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Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • be able to chase that down to a failure of particular pieces within the system. However, I suspect it'll be a number of months yet before we have any more firm information. P: There have been a number of charges in the newspaper regarding some sort
Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)
  • shall always be proud of my association with him. D: Now, Congressman Carl Vinson, we're visiting in your office in Milledgeville and this is a statement which you have prepared, and very well prepared in anticipation of our visit today in behalf
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • like to begin this interview with a brief outline of the dates of your public service so that we may relate your career and associations with Lyndon Johnson. Before your election to the House of Representatives, you were in general law practice
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Board of Education meetings; Richard Russell; Will Rogers, Jr.; recollections of LBJ as congressman; Albert Thomas; 1948 election; Mike Mansfield; Robert Kerr; Mike Monroney; Clint Anderson
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • word. You know, the sponsors of that right-to-work law said that the requirement that you could belong to a union was almost anti-labor. B: Okay. [inaudible] union. M: But, yes, most of the newspapers--I know, I'm pretty sure, the Dallas News did--I
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Johnson home or associate with them socially that you know of? R: Not that I remember. Mrs. Johnson I guess could tell you. If they wanted to have a little cocktail party on a Sunday or a Saturday afternoon and invite some of the Texas congressmen
  • town newspaper; Harry Coles and Don Cook working for the Naval Affairs Committee; LBJ's assistance to Ernest Kurth of Southland Paper Company; LBJ's 1943 work-or-fight bill to eliminate absenteeism in the war industries; Rather's brother's work
Oral history transcript, Powell Moore, interview 1 (I), 1/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there I went to the United States Army with a commi ssi on and stayed in the mil i tary for about three and a hal f years, including two years in Europe. I came back and was given the opportunity to edit the weekly newspaper in Milledgeville. I think
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • couldn't leave. And also the trip to the Dominican Republic. B: Just from reading the newspaper accounts, he seemed inmensely. R: to enjoy those trips Is that a correct version? Yes, he enjoyed certain parts of the trips, did not enjoy others
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : This is November 22, 1968; we are talking with Gordon Fulcher, the publisher of an East Texas newspaper at Atlanta. Tell us about what newspaper it is that you publish now, Gordon. GF: I publish the Atlanta Citizens Journal, a weekly newspaper, in Atlanta, Cass
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 1964? H: Oh, I saw just a little hint here and there in newspaper columns, but my own feeling was that it was completely unrealistic. Later on, I came to believe--and this was after the assassination--without any personal knowledge whatsoever on my
Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , a province of rich ricelands, an early area of dissidence against the government, an area of long history of association with the Viet Cong and long association with the government, going back to the French times. So it was a good province to get started
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN J. CORSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Corson's residence, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your association with the NYA. How did you get into the organization? C: I got into the NYA, to the best
Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • appointed him a district judge, and then he was very active with the bar association trying to get the judges' salaries raised. I had supported him for the Senate too. F: So you had a long period of friendship with Senator Yarborough? 8 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -- Well, now in 1945 I went out and returned to the Navy in 1946 to become a regular, if you want that in . THB : Yes, thank you . When then was your first association with the White House as a physician? B: My first association with any activity
  • Medical training; first association with White House; President Eisenhower; General Snyder; Dr. Tkach; Kenneth O'Donnell; Dr. Janet Travell; Dr. Eugene Cohen; Dr. Pep Wade; Dr. Hans Kraus; events in Dallas; campaign travel with LBJ; Dr. Cain; Dr
Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Hearst, Hearst Radio, which is a subsidiary of Hearst newspapers who owned KNOW [Austin], KTSA in San Antonio. An announcer got sick here in Austin and the manager-Pate was the manager of the two stations, KNOW and WACO--asked me if I'd come down
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Political Science Association. M: And you've published numerous articles in that journal, as I recall. R: I've published some in that journal and other journals. M: Now, to ask you a large question. There has been some talk that Lyndon Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the Daily Cardinal, the student newspaper, that a [Wendell] Willkie For President Club was being formed, and a prominent student orator named Henry Maier was the president, which created consternation among all of the proRoosevelt people. So we put our
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • is an opportunity. I.might also tell you about the time that he sent me as a delegate to the Texas Press Club Association. We had in the college a press club, and those of us who edited the newspaper or annual belonged to the press club. of it. I believe he
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to at least judge the [work he did]. M: Yes, but I was a novice myself. He was good at everythi n-g he di d .. I had been assistant editor but other than the exposure on the College Star I didn't have any newspaper experience. It was all flying
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • from him, whether you were a constitutent looking for Army-Navy tickets, whether you were trying to help get a dam on the Colorado River. closeness of association with him. There was a great You also felt in that office there was very much a kind
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • never was intimate with him or closely associated with him, even after that time. McS: Mr. Fountain, during those Senatorial years are there any things that stand out in your mind as far as either issues or legislation that you particularly think
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to convalesce at Brooke. At that point I was president of the American Heart Association, and because of that and because I was involved in the care of President Johnson I was asked to be on "Meet the Press," along with Ted Cooper, who was then in charge
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thursday, October 17, 1968, 3:00 p.m., at office, Jess McNeIl Machinery, San Antonio, Texas P: Mr. Bardwell, you've had a long association with politics, particularly San Antonio and Texas and among some early politicians
  • Discusses his early association with LBJ as Secretary to Congressman Kleberg; LBJ's wedding; NYA appointment; LBJ's early working habits; the 1941 and 1948 Senate campaigns; the War Production Board; Kilday-Maverick relationship; Taft-Hartley Act
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that way for a number of years. Fulbright has been dead for some twenty years; Crooker, Freeman, and Bates are all retired from this law firm--they have no further interest in the firm. I'm really the senior partner. M: And you've been then associated
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a type of mentor? P: Well I suppose everybody felt close to Nr. Sam. And because of my associations in the 1936 presidential campaign, where I was directed to become the executive director of sixteen farm states-F: Yes. P: --by Henry i'Jallace
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • tenure as president that if my constituents (I was from 1961 to 1969 executive vice president of The American Bankers Association) and I agreed with him on an issue, we would do our best to go in all-out support. If we disagreed, we would, if feasible
  • Walker's first contact with LBJ; Walker keeping LBJ informed of the views of the American Bankers Association (ABA) members; Walker's banking and economics background and support for increased political power of the ABA; Walker's December 1963
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of relationship started many years before, way back in 1955, and that because of the long period of association I never felt that I was out of place. B: That also implies that at least you didn't see any real change in Mr. Johnson. H: Yes, it does. I do
Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • [these are] declining tax bases in many of these rural counties as out-migration has taken people away. The age level, the medium age, is going up, with a lot of the younger people leaving. Agriculture, which was never a very viable enterprise in these mountains
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [?] instead of belonging to Harris Blair. But I had it kind of down as an organi- zation that was more religious than it was pertaining to college. G: Okay. Last time you mentioned that LBJ devoted a lot of his time there to the newspaper, the College
Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • That was after he was in Congress. Wait a minute, when did he go to Congress? He had returned here-I was very much involved in the marriage. Youth Association. Did you know anything regarding that appointment to the National Youth Association? H: I had
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with you? H: Yes, we had a very close association during the time. When I entered the Congress he had preceded me by two years, I believe it was. He was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives at that time
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ in Congress; LBJ’s chief motivation and goals; 1943 and 1948 elections; Sam Rayburn; Charlie Murphy; oil/gas industry; Bob Kerr; Natural Gas Act of 1938; Senator Francis Case; Area Basin decision
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • he was ready. So we had the most open kind of interchange with the members of Congress, and their staffs, and with the associations in the city until about the time the program began to be put together, whereupon the curtain came down. We were
Oral history transcript, Frank Denius, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • th~ remember one newspapers about it, there was a lot of conversation among the Democratic Parey workers in our precinct where I had been a there wor~er, . . with \"Tas a good bl t •..•. u.L-ere were some evening rneetlngs .-. various members
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 a good friend of the newspaper publisher in the area, Mr. [Eugene] Pulliam, and it seemed to me that my press
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the Secretary's office . all concerned with it . We were Our particular concern was that, as we saw the case despite the fact of the way it appeared in the newspapers, that really Billie Sol Estes had primarily taken--if you can put it that way--some private
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of books and a number of articles in public finance and social security and other associated areas. During this whole period, since I've joined Brookings, I've always been interested in public service, and largely through my friendship with Walter Heller
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • just popped out of the wall and then the hordes of friends and people that were reading in the newspaper, they made a--they had a news release and announced this program. Then everybody just came in. But this organized man would have the mail on his
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you have the idea you were W: Not at the time, I didn't give it much thought--in that area, an~~ay. F: How long did this association continue? W: It continued to the present time. F: So that any time he was in New York he was likely
Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Rather than waiting until it was through. H: Rather than waiting and being encouraged and prodded, as I felt sure I would be, to resign under the incoming administration. Moreover, I had no desire to be associated with the new administration. M
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to start off by asking you, if I figured it right, you worked for the AP [Associated Press] for twenty-one years, is that right? M: Yes, twenty years. G: That's a long time for a wire service. My impression of a wire service kind of a job was, you
  • McArthur's work for the Associated Press; the difference between working for a wire service and a daily/weekly publication; Mrs. Eva Kim McArthur's work as Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's secretary; Bunker's attitude toward McArthur's and Eva's
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that I went out to California and was a free-lance writer for the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, various other newspapers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and so forth. Then I gradually got into electronic journalism and did a lot of radio work. 1 LBJ
  • of LBJ’s gall bladder surgery; how LBJ’s treatment of individual reports affected their stories; television coverage of a White House event regarding a Rural Electric Association meeting; press coverage of NASA events; the difficulty in denying rumors.