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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of his thinking on a lot of questions that never materialized. Some of them did; some of them didn't. But that's the source of information which basically, if I have anything to contribute, comes more or less from that close personal association
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • have today, bearing in mind this was back in the late twenties. But he was a great believer in government by the people and for the people. He was a great believer in constitutional government too and in people's participating. G: During this San
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • in 1935 before leaving to run for Congress; housing in Austin, TX; list of people who helped and advised on NYA and the Congressional campaign; trip to D.C. on FDR's train
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and went to Houston and worked for the Federal Land Bank as a junior attorney for about a year and a half; then moved to Austin to help my friend LBJ organize and initiate the National Youth Administration program in Texas. That was in the summer of 1935
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things I gather that they did \'las try to get three CCC camps established in that some of the cee Austin~ people who wanted to go to the University [of Texas] or A &M could do that. D: Bear in mind that the College Station and Kingsville, so eee
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • that I was even going to a congressman's home, so I-- G: Do you remember how many people were there or the time of year that it was or anything about the occasion that might--? JD: It was in, I think, the summer of 1944 when Bill was being transferred
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • term. responsibility. We lost part of our Our people who had been supervising the safety factors of ground transportation were transferred in toto to the new Department of Transportation, because the department was charged with the responsibility
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knew about him and my relation with him in college, and in the NYA [National Youth Administration] days and at different times in our lifetime. However, I have never talked much about the presidency and his inner feelings about things, which were
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • tried to be He dominated without being domineering is the only way that I know to express it. G: I gather he thought highly of Lyndon Johnson and tried to advance his career. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY