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Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • , mostly men, some few girls, but mostly young men. I would say that a surprising percentage of the people that I served with in the Congress at that time were products of the G.I. Bill of Rights, including myself. I went all the way through to a Ph.D
  • and Robert Kennedy; civil rights legislation debate; civility among legislators; the New York Times not running a story about Senator James Eastland referring to Anwar Sadat as a "nigger;" McGovern and Frank Church meeting with Hubert Humphrey about support
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was first as a special assistant to President Kennedy from 1961 until October 1963, and then as a member of the United States Tariff Commission, and part of the time as vice-chairman and acting chairman until 1967. as I understand. Is that correct? F: Yes
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and the balance of my grade school in League City and three years in high school in League City, I took my final year in high school in what is now Sam Houston High in Houston. It was called Central High at that time. In the fall of 1924 I entered Rice
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Montana or California or somewhere, but I was offered a number of jobs after his death, one of which was working in the R.F.C. [Reconstruction Finance Corporation] for Tommy Corcoran, who is now my partner. At the time Corcoran was in charge
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • enable us to see each other several times a week. I'm not sure whether I went over every day; anyhow, we were together a good bit. G: Did you see much of Dallas? I realize that you were sort of walled off. J: A little bit, yes. With a teacher
  • colleges in Marshall and deciding how to address the president of Wiley College; Mrs. Johnson's experiences as a student at St. Mary's Episcopal School for Girls in Dallas; Mrs. Johnson's appreciation of, and participation in, theater; friends made at St
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Fair in Dallas, a project much softened by the kind presence of Bob Clark and Albert Jackson, those loyal gentlefolk. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)
  • -one years old; I had a wife and three children and decided that I needed to be home with them instead of being on the road all the time. So I resigned from that job in Dallas, Texas, and moved to Austin, Texas, and went in the retail furniture business
Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • it if you would give me a brief resume of your activities in politics in Texas from about 1941 to about 1964, and anything beyond that that you might consider pertinent. Now I believe that this started about the time you finished law school at Texas
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1990 INTERVIEWEE: DONALD J. CRONIN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Mr. Cronin, we talked about the late 1950s last time and Lyndon Johnson as majority leader. Let's talk a little bit about
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Lyndon. His position on a strong national defense was becoming firmer all the time. The Truman Doctrine was coming into being and the Marshall Plan for economic recovery in Europe was on track and was being evolved by Secretary of State [George] Marshall
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of stature . We used to have men who were here that would do nothing but center their fire on certain aspects of a question . I remember one time when Hatton W . Sumners from Dallas, Texas was chairman of the Judiciary Committee . Just let the word be known
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, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the two middle initials, but we like to have them both used if they're going to use any . M: I see . L: I was born and bred in Brenham, Texas, which is now almost a suburb of Houston, some seventy miles away . My father was a long-time member
Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • had an office in the Littlefield Building at that time. I had been back practicing law for three years at that time. G: You had been in World War II? O: I was in the FBI from 1942 to 1945. I practiced law before that time here. G: Well, did
Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • first at Waco and then came to Taylor, Texas, where I formed a partnership with Governor Dan Moody. He was not governor at that time. Mc: Yes. When did you come back to Taylor, then, to practice? M: I came back to Taylor in 1915. Then left during
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • House with President Johnson from his vice presidential office. On that day I was not with him in Dallas. F: You had been detailed to him at what stage in his career? R: Well, I had come to work for him-- F: In other words, how did you ever get
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Bolling -- I -- 2 M: And I suppose by that time Mr . Johnson was first minority leader and then majority leader after that . B: Well, actually--I'm not sure of my memory on this--but I probably was in the Board of Education before he
Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • be willing to take a leave of absence from the Library of Congress and work for a year in Senator Johnson's office. Incidentally, my name was Dorothy Springer at that time. A: So when you went to his office you were actually working for the Library
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1978 INTERVIEWEE: W. ERVIN II REDII JAt1ES INTERVI HJER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. James' office, Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: I first met Lyndon B. Johnson sometime in the mid 1930s. I was a clerk in the old WPA. At that time Aubrey
Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • she wear vei ls? LM: I don It know. tied. It was the kind that went over the top of the hat and Now that was the only time I ever saw her, but it was my impression, and I thought, well, she is a real lady. M: Sheld be in a Ford sedan and have
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • months, I guess. E: About three months. B: I know I've left out a lot, but that's the rough outline. When in this time did you first know anything about Lyndon Johnson? E: Of course, I knew about Lyndon Johnson before I met Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that is scary ; it could have been somet hing more serio us · than paint -fille d ballo ons. I don't know how you deal with a Dalla s-typ e probl em. I dontt know wheth er you'r e inter ested in sidel ights on Dalla s, but I was down there some time after
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know…. G: A Dallas bank did get involved at some point. B: Yes. Couldn't have bought it, though--it was illegal. A Dallas bank couldn't have bought into Colorado at that time. I don't know. I can't remember whether we got the bank straightened
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the very first time you met Mr. Johnson and how this came about? I: I met President Johnson for the first time in 1956 in Chicago. It was during the Democratic National Convention. I was attending this convention as one of the delegates from Hawaii. He
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but you never know what's in the back of a man's mind--but from my observation of history at that time and listening to many folks talk and upon reflection of McNamara's background . . . You remember that when President Kennedy was killed in Dallas
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there, and I decided that-F: Who was that» Thomason? T: Yes, Judge [R. Ewing] Thomason. So I went to El Paso and was sworn in in December of 1963. F: In November of 1963 ,'President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. were you at the time? Were you down
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , the same time, enjoying it--in national issues. And that was the only topic of conversation that year. While there, I felt that I should also learn a little bit about my home state, having been there eighteen years in high school~ and then four years
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the time and be in Washington part of the time. J: You actually were with the Triple A part of that time too, weren't you? F: That was part of the Department of Agriculture. J: Yes. F: Then I went from there, as I recall, to the Securities
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a center of activity. It was great big, screened on three sides, ceiling fan, lots of comfortable furniture. At some time there arrived in it, as a gift from Tom Clark, a great big double chaise lounge and we covered it full of pillows and everybody headed
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there for that? Z: I don't believe he was. G: This was after he left. Z: C. P. Little, see, that was in his set-up. He was working Dallas then. G: How about the roadside parks? time. Z: No. You talked about those briefly last I was wondering whose idea
Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Lyndon he could use my name, and I told Allan Shivers what Lyndon had told me. After I got appointed federal judge some years later, I ran into Allan Shivers at the airport in Dallas one time. He remembered that incident, and he told me, "Well, he
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Gillette Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start today with a few items in 1952 that we didn't cover last time. One, in late March, March 29, President
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a great deal to do with it. One son came down to Dallas or something like that and Lyndon, I believe, went up to see him. I believe that Deason was also very helpful to Lyndon at that time. MG: Willard Deason. LG: Willard Deason. Deason's status
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at the State Capitol from 1935 until 1941. Then I went back to law school on a part-time basis in 1939-40, 1940-41, took the bar exams in 1941 and passed them. Then went into the army for a little over four years. Came back out of the army. I had been
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as to whether Rayburn ever accepted the fact that he had cancer. We don't know. John Holton says that the only time Rayburn ever referred to it was when he was in Baylor Hospital in Dallas. He said. "John, do you know what's wrong with me?" said, "No, I
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • first trip to Washington. I was a new member, I met all of the Texas members, of whom there were twenty-one, including myself, at the time. them, probably, on the opening day of the session. I met all of I'm sure I did. That included Mr. Rayburn
  • Center in San Antonio by JFK and subsequent trip to Dallas; LBJ’s "Great Society;" Vietnam demonstrations; Fisher’s opinions on LBJ’s effectiveness as President: ambitious and hardworking.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • remember, but living in Dallas at the time. Lyndon was very glad to get him in the Democratic Party, but not really sure that he would go. He did, however. I remember a very nice luncheon being given for him in one of those old Senate rooms that I just
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • try to recollect how I came to know President Johnson to begin with and when and in , I what odd connections our paths crossed over the forty years live been in Washington. Probably the first time I became aware of a Lyndon Johnson '\ was during
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Corsicana, where I was reared. You asked about education; at that time the institution had its own school system from the beginning through high school. I was there ten years, graduated from high school there in 1923. M: And then you went to college? C
Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , which would be two days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, eastern time. G: You are-- Mc: So evidently somebody in Washington knew this attack was coming. Pearl Harbor was not an accidental fluke that no one in Washington knew about. It was even