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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • was to us to have given us Jesse Kellam from 1945 to his death in 1977. [Inaudible] enabled Lyndon to say in public office. M: How did he come into your life? J: Lyndon had known him in Southwest Texas, in San Marcos, Teacher's College. Jesse was a little
  • arguments with LBJ regarding the cost of electricity and the need for parks in Austin; Edgar (E. H.) Perry; Lynda and Luci at Camp Mystic; Lynda and Luci's work as adults in public service; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn and his sister, Miss Lou; the 1956
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There was one funny story about the helicopter. We had a little boy named Green, who was the son of Professor Green at San Marcos College, and he was with the loudspeaker truck. And he was trying to keep the crowd because the helicopter was late in some
Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • real well. G: They came from different parts of the state. T: Yes, different parts, but they went to school in the same area. She went to Austin and he at San Marcos. G: Did they tend to think alike? T: I think so. G: Did she strike you
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; Frank C a r t e r Adams, the erratic extrovert from Virginia who was chief publicist for the Texas Centennial in 1936; Buck Hood and Homer Olsen who in those Depression days moonlighted from the Austin American-Statesman to supplement their Depression
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that year he was in Cotulla teaching and part of it he was in college. K: San Marcos? G: Yes. K: I visited in San Marcos and I remember that Sam Houston--his younger brother--and some college girls and myself and one other college boy, I've forgotten
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • College at San Marcos. But I had no occasion to run into him until I went up to a political gathering somewhere along the line of either Hays and Blanco or Hays and Travis County--a little community called LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GARZA -- I -- 2 who I understand was a roommate of Lyndon Johnson's at San Marcos. He told me that a friend of his by the name of Lyndon Johnson was running for Congress from
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh IrlTERV I E!.J I DATE: May 28
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • side, but primarily on the rural si de. Speaking of the rural side, are you aware that E. Babe Smith is still alive and have you talked with him? G: No, I haven It. B: I"ve got his phone number and his address, not with me. San Marcos now. He lives
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  • Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hopkins -- III -- 4 between him and Lyndon. I did. I don't know that Wirtz knew Lyndon before Wirtz knew Lyndon's father, Sam Johnson, before I did. But Lyndon, you see, was still in school in San Marcos
  • to California; LBJ’s Uncle George; LBJ’s election to Congress; Bob Jackson; Charlie Marsh; occupational alternatives to NYA appointment; E. H. Perry, Sr,; Joe Bailey; Ferguson family; 1941 senatorial campaign; WWII experience; third-term issue.
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to me all the way through college and I thought the world of him. But he was kind of set back how any kid 1H
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • saying about him, or [they] just brought up his name, or what? C: Well, there's a 1ittl e part of it . . . . M: The tape can be restricted. C: All right. This gets back into legislative politics. The speaker of the House in 1933 was Coke
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think it was, River Authority. I remember we went once more-through the years this was a constant thread--to his old alma mater, San Marcos. This time it was to homecoming festivities, a very picturesque campus. I've always approached it with a lot
  • fondness for his alma mater in San Marcos; the House Un-American Activities Committee; Christmas 1947; a portrait of Mrs. Johnson, Lynda, and Luci given to LBJ for Christmas; Luci's christening; the creation of a 70-group air force; LBJ's relationship
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was under an umbrella, but not wanting to impose on the crowd. MG: He had with him--in addition to yourself and Busby, Dick [Richard] Nelson, Willis Hurst, and Bob [Robert E.] Waldron went along. G: Yes. MG: Hurst was his physician, of course. G
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to get that done, but on the other hand, a boy doesn't grow up to be president, congressman, unless he has a good, sound foundation in politics, and some in what is right and what's wrong, and something that the people--P-E-E-P-L-E is the way Daddy used
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall anything in particular about the school aid program of enabling students to stay in school on various projects? K: Not specifically. I remember he was always tremendously interested in the San Marcos school project, but that specific part
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that really did any work. Now the day before the election, Joe Sheehy came over here-- held gone to school with Johnson down at San Marcos--and wanted to know if \,/eld done anything over here in Gregg County. And I said, "Hell, right up there in Van
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came up to Austin. Chick Kazen had him come up here and meet with me in the Speaker's office to go over this bill in detail, and, by golly, he broke loose and told Chick, "Go ahead and vote for Graham's bill. It will cost us so~e ~oney, but I think
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to produce a state championship team. a little. The players had changed MyoId partner L. E. Jones had graduated, and I would one day marry one of the new members of the girls'team, Marjorie Nelson. We worked hard for him--and he for us--until the last part
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and.under the blazing sun or under the tree. · In both San Marcos and Lockhart, we had good trees on the square and it was a colorful sort of a setting. · ·~.Gene-.Au.tr.Y would come and say he was happy to be here, just happened to be here, passing through
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh James -- I -- 10 attacked Pearl Harbor. \oJhil e
  • Biographical information; Roy Hofheinz; FCC and radio/television station franchises; 1948 senatorial campaign; Hofheinz’ activities in 1948 campaign; investigation of FCC proposed by Congressman Eugene E. Cox; Cliff Durr as Chairman of FCC; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be--" F: NYA. S: Said, '~e had a fellow out here and we asked him if he could do something. If he didn't sound like he could do it, we always sent him to El Paso. it done. So I'm now going to ask you again, can you double it?" I said
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • The headquarters were in the Littlefield Building, which was fai rly clos e by. Being a country boy I got up real early, had breakfast, and thought I would stroll ove rand sort of do a reconnaissance of where the offices were and so forth. I got over
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVI E\4 I I DATE: February 23
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in, such as transfers of enlisted men, hardship discharges. The first contact I remember was making the Finance Office at San Marcos, Texas, a Class B Finance Office, whatever that is, but that kind of problem. Then towards the end of my tenure as assistant secretary
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Kleberg, mostly with Caesar Kleberg, who was a cousin. But Daddy passed several bills, to go back into the history of my father in that book that was prepared by San Marcos [Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Formative Years], you know, this legislation
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • saw to the mail; he took all the telephone calls for the Vice P r e s i d e n t He was the contact point for the vice president. People who knew Johnson realized that if they were talking to Walter that he would give Johnson an almost verbatim report
Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)
  • that the infant would be a Senator. The child was named Lyndon Baines Johnson, after a lawyer by the name of Linden. He was the first born of Samuel E. Johnson, Jr. and his wife, Rebekah Baines, daughter of Joseph W. Baines. child's birth was at Stonewall
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Ed said the old man over there was a very well-thought-of person. He also liked his publicity, and he was planning on having a little press party when the kangaroos were shipped to the United S t a t e s . I presented that situation to Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reasons for elation and reasons for depression just buffeting you, just slap, slap. You sort of felt like one of those clowns that they're throwing balls at at the fair, you know. One blow came from E. B. Germany in East Texas [who said] that we'd had
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • became ill and I believe he went to Seton Hospital and it was determined he had appendicitis. His closing campaign speech I believe was to have been delivered in San Marcos or ...•. I don't remember just exactly where, but I believe it was San Marcos
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • color which was good, and we went ahead and finished that. I found old mantelpieces to replace the horrible ones that had been installed in past years. I guess I must 'tell you about Aunt Frank's pi ctw"e. I was told that he wanted to hang Aunt
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • friends answering some of the charges. [W. E. "Ed"] Syers answered the one about us owning KVET and I think pretty much refuted it in the minds of people who could bear to give up the idea. Then Lyndon would go down to the other end of the district
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . SAM FORE, JR. : INTERV IEidER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mrs. Fore's home in Floresville, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mrs. Sam Fore, Jr. spells first name for him): Elma . . • E-L-M-A. (To Mrs. Fore, who I believe your given name
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was Then we drove on to Austin and down to San Marcos where he opened that campaign. making my base out of Marshall. And I stayed in Texas, I was based in Marshall, but I worked that whole East Texas [area]. Oklahoma to the Gulf along the Louisiana line
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • congressional career? J: I don't know. L. E. Jones and Gene--what1s Genets name? G: Latimer. J: Gene Latimer-- G: Sherman Birdwell. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVIII -- 2 from our neighbor, Dr. O. E. Reed, with a huge elm tree that shaded the whole backyard for many years before it died. That backyard was a scene of just much happiness during the years from 1942 to 1960
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a key man behind it, and Everett Looney would have been helping, and all of Lyndon's old, strong folks from the NYA and the San Marcos school were getting organized for a campaign to sign petitions for him to run again, thinking that if they showed up