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Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

ugliness in Dallas toward Johnson [the Adolphus Hotel incident], when he'd been up there he'd been spit on one time in public, a mess. I just didn't see any point in having these big parades, but I wasn't consulted. And they had this parade and all
; the Brazos River Authority; LBJ makes a last visit to Temple, Texas; at the Dallas Trade Mart with Storey Stemmons during the JFK assassination; LBJ is faithful to his friends; investigating the M-16 rifle; observing the Tet Offensive; Ted Connell; the press

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

was elected. So I became very interested in politics at that time, running my own race. M: What year were you elected? B: I was elected in--well, let me see, 1938. I was elected the year Bill Boyd was born. I spent a great deal of time studying
nomination; Lady Bird Johnson being spat on at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas; the 1952 presidential campaign; LBJ's career in the 1950s; Allan Shivers and his relationship with Rayburn; Rayburn turning down the vice presidential nomination in 1944 and how

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, the first time that mother and father, after they were married, came to New York. I went to a private school here in the East, Berkeley Institute in Brooklyn . . . and then to Barnard College two years. I did not graduate. I went into the theater

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

believe, were on there. She was from the Dallas Times-Herald. Who else? And the rest were mostly newspapermen from weeklies. Just a free trip. G: I see. Does that mean they couldn't go because of space or time requirements? R: Oh, they couldn't go

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. We had a cocktail party for them. Spring was the traveling time for constituents, heralded by the Cherry Blossom Festival, and main groups were the DAR [Daughters of the American Revolution], who always came in April and it was impossible to get

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: MARY RATHER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Miss Rather's residence, Gonzales, Texas Tape 1 of 3 C: To begin, I want to ask you to talk about something that we were discussing last time. That was the Board
The "Board of Education" room where Sam Rayburn and, later, LBJ and other members of the House met to socialize and discuss legislative strategy; Rather knowing where LBJ was at all times so she could contact him if necessary; Sam Houston Johnson's

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the month, in 1961, just about a month after the inauguration, and spent about a week, and that was the week when they had the Convair crash out here by town. And I think you told us about that last time. W: The Lucy B. G: The Lucy B. Am I correct

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a positive expression to his leadership. It was largely based upon various social values and was not really in accord with the overall trend of liberalism at that time, because liberalism had gotten quite far away· from populism. Unfortunately

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

was seeing, because this was a tightly packed, angry crowd, and these were the people that we had represented since January of 1949. And that was--what was that, eleven years by that time? We thought we knew them. Never [had] been a strong hold for us, Dallas
/Johnson picketers at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas.

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: Warren Woodward INTERVIEWER: Paul Bolton PLACE: Mr. Woodward's office, Dallas, Texas Tape l of B: We are in the Dallas office of Mr. Warren Woodward, vice president in charge of operations for American Airlines for the Southwest United

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

equipment. all the time I was there. We kept that transmitter for some time, But I was able to hire an engineer from WFAA in Dallas who had worked with me who was a fine engineer; James Jeffers was his name. He came down and just worked his tail off get

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and then stood in the center of the room and talked for about thirty or forty minutes and answered questions from those who were there about the political environment of that time. I must say I was quite struck by him, I thought he was strong, he was greatly
Meeting LBJ; Albert Thomas; seeing his wife for the first time; events before and during the 1960 convention; LBJ accepting the vice-presidential nomination; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Valenti’s role in the 1960 convention; advertising

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and what each candidate basically was driving for . just excellent . in He was I think that he had the respect of LBJ, maybe respect because LBJ knew the Dallas Morning News certainly at that time was the paper of influence . G: Was Johnson's staff
Biographical information; first coverage of LBJ in 1946; personal evaluations of various Texas Capitol Press reporters; Stuart Long; reporters' preference for candidates at the time; LBJ's 1948 campaign for Senate; the helicopter; on the road

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

from Texas which always interested me, and that was Dallas. There was a very, very distinguished businessman at that time who had become mayor of Dallas, and he looked at these problems the way I have described that we looked at them. So when we went

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with the Democratic convention or the campaign in 1960? C: No. I was not there, have never been beyond a county convention. I've been to the Dallas County convention, but never to the state convention. I've been to precinct conventions in Dallas a good many times

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dougherty -- II -- 3 home, 1413 East Bowie Street. We were building a ranch home, a hacienda, but we lived in town at the time, and my wife Patricia

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in Dallas, the old firm my father had 'way back in 1881. So I would go to Austin sometimes when the legislature was meeting, quite often, other times not so often. I met Mr. Johnson there as Youth Administrator, and I think I knew him slightly when he

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

a job of candid photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, I believe it was. It 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. Is this background information all correct? W: It is all correct. It is true that I was executive assistant to the President of Lone Star Steel, but I officed in Dallas although our home was in Daingerfield. P: When did you first meet Lyndon Johnson and what were

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was attorney general of Texas then. Oh, Bill Douglas and Fred Vinson were often there. Judge Marvin Jones and Bob Hannegan and Ed Clark and dear Albert Jackson from the Dallas Times Herald, and Bill Kittrell, who could tell some of the best stories of anybody I
for the University of Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's input on LBJ's decision-making; Dr. Everett Givens; Texas friends who kept LBJ updated on 10th District events and opinions; LBJ's efforts to balance his time in Texas and Washington, D.C., during his campaign; 1946

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me start with a general question about 1953. Eisenhower Administration has come in. Of course, the I wanted

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

background? Jackie Were you aware of anything that was going on in Do you remember the $: Yes. F: This was in Dallas. intei~view with him at that time? He came out to see me. I think they were having Stuart Symington day, weren't they? S: I think

Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, represented by Republican lawyers--and they filed this suit in the state court in Dallas and made the same challenge. was a violation of our state Constitution. But this time asserting it The other suit had rested primarily on an alleged violation

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

station, and he just delayed and delayed and delayed because of his perception that entry into this business at that time--and this is at a much later date than when we went into KTBC--was still fraught with so much peril that he would move his tower

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh T . O'Neill--I-- 8 she was young . Herald . She later went to work for the Boston As a matter of fact, she's Mrs . John Finney now . John writes for the New York Times

Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and the Rice wouldn't. It's amusing, this was just at the time--I think it was while we were down there--that the Dallas hotels announced that they were desegregating. So Ramsey and I went back to Washington and reported our failure to crack a hotel, and so

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and work in one location. We had resi- dence projects at Prairie View and later at Buchanan Dam, as two examples. needed more people but had to get by with relatively small ~Je numbers. In the Dallas district up here that I was supervising at one time

Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the house where Mr. Taylor later moved, and that's the house in which Lady Bird was born. At the time that we first met Miss Minnie, as we called her--her name was Minnie Lee Pattillo, and all their friends and my mother called her Minnie and I called her
Minnie Lee Pattillo Taylor, Lady Bird Johnson's mother; Mrs. Taylor's appearance and personality; the Brick House; Lady Bird Johnson's Aunt Effie; Lady Bird attending St. Mary's College in Dallas; the Taylor family when Lady Bird was very young; Mr

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Yes, that's true. DB: And he admired Senator Wirtz so tremendously that I think he did bow to him. That time you all were in Dallas writing those speeches, you said he deferred to his wishes. and sister. B: He and Ida May were like brother She

Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the excerpts, and I feel that they are essentially true as far as I am concerned . THB : Then, sir, to deal with one aspect of that tragic time, you were on the plane--on Air Force One--there at Love Field in Dallas and coming back, were you not? B
Medical training; first association with White House; President Eisenhower; General Snyder; Dr. Tkach; Kenneth O'Donnell; Dr. Janet Travell; Dr. Eugene Cohen; Dr. Pep Wade; Dr. Hans Kraus; events in Dallas; campaign travel with LBJ; Dr. Cain; Dr

Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in 1943 in Columbus, Nississippi. M: And your husband was in politics at the time? B: No, not at the time. He was going through flight training. He had been an intelligence officer in Brazil and then he came back to the States and went through

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, largely from students of North Texas State. thing. That was the beginning of the It seems to me like there was a man named McDonald Leech [?] who was the state president at the time. If you will recall the history of the Young Democrats, the primary

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

problems with the Democratic Party with Paul Butler. But by that time, I don't think the Democratic Advisory Committee, or whatever Butler called it--well, it was prominent; it was noisy in Texas. The people who were aligned with Butler, they were raucous

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

time to all the Vietnamese, North and South. It is a sort of a combination of Christmas, New Year, and Easter. I've been told by Vietnamese or Southeast Asian experts that this period of family reunification or celebration hadn't been violated

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

to show up and [inaudible] what this fine man was saying. B: Really, you, as a reporter and especially from a conservative paper like the Dallas Morning News, would actually feel threatened at times? M: Yes. A reporter is not supposed to be part
Party in Texas; land scandal during Shivers' time as governor; Bascom Giles; a federal farm storage scandal involving Billie Sol Estes and Ralph Yarborough's alleged involvement; Texas Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald; insurance scandals during

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

The President doesn't like your work, so for God sakes, be careful." I could, from time to time, sense a nervousness when Maggie Higgins was out there. She came out from the [New York Herald] Tribune and did a series of bizarre stories. She was only
Early contact with LBJ during 1960 campaign; going to Vietnam for the first time; learning about Vietnam and gaining the confidence of the people there; deciphering the motivation of the officers that spoke to him; Homer Bigart; John Vann; John

Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

an associate editor of the college newspaper, but I liked to write and that sort of thing. And then there was an opening at the New York Herald Tribune. A colleague of mine had gotten on the New York Herald Tribune and said, "Well, you can come on here, and we

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

#3) INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL March 5, 1969 G: This is the second session with Mr. Donald Baker, the general counsel of OEO. Today's date is March 5, 1969. I'd like to start today by asking a question which was partially covered last time

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there meetings in Austin? R: Oh, yes. They'd call a meeting. Waco or Galveston. Or sometimes we'd meet in Dallas, I know one time we met with the Texas R~]ief Commission and Texas Employment Commission and the NYA in Galveston. Another time it might

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when

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