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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, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the knowledge that Washingtonians have from the daily papers and from the talk of the town. When I went to college I went to Bryn Mawr, and there were only a handful of Democrats - -this was before the Roosevelt era - -and they were for the large part
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember that we had patriotic societies coming down from New York and Boston and Philadelphia dressed in colonial costumes, parading around through the House Office Building and the Capitol, buttonholing congressmen and asking them to vote against
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The first one we ever went to was in Houston, when Roosevelt nominated Al Smith. I saw him get up with those two canes, on the floor, and he nominated Al Smith, way back then. We went to Philadelphia in '36, and my daughter was Queen of the Convention
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, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and I was not in the service. only sole source of support. I was my mother's In March of 1941, I went to Philadelphia, and I was there until about September of '46, when I came back here to Washington. M: This is at a branch of your office. C: Well
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Congressman Kleberg. Now those were the days--we were contempo- raries of a sort--where the young New Dealers around Washington congregated at all hours of the day and night, particularly at night. I came to Washington in 1933. F: You P
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 P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1975 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES P. NASH INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Nash's home in Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Nash, let's begin with a little of your background. You were born in Pennsylvania, I think, Philadelphia? N: Yes
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this young fellow could just go down to the White House almost any time he wanted to, figuratively having a key to the back door. So he did go down there a lot, because that's the way I'd get the news a lot on things happening. On the other hand, some
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • to go to the urban centers, and they were not equipped to earn a living in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, you name it. And they became recipients of the welfare system. Therefore because of this mobility of the American population
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, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • than some, saw what it already meant to the people of our state ... and what it could mean in the future. The primary had scarcely begun when Downey withdrew from the race. Manchester Boddy, the owner and editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, my friend
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, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ." We only had two, so we called one of them the "old building" and one the "new building." M: Like the Senate does now. H: It was the East Building for housing members of Congress, their offices and so forth, and I was on the east side--a long ways
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with him until that day tn Dallas. M: That was obviously the next question. How soon after the assassination did you see him? S: I remember. It was a very curious thing. Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News and I were standing in that parking
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , of course not publicly in the Bonham daily paper. But the word was gotten around because Dwight Dorough's * father-- Mr. Deets Dorough, the County Democratic Chairman for all the years that Mr. Rayburn was in office, I guess, let me know pretty quickly when
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • daily? N: Not daily, 0:: Cape Cod at the time of the second primary? but I telephoned. I bought the New York Times. Boston pa?ers didn't report anything. The The New York Times would have very confusing information, and I remember I called
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Goliad, Texas, and I went to the University of Texas, B.A. degree in English in 1933; then two years of graduate work in history and government. Then I went to work as a newspaperman. I had been editor of the Daily Texan at the university and worked
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (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 "Rags" Ragsdale of the U.S. News [and World Report], who was a friend of his of many
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and publisher of the Temple Daily Telegram, and also now owns the radio and television station there. So, Frank Mayborn was in Nashville, Tennessee, at the moment, at the time the committee met, because he had a radio station over there. I realized
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • large town. His car was there. We started searching for him and found him. He was passed out in a ditch, not partly, dirty and mud allover him and so on. I didn't know what to think about him. Dorothy was also rather new; she'd only been working
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and local daily papers. B: If he did that, I'm not aware of it. G: He didn't lobby you on that? B: No, he did not. No. (Interruption) G: Let me ask you about the attack on Pearl Harbor and LBJ's immediately going on active duty. Do you recall
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, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • think that he discussed it almost daily, probably, with Senator Stennis and men like that. I went up and testified, as I recall, by request of the delegation, against the legislation. I don't know whether I saw Senator Johnson
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , pretty weather . about 75° , and the sun was out . 17 It was a good San Antonio day ; it was Cantinflas would get up and say, "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year," and he would sit down . But this wowed the crowd and they loved to see him
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, 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, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • you have any great difficulty persuading people to your point of view? M: Oh, yes. In this county it was impossible. Mc~ What was the difficulty here? M: This county had turned against Roosevelt--turned against the New Deal
  • Biographical information; Judge Frank Culver; Sam Rayburn; LBJ; George Petty; Coke Stevenson; Dan Moody; Carter vs. Tomlinson; FDR and the New Deal
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, 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, 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, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That was the helicopter campaign, and it cost me a new Chevy . F: B: 2 How come? Well, the helicopter was running about a 100 to 125 miles an hour and it was going across country . Texas roads weren't in those days what they are today and trying to make every stop
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
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • contest of his primary election in Texas? R: No. Actually, like most of the other young New Dealers around town, I met then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson in the early '40's, but it's not a clear recollection for me. I guess I remember him mostly as sort
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the electorate in Texas and point out to me that in substance, Texas, because of the way in which it was settled was as big a melting pot as New York, and that particularly he had always been able to have the support of the Negro and the Mexicans. His problem
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of payments problem. This was something brand new to the United States, we'd never really ever encountered it. And we finally ran up against the place, and began to realize that as a nation we were spending more internationally than we were earning
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , in its ever-loving wisdom, had eliminated the appropriation for the domestic division of D.W.I. because they were angry because of a field survey, \~ich was that the representatives were interposing themselves between news sources and the government
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , but of course there were many, many new members coming in all the time in a body as large as the House that Johnson could have only the most casual acquaintance with if he knew them at all. But he had a lot of loyal friends from all over the country
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • GOLDSCHMIDT (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Goldschmidt's horne in New York City November 6, 1974 MG: Let's start from the beginning and the first time you met Lyndon Johnson. EG: Well, I met him in a very characteristic way