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Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; first political action; election to Congress; activities/bill introduced in Congress; Richard Nixon; Melvyn Douglas campaign for LBJ at request of FDR; Farm Security Agricultural Department Program; friendship with LBJ in…
Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Open conflicts between LBJ and Douglas; McCarthy censure; LBJ’s legislative skill; drafting the 1957 Civil Rights Bill; the influence HHH and LBJ had on each other; areas of cooperation between LBJ and Douglas; LBJ’s economic polices; truth in…
Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; meeting LBJ at college in San Marcos; clubs at Southwest Texas State Teachers' College (SWTSTC), including the White Stars; LBJ's parents; LBJ's early interest in politics; professors LBJ admired at SWTSTC, including…
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton
Days at SWTSC; jobs at SWTSC; debate team; election to the Legislature; NYA; Senator Wirtz; contacts with LBJ; assessment of LBJ's abilities and character
Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Appointment of Lodge as ambassador; Lodge's policy; President Ngo Dinh Diem; Diem's Catholicism; William C. Truehart; Deim's family relationships; nature of Dunn's job; Lodge and the press; Earl Young and Long An story; General Harkins; embassy…
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Assignment to Vietnam; situation there at the time; view of Diem in late 1950s; Wolf Ladejinsky; land reform; problems with relocation program; the Montagnards; conflict with General Sam Williams; MAAG and the embassy; Williams and Diem;…
Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston
Impressions of the Johnsons as newcomers to Washington in the early days of the New Deal
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; Stevenson campaign; Pat Brown campaign; Washington in 1959-1960; Statler Hotel party to impress Dutton; LBJ, Rayburn Bobby Baker all for California votes; Brown on “Meet the Press” in 1959 said LBJ was too conservative;…
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; regional staff; appointment to Naval Affairs Committee; Albert Thomas; 1941 Senate campaign; Colorado River dam projects; LBJ
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
30 years in the Senate; first meeting with LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Senator Russell; LBJ as Minority Leader; Committee on Internal Security; McCarthy issue; tidelands issue; becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee with the help of…
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
How Eckhardt and first husband, Billy Lee Brammer, came to work for LBJ; early impressions of LBJ; Ronnie Dugger; clipping articles from Texas newspapers for LBJ; LBJ’s senatorial staff; socializing with the Johnsons; how LBJ treated people;…
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette
Why LBJ hired Eckhardt; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; downplaying LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; how Eckhardt’s opinion of LBJ improved; the Southern Manifesto; LBJ’s public vs. private opinions.
Oral history transcript, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker
First association with LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; 1965 Civil Rights Act; Richard Scammon; Andrew Brimmer; promotion of civil servants into appointed posts; referrals; special surveys; Congressional intervention; right of privacy issue; mailout-mailback…
Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's baptism; LBJ's support of the Christian church; church ministers; electricity for the area; use of church for school activities; Rebekah Johnson as an elocution teacher; debating topics; rivalry between Blanco and Johnson City; girls' and boys'…
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Claire Booth Luce; 1944, 1960 and 1968 campaigns; Women
Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Description of Johnson City and life there; churches; Mrs. Rebekah Johnson as an elocution teacher; Mrs. Johnson's influence on LBJ; lead in play; working in Johnson; description of Johnson home; impressions of Sam Ealy Johnson; Lady Bird; the…
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; FDR; LBJ's relationship with Eisenhower; invitation to LBJ to speak at Johns Hopkins; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Chamizal dispute; LBJ as civil rights leader; Latin American affairs; 1960 election; Dominican Crisis; Panama;…