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Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • : For the Office of Economic • • • • • TD: Yes, for the regional office here. We handle eleven states out of this area office. PB: Mr. Dunlap, I understand you were at San Marcos in Southwest Texas College at the same time as Mr. Johnson. We are trying to get
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • : We were college students at San Marcos, Southwest State Teachers College. We both entered in what was at that time called the spring term. It was a short term that no longer exists but about the first of April or something like that. My first
  • Student with LBJ at San Marcos Southwest Texas Teachers College, 1927; details of student expenses, influences and habits; LBJ's graduation in three years from a four-year plan; experiences as a teacher in Pearsall and Houston; Director of NYA
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little background on my early days, before I went to San Marcos or not? Are you interested in that part? G: Basically where you are from, where you were born. R: I was born in Diboll, Texas, on September 19, 1906. school there. I finished grammar
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • mother were girlhood chums and schoolmates. I would guess that I first met the President sometime after he enrolled in college at San Marcos. G: Did you and he attend college together? K: No, we did not. I'm somewhat older than the President and had
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; Professor Greene; White Stars; NYA; roadside parks; projects; programs; LBJ's activities; Lady Bird; Alvin Wirtz; 1937 Congressional campaign
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Texas, and to Brownsville and Cuero. folks settled there. The I went through school in Cuero and after graduation I went to the University of Texas for one year and then I transferred from the University of Texas over to San Marcos in the fall of 1930
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; College Star; White Stars; membership; purpose; LBJ as state NYA administrator; NYA public relations activities; staffers; structure of the NYA; projects; Herbert Henderson; working habits; later contacts
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • incident. F: Did you room together when you were in San Marcos? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • and of the speeches during the course of that campaign? Any particular event or any theme that the President used to campaign? He did make a speech at San Marcos… Q: Oh, yes, he made lots of speeches. He made speeches at Taylor, Texas -- G: What did he say
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that at all? I know they had trouble getting approval from Washington on that . B: I don't remember enough of the detail . I have a hazy background that at my project that I had in San Marcos, which was after Lyndon had left the NYA, where I got approval
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • all this energy and has such enthusiasm for what he is doing. Most of the men were people whom he had known at other times in his life, his college friends. I don't know, if you didn't graduate from San Marcos, I don't think you had very much chance
  • not be taken over by Works Progress Administration (WPA); LBJ's promise to make sure Olson had a job; Dr. Cecil E. Evans of San Marcos; LBJ's relationship with his mother, Rebekah Johnson, and wife, Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ's presidential aspirations; LBJ's 1937
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • that it was an address to the student body at San Marcos? Caravans with Johnson banners converged on San Marcos led by personal friends. K: That’s right. G: Do you recall anything about that initial announcement of his candidacy? K: No, I just remember that he
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Margaret is now dead . She went to San Marcos State Teachers' College, it was known as in those days, and later on married and moved to Cotulla and died down there quite a number of years ago . I've forgotten how long ago . But she was a very beautiful
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Skiles -- I -- 15 S: Not really. I knew that it was going on but this was not an activity that I figured into very much. G: He met with President [Cecil] Evans of San Marcos, I believe. S
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . Then Mr. C. F. Richards announced down at Lockhart, who was a very fine attorney and a very respectable candidate, but he withdrew two days later and said he didn't want to run. oddballs. I never did know why. Then we got some Edwin Waller of San Marcos
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE : SHERMAN BIRDWELL, JR . INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Birdwell's residence, Lakeway, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with the first thing you remember after that San Marcos meeting, after he hired you . B
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • it that, was in his blood, just by inheritance and by training, and by general aptitude. EG: On that point, Mr. Hopkins, we've talked to a number of his old friends in San Marcos and we have a somewhat confused picture of what his state of mind was in this period
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Well, after he announced for Congress, then I resigned from NYA and traveled with him as a traveling secretary, valet and chauffeur. with him every step of the way. rally at San Marcos. I went The only place I missed was the opening He opened his
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with educational matters was directed by J. C. Kellam, who went to school with Lyndon down in San Marcos. He was Lyndon's LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • College at San Marcos. But I had no occasion to run into him until I went up to a political gathering somewhere along the line of either Hays and Blanco or Hays and Travis County--a little community called LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was very close to Dr. [Cecil] Evans down at San Marcos. He worked for him. Through him he got to know a lot of them that way. Now on that scale, I think that Jesse Kellam was a tremendous help to him because of Jesse's being a little older than Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall anything in particular about the school aid program of enabling students to stay in school on various projects? K: Not specifically. I remember he was always tremendously interested in the San Marcos school project, but that specific part
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hopkins -- III -- 4 between him and Lyndon. I did. I don't know that Wirtz knew Lyndon before Wirtz knew Lyndon's father, Sam Johnson, before I did. But Lyndon, you see, was still in school in San Marcos
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it, the Little Congress up the.re? G: Speaker of the Little Congress? H: Yes. He headed that thing, if I'm not mistaken. to Congressman [Richard] Kleberg. He was secretary Before that he was assistant to the president of the college at San Marcos. But I
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • became ill and I believe he went to Seton Hospital and it was determined he had appendicitis. His closing campaign speech I believe was to have been delivered in San Marcos or ...•. I don't remember just exactly where, but I believe it was San Marcos
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • name last night for another reason and now live got a mental block. But the general counsel and general manager of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority was an attorney in San Marcos, and 1111 think of his name one of these days. G: Oh, Cape? B: Yes
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the general assistant and the number two guy in the organization. with Deason and became closer to him. But I worked He and President Johnson were schoolmates at the same time in San Marcos. So as a result of this particular affiliation and working
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • College in San Marcos, where I was a had been graduated exactly twenty years colle~e ~'y debater -- as I befor~. had been in my day at ~lma relst-i.ong wi.th hi ... there Ncre only of the !!lost He LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)