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Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • any particular activities? to school ..... he was editor of the College Star, which was the weekly newspaper put out by the college, and this was an office which was given out by the student council, and naturally there was a little politics involved
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and we, through correspondence--through letters and telegrams to the President had been urging action on voter rights. I say "we," I mean all of the heads of civil rights organizations. M: He had resisted coming in with the bill up until that time? F
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the Egyptians ran across a number of classified American telegrams in the AID mission in the Yemen. G: Was that the cover? Was it a CIA operation? N: No, it was just absolute stupidity and lack of judgment on the part of the AID director that he had
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Eisenhower sent him a very warm and cordial telegram. So while they were members of different parties, they both loved their country so much they never let the party thing interfere. M: I have heard that Lyndon Johnson had great respect for President
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Gilpatric -- Interview I -- 11 partly from its own weight, because it was not a real star in my observation. In any case, Johnson didn't have the interest in that. There was another project that I was very much involved in [that] started under President
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Judge, [James] Allred, who was retiring, was not I'd say so much in disfavor. But there were other state officials who were in disfavor, and so it caused a climate that was conducive to the outs getting in. Governor O'Daniel was a radio star, and he
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • naturally with--he knew what to do and how to do it and when to do it as far as political campaign went. G: What did he generally do? W: Yes. Did he organize a close group of friends? You know the question of White Stars and Black Stars, that's pretty
Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . He was going to college at San Marcos and he hadn't been there over a year, and I went down to visit with him. me He was showing around the college, and there is one thing I will never forget. Lyndon took me to the College Star newspaper and said
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • to the Congress--Lyndon Johnson was president of this country, and I received a telegram at my home in Houston from Lyndon Johnson. The telegram was to the effect "we are having a meeting at the White House" or having several people to discuss the future of a bill
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • secretary, I had to resign from the National Youth Administration, which I did. I was still living in Buda . He left the hospital and went up to Johnson City, and I went up there . We had lots of calls and telegrams about his health and congratulatory
Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : But I know he was involved. When he would run for an office or when he wanted to be a Student Council representative for one of the classes, or editor of the ~ College Star, did he actively lobby to get people to support him? How did he-H: Well, yes
Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • w"ith in any way that we would nO"l say as going steady. I: Was he popular? G: I think so. I: Of course that leads to the black star, white star episode. Would you tell us about that? G: I don't kno"\\i' anything about it. I: You did make
  • First meeting with LBJ; debating the subject of sending Marines to South America; LBJ as a debater; Professor Greene; University of Texas Library; LBJ as a politician; Black Star/White Star episode; School Master Club
Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Stars]. P: Yes. G: How it got started. P: Actually, initially it got started, we fellows in 1929 were circulating there together. I was ineligible and working out--I'd go down and take the scrubs that would scrimmage against the varsity
  • How the Alpha and Omega (A&O) group got started at Southwest Texas State Teachers College (STSTC); the Black Star athletic fraternity; Pyland's experience with members of the Black Stars; founding members of the A&O; Bill Deason's election to class
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • star is rising rather rapidly. I: To go back, when I came to Congress, Walter Jenkins, who you also know, was also from Henrietta, Wichita Falls, and he married Marjorie Whitehill, who's from Wichita Falls. So when Ed Gossett, who was the congressman
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • "Is this the way you want it, boss?" Then he sent me a telegram that night saying how pleased he was and then the next morning he called me. There were two people on the line, he and Mrs. Johnson, and they were extremely generous with their words. Then he said
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and that was somewhat of a company policy. I did take advantage of it in 1960 as I had before. P: And after the election, did you return to Lone Star Steel? W: Yes. The election was on Tuesday, and I went back to work Wednesday. P: Between the 1960 and 1964
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • persecuting. I'm just saying that my policy of reconciliation with the Buddhists and all other religions is irreversible." G: So what led to the raids? N: Well, I sent Diem a personal telegram from Honolulu when I heard about them. I said
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 3 G: One of the telegrams I think I sent you has Lodge asking McNamara for one hour of his time alone. Do you have any idea what transpired between the men? There have been reports that Lodge was trying to convince McNamara that the military
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a star quality, a charismatic magnetism in a small room of this sort, that when he came in he just dominated the whole room. It seemed to be small by contrast with his presence. Well, he went around, shaking all our hands. He didn't know any of us
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • concerning the controversy that existed between two "secret" organizations on the campus, one called the White Stars, the other the Black Stars. The Black Stars organized prior to the White Stars and were composed of athletes. Athletes, back in those days
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; Professor Greene; White Stars; NYA; roadside parks; projects; programs; LBJ's activities; Lady Bird; Alvin Wirtz; 1937 Congressional campaign
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • of the history record? D: Yes, I would repeat for you the White Star-Black Star story because I think that I can give you a pretty accurate summary. The Black Star and the White Star were secret organizations on the campus. For a number of years, the Black
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • unfavorable wires or telegrams to the effect that he— V: When was this? G: When he was in Acapulco. This was after the convention. V: Yes, after the--yes. G: Telegrams expressing dismay that he had taken the vice-presidential nomination
Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • It says, "Dear Katie: It is only 8:00 a.m. in the morning. My star route mail carrier leaves the mail in my box across the river about 6:00, and your letter was the first one I read and the first one I'm answering, just about the only one I'm dictating
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • guilty. G: There's one other thing on Cotulla. I don't know much about it. LBJ was elected or selected as editor of the summer College Star while he was teaching down there at Cotulla. How did he get elected in his absence, do you recall? W: Well
  • Association with LBJ; Blanco County; Johnson family; college life; White Stars; student activities; Houston; Professor Greene; assistant to Kleberg; Maury Maverick; 1937 campaign; campaign advisers
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • very clearly that if there were some definitive response in the offing and that the Poles would so assure us, that if I couldn't do it by telegram I would fly home and convince them to stop it. There's no question in my mind that I could have as I sit
Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , an editorial writer. P: I don't remember th.at, but that sounds like him. any details about that. I don't remember I know he was editor of the [College] Star, and tnat one of the--well, I gues.s the 1ast time I saw him, as I mentioned, was when I went
Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and that there were big write-ups in the paper when you would win. S: I would say that the college was proud of the debate teams, a little too much so. G: How? S: They had articles in the College Star, the college paper, that we won the state of Texas. Well, we
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , in that famous telegram the date of which I've now forgotten-G: I think that's the August 24 [1963J telegram. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • a matter of getting a job to stay in school, to pay your room and board and things like that. PB: What sort of work did you all have to do? TD: Oh, some worked on the campus; Lyndon was editor of the College Star. Of course, that was one
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would resign, but he resisted. Perhaps four hours before Johnson had called I had told the Kansas City Star reporter what I was doing. So the next day it began appearing in the Kansas City Star first, that here was a Johnson subcabinet officer working
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and purpose that he thought he had a charter to do. G: What sort of charter did he think he had? Now this is before the famous August 24 telegram from Washington. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the voting patterns. What had hap- pened, I was told--I didn't actually see it I don't believe, I may have seen it--that we had intercepted a telegram from Coke Stevenson, who was W. Lee O'Daniel's campaign manager, that went out Sunday to various key
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Berry -- I -- 1 9 I just recently came back from a trip to Mississippi and the expectation of these trainees--you know, we launched a tremendous program under STAR in Mississippi . It was the first program . It was sponsored
  • such as the Community Action agency and Neighborhood Youth Corps under Title II; job training vs. job placement; STAR program in Mississippi; Berry
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ] immediately after Tet. Among other things the President opened the door by saying, "I accept your resignation. I think you ought to do what you think." But also the fact that things were going on that I knew nothing about. For example, some of the telegrams
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson was somewhat ignored by a number of people at that party, only because Kennedy was there and a lot of stars, Maria Callas and Marilyn Monroe and, I don't know, thirty or forty stars. Her [my wife's] comment has always been how rapidly things change
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: E. INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: ~lr. 24, 1969 B. GER~1ANY Germany's offices, Sherry Lane, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 2 M: Mr. Germany, as president and chairman of the board of Lone Star Steel, you have long been a very
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Senator Robert Kennedy's body along with seventy-five staff members of the Kennedy family. But as I say, they are controlled by this office. Now, in addition to that, the President has a Jet Star for short hops. This hauls thirteen people and he used
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was a district director. never will forget . I Mr . Kellam had just gotten this wire to add five hundred, we'll say--I've forgotten, it was a pretty good-sized figure-­ "Add five hundred immediately ." and he said, He brought the telegram in to the meeting
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a run-in that I'll never forget just before the President was going through these whether he was going to run or wasn't going to run and this kind of thing. I remember that I personally sent him a telegram once. Then I saw him once, and I said, Mr
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , but it was one that put him in the hospital for a couple of months, or a month. And he was laid up at this point. So, I was sort of violating our normal rule here of having neither he nor I at this office where he can send a telegram, but I felt