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Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- I -- 9 R: In every other town, in San Antonio and in Houston and in Fort Worth, we had arranged to have one reporter and one

Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and a brilliant tactician. One of my jobs, of course--he was very impressed. I had just come from being an instructor at Leavenworth and that impressed him. As a consequence, I sort of had credibility. To him, Fort Leavenworth and the Army Command General Staff

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the department. And as a result of that, I was exposed quite a bit to what was going on in Vietnam. And then just before I left, they sent me down to Fort Bragg for a two-week 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: the manned space center down there. fantastic. It was a good political trip. But the trip was For a reporter who liked politics, it was excellent. I was a pool reporter on the plane going into Fort Worth the night before, and so the next morning after

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this in perspective, if I may. In 1963 I came back from North Africa and went to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where I commanded the First Armored Training Brigade. In 1964 I came back to the Pentagon to the office of the secretary general staff. This is an office in which I

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

I've just seen a comprehensive show of hisfl--this was a retrospective show of my works at the Amon Carter r,1useum in Fort Worth-"and I recorrmend that you consider him. II This is my recollection of the letter, signed with a pleasant "Kind regards

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Oliver -- I -- 6 the Fort Worth area, and a few other scattered unions . It was on the basis of that relationship

Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in Fort Worth, for using coffee instead 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

flew to Fort Worth with him to be with Amon Carter, and then he met with Sarah Hughes and spoke to the Texas Bar Association. This was right around the time of Sarah Hughes' nomination as a federal judge. R: Again, I mean this was just a routine

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Fort Worth, there was a night club, a huge sort of building. It looked like a castle over there on the side of the hill, and those girls were dying to see inside. Oh, it was just something that they had heard, probably, stories about; I don't know

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

in a crowd somewhere, but nothing that's worth recounting. The first time I ever met him was when I had the responsibility--this must have been in the fall of 1961 and the spring of 1962--for the keynote speaker each year of the state meeting of the Texas

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 2 (II), 2/18/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. they weren't occurring. There weren 1 t. as many simply because So there was clear understanding that I was the fellow. You mentioned the funeral of Colonel Penn. He was the District of Columbia Reserve officer who was down at some fort in Georgia --Fort

Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in running the [Adlai] Stevenson campaign in Texas. I ran into him by chance in the airport in Fort Worth. He took me in to the Fort Worth Club, and we were having a drink there in one of the rooms. He met one of the very famous Texas multimillionaires

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, this would have not been in my jurisdiction so I don't recall. I think so. G: A junior placement service in Fort Worth, do you remember that? S: This I'm not familiar with. G: Elimination of traffic hazards from highways and planting shrubs along

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Congressional District. The 11th--I can't remeober; 12th--Hunter McLean from,Fort Worth handled that; l3th--Wichita Falls--Elmer Parrish handled that; 14th--Cecil Burney at Corpus Christihandled that; LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

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

there, because the Trinity River is probably the most impor tant in Texas in a sense because of what it does. It hits Fort Worth, it hits Dallas, it goes through some of the richest land of Texas, and it's probably the most important waterway the state has. G

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

even remember any longer. Word came to us that Amon Carter, in Fort Worth, had had a heart attack, but [it] was absolutely secret. [He] didn't want anybody to know about it, talk about it. Lyndon had lost Amon, as I'm sure I've already told you, because

Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

a new picture came on. We put them out every week, and it was free to the public, and then I helped with the advertising, the publicity and advertising. And, oh yes, I started kid matinees. He sent me to Galveston, to Fort Worth, to Oklahoma

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

as an outsider that that must unquestionably be his forte, that alone. Well, I didn't have any particular contact with Lyndon Johnson after that. P: This must have been '33--'32 or '33. Can I ask you a question here? Did you know anything regarding Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in August, 1936, you went to Texas . There was a banquet in your honor in which you were presented a Texas hat and-B: Made a Texas Ranger . G: An honorary Texas Ranger . B: Oh, yes, that was at the time of the Fort Worth--Dallas big fair, you know

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, the members of the Congress showed great interest, more specifically even greater concern about an encampment such as this. F: Did this spread across both parties? C: Very much so. And I received quite a number of telegrams, and the Secretary did

Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

years as a great success, but until Mr. Johnson succeeded to the presidency it's worth remembering how little ever went through the Congress. So Cabot Lodge decided, and I think quite rightly, to maintain his contacts on the Hill. He was great

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, they stop at the nearest village, they round up all the villagers. villagers. They put them in a column of two's and march them down the road. fort. They don't march them up close to this little They'll march them up within a hundred yards of it maybe

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

use of some things that had been set up. For example, on Friday we got a telegram from Elliott Roosevelt, who was running a radio system at Fort Worth at the time, in which he wished him all good luck and so on, that Johnson was authorized to use

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

they had headquarters--they had headquarters in Houston and Da 11 as and Fort Worth--to l i kew·i se ·do that, but I noticed that they were limited. F: You coordinated right here. P: Yes. We'd have to send them out from Austin. If we had a 17 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was offi ce manager for an oi 1 company in Fort Worth, Texas, and a friend of mine had urged me to move to Washington, saying it was a very exciting experience. me a job. Just before this, Olin Teague had offered I met him through a friend that I knew

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

were to go over--suddenly decided on Saturday evening that I'd like to go over and visit some old friends in the Senate or something, take my wife over, it's too much problem to get it organized and set up. It's just not worth it." Then he said--I

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, it seems to me that the nature of the M-16 might discourage-- N: Yes, that may be one reason why we didn't have more of it; it wasn't worth it. Because you can't just barely shoot yourself with an M-16. You do shoot yourself. G: Another one

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

place on the plane to Fort Worth and then to the Dallas thing . And I was driving with our woman director and the educational director of the United Steelworkers, Mr . Eddy Ball, and we were in Bastrop about to stop for a sandwich to come up here

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] 11 tentat ive list. Do you th i nk h e's anybody worth my see ing 7 Do y ou think he had en ough r elations with Johnson in those Ei senhower y e ars? C: I thi nk he probably did. Not a great de al of di re ct re

Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the polls in Fort Worth on that election, and she felt personally responsible for his election. f: That's the nice thing about that close an election. Every box that went by 37 votes can claim to have put him in. H: Don't tell me. You'll find that, I'm

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they had ever flown the Cypriot flag. An interesting sidelight, by the way, is that the Cypriots didn't have a national anthem. And so you get into this customary thing, the exchanges of national anthems. They had a band there that could play "The Star

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: I didn't think you could get from here to there anymore. C: Working that whole system out with the railroad companies was really something. But here's the thing. You got these fantastic telegrams from little two-bit towns along the way. I'll

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

County--Russellville. It's in the Arkansas River Valley halfway between Little Rock and Fort Smith. We had a good-sized colored population~ I would suppose about twenty per cent of our people in the town were black. challenge~ ism there. And it had

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

upon, it was an entirely different group. Judge Sarah Hughes in Dallas, Judge Leo Brewster in Fort Worth, Judge Noel, Jim Noel in Houston. and myself. Now I think that certainly there must have been some personality problems between the Vice President

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that where the Chinese were shipping in weapons and things, they couldn't come in anymore, and I think they were going up there very lightly armed, because the Cambodians weren't worth a damn, and they were going to just scare the hell out of them

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

some publicity. Bill Moyers A columnist for the [Washington] Star, Charles Bartlett, was writing a series of articles about political influence in the selection of architects for public buildings. called me about it. He I provided Moyers with our

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 19 had $5,394.57 worth of bills and bank notes. So we had been optimistic. We thought our man was going to win, and ultimately of course we retired this, probably before the national convention. But it just indicates that that's about what we'd done