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Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . They interviewed several candidates for the presidencies of Sam Houston State Teachers' College and Southwest Texas State at San Marcos and agreed to unanimously endorse me for the presidency of Southwest Texas State. Let me back up a moment. Just prior
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : It seems that when Mr . Johnson went off to school and he got over to San Marcos he found out that the organization known as the Black Knights really ran the student body . To be a black knight--this was really the lettermen's association--so I understand
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • , the President’s boyhood friend, Ben Crider, said that the President as early as the San Marcos days was constantly saying the greatest thing to be was “in public service.” Of course it means a great deal to him today --it seems to be a constant theme in his life
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that year he was in Cotulla teaching and part of it he was in college. K: San Marcos? G: Yes. K: I visited in San Marcos and I remember that Sam Houston--his younger brother--and some college girls and myself and one other college boy, I've forgotten
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was going to ask you about J. Ed Smith, who was the chairman of the delegation, and his association with LBJ here. S: Well, Ed Smith and LBJ had been in college together at San Marcos. Ed Smith was probably the most distinguished trial lawyer among
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in Floresville since then. M: Did you go to school here? F: I attended school and graduated from the Floresville High School. I went to San Marcos to the Teachers', College--in those days it was called that--for one year. taught school two years
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the general assistant and the number two guy in the organization. with Deason and became closer to him. But I worked He and President Johnson were schoolmates at the same time in San Marcos. So as a result of this particular affiliation and working
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was interested in it? J: I think only because he was interested in Austin. That interest continued through the rest of his life. G: He never drew the parallel with San Marcos and the fish hatchery there. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the press . What do you think were the sources of this difficulty here? B: To use one of his own quotes that he took from a book, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing ." paper at San Marcos . Remember, he was editor of the Somehow or another during
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)