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Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the Dallas Times Herald and, later, The News for years and years after Hornaday left. And so we appeared on there at different times. And sometimes there is replica of it. But that's just something we'll have to force. 10 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. At that time, I was 18 years old and wasn't able or permitted to do much but pass out cards and tack up placards and do a little car-driving, which I did in the Bastrop County area around Smithville on weekends when I could get over there from Kerrville. Now

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--although they fought like dogs most of the time--he got that same feeling toward Margaret Mayer of the Dallas Times Herald. Now, I know he has called Margaret Mayer a number of times, when he would be displeased over something. She is chief of bureau

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Dallas? P: No, Johnson congratulated me on that later. I went to Germany with the Second Armored Division; you know, that was the time they flew the division over and the equipment was positioned. ters with them when they went over~ I sent two repor

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, which became known as the DOT. B: Was this immediately after the Dallas convention in the spring, or was this on after the national party convention? S: I don't remember that chronology. I think it was going on all the time-- the preliminary work
and 1960 campaigns; Democratic National Committeeman; Los Angeles Democratic Convention; JFK’s meeting with Houston ministers; LBJ’s running for Senate and VP; LBJ relationship with John Connally; LBJ as VP; reasons for the 1963 Dallas trip; wrote letters

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1971 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. HAGERTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Frantz' office in Austin, Texas F: Mr. Hagerty, I think we might just start this off by asking whether you knew or had at any time in your newspaper career run into Lyndon

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

from and where were you born, that sort of thing. S: I was born in a little teeny tiny town called West, Texas, but we moved to Dallas when I was very young, so I remember very little about West. It was close to Waco. I remember one time--I don't
[For interview 1 and 2] Biographical information; St. Mary’s in Dallas; classes; faculty; Aunt Effie; activities; Lady Bird’s family; Caddo Lake; University of Texas life; friends; leaving college; LBJ; Selden’s marriage.

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have in their appointments becoming known ahead of time. In my case it did not get into the papers, but when they started the FBI investigation of me, in a city like Dallas, there did develop a little comment of "Wonder what's up? We got a call today

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the FBI? S: Oh, I went in about the time of the beginning of World War II and stayed in till the end of the war. I returned to Dallas then to practice law. [vi: Did you join this firm that you're now in at that point? '. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, they were never on the same wavelength. Not hostile, but just distant, I mean Mitchell and Lyndon. Our old friend, Albert Jackson, of the Dallas Times Herald came up and we went 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Eugene McDermott and Margaret Milam McDermott, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

for me. That had It was a consideration in her busy, busy schedule that I particularly appreciated because of her busy schedule. Every time I've seen President and Mrs. Johnson in Dallas or Fredericksburg or wherever in the last months they always

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, was trying to get a promotion. F: Well, you and I were born about the same time, and I've got a cousin named Wilson. It's W. Wilson, so you can figure that. Half the kids I grew up with were either named Woodrow or Wilson. You can always date them. I
Biographical information; Bean's educational background and notable people Bean grew up with; the first time Bean met LBJ; Bean's political career in the early 1940s and after his return from WWII; Bean's work as a Texas state legislator; working

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

York. Lyndon usually attended both things, quite often with Johnny Runyon and the Dallas Times Herald people. The American Legion had a big dinner. G: Did you go to that event in New York with him, the newspaper--? J: I often did, and I think

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

all this time I saved my money because I was determined that I was going to school. So three years later I entered Southern Methodist University in Dallas, in February 1958, as a full-time student. Prior to this time at night I had taken about twelve

Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

at the Dallas County Democratic Convention, and I made a very pronounced, proJohnson speech at that time, and I lost some friends in dOing it. But it was a big service to Mr. Johnson, which he apparently never recognited, because the opposition that he

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

say. One thing very sweet he did for me, it was nothing to do with ambition, I can't remember whether it was the first or second [time I met him]. met him. I must have met him before. I don't remember when I first He and Bird came to Dallas and I
[For interview 1 and 2] Biographical information; St. Mary’s in Dallas; classes; faculty; Aunt Effie; activities; Lady Bird’s family; Caddo Lake; University of Texas life; friends; leaving college; LBJ; Selden’s marriage.

Oral history transcript, Louis F. Walter, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Were you in Dallas at that time or had you already left Dallas by then? W: No. F: But you kept up enough with Texas affairs-- W: Fredericksburg paper. F: Have you ever seen Mr. Johnson since those days--did you ever meet Lyndon I was in Kansas

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--no, no, no, no, eight times. They came in in 1945, didn't they? In April of 1945. So, there'd been, possibly, close to eight. Other visitors were our old contingent from the Dallas Times Herald, good friends through the years, Albert Jackson--growing more hunched over

Oral history transcript, Emma Boehringer Tooley, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the weekend with her and we 1 d have th~ best time. She had her car there and we'd go out to I think it s White Rock 1 Lake in Dallas and have picnics. We'd go to the theater and just have a wonderful time. G: Did she seem to enjoy it in Dallas? T: I

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

us about that election. H: That was the election in which W. Lee O'Daniel and Congressman Johnson ran for the Senate. It was a special election, and they didn't have much time to prepare. It seems that frequently we had to work without much time

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh -5- He was at this time Senate Majority Leader-- for a number of business people, mainly to acquaint the President better with the Dallas business community and then them with him, and he made little talks in the living room-- very

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. time really: They were contemporaries in Martin Winfrey and the other one. But, anyway, he was very, very well known in Texas politically, and nationally for that matter. His father at one time was police commissioner of Dallas and was very well
; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; Walter Jenkins; Goldberg suggesting that LBJ take the oath of office in Dallas from Judge Sarah Hughes after the JFK assassination; appointment to Court of Appeals; Court of Appeals procedures from 1966-1969

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. expense~ That put an end to my travels until I got into aviation and finally into World War II, before I ever got to take in a good part of the rest of the world. But Dallas has always appealed to me. I've been away from it several times but I've

Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, with the beginning of the Nixon Administration in January of '69. I've been here a year and a hal f. F: Hhen did you first get acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? W: The first time I met him was when I was district attorney in Dallas. F: You weren't active

Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for two offices ; and as the Democratic precinct chairman (which office he held at that time and I believe was automatically a member of the Dallas County Democratic Executive Committee, as such), asked us to file a lawsuit, and paid us to do so, as I

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

and then lots of casual dinners for staff, newspaper friends, other senators. We began to branch out more in that year. The children's doctor was Dr. John Washington, who would come any time of day or night, if he felt that tone in your voice that said, "I'm

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and practice law with [Alvin] Wirtz, and I had to give up my lucrative practice of being a good-time boy down in Mexico and coming to work for Lyndon, one of the first things that [happened], here come the papers through for Charlie Herring to be federal

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

any time to ask questions. So Walter Hornaday of the Dallas [Morning] News, who is now dead, wanted to ask him some questions, and of course Walter would try to interject a word, interrupt and get in. Lyndon would say, "Now be quiet. minute

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Busby's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: I arrived in Washington on the afternoon of March 16 [1948] and met with the Congressman [Johnson] for the first time about seven o'clock that night. When I was at the Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1970 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY ASHMORE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Santa Barbara, California Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Ashmore, let's talk first chronologically. let's give a very brief resume of your life up to the time that you began to emerge

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

came out of the assassination, regarding its location, was the very strong anti-Dallas, anti-Texas feeling on the part of a lot of people. Certainly that encompassed a great number of Kennedy people. The viewpoint I would hear repeatedly [was], "I would
How John F. Kennedy's (JFK) assassination affected the reputation of Dallas and Texas; the emotional toll of JFK's and Robert Kennedy's (RFK) deaths on O'Brien; being asked to identify the missal that was used when Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) took his oath

Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in 1949, post-war. One of my patrons went to Dallas to drive a garbage truck at $2,400 a year. and went to Dallas. He was a farmer So I sponsored a bill at the time I got to the legislature, to raise the minimum salary, House Bill 8, to raise

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, newspaper people--there were days when we got along much better with the press than in the later years of the presidency--and Texans. Among them there was Albert Jackson, who actually ran the Dallas Times Herald. Mr. [Tom] Gooch--it was their family

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in 1957 to fill Price Daniel's seat, did not want to run that year. Congressman Bruce Alger of Dallas, who was our sole Republican congressman at that time, did not choose to run. And so the party asked me, since I could articulate the party viewpoint

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

off last time with Johnson coming into the White House and those early days, I don't suppose it made any great difference in your life in the Senate except that you did have a new President. And things were a bit torn up at that time. T: Well, when I

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

PLACE: Mr. Bullion's office, Republic National Bank Building, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born, when, and where did you get your education? B: I was born in Eden

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

purposely--there was no advantage or disadvantage of putting somebody over in Dallas, because they were at the convention anyway. Well, that's the only time and place they could do any good was at the convention. I remember (laughter) somebody criticizing me
people; the 1956 Texas State Democratic conventions; Shivers' offer of support to Price Daniel as his successor as governor; J. J. "Jake" Pickle in Daniel's campaign; the precinct and county Democratic convention in Dallas in May 1952; the power

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, for one year and transferred to TCU for a year and, of course, no degrees either place. I entered the business world just before the stock -market crash of 1929, a very inappropriate time to start something, but [it was] a very educational experience

Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

has told me many, many times how pleased he was that I showed my colors_and joined with other loyal Democrats in support of Stevenson. I remember on one occasion we had a big meeting--it seems to me it was the fair grounds in Dallas-where Stevenson

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--it was noisier outside and around the aircraft, but there was--you would hear--the transmission had a distinct whine to it that you could hear all the time. G: When you were working out the plans in Dallas for what you would do, was there one LBJ Presidential
for the campaign trip; the logistics and staff work involved in the helicopter-based campaign; costs associated with using the helicopter; public reaction to LBJ's speeches and the helicopter; LBJ shaking hands; typical flight times and experiences for pilot, Jim

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