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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 Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • --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
  • 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