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Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of mine, Gladys Patman. She married a fellow named Charles Windham, who is an insurance man in Dallas, and they have owned it for many, many years. We would always make sure that it stayed in the family. G: Do you recall the last time you saw
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , the lawyer had come about 1929 or 1930, and during the entire time that he was here he had been trying to get me to come. Texas. But I hadn't lost anything in I loved it in South Carolina; that was home. But finally, after several years, I did come
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time. If known, this would be considerably more damaging than other materials. Magruder believes it is possible the Attorney General transmitted his copy to him. Magruder doesn't have the copy he received. He only has a xerox of the copy. In short
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • support and at the same time through our own veto protect our own interests. But in the General Assembly where it's only a recommendation rather than a mandatory legal decision that could be taken, we have now become a minority in the organization. G
  • in Vietnam may have affected its standing within the UN: policy changes in regard to China and Taiwan; UN reaction to the Tet Offensive in 1968; the assassination of John F. Kennedy; obstacles to negotiation in times of war, such as in Vietnam in the 1960s
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, Grace had been an old, long-time personal friend of Mr. Johnson's and I think that he, maybe partly because of his sort of sentimental feelings towards the Roosevelt Administration, wanted Grace to join the staff, wanted somebody from
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Dallas and people said, "Oh, I thought you Democrats wore pink." see how bitter it was. You'd just have to go back in those times to It was very personal. There are some people today that want to be friends and I just won't, because I remember a couple
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- I -- 2 said that, why, they turned around to me and said, "ls it true? you know about it?" I said, "No, I didn't know about it. wouldn't be up here taking up your time or my time. Did If I did
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , it was in September or October of 1962. G: How did you get that job? T: I was selected to fly with Jim Cross. Cross was a captain at the time and I was a captain and he had flown Vice President Johnson several times on the Jet Star. Jet Star, you know
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for some time trying to get into the radio field; in the meantime married a young lady whose family lived in the same community--actually she lived over in Hollis, Oklahoma--Inda Scott, I-N-O-A. By the way, we've been married thirty-one years now, have
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was, but I'm trying to remember where the convention was. G: Well, the first one was in Dallas, I think that May. But by this time they'd already had the precinct conventions and the county conventions. It was clear that they had defeated the Shivers people
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , so I ran against the incumbent, Hon. O.H. Cross. He beat me by about 5,000 votes, but I announced immediately that I'd run the next time. He didn't run the next time. Mr. Tirey, who was the former district attorney here, ran, and also a Hr
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • mother, Marie Parr, and I was a product of that marriage. He worked for Ford Motor Company and they moved to Mexico City where I was born. We stayed there for a short period of time and then we moved to Monterrey, Mexico. Subsequent to that period of time
  • for a dam near Corpus Christi and repercussions of the selection; LBJ's advice that George Parr seek the aid of Abe Fortas; George Parr's suicide; inaccurate stories related to George Parr; how Parr spent his time in 1984.
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • weapons used by North Hanoi and North Vietnam to prolong the war--between the time we had the first vote and the time it came back to the House and we had the last vote, the tragedy of Dallas had occurred. I remember very well Majority Leader Mansfield
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and there hadn't been time for a wedding reception. The Johnsons were very close friends of my wife's parents, Senator and Mrs. [Earle] Clements. Senator Clements was the whip of the Senate when Johnson was majority leader, and later in the year 1955 Mr. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • respects to pneumonia, or types of pneumonia. at thi~, He had it several times. Looking and seeing the date in 1939, I would say that it might have been an occasion when he was back here on business in Texas and had an attack of pneumonia. here
  • LBJ’s susceptibility to illness at various times; State Senator Alvin Wirtz; Ku Klux Klan in Texas; receivership of LCRA in Texas; Wirtz as assistant secretary of Interior Department; his expertise on Texas water law; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s trip
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , so I turned on the television then. By that time it was on the news. F: Were you able to keep up with Jack during this next several hours? Or did you kind of have some idea where he might be? V: He called me from Dallas and by this time President
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in a crowd somewhere, but nothing that's worth recounting. The first time I ever met him was when I had the responsibility--this must have been in the fall of 1961 and the spring of 1962--for the keynote speaker each year of the state meeting of the Texas
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • college education? J: All right. I was born in Dallas, Texas, December 2, 1917. r~y family moved to Houston while I was still more or less an infant. For all intents and purposes, I consider myself a Houstonian rather than a Dallasite. Certainly I
  • ; eras of BOB; role of BOB in times of economic stress; LBJ's personal interest in management efficiency; LBJ as the most management minded President in Jones' experience; LBJ was the first President to personal participate in incentive award ceremonies
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • rights. Matter of fact, at one point Eisenhower even named me executive director of the President's Committee on Government Employment Policy, and I was foreclosed in that job by a guy named John Bricker, who was senator of Ohio. I was at that time
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Kennedy staff. We later became good friends. I think one had a sense of a very high quality o.' p·eople. F: Jack told me one time, I asked him wh'.:l he saw on the trip 'Jack, you kno·w, from Dallas, because o:f co'..lrse he was unprepared to come
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • experience, I did decide it was dreadful that a party like the Democratic party should be without funds. So I had served four years as treasurer of Marian County. I had assisted the state party and some gubernatorial campaigns and when it came time to look
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • college education? J: All right. I was born in Dallas, Texas, December 2, 1917. r~y family moved to Houston while I was still more or less an infant. For all intents and purposes, I consider myself a Houstonian rather than a Dallasite. Certainly I
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • as was possible, so if I ask you things that you think you've written adequately about, say so and I'll just switch off. because we're not trytng to duplicate what Time-Life has printed or anybody else has printed. Let's identify. You're Hugh Sidey, and you
  • Sidey’s contact with LBJ during the Senate period; his work with Time magazine covering LBJ; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with other politicians; press coverage of LBJ in the Senate years; difference between Senate
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Earl Cocke from Georgia, Judge Bob Hall of Dallas, John Singleton of Houston. But our group over at the New Clark tried to put as much muscle as we could into our organizatio n. We had a very interesting and fun time, but we also had a good
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • changed this Internal Revenue ruling to make it an ordinary loss instead of a capital loss. lk: Yes. Lyndon Johnson was majority 1eader at the time. M: At that time, yes. • > LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty (Item)
  • meedna aDd th111. to Fort Worth and. Dalla•. but th• primary thins waa fuzid-rai11n9, I think we ought to 1ay that. He - • warned not to come aDd I - • -naecl lllOt to come. Peo,tl• thousht it - • a bad time to come, bad tizne politlcally, bad time
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the department on a full-time basis by February 20, '61. It's hard to remember now, but at that time it remained very difficult to secure confirmation for an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division, and it was several months after that before
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on to the house and Dale was sort of indirectly involved with that. I guess when they came home they spent more time with us visiting and telling us different things that they wanted done. I think when he first came home he sort of really didn't know what to do
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : That's right. So I had a background in politics. I ran for Congress in '54 and I kept the district--because it has a strong Democratic registration--and I managed to be reelected four times, and always with pretty good margins. So I had some leeway. I
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of them, and I'm sure he quoted hi s, tooo And that when I got that done I got my secretary trained--I had two secretaries trained to do that. "Then I spent a lot of time out traveling over Texas writing stories for Houston papers, Dallas, Fort Worth
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • #3) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ November 1, 1971 F: This is interview number three with Senator John G. Tower in his office in the Old Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Senator, we were talking last time
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Johnson's KTBC apartment, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: I thought that we would talk about your early education and work up to St. Mary's if we have time. J
  • ; attending Marshall High School; Mrs. Johnson's closest friends, including Carl, Gene, and Emma Boehringer and others from Marshall and St. Mary's Episcopal School for Girls in Dallas.
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 7, Side 1) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ April 24, 1970 F: This is an interview with Secretary Clark Clifford in his office in Washington, on April 24, 1970. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mr. Secretary, you became the Secretary of Defense in time
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . A pri.vate plane took into Dallas that night, and then we got a flight O',lC U3 of Dallas which got us to 1Nashington about • . • what time did we arrive "in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • or no stories that ran across his path. I did see him occasionally loping around in the back of the chamber, and he was quite striking because of his size. until he was elected to the Senate. a reporter with the Dallas ~who But I didn't really get to know him
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEHEE: ~11 LLARD INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Deason's residence, Austin, Texas DEASON Tape 1 of 1 G: last time we were talking about the WPA and the NYA and some of the projects. D: Yes. (Interruption) G: One of the first
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with him that that came about . F : You hadn't known Mr . Johnson personally up to this time? B: No, I hadn't . dedication . I had been here at Florida Atlantic at the time of the Our educational unit had conducted the first VISTA training program. F
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEWEE: PAUL D. HARKINS INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Harkins' residence, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: General Harkins, will you begin by giving us a brief sketch of your military career before your assignment to Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: WALTER JENKINS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Jenkins' office, Austin, Texas Tape G: of 1 Let's start with 1953. We worked a little bit on that last time. I notice in the first of March, LBJ began a series
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Austin; then stopped in Dallas or Fbrt Worth, picked up Walter [J~nkins]. The West plane was carrying an employee of his over to Johns Hopkins for medical attention and took the Senator's party on the way. G: Did you have any contact with Lyndon