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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and circulation of stories about Kennedy's health and that sort of thing. G: How could you trace these to the Johnson people? O: Well, we really tabbed John Connally and a lady whose name eludes me. G: Oh, India Edwards, yes. O: Yes. Whether rightly
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Edward) Day (Postmaster General, Brawley, the First Deputy . time very close to the Vice President . Bill Brawley was at that He had been the staff man for � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : February 1, 1971 INTERVIEWEE : JACK BROOKS INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ ' His office in the Rayburn Building in Washington, D .C . PLACE : Tape 1 of 2 F: This is an interview with Congressman Jack Brooks in his office in the Rayburn Building
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  • Brooks, Jack Bascom, 1922-2012
  • Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Jack Brooks
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: BROOKS HAYS INTERVIEHER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Congressman Hays' home, 314 2nd Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: I'll make a little introduction here, just for identification. This is an interview with former
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  • Hays, L. Brooks (Lawrence Brooks), 1898-1981
  • Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Brooks Hays
Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • right. I'm from New York. the end of 1951. Wilson there. I left New York and went to Texas at I worked at Lackland Air Force Base and met Glen I married Glen Wilson in June of 1953. gets me to Austin. Okay, that I went to work for Max Brooks
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: BROOKS HAYS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Congressman Hays' home, 314 2nd Street, S.E. in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: We were talking yesterday about your being a special assistant at the White House. H: Did you come
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  • Hays, L. Brooks (Lawrence Brooks), 1898-1981
  • Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Brooks Hays
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 19, 1969 M: This is an interview with Dr. Joseph A. Pechman. Institution. He is at Brookings I am in the Reading Room of the Library at Brookings where the interview is taking place. The date is March 19, 1969
  • Biographical information; Arthur Burns; Committee for Economic Development; Herbert Stein; Howard Myers; Ted Yntema; Walter Heller; Brookings Institute; relationship with LBJ; termination of consultantship; development of new economic theory; Paul
Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN BROOKS CASPARIS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Casparis' residence, San Antonio, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me ask you first about your family, Mr. Casparis. well-known Johnson City name. The name is a I don't know how
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  • Casparis, John Brooks, 1908-2013
  • Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
  • John Brooks Casparis
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • was sure would be very much in the whole process of the services and arrangements in Washington. She very kindly kept me apprised of everything. Once the plans were formulated, Laurance and Mary, Nelson and Happy, and Brooke Astor, and Bette and I flew down
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • you my impression of the whole history of it . M: That's fine . B: I first heard about it through one of my partners here, Cutler, who said Max Brooks who was a friend of his, an architect in Texas-- M: This was an Austin architect? B: Yes . M
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that he apparently continued to have some discomfort and was admitted to Brooke [Army Medical Center] hospital, which was appropriate. And he gradually had less discomfort and by several days and weeks later he was involved in a number of activities
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: DR. RICHARD A. PRINDLE INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Brookings Institute, Room 530, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Dr. Prindle, I'd like to know first of all something about your background. Where were you born and when? P
  • studying health problems and writing legislation under the Division of Public Health Methods; LBJ’s support of health legislation; moving to Brookings for a year before retirement.
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: KERHIT GORDON INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Gordon's office, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: To speak a little bit about legislation and the ideas behind it, I might start off asking you if you had anything
  • Great Society; OEO; HUD; Medicare; educational and veterans legislation; Brookings Institution
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [?] coming from Austin this side of the first little town, Geronimo. It was muddy and slick, about like today; I'm assuming that slick. On a muddy road it would be, anywhere. Marietta Brooks was driving and [for] some reason or other she lost control
  • The Woods' involvement in LBJ's 1948 Senate campaign against Coke Stevenson; organizing a women's tea in Seguin for Lady Bird Johnson and her auto accident with Marietta Moody Brooks on the way to the tea; the Weinert family's control over support
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • activity in Austin, Texas, and my wife was working for Max Brooks, who was in the Kuehne, Brooks, and Barr architectural firm, and Johnson's. t-lr. Brooks was a very close friend of Lyndon I think he was involved in designing the Lyndon Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • adjourned. Max Brooks was the architect. We had chosen Marcus Burg, absolutely local contractor--Stonewall, not even Johnson City. I think our bid was twelve thousand dollars. Obviously we had not taken the advice of our good friends the [Wesley] Wests
  • 1952 trips to Texas to oversee LBJ Ranch house renovations; Max Brooks and Marcus Burg's involvement with the Ranch house; decorating the Ranch; visitors to the Johnson home in Washington, D.C.; the Johnsons' relationship with the Melvin Winters
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Knott offer. -~ I -- 25 So we had discussions with Jack Brooks, chairman of that subcommittee in the House, and were pretty well
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • get to first base with that project. But the control of the Poverty Program, the major Community Action program in Chicago, by Mayor Daley's man Jack Brooks was such that the demonstration program, again, attempting to organize people more or less
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • a university source, which you would think might be fairly normal. We came to Washington to spend our first two months with the Brookings Institution. At that time Torn Johnson had already been contacted by Bill Moyers and was working full-time in the White
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , Mayor Ivan Allen, Mills Lane of Citizens Bank, Sherman Drawdy of the Georgia Railroad Bank, Jim Carmichael of the Scripto Corporation, and W. Brooks of the Cotton Producers Association. Do you recall that meeting, that dinner? H: What year was that? G
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Baptist Association . Brooks Hays . He was president of the Southern Brooks Hays, a great storyteller . It was Brooks Hays that asked me that question . Mr . He was going to try Rayburn . I told him what the facts were . He was very close to So
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • remember. [Inaudible] G: Yes, and they had a rally in San Antonio, I believe? W: Right. G: That was the day that Mrs. Johnson and Marietta Brooks were in a car accident. Do you recall that? W: No, I don't. I heard about it, but I don't know any
  • ; Winter's involvement in LBJ purchasing the Ranch property from his aunt; work at the Ranch on the roads, fences, and house done by Winters, Marcus Burg, and Max Brooks; Wesley West's and Arthur Godfrey's planes; Ranch foreman Julius Matus; LBJ's cattle; LBJ
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : This is when he's in the Senate? H: In the Senate. I can't date it precisely, it's in 1953,1954, some- where along in there. I had been working with Max [Brooks] on the remodeling of the old house. F: At this time the old house was still the old house
Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in international trade were present at the conference . Following that and still on G .E . payroll I accepted a Fellowship at Brookings Institution here in Washington . P: This conference was in what year? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [division]? What's her name? Mrs. Brooks. G: Marietta [Moody] Brooks. J: Was chairman of the women's, and then we had Sarah charge of all the telephones. G: Sarah J: what's-her-name in She was something. Wade? Sarah Wade. She could find you. I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of January you met with Max Brooks to talk about the new KTBC building. J: Ever since we went on the air with the television station, in Thanksgiving Day of 1952, we had been living in crowded, inadequate, temporary quarters. As I said, the radio station
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the job, things were not idle at home. There was a big program put on, I think it was June 2. It was a women's rally. Marietta Brooks was the state chairman of the women's division, and Claude Wild, of course, was the state chairman. Bess Beeman
  • relationship with the oil industry; the Taft-Hartley Act; Marietta Brooks' leadership in the women's division; the work of the female volunteers; the increased role of women in campaigns; the work of LBJ's advance men; LBJ's campaign locations and audiences
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Livingston -- I -- 12 job. I don't know what other considerations--I'm sure that's what it was. Obviously, therefore, the architects had been chosen. For the record, there were two firms involved: one was Max Brooks' firm here in Austin--Brooks, Barr
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the space is gone. But we got--here's the Hoggs family. That goes back in Texas history a long way. Now, here is a different color, here's Tory [Mary Victoria?] and Frank Wozencraft. They were in the Johnsons' attorney general's office. Here's Jack Brooks
  • . Bender, Lloyd Bentsen, Tom Bevill, Marilla Black, Charlie Blake, Dolph Briscoe, Lansing Brisbin [?], Alger Brit [?], Jack Brooks, Jerry Brown, James Bunning [?], Horace Busby, George H. W. Bush, Liz Carpenter, Scott Carpenter, Jimmy Carter, Bob Casey, Jr
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and slipped upstairs, took off the jacket when I got on Governor Faubus’ floor--I was able to get through the state police lines that were protecting him. And I knocked on the door; the door was opened by Brooks Johnson [Brooks Hays?], a congressman from
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • FE: CHARLES L. SCHULTZE INTERVIUJLR: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Or. Schultze's office in Brookings Institution, vJashington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 [,1: This is an interview with Dr. Charles L. Schultze who is a senior fellow at Brookings Institution
Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)
  • to African Americans; Dr. Jack Brooks; prominent African Americans involved in political groups in Texas; UPO communications.
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • but that I wanted to go to law school . He said, "Well, you just come on down here, move into Brooks Hall, and I'll make arrangements for your tuition to be In other words, I didn't have any money . taken care of temporarily ." So I went down
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Brooks, Marietta Brooks. I went out to her home, and thought she gave me a rather good interview, all things considered. We got about halfway through. She was rather detailed, a little wont to over detail in some things in woman's fashion, you know. She
  • How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for his
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • written on the fiscal dividend. It was all written, laid out, prepared for the report. I remember talking at great length to Charlie Schultze about it, with others who were at Brookings at the time and elsewhere in the office with Kermit Gordon. We were
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • thought as a manner of planning--to assist in planning--the faculty committees and the administration, location of buildings, maximum usage of the land--At that time we had the Brooks, Barr, Graeber, and White firm who were doing that. Both Mr. Brooks
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , sir; you were born in Kansas and educated at McPherson College and the University of Kansas, including a doctorate from the latter. After a turn as a Fellow of the Brookings Institution, you joined the Bureau of the Budget. Except for a year
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • underground . ` Fs You're talking about the Hirshhorn thing? Os Yes . So I pulled in Bunshaft . Then, when the library came up, Brooks who is a Texan architect of great charm and considerable influence, and lives down there and knows the Johnsons very