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Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in foxholes all over the world. Such an increase--he had read our report carefully-- would have pyramided the cost of fuel and its derivative products and would probably had added billions to the cost of World War II. I don't recall exactly what the vote
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II 29, 1969 DATE: May
  • Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: June 20, 1977
  • Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEH II DATE: November 17
  • Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVI EH II DATE: July 24, 1978
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: August 20
  • Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the Gaiety, the burlesque house. He said, lIWell, I don 1t know whether I ought to do this or not, Dorothy, it 1 s rough. I warn you--it's rough! II That was our celebration. Mr . Johnson m.et Bird and me at the train in the morning and took us oyer
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to mention, and it's relevant because-F: We're in one of those times right now. H: Yes, we are. I remember the story of the two fellows that met, two strangers in a hotel lobby in Toronto, Canada, and the Texan said, II~Jhere are you from?" He sai d
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Jenkins -- IV -- 2 J: Oh, all right. John Connally called me and said, "Would you 1 ike to go out and have dinner with Lyndon Johnson?" who is Lyndon Johnson?" this district. about?" him. II He said, "Well, he l s the congressman
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • - But he also said, "I'd rather have one line in Time magazine or in the New York Times than I would in all the other newspapers i~n the country. II He was fascinated with the national character of Time magazine. If you go back in that time
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • involved ... I remember when I was discussing with Vice President John Nance Garner my opposition to a third term for Roosevelt, he said, IIHow can you beat a man with $10, 000, 000, 000 to spend? II And you couldn't. But during the past eight years, our
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the big cake was a marrunoth cake . And it had. the big CBS logo on it, the eye, the CBS eyes, as you know, that's on all their cameras, and it said, "The eyes--meaning the CBS eyes--of Texas and CBS are upon Nancy Hanschman, II whi ch was my mal den
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • well." He said, 'IWell, do you suppose you could get them to come out against me? II I said, "What do you mean?'1 "I'll tell you what happened. He said, .A little while ago I came home one night and I said to Bird, 'I'm tired of voting the way I
Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Well, with intermissions. I got to Parker County in 1903. did you graduate? from 1925 to 1927. I was Assistant Attorney General of Texas I was in the Army in World War II, and was a little more than two years in the European theater. Mc
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • minutes. Well. luckily, John Taber of New York, as soon as I was presented to this Conference Committee, said, "Mr. Hoyt, what do you think of the D.P.A.?II interrupted, of course. I was Instead of five minutes I got forty-five minutes, LBJ
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ward -- I -- 6 have done it in quite such a concentrated fashion but still in as a person who was at home with them. congressman. II "I am Lyndon ~ he went Johnson~ your Held eat a bowl of chili, and held brag on the chili. Now I do remember
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But he said, "You can always beat a filibuster if you've got fifty-one strong enough people." His theory was you wear them out. I The "wear them out theory was nonsense. II hope when the next question is put to Johnson on that, that there is some
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in his opinion, was the number one NYA program in the country. But to get back. When we started having these meetings on Sundays, the IIJohnson Boys" said from the word go, "Here's a guy that's going to be Vice President of the United States. II He
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , because I'm not. I don't think any man is close to Whit Davidson." I was surprised, though he was a former law partner, he made that statement to me. But he said, "I will do what I can, but don't let them feel too optimistic. II He later reported
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with commercial loan operations, but this is too much like foreign aid--like giving it away. II That was the difficulty we ran into. Now with the Inter-American Bank, the Latins had felt for many, many years that they needed a bank of their own. They said
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: March 12, 1969
  • Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bird -- I --3 B: Yes, I commissioned him. G: Did you? B: Yes. G: Do you recall the circumstances? B: Well, now let's see, we're talking about the beginning of World War II now. G: He got
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MILLER -- I -- 7 OM: I think I would call him a "hail fellow well met. He never forgot anybody. body. II
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Pygmalion, as it were, we probably contributed a few ideas that he adopted and did something with. B: K: B: When you say we ," you mean yourself, do you not? II I think you also were in on it. Well, in a slight sense, but you were the brains
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out of line for?" Now and ever since him, it's been, "Well, listen, show a little independence on your own part. stamp for anybody. II What are you Don't be a rubber This was an interesting period in our history and it hasn't been duplicated
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ! That he could think that I think that I could buy his support with a turkey! II Very disgusted. I remember also going to their house when their girls were very small children. Bird had bought the radio station by that time. She took money that she
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • up to run for governor some day. II Now this was in the back of my mind. However, when Henry Norgenthau's son--what's his name? C: Robert. F: Bob Norgenthau. R: Bob Morgenthau was running. Lyndon was in town and was supposed to speak for him
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • here, and weI re about to allow it to be taken away from us. II That was particularly evident from the labor people and the more liberal element in the party. They seemed to have a distrust for this switchover, and so in order to make it official
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Coleman -- I -- 12 Ameri can ~ Jack Kennedy. II They had swi tched over to Kennedy, not knowing that they were going to be running mates four years hence, you see. To me
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • time there. II was kidding, and he took it seriously. I About a month afterwards, he was President.' B: Some people say that he really doesn't have much of a sense of humor. D: I don't think he has when it comes to him, although he's one
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of labor. Now when Lyndon Johnson was first elected to the Congress, unions were a negligible factor in politics in Texas. much of a factor until after World War II. They weren't very But then, as Lyndon Johnson became a national figure running
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the North Carolina Senate from 1936 to 1941. After service in World War II you served in the North Carolina Senate from 1947 to 1952, at which time you were elected to Congress and have served continuously since that time. F: That's right. McS: You
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No. G: Anything on his service in the navy during World War II? R: Yes. No, I don't remember--I remember when he came back he gave me his coat, because I was on my way into the navy, a beautiful blue coat which I never used and I eventually gave
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • on this whole thing is the Balcones Research Center which was a magnesium plant during World War II and is now LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • said, liAs far as other people are concerned, the Secretary and the Under Secretary speak as one, and when either one of them says anything, you take it as coming from both. II No one else ever knew precisely LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and we did work it out. Again, there were questions remaining as a result of World War II between the United States and the Republic of the Philippines, and a joint commission was formed of which I was a part, and we worked those things out. Things
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • viewpoint was international. D: Yes. And that was my preference. Now, Lyndon was very proud of the fact that he served in World War II for a short time, but then any male might be proud of that. But it wasn't something that he took for granted. The work
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the newspaper business, magazine business, World War II service in the Air Corps, and, after the war, your own public relations firm. When in this process did you first meet Mr. Johnson? M: I saw him when he was running for the Senate in 1948. I did