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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Is that correct? Well, of course it had been in the mill for some time before I arrived, and the history of the Department of Transportation is not new. It had been proposed over a period of twenty or thirty or forty years by several presidents, but President
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • brother Charles get his farm started for a year or two and then he joined a wagon train that was going west. He wanted to still go further west and seek adventure so he went out into the Territory of New Mexico and for a couple of years herded sheep
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the institution would delegate some one· or more people on the faculty. At the University of Texas I remember it was Dean Moore, dean of student life, [who] supervised the program. And through the communi- cations, the Daily Texan and things like
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; served some in New Orleans; I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific. My last tour of duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese surrender took place. And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back to America
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • out of the Naval Personnel Department. WD: Burea u of Personnel. JD: And he was going to New York to be shipped overseas. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around to it and they made San Antonio, Bexar County, maybe with one or two adjacent, a new district, Maury later became congressman from that district. it. Dick Kleberg no longer represented But I wanted to make sure there was no overlap, him helping
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • ? It's my impression that the Black Stars had represented the athletic heroes and the more established people on the campus and that you were the new, young, upcoming group, is that correct? D: Yes, that's an accurate description. G: Then, too, what
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • ability~ and his political knOW-how. When he came into Austin~ Texas~ I was a student at the University of Texas, but there was considerable publicity about the fact that he was there and had taken on this new job. Every day there was another story
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • to Austin and I've got a new job. I want you to help me get started." I said, "Well, tell me about it." He said, "I don't have LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Department of Interior. Stewart Udall was the secretary of the interior. They waited until the day before Johnson left office and announced--and I think I'm right in this--without ever checking with the President that the name of the new stadium would