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Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN E. LYLE, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Congressman Lyle's office, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: I want to begin by asking you to sketch very briefly your background and explain how you first came to be associated
  • First association with LBJ; recollections of James V. Allred; support of FDR; memories of Roy Miller; LBJ’s aptitude for acquiring information; views on LBJ; 1941 race; recollections of George Parr; circumstances of Lyle’s election to Congress
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, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , on the reporters for the newspapers. I might say the Associated Press had, by all odds, the widest coverage in Texas and there were both dailies and weekly AP papers all over the state. You didn't even have a separate gallery, of course, for radio and television
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • never was intimate with him or closely associated with him, even after that time. McS: Mr. Fountain, during those Senatorial years are there any things that stand out in your mind as far as either issues or legislation that you particularly think
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a type of mentor? P: Well I suppose everybody felt close to Nr. Sam. And because of my associations in the 1936 presidential campaign, where I was directed to become the executive director of sixteen farm states-F: Yes. P: --by Henry i'Jallace
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with you? H: Yes, we had a very close association during the time. When I entered the Congress he had preceded me by two years, I believe it was. He was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives at that time
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ in Congress; LBJ’s chief motivation and goals; 1943 and 1948 elections; Sam Rayburn; Charlie Murphy; oil/gas industry; Bob Kerr; Natural Gas Act of 1938; Senator Francis Case; Area Basin decision
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 a good friend of the newspaper publisher in the area, Mr. [Eugene] Pulliam, and it seemed to me that my press
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , at the time when he was majority leader . He was speaking of Trinity, and Kerr was talking about this last watershed to be developed . And Lyndon Johnson was behind him one- hundred per cent on that, and they became even closer through this association
  • ; Kerr's involvement in the vice presidential decision; Kerr's 1960 campaign; Kerr and LBJ's friendship; Tulsa newspapers; federal judgeships; Kerr and JFK and RFK; personality and character of Kerr
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • by the teachers' organization, Texas State Teachers' Association and the Classroom Teachers' Association, and the Texas Education Agency. So because of this interest of teachers and welfare recipients, I got the term liberal. M: Now, after the defeat
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . he entered high school. But he did not [finish]; he went to work in the newspaper office, just as a helper and a roustabout, and learned how to set type by hand. He left high school. His mother was in very poor health and his father was a clerk
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • found a great interest in public service. had that interest ever since I was a young man. I've My father, who ran a weekly newspaper in a small town near Fort Wayne, was interested LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Service at Austin and a correspondent for a large number of newspapers. Is that correct? K: Yes. B: During that period back in the 19305 a man named Jimmie Allred was elected governor. I believe that you and I thought a lot of Mr. Allred, did we
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
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • recall precisely what you did? E: It was purely on the local level, on the Houston area level. M: You would talk to your business associates then? E: That's right. Contact people; send out cards, postcards, the old campaign technique, sign
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conservative. S: Frankie had a way with those kind of people that her family had been associated with. She was enormously respected all through the East Texas lumber industry as a person. And rightfully so. She was a very LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the advisory committee. It was certainly in the early days. G: Do you recall anything between the association, Lyndon Johnson and Alvin Wirtz, in this period that you observed? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing that Lyndon Johnson did in 1941 was promote navy advertising in small Texas newspapers, navy recruitment ads. B: Through his stations there? G: Well, no, in Texas newspapers. He tried to get the navy to take out ads in small weeklies
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and the interviewer is Joe B . Frantz. Mr . Boatner, first of all, tell us a little bit about your own background and how you came to this spot in your life . B: My background is that of a newspaperman and my newspaper was the Fort Worth Star Telegram . I
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Mrs . Johnson and my wife and the President reached the point where he was detailing how he studied at night, he was associating himself with those people at West, finding a common point of interest . He detailed how at night after they had dinner why
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that is, in the years that I knew him and worked for him . Now, I had what you would call a casual acquaintance with him when he was in the NYA and when he was a congressman . Then our association started when he was a senator . G: Right . You had talked about
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Association about ten days ago, and I had lost that card, so I went out to the back of my office where my father's trunk is . in his trunk . I felt I'd find another one of these cards What I wanted to emphasize to the Northeast Texas Bar Association
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • implying. B: That's what I had reference to. S: I was not associated in those lawsuits. B: Can you now, over a distance of time, make any judgment on the validity of the various charges on all sides of fraud etc., in that election? S: Of course, I
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MILLER -- I -- 6 of people, somewhat of a recluse. That is not true at all. delighted in the association with a small group. He And I thought it interesting, too, that he always went to every
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • been. The leadership decided to hold it off a week or ten days, when members weren't under such tremendous pressure from the newspapers and from the letters from their own constituents. B: Back when John Kennedy was president was there any sort
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that came in the kitchen way to see the President. He didn't have to go through the other formalities. Apparently Roosevelt thought an awful lot of Lyndon, and Lyndon thought a lot of him. G: But in going back through some of the old newspaper public
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of themselves." That was such an utterly absurd comment coming from a governor of a great state that I immediately arose from my seat and told the attorney and the others who were there--the attorney was not Jimmy Allred, it was the attorney of this association
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on those occasions would indicate that they each regarded the other as a very close and good friend. B: In those days when you were on the. Truman White House staff there were associated with the White House a number of people who later became associated
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (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 Bolling -- I -- 5 M: Not the kind of personal leadership that he is associated
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 'I ain't going. He ain't going to tell us a damn thing that ain't been in the newspapers.'" command. "No, Mr. Speaker, you've got to go. You've got to go," so forth. This is a presidential "I've arranged for General Curtis LeMay to send his plane
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • associations with Governor Price Daniel and with President Johnson. In the spring of 1965 you joined the White House staff as Special Counsel to the President and served in that position until the spring of 1967. Could we begin by your telling me a little
  • Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the 1948 election
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • election first when he read about it in the Army Newspaper. 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
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, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the city then maybe wasn't more than thirty thousand--that could be checked on--it wasn't a large city. Sun, I remember. The newspaper \'IaS the San Bernardino And it's in the citrus area, a very nice town. Of course 1 ike all the towns around Los
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to go to work. And I saw him, of course, a few days later in company with my friend and attorney, Claude C. Wild, Sr. F: Was Claude with Humble Oil then? P: No, Claude Wild was then director of the Independent Petroleum Association of Texas, of which
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . So he began having continuing associations with Johnson, discussions about problem.s relating to that. But at the sam.e tim.e that that went on between them., I had a continuing relationship with him. [Johnson] on m.atters relating to the NY A. NYA
  • ; 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, Judge R.E. Thomason, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • to El Paso, Texas for permanent residence and became associated with a prominent law firm here. In 1916 I was elected to the Texas Legislature from El Paso County. At the beginning of my second term I was made Speaker of the House. No one was nominated
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . presidency, the nomination. It was, I don't know, I guess it was '64 for the I was sonewhere down here in Texas visiting, and he drove sixty miles just to pay his respects to a friend of the opposite party. But this is what I associate with these two
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at this for a year. R: Well, we'll try to do it as objectively as we can. M: Right. You're about my 110th interview. Let's get your identification on here, sir. You're Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., an attorney in Washington, D.C., and you've been associated
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Franklin Roosevelt? P: I don't remember what all we have gone into in the past, but of course Lyndon's association with Roosevelt was very close over a number of years and was the most important factor, I suppose, both in his election and in his
  • LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of freshman Congressman Johnson in those days? C: Oh, yes. I did, but not to be associated with him on anything other than just meeting and speaking. After all, I was still a secretary and he was a very busy co'ngressman. F: Did the secretaries pay any
  • First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson