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Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and this is now my fortieth year on Capitol Hill . F: He's finally going home, isn't he? M: I'm just trying to make up my mind . F: No, I don't mean you . M: Oh, oh, yes, sir . F: Colmer . M: Bill Colmer is going home . F: I haven't seen him yet
Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • connection with Sam Rayburn? M: No, sir. Mc: What kind of connection have you had with Lyndon Johnson? M: Oh, none. I knew him, but that's all. I met Mr. Johnson a long time ago. I voted against him and for him, and that's about it. Mc: Did you
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, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Helen Gahagan Douglas
  • Biographical information; first political action; election to Congress; activities/bill introduced in Congress; Richard Nixon; Melvyn Douglas campaign for LBJ at request of FDR; Farm Security Agricultural Department Program; friendship with LBJ
  • Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980
  • Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Helen Gahagan Douglas
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and if the ball calls for me to make the throw to home rather than throw to first I'll throw home, although in my own mind I figured I could catch the man coming down to first and the run was going to score on me anyway, if you follow that baseball analogy . Yes
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to you, you have any changes or corrections or additions--anything like that. Has that ever occurred? A: No, I think that won't be a problem with us here. M: Sir, you came to Congress just two years after Mr. Johnson ran and was elected
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C., Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last time you were talking about briefing former President Truman on the behalf of President Johnson, and after the tape
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the fact that he thought something was materially wrong with Rayburn. G: What did he say? H: The Speaker came back from the July 4 vacation and he said, "The damnedest thing happened to me while I was at home. crick in my back. I got the worst I went
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : With a commitment to stay for three months, and I've been here ever ca~e here right at the beginning of the New Deal? since. F: You don't know how to go home, do you? P: That's right. I think I must have met the President, then Lyndon, early in that period
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Also, sir, in that primary campaign so far as Mr. Johnson's campaign speeches and so on went, was he going pretty well down the line with the Truman administration? S: Yes. He was, and with the Democratic Party generally. We considered him of course
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was going to lose it. that he was going to lose it. I never felt But, as I say, you just don't count those chickens until they come home. M:: Yes. E: Finally, they're all right. But, no, I wasn't particularly worried; but I was concerned, because
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "I don't know just what you mean, sir ." And he said, � � � � 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
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • favorite. G: Did she refer to Sir Walter Scott at all? R: I don’t recall that she did. G: Some of the accounts mention that the room to the right in the Johnson City home was filled with books -- R: I can imagine this was true. She wrote
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: Oren Harris INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan M: Let's begin, sir, by identifying you. More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BUFORD ELLINGTON INTERVIEWER: T.H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Ellington's office in the State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee Tape 1 of 2 B: Sir, if I may read just a little background material. You were born in Mississippi and attended
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -second. Some have been colorful; some have been listless; some have been innovators like Mr. Saxon and then some have been controversial like Mr. Saxon. M: But you have been the first career professional. c: Yes sir, that is correct, as far as I know
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • him in January of 1935. I started work in Washington on January 3, 1935 as secretary to Congressman A. L. Ford of the Fourth Mississippi District, whose home is here in Ackerman. I went to work for him six days before I was twenty-one years old
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LINDLEY BECKWORTH INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Beckworth's home near Gladewater, Texas Tape 1 of 2 M: I've just been talking to Mr. Beckworth about the use of this information, and I've explained that the tape and the transcript
  • Home congressional office facilities; family background; father's county school superintendent campaign; 1928 Democratic convention in Houston; college education data; 1936 race for state representative; introduction to LBJ in 1936; 1938 campaign
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Not in quite such a hurry to get home . B: That's right . I was not married then, Joe . I'd work in my office until 6 :30, sometime a little later, and then I'd stop over there and have a drink with Mr . Rayburn and visit with him . There were probably
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? R: Yes, sir. G: What was your role in that campaign? R: Whatever I could do to run errands for him. G: Did you travel with him? R: No no, because I was still working for NYA all the time. As a matter of fact, I had a new Oldsmobile and he
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , sir, I wanted to ask you about that. To back up into the '40 IS, even if you had not met Mr. Johns·--a had you formed an opinion about him? Had you classified him as a Congressman? M: Yes, I had. I was a pretty conservative young man, and it seemed
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh V. Dr SALLE February 4, 1969 B: This is the interview with Governor Michael V. DiSalle. Sir, if I may, subject to your additions and corrections, just outline very briefly your background. You were born in 1908 in Toledo; law
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : In 139. He had an office there. In the Co-op. [Pedernales Electric] From September 15 when I went to "vork until the first of the year, we worked there. And then the boys drove up to Washington and I spent Christmas with Bird at her home in Karnack
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • some of the homes down there, although it was available to them--electricity was available to them--they were still using the kerosene lamp and I'm quite sure that nine-tenth's of the kitchen tables down there were still covered with oil cloth. F
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
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1976 INTERVIEWEE: J. R. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Major Parten's home in Madisonville, Texas PARTEi'~ Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, Major, to that first little visit where Jimmy Allred called you in to meet Lyndon Johnson. You were
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , real late nights. In those early days of NYA, Lyndon was the last man out of the office. When we were all walking out to go home, and generally we pretty much quit together, Lyndon was the one that pulled the door to behind us. He was not the type
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, do you recall when you first met Lyndon Johnson or had any knowledge of him? M: No, I do not. I came to Washington about
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on, which primarily was getting more money for the dams and getting the lCRA organized the way he wanted it, and REA. Those were his main things right at that time, trying to get every farm and home electrified. A lot of days he would come into Austin
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • people's minds that knew anything about it that this fellow Dougherty could ever beat Johnson. M: Did Mr. Johnson discuss or members of his staff talk very much about his political base and broadening his political base at home? He had, of course
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
  • 1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , or they ran for cover, they'd go to a hospital, couldn't reach them, or something. John White was the only statewide state official that came out for the tickety. So Mr. Rayburn had to come home and take the campaign over, nobody else to do it. Well, he'd
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , then? R: To tell you the truth about it, I was a great admirer of General Douglas MacArthur. He was given a luncheon by President Kennedy. time we just had observers over there. At that MacArthur was sitting on the right-hand side of the President
  • ; General Douglas MacArthur; Harry Byrd; conservation; Civil Rights Acts; major changes in U.S. government in 35 years; accomplishments of the American people
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . with Helen Douglas. But no The saIne way When he was descr:bing why he ran for the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • First meeting with LBJ; NYA; Aubrey Williams; Congressional support for LBJ; Dillard Lasseter; John Carson; political apprenticeship of LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; Abe Fortas; Helen Douglas; father figure to LBJ; Texas sort of expansiveness
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • forgotten how it went. He said he went home once--he voted against something he was really for, and he said to Bird, "The next vote that comes along that I am in favor of, I'm going to vote and to hell with my people. vote the way I should." I'm going
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that was about it. He hadn't been home; he had been very much i.nyolved with foreign policy, and when you get to that exalted position-at that time) you know, they were fussing around a lot about starting the Uni.ted Nations; Chiang Kai-shek; Madame Chiang
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it. I'm going to go home." F: More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is what I have accomplished. Now I didn't pay a bit of attention to it. Well, I think practically everyone I have talked to about
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . SAM FORE, JR. : INTERV IEidER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mrs. Fore's home in Floresville, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: This is an interview with Mrs. Sam Fore, Jr. spells first name for him): Elma . . • E-L-M-A. (To Mrs. Fore, who I believe your given name
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: W. R. POAGE INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Poage's home in Rosslyn, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's begin, Representative Poage, with a meeting I think took place in 1938 with President Rooseve1t at the White House, when a number