance of payments program; steel negotiations of 1965; Connor's disagreements with LBJ over tax increases;…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
How Cronin was hired to go to work for Lister Hill in Washington, D.C.; Cronin's relationship with Marc Ray "Foots" Clement; Cronin's duties under Hill; Lister Hill's staff; Hill's work ethic; Hill's interest in education and health issues; Hill…
Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson
How Stanford became involved in civil rights issues; the 1964 Mississippi summer project's goals; voter registration for African Americans in Mississippi and other southern states; the relationships between different civil rights organizations; the…
Oral history transcript, George Pazianos, interview 1 (I), 8/30/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Labor and Public Welfare Committee staff and their areas of expertise; Lister Hill's work as chair of the committee; bipartisanship on the committee; committee response to Great Society legislation, especially relating to…
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Incidents involving civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson, Ralph Abernathy, Andy Young, and Marian Edelman; the Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service (ASCS); Jamie Whitten; Rural Areas Development Service (RADS); Secretary of Agriculture…
Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Mahoney's early interest in health care issues; Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman's articles about mental health care in Oklahoma and his influence on Mahoney; how Mahoney began working with Albert and Mary Lasker on mental health issues and cancer;…
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Senator George McGovern's interest in food programs; how McGovern's interest moved from international to domestic food issues; the Senate Agricultural Committee; Bob Choate and Ben Stong's involvement in the creation of the…
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Allan Shivers and LBJ's 1956 fight for control of the Texas Democratic Party; Spears' work with Shivers; Shivers leaving the Democratic Party; the 1956 Texas Democratic Convention; Dwight Eisenhower as president; John Connally.
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ and the Vice Presidency, Nixon’s precedents and travel, particularly his trip to Venezuela and the inflaming of the situation in Caracas, Tom Mann, LBJ's first vice-presidential trip, Professor Eric Zimmerman, trips to Puerto Rico and Senegal…
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple
LBJ's interest in arts legislation in 1964; Biddle meeting with Abe Fortas regarding proposed arts legislation; Claiborne Pell; proposing legislation that later started the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities;…