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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon the prime mover in this? D: Well, he was certainly one of the prime ones, yes, sir. I might relate one incident which will show you that even at the age of eighteen or nineteen he had some of the qualities which later came forward in his
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CRAWFORD C. MARTIN INTERVIEWER: QAV I D r~cCQ[vjB PLACE: Attorney General ~'lartin's home at 5314 Western Hills Drive, Austin, Texas Mc: To start off with, let me ask you something about yourself. Where were you born, when, and where did
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , didn't you? H: Yes, sir. I had gone to the House in 1928 as representative of Gonzales County and had gone to the Senate in 1930, representing the Nineteenth Senatorial District. Going back just momentarily, my two years in the Department of Justice
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • relationship just continued on. F: You are just about the same age as President Johnson . B: Yes, sir. I was born in March of 1908 and he was born in August of 1908 . F: Do you have any idea when you first met him? B: Not precisely . My early
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the fact that he thought something was materially wrong with Rayburn. G: What did he say? H: The Speaker came back from the July 4 vacation and he said, "The damnedest thing happened to me while I was at home. crick in my back. I got the worst I went
Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 HP: Yes, sir, that's right. PB: And rented out the other? HP: Yes, sir. PB: How
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a I had had little previous administrative experience. r had been director of the NRA in Virginia briefly. But I was predominantly a newspaper writer in those days, an assistant to the distinguished editor of Richmond's afternoon newspaper, Douglas
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that they used cavalry in that battle . In the late evening a few times a week that the Congress­ man could get home, if he would agree not to do it on Saturday or Sunday, because he played polo on Saturday and Sunday, [why not let him] exercise those ponies
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , when it opened? G: Yes. A lot M: They were all NYA people .. There was Connally and Syers--do you know Ed Syers? o~ them were NYA people. And the one who bought the funeral home, the Cook funeral home. G: That was Sherman Birdwell I think
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Quill -- I -- 10 Q: Well, when he ran -- we decided it at a meeting in Austin on Sunday afternoon. G: Where was that meeting, sir? Was it at his house on San Gabriel Street
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEI4EE: WELLY K. HOPKINS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Hopkins' home in Culpeper, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 [Interview begins abruptly and first comments are inaudible] H: You know Lyndon was susceptible, as I recall,in some
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? R: Yes, sir. G: What was your role in that campaign? R: Whatever I could do to run errands for him. G: Did you travel with him? R: No no, because I was still working for NYA all the time. As a matter of fact, I had a new Oldsmobile and he
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh February 14, 1968 B: This is February 14, 1968. We are talking with Mr. Ray E. Lee in his home in Austin, Texas. B: Mr. Lee, first of all, tell us something about your background. L: Well, Mr. Bolton, I came to the University
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • room with another fellow over a garage and it would cost you somewhere between six dollars and ten dollars a month for room rent. Many of the boys did their own washing or they sent it home to mommy and she'd wash and iron them and send them back
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , after greeting me were "Is all this true?" He got this folder from Bill Deason. I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "You got beat for county judge?" I said, "Yes, sir." "Why?" I didn't know whether to be cute or just avoid it as well as I could. But I
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • , three of which were Comal, Blanco, and Hays. President's family at that time. Blanco was the home of the Hays, of course, had Southwest State Teachers College at which the President was then a student. I met Nr. Sam Johnson, the President's father
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • away from home on any extended trip or for any extended period and I was stationed down in Augusta, Georgia, training to be a machine gunner. I found to my amazement that there were a lot of other fellows down there, and I had no idea that that many
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , real late nights. In those early days of NYA, Lyndon was the last man out of the office. When we were all walking out to go home, and generally we pretty much quit together, Lyndon was the one that pulled the door to behind us. He was not the type
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • jeopardizing my own position, and so other than talking to friends and trying to influence their vote, I couldn't take any action that would smack of political activity. F: Yes, sir. So Senator Johnson, now, offered you the position as adminis- trative
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you are now. T: Babes in the woods, and had children and my mother was with us. There were just many personal things they did for us; it's just almost impossible to enumerate them alL \' They had us in their home so often. hard time when we first
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . with Helen Douglas. But no The saIne way When he was descr:bing why he ran for the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • First meeting with LBJ; NYA; Aubrey Williams; Congressional support for LBJ; Dillard Lasseter; John Carson; political apprenticeship of LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; Abe Fortas; Helen Douglas; father figure to LBJ; Texas sort of expansiveness
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEES: ARTHUR E. GOLDSCHMIDT and ELIZABETH WICKENDEN (Mrs. Goldschmidt) INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: The Goldschmidts' home, 544 East 86th~ New York City Tape 1 of 2 M: You don't have to talk into it [the recorder] or anything. pick you
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • home down there on 6th Street. I had a wife and two sons, little kids. born then. Bill wasn't even They'd throw bricks up on the house at night. Once they burst a window in the car and one time they cut a tire, did little old things like
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • but that the wetto residents are the people who suffer the most from this because they suffer the dislocation of their homes, the dislocation of the services that exist there, and a disorganization of an area which is already fairly disorganized. But I think
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • residence and thereby diminish the cost to them. instituted project? K: That was an NYA Is that correct? No, I have no recollection of that. the out-of-school NYA program: We had this in connection with Girls from disadvantaged homes who had been
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on. She started the whole NYA program and she was delighted with this roadside park idea. There's rather a funny little story in connection with that. came down to Austin and stayed at the Pennebacker's home. were friends of mine, church friends. this NYA
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Birdwell -­ IV -­ 5 of college courses from the first year of college at home or at centers in their home town and get credit . Do you recall
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had become National Youth administrator and had gone to Austin--I joined him in Austin. I started my second year of law school at The University of Texas, and I lived with Mr. Johnson in the home of Dr. Robert Montgomery in Austin, Texas. Montgomery
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • in school, they did live down there so the children could live at home and go to school. In fact, one time, if I recall correctly, there were three of Lyndon Johnson's brothers and sisters in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • with the American-Statesman, and I had a young son then so I was at home. I stayed home and didn't work. We lived rather a quiet life. Then, the World War II came along and Stuart joined the marine corps and went through Quantico. Then we were sent to Atlanta
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • was recorded in 1968 at Mr. White's home in Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 W: Now, gentlemen, we are discussing here, as I understand it, the activity of President Johnson when he was Texas director of the National Youth Administration in Texas during
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CARROLL KEACH INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Hr. Keach's home in Robstown, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Carroll Keach--Carro11 spelled C-A-R-R-O-L-L and Keach spelled K-E-A-C-H--at his home in Robstown at 105 East
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you think about that? What does that mean to you?" by paragraph . We'd go through those directives paragraph Along about eleven o'clock we'd all be so whipped down we couldn't see, because, gosh, we'd worked all day, probably had an hour to get home
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding] of who was there. Wofford was there. Harris I think Frank Mankiewicz was there. It wasn't a very big meeting. G: Some sources place the meeting at Shriver's home. Y: No. That's wrong. That's wrong. Why do I
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • the way he worked in office? K: He was just like he is now. He pushed his staff hard but he pushed himself hard too. G: Do you remember when he showed up in the morning and when he went home at night? Do you remember any of these little details? K
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • she started in that job and quit or--? O: No, she had just heard about it through a friend and the mail that was just coming in, and when I heard about this, they told me to get down there. I had to go home and take off LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: CALVIN HAZLEWOOD INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Hazlewood's home, Fort Worth, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Hazlewood, let's start with your background. You're a native Texan? H: Oh, yes, yes. G: Can you briefly
Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the Louisville Nashville Railroad. He had had a business education of some sort, as they had as early as that. at the time. He went home for his mother's funeral in 1860 or '61. And he wrote his father after he got back. and of course he was in politics. just
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , they would take curriculum for their freshman year at home. Z: I don't remember so much about that now. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] G: You don't
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • advised the Congressman about what was coming up. P: I believe you even became a roommate during this period at the Dodge House, where he resided. B: Is that correct? Before he married Bird, I drove up to Washington with him and we went by her home up