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Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: June 1, 1976 INTERVIEWEE : CHARLES BOATNER INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Boatner's office in Fort Worth, Texas Tape 1 of 1 B: You have asked that I give you a thumbnail sketch of Lyndon Johnson . I hope it's a thumbnail

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

was just in and out. M: You were doing much the same kind of work again? P: Yes, writing stuff, mostly for this paper. Then we were called on to rush up to Fort Worth one morning early to the state Democratic convention to be sure--you know, part

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

~ That was a hell of a lot of work. the Fort Worth Press~ and the E1 Paso The Houston Press was sold and closed. Press closed week before last; they shut it down. any money in God knows when. one in Okla- The Fort Worth It hadn't made The El Paso Herald

Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was offi ce manager for an oi 1 company in Fort Worth, Texas, and a friend of mine had urged me to move to Washington, saying it was a very exciting experience. me a job. Just before this, Olin Teague had offered I met him through a friend that I knew

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--and I'm not tryi ng to paint a bad picture of the former President, but you've stated you wanted everything. G: Sure. c: I woul d suggest that you look up in the 01 d issues of the Washi ngton Star. They assigned two reporters to investigate the worth

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

an appointment through Liz, or whatever method that you can, with the Vice President." He wrote back and said that, then, Walter Jenkins would be available and would love to talk to me. So I took a three-day pass from Fort Stewart, Georgia; came to Washington

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. He said, "Why do that? Just go ahead and take your commission, and then you can come on my staff as my military aide." Which I did. I went to Fort Sill and did my officer's basic and came back to the Vice President's staff as his junior military

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the campaign from the standpoint of the opposition. it anywhere for some reason. I never did submit I ran across it in some files recently. It gives a pretty detailed picture of the campaign. B: That would be worth M: Yes. keeping~- In fact I think I

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

SE 1.-201 He recorP.r.;cnded a l~an by of Ale",:2.Eder ~~s being his choice, period. Wasn't first, wasn't pl-cfe2:'2nti::l, it and t~L~, 2 ',)elS bis ct' c:c. The Att':Jrney General did some checking I recall, first starred in about January

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and ta 1ked it over and just decided it wasn't worth that. N0\'1 we were faced 1~ith a s i tuation with Governor [G. Mennen) Hill iams, who had indica ted he 1·1ould put him self in i f necessary and there 1•1ould be a candidate. negotiations began

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

president. But at that moment, we were living from moment to moment. You had the cathedral service and the clamor of people to be invited to that; you had the arrangements for the rotunda; you had telegrams to members; the busing arrangements. emotion

Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

an office here in the Executive Office Building, and there was that stack of mail and telegrams for my handling just the same as when I left, but it was a new angle, of course, that I had never experienced before. It was pretty exciting and moving. F

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the Lone Star Steel Company at the time, but he had been well known to the President, had been involved in all of his campaigns. Indeed, I was far less intimate with President Johnson when I came to the White House than Marvin Watson. So Marvin did

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

We had nobody in the delegation wanted to be for. It was obviously a political maneuver. G: The objective, I suppose, was to defeat Kefauver, wasn't it? W: Yes. But I remember I got some telegrams from Longview saying LBJ Presidential