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Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , because most of the East does have an abundance of water supply, either ground water or streams that can be tapped for ready diversion for irrigation. So the Eastern irrigation up to now has been largely by individual enterprise, farm by farm, without
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and this is a step-out move--was the acquisi- tion of KANG in Waco. That was the station that I told you had been put on the air by Clyde Weatherby of Hamilton, Texas, whom I always thought of as an honest promoter. ness enterprises. stamps. He's a man
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , and this is one of the reasons that I admire President Johnson--that he in a very real way was running the government toward the latter years of the Eisenhower Administration. Much of the initiative and enterprise in our government toward the late fifties
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Connally -- II -- 2 C: No, I really think, so far as I know, it partially developed out of Johnson's friendship with Charlie Marsh. It doesn't predate my time and association, but I was never in on it particularly. Charlie Marsh, as I
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • moved my office to Houston . M: Did you join a law firm here? L: No, I practiced by myself . I had associated with different law firms, just shared offices, but I had an individual practice . M: Why did you move, incidentally, from San Antonio
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . live often wished that lid come from something a little more unique, you know, than just a proper name. But, as that may be, how did you get to Washington, briefly? H: l~ell, I worked on a number of newspapers in North Carolina, the largest
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was. Mr. Rayburn's office was in the Capitol. It was really just a place where friends, some close associates in Congress would get together, it wasn't a big crowd at all, and you couldn't go unless you were invited. Nobody could just decide they'd run
  • trip to the Mayo Clinic for a kidney stone and his opinion of disclosing health-related information; how the Texas reporters covered LBJ's and Stevenson's campaigns; varying levels of support for LBJ from newspapers around Texas; opposition to LBJ
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as a general assignment reporter for about six months till the end of 1963, then went to Newsweek in early 1964, spent three years there as an associate editor largely in charge of the radio and television departments, otherwise just "swing writing
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of close associations with him when he was Speaker of the House ; and through that I was acquainted with Mr . Johnson, but not to the point that he would have recognized me in a crowd . � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the cattlemen to take protection and all that. G: Right. J: All that stuff affected the King Ranch, you see, and the cattlemen. That was one reason. Then you take it that the general counsel for the Texas Cattle Raisers Association was none other than
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was delivering newspapers in Bishop and I read in the Houston Chronicle that the NYA had been set up, and that he was going to be the administrator of it ; that you could get $15 .50 a month and go to the University by working two hours a day or some such thing
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , say, in 1941 and 1947, a lot of them were gone. Old [Harry] Benge Crozier was a very dear friend of mine. F: Mine, too. B: And you had kind of a different type of newspaper reporter there. Of course, just this last week I was in Dallas and I
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the difference between page one and page seventeen in the newspaper. G: Right. Was it generally divided by importance here? If it were more important, the White House would announce it. B: If it were important to the White House or if it were important
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • heels all the time, and he kept him fairly well out of Texas. Almost all of Johnson's newspaper friends refused to publish Pearson, and one of them continued to get the Pearson column simply so he could notify Johnson of any bad columns that were
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the President reach his conclusions. M: I think perhaps one of the reasons that this has been brought up in some of the articles and publications on the presidency was that in uncovering associations or making a judgment on a personal problem, that you were
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, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • night reading together was going to get our piece of paper in there . I think on one or two occasions, perhaps during the time I was Chairman, I had some little complaint or reminder that he had read something in the newspaper that he should have known
Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was afraid that the Court might go off in a direction that would keep us from having an exception. And on the day that the California tidelands case was argued, I went up for the National Association of Attorneys General and made a short friend
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . There are those who call it the "department of dirty tricks." A: It started out, the basic precept of the Five O'Clock Club was that we would take stories that Johnson or people very close to Johnson wouldn't really want to be too closely associated with, dirty
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a two-year appointment to the Atomic Energy Commission from 1952 to 1954. From 1954 to 1960 you were in private law practice in Washington, D.C., and associated with several companies working in the atomic energy field. Also, you co-authored a book
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to write a speech about this, and I agreed to do it . I heard that he wanted to give it at the Associated Press dinner in April, I think, '66 or '67, but I got through with it too late and missed my chance . It could have been a good speech though
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • just drafts that Udall brought over for her to use. I don't remember what portion of my work she may have used or not, but I was the person he turned to to help him to do that for Mrs. Johnson. So, in his mind there was an association between me and her
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Birdwell, and Sugar Pickle, the lively, cute, funny wife of Jake Pickle. Eloise Thornberry, and Margaret Mayer from the newspaper world. When Lyndon came down, he began covering the state, speaking to his usual constituency, associations of postmasters
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, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • handling. You write a letter to an associate, or you may make a reference to someone which is not unkind but may be true, but you don't want it misinterpreted or to get out to the press. You could say so-and-so is a great guy, but he has this weakness
  • on donations; 1969 tax law; physical move of material to Austin; typical appraisal workday; comparison of working conditions on LBJ and Nixon papers; controversial Nixon deed of gift; President Eisenhower memorandum; personal association with LBJ; Pentagon
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • anything-­ M: Yes, I was very typical, or, as it turned out, typical of the first year's fifteen Fellows and I believe also of later years. us simply read about it in the newspapers. The vast majority of Publicizing the program has 2 ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . President. I know that your principal newspapers and your key Senators will collapse when I put on the pressure." That's a very good way to have war. The credibility of the President of the United States at a moment of crisis and the fidelity of the United
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • lucky I just think that our association turned out right. For example, in our visit in Korea, the big mix-up when they lost a favorite suit of his, and by luck, more than anything else, I was able to get it back. ing. I retrieved it. There was a big
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [was] that the newspapers constantly say [that] Shivers is going to run against Johnson. Shivers, as I recall, did not vote for Stevenson, because of Stevenson's position on tidelands in 1952. But any time Shivers would come to Washington and Johnson knew about it, he
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • States, Southwest Region. Mr. Woodward has had long associa­ tions with Mr. Johnson, and we'd like to let Mr. Woodward right now tell us what some of those associations were. W: How did they start? Paul, it got underway one day by my walking
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • recall. And there was legislation passed, gun control legislation, which was not all we wanted but it was the first breakthrough in national gun control legislation. I think he was at that point particularly bitter at the National Rifle Association
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as VP; Barefoot Sanders; Ramsey Clark; Mitchell liaison on White House staff; selecting African Americans for governmental positions; Samuel Jackson; LBJ as a victim of a kind of newspaper conspiracy; LBJ’s views of demonstrations; Floyd McKissick gate
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Springs where he came from to run for the governorship. That was the beginning. I. went to Albany with them, and then came to Washington. F: Did you have any association at all with President Johnson's brief wartime experience? T: Do you have any
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the ministers. I think there were roughly five hundred ministers who were going to be in attendance. Originally the idea was that Kennedy would meet in a closed TV studio with selected representatives of the association, some three or four perhaps; however
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and lasted through November and I was identified in the leadership of it all the way in. When Johnson was nominated, or agreed to accept rather, the vice presidency in Los Angeles, there was a good deal of discontent in the newspaper here about it, which
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • nomination . Was this sort of a real peace gesture on his part, or was this newspaper talk? B: I have no recollection of his offering to support me for Vice President, I was always rather hopeful secretly that the President would select me as his Vice
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Yes. This was a rather astonishing crisis in a number of ways. For one thing it was a crisis for some days before it ever got in the newspapers. We were frantically disturbed in the State Department some days before this ever got in the press. I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)