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Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker
Early relationship with LBJ; 1960 campaign; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; JFK leadership; Department of Commerce problems; JFK’s staff; LBJ and civil rights; LBJ and the Vice Presidency; JFK-LBJ friction; Business Advisory Council; relation…
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Met LBJ when he was in the House while she working for FDR; relationship with LBJ was maintained while he was a Senator, VP and President; LBJ's friendship and his political abilities
Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
First awareness of LBJ; administrator of Marshall Plan; UN Development Program; Joe McCarthy attack; free trade; representative to UN assembly; Bunche mission; civil liberties; campaign expenditures; foreign aid; International Peace Corps; advisory…
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker
[For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees and…
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker
[For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees and…
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker
[For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees and…
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1948; Assistant to Executive Secretary of the AFL, Austin in 1950; 17 months in Korea; AFL and CIO merger in 1957; strained relations with LBJ; appointment by George Meany as Assistant Secretary of Labor then…
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Holton's early jobs in Sam Rayburn's office, the House Office Building, and the Washington, D.C., police department; Rayburn's 1956 support for LBJ as favorite son presidential candidate and chairman of the Texas delegation…
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman
Met LBJ as a student at a political meeting in Blanco, TX; Hopkins campaigned for Democratic party nomination to the Senate from 19th District, TX; Sam Johnson as a friend and supporter; Alvin Wirtz; Richard Kleberg's election to Congress, 1931; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
Early personal history in Texas; Justice Department experience; Texas Legislature service; Mine Workers International Union background; LBJ and John L. Lewis; first contacts with LBJ; recollection of Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s job with Kleburg and NYA…
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s susceptibility to illness at various times; State Senator Alvin Wirtz; Ku Klux Klan in Texas; receivership of LCRA in Texas; Wirtz as assistant secretary of Interior Department; his expertise on Texas water law; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s…
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Early association with Johnsons; LBJ at Southwest Texas State Teachers' College; LBJ as debate coach; Alvin Wirtz; secretary to Kleberg; Maury Maverick; Al Smith; redistricting Blanco County
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Southwest Texas State Teachers' College; living arrangements; jobs; campus activities and organizations; LBJ's family; boarding house; social activities; professors; classes; 1928 Democratic convention; sports; President Evans; other students
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; met LBJ during loss in first run for Senate, loss by 1,511 votes; LBJ’s manner in giving ‘the works;’ LBJ’s tendency toward secrecy; LBJ’s temper and ambition; landslide victory in 1948; six offices plus the…
Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; knew LBJ as majority leader; Housing Committee, a sub-committee of Banking and Currency Committee of the Senate; staff director Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, 1965; Earle Clements; Kentucky Senator Symington…
Oral history transcript, Donald F. Hornig, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; set up lab in Woods Hole then Los Alamos, 1944; Oppenheimer in charge; first test a surprising shockwave; believed bomb would end war and save American lives; Fulbright Grant and Guggenheim grant to Oxford, 1954; to…
Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances involvement in War on Poverty; meetings; work on program; Adam Yarmolinsky; types of people on task force; Mike Harrington and Paul Jacobs; choice of clients for programs; different locations; working out the programs and the bill;…
