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Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Keating -- I -- 2 K: That's right. I was with the Texas Relief Commission from the time Lawrence Westbrook, who is mentioned there, [pointing to a list handed by the interviewer] left as state director. He was followed by Marie
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there in the [DB? R: Well, I didn't get there ahead of time. ·F: Were there a lot of people in the halls, or were people there that night? Was it pretty full? R: Yes. I don't know what was gOing on outside that suite. wasn't a crowd; there were no curiosity
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • crop up from time to time--following Dallas. I had to cope with some strong views on the part of close associates which, in my judgment, really made no sense. There was no ground for some of the attitudes and some of the views expressed. It went
  • ; the courteous nature of southern politicians; vice presidents' self-confidence; how O'Brien's opinion of LBJ developed over time; JFK and LBJ as opposites.
Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh May 24, 1970 V: The first time I recall seeing Lyndon B. Johnson was sometime in 1931, or perhaps in 1932, when he served as Administrative Assistant to Congressman Richard K1eberg of Texas. He was a young, energetic, ambitious, good
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Dick's father was living at the time that Dick Kleberg was elected to Congress. He was elected to fill an unexpired term in 1931 at the death of Harry M. Wurzbach, who happened to be a Republican, one of the few Republicans that Texas ever [elected
Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Austin. So I sort of indirectly got to know about the President through Horace Busby, although I don't believe I ever met the President then. The first time I met him was when he had the Fbreign Policy Club out to the Ranch. F: Was this while he
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • hardly. So, then I was gone from the time I was seventeen. I was in the service, then in college, and then in law school. And then when I finished law school, for the next ten years from 1950 until 1960 I was in Dallas. I think we made it a fairly
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and restrictions, however he wishes to make it; and that we will type a transcript, send it to him to edit, and at the same time, give him a legal form with which he can express his restrictions as he sees fit. The tape, t h e transcript, the legal release form
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the kitchen; and it stationed Secret Service men. This was shortly after the Kennedy tragedy, shortly after the Dallas situation, so that everyone was on edge. I'm certain, for that period of time, everything was doubly secured. We got ready to leave. Mr
  • ' and Vietnam; LBJ’s public relations and popular public personalities over time; attending White House functions; arranging a mobile home for LBJ to use for freshening up before a Los Angeles appearance; LBJ’s interest in movies and television; 1968 campaign
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Kennedy was assassinated, President Johnson, then the [vice president], and Ralph Yarborough were both riding in the parade in Dallas, and they had a hard time deciding who was going to ride where. Just like children, you know. And Ralph wasn't going
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Kennedy, the brother of the President who was assassinated, and certainly he wanted to find the truth.In addition to that, we had the Texas authorities in Dallas; they were all cooperative. I said at the time that the report was issued that anyone who
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • up at Tet. F: Yes, they got caught up in the Tet Offensive, but that was an extreme case. G: Was the Filipino--what was it called?--Operation Brotherhood, was that still extant at this time, or had that been terminated before your time? F: I
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; an assistant professor of government at TCU in 1930 to 1931; then as a tutor and instructor at Harvard, 1931-1933. were getting your degree. I assume this was while you And then as a professor at the University of Texas in government 1933 to the present time
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • , how you happen to be where you are right now. C: Well, I guess lid have to go back to about 1943 when I came into the United States Air Force, or at that time the United States Army Air Corps, from my boyhood home in Alabama. raised in Andalusia
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the report had been presented to Kennedy before he went to Dallas. There is, like, a month's time lag, or something like that. After Mr. Johnson became President, Esther Peterson was designated special assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs. I began
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of rooms had a freshman named Penny Frisby. Every time my brother hit Penny, he had my name on the wall, and he just put a mark against it. Joe said I came down and too k one look and sav.i that my name had marks clear around five rooms and had started
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , l979 INTERVIEWEE: MARIE LINDAU OLSON INTERVIEWEE: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Olson's office, Dallas, Texas Tape l of l G: Mrs. Olson, you're known in NYA [National Youth Administration] years as Marie Lindau. O: T hat's right. G
Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES DAVIS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start by my asking you how you first happened to come to work for the Johnsons. D: Well, the Johnsons at that time owned
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • did you stay? F: We stayed from Sunday through Thursday. And we came home in a jet plane that belonged to Mr. Clint Murchison. Mr. Fore and Mr. Murchison had a big time. never saw a stranger. Cowboys. Mr. Fore They got to talking about the Dallas
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • targets for years from Franklin Delano Roosevelt on through to Johnson's time--substantial numbers of these were passed. Slum clearance, housing, the poverty programs, the interstate highway systems, airline and airport legislation, and the development
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . Today's date is Ma rch 17, 1969. Last time I had asked you in the context of your discussion of your 1967 tour on a federal team to visit the states, and I think you visited thirty states, whether you had found in your discussions with public officials
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , as you said, you became an assistant to the Solicitor General in the Justice Department. P: The first time I met Mr. Johnson is partially a further answer to your question. After I came into the Department of Justice, President Kennedy had a tradition
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . On the legislative battle, your initial problem was in the House Subcommittee chaired by William Barrett of Philadelphia. C: Yes. Let me just say so we get it on the record. I mean I do think that the Times story-- G: This is the [Robert] Semple article-- C
Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the Majority Leader's wife. I was in Dallas doing a fashion show, and she came in to buy a dress, and that was just a business relationship. But [when] I got to be really good friends with her was after President Johnson became president, in 1964, and she
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 10, 1969 M· Some people find this rather like a psychiastrist' s couch, to talking and find out they like it. Did you know Mr. they get Maybe that will be your situation. Johnson prior to the time you became mayor
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Short -- I -- 2 S: Right, right. But I knew him personally from the time that he was the majority leader of the Senate. Kennedy was by this time--no, I'm sorry, Kennedy was not yet president; Eisenhower
  • and paying for media time in advance; taking money from Jimmy Hoffa; Walter Jenkins; a rumor that Humphrey had an altercation with a prostitute.
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] from the time Mr. Johnson took office until the summer of 1966. B: Until the end of September of 1966. M: Then you came back as ambassador to the United Nations for a very short period. B: A period of four months beginning--I thought
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- 3 At any rate, I was in the Texas circle at the time of the election of Roosevelt in 1936. And having stayed on for purposes of the minimum wage bill alone, as I had intended, I soon found myself additionally caught up unwillingly in the so-called
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that his mother had lived for a time in this house when she was a girl, before moving to Fredericksburg, I believe. G: Did she like Johnson City? K: Well, I can't give any information on that. her hometown was McKinney up near Dallas. there]. G: Well
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and this was a chance to go somewhere and do something. The Luxembourg one--we had very little going at any given time. That's a more social embassy than most. It's always a political appointee, whether Perle Mesta or later, so that was--we stopped in Luxembourg because
  • health; LBJ’s vice-presidential staff; LBJ’s interaction with foreign heads of state; leaving LBJ’s staff around the time of JFK’s assassination; LBJ’s lack of interest in foreign policy and preference for domestic policy; the role of travel in LBJ’s vice
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : During the campaign. S: Not that I remember. G: Now, you were in Dallas in 1948 I think when he had the kidney stone attack. In the earlier interview you were going to talk about that but I don't think got back to it. S: Well, it's pretty personal
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in his office at the University of Texas. The date is July 19, 1971, and it is 9:10 in the morning. My name is David McComb. Last time we left off with the first committee being dissolved and the Regents appointing a committee to search for a dean. L
  • ; LBJ’s interest in teaching and his title at the School; the state of the School at the time of the interview; selection of the admitted students; the School’s faculty; Gronouski’s views on joint appointments and tenure for faculty; the attention UT
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be supportive of people who are in the arts or humanities. Expenditures should be subject to close scrutiny; perhaps there are some wild decisions made because you are dealing with unusual people. I reflect on the time after Dallas, when we had that long-ending
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: T.H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Hardeman's residence, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last we time had gone to the 1960 election, which brings us to John Kennedy's years as president. One of the questions that comes up
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 19, 1968 W: I was born of southern parents in St. Louis, where they were residing at that time, briefly in 1923. We returned to the South. My mother and father were Tennesseean and Alabaman people with a long
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Judge Jones had been replaced by that time by a young, handsome, affable congressman named Gene Worley. He and his wife Ann became some of our closest friends. Then there was Hatton Sumners from Dallas, quite a character, one of the most conservative
  • Johnson's time spent sight-seeing and attending events at the Congressional Club or the 75th Club; visiting Bill White in New York City; Sam Rayburn, Wright Patman, Nat Patton, and other Texans in Washington, D.C.; visits with Aunt Effie Pattillo; summer
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • friend of LBJ's and had been for a large number of years, so the doctor was a dentist here. Dr. Givens was a local dentist here, but he was one of the, I think, most influential people that we had in the city at that time, and, also, the relationship
Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that I didn't go on. Now if it was an overnight trip to Dallas or sometimes he'd go to Houston overnight, and a lot--most of the times it was because of space availability on the small planes and everything, I wouldn't go. G: Well, his slide downhill
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • graduated before he enrolled. However, I was in San Marcos during the summers and on other vacations, and knew him and spent some time with him when he was a student at San Marcos. G: May I ask you about the kinds of courses he particularly liked