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Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Washington when Johnson was vice president I went to a party one evening out at Liz Carpenter's house. I had not long before read Ted White's book, The Making of a President, 1960, and he has in there a version of how the Johnson selection as vice president

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

n k , very wisely staying out of all comment and all dealings with the press. M: Did you have any indication of any experience of frustration on Mr. Johnson's part about the impotency of the vice presidency? B: I had one. Liz Carpenter

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson

Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

get them all there, so I had to put them down in the pile. I had so many pissedoff people. Then he wanted to know where everyone was. Liz Carpenter was--he was just really annoyed: "You got this thing all fucked up." He just got me aside--and I 24

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Committee on Atomic Energy he made trips to Los Alamos and out to California, wherever the work was going on, to try to educate himself. I remember Liz Carpenter was a part of our lives then. She was representing a number of [Texas] papers in Washington

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Liz Carpenter and Bess Abell, Willis Hurst, who was the President's doctor. It was really one of the funny, remarkable excur- sions that I think any government team ever made anywhere. couldn't do any harm. We knew we I mean, we weren't going to go

Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a meeting set up between Lyndon and Mr.--oh, what was that old gentleman's name who was head of one of the biggest private power companies and a man of very great prestige? G: John Carpenter? J: Yes, Mr. Carpenter. [He] got a meeting set up with him

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, was himself a journeyman carpenter, was himself the president of a carpenters local, became the state president of the AFL-CIO in Texas, out of the building trades, had a very close affinity with the building trades experience, and he knew their philosophies

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. (Interruption) The press, I think I mentioned these other names; Marshall McNeil, Sarah McClendon, Les Carpenter, I guess Walter Hornaday, who was the correspondent of the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Post had someone here, Robert Johnson. I think

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XV -- 4 instance, he may need fifty corrmon laborers, three carpenters

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- II -- 11 operating cooperation, with labor unions. b e t t e r , of course. That worked a whole lot P a r t of being a carpenter is getting that union card that you're a carpenter. Unless the carpenter's union

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Busby -- IV -- 8 long at the most--by Leslie Carpenter--by-line by him--and it was just dialogue. It was an inspired way to write the story. Marshall McNeil of Scripps-Howard started this little press conference off by asking him why had

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the NYA did that Lyndon just loved to pieces--learning carpentering, automobile mechanics and cooking for the women and beauty parlor work for the women. So, it was a long, long process, and it was very much a part of politics is the art of the possible

Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and don't have to be in competition for the consumer dollar, like building a post office building--let the government say, "You've got to pay your carpenter $50 .00 an hour or whatever ." M: Now, if you had a free hand as a builder, you could build

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it will be clear to anybody that's trying to find out what it means. building trades. Situs picketing was a problem with the The difficulty with plumbers, with electricians, with carpenters, with laborers, is that if they have a contract dis pute

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

been given the chance to exploit the War on Poverty and uplift itself, I bel ieve thi s country and the world wou ld be so much better off today. That was one of those disasters that befell the whole human race. Now Elizabeth Carpenter was up

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: In the case of the speeches that I did for him when he was Vice President as I remember, Mrs . Carpenter called me and told me what the speech was about and what the general guidelines would be and � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that night. I forget the fellow's name--he was the Capitol bureau manager for the Houston Chronicle. G: It wasn't Les Carpenter, was it? R: No, no. He was the Chronicle's representative in Austin and a good friend of ours and a friend of Coke's. G: Bo

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

company, Lyndon, when he first went to Congress he started in and asked the Texas Power & Light Company to lower the rates in Johnson City, because the people up there could hardly afford it. All right. John Carpenter was head of the Texas Power & Light

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

one of our carpenters make it from a block of walnut, and then I made the holder part with two small pieces of the deerskin. It was the suede part and the pipe fits in it fine. When I went back to Mrs. Dunaway who happens to be the person who does

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it, but it was life and death to the carpenters and the plumbers and the electricians and the machinists. LBJ was giving them a square shake in that. He wasn't giving them what they wanted; he couldn't have given it to them even if they had wanted to, but at least

Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)

. helped. In those days, when a house was built all the neighbors Maybe they had one carpenter but all the neighbors helped to build the house? I: In other words, all the people in that neighborhood came to help Sam Ely Johnson to build the house? L

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. When I say the children, I mean like me, Luci and the Thornberrys and some of the little John Connally children and Christy. I know we have a picture upstairs with the Carpenters in it and the Barkleys and the Worleys and all these little [children

Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)

alked up the _ ga~gplank, no one made any reference to my wife's condition, and we were shown to our cabin with great relief. And as soon as they saw ~h~t we had a 22 month old child with us, the ship's carpenter went to work -and before we sailed

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, gentle as could be. Her friends were our neighbors, our fellow members of the delegation's children: Molly Thornberry, Beth Jenkins, Lan and Lloyd Bentsen, Scott Carpenter. Rodney was there. He was the son, the adopted child of Josefa, who was living

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for tithing. It's a very fundamentalist church. And Jerry Holleman did his tithing by going out and spending hours as a carpenter construction man, you know, the building trades, building churches. And Billie Sol Estes paid for the materials and the paint

Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. I remember Mrs. Carpenter was there and Lady Bird, and so on. But, of course, he didn't have as much time then as we used to have, but he never lost contact with him, ever. And he carne to Mr. Fore's funeral. M: Yes, I've read that. Was Mr

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would join my friends Ken Carpenter and all the rest of them who've done extremely well. G: Well, let me get you to elaborate more on his style in 1941. W: Well, obviously he didn't use his voice correctly, because he almost invariably got hoarse

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

officials who were indicted and convicted and the president of Carpenters Union was convicted. They were playing fast and loose with union funds, and some of the unions were doing all sorts of things. been investigating. And the McClellan Committee had

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, again giving some of our people who understood about the different craftmanship that it takes to build houses or build museums or whatever the case may be, bricklayers, carpenters, and so on--these people were given a job. These things I still remember

Oral history transcript, Boyd L. Rasmussen, Jerry O'Callaghan, and Irving Senzel, group interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)