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Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Vice President in Uvalde . As that ceremony was breaking up, classmate of mine named Tom King . I was with a He presently is an attorney in San Antonio, and he was from Stockdale in Wilson County, the county seat of which is Floresville . Tom
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in charge to agree to stop in my hometown of Tarboro and pick me up there. I got on the train there and then we stopped in my congressional district in Rocky Mount. She spoke from the platform of the train there, and then we stopped in Wilson, also my
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the candidate himself, Governor Stevenson, was over-confident? H: It was not so much over-confidence, I think--although he was confident. . It was more a personality trait. He just did not get excited. He was as unflappable as Harold Hacmillan, at least
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the appropriations, get approvals, things of that nature? J: Yes, I can1t remember. with PWA, WPA, Interior. There was a man named--he was always meeting I don't remember exactly what [Harold] Ickes had to do with it, but Ickes had something big to do
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • say that he can identify himself with Jack Kennedy and with President Eisenhower and Mr. Truman and Mr. Roosevelt and he identifies with Andrew Jackson, but he cannot identify with Woodrow Wilson. He has tried but he has no feeling of association. He
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there that was not really existent in the Kennedy Administration on the staff level. B: These people that were working with Mr. O'Brien in the Kennedy years, people like Mike Manatos, Wilson, Feldman, White, are these the people--? M: I didn't know Mike too well. He
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the House perhaps except in the days of the caucus, in the Wilson days of Clark and Underwood . And we've only been precise on the number once, and that involved four switches, two each way . That was on that Rules fight in 1961, and that was probably
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • never obtain a majority, in part due to the fact that the IIImmortal Forty," as the Texas delegation at that convention was called, headed by [Senator Tom -Connally and] Colonel E. M~ House, held out for Wilson and finally brought about the nomination
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the British economy. This put them under heavy strain and when the Wilson government came into office, they were faced with a very heavy crisis. We had to get up several billion dollars ourselves with our partners to make available to the British to buy up
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . And Will Wilson, the Texas attorney general, developed a technique of putting out of business gambling housing by obtaining an injunction. And gamblers didn't object much to being raided and being fined, but when the district judge or judges, and in this case
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the way back into Woodrow Wilson's administration. We thought of Sam Rayburn as a very, very loyal New Deal Democrat who was a supporter of New Deal legislation because he was tremendously loyal to Franklin Roosevelt. And he never dwelled
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at that time I was working full-time on the price side. We had in at least part of that period, people like Charlie Wilson--from General Electric, not General Motors--and Lucius Clay in the Office of Defense Mobilization. There was a great deal of conflict
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , there was a historical precedent for it. Like everything In 1917 when Wilson was trying to arm the Merchantmen, there was a filibuster against that-M: "A little group of willful men." R: That's right. There was then no filibuster rule at all. the two-thirds rule
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was known as a liberal. Most of them just But when I was in the (Virginia) State Senate I supported all the liberal things and was an active supporter of Woodrow Wilson and all of his programs when Champ Clark and a lot of others said he was going
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they, do you remember? L: Yes; the most important ones were: Bob Wilson, the orig- inator and one of the owners of LaGloria, the great oil and gas company; Eddie Singer, a very successful young man who still lives in Corpus Christi; and who is now
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985