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Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, at the time when he was majority leader . He was speaking of Trinity, and Kerr was talking about this last watershed to be developed . And Lyndon Johnson was behind him one- hundred per cent on that, and they became even closer through this association
; Kerr's involvement in the vice presidential decision; Kerr's 1960 campaign; Kerr and LBJ's friendship; Tulsa newspapers; federal judgeships; Kerr and JFK and RFK; personality and character of Kerr

Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

house. We had quite a visit at that time, but of course that was the first time I had seen him since 1940. F: Were you associated in the army with Hardy Hollers? P: No, sir. F: So you had no personal interest in that Hardy Hollers-Johnson campaign

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

any impression of his association with Rayburn during the House years? Did they seem particularly close? Did he seem to follow Rayburn's lead pretty much? C: He was regarded as a protégé of Sam Rayburn. And Sam Rayburn was a forceful leader

Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

by the teachers' organization, Texas State Teachers' Association and the Classroom Teachers' Association, and the Texas Education Agency. So because of this interest of teachers and welfare recipients, I got the term liberal. M: Now, after the defeat

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

work, he was great on staff work, I just relied upon him. Then one day he just couldn't keep his light under the bushel any longer, and he started appearing in newspaper columns and the stories were attributing all the successes to him and everything

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

associated with the New Yorker since, what, 1944 or thereabouts? R: That's right. ~1: And you are well-known as an author of numerous contemporary hi stor;cal type \;JOrks, Senator Joe McCarthy and The Genera 1 and the Presi dent, a fairly well-known list

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

I have been associated in other ventures, came to my office and said they wanted me to manage Lyndon Johnson's campaign for Congress. My first comment was, "Who the hell is Lyndon Johnson?" They later brought him by my office and I thought--having

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

o'clock in the morning, and he required reading of the morning newspaper before you could go into his class. If he called on you. you had to name the topic. then he would call on someone else and ask how that was affecting America or how it would
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, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, is that right, at the friends of hits? B: Yes . G: Well, there's a popular story that has it that he gained admission to the convention by showing issues of the College Star listing his name as editor-in-chief . He had taken copies of the newspaper down

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Association] shall control our crowd but not any members of Congress. So here you had a proposition whereby in 1962 you had effectiveness and safety involved. As I think I mentioned to you at one point in time in our first session, we had problems
to the polio vaccine; 1962 amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; opposition to health legislation from the American Medical Association (AMA); the defeat of the Capeheart Amendment; raising minimum wage to one dollar an hour in 1955; Hill's attitude

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

what should I ask this fellow for?" He was trying very hard to help. G: You mentioned Israel. Were there any special problems associated with getting Israel to contribute something to the effort? F: Yes, with every country there was a special

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and campaigns. Aside from that, it sounds reasonably accurate. P: I'd like to begin back with your newspaper career and draw some of your answers from reflecting back upon that time. Did you have any contact either during your military affairs period

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and skinny, and we want real men." G: I noticed also from going through the newspapers that Miss [Mary] Brogdon was very active in supervising student activities and speaking to groups. W: Yes, she was. G: Do you recall anything of his association

Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Johnson. discuss with you: This is the period I would like to your associations with the young Mr. Johnson and his rising political career and the trends and developments of Texas politics that set the scene for his ascendancy to the presidency. First
Biographical information; disagreed with Roosevelt and LBJ on social politics; "handouts" and on methods used; Stevenson lost by 89 votes to LBJ for Senate; fraud claimed; Roosevelt’s influence helped LBJ; 25-30 newspaper against LBJ as VP

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and he said to me, "Leonard, you should feel very complimented because the file at the commission which has been most thumbed and most scrupulously examined is that of KTBC. Newspaper people, professional politicians, those who thought they might

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

was waiting for you? P: Yes. I came to the University of Texas in 1932 as a freshman ana while I was here, I lived at Little Campus Dormitory. four years at Little Campus. And I got associated with the - political organization on the campus then. had

Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 6, 1968 B: This is the interview with Norman Clapp, the Administrator of the Rural Electric Administration. Sir, to begin, back in the early stages of your career you were associated with Congress for a good many

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

., N.W., Washington, D.C. This is Dorothy Pierce McSweeny. Mr. White, I want to begin our interview with a brief backgrounder on your very long journalistic career which began in 1927 with Associated Press. It was through AP that you first came

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of more jobs for more men. He made sure the newspapers got that word through his good friends Gordon Fulcher, Charlie Green, I guess Buck Hood probably, and Raymond Brooks. How many jobs there would be, how much the power bill would be reduced. 2 LBJ
Political issues of 1939; where the Johnsons lived; the Johnsons' friends; raising the height of the Marshall Ford Dam; the extension of Rural Electric Association lines and building of the Pedernales Electric Co-op in Johnson City; Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

laws, that he had been playing politics, but that wasn't against the law. I made that reconrnendation with my fingers crossed, but I made it, and it was granted. Now, a great many newspaper writers since then have stated that President Truman pardoned

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

qualifications of a senator is his ability to raid the Treasury and get all he can for his state." I don't remember whether he replied to that, but that was my first encounter with him. F: It was friendly. Did you see much evidence, in your years of association

Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

. he entered high school. But he did not [finish]; he went to work in the newspaper office, just as a helper and a roustabout, and learned how to set type by hand. He left high school. His mother was in very poor health and his father was a clerk

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for the Fort Worth Record-T: Fort Worth Record in 1906, I was 16 years old. M: 1906, right. And in 1912-1913 you came to Washington and worked for the Washington Post. You have been an editor and owner of newspapers. In 1917 you became the Washington

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

a native of Beckley, West Virginia, but your schooling was done in Monroe, Michigan, and you attended the University of Michigan where you received a B.A., an M.A., and an LL.B. You're a member of the Michigan Bar Association, and you were admitted

Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)

as far as we knew, but the summer project was an organization called COFO, Council of Federated Organizations, which was made up of SNCC, NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People], Congress of Racial Equality [CORE] and, I think
; the joining of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to form the Council of Federated

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

and career briefly and just tell me about that. M: Well, I got into the newspaper business out in Plainview High School when I was editor of the high school paper, and we printed it down at the local newspaper. I was working on a dairy at the time, and I

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with us, and also some newspaper support and some leadership in the state. So I'd say the Mann votes went to Johnson, not to O'Daniel. But we realized O'Daniel was potentially strong, and really, I believe if I had at that time been predicting I would have

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the development of these grants, [and] seeking out individuals and organizations who had expertise and interest and so forth. a very successful enterprise. And it was, I think, Where there really hadn't been anything like that, there was a great deal

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the-F: A little desirable quarters but more of them. P: That's right. F: Incidentally, what is Lacey Sharpe doing in Washington? P: Lacey represents the American Hospital Association. He left me about six years ago, maybe even longer than

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: RAY S. CLINE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Dr. Cline's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 C: I suspect that I have a few vivid impressions of President Johnson that might be of interest to you that are not so much associated

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Association. We brought him in for a while to help us organize, to get all of the people involved in the public education system behind the program. So it was a year-long campaign that culminated in that fall when we passed it in the House. It's hard to go

Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

, who was, at the time of his death in 196l, Dean of Men at The University of Texas. A daughter, our only daughter, who is now Barbara Norwood, was also a graduate of The University of Texas. I worked--I have been associated with many figures in public

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Washington, D. C., in September of 1960 as a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association. It was my intention at that time to learn more about the legislative process and particularly about the politics of education. I worked

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

he became vice president, in the senatorial years? A: Only an occasional opportunity to see him very briefly. I would not say that it was a real friendship or was in anyway an intimate association. B: Had you, in those days, classified him

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

article before there was a White House [Historical Association], and we published a few along the way. But these news pictures, these daily event things, we don't publish them. Life publishes them, the newspapers publish them. He don't. But without
Contact with LBJ; dedication of Richard Byrd Memorial Statue; award for the Hubbard Medal; Senator Byrd's garden party; Jane N. Smith Medal; building dedication; White House Historical Association; presidents book; The Living White House; LBJ

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and when they actually sent the bill up it had the two parts. Clyde Ellis was the general manager and executive vice president of the Rural Electric Cooperative Association. together for ten years, lobbying for it. Weld been working This and being born
Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association); Mississippi food situation; inter-agency departmental board; regional discrimination; cabinet officers; OEO programs and policies

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and then lots of casual dinners for staff, newspaper friends, other senators. We began to branch out more in that year. The children's doctor was Dr. John Washington, who would come any time of day or night, if he felt that tone in your voice that said, "I'm
the Texas home of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's friendships with people in the newspaper industry; LBJ seeking treatment for a skin disorder he got during World War II; Sid Richardson's home on St. Joseph's Island designed by O'Neil Ford; Christmas at LBJ's mother

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson--Rebekah Baines Johnson--did you have enough association with her to knO\·, what she was like? R: No. G: Really? R: Not in my childhood. I saw her on very few occasi.ons. They Hved only two blocks from us, and Lyndon was at our house more

Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that the result will be bad for their party. But it revived in my mind all these earlier associations, direct and indirect, that I had had with President Johnson. B: You often hear that relationship between Rayburn and Johnson described as a father-son

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the others, and particularly when they would put generals in the job, as they did two or three times, the press, and particularly the American press, was very alien to them. There were many of them who regarded newspapers, particularly the Vietnamese

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