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Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that commented on the national scene and that brought me to ~Iashington every now and then. F: What was that magazine? OM: Texas Heekly in Dallas, edited by Peter Molyneaux. I took two years' time out in 1935 and 1936 to head up the press publicityand
Biographical information; how they came to Washington; meeting the Johnsons; Dick Kleberg; Texas State Society; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s early influence in Washington; gaining support for LBJ in Dallas; 1960 convention; women’s tea party tours

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Was it Sam? No, it wasn't Sam, it was Sam's brother [it comes to me now, Alex] who was on the Dallas Times Herald and he and I usually rode together . And in those days--Horace Busby rode with me quite a bit--he was working for the Vice President, the Senator

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

sure would remember. But at any rate, when he went out on the road the first time I was assigned to go with him. On most of these trips out into the district he would leave early in the morning, make several towns and come back that night

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

we call Long News Service which is an independent Capitol News Service. We correspond for eighteen daily newspapers in Texas. Among them the San Antonio Light, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Beaumont Enterprise, EI Paso Herald-Post, Texarkana

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and walked down to Lyndon's place and when I got there Felix McKnight of the Dallas Times Herald. stepped out, said, "How do you do?" And I shook hands with him and I said, "What are you people doing down here?" He said, "Jack Kennedy's in there. We're

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at all before you came to Washington? E: I did not. Of course, I knew who Lyndon was. I had been working on the Dallas Times Herald when this vacancy occurred with the death of Congressman [James] Buchanan in Austin. I knew about Lyndon Johnson's

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

politics. I'll try to talk very freely, and I suspect that some of the comments that I would make negatively about Texas politics Mr. Johnson himself would agree with. I'm sure there are times when he suffered from the very pathology that I went

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, which became known as the DOT. B: Was this immediately after the Dallas convention in the spring, or was this on after the national party convention? S: I don't remember that chronology. I think it was going on all the time-- the preliminary work
and 1960 campaigns; Democratic National Committeeman; Los Angeles Democratic Convention; JFK’s meeting with Houston ministers; LBJ’s running for Senate and VP; LBJ relationship with John Connally; LBJ as VP; reasons for the 1963 Dallas trip; wrote letters

Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in 1949, post-war. One of my patrons went to Dallas to drive a garbage truck at $2,400 a year. and went to Dallas. He was a farmer So I sponsored a bill at the time I got to the legislature, to raise the minimum salary, House Bill 8, to raise

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

has told me many, many times how pleased he was that I showed my colors_and joined with other loyal Democrats in support of Stevenson. I remember on one occasion we had a big meeting--it seems to me it was the fair grounds in Dallas-where Stevenson

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, the first time that mother and father, after they were married, came to New York. I went to a private school here in the East, Berkeley Institute in Brooklyn . . . and then to Barnard College two years. I did not graduate. I went into the theater

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and work in one location. We had resi- dence projects at Prairie View and later at Buchanan Dam, as two examples. needed more people but had to get by with relatively small ~Je numbers. In the Dallas district up here that I was supervising at one time

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when

Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1974 I NTERV I HJEE: NELSON ROCKEFELLER INTERVI E~IER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Oa 11 as, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: This is an interview with former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York in the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas, on February

Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and this is statewide. We had the founding convention of the Harris County Democrats in March, as I remember, in 1953. set of bylaws. Set it up on a permanent basis with a At the same time, they were doing similar type things in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio

Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was put together in 1953 or early 1954 and I attended the first meeting of it. I believe it was in Dallas or Waco. could have been in Fort Worth. It At that time I was a staff repre- sentative of the United Steelworkers of America in the Houston

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] He's an old-time newspaper man. the Dallas Ne\V's at one time. More on LBJ -9-Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F.Robe rts - -1- - 2 the as sistant to Mr. Johnson came up to ins f>ect the Dallas office. He talked with me for a long time, talked with Armstrong

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

anecdote that you did not tal k about on tape was the introduction to Jack Dempsey. Do you recall the first time you met him? K: Yes. You remember that Lottie Dexter Dempsey was a guest for at least three weeks or something like that in Tom MartinIs

Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. So I came into the bank full time immediately thereafter and have been here ever since. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] M: You didn't get caught

Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

and the quadrennial convention was held in Dallas. The lines had been drawn for this convention some time before and again there were issues besides the question of Johnson versus Shivers. Governor Shivers had been a long-time governor, a very powerful governor

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and the balance of my grade school in League City and three years in high school in League City, I took my final year in high school in what is now Sam Houston High in Houston. It was called Central High at that time. In the fall of 1924 I entered Rice

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in Montana or California or somewhere, but I was offered a number of jobs after his death, one of which was working in the R.F.C. [Reconstruction Finance Corporation] for Tommy Corcoran, who is now my partner. At the time Corcoran was in charge

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of stature . We used to have men who were here that would do nothing but center their fire on certain aspects of a question . I remember one time when Hatton W . Sumners from Dallas, Texas was chairman of the Judiciary Committee . Just let the word be known

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/show/loh/oh Bolling -- I -- 2 M: And I suppose by that time Mr . Johnson was first minority leader and then majority leader after that . B: Well, actually--I'm not sure of my memory on this--but I probably was in the Board of Education before he

Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

months, I guess. E: About three months. B: I know I've left out a lot, but that's the rough outline. When in this time did you first know anything about Lyndon Johnson? E: Of course, I knew about Lyndon Johnson before I met Lyndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

at the State Capitol from 1935 until 1941. Then I went back to law school on a part-time basis in 1939-40, 1940-41, took the bar exams in 1941 and passed them. Then went into the army for a little over four years. Came back out of the army. I had been

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as to whether Rayburn ever accepted the fact that he had cancer. We don't know. John Holton says that the only time Rayburn ever referred to it was when he was in Baylor Hospital in Dallas. He said. "John, do you know what's wrong with me?" said, "No, I

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

experience, I did decide it was dreadful that a party like the Democratic party should be without funds. So I had served four years as treasurer of Marian County. I had assisted the state party and some gubernatorial campaigns and when it came time to look

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

as was possible, so if I ask you things that you think you've written adequately about, say so and I'll just switch off. because we're not trytng to duplicate what Time-Life has printed or anybody else has printed. Let's identify. You're Hugh Sidey, and you
Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the Senate period; his work with Time magazine covering LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with other politicians; press coverage of LBJ in the Senate years; difference between Senate

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

and restrictions, however he wishes to make it; and that we will type a transcript, send it to him to edit, and at the same time, give him a legal form with which he can express his restrictions as he sees fit. The tape, t h e transcript, the legal release form

Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

did you stay? F: We stayed from Sunday through Thursday. And we came home in a jet plane that belonged to Mr. Clint Murchison. Mr. Fore and Mr. Murchison had a big time. never saw a stranger. Cowboys. Mr. Fore They got to talking about the Dallas

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

hard times. C: Those were very hard times. Did you have a major? Almost every Congressman's office was filled to capacity with people beseiging them for jobs. M: This was 1933? C: No, I came here in 1935. M: Oh, you came in '35 C: '35. Mr

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

prestige and Mr. McCormack as lea. dex all his prestige, and they only won by three or four votes. They were difficult times and I think when Mr. Johnson became president after the terrible tragedy in Dallas, there was a feeling of great empathy towards

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 16, 1 9 7 0 F: This is the second interview with Mr. Joseph Barr in his office at American Security and Trust in Washington, D.C., on January 16, 1 9 7 0 . We were talking last time, Mr. Barr, about the problems

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

older than I, he and I became friends. We were con- temporaries, we were both interested in public affairs, and we both knew the same type of people, such as Governor [James V.] Allred and most of the officials. I think that at that time Lyndon had

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Then as an afterthought she said, "I wouldn't have had the stinking stuff either!" F: West was primarily a farming community, right? B: West is a community of Bohemians and farmers, sausage makers, bread bakers; it's a great place for sausage and salami. At this time

Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

nineteen at this precise moment, I was about that at that time. F: You know, the past few years makes an old-timer of you in a hurry. D; Absolutely. I worked for Tom Connally then, and Senator Tom Connally was chairman of [the Senate Foreign

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

-time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for approximately a year--which, by the way, is the length of time people ordinarily stay with the Supreme Court as youngsters because it's a very low-paying job. It's more for the training and the honor than it is for the pay. Governor Daniel hired me
ticket; LBJ becoming Minority Leader in 1953 and Majority Leader in 1954; time following LBJ’s 1955 heart attack; LBJ vs. Price Daniel on civil rights; Majority Leader LBJ’s attempts to balance his duties to Texas and the nation; LBJ’s talents as Majority

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