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- , 1971
INTERVIEWEE:
JAMES C. HAGERTY
INTERVIEWER:
JOE B. FRANTZ
PLACE:
Dr. Frantz' office in Austin, Texas
F:
Mr. Hagerty, I think we might just start this off by asking whether
you knew or had at any time in your newspaper career run into Lyndon
- , one of those grey silk tuxedos with black lapels.
F:
What was the occasion, a party?
H:
It was a radio/television correspondents dinner.
something about,
I~very
Senator Anderson said
damned time you bring one of these rich Texans up
here
- at that time, except kind of a good roads movement deal.
F:
They were just getting organized.
P:
That's right.
F:
I've done a little research in that and I know as late as 1921 when
they built that Highway 75 from Dallas to Galveston, they still had
- the Truman Administration.
At
that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F:
I'll refresh you on that.
November '48.
He was a new Senator; he had been elected in
Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he
was named
- .
M:
Right.
And let's get the date too, it's February 1, 1971.
H:
February 1, yes.
M:
Did you know Lyndon Johnson in any way prior to the time he became
Vice president in 1961 from your work with the Civil Rights Commission
after '57?
H
- frequently in those Congressional days?
W:
Yes.
I saw him--each time I carne to Washington I visited with him.
And
each time he carne to New York he stayed with us at my horne.
F:
Did he come frequently?
W:
Well, no, not very frequently.
F:
Did you
- several times.
And my
real contacts on what you might call almost a weekly basis really began when
he was Majority Leader.
Mu:
You were working with him then on legislation of various kinds?
Me:
Yes.
I had occasion to talk to him many times on our
- at that time was in the
Treasury Department.
So he invited me to join the Budget Bureau
LBJ Presidential Library
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
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- --the following people:
Governor Stevenson,
l"Ir. Rayburn, Grace Tully, the driver, and myself.
And we drove
to the Ranch in Johnson City.
F:
What was Grace Tully's role in this?
M:
She was, at the time, I think, one of LBJ's secretaries.
had, of course
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INTERVIEWEE:
BARRY GOLDWATER
INTERVIEWER:
Joe B. Frantz
PLACE:
Senator Goldwater's office in the old Senate Office Building, Washington,
D.C.
Tape 1 of 1
F:
Senator, you came to the Senate the same time as Lyndon Johnson, in 1948.
G:
No, I--
F:
You
- theater of World War II.
After World War II, I also
served in Korea as Division Artillery Commander in 1956-57 time frame.
From then on--when I came back from Korea in '57--1 spent the next
approximately ten years in intelligence as the Director