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- . He made that 10 cents for each pair of When he was emancipated he had $600 in dimes that the master had kept for him. F: I see. T: He wasn't buying the acre then, but he bought the land after he was free. Every time he sold a pair of shoes, he
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- ; LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; Mrs. Hobart Taylor; LBJ's 1948 Senate race; LBJ and civil rights; Bob Eckhardt
- /loh/oh Baker -- III -- 6 LBJ was trying to bum's-rush them. See, I had already been trying to do it since January of 1961, and it all seemed awful slow and way behind to me. G: Do you think that the poverty program was planned with the idea
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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- the only way to ever really put an end to the Civil War was to elect a south erner president. And he could not see any southerner that could get elected president except LBJ. He talked about that to me as early as 1953. 12 LBJ Presidential Library
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- , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Maury Maverick, Jr.'s residence, San Antonio, Texas Tape 1 of 2 H: Okay, let me mention this now because I may never think about it again. A person that might have a little note
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- Hardeman, D. Barnard, Jr., 1914-1981
- district judge at Midland, and I see him. He doesn't come up often. He's very active in the Shrine and Scottish Rite work. Every time he comes up here we get together and reminisce. F: I was very much aware of the Masonic Home in those days, because
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Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- : Apparently, he was quite popular and respected among the members. Mc: Whom did you see as his close friends? F: His closest friends, I would say, from my viewpoint, were Sam Rayburn and Wright Patman. I'm sure there were others; he was quite friendly
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- . B: Did you see or [lear any signs of presidential ambition, say, in 1956? S: I didn't. I was not that close to him. I was not in Chicago in 1956 \vhen Jack Kennedy almost got the nomination for vice president, so I really \vas not that close
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- with the poverty legislation. I never saw a piece of paper authored by either of them as I came to have a role in the undertaking. From my experience, I would say that the extent to which I didn't see them cannot be taken as being really determinative
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- that name? G: M-E-L-A-S-K-Y. Harris A. Melasky. He'll be mentioned later. I then came to Dallas and became house counselor for the Murray Company, which company was engaged in the manufacture of cotton gins and sold in all the cotton-producing states
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- Dobie very well. come up to our offices. He had My father did his legal work. F: He came from down in here, didn't he? D: His mother lived here, and he'd come to see his mother. My father handled his legal work for his ranch in Live Oak County
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- ''m sure I must have gotten to know Lyndon to some degree at that time.. That would probably be the first personal contact I could recall. F: Did you see much of him in the next few y e a r s , or do you have to go down into the mid-fifties before
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- of State, offering me the appointment of Vice Counsel to Edinburgh, Scotland. I was in a dilemma, so I went to see my good friend, the president of the college, Dr. W. M. Jardine, and told him about my indecision, and he fired me. He said I could come
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- just to see them all gathered~ F: Just to do a little review and forecast? W: Eith~= t~at, or else pass out assignments. Beauti=i=a~ion Bill ~ere If, for example, the coming along and get almost everybody who was in7olved and t=:; to get them
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- of politics in the CAB; the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific cases; Watts riots and Joseph A. Califano Jr., Leroy Collins, Governor Brown, and Ramsey Clark; LBJ's skill at using events like Selma and Watts to achieve legislative goals; LBJ uses civil rights
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- don't know whether that's We moved to Dallas and we stayed in Dallas--let's see, I'm not good with dates, so I have really no idea exactly. We stayed in Dallas, my family did, until my father retired-- I don't know just what year that was either
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- to see what some of the real importance of this was, not only to the defense of the country, but also to the prestige of the country. At the same time, it was pretty clearlY a good political issue. He had met with Senators [Richard] Russell and [H
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- Wilson, Glen Parten, Jr., 1922-2005
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Collier -- I -- 2 intense person with pent-up energies, as he was throughout his life. I can see him striding through those old halls at Sam Houston, towering over everyone else as the hall corridors were
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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in which Eisenhower was elected. Then along in about December was when it really began to jell. Lyndon himself hadn't decided at the time and hadn't taken any--he was there to see who was going to be the Democratic leader. He had urged [Richard] Russell
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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- /loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- XIII -- 6 for each one of those groups, and what that really means is that there's no need, that the Policy Committee doesn't have any function. See
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- in their records and see who sat next to who when Teddy Roosevelt was president and what they ate. B: I was asking to give a clue to anyone using this. I would assume probably copies of those records for the Johnson period would be in the Johnson Library
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- INTERVIEWEE: G. MENNEN WILLIAMS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Justice Williams' office in the Lafayette Building, Detroit, Michigan Tape 1 of 1 F: When di.d you first get acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? M: I got acquainted with him in the early
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Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- the interview with establishing my background information on you and seeing if I have correct dates and places of what your career in Defense has been . You were nominated and confirmed as Secretary of the Air Force in August of 1965 . You first came
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- the President to see the anguish on Featherston's face as well as mine. Shortly after that, he made the appointment. B: Incidentally, is this unusual, this spotting you at a social gathering and remembering your position and to discuss this kind of affair
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Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . The only way that I see that we can do is let's let Mr. Taylor file a suit against the beneficiaries of this trust alleging that that trust was entered into as a result of a mutual mistake, that he realized all of the method of operation and how it all
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- INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano’s office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: I suppose at the outset we may as well dispense with formalities and be first name on this. Tell us very briefly how you came
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- to go back and see what's happening in the way of population growth to my home State. I came to Washington on my third tour of duty in 1961, as Assistant Superintendent of National Capital Parks. At that time we had a quite different organizational
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Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to Washington in May of 1942 from Pennsylvania, \"here I had been state m,anager of International News Service. ing to get back to being a reporter, I managed ~~ant to get transferred out of the administrative and back into the reporting business
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- annexed by either Russia or Great Britain or France which we--I'm told this all--which a great many of the people were fearful of you see. So we were very glad and maybe my feelings were colored. I imagine they were, but my parents were delighted. Having
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- annexed by either Russia or Great Britain or France which we--I'm told this all--which a great many of the people were fearful of you see. So we were very glad and maybe my feelings were colored. I imagine they were, but my parents were delighted. Having
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- annexed by either Russia or Great Britain or France which we--I'm told this all--which a great many of the people were fearful of you see. So we were very glad and maybe my feelings were colored. I imagine they were, but my parents were delighted. Having
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- annexed by either Russia or Great Britain or France which we--I'm told this all--which a great many of the people were fearful of you see. So we were very glad and maybe my feelings were colored. I imagine they were, but my parents were delighted. Having
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- helicopter rides to four or five ranches. It involved seeing the Secret Service manage to get Broncos--Fords--into all of those ranches in time for us to take rides around the ranches. It involved his driving 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
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- land dispute, in Duval County, and he invited his brother Clarence, who was my best friend in law school, to come down and see a real live trial. So I think in our junior year, middle year in law school, we came down here and stayed a week and sweated
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- Dean, Homer E., Jr., 1918-2008
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and it reacted the other way, and I told Char1 ie not to do it. II See, the way it-G: But he did it anyway? J: Well, yes, he thought he knew more than--he had a good case, you see. You know, a federal judge is named for life. Jr.] Rice was up in years. He
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- that some of us made to the President toward the end of the year, particularly Chairman William McChesney Martin [Jr.] and myself; [we] were joined by Chairman [Gardner] Ackley as to the need for keeping a balanced budget, particularly coming clean
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Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- see I've thought about it a lot and I had to face it when I was president of the board of education in Chicago. I mentioned that occasionally, here twice already because a lot of people don't even know that I was president of the board of education
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- Office of Inspection; Shriver’s desire to be made aware of any problems that occur within his organizations; Shriver wanting to see many more participants in the Job Corps; the importance of moving Job Corps students from their homes to Job Corps centers
- bureaucrat \ve were going to see. So Bill knocked, and we went into the President's bedroom. He was there in his blue pajamas--preparing to take his nap--with Henry Ford, Jr., who had just had lunch with them, and they were just saying goodbye and talking
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- student government they had a whole lot to say about how the blanket tax, which was what the students contributed for support of campus activities--they were seeing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
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Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- late. II II He sai d, I said, IIWell, how about Monday morning? I could drive in on Sunday and see you the first thing Monday morning. Of course, even though I had a job it was always flattering in those days to have anybody talking about offering
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- Little, Charles Pemberton, Jr., 1911-1992
- was a tough secretary of defense, and he got battered over the head quite a lot. I remember my relief every now and then when I would pick up a newspaper and see an angry headline using the word "Johnson," and then I would find out it wasn't Lyndon Johnson
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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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- or did they stay in Austin? J: No, not a bit. See, at that time Luci was one year old and Lynda was four, and they were safely at home. Let's see, I think by that time Patsy White was the nurse, a pleasant, plump, sweet young black woman. Zephyr
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