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Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- solved a murder up at Amarillo. The paper offered me a job and I quit school and went down there and took it. college education. I have no I went to work on a newspaper and grew up in ignorance. M: Just to depart briefly, what was this murder
- Biographical information; Dockrey Murder case; Garner of Texas vs. Snell of New York; Miller’s appointment of LBJ; Edward Jamison; first impressions of LBJ; three famous Texas political figures; LBJ’s interest in military affairs; rating LBJ
- of a school where we had the group assembled. It took a little arguing with the police department to let him get in there, but finally we convinced them it was all right. It worked out in good shape. F: Where did he speak mostly when he would land
- for a period of two years." F: It has been a long two years. H: Yes. And so I became special assistant to the Attorney General in the Department of Justice--the Attorney General at that time being Homer Cunnnings. F: Where had you become acquainted
- Early personal history in Texas; Justice Department experience; Texas Legislature service; Mine Workers International Union background; LBJ and John L. Lewis; first contacts with LBJ; recollection of Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s job with Kleburg and NYA
- , Clark had been stationed with me up here in the attorney general's department and we were prosecuting people running hot oil, and we knew Carl Estes quite well. "~'Jhere And either I asked him or Clark asked him, do you get this information
- . In other words, that was my job- -to see that they had one. M: Did you have to follow up and check their activities? W: Yes, I followed up some, but we had other departments that followed up, sent them materials, and so on. We were doing it in a short
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- to go a step further with respect to tidelands, when Daniel got to Washington, his big issue had been tidelands and Johnson was completely responsible for him being made a member of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee which was the committee
- in governmental affairs, budgetary affairs, and all the other matters that back then were of importance. well. He got along extremely O'Daniel called upon him in many instances for advice and counsel in regard to state government, and I guess Governor Stevenson
- of Antioch who is a cardinal now, Paul Peter Meouchi, and he's in Lebanon, made a tour of this country, and the State Department furnished him some people from the State Department. He was in this area, and Lyndon entertained him at the Ranch. He had asked
- 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh James -- I -- 9 Hofheinz was county judge of Harris County, Texas, and he had a friend in the Commerce Department who was a speech writer for Harry Hopkins. Hi s
- constituents, or on naval--he was on Naval Affairs [Committee], and you know we were in pretty bad shape in naval affairs, I mean countrywise in '41. B: I think we might as well stop now so you can--[break for a ceremony Judge Worley had to attend] B: Sir
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . Nothing broken, but all She was meeting Mr. Johnson that night. She went on and met him and went through the evening's affair, and it wasn't until the next day after the current excitement was over with that she told him and made rather light of it. G
- , and they turned it over to make a gas line out of it. G: Do you recall LBJ working with the Interior Department on this? N: Oh, yes. He was very instrumental in getting it. Well, they built two lines, the "Big Inch" and what they called the "Little Big Inch
- good system of roadside parks which NYA helped the highway department build. It was done with highway department funds for material, NYA funds for labor. And some two or three hundred parks were built in the period of six or seven years. La Villita
- wanted him. Forrestal had worked with Johnson ever since the first instruction from Roosevelt about the Corpus Christi base. And Forrestal was the man who wanted him back because Lyndon had served previous to that on the Naval Affairs Committee, hadn't he
- the war there were complaints received by his office from the War Department about the extent of vice, rolling the soldiers, et cetera, around Laredo Air Force Base. The War Department had complained to the Governor about it and wanted to know what he
- . And since at that time they were just living from hand to mouth, the teachers, bona fide teachers, made $299.99 a month, while the heads of the departments got $333.33. As a result, why, I controlled their grocery bill pretty well and was treated very
- --it was a seesaw affair up until the last minute. P: Were you in doubt: of Mr. Johnson winning that election? How did you feel about it before the actual voting day? T: There were only two elections I have ever bet on in my life--both of those were that summer
- Christi, Texas Tape B: More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh of 2 We are in Corpus Christi talking with Mr. Vann M. Kennedy who has been in politics as an observer and an active participant in the affairs
- of LBJ and Sam Rayburn among Texas Democrats; federal vs. state affairs in Texas; 1956 state convention; unit rule and the two-thirds rule.
- might have called J. C. Kellam or somebody who was handling the Johnson affairs here. They had another apartment; Walter rented the Harris Boulevard place before we married. I came over and looked at it, of course, beforehand. Because Johnson had
- 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
- checked out over the district and he thought that I would be the best person to handle his affairs. Best person that would be available to handle his affairs in that campaign. After checking with a few of our political friends, I concluded that I would
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . Just as I said Lyndon was not on the Agriculture Coo.mittee, I was never on the Armed Services Committee: or Naval Affairs was what he was on at that time as I recall it. It was before they combined the committees. with his. My views were in line I
- Texas affair; then he had the Martins in Laredo; then the Guerras down in Starr County; and then Cameron County and Hidalgo County was A. Y. [Anderson Yancey] Baker and that group. Coming up here north, he went into Kleberg County and there was Mr