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Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • get them confused. But one time, 1 remember, we were probably in Dallas in the morning, and ..../e went to Denton or Deni son, and we went to the Tyl er Rose Festival, and then we changed into evening clothes in the plane and went to the opening
  • Biographical information; how they came to Washington; meeting the Johnsons; Dick Kleberg; Texas State Society; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s early influence in Washington; gaining support for LBJ in Dallas; 1960 convention; women’s tea party tours
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the following :morning. Well, after Stevenson lost in the co:m:mittee by one vote, he announced that he was going to take the contest to the floor of the convention the following day. He had lots of support, because at that time [Strom] Thurmond
  • and 1960 campaigns; Democratic National Committeeman; Los Angeles Democratic Convention; JFK’s meeting with Houston ministers; LBJ’s running for Senate and VP; LBJ relationship with John Connally; LBJ as VP; reasons for the 1963 Dallas trip; wrote letters
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 If he was in an area where the paper had--say we were in East Texas--why Dawson Duncan of the Dallas News or Allen Duckworth or Dick Morehead were along, he would be sure
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Texas, in Belton, and lived there a good portion of my early life. I graduated from high school in the Depression years, when it was practically impossible to get any \vork. In 1933 I was offered a job as an employment service manager for a new U. S
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • The House Ag. Committee then was chaired by Congressman Bob Poage of Waco. I retired last year. G: What year did you come to Washington? E: Reported to work for Associated Press on Monday morning, March 15, 1937. G: Okay. Did you know Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in Waco, up in his suite. He had some of the regulars, some of the top state political reporters in his suite, talking to them, stroking them. Felix McKnight was there, from the Dallas News. I'm not sure that Allen [Duckworth] wasn't there, too, but I
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • proving that it would require more steel to reinforce a concrete pipeline than it would take to build an all steel pipeline. We had a very good MIT engineer, out of the organization of Standard Oil of New Jersey, who very effectively made that point
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of January of the year after one's election. I was a candidate in 1934 in the new district, the Nineteenth District, that cut Marvin Jones' district about half in two. I ran along with--there were nine of us--no incumbent [who] ran for the position and I
  • How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • we call Long News Service which is an independent Capitol News Service. We correspond for eighteen daily newspapers in Texas. Among them the San Antonio Light, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Beaumont Enterprise, EI Paso Herald-Post, Texarkana
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Truman Democrat and I am an Orval Faubus Democrat." F: And never the twain shall meet! H: That experience~ of course, is beside the point, except that it brings us together in this matter of geography. F: I think New York City is beginning to get
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape #1) NOVEMBER 10, 1969 F: This is an interview with Helen Gahagan Douglas in her apartment in New York on November 10, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mrs. Douglas, briefly run over your career, at least get
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went in the hospital? Was he at all senile? H: He never declined mentally. time he was lucid. elected to Congress. His mind was just as bright the last Two days before he died Henry Gonzalez was I got the Dallas News about six o'clock
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • practically wrote a layman's handbook. B: I did my best to, because I felt that was crucial. You had to keep them with you there. F: All right. Now then, the President was murdered down in Dallas and you have a new President. Did it ever occur to you
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • me to New York to work at the United Nations and all those kinds of things. But that is how I got to know John Connally, whom Senator Connally wanted to run his re-election campaign. John Connally refused him. There was really very little doubt
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with my wife to upstate New York to visit her father and they started phoning me there--yes, that's right--they phoned me there several times. Also, he had the man from Dallas call me-- the man who had originally put me and Jenkins in touch with one
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and say, "We're going to go to Bonham," or to Dallas ; it was whether Mr . Rayburn was in the hospital or at home . � � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Austin. The Percy V. Pennybacker wrote a history of Texas which was a textbook which we had studied in school. So I happened to see the paper that morn- ing--the Austin American-Statesman, I suppose--announcing the death of this member. It wasn't
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and I finished law school in 1934 when the New Deal was really getting under way. I came to Washington to be law clerk to Mr. Justice Holmes and stayed with him until his death in I think March, 1935. I had hoped to go back west to practice law
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • magazine went to press on Sunday night, but they did most of their editing through Saturday. He knew that correspondents had to file overnight Thursday, so that the editors in New York got the raw copy on Friday morning. zine's night. Now, I want you
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and then they changed that title . Incidentally that job paid a new sum of $1800 . F: Oh, you got a big raise . M: So I got a raise . here . That was during the time that Mr . Johnson was Lyndon was here and he and Lady Bird were the office forces around here
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was put together in 1953 or early 1954 and I attended the first meeting of it. I believe it was in Dallas or Waco. could have been in Fort Worth. It At that time I was a staff repre- sentative of the United Steelworkers of America in the Houston
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • those districts there are also subdistricts. For instance, in Texas, Dallas is the principal headquarters city, but we have offices in Houston and offices in Austin. M: This sounds like you follow the Federal Reserve system. c: Well, we did follow
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • should have his equal rights, and the responsibility is ours to take care of this thing. We'll see to it 1aw and order prevails." Well, that was something new coming out of Mississippi, but he did it. B: That would have been in 1965 or 1966? E
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • And the Austin district then was more of a New Deal district than most districts in Texas. too much of it; I read about it of course. him speak in the campaign. I didn't watch And I don't recall hearing I don't know whether I heard any of the speeches
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Beckworth -- I -- 16 any money . The Dallas News had a fairly good little article written by John King, whom I later knew and thought a lot of in Washington . About a year ago, I spoke to the real the house builders . ested
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boatner -- III -- 7 G: B: Did he listen in silence, or did he give his own commentaries on the news? He might have a pungent word or two to throw in if it was something that he
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ://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 Kennedy -- I -- 2 B: Then you became bureau manager for the International News
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the chance and became assistant district director in the Dallas district. I had been there about thr,ee weeks when Jesse Kellatn, who was ." LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 29, 1968 P: Today is Friday, November 29, and it's eleven in the morning. We are in the White House West Wing, and the interview is with Mrs. Willie Day Taylor. This is Dorothy Pierce. Mrs
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and all their staffs. ever seen. He was the best man for the job that I've I didn't get along So well with some of the people that worked for him, in both administrations, especially when they were relatively new. That may have been because when I
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Dallas News, which is the example of what I would think would happen. M: Mr. Jacobsen, one of the reasons for asking this is that there is a lot of material written about the fact that this is somehow indicative of Mr. Johnson's early aspirations
  • into Washington and Jacobsen’s job; Larry O’Brien; morning bedroom duty with Marvin Watson; LBJ’s morning routine; Jacobsen’s duties on visits to the Ranch; LBJ’s personality and compassion; foreign relations; President LBJ’s relationship with Congress; trips
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with usually in the Senate? B : No, but on occasion it would happen. a very important point . My wife raises a point that is It's not unimportant that she was born in Fort Worth and lived in Dallas until she came up here with the Kennedy Administration
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • by here and for him to brief him. 'Course, he knew nothing about his campaign, so he came here and spent the night that night, and they stayed up till two o'clock in the morning talking over this thing and taking down notes. Sam knew every newspaperman
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the morning, and my name is David McComb. Mr. Hall, first of all, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born, and when, and where did you get your education? H: Dr. McComb, I was born in Houston on May 30, 1907. But I've lived
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • literally had to watch the gold markets day by day and hour by hour. The first thing we'd check in the Treasury every morning at 8 o'clock was how much gold had been sold in London and how much more did we have to get up. F: Did you get a feeling
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and LBJ and some of the New Dealers were supporting Roosevelt. forces? Do you recall that issue, the stop-Roosevelt LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org L: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a home in Richardson, Texas. She taught in Richardson and I commuted each day into the Dallas office. Then about ten months later, I was out in New Mexico at New Mexico State University. One night at the motel I got a call from Cliff Carter asking me
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1974 I NTERV I HJEE: NELSON ROCKEFELLER INTERVI E~IER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Oa 11 as, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: This is an interview with former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York in the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas, on February
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and 20, 1977 INTERVIEWEE: Mrs. Jane Englehard INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Engelhard's home, Cragwood, Far Hills, New Jersey Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your parents, first of all. Your father was a Brazil- ian diplomat. E
  • to the United States and involvement in the microfilm business; New York Governor Alfred Smith; a plane crashing into the Empire State Building; marrying Charles Engelhard; Engelhard’s political career; Engelhard’s involvement in the gold business; race