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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • ? WD: Well, at the dinner party I thought she was a rather striking looking woman. When she got on the bus to go back to Karnack, of course, she was dressed for travel and she looked like she thought she was still back in the university. G
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • then. That paid more than classroom teaching. R: Debate coach did. D: Yes, you got something extra for that. You had to teach history or debate or something. You had classes but you got extra because it took a lot of extra effort traveling. R: The original
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • of campaigning in those days and he just out-campaigned them. In my judgment that's what won for him. G: How did he travel around? D: In an automobile. Carroll Keach drove him a great deal of the time and there may have been other fol ks to drive him
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • come through or traveling--? D: Sometimes it would be that, but most of the times, our own pastor. B: Oh D: really? A little church like that, Caddo church, could not afford a pastor full time. So it would be a pastor that would preach the first
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of travel involved. These young district men we had out there would maybe be setting up a project in one county seat today and trying to get another one started a hundred miles away the same day_ He might work until eleven-thirty in the morning at one
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • the nature of his operation as head of this organization. Now, I gather-- you have already said, some of you--he did a lot of traveling. You h_ave just said that, Bill, and he went around and saw a lot of people. But how would you describe the most
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to make speeches, he had to be in as many tmvns as he could--had radio in those days but no television; he made some radio talks. But he would travel five or six hundred miles a day, as I recall, in a car. F: He was just going to make up in energy what