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- or really was the manager, I guess you would say, I think he carried the title of treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. He's now very active for Mr. Humphrey. I think he actually is the one who originated the idea. F: Do you get people
- of the State Democratic Executive Committee, 1946-48. I've held various otherm.inortype jobs, like president of the Hillsboro School Board for a period of time and things of that sort. I was nominated in the Democratic primary in 1950 for an associate justice
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , aild would you tell how you would rate him? F: He was a fairly effective member dealing with those subjects in which he specialized, particularly matters of national defense. He was a very close associate of the chairman of the committee, Nr. Vinson
- a young fellow feeling his way around, and smart and catching on. F: Do you know anything about his appointment to be the state director of the National Youth Administration? Did your husband have any hand in that? .W: Yes, indeed, he did. F: let's
- in a half an hour or an hour by helicopter," and they tried to have an advance--someone went on in advance and tried to pick out the site that the helicopter could land in. Jim had briefed the people as to how much room he needed to get in and to get out, so
- for the campaign trip; the logistics and staff work involved in the helicopter-based campaign; costs associated with using the helicopter; public reaction to LBJ's speeches and the helicopter; LBJ shaking hands; typical flight times and experiences for pilot, Jim
- : Personalities? G: Yes. M: Oh, I think just as in any political association of persons that you're going to find people who are engaged in it for their personal LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
- if he hadn't worked, and if his people hadn't worked. But by the same token I think it was maybe pretty much national sentiment. There's a minority that felt like the dissenters did, but probably the majority of the country---F; What did you think
- in these towns before he got there? B: I wish I for him . could remember the names of the people that were doing advance I don't know whether [Horace] Busby was doing advance work for him or not . because they Probably not . But he had good advance work
- with LBJ; San Antonio leaders; advance work; oil support; Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ and Coke Stevenson; the Taft-Hartley issue; LBJ's treatment of staff; women in campaign; spending nights at Dillman Street at time of the election; impressions of frenzied
- National Youth administrator. I was a good friend of Congressman Dick Kleberg, and when Kleberg was a representative here in Austin from his district-F: He used to come up here? J: Yes, sir. I had a men's store on Congress Avenue, next
- was running for Governor and some people that I had been associating with in other things thought I had some organizing talents, and they called me and said they were in trouble, and I came down here to help them out. One thing led to another and lIve
- that period of time. to-hI+1H·mll-----aa£s----lMf4lr~.------ I met him I do know people that were with him when he entered, I believe, the Georgetown Law School for just a couple of months. G: Who would these be? J: There was a fellow named Brown. G
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- be on the side that Texas was on, irrespective of the fact that he did occupy some national position. However, among the informed people, this was not really a major problem. They understood that he had a dual function and they understood that he had to take
- Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the 1948 election
- in '48? that notion somewhere. I picked up Who followed the candidates around mainly for the Star-Telegram? K: In '48? F: You told me you had gone to the two national conventions. K: Yes, and covered part of the national campaign that fall
- First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron
- a home demonstration agent? R: Nacogdoches. And having district-wide activities. good many people in that area. So I knew a Mrs. Johnson gave me a lot of names, and of course the menfolk who were associated with the campaign had ideas of what to do
- and went to Houston and worked for the Federal Land Bank as a junior attorney for about a year and a half; then moved to Austin to help my friend LBJ organize and initiate the National Youth Administration program in Texas. That was in the summer of 1935
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- for the reason that while the people from Roosevelt's home country of New York and New England who were in some sense identified with the financial community were not willing to back him in the great LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
- and Pedernales River Authority; preparing for FDR's 1940 presidential campaign; Corcoran's work on LBJ's 1948 election to the U.S. Senate; how LBJ became Senate minority leader; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's and Corcoran's relationship
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- and Franklin Roosevelt? P: I don't remember what all we have gone into in the past, but of course Lyndon's association with Roosevelt was very close over a number of years and was the most important factor, I suppose, both in his election and in his
- LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
- the vacancy. that. Coke didn't do He accepted the resignation, made no comment about who he was going to appoint to fill the vacancy. I imagine that the Kazens and people in Laredo assumed that he would favor them and go ahead and appoint the man
- . peculiar place. It's a It just seems to be going downhill, has been for the last thirty or forty years, losing population, people moving out. But the thing that fascinated me most about the place was the way George Parr could produce these overwhelming
- Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people
- to the University and had no further part in the war until the early spring of 1918 . In 1918, I enlisted in the Texas National Guard, was commissioned a first lieutenant, was on recruiting duty during most of that spring . I helped to organize and recruit three
- days and then as a delegate to the national convention in Chicago, long with Alvin Wirtz, Roy Miller, Frank Scofield, and Bill St. John and any number of political--Bob Holliday from El Paso and others. F: You served in the Texas legislature for awhile
- National Youth Administration (U.S.)
- that they played on and just any number of things that I did there while I was going to school. I always had something. Still people see me and want to know what racket I'm in now. (Laughter) G: Were you in education? You were a history major, isn't that right
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- people that lived down around Duval County where George lived about George doing this and doing that, which were unlawful. Then when I'd tell them they'd have to testify to it in court, they'd back off and wouldn't do it, they were scared of him
- job for this Nation. And his tracks for the common good of Texas will never be erased. state and our people will miss him. Our LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
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- on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Kennedy -- I -- 25 any question of his right to leadership within the party and to a national party figure, as [did] Speaker Rayburn. The convention was a coalition of people
- with you? H: Yes, we had a very close association during the time. When I entered the Congress he had preceded me by two years, I believe it was. He was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives at that time
- Biographical information; first association with LBJ in Congress; LBJ’s chief motivation and goals; 1943 and 1948 elections; Sam Rayburn; Charlie Murphy; oil/gas industry; Bob Kerr; Natural Gas Act of 1938; Senator Francis Case; Area Basin decision
- , I believe, was from Houston, and that delegation, if it had been seated, might have overturned the--well, no, it wouldn't have, either. When the votes were finally counted, it was shown that had they not--because they did have some people
- Committee die, and the National Committee is the politician's life's blood. He brought on .his crony- ism; he brought a lot of people in that COUldn't help him any. I think in order to have a successful pol itical orga'nization that y"ou bring in all
- campaign for Truman; LBJ’s social legislation while president; labor’s support of social legislation to help working people; wage-price control; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with the Democratic National Committee.
- this trial over in the Duval County Courthouse. While we were here we met the Lloyds, because Frank was associated with Ed Lloyd and Frank Lloyd in the trial of this case. And due to Frank's connections, the Lloyds were looking for a younger lawyer to come
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- to the National Press Club and I'd see him around the Capitol when I'd go up there. But when you have seen just thousands and thousands of members of Congress and people up there, it's pretty hard to--I didn't think he was going to be President. be President. I
- . We had drilled a bunch of wells; I'd gone in with four other people and drilled these wells down at East White Point across the bay from Corpus Christi, and all four of them died during the war period. And it needed somebody to run it. get out
- . I knew others, Charlie Green and the others of the Marsh-Fentress papers that I was closely associated with. I was strictly in the news side in those days, not in the administrative end at all. Charl ie Green and the Waco people, Harry
- Biographical information; association with Richard Kleberg; first meeting LBJ; Roy Miller; association as a newspaperman with LBJ; LBJ’s temper; Senate race; visits during the presidency; LBJ and press criticism; W. Lee O’Daniel; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- selected because of my past association with the President. arrived in Washington on January 9, 1964. I I was managing editor of the Chronicle still, but took on the additional titles of national political editor and White House correspondent. September
- : Do you recall what you discussed? Did you discuss national politics or local politics? N: No, not particularly, it was not that kind of meeting. It was just strictly a social gathering and we talked mostly about different people we knew, the usual
- ; Wilmer St. John Garwood's election to the Texas Supreme Court; LBJ's 1948 election to the U.S. Senate; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; the relationship between LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Nash's nomination as an alternate delegate to the United Nations
- voting before all the people were there. Because I had told them I was coming--I think Skelton told them --I guess they knew 1 was coming, because when I walked in it was like sitting at an Irish wake. Everybody was sitting there like statues
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to have the title, but Claude Wilde played golf every afternoon and John Connally ran the campaign. G: Is that right? Was he effective? N: Oh, extremely. Extremely. John is one of the ablest people I have eve r known. G: I've heard that during
- . Taylor, I know you've had a very long and close association with the Johnson family, and I would like to just begin this interview with asking you: first, when did you come in contact >vith the Johnson family, and what were the circumstances
- of one evening we had dinner with the Johnsons at their apartment, the Connallys and us, the four of us and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, and the highlight of the evening was a showing of color movies that Mrs. Johnson had made during the campaign. She
- elected. B: Back in those days when he was making that race, what did you read and hear about him? W: It was in the newspapers, of course we didn't have TV in those days, but I knew some people who knew him that like him very much. One of them
- nicely by the entire faculty at that time, which amounted I imagine to about forty-five [people]. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
- Circumstances of entering Southwest Texas Teachers College; job at college; impressions of the young LBJ; LBJ and the 1928 Democratic National Convention; Dr. Evans’ garage apartment; LBJ’s interest in the College Star; lack of money among students