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Oral history transcript, Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT KLEBERG, JR. INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: King Ranch Offic es, 2nd floor , Kleberg National Bank, King svill e, Texas. Tape 1 of l M: Mr. Kleberg, the first thing I would like to know is when you first met Lyndon
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
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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, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , yes. G: How did you end up at San Marcos? H: Well, I had a high school coach in Lufkin named Jesse Kellam who arranged that I should go out in the fall of 1926 and try out for the football team. If I could make it I would be able to get a job
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson make campaign trips with him? B: Yes, she did. In wherever she could go, and be there, but not ever be a burden on him, she was vey independent about that. S h e wouldn't intro- duce herself with the official party at all, but she did love
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • seemed to be very--he was given a warm greeting in Manila, and he and Mrs. Johnson both seemed to be very happy with their association with Ferdinand Marcos, I think it was at that time. They traded gifts and of course seemed to be pleased and happy
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, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • was that? C: That was 1926. We worked about a year and a half or two years, and then came cbange of administrations. ~e Governor Dan Moody went in and all got laid off. Then Mrs . Johnson persuaded Lyndon to go to school at San Marcos, and he went
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the train before he got there, but I don't remember the details. G: Well, we can iron that out later. What else did you talk about that day you were riding around in the car? 00 you remember the occasion? W: San Marcos. G: San Marcos, okay
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
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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, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • that he decided that that road work wasn't for him. He'd better go to school. She'd been trying to get him over to San Marcos, so I think he decided that that was what he had better do. B: Do you remember anything about LBJ's mother? A: Oh, I loved
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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that we started running for the Senate in 1941, when I remember clearly pictures of us on that front porch. But I think it is the Senate that I am remembering. G: The President made his initial speech in San Marcos at the college. J: Yes. G
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and 20, 1977 INTERVIEWEE: Mrs. Jane Englehard INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Engelhard's home, Cragwood, Far Hills, New Jersey Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your parents, first of all. Your father was a Brazil- ian diplomat. E
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • have an appointment with a man named Barnet in San Marcos? G: Should I? W: He is Hr. Lee's brother-in-law and was very active in that campaign. Perhaps it's Burnett. He used to be county judge ••• G: What is his first name? W: I believe
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
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, Bertha Allman Graef, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BERTHA ALLMAN GRAEF (with comments by Mrs. Graef's daughter) INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas 20~ 1982 Tape 1 of 1 G: Well, let's start very briefly with how you ended up going to San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Cecil D. Redford, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , lovely, attractive woman, but she was very talented. There were two in my graduation class, a girl by the name of Annie Rae Ottmers, O-T-T-M-E-R-S, and me. Mrs. Johnson wrote, I don't know what you would call it, but anyway it was titled, "The Court
Oral history transcript, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Houston High School, and I remember going and hearing the debates of his debate team. I saw their pictures in some of these books. L. E. Jones and Gene Latimer, I knew them. They were a little older than I but not too much. B: So you went to the debates
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • urged that we undertake that project, but it was a very along. expensi~e one and we couldn't get the British to go I guess the fainted hearts-won out on that one. i~hi1e I didn't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • to State Department; Sékou Touré; LBJ and African affairs; overview of the African situation; E. Korry; Jim Wilson; experiences as ambassador to the Philippines
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • his influence, no. When he got in Washington, that's the first time the Greene name ever came up. In many, many things relating to himself, he just didn't talk to me or L. E. Jones about personal matters, or about official matters for that matter
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, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • election. Anyway, that fraternity clique was my first representation on the campus and because of that, I got known some on the campus. Then I ran as a representative on the student assembly ~from the arts and sci enc es schoo 1, and \vas e 1ected. I could
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • similar to 1937. We opened in San Marcos; we closed at his boyhood home in Johnson City. The same factors were strong helpers, the people he had gone to school with at San Marcos, the people he had worked with in the NYA [National Youth Administration
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM CROOK INTERVIEWER: David McComb PLACE: Mr. Crook's residence, San Marcos, Texas Tape 1.1 M: Would you mind telling me a little bit about your background, just to get up to the point where you meet Lyndon Johnson? Were you raised
  • for LBJ in the Office of Economic Opportunity; tension between OEO and the Bureau of the Budget; Shriver's weaknesses as a leader; OEO's greatest successes; involving poor people in issues that affect them; the Gary Job Corps Center in San Marcos, Texas
Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • and he saw what Tom Martin was doing, and how he was making money, and how he had to be, why he just was a real little man, then. Then he started to school. Of course, when he got to San Marcos, he didn't have any money, he's like everybody else
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson's brother send out from Santa Fe. He had Bob [Robert E.] Waldron come down and go with him to Austin to Louis Shanks to pick out the furniture and stuff for it. G: For this bedroom and-- S: Right. G: Then did he use it after--? S: Yes
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . They interviewed several candidates for the presidencies of Sam Houston State Teachers' College and Southwest Texas State at San Marcos and agreed to unanimously endorse me for the presidency of Southwest Texas State. Let me back up a moment. Just prior
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the organization. You establish policy and then say, "Now E!! determine news and how to treat it. F: II Have you ever gotten any complaints from the President because of certain things that you showed? K: Yes, sir. F: What do you answer in a case like
Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . 1900. My father was John E. Shelton, Sr., who was born in Bexar County, and my mother was Mrs. Will i e Adell a Greer, who was born at the Johnson Institute in Hays County. PB: You say the Johnson Institute. PS: Oh, yes, the people who owned
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , at this stage of the game I don't remember too much about that. G: There's a note here in my files that says that that idea was proposed by President [Cecil] Evans of San Marcos. 0: I don't recall. G: Presumably early on there was a meeting of Texas college
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • their address and wrote to them, and the other day I had a lovely letter from her, Leigh Whitehead--she spells it L-E-I-G-H--and some pictures of the baby and the little boy and everything else I was glad to have. I don't often find kinfolks now. I usually know
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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in San Marcos. Remember, you stopped there on your way down to the King Ranch? You said it was a rather modest house, but do you remember [any details]? J: It was a modest frame house, Victorian, as I recall. San Marcos was a center where a lot
  • The Johnson family's home in San Marcos; what Lady Bird Johnson thought of LBJ's early career prospects; LBJ's response to a job offer from Charles Marsh; LBJ's ability to remember names; Mrs. Johnson's reluctance to marry LBJ; the weeks leading up
Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • cousins were my cousins. l~e played together so much of the time, so actually there's not a time that I can remember that I did not know Lyndon Johnson. M: What was he like as a child? L: Oh, like any other child. He played. We played all sorts
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the bases on the list was San Marcos, Texas. This particular General officer had been sent over by the Air Force to brief Senator Johnson about the closing of this base and the reasons therefor. Senator Johnson apparently understood the necessity
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , as far as I know. F: Were you reasonably optimistic or fearful, or just what was the mood They were very strong for him. of the Texas group? H: When ~e thought of it realistically, we thought we were fighting a losing cause, but we wouldn't allow