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: On a lone wolf senator like Paul Douglas, who from all I can gather from the sidelines was a man who pretty well kept to himself and never really belonged to the Senate as an organization, did Senator Johnson make any particular effort to get Douglas

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Walter, let's go back. You came out of North Texas, right? J: Yes, sir, my home is Wichita Falls. F: How did you happen to get

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on, which primarily was getting more money for the dams and getting the lCRA organized the way he wanted it, and REA. Those were his main things right at that time, trying to get every farm and home electrified. A lot of days he would come into Austin

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

m not sure the people really understood how 1 important it was and how critical--! don't remember that we got a lot of flak over it, as we did, say, like the firing of [Douglas] MacArthur, and the sort of things like that. G: There was also

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a new sta tion coming on the air Thanksgiving Day in Austin." And I thought, God, I'm a hot salesman. "We'll take it!" As a matter of fact, I wasn't any kind of a salesman at all, they just were ready. G: Okay. The [Douglas] MacArthur firing comes
Reminiscences from 1950-1952; LBJ’s Texas trips; Eisenhower; the gas bill; Donald Cook; Korea; the Preparedness Committee; election as Democratic whip; the Douglas MacArthur firing; Jenkins’ campaign for Congress; death of Alvin Wirtz; acquiring

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the firing of [Douglas] MacArthur for mail, just piles and piles of it. G: Was this in reaction to the Korean War, do you think, or to some of the treaties that had been signed? J: Probably. 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jenkins - VII - 16 recall, but that was one he knew and I guess outside of [Douglas] MacArthur's firing that's probably

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 3 (III), 9/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that they would make a greater contribution to the Senate if they were work ing. on a major committee in which they were particularly interested. I think he felt that it would be helpful to them back home, and I think he felt that he could work a closer-knit

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall any complaint. I do recall getting a telephone call from--I'm not sure who it was--at home, saying that he was in an ambulance or a car or something on the way to the doctor. They wanted me to meet him there. I got there before he did. I've

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 5 (V), 8/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh v - Jenkins - 9 But I didn 1 t want to force myself on anybody, or anything. I was just planning to go home and find a job. G: Were you planning to come.back to Texas? J: Yes. But he called me at the debarcation--that's

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

], but they all had some little home projects they were interested in. G: Now, when the minimum wage was raised to a dollar--it came up right after the Capehart Amendment, do you remember that? J: Yes. G: Let me ask you to recount what happened there. J

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

home, and the fact that you concentrated more on the cities, what other differences were there between the run-off primary and the first primary? J: Well, he sort of stopped speaking out of the sky. thing during the first primary of seeing He had

a note, January 31, Wayne Morse comes to Austin, makes a speech criticizing LBJ. Now, normally senators go out of their way to say something nice about another senator when they're in his home state. Morse went out of his way to criticize LBJ. Tell