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Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was for Homer's benefit that he was giving me this going over because I had done what LBJ really wanted done. G: Oh, really. How did you find that out? H: Well, I got a couple of new shirts. He never would say he was sorry, but that's when you would get
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, yes, but the point of it is she wrote for several papers. She wrote for the Dallas News, San Antonio Express, Austin American, before she met Daddy. G: Is that right? J: Then Daddy married her shortly after her father died. Daddy
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • helicopter which was being manufactured between Fort Harth and Dallas in Tarrant County. of the name of the pilot. I can't think I think it was Mashburn, I believe was his name, who flew Mr. Johnson on many occasions thereafter. Actually, I had arranged
Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • this was the same time--I went out to The Elms early one morning and drew some blood work on him. G: What was that for? M: Well, it was just a follow-up to see if he had infections, fasting, chemistries, and things. I 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember that the WPA had control of the NYA purse strings and had ultimate control over the employment of NYA personnel. I know that Mr. Johnson and Mr. Kellam frequently went to San Antonio. They'd go to San Antonio in the middle of the morning
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • but cannot be expressed in simple terms. And I think at that particular point, Texas was beginning to suffer from a feeling that it was looked down upon by the rest of the nation. That you had all of these eastern liberal snobs up in Washington and New
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the morning, and my name is David McComb. Mr. Hall, first of all, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born, and when, and where did you get your education? H: Dr. McComb, I was born in Houston on May 30, 1907. But I've lived
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • DATE: January 9-10, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The winter and spring of 1950 began a new thing in my life and that is carpooling. Lynda, at six
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • they were traveling in Dallas. And Johnson was ever so grateful and kept talking about Rufus and how heroic he had been. He also was looking at TV, sipping orange juice. He would occasionally look up at a photograph of Sam Rayburn that was on the wall
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Weinheimer -- I -- 7 Tom and I had to drive his new Lincoln home, which was very nerve-wracking for us, being very unfamiliar with fancy automobiles. Of course, I'm talking when we were much
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time, why, the Depression was the biggest news in the country. There was a lot of publicity. Some of it which we of course tried to generate. (Interruption) G: How about the problem of getting enough teachers? This seems to have been a difficulty
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with the organization and to win its support and he did so very successfully. Many men who were determined to leave the next morning stayed on and served him very loyally and very well--and some to the end of his Administration. F: Did the sudden coming of a new
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • would assume you heard of the news of the assassina- tion over the radio, or did someone phone you? H: Oh no, I was in that planeload of cabinet officers going over the Pacific. You see there were seven of us who were members of that Japan-U.S. Trade
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was attorney general of Texas then. Oh, Bill Douglas and Fred Vinson were often there. Judge Marvin Jones and Bob Hannegan and Ed Clark and dear Albert Jackson from the Dallas Times Herald, and Bill Kittrell, who could tell some of the best stories of anybody I
  • death; Harry Truman receiving the news of FDR's death at Sam Rayburn's "board of education;" LBJ's relationship with FDR; Milo and Tharon Perkins; President Truman's friends; LBJ's level of conservatism, especially following FDR's death; KTBC sending
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't know about it and I don't recall the thing getting any better. G: Okay. There was an issue that came up in August to the effect that [Ralph] Yarborough had taken Dallas' side against Houston in a Civil Aeronautics Board matter. Do you remember
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with him for hours at various times, and I saw why this reputation began to develop. I remember it was 1959 when, in the new office that he had just taken over just off the Senate Reception Room and had it redecorated, the Landrum-Griffin Act was up
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • five years in Mexico; therefore I knew the ropes. And therefore very little time was spent in trying to acclimate me to my new assignment. So most of it had to be by digging on my own, and that's about the extent of it. F: They just really turned you
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : It did? 0: Yes . It. would come over a town, and a lot of people would come out to see it . And it really was very effective . But Coke Stevenson was just like the Coca-Cola . state-known product . Everybody knew who he was . News had built up his
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the suite . [He] walked directly to the television set, I think without greeting anyone, or certainly without any conversation, turned it on and focused on the set . It warmed up ; and then very briefly Senator Kennedy appeared, or a news commentator
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • why he would say such a thing, that 1 hadn't said that he got kicked in the head by a horse, it was Clare Booth Luce. didn't call him crazy, it was Clare Booth Luce." part in that news release, you see. to approve it. I I had to put that I didn't
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 3, 1969 F: This interview is number three with Harold Barefoot Sanders, Jr. in his office in Dallas on November 3, 1969. The interviewer is still Joe B. Frantz. Barefoot, let's talk a little bit
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in New York City and Chicago are quite different than they are in Austin and Dallas. B: Is there any obvious animosity at the convention between the Johnson staff and the Kennedy staff? A: I'm sure that they had as many mean things to say about us
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • literally had to watch the gold markets day by day and hour by hour. The first thing we'd check in the Treasury every morning at 8 o'clock was how much gold had been sold in London and how much more did we have to get up. F: Did you get a feeling
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • time to all the Vietnamese, North and South. It is a sort of a combination of Christmas, New Year, and Easter. I've been told by Vietnamese or Southeast Asian experts that this period of family reunification or celebration hadn't been violated
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of the committee doesn't have particular influence . I remember one Saturday morning when the Under Secretary told me that Senator Yarborough of Texas was coming to the Department with some people to talk about a matter, and would I be sure that they got in all
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Dean Parlin to give him a chance to get somebody else. This was on a Thursday night, and he said, "All right, be out here to work Monday morning --which allowed two days notice, or three days notice. 11 I started the following Monday morning
Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • out to Barton Springs with us. She'd be by herself and we'd go out each morning--well, they were married then; I'm sure they were married. But we were very close during those years. So I've known him over all these years. Then with his first--he had
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • A't/a rd; you kno\o'J, it was goi ng to be an every year type of thing. suit out of it. I don't think it was, but I got a new I don't know but what that suit made him do it, but I doubt it because he was always very interested in publicity. G: Why
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? H: I believe it was Bailey. Hes, it was. I believe he was chairman. Anyhow, French Robertson out at Abilene and our wives the morning when the nominations thing had come to a head. Incidentally, we had been put in a flea-bag hotel; they called
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Revenue, Mr. B. Frank White, the Regional Commissioner in Dallas who was a personal acquaintance of the then Vice President, and I called on the Vice President to discuss this particular problem with him and get his advice. G: And to what extent did Mr
Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 and I think most other people did also. They were very jubilant, of course, but by the next morning sufficient additional votes had come in and been counted to where he lost by, I think, about 1300 votes, wasn't it? F
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of all the state of Texas, and he was in Dallas. Dr. Evans told me this himself. he was strongly against them, and so was Dr. Birdwell. He said It was a schism between the town and the college because of the Klan issue. None of LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in the construction of the new dining room and kitchen facilities, the addition of 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, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in this little L-19 and landed in the street and went up to his headquarters, walked up there. And there was more scurrying around, and they finally got him out; it was about ten o'clock in the morning. They weren't going to let me in the house at first
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • from hunting up in Chama, New Mexico one time, out at the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation. George and I were talking about the 1948 election. He said, "You know, a lot of people have said this, that and the other thing, but you know I have never
Oral history transcript, Ralph Dungan, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ."'NDml RAINES ~ Jom;so~ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L[Bl{z\RY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTWN Narrator Ralph Anthony Dlmgan . . l'ririccton:> . New Biographical information: .Jersey__Q.~ State
Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Well, the map that we started working with showed the river--I think it was an aerial photograph as it then was, and the boundary as it then was--with Cordova and the Chamizal tract; and superimposed on that were possible new boundary lines which gave
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . From 1936 through 1963 you were associated with the Chattanooga Times as a reporter, then Washington correspondent, and finally editor of the News Focus service. This last period was from 1958 to 1963. In 1963 you became a columnist for the Chicago
  • Outline of journalistic career; LBJ's unique handling of press during both Senate and White House years; Kennedy and Johnson humor; Jacqueline Kennedy's appreciation of LBJ; LBJ's swearing-in ceremony in Dallas; Kennedys thoughts of death and LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • , the survey that we made and printed in the paper, contrary to what a lot of people thought, that Johnson was just a young upstart, came out amazingly accurate in the final results of the election. PB: I believe the Dallas News made a survey at the same time
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of this? M: I do. I looked it over this morning, here is--let me ask you if it'd be all right to do it this 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More