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Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • it that, was in his blood, just by inheritance and by training, and by general aptitude. EG: On that point, Mr. Hopkins, we've talked to a number of his old friends in San Marcos and we have a somewhat confused picture of what his state of mind was in this period
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Well, after he announced for Congress, then I resigned from NYA and traveled with him as a traveling secretary, valet and chauffeur. with him every step of the way. rally at San Marcos. I went The only place I missed was the opening He opened his
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • liked them ; they felt very friendly to [Ferdinand] Marcos . And my view, my belief is that in those days Johnson felt very buoyed by what was � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • LBJ's VP trip to Senegal; Bill Moyers; John Rooney; May 1961 Asian trip: Saigon and Diem, Philippines and Marcos, Formosa, Bangkok, India and Pakistan; Dag Hammarskjold funeral in 1961; Beirut; Iran; Turkey; Cyprus; Greece; LBJ's paranoia regarding
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , along about that time. He was more interested in getting a good education. G: How did he like it at San Marcos? Did he talk to you about that? W: He liked it very well; he sure did. The fact of the business is, he has encouraged me over the years
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in San Marcos. Remember, you stopped there on your way down to the King Ranch? You said it was a rather modest house, but do you remember [any details]? J: It was a modest frame house, Victorian, as I recall. San Marcos was a center where a lot
  • The Johnson family's home in San Marcos; what Lady Bird Johnson thought of LBJ's early career prospects; LBJ's response to a job offer from Charles Marsh; LBJ's ability to remember names; Mrs. Johnson's reluctance to marry LBJ; the weeks leading up
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • was to us to have given us Jesse Kellam from 1945 to his death in 1977. [Inaudible] enabled Lyndon to say in public office. M: How did he come into your life? J: Lyndon had known him in Southwest Texas, in San Marcos, Teacher's College. Jesse was a little
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with educational matters was directed by J. C. Kellam, who went to school with Lyndon down in San Marcos. He was Lyndon's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • and he saw what Tom Martin was doing, and how he was making money, and how he had to be, why he just was a real little man, then. Then he started to school. Of course, when he got to San Marcos, he didn't have any money, he's like everybody else
Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • leonard -- I -- 16 M: Did you exchange gifts, presents? L: No. M: Then you went off to San Marcos, and he went off to work on the road crew then? L: California. M: Or California first. L: He went to California, and then he came back and worked
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the bases on the list was San Marcos, Texas. This particular General officer had been sent over by the Air Force to brief Senator Johnson about the closing of this base and the reasons therefor. Senator Johnson apparently understood the necessity
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : It seems that when Mr . Johnson went off to school and he got over to San Marcos he found out that the organization known as the Black Knights really ran the student body . To be a black knight--this was really the lettermen's association--so I understand
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • College at San Marcos. But I had no occasion to run into him until I went up to a political gathering somewhere along the line of either Hays and Blanco or Hays and Travis County--a little community called LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • , the President’s boyhood friend, Ben Crider, said that the President as early as the San Marcos days was constantly saying the greatest thing to be was “in public service.” Of course it means a great deal to him today --it seems to be a constant theme in his life
Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • went down to San Marcos with me. Of course I don't know if Everett would like for the President to know it now, but it's a fact that he was for me. PB: I imagine that he didn't even know the President then. PS: I don't think he did. We were
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No, this is when we went to Pearsall. We went down to South Texas. We went to San Antonio, we went to San Marcos, stayed all night with his folks there. G: Can you recall that evening in San Marcos? His father was there? L: Yes. I remember that--I think
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 5 (V), 4/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was Lyndon s friend. I VW: They organized the caravan that went from here to the opening address that Lyndon made in San Marcos. Our car had a permanent sign painted on it, "Lyndon Johnson." WJ: You went from Seguin or from Corpus? VW: From Corpus
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was very close to Dr. [Cecil] Evans down at San Marcos. He worked for him. Through him he got to know a lot of them that way. Now on that scale, I think that Jesse Kellam was a tremendous help to him because of Jesse's being a little older than Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • real well. G: They came from different parts of the state. T: Yes, different parts, but they went to school in the same area. She went to Austin and he at San Marcos. G: Did they tend to think alike? T: I think so. G: Did she strike you
Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • set the fire going in him? ??: I've heard him say that he got tired of just working and decided he needed an education. He decided he'd go to school and he went up to San Marcos and got himself a job and entered college. LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Of course, for two summers he worked for me out here, he was going to school at San Marcos, and he just worked in the summer out here on this road. Now that's when I first came. G: Did he ever talk to you about going to Cotulla when he went down
Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the school. And I think I went to San Marcos once, to go to something there. G: Anything you want to record about those trips? K: No, not really, it was just--the way the AP works, you know, the White House photographers travel officially, the local guys
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gammon -- II -- 20 San Marcos, and that's how he got some sort of a feel about what people are interested in and what concerns them and what their needs are. So unquestionably he learned. He
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall anything in particular about the school aid program of enabling students to stay in school on various projects? K: Not specifically. I remember he was always tremendously interested in the San Marcos school project, but that specific part
Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GARZA -- I -- 2 who I understand was a roommate of Lyndon Johnson's at San Marcos. He told me that a friend of his by the name of Lyndon Johnson was running for Congress from
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that really did any work. Now the day before the election, Joe Sheehy came over here-- held gone to school with Johnson down at San Marcos--and wanted to know if \,/eld done anything over here in Gregg County. And I said, "Hell, right up there in Van
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • all the time, and the front door was constantly opening with somebody coming in. It could be a man from Fort Worth or it could be a man from San Marcos here in the Tenth Congressional District, all having a problem that they wanted to get solved
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- VII -- 11 over at San Marcos, and then over in Georgetown they had an ROTC unit in connection with the university over there. I don't remember whether
Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and Bird, they'd call and we'd go up to the Ranch or the lake house, or we'd go to the horse races or we'd go to San Marcos for him to get his [honorary] doctor's degree. Things like that. Oh yes. And we even went up to Washington to see them, the girls
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the [Marco Aurelio] Robles government"--or some government--"and get them some help." Then on the twenty-sixth we pick up with--this is yet another meeting. We talked about the safety problems, the perishable food problems, the adverse impact on the balance
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that year he was in Cotulla teaching and part of it he was in college. K: San Marcos? G: Yes. K: I visited in San Marcos and I remember that Sam Houston--his younger brother--and some college girls and myself and one other college boy, I've forgotten
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think it was, River Authority. I remember we went once more-through the years this was a constant thread--to his old alma mater, San Marcos. This time it was to homecoming festivities, a very picturesque campus. I've always approached it with a lot
  • fondness for his alma mater in San Marcos; the House Un-American Activities Committee; Christmas 1947; a portrait of Mrs. Johnson, Lynda, and Luci given to LBJ for Christmas; Luci's christening; the creation of a 70-group air force; LBJ's relationship
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Kleberg, mostly with Caesar Kleberg, who was a cousin. But Daddy passed several bills, to go back into the history of my father in that book that was prepared by San Marcos [Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Formative Years], you know, this legislation
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • she had an office. We made our opening campaign speech in San Marcos and Dr. [Cecil] Evans, the president of the school when Lyndon was there, was at our side lending dignity, and Ed Cape, of course. It was a summer of enormous effort. I remember
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hopkins -- III -- 4 between him and Lyndon. I did. I don't know that Wirtz knew Lyndon before Wirtz knew Lyndon's father, Sam Johnson, before I did. But Lyndon, you see, was still in school in San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a decision for thirty to sixty days. Then Lyndon comes out to Mama's and says, "Sam Houston, I don't want you to take either one of them. I'm getting ready at San Marcos tomorrow night, I'm going to blast the OPA. Next thing is, I don"t want you working