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Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and the interviewer is Joe B . Frantz. Mr . Boatner, first of all, tell us a little bit about your own background and how you came to this spot in your life . B: My background is that of a newspaperman and my newspaper was the Fort Worth Star Telegram . I

Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Kennedy -- I -- 19 K: --gained nothing by the gesture. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram remarked editorially that they achieved nothing except to mar the reputation of Fort Worth and its hospitality. The incident was referred

Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

introduced Mr. Johnson to the speaking that day. I met them over at Fort Worth, and of course I did not take charge of it until they got into F: They came in a motorcade from Fort Worth. P: Right. They stopped at Arlington and when they left Arlington, we

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

as national committeewoman at that time. Then at the [September] state convention, which was held in Fort Worth that year, Price Daniel had been declared the winner by something over three thousand votes as the Democratic nominee for governor. So

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

by 87 votes. Governor LCok~j Stevenson challenged the vote in court, and the courts were sustaining Lyndon Johnson. about that time, we had the state convention in Fort Worth. in September of 1948. But This was And of course one of the functions

Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. telegrams, and postcards, petitions. This includes letters, Not too many as far as the total number goes in relation to total volume are form letters that are sent to the President for a cause. These are, through our--I'll explain in a little bit

Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

baskets of flowers almost parallel to the ground because the wind was always blowing during these barbecues. You just mention the word barbecue and the wind would start blowing out there. But Walter Jetton, the famous mobile caterer from Fort Worth

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that they were actually election reports. that we bought those reports. I had a hard time convincing him They promised me--Sam Fore promised me--that he'd send me a telegram about the election at Muskogee, Oklahoma. When I got there about 11 o'clock-- F

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Congressional District. The 11th--I can't remeober; 12th--Hunter McLean from,Fort Worth handled that; l3th--Wichita Falls--Elmer Parrish handled that; 14th--Cecil Burney at Corpus Christihandled that; LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

as an outsider that that must unquestionably be his forte, that alone. Well, I didn't have any particular contact with Lyndon Johnson after that. P: This must have been '33--'32 or '33. Can I ask you a question here? Did you know anything regarding Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

use of some things that had been set up. For example, on Friday we got a telegram from Elliott Roosevelt, who was running a radio system at Fort Worth at the time, in which he wished him all good luck and so on, that Johnson was authorized to use

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: I didn't think you could get from here to there anymore. C: Working that whole system out with the railroad companies was really something. But here's the thing. You got these fantastic telegrams from little two-bit towns along the way. I'll

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the reorganization long before we settled it in the committee. But it was pOSSible, although it took some time, to get the task force to settle it in the same way that Congress did, for whatever it was worth then. The two individuals that I thought were contrary

Oral history transcript, Claud Kellam, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

, he could settle them. G: You don't have any particular recollections of him? K: Ea rly days as a student? G: Then let's get on to the Black Star, White Star matter that you were referring to. K: No. Houid you tell the whole story as you know

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

went . But then I came back by boat on the Lurline , and during that time the purge story came out . was a list sent as far as I know . I believe there I was then on the boat and I kept getting telegrams from friends who--one of them would say

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

. He was known on the Hill as one of the top Congressional secretaries. For instance, there was always quite a bit of competition between the Congressmen’s office and say, one of the U.S. Senators to get a telegram out announcing approval of a Texas

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Quill -- I -- 14 And he kept thinking they were genuine.” But they promised to send me a telegram in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The train got

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 it was worded in a rather inexact and somewhat contingent manner. As we sat there, a telegram ,vas drafted in response to Governor Romney, and it was immediately dispatched--I think at about eleven

Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

could borrow this 4 million dollars to pay the Texas Power and Light and these cities could buy all the municipal systems, and so they sent a telegram to us from the train but th~ couldn't pay for the telegram, it had to be one of those telegrams, you

Oral history transcript, Sheldon Cohen, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

really had something to say or whether it was going to be a case in which I simply restated what has been said to them repeatedly, but we felt that it was worth taking a chance. I tried here to keep the press from building up my trip out there, and I

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

knowing it--it sort of drifted with the Joint Chiefs and MacArthur's telegrams crossing each other sort of like Hamlet and the gravedigger, you know. Unresponsive answers. So the problem really wasn't a military cabal against the civilians

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

worth a candle. I think that he really He thought that the only way he could get any meaningful negotiations in Viet Nam was if he took himself out of the political arena, and I think that's right. I don't believe he could ever have brought

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was particularly enraged, I got this telegram telling me that the Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister's advice-which had been to me to let this man go quickly--telling me that this advice was right, and I was really furious to think that I would see the day when our

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

another experience also. I was on the debating team and some question came up as to whether or not Princeton would be a problem for us to visit. One of the eager beavers, who was the coach, sent a telegram saying that I was a Negro and would

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in 1962 and in 1963. B: I ought to break in here and mention this. Have you done an interview like this for the Kennedy library program? S: I have not. B: In that case, if you don't object, I think it's worth continuing on along this line

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was "What would you do if our funds were twenty-five million dollars, half of what they are? What's really worth saving?" Well, it turned out, unfortunately, that the second question needed to be answered because within a couple of years our budget would

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

(Secretary of War) went over to Europe and while he was gone. his successor didn't know about it and Tom Connally and Myron Jones a man named Johns on and I got in. Fort Lewis out in Washington. And I was as signed to I was commander of a battalion out

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. O'Connell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

asked and could not, for one reason or another, take it . I know that Larry Kuter, who was a three-star general at the time was asked to take it, but they had a little difficulty because the Congress, I believe, wasn't willing to continue his military

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

or But there was a telegram that I'm sure wasn't from the President, but it carded the Presidential imprimatur so to speak. EG: While he was working in Kleberg's office, are there any anecdotes or stories which particularly illustrate what he was like during that period

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: Then when the thing broke in the press 11m told by friends over at the White House that telegrams and letters kept coming in, and I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

come, you have no secretary. You've got the problem first, when So the question is what do you do about that. So I borrowed a young lady from the correspondence pool to take care of the congratulatory telegrams and the letters and all the junk

Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

streams coincided. B: Did you know Mr. Johnson before then, or know of him? M: No, I had one connection with him.I had never met him. My wife and I had sent him an outraged telegram the year before. He had spoken on the Senate floor after Senator

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the result of a special committee of three which was set up when I went there as ambassador; it's called the Panama Review Committee; it includes the governor, the four-star general in command of the southern command, Cinc South, and the U.S. ambassador who

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

"duty free" gifts under $10 that are worth far in excess of $10. There's no way in the world with that type of legislation that you can really control the flow; Customs Service doesn't have enough people to check these packages and make sure