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Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : For the Office of Economic • • • • • TD: Yes, for the regional office here. We handle eleven states out of this area office. PB: Mr. Dunlap, I understand you were at San Marcos in Southwest Texas College at the same time as Mr. Johnson. We are trying to get
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • : We were college students at San Marcos, Southwest State Teachers College. We both entered in what was at that time called the spring term. It was a short term that no longer exists but about the first of April or something like that. My first
  • Student with LBJ at San Marcos Southwest Texas Teachers College, 1927; details of student expenses, influences and habits; LBJ's graduation in three years from a four-year plan; experiences as a teacher in Pearsall and Houston; Director of NYA
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, 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, 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, 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
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: RAY E. LEE INTERVIEWER: PAUL BOLTON More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
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  • Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton
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Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • and of the speeches during the course of that campaign? Any particular event or any theme that the President used to campaign? He did make a speech at San Marcos… Q: Oh, yes, he made lots of speeches. He made speeches at Taylor, Texas -- G: What did he say
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • College in San Marcos, where I was a had been graduated exactly twenty years colle~e ~'y debater -- as I befor~. had been in my day at ~lma relst-i.ong wi.th hi ... there Ncre only of the !!lost He LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • incident. F: Did you room together when you were in San Marcos? 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
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE : SHERMAN BIRDWELL, JR . INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Birdwell's residence, Lakeway, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with the first thing you remember after that San Marcos meeting, after he hired you . B
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • it that, was in his blood, just by inheritance and by training, and by general aptitude. EG: On that point, Mr. Hopkins, we've talked to a number of his old friends in San Marcos and we have a somewhat confused picture of what his state of mind was in this period
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CARROLL KEACH INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Hr. Keach's home in Robstown, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mr. Carroll Keach--Carro11 spelled C-A-R-R-O-L-L and Keach spelled K-E-A-C-H--at his home in Robstown at 105 East
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • College at San Marcos. But I had no occasion to run into him until I went up to a political gathering somewhere along the line of either Hays and Blanco or Hays and Travis County--a little community called LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • side, but primarily on the rural si de. Speaking of the rural side, are you aware that E. Babe Smith is still alive and have you talked with him? G: No, I haven It. B: I"ve got his phone number and his address, not with me. San Marcos now. He lives
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  • Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • John E. Babcock
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hopkins -- III -- 4 between him and Lyndon. I did. I don't know that Wirtz knew Lyndon before Wirtz knew Lyndon's father, Sam Johnson, before I did. But Lyndon, you see, was still in school in San Marcos
  • to California; LBJ’s Uncle George; LBJ’s election to Congress; Bob Jackson; Charlie Marsh; occupational alternatives to NYA appointment; E. H. Perry, Sr,; Joe Bailey; Ferguson family; 1941 senatorial campaign; WWII experience; third-term issue.
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to me all the way through college and I thought the world of him. But he was kind of set back how any kid 1H
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall anything in particular about the school aid program of enabling students to stay in school on various projects? K: Not specifically. I remember he was always tremendously interested in the San Marcos school project, but that specific part
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • The headquarters were in the Littlefield Building, which was fai rly clos e by. Being a country boy I got up real early, had breakfast, and thought I would stroll ove rand sort of do a reconnaissance of where the offices were and so forth. I got over
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Ed said the old man over there was a very well-thought-of person. He also liked his publicity, and he was planning on having a little press party when the kangaroos were shipped to the United S t a t e s . I presented that situation to Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • became ill and I believe he went to Seton Hospital and it was determined he had appendicitis. His closing campaign speech I believe was to have been delivered in San Marcos or ...•. I don't remember just exactly where, but I believe it was San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Lyndon to his home at nine or ten o'clock at night, and sit around and talk about various things mostly NYA. Or on occasions so~e af the staff would go home with me. Katherine, my wife, oftsntimes baked chocolate pie at ten o'clock at night when we
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • mother were girlhood chums and schoolmates. I would guess that I first met the President sometime after he enrolled in college at San Marcos. G: Did you and he attend college together? K: No, we did not. I'm somewhat older than the President and had
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; Professor Greene; White Stars; NYA; roadside parks; projects; programs; LBJ's activities; Lady Bird; Alvin Wirtz; 1937 Congressional campaign
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that at all? I know they had trouble getting approval from Washington on that . B: I don't remember enough of the detail . I have a hazy background that at my project that I had in San Marcos, which was after Lyndon had left the NYA, where I got approval
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • that it was an address to the student body at San Marcos? Caravans with Johnson banners converged on San Marcos led by personal friends. K: That’s right. G: Do you recall anything about that initial announcement of his candidacy? K: No, I just remember that he
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Skiles -- I -- 15 S: Not really. I knew that it was going on but this was not an activity that I figured into very much. G: He met with President [Cecil] Evans of San Marcos, I believe. S
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with educational matters was directed by J. C. Kellam, who went to school with Lyndon down in San Marcos. He was Lyndon's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was very close to Dr. [Cecil] Evans down at San Marcos. He worked for him. Through him he got to know a lot of them that way. Now on that scale, I think that Jesse Kellam was a tremendous help to him because of Jesse's being a little older than Lyndon