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- days? J: Yes, we talked politics. F: This was when the New Deal is hot, and Jimmy Allred is-- J: Yes, and we had a lot of mutual friends. The next recollection I have was going down to my store which I had at the campus. was a campus shop
- that year for the San Antonio Light as a cub sports writer and each summer thereafter for three years, coming home from school for the summer months, and then went to work full-time for them about 1930-31. I left the sports arena and went into general news
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- papers are your columns carried in now, sir? T: Twenty-two. I only send columns to the papers that I send news to. M: How often do you write a column, as opposed to sending news dispatches? T: Until recently about three times a week; but right now
- 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
- that Bill I really For the Dallas Morning News , I can't person with a particular candidate but probably like Allen Duckworth, who was of course I would say the prime political correspondent for the Dallas Morning News , probably Dawson Duncan to some
- 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
- with International Petroleum in the legal department and was there until late, I guess, in 1922 when the Continental Mexican Petroleum Company was sold by General Petroleum of California to Standard of New York, and they operated as New England Fuel Oil
- : Visit a few minutes and go on. K: I remember one time right after he had had his kidney stone operation he came up there and spent about an hour looking around the place. F: Did the newsmen look on him as pretty good source of news, or is this just
- Monday morning and went into New Orleans and spent the second night in Atlanta and were having breakfast somewhere in Atlanta Wednesday morning when we heard the ra9io had been counted out. was wonderful about it. F: ~eport that he So it was a sad
- to go to Baylor University. I graduated in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts and a major in journalism and came up the street and went to work June 11, 1937, for the Waco News Tribune as a copy editor, and I have been with the paper ever since. M: You
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- with each other a great deal over the years. The part where perhaps I came to know him best, and had the closest association with him, was right after he became president. He requested a news media liaison from Texas in Washington, and I was the one
- ; served some in New Orleans; I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific. My last tour of duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese surrender took place. And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back to America
- ." We only had two, so we called one of them the "old building" and one the "new building." M: Like the Senate does now. H: It was the East Building for housing members of Congress, their offices and so forth, and I was on the east side--a long ways
- reminiscences about because it seems to me that that was a turning point in Mr. Johnson's career. Anyway, what was your capacity in this 1948 campaign? HP: Well, let me make a few little comments here. In 1948 in my opinion he introduced a new dimension
- riding on the train back, sort of outlined some goals I wanted to achieve. That's been a habit of mine through the years. Amazing. Every five years I'd set new ones, and they've generally happened. One of them was I decided to get better acquainted
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- 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
- surprise he opened up the initial interview with a suggestion that the Mine Workers International Union and he needed a new general counsel, and would I consider it? It was a long far cry from anything, that I'd ever anticipated up to that time. F: You
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . respect. I never thought of Lyndon in that We've had some members who I hav~ thought of as populists, but I never really thought Lyndon was a populist. In those days we thought of him as a New Dealer and not the old term of populist, I guess. G: I
- 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
- for the Texas Power & Light Company as a salesman. University. In 1927 and 1928 I went to New York They laughed at me for going to that little old school LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
- as a campaign manager is concerned. The adding machine is what counts with him. And that's the way we planned it. M· Well, then your strategy was to corne out strongly for FDR and his New Deal Program. W: He had started that. That wasn't mine. This other
- that was one of the cutest things that ever happened. F: I want to get .it down. W: All right. Just before we were married, in December of 1961, I was in New York, about in November--October or November--at the same time Lyndon Johnson and many of his
- . G: How did they get the application through? J: Royls application got hung up because they passed a regulation at the FCC, because of the need of strategic materials, that no one would be permitted to build a new radio station using strategic
- ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Kennedy -- I -- 2 B: Then you became bureau manager for the International News
- . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphey -- I -~ 13 that he thought Lyndon was an opportunist, that Lyndon was a New Dealer, whom Mr. Stevenson utterly
- and tell them, IIAll rightll--and he did do James Henry on the TV station the same way-"if you run one ad with him, you'll never run another ad in the Longview News and Journal." unpopular. Just such stuff as that. He was very In fact, I was trying
- , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES M. ROWE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: Mr. Rowe's residence, Ingleside, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Rowe, would you begin by giving us a little background? When did you become involved in covering the news in Duval
- 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
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- not too much attention to that election. lid read the paper every morning but I wasn't just carried away with all the news about it. I read the paper every morning now. live always read the paper every morning, just to see what's going on in the world
- ." One was 24-inch, and I think the other was 12-inch, if I recall. Came from Texas up to New York. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
- ? W: Oh, yes, he'll talk you out of your eyeteeth on that first tee. I think this was the first game we'd played, out at the Army and Navy [Country Club]. I don't know who was in town, I think it was Felix McKnight of the Dallas News, and maybe
- had an opportunity to ride with him up to Hyannis Port. So I got on the plane. He had a man from Georgetown and he had [Allen] Duckworth from the Dallas [Morning] News. Most of the agencies preferred to have their people at the various points to make
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
- them and everybody was waiting. Then one of the news- papermen saw Colonel Stephens and said to him they wanted me around LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
- you, and it'd be too messy, so we'll give you a few minutes, and everybody go to the corner of So-and-So and So-and-So, or out to the high school, or whatever, and they'd circle, and everybody would dash for the new place, and then they’d land
- sobered up from that FDR binge." L: (Laughter) That's the way he wrote to him. B: So apparently LBJ was perceived as much more conservative than he had been when he was a staunch New Dealer in the late 1930s and early 1940s. L: Yes, he had to do
- was in such a bind him- self--he was the new superintendent--he said, "Just go in there and take charge." Those kids were about to tear the building down. I went in there and stayed seven years. (Laughter) G: Was it common for jobs to get passed along like
- , It was a navel thing in those days. Helicopters were quite new in 1948, and nobody had ever done that before. My own idea of it was that it was a stunt, but I don't know what anybody else thought about it, what Coke thought about it. G: You don't know
- . ments approved, that sort of thing? R: No. I don't think so. Most of the trouble I found at that time was selling the public on what we were trying to do. It was new. They couldn't believe, you know, that you could do anything like that, or LBJ
- into effect, of course, but they're going to divulge a new project, as I understand it within the next [year]. F: Is there still some pressure along this line? L: Yes, sir, there's a lot of pressure. of pressure for it. Of course, there's a lot
- Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh KEENAN -- I -- 8 ~1: How soon after Kennedy' s assassination did you meet with the new President Johnson? K: Almost immediately
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , "But I have promised my boss' wife some for a dinner party for tomorrow night. did. II And they said, "Well, we'll do the best we can." Well, they Bes s got her venison for her dinner party. But I left in the taxi a brand new evening dress that I had
- from hunting up in Chama, New Mexico one time, out at the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation. George and I were talking about the 1948 election. He said, "You know, a lot of people have said this, that and the other thing, but you know I have never