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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, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time may be of interest. We took a train from San Antonio to San Marcos, spent the night in San Marcos, rode the next day from San Marcos to Blanco on a hack which was the term we used for an undecorated surrey--just a plain, two-seated buggy. We
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • the formation of rival clubs down there. Do you know anything about that? FR: Yes, I'm fairly familiar with it. PB: Can you tell us about it? I don't think we have really ever got the story. FR: Before I got to San Marcos there was a clUb on campus
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Koeniger -- I -- 13 who was from San Marcos. Most of our teachers at Johnson City were beginning teachers because our school paid the minimum salary scale, and while we had some real beauties as teachers, female teachers, most
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, 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, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • got a speech in San Marcos; we have to go to San Marcos. Let's go." 11 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • all this energy and has such enthusiasm for what he is doing. Most of the men were people whom he had known at other times in his life, his college friends. I don't know, if you didn't graduate from San Marcos, I don't think you had very much chance
  • 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, 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, 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, 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)
  • getting good grades or working hard. But then when he went off to San Marcos. . . . R: He found himself. M: Why did this change come? R: I don't know. M: How did it come about? R: I wasn't at San Marcos; I wouldn't know. He had potentialities
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Margaret is now dead . She went to San Marcos State Teachers' College, it was known as in those days, and later on married and moved to Cotulla and died down there quite a number of years ago . I've forgotten how long ago . But she was a very beautiful
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ) G: Anything else on 1956 that you can--? VW: I don't think so, I don't remember any. G: Was segregation at all an issue in that campaign here? VW: Not in this campaign. On the 1948 chronology, Truman's campaign stop in San Marcos, we attended
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, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . Then Mr. C. F. Richards announced down at Lockhart, who was a very fine attorney and a very respectable candidate, but he withdrew two days later and said he didn't want to run. oddballs. I never did know why. Then we got some Edwin Waller of San Marcos
Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of 1ike "Quebec Libre ? W: Well, yes. ll It was at a time when Marcos was having some problems, particularly with the students, and this was a great rallying cry and could take their mind off of their other problems, so they pushed it pretty ha rd
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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • than she had anticipated and perhaps a little more seriously than she had anticipated. (Laughter) G: Did you start the next morning for San Marcos? J: Yes, he came by and picked me up. I was hesitant and unsure, but I knew that I didn't want to say
  • Johnson's financial difficulties; the relationship between LBJ and his father; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; Mrs. Johnson's trip with LBJ to San Marcos, the King Ranch, and Corpus Christi; the Kleberg family, including Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg, Richard
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, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • when he had interrupted his college career in San Marcos. But after he got out of San Marcos, he taught in Pearsall. RB: He taught in Pearsall. B: But he really wanted that job in Houston. But you don't remember the circumstances. . . . RB
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and I think he did. That was one of the things I noticed. We went to San Marcos, and one time especially I went with him with Walter Heller and he was going to speak to an economics class there at San Marcos. About halfway through the speech you could
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, 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, Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was then teaching public speaking in Sam Houston High School in Houston, hav­ ing graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers• College at San Marcos the year before. He \'las twenty-three at the time. His appoint­ ment to the secretarial position was announced
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, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be delighted if the first one he did happened to be at San Marcos, Southwest Texas State University; if \lot the f irst, then included among those that he does. So there has been that kind of conversation, but there has been that kind of conversation:::also
Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • daughters and Sam Houston and Lyndon moved to San Marcos, I believe. I don't know. I thought they lived there in town, unless they were just renting. G: I think they did live there for a while. H: I think they lived there. G: But I believe
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • in San Marcos, and he and some friends drove over there. S: That's right. It was 1928. B: 1928, yes. S: And I met Lyndon--I think I have that in this article. I met him when--I was a school editor among other things. I guess in the years I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about ten or twelve district directors over the state who had been selected by Mr. Johnson when he set up the NYA organization. Many of them were people who had either been to school with him in San Marcos at Southwest Texas State Teachers College
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • after a first visit or two and ended up with a deep concern over it. Some illustrations. The President wanted us to go to the Philippines to talk to President [Ferdinand] Marcos about what more he was going to do. When President Marcos got word that we
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)
  • . Well, after he announced for Congress, then I resigned from NYA and traveled with him as a traveling secretary, valet and chauffeur. with him every step of the way. rally at San Marcos. I went The only place I missed was the opening He opened his
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)