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Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio . You notice I said Fort Worth first . down here and make a speech to us,which he did . prominent speaker we'd had up to that time . much . In 1949--or 1948--they passed a bill I asked him to come He
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • came close to passing word over to the White House that I thought that the President should reconsider his plans because at that time there were certain evidences there of a strong feeling. I don't mean that Dallas had any appreciable number
  • Premonitions about the Dallas trip of November, 1963, and the JFK assassination; the transition from JFK to LBJ; Hays-Moyers relationship; LBJ story of internal revenue and a contribution to a Baptist Church; anecdote on admission of Outer Mongolia
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be held in Dallas. Because this is my first concern, over the fact that there'll be some rebellion there because John Kennedy is the nominee. At about the same time that I get a letter from Woodrow inviting-- F: Seals? C: Seals, inviting me to a Dutch
  • nomination; division among Harris County voters; the Harris County JFK-LBJ campaign headquarters' finances; the JFK inauguration; the Bruce Alger/Adolphus Hotel incident in Dallas; Crooker's work as a presidential elector; JFK's assassination; Crooker's
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • “much obliged,” and just hang up the phone and stay away from the phone the rest of the time until things were done. That’s exactly what he did to me. He said, “Fix everything up” and hang up the phone. I had no contact with him all during the day. We
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /oh 3 B: Yes, sir. Did Lyndon Johnson give you any help as a, by then, an older hand? W: Lyndon was always helpful. Not only to me. third term, wouldn't it--my first term? pretty well in Congress by that time. he helped you anyway he could. Let
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Of course, that tirne the Jo'hnson forces won overwhelmingly. I went to Dallas, and we then went to . . . Austin I gues s it was. I don't remember w'here the second convention was. But I was made a delegate to C'hicago, and that was one of the times
  • Convention, Dallas, 1956; development of Sabine River; 1960 Presidential campaign and convention; John Connally; RFK; Johnson treatment; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; presidential criticism; LBJ in retirement
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • arrived in Poland on November 30, 1965. M: You stayed in that post then until when this year? G: I stayed in that post until May 3l, 1968 at which time I resigned with the approval of the President in order to participate in Hubert Humphrey's political
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • seem to want the trip made itself, think it was necessary? Y: As I understood it, the trip was really pretty much against his wishes. I don't think he really wanted Kennedy to come to Texas at that time. F: It was part of a package to Texas
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • in Lyndon Johnson in 1937. I was a mid-law student in the university of Texas at that time and he announced and ran for Congress of the United States from the Tenth District that year. by him; I liked what I saw. I was impressed He had a number
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WARREN WOODWARD INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Woodward's offices at American Airlines, Dallas, Texas Tape l of l M: On the last tape, to pick up where you left off, you mentioned that Johnson had recovered from his kidney stones
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . in Guadalupe County at New Braunfels. The Comal power plant was They offered it to the LCRA. Prior to that point in time the LCRA act had been amended, due to again the private utilities in the Dallas/North Texas area, to prohibit the Authority from having
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the state in the Johnson City Windmill bragging about his vote for the TaftHartley Act, and criticizing Coke Stevenson for accepting organized labor's endorsement. That would be the AFL endorsement at that time, the state AFL endorsement meeting
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Connally -- II -- 2 C: No, I really think, so far as I know, it partially developed out of Johnson's friendship with Charlie Marsh. It doesn't predate my time and association, but I was never in on it particularly. Charlie Marsh, as I
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 The second occurred the last time I saw and talked with LBJ. I flew to New Orleans with a few other Washington types to attend the 1972 NFL Superbowl game between Miami and Dallas as a guest of Cowboy owner Clint Murchison
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • people to his ranch rather than going v7here they are. I didn r t see much of him at all during that period of time. F: Where were you at the time of the assassination? Were you in Dallas? T: No. F: Getting ready for that evening? T: It was my
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • November. If 1949 was a period that for us, and in retrospect it seems to me for the country, was a sort of happy time, in 1950, particularly as the year wore on, there were rising clouds and frustration. The war was continuing in Korea and getting more
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: MARY MARGARET VALENTI INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Valenti's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: There was a New York Times story at the time he was in Mexico that he had received ten thousand
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was assistant district attorney of Dallas County and going to law school part-time contemporaneously with my service as assistant district attorney of Dallas County in the civil department. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • come in on. I don't know as to whether or not it was a Civil Service grade at that time, I really don't. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the plane crashed about halfway between Washington and Dallas. I think it was around Memphis or somewhere like that. Bob, though, continued to run the firm until he died. He died a long time before Tom did. I don't know much about the brother in Mexico
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was put together in 1953 or early 1954 and I attended the first meeting of it. I believe it was in Dallas or Waco. could have been in Fort Worth. It At that time I was a staff repre- sentative of the United Steelworkers of America in the Houston
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. Judge Davidson's court quite a few times. I had been in I had known him a long time. After that Democratic convention I used to call on him whenever I was in Dallas and sit around and talk with him a little bit. always very cordial to me. He
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Hickerson with Associated Press called from Dallas and insisted on an inter­ view with Senator Johnson. We got the lights on, and I and Woody at different times tried to tell him we'd talk to him in the morning, but Clayton was feeling 11 no pain" about
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • company for San Angelo. newspapers. Many times, utility companies have been the owners of In the case of the Standard, the Standard was the owner of the utility company! It became quite a business, and although Murphy and Guthrie had established
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and this came off some world traveling. He never seemed to be at ease. As time went on and he made this speech more often, he seemed to relax a little more. But from the outset you could detect that communication didn't come easy to him. Of course, he was put
  • following the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu; JFK's attitude toward Vietnam and O'Brien's opinion of what JFK might have done if he had lived; LBJ's decision to ride on Air Force One from Dallas to Washington D.C. after JFK's assassination
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • finally that I did. And as I said to him at the time, "Well, Mr. Vice President, I'll come to Washington at your suggestion; I know it'll be a good experience and I'll enjoy it, but lId like to do it on the basis of a limited stay. I'll come
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was formed, I came east and was one of the early organizers working for John L . Lewis . Later on I worked for other unions, at one time was southern director of the Textile Workers Union just before the war, and I forced myself to be drafted . I had
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • up out here on our airstrip. And he wanted us to go to Dallas with him, and I told him we weren't going. And he brought my wife a gun he had got in Belgium, a rifle for her, and he gave me a shotgun at the same time as--he called it a con--what did he
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that period, and I can see now how busy [LBJ was]. I knew he was very busy all the time. Billy Lee [Brammer] and I were hired really for political reasons, because he was gearing up so much for a political--well, he had always been. I don't know who he had
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and certainly that he would be sensitive to the growth of Houston. Anyway, East Texans just stick together. M: Did your husband support Franklin Roosevelt at that time? T: Oh. yes. M: Was that a problem in the campaign at all? T: No. I don't recall
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • whether it was in 1929 or 1930. She was a stu- dent at St. Mary's in Dallas and I invited her to Austin to visit me, and we had such a good time. She was so favorably impressed with Austin that I think that is when she decided she would like to go
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • years ago this month. I have practiced law here continuously since that time. F: Where did you get the title "Judge"? L: I was County Judge here for six years -- three two-year terms in the 1940's. F: Where did you first come to know President
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson." So Johnson had me arrange to bring Senator John Pastore to Texas. Back then we flew on a DC-7 from Washington to Dallas. It was around Christmas time; Johnson and John Pastore and I were on the plane. So C. R. Smith was from either Fort Worth
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 21, 1969 INTERVIEWEE : WILLIAM M . BLACKBURN INTERVIEWER DAVID McCOMB PLACE : His offices in the Republic National Bank Building in Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background : where were you
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like that. I used to listen to him on the radio. At one time we had three Democrats from Wichita Falls, he being one of them, running for governor. And then after he won in the general election-his Republican opponent, Orville Bullington, was from
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] He's an old-time newspaper man. the Dallas Ne\V's at one time. More on LBJ -9-Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . That was his favorite alcoholic beverage. fifth, of course. He'd buy it by the Many a time, back when he was governor, and even after he was out of the governor's office and in that short period of time before he started actively campaigning for the Senate
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F.Robe rts - -1- - 2 the as sistant to Mr. Johnson came up to ins f>ect the Dallas office. He talked with me for a long time, talked with Armstrong
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • red me. . Then we'd work late every night . I 4le was working on the student aid part df it then, so a lot'of times we'd be there at eleven . or twelve o'clock at night . LBJ would come by or be there and sign the payro! 1 s and . send them on i n