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Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • power in the United States Senate. And I just felt like Johnson had the best possibilities--was the best man in the group. And that was more or less the basis. Anybody that's involved LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- 9 Pedernales River Authority, the Blanco--which had a larger acreage, a larger spread for a rural electrification project, probably fewer farms per mile than any other--that is, the largest electric cooperative in the country. We did this for Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • became more and more interested in politics. Daniel was obviously in politics and he ran for reelection as Attorney General. I helped a little bit in the campaigns. Senate. Then he ran for the United States Actually while he was running for the United
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the provisions of Chapter 21 of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, William R. Poage.of Waco, Texas do hereby give, rlonate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Dorothy J. Nichols, hereinafter referred to as the donor, hereby give, donat ,vand convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • from the Capital; quite a jog over there and back from where I was. Well, after my first term, President Johnson decided that he would run for a vacant[seat] in the United States Senate in Texas. In the meantime he had filed for a very desirable office
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ) and regulations issued thereunder (41 C.FR 101-10), I, _____________, hereinafter ref'erred to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United 6WDWHV Rf America Ior HventXDl deposit in W he pUoposecl /\QGRQ %D iQHV Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I, Joseph D. Keenan of Washington, D.C. do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on July 25, 1969 at Washington, D.C
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that, I would see Congressman Johnson on visits to Washington. In 1948, when he undertook to make his race for the United States Senate, I had a call from Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, who said that he would like for me to handle Mr. Johnson's campaign
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted on October 4, 1979 at Dallas, Texas and prepared for deposit in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. This assignment
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • rapidly what all you did up to the time that you came to Washington and the Interstate Commerce Commission. D: I was born in Stockdale, Texas, in Wilson County just east of San Antonio; lived on a farm until I was eighteen or twenty years old. I became
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • worker--that was an impression I've had--all his life. It He was a very hard worker. He LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It was selling people on the man, persuading them to become campaign workers and furnishing them with materials to use in campaigning. Then of course when he would come into the area, it was a combination of advance work as we know it now. F: To make sure
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • politics and the like, I associated myself with the so~called conservative wing of the delegation. It's not quite fair, I suppose, to call it a wing. We were united on many things, particularly.those relating to the welfare of Texas, but in the broad
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and a city councilman, so I knew a little bit about what politics was all about. Lyndon, Wilton Woods and I worked for Welly Hopkins, who was elected state senator and later on became legal representative for the Mine Workers' union. I guess you know
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to this man as Lyndon up until the time that he becomes president of the United States and thereafter I will try to refer President, which is the only proper thing to do. I did not know him when he was secretary to Congressman [Richard] Kleberg. after
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was there by at least nine every morning, and he was there until things were wound up that night. He has always been a very hard worker; he thrives on hard work. P: Does this lead to long and late hours? T: It always did. But again we didn't mind it; we were
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or whatever it was that we had for supper, and he said, "One of these days I'm going to be big enough that I'm going to put electricity on every farm, every house in the state of Texas. Think what the number of years that would add to Illy mother if she had
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that time, and it was really his proposal that we revamp the farm to market road system. I introduced a bill, and it would have required the counties to give up money, and substantial amounts of money, especially the bigger counties, out of the surplus
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • young man. This launched his career as a national figure. B: Now, to go forward a few years, in 1948 when Mr. Johnson ran for the United States Senate, at that time you were secretary for the [State] Democratic Executive Committee, is that right? K
  • of LBJ and Sam Rayburn among Texas Democrats; federal vs. state affairs in Texas; 1956 state convention; unit rule and the two-thirds rule.
Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United states of America for eventual deposit in the Lyndon Baines Jo~,son Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transcript of a personal statemcnt approved by me
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to as the donor, hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities thereof, a tape and transcript of a personal statement approved
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • than we did Japanese. P: Then after the war was over I came home and went back to school at the University of Texas. I was in the Marine Corps Reserve Unit in Austin when the Korean business started up again. So anyhow, our unit in Austin got called
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The company then sent me to South America as an oil accountant, and we went down to examine some loading stations that had been built in Chile at Valparaiso and another one on the east coast at Buenos Aires . M: You got a wide acquaintance with South America
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , because the most peculiar fact that I learned being around it was that most Latin Americans couldn't care less who was president of the United States or who was U.S. senator or governor. The only one they were interested in was the sheriff because he
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Emma Long of Austin, Texas, do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recordings and transcripts of the personal interviews
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Title 44, United States Code and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set Forth, I, Robert W. Calvert of Austin, Texas do hereby give, donate, and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title, and interest in the tape recording
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , for any reason, have betrayed Lyndon Johnson or the United States of America. G: I've heard that he was the best of all the Johnson aides at anticipating the President's wishes, that he had just sort of an instinctive quality of knowing what LBJ would do
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, I, Bailey Sheppard of Longview, Texas do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of America all my rights, title and interest in the tape recording and transcript of the personal interview conducted
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , there was very little I could do for the President of the United States who had as many troubles as he wound up having. M: So your contact after 1964 was almost zero. P: Pretty much. M: Did he ever invite you to the White House to any of the social functions
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and I had supported his program while I was in the legislature. I knew him through the years. I tried law- suits against him later on when I was United States district attorney, and with him a time or two, and he and I got to be very close friends
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • occasion) and this was while he was vice president and it was a little embarrassing to me) he had sent on Christmas Eve Jesse Kellam over to my house \'lith a pair of cuff links with the emblem of the Vice President of the United States. at home. I
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was elected anything, "You know, Lyndon is running night and day for president of the United States. to talk about. II He wants to be. And I know that was true. That's all he wants He had his eye on that job back ten years before he was ever elected
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)