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Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • of the colorful ones. Could you give me a picture of what he was like as a teacher? K: He was very dynamic, just like he is now. G: Pacing up and down in front of the room? K: Yes, he was a real debate coach, I’ll say that. G: Do you recall any
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  • Meeting with LBJ as a debate coach in Houston; working for LBJ on Congressman Kleberg's staff; LBJ's influence on Kleberg; National Youth Administration; first campaign for Congress; contacts with FDR; LBJ's campaign techniques
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the American public been willing to listen to the people that they now glorify as the moderates when they were considered radicals--I remember my own confirmation when I was considered by some to be a Communist because I had been the chairman of the national
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  • Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thursday, October 17, 1968, 3:00 p.m., at office, Jess McNeIl Machinery, San Antonio, Texas P: Mr. Bardwell, you've had a long association with politics, particularly San Antonio and Texas and among some early politicians
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  • Discusses his early association with LBJ as Secretary to Congressman Kleberg; LBJ's wedding; NYA appointment; LBJ's early working habits; the 1941 and 1948 Senate campaigns; the War Production Board; Kilday-Maverick relationship; Taft-Hartley Act
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a one -man national committee, and was financing a lot of desperate House fights. G: Did it matter who these people were? A: Oh yes, unquestionably it mattered. I don't know how the choice was made but presumably anyone who was a Democratic
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Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , by the National Association of Manufacturers. It was a puff, gut labor bill. They were trying to take advantage of the scandals in the Teamsters and other things that the McClellan Committee had dug up to really land some body blows on organized labor
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Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was very inept; I mean I was just a beginner as a stenographer. So I was pretty much on my own~ but I went through the regular political process that all young people do when they go to Washington. I went to the National Committee to get a letter
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  • election as speaker; LBJ’s role as Texas director of the National Youth Administration; LBJ’s campaign for Congress after Buchanan’s death; funding for the campiagn; how LBJ met FDR; how LBJ’s departure affected the Texas NYA; LBJ at Keach’s wedding; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , such as the WPA. An offshoot from the WPA was the NYA, the National Youth Administra­ tion . This was a program to help young people, boys and girls from 16 to 25, in part-time jobs, either in the school system that was administered by the school
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  • Early family relationship between Birdwell and Johnson families; early organization of National Youth Administration Program in Texas; LBJ's first race for Congress (1937); early days in Washington as Secretary to Congressman Johnson; KVET and KTBC
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • actually looked like? Did he run a very tidy office in those days? What color was it, et cetera? K: There were several telephones and he kept the people who wOlked with him informed of what he was dOing and what he expected them to do. The most difficult
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Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • but elsewhere. You ask, "Was there a policy?" You must recall that 1935 was before the time when national policies prohibiting discrimination had been Fairness and equal treatment for blacks depended promulga~ed. on the good will of people that were trying
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Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh his tent, but not wanting to be associated with a Johnson Administration enterprise particularly, and busy
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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
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  • 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, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • just about done with that, so let's work up to the Kleberg. J: I don't quite know how to put this, but in my own life I've done a lot of daydreaming, and I've been associated with people who've done (1 lot of daydreaming. I think
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  • ; LBJ’s work in Welly Hopkins’ campaign; National Youth Administration; LBJ’s interest in race-related issues; the 1937 Congressional campaign; Claude Wild; LBJ’s inability to make a formal speech.
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In 1935, I was going to Texas to meet my in-laws, whom I had not met, and on our way we stopped in every capital city to see the WPA people and othe rs, transient people that I was working with. stopped in Austin. So we The National Youth Administration
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  • ; Medicare; Helen Taussig; Advisory Council on Public Welfare Task Force on Income Maintenance (Heineman Commission); Advisory Commission on Status of Women; Esther Peterson; LBJ fixed associations between Wicky/Cohen/Social Security; Medicare; Mrs. Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • - tures of him at that time, he was very slender. was characterized by enormous physical energy. And then as now he In fact, all the quali- ties that people associate with him as president were manifested at this early period. I mean, the human dynamo
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  • Biographical information; how Jones met LBJ; LBJ getting Jones a job on the staff of Congressman Kleberg; LBJ as taskmaster; LBJ’s relationship with Kleberg; LBJ’s inability to relax; LBJ’s work as Texas director of the National Youth Administration
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , as a la\'Iyer. So I sometimes found myself slightly in the middle, but never with any consequential disagreements, but thoroughly enjoying the association because they were both fascinating people to be around. G: Did Harry Drought have any say-so
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  • Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NRA; LBJ as state director; National Youth Administration; Harry Drought; John Nance Garner; NYA-WPA relationship; roadside parks; 1948 helicopter campaign; LBJ as a Congressman; competition between
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -on NYA experience, he had announced a project in advance and had gotten the press there; it was maybe a roadside park project or something. All the media people showed up, but the youths didn't show up so the project fizzled out, at least on the first
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  • Biographical information; NYA; publicity; personnel; visits from national office; Mrs. Roosevelt; project procedures; 1937 Congressional campaign.
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a very friendly man, a very down-to-earth man, a man who attracted poeple and knew how to deal with people. >. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
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  • Bar Association; LBJ’s sense of propriety in discussing legal/political matters with Thornberry; education for the deaf; being nominated to the Supreme Court; LBJ not running for re-election; LBJ’s retirement.
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • twelve million, which was half the population of the United States, I presume, counting families. The future looked very bleak to everybody. Here is a guy that had in his mind visions of what could be done for the young people of the nation, and our
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Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Johnson treatment that he used to give people in the Senate particularly, Congress a little less so. As a member of the staff, did you see evidences of this? Is this legitimate, or is this something that his associates and the press have invented? P
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Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • line, I think, to a grove of live oak trees, where traditionally they held picnics on the ground all day, political picnics. candidacy. I \'1as there in behalf of my There were probably two hundred or three hundred people in attendancE from
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Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • connection. G: I guess there were representatives from the national office who came J.J Rhoads. down and were black, people like Mary McLeod Bethune on the national board. Do you remember her visit? S: I don't remember such a visit. G: I suppose
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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
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Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • barnstorming for the United States Department of Agriculture -- across the nation for some years, meeting mature and deeply concerned groups of farmers. I had visited most of the states of the Union for these sessions. Otir farmers were suffering
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Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there, was at that time full of doctors and dentists . The Capital National Bank Building, which used to be called the old Norwood Building, was full of professional people . where downtown . Parking wasn't a problem in those days any­ If you were going
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Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days and then as a delegate to the national convention in Chicago, long with Alvin Wirtz, Roy Miller, Frank Scofield, and Bill St. John and any number of political--Bob Holliday from El Paso and others. F: You served in the Texas legislature for awhile
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Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- IV -- 2 So I left his office and came back and explored with my fish and wildlife people, or especially the wildlife people, everything I could get on kangaroos and everything
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Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • , 1937, President Roosevelt had put forward his plan for enlarging the Supreme Court to 15 members. Some people call it court packing, and the proposal irritated the Bar Associations all over Texas you just couldn't imagine - - and the Texas Senate
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Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and began then trying to get the NYA on the road . One of the first .things that I found neces- sary to do was to. go to .work on the NEA people . Since I .was a life mem- ber in the National Education Association and had been chairman
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  • National Youth Administration; Aubrey Williams; LBJ
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Beauford But all those boys on there were key people. G: From going through the files I get the impression that he was con­ stantly seeking more money from Washington, a larger appropriation from the national office, and also seeking to expedite
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Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • . We were for him very much because he was [the] director of NYA. We were very strong Roosevelt supporters and he was doing a great deal to support the LCRA, Rural Electrification and the dams here and the National Youth Association [Administration
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  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ in the 1930s when he was state director of the NYA; LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate; 1952 split in Texas Democratic Party (Shivers’ “legal delegation” seated at the 1952 national convention); Texas
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from people who were hoping for favors than from the one person who has received them than the nine who were disappointed. G: In those memos there's a notation that LBJ was intrigued by the suggestion that there be a national foundation to fight
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Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But these were good people; they really were. They were his type; they worked well with him. I could see why he would be interested in associating them with what he was doing. G: As you look over this list of employees, early employees, not paying too much
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  • How Olson came to work in the Texas office of the National Youth Administration (NYA) answering mail with L.E. Jones; NYA office staff and space in Austin; LBJ's visit to the Austin NYA office; the NYA advisory board; long work hours; Jesse Kellam's
Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • job for this Nation. And his tracks for the common good of Texas will never be erased. state and our people will miss him. Our LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
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Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • these projects, the successes that were achieved [by the National Youth Administration]? B: He was enthusiastically in favor of it . I am sure that all the other district directors and project directors were told to cultivate, make friends with the newspaper
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Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for it. G: How did you become associated with the NYA? H: Well, I had been with some people on a vacation. up into Washington and Oregon and then into Canada one summer, and I came back home. r just got back to Mineral Wells and I had a date, a double
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Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 2 (II), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the National Youth Administration and to get something done .. G: He was really evidently able to fire up the people who worked under him. P: Always had been. G: What is it about him that enabled him to do this? P: Well, I guess it's a little difficult
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  • National Youth Administration; WPA; personnel; Harry Drought; Alvin Wirtz
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : How did you get along with the people in the national office, with Aubrey Williams particularly? R: I had no contact with the national office until I carne up here with Mr. Rayburn. G: Well, I really mean the Texas organization as a whole. R: We
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  • Working for the NYA during the depression and meeting LBJ; LBJ’s powerful leadership of the NYA; Sam Rayburn’s and Alvin Wirtz’s relationships with, and influence over, LBJ; LBJ’s parents; the influential circle of people that worked throughout
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Secre- taries Association here on the Hill, just the House of Representatives. That's the first association of its kind that was organized, and it shows too that he was always on the job doing somethings, organizing, getting people working with him
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  • rights issue; Nixon’s inflation of economy; LBJ’s sound ideas regarding national economy; interest rates; history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency.
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • the Supreme Court was at its height. Well, it focussed national attention on the race. Here was a young man, relatively unknown, you might say, who was running against very substantial people, very well known people, very much entrenched people, and he
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Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to do what you couldn't do as a senator. Those of us that kne\1/ him always said that when he got on to a national scene that whatever people felt about his Senate career being less than liberal would disappear, and I think that's true. M: One
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