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Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

fill in briefly here? Well first ~ want to thank you very much, Paul, for not attempting to tell the entire story of my checkered career! have, as basic job of course, f~r most of that time I been teaching at the University of Texas; and for brief
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton

brought with me Nat Turner, who was my assistant, on the WPA, a.nd Paul Dearmin. Nat Turner later became a very eminent consulting engineer in the Houston area. He was the head of the Turner, Freeze and Nichols office down there for many years

in, which was to the effect that the Supreme Court. was going to solve the problem of the use of federal funds in a nondiscriminatory fashion,and that actually it might not be necessary for Congress to legislate. Of course, they did under TiUe VI

Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Valley Authority vis-à-vis its relationship with and its performance towards Negroes, and I spent three or four weeks down there doing this. F: You have been credited with having obtained high appointments for several Negroes, most particularly

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had one in vi rtllally every county. people. I was doing that. I had to go out and see those Eventually though, it got changed. Inste.ad of my having all of those counties, they changed it to where I had only Big Spring and Lubbock and Amarillo

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

contact? L: How \'!Ou 1d you set up these vi sits? This was done largely by Claude Wild, who got on a long distance phone and would pick out a target town and call two or three people tnere, and get somebody to accept the chairmanship and to call

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. We had several top-notch ones . He was very Campbell was outstanding . We had the president of Arkansas State College in Arkansas . a wonderful program . He had He vied very closely with Lyndon on the road- side park and community recreation

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No, I can't recall any real problem, any failures on any of their staff members, and to this day General Bob Smith remains in my judgment a very fine individual. He was the associate, as I recall, and a very competent i ndi vi dua 1 . ~kNugh was 1ike

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