Skip to main content

Discover Our Collections

11 results

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

she did read a lot and she had a habit of reading in bed at night. She nearly always took a book to bed with her. G: In some of the letters that you exchanged you send her clippings of things that you wanted her to read and she talks about, I guess

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

that normally the cattle, the farmers' cattle, grazed for free. So there was a great conflict that took place there, and the farmers were out at night cutting those fences. The ranchers had their fence riders and they had shootings from time to time. But bad

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Antonio to visit, or he'd come up there with his debate team. I"d ~~ I saw him on an average of once every two months during the year and a half in which he was coaching debate at Sam Houston in Houston. As you'll recall if you've read the history

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wanted it that way, Jim,” which I didn't of course. Nobody else in Texas did. I was told second hand after I moved to Washington--but coming from very responsible sources--that the night after Jack Kennedy was buried there was a meeting at a big home

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 San Antonio at Alamo Heights Junior High School. During those four years, I was going to night law school in San Antonio at the old San

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Marianne Means were both reporters and I read them religiously, and neither one of them never during the entire war or even after that betrayed his confidence on any of the discussions that took place there. They had inside information that no other writers

Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)

think I read this or heard it some- where--that he reached his state quota, his assigned mission so far as processing these youngsters, that's a rather harsh word, but taking care of these youngsters, quicker than anybody in the country. Is this true

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, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But it was probably I'm sure we didn't wait for it to be completed. may have been completed G: the highway's changed first~ It but they were working all over the state. I've read the story, and it may be apocryphal, and I'm not sure it pertained to a roadside

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

campaign going and the night before election we caucused and decided we were behind twenty votes and decided to throw in the sponge--all but Lyndon. He said, "0h, no, if twenty votes is all we need, we've got from now until eight o'clock in the morni ng

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the Commission, amongst the commissioners, it's my recollection that it was unanimous that the safety function be transferred to the new Department of Transportation. M: I have read that Commissioner Charles Webb made some protest over the LBJ Presidential