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Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and looked at Bob, and he said, "You want me to tell him?" you tell him ." And he said, "Yes, He [Rayburn] said, "Everybody thinks they're the one should be groomed ." I thought it was pretty clever . F: Right . When did you first meet Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 2 G: Who was involved, do you recall? B: Generally it was people like Sam Low, J. Edwin Smith, Chris Dixie, Bob Eckhardt, Arthur Combs. G: Was it largely Houston-based? B: Well, those are the ones I know and was working with at the time
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the earlier situation. But there's no question that Lyndon Johnson in the war period did have a reputation as a Texas liberal, and that was considered unique and hopeful and helpful and useful, so I guess in that respect I expected more than I feel has come
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and Rayburn told Bob Anderson, the secretary of the treasury, with whom he was very, very close, "Now, Bob, you'd better think long and hard before you do that because you start this kind of business, there's going to be all sorts of organizations all the way
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in this--Senator Bob Kerr, Speaker Rayburn, myself and Mr. Johnson. President Truman at that time sent Clark Clifford and myoId friend who just left the chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board not long ago, who was one of the attorneys at the White House
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • million funny things. Bob Waldron, you know, was his secre- tary, borrowed from Congressman Homer Thornberry. Another secretary was Mary Margaret Valenti. Bob Waldron was then always impec- cably dressed, even as he is now. I'll never forget the day
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • remember one time Bob Taft, speaking against federal aid for education, said, into it, it would cost $3, 000, 000, 000 a year. II II II If we get Well, we haven't been in it very long, and it's costing more than that right now, don't you see
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into con- flict with Lyndon there trying to elect Bob Slagle, who was the county judge of Grayson County and Sam Rayburn's campaign manager for years and years. Lyndon had a different candidate. G: Ray Roberts? S: Ray Roberts, the state senator, yes
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Employment Service office to be opened in Belton and financed by the Texas Relief Comm"ission. I was to be the employment officer, so to speak, because we had hopes that we would be getting projects into the area that would be suitable for hiring some
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh So I hope there'll be several biographies in the next few years. B: In anticipation of your biography, we'll try to concentrate in this on Johnson and we'll talk about [what
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Connally and among the other stockholders were, and the active workers at the station, were Bob Phinney, now Director of Internal Revenue, and J. J. "Jake" Pickle, who is now Congressman from the lOth District, and Ed Syers who was later head of the famous
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • can still make it." Then I went to Lady Bird and she wasn't so sure that she wanted to do it. She still hoped but she also had this feeling that she didn't want him to leave Texas. She was terribly surrounded by the feeling of the Texans
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • worked on some- thing together that--? L: No, it was purely personal. I liked him, and I felt that we had a lot of the same ambitions, hopes and desires. Lyndon and I were both a little naive in that we both felt that public service
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • This was contrary to the policy of the paper which at that time to keep the news and the editorial comments separate--I hope it's still that way today . F: That's almost old - fashioned now . B: It is! And they would make the editorial comments on the editorial
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think it I think it was rather thinking that maybe he wouldn't be here, and then maybe he would have another enemy. G: Do you know if they tried to discourage him from running.? I think Dr. Bob Montgomery might have tried to influence him there. R
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • were, as I look back now, quite ungracious in many of the things they did to him. M: The Kennedy people, not the Kennedys? s: Not Jack Kennedy, but the others. Bob Kennedy and Ethel--oh, they used to--God, I was one of the original Hickory Hill
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and Bob Kerr. They worked for these states. God, they stood by them! They got them appropriations, flood control, everything else. Yet some of these--I like to call them peckerwoods--that Johnson did the most for were the first to turn on him. I think
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "Ain't any woman alive going to tell me how to put my britches on!" (Laughter) So the Vice President said--I said something about I hope his lumbago gets better or something--"Well, D.B., I think in a week or so we'll know whether it's lumbago
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that campaign was going you know, although he hoped for the best. spoken out innnediately and forthrightly. But no, I think he should have I would have said, "Regardless of the truth or lack of truth of these charges, this man is my long-time friend and still
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • The House Ag. Committee then was chaired by Congressman Bob Poage of Waco. I retired last year. G: What year did you come to Washington? E: Reported to work for Associated Press on Monday morning, March 15, 1937. G: Okay. Did you know Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • Kennedy's. I was very, very active in the 1960 convention; there were forty of us that would meet every morning at seven o'clock with Bob Kennedy to map out-K: Sort of acting as whips. G: --what each one of us would do. the day. That's right. What we
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was elected; nominated in the runoff primary and elected. I came up here in December, late December, and was here, of course, and have been here since that time. F: This is my thirty-eighth year in the House. Now Johnson was Bob Kleberg's secretary
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there. But the Mummers were having a parade that night. We never did get up there where it was. We never did know she won it until she got back to the hotel. M: Oh my. F: Bob Jackson, the editor of the Corpus Caller, took her up there. He and Judge Allred escorted
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • will be . F: Did congressmen ever come up to listen to you? M: We'd have some of the members come and sit in the audience . F: M: Did . you. find out what they were thinking? I heard two or three of them say, "Well, I hope they never decide to run against
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was there as a debate coach . I worked hard in the state legislature . be on the appropriations committee . I was very fortunate to The present Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Bob Calvert, Justice Calvert, came through Gilmer in about the month of August running
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • might be able to do it today. You've got Bob Eckhardt and Henry Gonzalez, who by the way, is also about to fallout with the liberals too, who can pretty well represent a state like Texas and be friendly with the liberals. Now, to get back to your
Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . And there was a great deal of bitterness. I was surprised. I had been in Europe for two or three years, and I was surprised when I came home to find how much bitterness there was among these people. All of them had been good friends of mine and I hope continued
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • I've since heard that may- be it was just an invitation and some of the Kennedy people thought or hoped it would be turned down, and he accepted. I don't know just what happened. These are some of the things that went around. But that was the very
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • something of that comp-lex too--that it's out of phase with the remainder of New York and the nation et cetera, and I think that feeling maybe it ought to fonn its own state and go its own way is real. H: There's no question about it, and yet I'm hoping
Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • organized labor and a few intellectuals and liberals in Galveston came to feel apparently that our efforts offered the most hope for some changes in Galveston. We endeavored to elect Jim Simpson, now a prominent attorney in Texas City, as county attorney
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in 1960 ; and that furthermore, and I did say this, that I didn't think that he, Mr . Rayburn, or Mr . Johnson had a prayer, that Kennedy was going to win ; and that I just hoped Mr . Rayburn would not be--embarrassed was not the word--humiliated by his
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , whatever, self-determination a chance. And he was deeply dedicated to the idea. With that in mind, with the advice that he got and with his real belief that the United States had to continue to be a leader in the world and in the hope for peace, according
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • recall, were quoted as being confident of the outcome on the basis of their private, unofficial canvass. The Stevenson people had some hopes that they still might win, but everyone LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . But it was a surprise and it was, frankly, at that time, a disappointment. was then. M: But maybe I'm not as callow now as I I hope not. Did you go on to support the Democratic ticket of Kennedy and Johnson in 1960? E: Yes. Went on and supported the Kennedy