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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • life. He could have moved probably from being a congressman's secretary to a staff director of some committee. If Kleberg stayed on longer and longer--seniority was even more rigid then than it is now. They became chairman of a committee
  • of the Young Democrats; Sam Fore, editor of Floresville Chronicle ; Deason assists LBJ in setting up state NYA program; sources of LBJ's appointment; early employees: L. E. Jones, Marie Lindau, Deason, and Sherman Birdwell; organization of state NYA; living
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • and you're down and you're sunk. By and large, if you want to be sure to get across the lake, take the raft. And I remember that again and again. F: Professor Greene, of course, was a Democrat. In terms of the great issues of that day which were being
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • no difficulty. Prior to appearing before the Senate Commerce Committee, I went up on the Hill and visited with as many of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • care to organize the Democratic National Committee, that he doesn't care to exert a,direct influence on it, and so on. My own impression of this is as follows. rest of you agree. I wonder if the As I have known the President, he has never had much
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and went to Houston and worked for the Federal Land Bank as a junior attorney for about a year and a half; then moved to Austin to help my friend LBJ organize and initiate the National Youth Administration program in Texas. That was in the summer of 1935
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • be there Monday morning and I'll tell you the whole story." So I met him there Monday morning and he had been appointed state director of the National Youth Administration and was coming to Austin to set up and wanted me to work for him which I did and worked
  • in the National Youth Administration (NYA); Deason's marriage and move back to Texas; Deason's career in radio; an average day in Deason's childhood; the rural Baptist churches Deason attended as a child; other religious groups in the area around Stockdale during
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • them to give me my two weeks vacation and came to Austin and met him and he told me that he had just been appointed state director of the National Youth Administration and wanted me to help him get started. He had to get some people together
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . explained that by we worked through Dean Moore at the university. I He had I'm sure a committee to help him, but they decided, under certain ground rules which NYA laid down, who was eligible to receive parttime jobs. univ~rsity University students, we'll