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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the fact that he fell like a ton of bricks for the wife of President [Ferdinand] Marcos [Marcos was president 1965-1986]. She [Imelda Marcos] was a beauty! Oh, boy, was she a beauty. He started dancing with her and I didn't think they were ever going
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  • Reedy, George E. (George Edward), 1917-1999
  • Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
  • George E. Reedy
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • after a first visit or two and ended up with a deep concern over it. Some illustrations. The President wanted us to go to the Philippines to talk to President [Ferdinand] Marcos about what more he was going to do. When President Marcos got word that we
  • Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • colony, ex-colony, the Philippines, you find an enormous success of mass education, a total focus on a chaotic political structure--which almost brought the country down before [Ferdinand] Marcos took it over; now the agony of how they're going to go
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  • Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger
  • William E. Colby
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • early on in November. G: That was the around-the-world trip, is that right? C: No, that was the trip to Asia where he met with the Asian leaders [and Ferdinand] Marcos, and then they had a meeting of the SEATO treaty nations. I believe
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , little sweet man--Lee? G: Ray Lee? E: No, Ray was up somewhere. I don't think Ray had an office with these--no, what is that man's name? You know, he worked for Lyndon; he and Lyndon went to San Marcos together, and he turned out
Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: G. PRESTON SMITH (with comments by Mrs. Smith) I NTERV I ErlER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Smith's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Smith, let's begin with your background briefly and how you came to San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Louise Casparis Edwards, interview 1 (I), 1/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with other schools? E: Yes. Yes. We had our county try out in Blanco. won. Georgia [Cammack Edgeworth] and I were debating that night, and Lyndon and John Dollahite, and they won. Marcos for the district meet. Both boys and girls And then we went
  • ; the Johnsons' economic situation; LBJ in school; debating; LBJ's friends; LBJ working on highway; San Marcos period; later years
Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was kind of dynamic when he was [young]. I believe, I could be wrong in this, but I believe maybe he even debated at San Marcos after he went down there to school. G: He did. E: Yes, I thought so. I think he debated with the Sledge [?] boy down
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and how long they stayed, I don't know. G: Any other jobs that he had? Evans' office. You mentioned working in Dr. [C~ E.] Did he ever work with the San Marcos newspaper? W: Not that I know of. G: I've heard from several sources that LBJ borrowed
Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , my sister was going to school in San Marcos during the summertime. She was staying with Margaret, Lyndon's cousin, and Kitty-- I believe her last name was Carlyle [Cockrell?], I'm not for sure now about that. But they were rooming together
Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: C. E. "CURLEY" DOYLE INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Doyle's residence, San Marcos, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your background briefly, Colonel Doyle. You're from--? D: I'm from San Marcos
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ at college in San Marcos; clubs at Southwest Texas State Teachers' College (SWTSTC), including the White Stars; LBJ's parents; LBJ's early interest in politics; professors LBJ admired at SWTSTC, including
  • Doyle, C. E.
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little background on my early days, before I went to San Marcos or not? Are you interested in that part? G: Basically where you are from, where you were born. R: I was born in Diboll, Texas, on September 19, 1906. school there. I finished grammar
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: R. VERNON WHITESIOE Richter) INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Whiteside's residence, Marble Falls, Texas (with occasional comnents by Walter Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let me ask you to trace your steps to San Marcos. W: Well, I
Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Seguin, Kyle, Buda, some people from Austin, San Antonio, Kerrville and some from Lufkin. But those people from tne more distant places such_ as Lufkin usually were sort of traceafi 1 e to some contact wUb someone ;n San Marcos tnat had been
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEl.JEE: WILTON WOODS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Woods I residence, Seguin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your background briefly and how you ended up at San Marcos. W: How I ended up in San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Texas, and to Brownsville and Cuero. folks settled there. The I went through school in Cuero and after graduation I went to the University of Texas for one year and then I transferred from the University of Texas over to San Marcos in the fall of 1930
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; College Star; White Stars; membership; purpose; LBJ as state NYA administrator; NYA public relations activities; staffers; structure of the NYA; projects; Herbert Henderson; working habits; later contacts
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • originally called [himJ--C. E. Evans, had great confidence in him and turned over many matters for him to handle as a student representative, you might say, and so forth. Then he did work on the level of the paid secretary, I felt, as I observed it. G
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: HORACE E. RICHARDS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Richards' residence, Corpus Christi, Texas Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: When did you enroll at San Marcos first? R: It was 1923. G: 1923? That's pretty early. R: Well
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  • Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger
  • Horace E. Richards
Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : November 15, 1979 INTERVIEWEE : MERRELL BLACKMAN INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . - Blackman's,residence, Bastrop, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with how you came to San Marcos . B: Hutto, Texas, yes, sir . school diploma
  • Biographical information; SWTTC; contact with LBJ; Harris Blair debating club; Student Welfare Council; 1928 Democratic Convention; Black Stars; LBJ as Blackman's best man; LBJ's activities and family; President Evans; dating in San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and he was getting the car, and he was going back to summer school. I saw him at summer school because I went back to San Marcos myself the following summer, and I knew his brother, Sam Houston, too. They called him Sam Houston Johnson; I guess you've
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I NTERV I E~! I II _ DATE: April
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: EMMETT SHELTON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Shelton's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: I wanted you to discuss that institution [Southwest Texas State Teachers College] as it was when you attended San Marcos. S
Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in San Marcos. So we'd been friends all our lives. He and I, I guess, were the first athletes in this organization. He was a track man and wasn't much of a football player, you know, but he was a good track man. But he had interests in that direction
  • in college; STSTC entrance requirements and preliminary coursework available to prospective students; the influence local San Marcos students had over STSTC activities as opposed to students from other towns; Professor H.M. Greene; other professors
Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at county and went to district at San Marcos and won our first debate, and then we lost our second debate. G: Were you partners? C: Oh, yes, we were. But those were the only trips we made. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • History of the Caparis family; Mrs. Rebekah Johnson and her technique of elocution; debate and interscholastic league; 1924 debating with LBJ as partner; research material for debates; debate topics; LBJ as debater; district meet at San Marcos
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE : WILLIAM P . BUNDY INTERVIEWER : PAIGE E . MULHOLLAN More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to prove my cl~edits in San Marcos. And, like I graduated from San Marcos [High School] and then went into college from there. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time may be of interest. We took a train from San Antonio to San Marcos, spent the night in San Marcos, rode the next day from San Marcos to Blanco on a hack which was the term we used for an undecorated surrey--just a plain, two-seated buggy. We
Oral history transcript, Clarence S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with different classes as well as your own. Then I finished high school in Johnson City in 1925. My first year in college was at Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos in 1925 and 1926. The following year I went to the University of Texas, spent
  • poker with LBJ; church attendance in Johnson City; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson; LBJ becoming more driven in college; LBJ's affinity for people; Ben Crider's support for LBJ; the Pirtle House in San Marcos; Southwest Texas State Teachers' College
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HILLARD DEASON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Deason's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with the period in which you were in San Antonio and I guess he was at Cotulla, or still at San Marcos perhaps. D
  • of the Young Democrats; Sam Fore, editor of Floresville Chronicle ; Deason assists LBJ in setting up state NYA program; sources of LBJ's appointment; early employees: L. E. Jones, Marie Lindau, Deason, and Sherman Birdwell; organization of state NYA; living
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • . We'll get to that maybe individually later on. I can think of two or three. R: As I said this is very informal and we haven't--while Horace at our annual meeting the other night in San Marcos stimulated a lot of discussion about the old timers
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: I notice in that picture that you have of you two together that he's wearing a San Marcos belt buckl e. K: \-Iell, that indicates that he might have been down to San Marcos or bought a belt with those, or that he intended to go
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but we weren't close friends . G: Let's see . B: No memory of him . G: Let's skip through a couple of pages here . [C . E .] "Curley" Doyle . B: I knew Curley . He was the best diver in Dee Russell [?] He was a bit older than I . San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT KLEBERG, JR. INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: King Ranch Offic es, 2nd floor , Kleberg National Bank, King svill e, Texas. Tape 1 of l M: Mr. Kleberg, the first thing I would like to know is when you first met Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • do it then? Time slips away from us, doesn't it? G: Did you ever met President [Cecil E.] Evans, Dr. Evans, from San Marcos? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • not be taken over by Works Progress Administration (WPA); LBJ's promise to make sure Olson had a job; Dr. Cecil E. Evans of San Marcos; LBJ's relationship with his mother, Rebekah Johnson, and wife, Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ's presidential aspirations; LBJ's 1937
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , yes. G: How did you end up at San Marcos? H: Well, I had a high school coach in Lufkin named Jesse Kellam who arranged that I should go out in the fall of 1926 and try out for the football team. If I could make it I would be able to get a job
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson make campaign trips with him? B: Yes, she did. In wherever she could go, and be there, but not ever be a burden on him, she was vey independent about that. S h e wouldn't intro- duce herself with the official party at all, but she did love
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • seemed to be very--he was given a warm greeting in Manila, and he and Mrs. Johnson both seemed to be very happy with their association with Ferdinand Marcos, I think it was at that time. They traded gifts and of course seemed to be pleased and happy
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there . After Mr . Sam, Lyndon's father, was born there--my grandfather was Dr . Dan Reagan, R-E-A-G-A-N ; he was distantly related to Senator John H . Reagan--the families were just very close . After Mr . Sam moved to Blanco County, or maybe it was even