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Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

physical exams out at Kelly My heartbeat was then at the maximum, but it had come down from Field . 172 to the time I took the physical exam which was about three weeks later- M: Was this due to being struck? B: Yes . M: Caused your heart

Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in either tank or anti-tank-- I: Well, this is the same thing that happened to me, except at a lower level, I mean rank-wise. You knew or remember Bill Francis, I imagine? F: Yes. I: Bill was a colonel in Dallas in Army Intelligence at this time and we

Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

see that. G: Let me ask, when did Mr. Teague go to work for LBJ? When did he begin his employment? T: 1959, I guess. G: In 1959? And his co-pilot, Charles Williams, did he go to work at the same time, do you know? T: Nope, he'd just been put

Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Secret Service. interview is in his office in Washington, D.C. 1968. The time is 10:45 a.m. The The date is December 17, My name is David McComb. First of all, may I ask you something about your background? I'd like to know where you were born

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

rapidly what all you did up to the time that you came to Washington and the Interstate Commerce Commission. D: I was born in Stockdale, Texas, in Wilson County just east of San Antonio; lived on a farm until I was eighteen or twenty years old. I became

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

sketch your background, education? H: Ny home town All the time. "laS Mi nera 1 We 11 s. But when I got into NY A I had been in Lubbock, going to school at Texas Tech and had finished out there and was out looking for something to do right

Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

hard times. C: Those were very hard times. Did you have a major? Almost every Congressman's office was filled to capacity with people beseiging them for jobs. M: This was 1933? C: No, I came here in 1935. M: Oh, you came in '35 C: '35. Mr

Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a graduate of The Unjvcrsity of TeAas I.m,! School, 1929, ar,d t.l~en I practiced lav one yC~H Antonio, and dlCn I I"1t)vcd to Sef,uin, Texas, ,,:here I '\Vent to '·.'ork fer became Stale Senator anJ who at that time was District Attorney.

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thirty miles this side of San Angelo in West Texas. G: How did you end up in the Hill Country? M: Well, I married Dale Malechek, who is also from that area; his folks live about eight miles from mine. Dale was going to A&M College at that time

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, administrative. G: And was he to replace anyone? J: No, I just hadn't had one. Sort of learn the ropes and take that over eventually. Mr. Johnson just felt like maybe I was overworked. G: Now the Marshall Plan came up at this time and was a big issue

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Those are the hallmarks of after an election. I do not remember the time, but at any case the Texas Election Bureau announced that Lyndon was elected with a five thousand vote lead, at some point. So that the next day's paper, the Dallas Morning News

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the home of Evalyn Walsh McLean, a very famous hostess of those days. This was a one and only time for a young congressional couple like us. First thing, Lyndon didn't like to go to parties, as I've probably said a dozen times, and kept on turning things

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, just completely like that, he realized that I couldn't take it all the time, so three of uS were put on and we alte rnated weeks on the road, Mary Rather and I and Dorothy Plyler. What it amounted to was we got up at 5: 00 o'clock in the morning

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

' initial reluctance. Let me ask one question. The need for reorganization had nothing to do with the way that Wirtz had run the department but it was merely the fact that it had grown a parcel at a time and not everything integrated, right? C

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be understood and dealt with in its own terms. Time after time, he thought for instance that you could have the situation in which the White House would not put out anything except when he wanted to put it out. He tried to abolish the press briefings a couple

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: BESS ABELL INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mrs. Abell's home in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: We had gotten last time into the White House years and just to sort of take areas at random, once the shock and the travail of moving

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

prestige and Mr. McCormack as lea. dex all his prestige, and they only won by three or four votes. They were difficult times and I think when Mr. Johnson became president after the terrible tragedy in Dallas, there was a feeling of great empathy towards

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you'll find some places in downtown Dallas where you have more millionaires per square inch than any place else. So it doesn't run evenly. As I look back on the time I served in the Senate either in a senator's office or in the committee, the worst defeat

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 16, 1 9 7 0 F: This is the second interview with Mr. Joseph Barr in his office at American Security and Trust in Washington, D.C., on January 16, 1 9 7 0 . We were talking last time, Mr. Barr, about the problems

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

President? Y: While he was Vice President. B: I gather that neither you nor anyone else in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was really having much to do with him directly. Was there ever any times in those years when, to your knowledge, he

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for Connally during the time that he was secretary of the Navy. I recall asking Lady Bird if I could take someone along with me, and she said, "Yes, that would be fine." I had a friend~ an attorney from Dallas named Edwin Tobolowsky, and I took him along

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a little bit of background here to begin with. You came out of East Texas. Right? H: Yes. Leon County and Grimes. F: You went to the University for your law work? H: Yes. F: And then went back to Grimes County and at one time was a judge

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/oh Wilson -- I -- 2 didn't even push the hold call. button~ I was so scared of losing that It was the first time I ever talked to a senator's wife. So I literally left the phone on the desk and went running down the hall to get Max Brooks

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that there wasn't a volunteer. In defeat it's quite a different atmosphere. I had planned to go down in any event. I simply said, "I'll take care of that," and I went down. I spent a considerable amount of time fending off the reporters, not conceding for a while
inability to reach LBJ to discuss the Vietnam plank; the location and timing of the convention; frustration with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over the organization of the convention; the possibility of a movement to draft Edward Kennedy; whether

Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

you born, where, and where did you go to . school? TF: I was born in Johnson City on September 12, 1909. in Johnson City. I went to school At that time \'Je had, I believe, eleven grades and the school wasn't accredited. So if you intended to go

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was a part of his debating team. After I finished high . school, I went to Rice Institute for two years. During the summer immediately after that two-year period, I became assistant secretary to Congressman Richard Kleberg. time Mr. Johnson was secretary

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Johnson when I was serving as law clerk for Justice [Hugo] Black on the Supreme Court. My parents were living in Washington at the time; my father was practicing law here. He had been a lifelong friend of Sam Rayburn's. B: Your father had been? W

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

known Sam Houston since he was a young man. He has always been connected with Lyndon in almost everything that he's undertaken other than just when he was secretary to Congressman [Richard] Kleberg. At that time Lyndon was very alert, very

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall about that is that Mary Rather was his chief secretary at the time. Mayo Clinic. She was sending things to him at the She addressed a whole bunch of stuff to Rochester, New York that the Senator was most anxious to have and became quite

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in there. Do you happen to know if you might have been on Mr. John Macy's list of possibilities? M: Well, they had a talent hunt that was conducted by Sarge [Sargent] Shriver at that time. I don't know whether John had anything to do with it; I don't think he

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. I took some of my consternations over to George Christian, who was the press secretary at the time, who was present at the ranch in Australia when Mr . Johnson was tendered the offer of the kangaroos . George said he had enough to worry about ; he

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to start drafting. It was something I don't think they had done since the Korean War. So we began this program. By the time we began it, I was over in the White House. The first dealings with the President on the draft were that I remember in connection

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

older than I, he and I became friends. We were con- temporaries, we were both interested in public affairs, and we both knew the same type of people, such as Governor [James V.] Allred and most of the officials. I think that at that time Lyndon had

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was an active member of the House. I got to know him right away. B: Was he already by that time moving into a position of leadership in the informal sense? Bo: Yes, I think so. He took great interest in his work and he had enthusiasm for his job. He

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and John Connally, but you probably have read that they had been bitter enemies for some time. G: No. J: Never heard about it? They were. Ed Clark, to go back into hi s history, he comes from East Texas, and when Jimmie Allred was attorney general

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Job Corps, the director of Head Start. So at that time Bill Kelly would have been closing them up, and Bill Kelly was just terrifically good as a manager and thank God he was in charge. That's one reason why I don't remember the details. G: Did

Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

place? B: I first came up here during the period of 1945-47 during the legislature when at that time there was a wave of anti-labor laws being introduced all in the good name of the so-called right-to-work . There was a series ocabout fifty different

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Northeast Texas, thirty-six miles from Dallas, Texas, and went from there, when I graduated from high school, to Baylor University at Waco, then worked a year in Austin and then moved to Alice in 1941. G: And you took a law degree? D: Yes, I

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

which we can then go into some of the material. S: Okay. Well, I was born and brought up in New York City and spent the bulk of my time there, except when I was away at school, until about 1946. I graduated from the College of the Holy Cross

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of country for about two and a half weeks. I went from Rome back to Washington; as I mentioned earlier, I arrived there the day of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Then I went back via the Far East, stopped off and saw our embassy

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