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Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • because she kind of helped run the home. You see, I never had had that opportunity. do very much at our home. We were not allowed to Mother didn't like the way I made the bed. She wouldn't even let me make my bed, she made it. bed-making. She didn't
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • humblest of surroundings. It just doesn't make sense. I don't remember anything 1i.ke that, and I visUed in the home with Lyndon when he was a boy and "stayed all night," as we say, and it was a normal family like most others. Now if they ever suffered
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ~~or t h who had actually put up the money to hold the conventio n--that is, rent the hall~ supply the type­ writers, the paper, the chairs, and other equipment--decided that they were going home, and they did. They took- their typewrite rs and all
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lyndon Johnson because of this. Paul Douglas became very bitter, but after the 1964 voting rights bill he said Lyndon Johnson was the greatest president since Lincoln. G: With regard to Johnson in this, why was he singled out as the target of Drew
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in there. years and was reaching seventy and retiring. And the National Association of Home Builders askedmme if I might be interested in the job, and I started thinking about it then. And a number of other organizations and individuals thought it would
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, Kitty Mae Wirtz, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WIRTZ -- I -- 2 W: So then he started to come into my home in Austin and from then on we saw quite a bit of him. He and my husband became
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I think that would be something I would have read from the textbooks. But I know that I remember definitely his being majority leader. I remember that. F: Did your dad ever come home screaming about the way he ran the Senate? H: No, I honestly
  • Jr.'s views on Vietnam; Humphrey Jr. not wanting to talk about work at home; Humphrey Jr.'s response to LBJ's delayed support in the 1968 presidential election; Skip's work on the 1968 presidential campaign; Skip's view of the 1968 campaign and why
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was held. Where were you election night? H: I think I was at home. F: You weren't waiting it out then some place? H: No. 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JANET WOFFORD INGRAM INTERVIEWER: Christie L. Bourgeois PLACE: Mrs. Ingram's home, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 B: Mrs. Ingram, I'd like to start by having you tell me your background, in some detail, your own background, where
Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • were they dressed? J: I Do you recall how they appeared? don't remember how they were dressed. By the time we had got that far we'd shipped most of our clothes home, too. All we had was just knickers, and I suppose they had probably overalls
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . When did you go to bed? R: I don't remember. F: Was it real late? R: It seems to me that it was about eleven o'clock when I got home. But there were six young men--six nineteen-year-old boys in Washington from Tampa, Florida--that Mother and I had
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Fehmer-- I -- 2 and my dad. When I was three or four years old, my family moved to California. At age five they returned to Texas to Dallas, and I grew up in Dallas. So I call Dallas home, not Rosebud. That's a wonderful thing
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were Gene and Helen Williams. We knew we needed more help. I forget exactly the circumstances. I guess Patsy [White] had come home with us to Texas with her husband to settle down and have her baby here. So we were interviewing folks and Gene and Helen
Oral history transcript, Claud Kellam, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • started to school in San Marcos, San Marcos as my regular home. But our families had known each other back in Blanco County. G: Are there any stories or anecdotes, significant or merely colorful. about the President's growing up which you have not seen
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 B: No, I'd met him . I had been invited to the White House in my capacity as an officer of the National Association of Home Builders . And he appointed me, in 1962 or '63 to the advisory
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this~ they don't hire technicians, and I live in terror of coming home with a blank tape-which I haven't yet done! Let's begin by identifying you as Lawrence McQuade, and your current position is Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Domestic and International
Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 18 And many of them need some assistance at home if they're to do their work outside of the home. And this kind of assistance would meet a tremendous volume of need which now
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • down. and I left the next morning and drove down. Mrs. Johnson We went the favored route down through the valleys in Virginia and across Tennessee and into Texarkana, stopped off in Marshall. just outside of Marshall. You know, her home
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the White House. She came back here a f t e r a l l those year s and everything. Then coming back home we l e f t out o f P a r is and then we had to go back to London and we stopped i n Greenland—a t Iceland r a t h e r — a t Reykjavik. We l e f t our
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ASHMORE -- I -- 20 Douglas, William Douglas, who is the chairman of our board, [and] raised the point. And he [Douglas] has always been a good personal friend of Lyndon's, way back to the early days. So he and I went
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh August 17, 1971 M: Let's identify the tape first of all. Latimer. This is an interview with Mr. Gene I am in his home at 2408 Emerson in Denton, Texas. is Tuesday, August 17, 1971. The day It is 2:15 in the afternoon
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on. She started the whole NYA program and she was delighted with this roadside park idea. There's rather a funny little story in connection with that. came down to Austin and stayed at the Pennebacker's home. were friends of mine, church friends. this NYA
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recreation. Most of the activities of the community centered around churches, schools, homes. G: What were some of the school activities? R: The Johnson City school participated from the very beginning very actively in Interscholastic League activities
  • to the Redford home; LBJ’s work in the early years; LBJ and Redford’s mother
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when he came home, about getting more involved in the ranching end of it. But as far as to me, no. G: Did you have a sense that he was coming back in 1969 rather than running again? S: No, I think we were very surprised when we saw him
  • to Acapulco; LBJ's memoirs, The Vantage Point; LBJ's daily routine at the Ranch following the administration; LBJ's interest in golf; the Malecheks' home on the Ranch; Scott's work as LBJ's post-presidential secretary; Scott's experience talking to the press
Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • right on through graduation? L: Yes, so we went to school together for five years, eighth through twelfth grade. F: Where did you meet her parents? At some school function? L: No, I imagine it was at her home, at 30th Place. I remember going over
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BESS ABELL INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mrs. Abell's home in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Mrs. Bess Abell. Mrs. Abell, do you recall when you first met, or perhaps became aware of Lyndon Johnson would be a better
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • been much more of a sl ap than for his old home district to have turned him down. ' LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ' ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] . P: That's right
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, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , I suggested to Mrs. Johnson that she consider the establishment of her girlhood home in Karnack, Texas, as an historic site. All the years that I worked with her in Washington there were constant allusions to Karnack and Caddo Lake and her growing up
Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or business or something since. Naturally, they appreciated the fact that their folks back home could have washing machines and electricity, and not have to \Vorry about old kerosene lamps. A few of them had acetylene lights in the churches and public
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And Congressman Johnson was partial to young men rather than too many women around. I guess for one thing maybe the men could work harder, and the women would lots of times have to go home and cook supper for their husband when he got off from work. Then he'd call
Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)
  • . S: My background is sort of a story book type thing, as far as my family is concerned. I was raised in an orphan's home. I went there when I was four years old. I graduated from high school there when I was seventeen, and that was the extent of my
Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh -~ I G: Did she teach them or tutor them individually or as a group? C: Individually, to my knowledge. G: So you were not there with other students? C: No. No. And as far as I know, it was all at her home. remember her coming
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Birdwell -­ IV -­ 5 of college courses from the first year of college at home or at centers in their home town and get credit . Do you recall
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Of course Old Main was the main building, and it had the turrets pointed upward toward the sky, and Dr. [C. E.] Evans' home was over on the east side of it, on the mountainside there. There was what you'd call a mall now that'd run west down to Austin
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Building was one, the Driskill another. We just needed a home. At the corner of 10th and Brazos there was a good, sturdy, ugly building, gray brick facing, I think, that had been used by either the YWCA or the YMCA for many 3 LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , such as being away from home a great deal. I had young children. The salary--this is funny to think of it now--I think, was something like a hundred thousand dollars a year. (Interruption) So a hundred thousand dollars a year, plus expenses, plus meeting figures
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • had become National Youth administrator and had gone to Austin--I joined him in Austin. I started my second year of law school at The University of Texas, and I lived with Mr. Johnson in the home of Dr. Robert Montgomery in Austin, Texas. Montgomery
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JUANITA ROBERTS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Roberts' home, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Okay, Mrs. Roberts, I want you to start with the March 31, [1968J speech. were. R: Yes. Just tell what you remember about