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Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before, with all these journalistic heavyweights going around the country with the leader of the Soviet Union and covering the President of the United States at the same time. green to say the least, and I knew I was. I was It was fascinating
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the thirty-first speech. Now I want to shift to what we might call another chapter in my observations of LBJ and the presidency and that period of time and discuss what I and other folks have referred to as the Kennedy cult. Not the Kennedy clan. The Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • covered him from time to time on journalistic events or happenings, for example I was at the 1960 convention, but always in a knot of reporters, and he didn't know my name from Adam's off ox. F: You weren't in Dallas when they had that famous spitting
Oral history transcript, Sarah (Mrs. T. J. .) Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of time in Karnack. went to school in Marshall, and then she went to school here. went to St. Mary's. She Then she Now I hope I'm telling this right; this is as well as I can [remember]. But she and Aunt Effie moved to Dallas, St. Mary's
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • there to come to Washington in January of '68. Let's back up just a minute. You were in Dallas at the assassination, at the time of the assassination? C: That's right. B: Where were you when it happened. I know Merriman Smith was in one of the lead cars
Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • him a little service, and one day I sat down and wrote him a letter--he was in Dallas--and he gave me a job, and that's how I got here. And I've been here about forty-plus years. G: I see. And you started covering LBJ when? K: The day
  • Career history as a photographer; Kaufman's work in Dallas covering Lee Harvey Oswald after the John F. Kennedy assassination; covering LBJ at the LBJ Ranch while staying in a Stonewall hotel; LBJ's recovery from gallbladder surgery; finding
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1974 I NTERV I HJEE: NELSON ROCKEFELLER INTERVI E~IER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Oa 11 as, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: This is an interview with former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York in the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas, on February
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -relations end of the New York Herald Tribune in those days, and the New York Times, Newsweek, and other magazines and newspapers. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : This is getting ahead of the story, but were you in contact with the President during this campaign? RH: During the 1965 campaign? Yes, I saw him. I had close contacts with President Johnson after the tragedy in Dallas. time I had seen him quite much
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of time practically, that Dallas has been seeking to be a port for a very long time. But I don't know whether it was Johnson--I just can't imagine. He was close to Dale Miller, I believe, who was the Gulf Intracoastal Waterways Association lobbyist
Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • years decided I would go over into the law school with the prospects of becoming a lawyer or using it as a help in my business career, which I had anticipated at the time. I entered Baylor in 1924 [and was there in] 1925, 1926, 1927. It so happened
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was in World War II and actually didn't even know Coke Stevenson. He was governor most of that time. I'm trying to connect up the--this has been forty years ago, and it's very difficult for me to place things. I kept thinking that here's something, but that led
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • met in the Allred campaign asked me to come to Austin and work for then Colonel Ernest Thompson, in his race against W. Lee O'Daniel for governor, which I did . John Connally was president of the Studeat Body at the University of Texas at that time
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were due to address the House of Delegates of the American Nedical Association in Dallas. tape) (Gap in But H. G. Dulaney, who runs the Rayburn Library, was going to drive us down, and Mr. Rayburn, for some reason, just couldn't get it together
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to get out and get out quick and evacuate every city. He worked to that end and done that all over Texas from Houston and Austin and Dallas, everywhere. That was his program. He did lots of construction during that period. G: Well, was the controversy
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ORAL HISTO RY COLLECTI ON Narrator Gerald C. Mann · & Gerald C. Mann Jr~
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to t,JPA . Lyndon has asked (lrs . Hicks if she knew of anyone working for the Texas Relief Commission at that time that she would recom­ mend for his program . She gave him my name . I went to Austin in the latter part of December, 1935
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . 1970 INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES ROBERTS INTERVIEt1ER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Roberts office, Washington. D. C. I Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Roberts, you were in Dallas at the time of the assassination, November. 1963. R: Ri ght. F: Did you have any
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : And to create a different mechanism for calling regular meetings of the Democratic Conference. R: Yes. Well, that wasn't the liberals, that was one or two of them. One of the real problems at that particular time was that the liberals really did
  • and its results; contrasting of Dallas and Houston.
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • activities, how they came about and what developed from them. Of course, the first venture of the family into broadcasting was a year or so before my time. That's when they bought Austin Broadcasting Company, which was the licensee of what became KTBC
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: EDIE ADAMS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Miss Adams, first of all, how did you get mixed up in politics? A: Well, it was the 1964 campaign. Before that I really felt that anyone
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • holes', but I' always managed to hedge agai"nst the dry' holes with contributions from major oil companies to where we didn't go completely broke J although partially broke many, many times~ We moved from Grand Saline to Dallas where I was elected mayor
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the dance was to be held, I met a hostess who asked me what my fraternity was and I told her Phi Delta Theta. So, some time later, in the course of the afternoon--I didn't intend to stay any more than just to make certain that I could get in there if I
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? AG: Yes. A lot of times we would go by her house and sit and have coffee and talk with her. them. They had a happy relationship between the two of She was his, quote, "Mama," and he respected her. He liked to tell people about her ability, her
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thesis. That \'1as turned in in April, and that was about it for my senior year, really, except waiting around to take final orals. I had become friendly with Bill. At that time Bill had left the Vice President's staff, Mr. Johnson's staff, and gone
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he needs your input and he needs your connections here in New York. You've got the best connections in the world. You're well acquainted at the New York Times, well acquainted at the Herald Tribune; have good friends there.” See, I had never had had
Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I was admitted in December, 1933, and then took the Arizona bar and was admitted there in March 1934. I joined my father in law practice in Tucson, Arizona and was practicing there. but no money. At the time there was plenty of business We were
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Justice [Hugo] Black had stopped that and had issued an injunction or a stay order to Judge Ab/ell in Dallas and effectively stopped any further going into that. Judge Calvert at that time was state Democratic chairman, and he appointed a subcommittee
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • major campaigns were concerned. Now I realize that you were connected a good part of that time with the government and therefore could not take part in the campaigns, but you were a long-time friend, which Mr. [Eric] Goldman already has on record
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of establishing goodwill between the nations. F: Let's come on up to the Johnson Administration per se. Of course there was the assassination in Dallas. Now then, what was your role in this? Where were you at the time of the assassination, were you here
  • decisions; conflict between Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; Court opinions reflection of the times; Chief Justice John Marshall; states’ rights; Warren Court; avoidance of decisions on hot issues; WWII and Four Freedoms; prisoners
Oral history transcript, Fred Schmidt, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that Rayburn and Johnson kept people like Hubert Humphrey from coming down to make political speeches and to lend some encouragement to the troops. I can remember the one time that Hubert Humphrey came to Dallas, when I was working there, it was under
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to support price control, and he would vote against it. You know, there were times when a barrel of oil sold for thirty cents a barrel or even less, and my goodness, when it became five dollars a barrel it was amazing. It probably sells for thirty-five
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that if he had any chance he had to spend his time in the run-off in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin, where votes to make a difference. He did not go back he could switch enough to the little towns in the run-off. G: Did he ever
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • brought me one at the same time. [He] gave us a gun apiece, gave me a rifle and gave her a shotgun, I believe it was. And then he went on to Dallas that night, and the next day, that's when be became president. G: Right. Did you have any organizing
  • ; Sam Houston and Josefa Johnson; LBJ paying off his father's debts; Winters' contact with LBJ at the time of the JFK assassination; the Association of General Contractors' pressure on LBJ to sign highway legislation; LBJ's involvement in roadside park
Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • planes it was--I was in Dallas I think probably at the time of the assassination, but I was at the airport and I didn't know about it. I caught my plane on and when I got into Austin I was notified of it. My speaking engagement, naturally, was cancelled
Oral history transcript, Lester D. Johnson, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • confirmation; it's what is known as a Schedule C appointment. M: Have you had any connection with Lyndon Johnson--any personal connection? J: Well, I have met him on several occasions. in Rome in the latter part of 1961. The first time I met him was He
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that? S: I don't know. I can't remember. cannot remember. I'm sure I knew at the time, but I But I do remember that that was a fact and that was a very bitter issue. But he wanted to wait until the September con- vention in Dallas [Fort Worth]. G
Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and this is statewide. We had the founding convention of the Harris County Democrats in March, as I remember, in 1953. set of bylaws. Set it up on a permanent basis with a At the same time, they were doing similar type things in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the Senate. And Senator Byrd,at that time chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, chose to stall. hearings on it. He wouldn't even start Now after Dallas, President Johnson called in Byrd and made a deal with him that he would limit the budget
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • start with this, that at the time that I was presented with the decision or the opportunity to come with him, I was told then by Paul Bolton--I think this may be in the script--that he had not made up his mind about continuing in politics, not just