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  • :00p 8. 4:05p 9. 4:45p 10. 5:00p 11. 6:00p t 12. 6:00p 13. 7:00p 14. 9:00p Senator Johnso n opene d th e Senat e Lunch i n P-3 8 wit h Lucy an d M M $2.2 5 Mr. an d Mrs. Dic k Wes t (Dalla s Mornin g News ) an d childre n George Killia n Justice Clar k
  • . friend of Aubrey Williams who loves these black people." "Why, he's a It was kind of bad. One morning in the middle of the campaign, about two weeks before the election, Aubrey shows up at my door at my home at six o'clock in the morning. I said
  • , they couldn't let NYA pay for somebody doing some job, then if the school had been paying for him, pay the one the school had been paying for off. It was to create new jobs. That's the big LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • -Roosevelt position because I was a very ardent supporter of the New Deal. I thought it was a terribly exciting time. Of course Pappy [W. Lee] O'Daniel had become the political salvation of Texas. He had run for governor that year; beat Bill McGraw and Ernest
  • INTERVIEWEE: E. INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: ~lr. 24, 1969 B. GER~1ANY Germany's offices, Sherry Lane, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 2 M: Mr. Germany, as president and chairman of the board of Lone Star Steel, you have long been a very
  • , and I finished law school in 1934 when the New Deal was really getting under way. I came to Washington to be law clerk to Mr. Justice Holmes and stayed with him until his death in I think March, 1935. I had hoped to go back west to practice law
  • ; and (6) to broaden base of Polish and Yugoslavian governments. John Connally on USS Essex. 2/10 LBJ flies to Dallas. 2/11 LBJ goes to Austin, stays through Wednesday 2/14, sees Ida Nell Connally and takes her out on Tuesday 2/13. Yalta agreements
  • than Bo Byers that--well, Dick Morehead was there before the war, Dick, with the Dallas Morning News, was there. Sam Kinch, Jr., is there now and his father was there when I was there. In the legislature when I was there in 1941 and again even in 1947
  • ; LBJ's behavior at a 1956 event for JFK in El Paso; Bean's efforts to build a new port bridge along the El Paso/Juarez border; LBJ's involvement with the bridge in El Paso; the Chamizal agreement between the U.S. and Mexico and its relation to the port
  • there? G: Yes, Right. I did go to Hockaday Junior College in Dallas, which gave me a little taste of Texas. But in these days I think every Senator had only people from their own home state, but I think Mr. Johnson was as awed by me wanting to go
  • one of the Dealey boys [of the Dallas Morning News]. Anyway, we went out to the Army-Navy. those days. I was playing fairly good golf in And, of course, we had a match and Lyndon complained that he'd LBJ Presidential Library http
  • was practicing law, simply on some sort of business or other, and my mother and father were invited to the home of the Johnsons for a quite large party which they gave for three new congressmen from Texas. B: That would have been to the Ranch? W
  • recall, maybe a little later, the place was pretty secure, but some pretty rough and wild people had come from hundreds of miles away. People had come from Dallas and Atlanta, Georgia, for instance, hearing about this situation on the radio, they had
  • him the next morning in Austin, that he wanted me to come down and be his assistant, that he was going to be put in charge of the NYA for West Texas. Is that something like YMCA?" I said, "NYA? What is that? "No," he said, "Come on down here
  • like that and you could understand why he would want it off the record. I don't know if there were every any violations. F: I presume that when Sam Jr. fOllowed in your footsteps--well I know he went with the Dallas News in Washington--that President
  • as quite a good one. Also you must admit that one of my major arguments with the news media people, with other people, is that I don't see how you can compare presidents without comparing the decades of which they were president. The fifties bear
  • that. I can't tell. The thing that I thought was that you can't force people to obey laws, that police can't really control society. I noticed the David Burnham article in the New York Times this morning in which he said it would cost twenty-five billion
  • exceptions, beyond saying that they include four or five petty racketeers in Memphis, New Orleans, and elsewhere and one well placed protege of Carlos Marcellos in New Orleans. He comes to us, he says, primarily to assist iri ascertaining the truth, but also
  • : Yes he had. He had discovered me because I had attended a governors' conference once at Salt Lake [City], Utah, and the press was having a conference for a few governors. And they called me first one morning and asked me if I would submit
  • . documentary got enthusiastic ap­ and Los Angeles and has most plause from the large audience, recently produced M,~ Conserva­ which one Dallas Morning News tive: Goldwater on Goldwater, a reporter described as "decidedly 19 After 37 Years, Lady Bird
  • NATIONAL Oc, ARCHIVE\ia Allen Fisher Fwd; LBJ, New Orleans '6N Allen Fisher To: Allen Fisher Mon, Mor 12, 2018 at 1:36 PM On Wed, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Sid Davis wrote: I
  • NATIONAL Oc, ARCHIVE\ia Allen Fisher Fwd; LBJ, New Orleans '6N Allen Fisher To: Allen Fisher Mon, Mor 12, 2018 at 1:36 PM On Wed, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Sid Davis wrote: I
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rowe -- I ~- 2 Up until 1948 I had never heard of a reporter coming down from any of the big papers. Morning News, the After 1948 even the New Y~~Li
  • Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people
  • that Kennedy left for Dallas? T: Yes. And my husband went with him. M: And you stayed here? T: I was here with some guests from New York and Washington. I told him that I would join him the next night in Austin. I was going up by private plane with some
  • magazine went to press on Sunday night, but they did most of their editing through Saturday. He knew that correspondents had to file overnight Thursday, so that the editors in New York got the raw copy on Friday morning. zine's night. Now, I want you
  • them back, they voted on it, and we voted on the measure about four o'clock in the morning on Christmas eve. B: And there were some members, at least, who were mildly 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • interest in passage of legislation; RFK; 1964-1965 legislative success; Congressional briefings on Vietnam; compromise on seating of the Mississippi delegation; LBJ’s political speech in New Orleans; inactivity of the DNC; media image of LBJ; assessment
  • guests: Gerald Andrus, President, Middle South Utilities. Inc., New York City Harllee Branch, Jr., President, the Southern Company. Atlanta. Georgia John K. Busby, President, Pennsylvania Power & Light Company, Allentown Walker Cisler, Chairman
  • . Walter Jenkins Office of the Vi ce Presida:i t of t!.e U. New Senate Off ice Bldg. Washington , D. c. s. Dear Walter , Enclosed plea; e find a copy of our Final Claim in the amount of $ 151 , 270 . 94 covering damage to our Gal ­ veston, Texas Seawall
  • thing that ought to be part of some record. Naturally you get curious about a new president, so I pulled the Lyndon Johnson file--Congressman and Senator Lyndon Johnson file--after he became president of the United States, or maybe even while he was vice
  • treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.
  • was able to watch the winter olympics in Japan and then I was able to watch the visit of the President to Peking. The television on that was excellent and having nothing to do except to watch the television I saw the evening programs and the morning
  • came close to passing word over to the White House that I thought that the President should reconsider his plans because at that time there were certain evidences there of a strong feeling. I don't mean that Dallas had any appreciable number
  • Premonitions about the Dallas trip of November, 1963, and the JFK assassination; the transition from JFK to LBJ; Hays-Moyers relationship; LBJ story of internal revenue and a contribution to a Baptist Church; anecdote on admission of Outer Mongolia
  • graduated from college, and my first job in the real world was the office of Vice President Johnson, then located in the new Senate office building [the Dirksen Senate Office Building]. As far as my tasks go, just out of college I didn't have a great deal
  • the new 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pollak -- I -- 2 Solicitor
  • Field, I had a total of fourteen hours in fighter aircraft, four of which were in a P-36, and none of them in the new P-40 E. But we did get them assembled, more or less, with the aid of some Aussies and the tutelage of a few sergeants that were destined
  • McMahon met LBJ; air combat in Papua New Guinea; McMahon meeting LBJ again after LBJ had become a U.S. senator.
  • Run yan who is in the Baylor Hospital in Dallas , Texas, suffering from terminal cancer of the liver. The President also sent a telegram to Adolph A. Berle thanking him for nice column by him about the President in the morning's New York Times. chief
  • , and Sam Kinch, who was with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. And Dawson Duncan, Dick Morehead with the Dallas News, Allen Duckworth with the Dallas News, Tootie Thornton, who was with the Dallas News, Roy Grimes, who was with the San Antonio Express News
  • colum­ nist for the Dallas Times Herald, who in the course of her award­ winning career has worked for the Minneapolis Tribune, the Texas Observor and the New York Times, covered the recent revelation of pay­ ments to football players at SMU that became
  • to kind of stay in the middle and keep both sides together. G: Russell gave an interview I think to U.S. News and declined to say whether he would support the Democratic ticket or would refuse to head a 5 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • /oh Shriver -- I -- 2 to working with poor people, you might say almost exclusively; third, to pacifism. I used to work from time to time in the office of the Catholic Worker, which was down in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. So
  • to that column; Shriver’s opinion of LBJ keeping Kennedy’s cabinet members; Shriver’s ideas for new vice presidential duties; Shriver’s conflicts with Secretary of Labor Wirtz; the Neighborhood Youth Corps; Shriver’s determination to solve problems without
  • from the public welfare of New York and Washington-­ by the way, did you know that your initials stand for public welfare--! seem to see more clearly your story as far as it relates to Virginia. and your proposed personal set up and its future
  • ±ed :tn:fo . #'.l!l--me~~-Hrn--nn~~e-H~t-..:l~ffl-4"1efj~~ #80b cable text of New Delhi 1025 secret 4 p ·10/19/65 A F I LE LOCATION NATIONAL SECURITY FILE , . . . .. . McGeorge Bundy - Memos to the President , vol . 16 , Oct 15 - Nov. 19