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Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We was working on the student aid part of it then, so a lot of times we'd be there at eleven or twelve o'clock at night. LBJ would come by or be there and sign the payrolls and send them on in to the WPA at Austin, who processed them and sent them
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that particular time. However, I was born in Eagle Pass, Texas on the second of February, 1912. Ny father was an agent for Wells Fargo at that time and we moved around quite a bit. We moved from Eagle Pass to Taylor, from Taylor to Henderson over in East
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on a part-time basis, which I eventually did. It took me some time to locate a job in the newly-burgeoning agencies of the Roosevelt Administration, but I managed to find a mail clerk's job and then got an endorsement from my congressman, Harold Cooley
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anecdote that you did not tal k about on tape was the introduction to Jack Dempsey. Do you recall the first time you met him? K: Yes. You remember that Lottie Dexter Dempsey was a guest for at least three weeks or something like that in Tom MartinIs
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • know you've gone through it a million times and I have no intention of even seeking to go through it--are there any aspects of the Dallas tragedy in 1963 involving Secret Service operation that you think have been neglected in all the public comment
  • Review of career; dealing with various Presidents; assignment of agents; the Johnson family; effect of JFK assassination on duties; the Texas operation; Presidents traveling abroad; demonstrations; the Dallas tragedy; the Warren Commission's
Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • ." And then, of course, my sister, at that time, was living in Illinois. We had a dear friend who had lived in Dallas, who was lifetime friend of Coke Stevenson's, and when Lyndon was elected she said, "Well"--all she could say was that, if my sister hadn't campaigned
Oral history transcript, Elaine Fischesser and Ellen Taylor Cooper, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1967, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • know, they were having a house party. Lady Bird was going to Dallas for some occasion. She never left the children alone with just -- she would want someone the.re. My sister and I had happened to be there at that time. I believe Luci's house party
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ~~, ~ouston Chronic!~, Houst~~c~~~, Dallas all sent their reporters down there to cover the story, and I suspect one of the main reasons for all this publicity beginning in 1948 was that Jesse Jones in Houston had fallen out with Lyndon Johnson over
Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • background-where you were born, and when. H: I was born in Dallas, Texas, November 19, 1915, and lived there until my father passed away in 1928. Dallas. I went to local elementary schools in My father, having been born in what is now Lebanon and having
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: DUDLEY T. DOUGHERTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. PLACE: Mr. Dougherty's office in Beeville, Texas FR.~NTZ Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 . F: Mr. Dougherty, I suppose what we will do ,is start back at the time when you came in from the war
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Did you have an opportunity to meet Lyndon Johnson before you went back? P: I met Lyndon Johnson in Washington in 1934 before we went to Marlin and Dallas for the campaign. G: Can you recall that epi sode? P: No, but I think that Bob Jackson very
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • back to me. But that was the year, wasn't it? Of course, that was his last year in the White House. G: 1968. Was it around Christmas time that he asked you? Or maybe before that? R: I think, if I remember correctly--and if you know more than I
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the run-offs. But I was with the Star-Telegram at the time. F: Did you make a regular thing out of taking leave during campaign years? K: No, I did that in '38; and then I foolishly did it in '46, worked for Grover Sellers, but I think after
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at that time, except kind of a good roads movement deal. F: They were just getting organized. P: That's right. F: I've done a little research in that and I know as late as 1921 when they built that Highway 75 from Dallas to Galveston, they still had
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was assassinated in Dallas? Do you know why he went to Texas? There's a lot of speculation about that. P: At that time, now, I was on the trip. parade. I was four cars behind I was in the caravan, or . Well, I was in the number four car, it was really about
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • service program. These were aids who were going to advise people about what they were instituted about that time. But the march was about food, I guess, social programs generally. I don't think Freeman ever talked to any of those folks because it scared
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , for him and came up here January 1, 1958. At that time he asked me if I would become one of his two personal secretaries. left at that time. Mary Rather had She had been with him for seventeen years. to go back to Texas'to take care of her family
Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • remember it distinctly because I was in Texas at the time. I was at a play at the auditorium at Fair Park in Dallas. The play was "My Fair Lady", and I haven't seen all of it and have told him many times he owes me a ticket to "My Fair Lady." But I
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had something to do with Lyndon's appointment, because I don't think she would have given as much time to Texas as she did [otherwise] . She not only was in Austin, but she went to Houston and she went to Dallas to visit other projects . G: But she
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did you come to be appointed Postmaster? Q: Ivell, I got mixed up in politics in the campaign of Dick Kleberg, that's east of Dallas. Good farmland. the King Ranch, in a special election that he was running in for Congress representing
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • . We were in here for a while and then we went up to Dallas. We were staying up there and working out of the campaign office up there. Then we came back here. But we actually were living in Kermit at that time and, incidentally, we put our newspaper
Oral history transcript, Sam V. Stone, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • part-time press agent. I've forgotten his name now. He came down from Dallas and worked with me about a couple of weeks and got thing about me in the paper. som~ You almost have to have someone to do that for you. PE: Did you have any contact
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • made ahead of time. we didn't want to break it. We did see~-well, So there was a good deal involved in the report of the credentials committee, too, because the credentials of the Dallas delegation were in question. We did hold the committee
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh those strange individuals that they passed the late wh?was in school that said hereafter that everybody that doesn't graduate by a certain time must take the bar exam . I was working and a number of the other students were
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to President Truman. However, President Truman had made his commitment before Symington entered the race. So it was a very hard fought and vigorous campaign. At the time in question, Senator Johnson was in Missouri to specl( on behalf of Mr. Symington's
  • ; criticism that LBJ didn’t devote enough time to party’s political machinery
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it didn't. G: Right. It was the time that Judge [A. W.] Moursund was running for district attorney. W: Well, it should have been. G: And Tom Martin's widow was running. W: Oh, yes. She was really giving A. W. a fit. G: Was she? W: Yes. I remember
  • Stevenson's sheep so Stevenson would have time to debate LBJ; LBJ using helicopters in his 1948 Senate campaign; Homer Thornberry's 1948 campaign; Harry Truman campaigning in San Antonio in 1948; LBJ's and Winters' opinion of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
Oral history transcript, Claud Kellam, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • their home in Johnson City practically all the time. G: How did the President first come to know Alvin Wirtz? He was the state senator, is that correct, and perhaps through his father-K: He \,/as the senator from Dallas, and I m sure Wi rtz met him
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • would misbehave, "Carrie, you ought to whip that child." But he never did. And so that's the kind of family that I grew up in. I was a loved child, and I had a happy childhood except that all that time I suffered with an ear infection and under many
  • marriage; Scott's work for the Houston Press; Scott's affiliation with Clark Gable; covering the 1928 Democratic Convention and attempting to interview FDR there; Scott's interview with Will Durant; meeting LBJ for the first time; LBJ's relationship
Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • mean to interrupt you. PS: My father had been in politics in Travis County from the time I was born until the time of his death. Go ahead with your story. He served ascounty·school superintendent, county attorney and district attorney, and many
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . So I came into the bank full time immediately thereafter and have been here ever since. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] M: You didn't get caught
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but living out in the small little town near Marshall, she was close to Shreveport, Louisiana, and she wasn't too far from Dallas, and those were the places she shopped for clothes and things or maybe things for her daddy's house. One time I think she sort
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • right, sir. Now, some general questions just to set the background. Did you have any knowledge of Mr. Johnson before his 1955 heart attack? H: Only indirectly. Of course, at that time I was in Washington. The President was majority 1 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- II -- 2 Let me take up the Rome advance first, although it wasn't in that sequence. I believe the New York meeting came first, but you can check that out. By this time I was now
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can recall, the circumstances under which you first met them. S: I can recall very clearly, the first time I met the Congressman was pre-World War II. In those days I was director of research at CBS, and any affiliation which was made
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • and the quadrennial convention was held in Dallas. The lines had been drawn for this convention some time before and again there were issues besides the question of Johnson versus Shivers. Governor Shivers had been a long-time governor, a very powerful governor
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • family; and a fellow from up in the Wichita Falls area, [Bowie], not from Wichita Falls, named Paul Donald, who was an old-time country lawyer and a great orator. On the other side, the prosecution, Homer Thornberry was then the district attorney
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . They were a big asset to our life and fortunately got along all right, more or less, with Zephyr [Wright]. Because we couldn't have done without Zephyr either. G: Did Helen do any cooking at all when Zephyr wasn't there? J: Yes. There was a time when
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was in college. And then I remember a couple of times when Mrs. Johnson and Lynda and Luci and Mother and I used to go over to Bethany Beach and things like that. B: Was the friendship between the Johnsons and the Clements a close personal friendship, as well
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • then dictated it to the person who was then McGeorge Bundy's secretary, a lady named Alice Boyce. He may have done that, because he knew Alice from the time that he was in the White House; she had worked for Ann Whitman. I remember his being thereCI'm trying
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in a stream of political talk all very much over our heads, but he is in such high good humor we enjoy it anyway. So we practice, and we learn what he wants us to learn, and how to say it, and as we win the city championship for the first time
  • in Dallas.