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Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of absence in '38 and got to know him but not to cover him. F: Were you working for the Star-Telegram then? K: I took a leave of absence. I was working for Ernest Thompson in his race for governor. F: In that famous campaign! K: And also Judge Cd tz
  • First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to show their love and affection jointly and went around together. Even [Ralph] Yarborough got in the act. some angle on that down there. It was kind of a happy meeting. I forgot I think they went to Fort Worth or were going to go to Fort Worth, too
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • as national committeewoman at that time. Then at the [September] state convention, which was held in Fort Worth that year, Price Daniel had been declared the winner by something over three thousand votes as the Democratic nominee for governor. So
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by 87 votes. Governor LCok~j Stevenson challenged the vote in court, and the courts were sustaining Lyndon Johnson. about that time, we had the state convention in Fort Worth. in September of 1948. But This was And of course one of the functions
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Antonio to Houston and Fort Worth to Dallas? W: lid been on the whole thing. F: Did it seem to be going as well as is generally reported to be? W: Yes, it did. We were all aware, however, of pulling and hauling back and forth between the [Governor
Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • baskets of flowers almost parallel to the ground because the wind was always blowing during these barbecues. You just mention the word barbecue and the wind would start blowing out there. But Walter Jetton, the famous mobile caterer from Fort Worth
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for Albert Thomas. '.::'hen that night after the party in Houston I rode with the President and visited with him considerably on the way to Carswell [AFB] in Fort Worth. And then the next day which was. the day Kennedy was killed, assassinated, I rode
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- I -- 9 R: In every other town, in San Antonio and in Houston and in Fort Worth, we had arranged to have one reporter and one
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : the manned space center down there. fantastic. It was a good political trip. But the trip was For a reporter who liked politics, it was excellent. I was a pool reporter on the plane going into Fort Worth the night before, and so the next morning after
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • County--Russellville. It's in the Arkansas River Valley halfway between Little Rock and Fort Smith. We had a good-sized colored population~ I would suppose about twenty per cent of our people in the town were black. challenge~ ism there. And it had
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in November of 1955? H: Well, I can answer that specifically. In 1950 I was with Headquarters Army Field Forces at Fort Monroe, Virginia, as deputy G-3. manding general was General Mark Clark. The com- A most outstanding officer. I went to Korea from
Oral history transcript, Samuel H. Shapiro, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was done that had to be done. On a request like that, can it be granted over the telephone, or do you have to have some telegram, something tangible? S: vJell, you have to submit your request by telegram, of course. in order to save time, L made
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 it was worded in a rather inexact and somewhat contingent manner. As we sat there, a telegram ,vas drafted in response to Governor Romney, and it was immediately dispatched--I think at about eleven
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • what a station like this in their opinion would be worth. Did they contact you on this? K: No. There's certain information that is available to the general public in the files of the Federal Communi:cati,ons: Commtsston. Tt'·s not full and complete
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Governor Price Daniel, who was a young lawyer in Liberty, Texas during the 1930's and whose political star was beginning to rise. I supported him actively. F: You knew Price Daniel then back in your young Democratic days? H: Yes, I first met Price
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an appointment through Liz, or whatever method that you can, with the Vice President." He wrote back and said that, then, Walter Jenkins would be available and would love to talk to me. So I took a three-day pass from Fort Stewart, Georgia; came to Washington
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • another experience also. I was on the debating team and some question came up as to whether or not Princeton would be a problem for us to visit. One of the eager beavers, who was the coach, sent a telegram saying that I was a Negro and would
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 1962 and in 1963. B: I ought to break in here and mention this. Have you done an interview like this for the Kennedy library program? S: I have not. B: In that case, if you don't object, I think it's worth continuing on along this line
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . He said, "Why do that? Just go ahead and take your commission, and then you can come on my staff as my military aide." Which I did. I went to Fort Sill and did my officer's basic and came back to the Vice President's staff as his junior military
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and just didn't have the capability that the others had. I understand that General McGarr was one of the great regimental commanders with the Third Division all through World War II, and in my opinion and for what it's worth, I think that his great service
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on the campaign from the standpoint of the opposition. it anywhere for some reason. I never did submit I ran across it in some files recently. It gives a pretty detailed picture of the campaign. B: That would be worth M: Yes. keeping~- In fact I think I
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a chance to really do something good, and I think we persuaded him that this was worth considering. So he said, "Before we make any decision, I want you to go up and talk to Patman." So I took Art Okun with me, and we went up and talked with Patman
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and the purchasing arrangements that would give the Vietnamese farmers the incentive to produce for all they were worth. This may have been an academic argument, I don't know. Some day I think there will be--I hope there will be--a very interesting story written
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and put a little note on it pointing out quite clearly this special problem we had with the Saudis. And it was a nine page letter with only a page, or maybe even a couple of paragraphs, worth of substance. It was not a very important matter. in, saying
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • say to him that itwas worth it to have those twenty-four education bills, or umpteen health bills, in a given session, because, IIthese are the people that are going to be directly affected that I saw the other day." 11m trying to think of the more
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to him about the problems that I was going to have with John Mc C l e l 1 a n , who was in charge of that on the Senate side. There isn1t a thing that I could say to John McC l e l 1 a n that's going to convince him of the worth of this. F: He probably
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and ta 1ked it over and just decided it wasn't worth that. N0\'1 we were faced 1~ith a s i tuation with Governor [G. Mennen) Hill iams, who had indica ted he 1·1ould put him­ self in i f necessary and there 1•1ould be a candidate. negotiations began
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 3 G: One of the telegrams I think I sent you has Lodge asking McNamara for one hour of his time alone. Do you have any idea what transpired between the men? There have been reports that Lodge was trying to convince McNamara that the military
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , in that famous telegram the date of which I've now forgotten-G: I think that's the August 24 [1963J telegram. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and purpose that he thought he had a charter to do. G: What sort of charter did he think he had? Now this is before the famous August 24 telegram from Washington. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an office here in the Executive Office Building, and there was that stack of mail and telegrams for my handling just the same as when I left, but it was a new angle, of course, that I had never experienced before. It was pretty exciting and moving. F
Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 10 with a telegram thanking him for his generous t>lords and acknowledging t of the President's telegram
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , or a meeting in the White House? R: I believe, if I'm not mistaken, Cliff Alexander called about to people. B: It could have been a telegram, but I doubt it. Did the President call on you for more direct help in getting what was now to be the Civil Rights
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the only ones he really liked were the ones that kind of kissed his ass. A guy from the Washington Star, Jack Horner; he liked to have Horner around; a good friend of mine who I thought was a very good reporter, Sid Davis, because Sid