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Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember there was a friend of hers there, and I've been trying to think of her last name. G: Powell. S: That's right, Dorris Powell. Her first name is Dorris. Often we'd go over to Dorris's, and it seems to me that Dorris did all the reading--I'm

Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

got out of law school I went with a law firm which was then Powell, Wirtz, and Rauhut. Incidentally, I just got back from the dentist, so I may muff some of my words. And at that time, a very bright, young lawyer with the firm was John Connally
Biographical information; the firm of Powell, Wirtz, and Rauhut; Alvin Wirtz characterized; John Connally characterized; LBJ chews out Walter Jenkins; working on LBJ's Senate staff; the organization of the LBJ Senate staffs; Bobby Baker

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- IV -- 15 things they tell Jody Powell now, "It's always been done this way." He doesn't know. He does call me once in a while and says, "Is this the way they used to do it?" They push

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the University of Texas that I had a parttime job and then for some four or five months a full-time job at a law firm in Austin, Texas; at that time it was called Powell, Wirtz and Rauhut. Senator Johnson, as he was then--this was 1953--had many ties

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in advance of the time that Lyndon and his bride-to-be were expected. a comparatively small group: As I recall it, there was my then law partner Oscar Powell and his wife were there; Dan Quill; and Malcolm Bardwell, an old friend; and there weren't over, I

President's Daily Diary entry, 2/18/1968 (Item)

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President's Daily Diary entry, 5/7/1964 (Item)

, Commissioner Cong. Richard Fulton Wm. Snodgrass, State Comptroller Mrs. Ruth Russell, Demo. Nat'l Cmteewoman Rabbi Zuker - Heska Amuna Congregation Hospital O. W. Brumfield, Mayor of Alcoa Sam H. Roberson, Mayor of Maryville Otis Powell, Central Labor Union

Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

not have the election we want but it might be better than some we have - Powell in Harlem, or Daly in Chicago, or some Mexican border town. Rather asked about reports of new peace feelers - is there any daylight in sight now? The President said

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1945" (Item)

of Representatives votes 207 to 186 to put the Committee on UnAmerican Activities on a permanent basis. Mary Rather is working for Judge Elkins in Houston. Apparently Ben Powell helped arrange it, so that she could be close to her father. 07/2024 1/19 LBJ, CTJ

Folder, "Lynch, Connie Charles," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 10 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

call) T: To answer your question better, certainly a great influence in Lady Bird's life was a girl somewhat older, Dorris Odam now Mrs. Powell. You could hardly call her a playmate, but she was the nearest thing to a playmate. M: Was she la
Thomas Jefferson Taylor’s work; the education of all three Taylor children; how Lady Bird got her nickname; childhood activities; Doris Odam Powell; the siblings’ inability to be together, due to circumstance; early impressions of LBJ; hunting

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was Powell and Wirtz. Mr. [Benjamin Harrison] Powell had a niece named Mary Rather, with whom I have always had the most cordial relations, who is now, isn't she, Johnson's secretary? F: Yes. C: Mary was acting in a certain sense under Mr. Wirtz's

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/4/1967 (Item)

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President's Daily Diary entry, 4/27/1967 (Item)

. Powell , th e instructor, an d ^ I QDonn a Butler , a student . *** 12:07p Th -. 12:15p | ". ————— ___ _^ 12:18p *~$* I 12:20p | ji [ ; Th — Th , •i e President wen t nex t doo r to the Data Processin g Roo m wher e he agai n

Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that was our confrontation. But following that, when he was a senator and his picture was on the Time magazine and said, "The second most powel~fl!l man in the United States," I said to my friends, "You know who the most powerful man is? It's me! I

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

appointed. Do you remember that? R: I can't much remember it although I guess it happened. Uncle Ben [Powell] was the one that would have loved to have been a federal judge. I don't know that Senator Wirtz wanted to be one, but he might have. But I can't

Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Current Issues Affecting US/UK Relations, 6/5/1968, Volume 5, Tab 69," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)

IN RECE NT WEE KS • E MO TIO N - Ch A ~GED AND IRRATIONAL REACTIONS• TO EN OC H POWELL ' S P ROVOCA TIV~ SPEECH ON THE SUBJECT HAVE SO WN POLI TIC AL CONFUSION I N 8GTH ?A~TIES ;~0 RA I SED THE SPECTER OF NE ~I SOCIAL TENSIO NS AND EVE N VIOLENCE

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and Judge and Mrs. Ben Powell, bringing Mary, of course. Aunt Lucy, after whom Luci was named. Incidentally, she gave Luci a three thousand dollar government bond, which represented a very sizeable amount for her. I'm not sure whether it was in her

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ten days; it's uncertain. We went walking a lot. My friend, Dorris Powell, used to take her little two-year old child along, Lyndon always wanting to walk fast and the child just toddling along behind us. He would keep on encouraging the child to walk

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, and I can't remember what [Powell, Wirtz, Rauhut, and Gideon]. And then--well, he was a secretary. And then he'd come to Washington as secretary to Congressman Homer Thornberry, and had stayed there, although all his--he was a topnotch legal secretary

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/16/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)

Women Doers Luncheon with speaker, Jane Jacobs; funny story about Mrs. Charles Marsh; LBJ makes brief appearance; office work; Dorris Powell tells stories about Lady Bird's mother; LBJ & Lady Bird to dinner in New York honoring Jacqueline Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and political theories and economics and whatnot on power projects, but he recognized the man's abilities and Sid had problems that were not conflicting with Wirtz' views. Wirtz and his partner Ben Powell, and young Rauhut and Sam Gideon later on, represented

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org G: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- V -- 15 Okay. Ben Powell wrote

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 13, 15 July 1978," LBJ Library (Item)

. If their zeal for a better future embodies appreciation for the values of the past, as well, I have no fear. And I believe that is what the are all about. . . s we were long ago. With longtime friend Mrs.Hugh Powell PANAMA CANAL EXHIBIT OPENS AT LBJ LIBRARY

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 77, March 2002," LBJ Library (Item)

attended, Middleton remembered. "When rhey sto d to be recognized, it was as if a wind stirred the assembly .... Jt was a moment ... when the time of serv ice, even glory, of a passing genera tion was recaptured." In 1992 General Colin Powell inaugurated

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And this spring we had some very special visitors. Among them were Dorris and Diane Powell from Karnack. Dorris is my lifelong friend, as you know, and Diane was her daughter, who was at that time, gee, somewhere between ten and thirteen, probably eleven or twelve
and Jimmie Allred's appointment as a federal judge; LBJ's relationship with Senator Tom Connally; Cliff Carter; Lady Bird Johnson's policy regarding lending her name to organizations and events; social events of 1949; Bess Truman; Dorris and Diane Powell's

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

visited with me about possibly moving. He told me that Ben Powell had made him an offer of some sort, and I think either Jim Elkins or Judge Vincent from Houston, knowing Wirtz' ability, had possibly suggested LBJ Presidential Library http

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/4/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)

Christening at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church for Luci Nugent's baby; Lynda Johnson is proxy Godmother; lunch; to funeral of Mrs. Wright Patman in Texarkana; visit with Gordon Fulcher; to Karnack with press; helicopter lands at Dorris Powell's

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/14/1967 (Thursday) (Item)

Poor weather delays flight to East Texas; Lady Bird answers questions from reporters in Shreveport, LA; drive to Dorris Powell's home in Karnack; new Karnack post office made with bricks from T.J. Taylor's general store; meeting about landscaping

Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

predecessors or about the same? Do you see any difference between him and others? H: He had always been interested in conservation, I think. I would say more perhaps than others. F: On the Glen Canyon Project, the dam and the Lake Powell backup from

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

interpretation, and I don't know Jody Powell, but he has said something similar to this recently. First of all, I really don't accept the statement "The government has the right to lie." The government has the right to withhold information. The government has

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that she had a right to dominate my life. He wasn't as understanding of her as he might have been. Of course, it was exciting to show Dorris [Powell] my new husband. In fact, Dorris had been tremendously helpful to us all along. She had sent out the wedding

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Washington one time that the government has the right to lie. Now, if you try to say something like that and leave it just at that, you really are asking for trouble, because it will be given the most narrow interpretation, and I don't know Jody Powell

Folder, "China Lobby II," Papers of Drew Pearson, Georgetown Files, Box G 130 [2 of 3] (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in Marion County, which was principally Jefferson and a lot of little towns like Linden and Pittsburg, I think, was in that county. I campaigned in some of those, and in Gilmer. Dorris Powell was a big help. As I look around me, so many of the people who

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/20/1966 (Thursday) (Item)

Lady Bird explores New Zealand's Governor General's home; Sir Bernard and Lady Ferguson show Lady Bird the grounds; exchange of gifts; morning with Mrs. Holyoke and Mrs. Powell; Lady Bird describes flowers; ride in cable car; motorcade to Civic

Folder, "FOBS and Radars," Files of Spurgeon Keeny, NSF, Box 5 (Item)

eh·ongth to do~troy the attacldna na.tlou '" a viable eoclcsty. WLth tJ1rt-e--mlnute w1,rnlng,. 15,,mln11to warning or no warnl11g · at ~11, we could etlll absorb a. I\U:pd,e aUack n.1ul 11triko back wlth au(lfcl'tnt 'powel' to dt1ti·oy tho uttAcl~e,•. We J

Folder, "Ex HU 2, 1/1/65 - 4/20/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES]," WHCF HU, Box 3 (Item)

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