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Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 30 years that I've been associated with the Soil Conservation Service. I think this fact is a great credit to those American

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

as I recall; it would be in 1964. But it was no personal association at all. I mean, I was a newsman running a newspaper in Laredo, and he, of course, had some strong contacts in that part of Texas. G: You say that you did encounter him on several

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

would have wanted to have been a good one. If Mrs. Johnson had gotten into automobile manufacturing, he would want it to be successful. He, Mr. Johnson, is a competitor at heart. He likes to be associated with enterprises and people who are successful

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was always with John Sengstacke, who is the current publisher of the Chicago Daily Defender. So actually we've been associated in business since 1936. Mc: Are you connected with newspapers elsewhere than Detroit and here? M: Yes. We now have a chain
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; JFK association; 1960 campaign; Civil Rights Act of 1957; work for appointments of blacks; LBJ during the vice presidency; liaison between the White House and civil rights people; RFK and LBJ; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

an ignorant s.o.b., because he had no one helping him prepare a statement for the newspapers. So Mildred and I had been friends and she came down here to this house, and we sat right out here in this back yard and talked. I told her, "Now Dan doesn't like

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

staff from the Public Health Service, and began a very intensive--far more intensive than we had up to that time--educational program, and a program of working with hospital associations. the American Medical Association. We made an effort also to work

Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

your career in the newspaper business in Texas? H: I came to Texas in January, 1920, after having owned the Knobnoster Gem at Knobnoster, Missouri, and later the Boonville Republican and Boonville News at Boonville, Missouri. I purchased the Standard

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

would not go wrong in "talking from the heart." This was rather interesting because the President, during my close association with him during the course of the - confliat in Vietnam, frequently made known his views, his ideas, or his intentions to get

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, on the reporters for the newspapers. I might say the Associated Press had, by all odds, the widest coverage in Texas and there were both dailies and weekly AP papers all over the state. You didn't even have a separate gallery, of course, for radio and television

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEES: VIRGINIA and WILTON WOODS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The Woods' residence, Seguin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Woods, let me ask you first of all about LBJls association with Maury Maverick during this period when he was secretary
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, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

me to be the associate editor, but it was a natural because I was to be the editor for the following full school year, as elected by the student council. So it was at some time in the interim between the spring quarter and the summer quarter

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

background before we get into your association with Johnson and Texas politics. L: All right. I'm Emma Long, Mrs. Stuart Long, and my background--I was born at Pampa, Texas to a ranch family and I grew up in the Panhandle. [I] graduated from high school
; conservatism of Texas newspapers in the 1940s.

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

in the economic faculty at Princeton, and that's the way Bill [William G.] Bowen got his first major exposure. T: When he-- F: And he wrote a little document for the Association of American Universities on federal aid positions, which was the forerunner

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Enterprises to have them as clients of mine. But meanwhile, in December, up to Christmas of 1968, I had gotten into intensive discussions with the Wall Street brokerage firm, McDonnell and Company, and had concluded that offered better prospects
of the company; O'Brien's resignation from McDonnell and Company after working out a deal for Kapenstein to stay; the eventual demise of McDonnell and Company; O'Brien severing his financial ties to McDonnell and Company; creating O'Brien Associates and working

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

suddenly President Johnson came in~ and I've never seen him quite as enthusiastic after a very tiring and a very long day. He had just been visiting with Mrs. Seppala's father, who is a noted newspaper editor in Helsinki. F: Is Mrs. Seppala the wife

Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)

--direct, unequivocal statement--was to the effect that the board of directors of our association supported the proposed legislation titled S 2084. I added that one reason for our support of this legislation was that it recognized outdoor advertising

Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

into the definition of public sentiment. In a case like that, a good deal of it was inspired by the National Rifle Association, directly and indirectly. Newspapers would pick up National Rifle Association material and print it and somebody else would pick it up

Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was closely associated with. Alvin Wirtz, for example. B: Yes, I knew him. G: Let me ask you to describe their association and if you can recall times that they were together. B: I wasn't that close to the situation. G: How about Sam Rayburn? 7 LBJ
hosted for the Bufords; LBJ buying the Ranch in Texas; LBJ as a rancher; Buford's connection to other politicians; St. Louis newspapers.

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Matt Reese, an old friend and associate going back to West Virginia in 1960, had become, over the years, expert on a basic campaign, particularly in the utilization of phone banks. A major effort was put into setting up a phone bank throughout the state

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Is that the Walter of the McCarren-Walter Act? P: He's dead now, yes. And I have some association, having luncheon with them when they were back on leave. Again, I can't remember the details. F: Did he make any special effort to woo you as a newspaper man

Oral history transcript, Erich Leinsdorf, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

want to start in 1937. F: And you were a freshman American. L: In 1937 I had never seen America. I met, in the summer of 1937 in the vicinity of Salzburg, a man by the name of Charles E. Marsh, who was a newspaper owner or publisher from Texas (ed
First meeting with young LBJ, arranged through newspaper publisher Charles E. Marsh; LBJ arranges for extension of Leinsdorf's visa and application for citizenship; entertaining during the vice presidential and presidential years; appointed trustee

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: A whole crowd. Everybody. In those days the press gallery was very small compared to what it is now. newspapers, had small staffs. And the press association, the individual But I remember very well when we were all LBJ Presidential Library http
First newspaper interview with LBJ in 1933; LBJ’s relationship with FDR and Rayburn; Carl Vinson; Clark Clifford; 1924, 1956 and 1968 Democratic conventions; LBJ’s techniques; civil rights legislation; Home Rule for D.C.; LBJ’s relationship

Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Westerville, Ohio, in 1924 . B: That's correct . M: Educated at Otterbein University? B: Otterbein College, which is in Westerville, Ohio . school associated with the United Brethren Church . It's a denominational At that time, it was the United

Oral history transcript, Elliot Richardson, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Johnson. R: Well, I had of course heard of him in his early career, just as an interested newspaper reader. It perhaps would be hard for me to dinstiguish between what I really remember from my own younger days, and what I remember of seeing pictures
with Frankfurter; LBJ's talk to National Heart Association; last seeing LBJ

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the people associated with the whole venture around him in the White House and in HEW. And it seemed to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in January of 1946, became a campus stringer for Associated Press during that semester, was offered a full-time job right after that semester ended, took it and went to work I think it was July 1 of 1946 for AP . That got me into covering state government

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was one of his clients. Well, Augie Busch was close to LBJ or knew LBJ or something. Anyhow, Howard was, to my mind--and I knew him well because he was a member of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, and I was president of the publishers

Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

at a time, because I'm afraid you'd fall into the same category. I think it's very useful. Mc: M: Were you assigned to any other government committees? Yes. I was appointed. I am on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association
on housing (Suburbia) in 1965; impressions of Robert Wood and Charles M. Haar; evaluation of task forces; service on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association.

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

entry into government service was not the result of my Yale law degree. but was more the result of my acquaintance with a fellow associate at Covington and Burling who went into the Solicitor General's Office in 1958 or 1959--Wayne Barnett. When

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

in general? Were there more newspapers supporting Johnson or Stevenson during this whole time that the election results were being contested by Stevenson? L: Well, of course, Stevenson was governor, and he was quite powerful and he had lots of friends. He

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-- 2 T: Absolutely. But I started my career at the Washington Post and that happened because I was a reporter at Brown University working for the school newspaper when Governor [Orval E.] Faubus of Arkansas came to Newport, Rhode Island

Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for office usually came to see my husband because he had a great interest in young people seeking public office. M: He had a knowledge of politics, too. H: And he had a knowledge of politics. Most of his life had been--by and large a newspaper editor
Administration; activities under the FSA; the creation of HEW; how being female affected Hobby’s career; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; Hobby’s work with LBJ on legislation; Hobby’s contact with the American Medical Association; the program that later became

Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Congress with whom he was associated, and, of course, we had both Republicans and Democrats. We got into some heated arguments. At that time, also, there was an organization here known as the Little Congress, made up of the personnel of the various

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

appointed and had begun its work. in either 1961 or 1962; maybe 1962. That occurred I guess That started under the Kennedy Administration and the major impact to begin that came from the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and what

Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: WARREN MAGNUSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Magnuson's office, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Senator, let's start with your association with Lyndon Johnson when you were both in the House

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

on the President dudng tLe time that he 'd

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

, Interview IV, Charles Boatner . B: You might start in with your first meeting with Lyndon and how you got associated with him in the NYA . Say what your name is and so forth for the transcriber . Z: I'm Tony Ziegler, and my first contact with LBJ

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Boatner. B: You might start in with your first meeting with Lyndon and how you got associated with him in the NYA. Say what your name is and so forth for the transcriber. Z: I'm Tony Ziegler, and my first contact with LBJ was through C. N. Avery

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

an associate editor of the college newspaper, but I liked to write and that sort of thing. And then there was an opening at the New York Herald Tribune. A colleague of mine had gotten on the New York Herald Tribune and said, "Well, you can come on here, and we
Biographical information; how Gorman got into journalism; how Gorman got involved in writing about conditions in mental hospitals; the Oklahoma State Mental Hospital; Gorman's work at the Daily Oklahoman; newspaper publisher, E.K. Gaylord's

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

, "McCarthy has been active in New York for the last three months. The Humphrey activity as yet is not vigorous. Gene Foley, a close associate of Hubert's, is the only name mentioned. His contacts have been limited." I continued, "My pitch to the nervous

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