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Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • proposed plan by President Franklin Roosevelt to reorganize the Supreme Court by adding a great many members to it. The obvious objective here was to gain support which would validate a great many of Roosevelt's This, of course, focused attention
  • Biographical information; Jimmie Allred; Franklin Roosevelt's court packing plan and LBJ's 1938 election; tabulating primary election votes and the work of the state Democratic Executive Committee; administration of the Democratic party in Texas
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Franklin Roosevelt? P: I don't remember what all we have gone into in the past, but of course Lyndon's association with Roosevelt was very close over a number of years and was the most important factor, I suppose, both in his election and in his
  • LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • testify to this, about Lyndon Johnson in these pre-1948 years? M: Well, of course, I have heard Mr. Stevenson many, many times talk of Lyndon Johnson. Really, Ivlr. Stevenson, back in those early years when Lyndon was one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the Medica~e, Senate. He knew how to get things done. And I would say that he produced more social legislation . . . llm his greatest aamirer in all this world. In my early days it was Franklin Roosevelt, but Franklin Roosevelt broke the ground
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Franklin Roosevelt that you want to add, President Roosevelt? N: No amusing ones. G: Well they don't have to be amusing. N: I can remember that he went down to the White House frequently, had frequent appointments with the President. He went
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • been teaching public speaking in Houston, and whether he had gone from the teaching job to Kleberg's staff at the time, I' not certain. One of these fellows was a speech teacher, a fellow named Hollis Frazer, he's dead now. County, Franklin. He came
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the policies of Franklin Roosevelt. Although of course by that time I believe Harry Truman had become president. was not as popular. President Truman. In the South he He was later to become very popular, that is, You know, you can ring the changes by giving
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the 115th Judicial District of Texas . Of course, she had to eat her words later when, due to the friendships developed in that campaign and the fact that Lyndon Johnson, though defeated in that primary, still had great influence with Franklin Roosevelt
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was elected later, served there four years, and then Franklin Roosevelt appointed me United States district attorney in 1933. Morris Sheppard and Tom Connally were really responsible for my appointment. The Senate confirmed me, and in August of 1933 I
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: THOMAS CORCORAN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Corcoran's office, Commonwealth Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 C: With Roosevelt in the White House, I first met Lyndon Johnson. I had come to Washington in 1931 in the very
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -5- Roosevelt was President, and Johnson was pretty much running on the Roosevelt platform. Of course, we had anti-Roosevelt people then as we've had since and pretty much the same group
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on the Then he came back here as a representative, and when he got elected down there he got on the train in Austin, Roosevelt's train. Roosevelt had been in Texas--had been on a fishing trip down in Corpus--and he came through Austin. Johnson had had--a new
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Finally so many of them did that President Roosevelt recognized what the situation was and that the legislative end of it, which is just as important-M: Critical. H: as any other phase of our whole program. So he just said, I~ell, you either get out
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • strategy, of course, was to go all out for Roosevelt, and even to the endorsement of the so-called Supreme Court packing. Did he talk with you about what he was doing? D: Well, r sat in some meetings where that was discussed, yes. F: Was it generally
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . When we got La Villita going, Aubrey Williams, Dave Williams and even Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt came to San Antonio to see that project. fact, they came down several times--not Mrs. Roosevelt, she only came the one time, but the rest came dovm several
  • Roosevelt not stopping to dedicate a roadside park; LBJ’s relationship with Lady Bird’s father; LBJ’s involvement with NYA after becoming a Congressman; La Villita in San Antonio; Maury Maverick; working for OPA; Roth’s involvement in the 1948 campaign; feud
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But it was in trouble and I never knew whether it was through Rayburn or who it was, but the suggestion was made to the then-President Roosevelt that he'd better do something about it; "They're going to lose a lot of representation in the House, and you need them." So
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the election. His big support was outside of Austin, rather than the silkstocking element. G: He did very well in the rural counties. N: Yes. G: What about the Court-packing bill, when President Roosevelt introduced a bill to increase the membership
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ., Marsh was close to Henry Wallace and therefore close to Roosevelt, and Johnson's candidacy was the only one in that special Tenth District election that had any meaning for Roosevelt. All the rest of the candidates were against the New Deal and against
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? That was the election that we was going straight down the line with Roosevelt. W: Yes, he went all out. Back in those days most people down in our neighborhood, especially the young ones, went all out. You don't know, you weren't born, were you? B: Just barely
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the campaign? M: No, except the general tone of it being he was FDR's boy. Of course, he had been extremely active in the Roosevelt picture; he was always, and much was said and written about that. I'm trying to think, the youth corps activities, the WPA
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • District and urge them to support their good friend Lyndon Johnson in this congressional race. The only two people that I knew in that district were a man and his wife whom I knew to be life-long Republicans and strong anti-Roosevelt people. Of course
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could have done that, but. . . . Estes was a smart crazy person, if you know what I mean. G: Were you involved in any of the Texas political convention struggles, such as the 1940 and the [John Nance] Garner forces versus the Roosevelt forces? S
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : Professor [H. M.] Greene, you remember? R: Oh, yes. I knew him. "Garbage Man to Frank I took him over to San Antonio to see Roosevelt once, and I'll never forget what he said. He said, "I got close enough where I could have touched him with a broom
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . So I had been out on maneuvers on Sunday when Pearl Harbor came, and the next morning, on Monday morning, I drove down to Falfurrias with Mr. Frank Lloyd and I remember sitting out in the car while he ran on in while I listened to President Roosevelt
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • earlier was his support of Fr'anklin Roosevelt's policy, his Court policy. F: I was going to ask you, was that a conscious decision, to go into that? J: Yes. He at first was hesitant about using that, but after urging him that he had to make an issue
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • going for Johnson when they trotted Mrs. Roosevelt out and that killed the impetus, just let the water right out of the big movement and the screaming and the hollering and "We want Johnson,11 so that we all had to all start behaving. That just took
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)