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Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • people to his ranch rather than going v7here they are. I didn r t see much of him at all during that period of time. F: Where were you at the time of the assassination? Were you in Dallas? T: No. F: Getting ready for that evening? T: It was my
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/1/1968 (Item)
  • Post Bill Eaton, Chicago Daily News Jim Millstone. St. Louis Post Dispatch Ted Sell. Los Angeles Times John Pierson, Wall Street Journal Karen Klinefelter, Dallas News Saville Davis, Christian Science Monitor Day 1, 1968 Date Apri • Da the Whit e
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 17, 15 August 1979," LBJ Library (Item)
  • state so in future times. I believe it's already beginning so, to establish his position in American life. But for Israel, he was a special friend. "Israel has had the fortune of enjoying bipartisan support from the day of its establishment. All American
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • November. If 1949 was a period that for us, and in retrospect it seems to me for the country, was a sort of happy time, in 1950, particularly as the year wore on, there were rising clouds and frustration. The war was continuing in Korea and getting more
President's Daily Diary entry, 9/21/1967 (Item)
  • ^ ^ ^ fM^ HousE n*« ^ . Sep t 21, 196 7 €MT LYWOOM B. JOWWSOW MAKY 'resident begM his day at (Ptace)_ Th Time Telephon . Activit In Ou t L o L 4:57a t y (indud e visited by) e Situation Room Jak Breakfas Directo 8:3la f Justic 8:51a t
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: MARY MARGARET VALENTI INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Valenti's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: There was a New York Times story at the time he was in Mexico that he had received ten thousand
Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/6/1943 (Item)
  • ngto n next 5 tur da,y. l b-01 d Es coo I t hollght the A&M b>.1sinea s was in a.b f1te- ment ponding our g etti:ng night time--no need to undertako the e.xpen6e i nvolved in synohronita. tion if th.e ro is a goo d cbnnoe ot ::rett:hig Qn othor frequ
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was assistant district attorney of Dallas County and going to law school part-time contemporaneously with my service as assistant district attorney of Dallas County in the civil department. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • come in on. I don't know as to whether or not it was a Civil Service grade at that time, I really don't. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the plane crashed about halfway between Washington and Dallas. I think it was around Memphis or somewhere like that. Bob, though, continued to run the firm until he died. He died a long time before Tom did. I don't know much about the brother in Mexico
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was put together in 1953 or early 1954 and I attended the first meeting of it. I believe it was in Dallas or Waco. could have been in Fort Worth. It At that time I was a staff repre- sentative of the United Steelworkers of America in the Houston
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. Judge Davidson's court quite a few times. I had been in I had known him a long time. After that Democratic convention I used to call on him whenever I was in Dallas and sit around and talk with him a little bit. always very cordial to me. He
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Hickerson with Associated Press called from Dallas and insisted on an inter­ view with Senator Johnson. We got the lights on, and I and Woody at different times tried to tell him we'd talk to him in the morning, but Clayton was feeling 11 no pain" about
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • company for San Angelo. newspapers. Many times, utility companies have been the owners of In the case of the Standard, the Standard was the owner of the utility company! It became quite a business, and although Murphy and Guthrie had established
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and this came off some world traveling. He never seemed to be at ease. As time went on and he made this speech more often, he seemed to relax a little more. But from the outset you could detect that communication didn't come easy to him. Of course, he was put
  • following the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu; JFK's attitude toward Vietnam and O'Brien's opinion of what JFK might have done if he had lived; LBJ's decision to ride on Air Force One from Dallas to Washington D.C. after JFK's assassination
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • finally that I did. And as I said to him at the time, "Well, Mr. Vice President, I'll come to Washington at your suggestion; I know it'll be a good experience and I'll enjoy it, but lId like to do it on the basis of a limited stay. I'll come
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was formed, I came east and was one of the early organizers working for John L . Lewis . Later on I worked for other unions, at one time was southern director of the Textile Workers Union just before the war, and I forced myself to be drafted . I had
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • up out here on our airstrip. And he wanted us to go to Dallas with him, and I told him we weren't going. And he brought my wife a gun he had got in Belgium, a rifle for her, and he gave me a shotgun at the same time as--he called it a con--what did he
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/10/1968 (Item)
  • VHiTE HOUS E dat e Apri DENT LYNDO N B . JOHNSO N WAtV Cam pamp DaviDavi President bega n hi s da y at (Place ) C Time Telephon ;1 In Ou tL l 10 , 196 8 d Wednesda d Da e f or t ..... Activit oL D . y y y (includ e visite d
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that period, and I can see now how busy [LBJ was]. I knew he was very busy all the time. Billy Lee [Brammer] and I were hired really for political reasons, because he was gearing up so much for a political--well, he had always been. I don't know who he had
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/20/1964 (Item)
  • RECORD OFF Irving Goldberg - Dallas, Texas Rhea Howard = President, Wichita Daily Times and Wichita Falls Record - Texas, C. T. McLaughlin- Snyder, Texas Virgil Musick - Abilene, Texas Mark Duncan Milton Potts - Livingston, Texas Elmer Parish - Wichita
President's Daily Diary entry, 8/26/1964 (Item)
  • McKee Attorney fr mans Atlantic fr City fr mans mans Ford Motor Co Dallas Texas General Robert Kennedy Atlantic City fr mans Wednesday 8-26-64 Walter Jenkins Atlantic City fr mans Mayor Robert Wagner of NYC - Atlantic City (fr. mans
Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 5/7/1943 (Item)
  • advort'i.ain . on the atatlon d 1f he £&Ve orders to run auch advertising he did it without author1&&t1on or aey right to do so. 1 did buy eane time from him,• little bit. on the Tyler atation, thinkin it would be good business to et to thoae oil men dova1
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and certainly that he would be sensitive to the growth of Houston. Anyway, East Texans just stick together. M: Did your husband support Franklin Roosevelt at that time? T: Oh. yes. M: Was that a problem in the campaign at all? T: No. I don't recall
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • whether it was in 1929 or 1930. She was a stu- dent at St. Mary's in Dallas and I invited her to Austin to visit me, and we had such a good time. She was so favorably impressed with Austin that I think that is when she decided she would like to go
Reference File, "Cooks / Chefs" (Item)
  • told Johnson of her experiences with discrimination. Leonard H. Marks, the ~irector of the United States Information Agency at the time of Johnson's presidency, was one witness to this. "When Sammy and I drive to Texas and I have to go to the bathroom
Reference File, "Cooks / Chefs" (Item)
  • told Johnson of her experiences with discrimination. Leonard H. Marks, the ~irector of the United States Information Agency at the time of Johnson's presidency, was one witness to this. "When Sammy and I drive to Texas and I have to go to the bathroom
Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • years ago this month. I have practiced law here continuously since that time. F: Where did you get the title "Judge"? L: I was County Judge here for six years -- three two-year terms in the 1940's. F: Where did you first come to know President
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson." So Johnson had me arrange to bring Senator John Pastore to Texas. Back then we flew on a DC-7 from Washington to Dallas. It was around Christmas time; Johnson and John Pastore and I were on the plane. So C. R. Smith was from either Fort Worth
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/20/1968 (Item)
  • Marvin Watso n 0 ^ WHITE HOUSE Date IDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON r DIARY President began his day at (Place) the :1 Time Telephone 1 In Out Lo Activit 10:24a t Secretary Hon. 10:44a t Hon. 10:47a t Cong. 11:04a f 11:17a t Tom Califano 11:19a t
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 21, 1969 INTERVIEWEE : WILLIAM M . BLACKBURN INTERVIEWER DAVID McCOMB PLACE : His offices in the Republic National Bank Building in Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background : where were you
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like that. I used to listen to him on the radio. At one time we had three Democrats from Wichita Falls, he being one of them, running for governor. And then after he won in the general election-his Republican opponent, Orville Bullington, was from
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] He's an old-time newspaper man. the Dallas Ne\V's at one time. More on LBJ -9-Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . That was his favorite alcoholic beverage. fifth, of course. He'd buy it by the Many a time, back when he was governor, and even after he was out of the governor's office and in that short period of time before he started actively campaigning for the Senate
Folder, "Johnson, Lyndon B. [1948]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 29 (Item)
  • here. 2--Please deny you met with Butler and st.rnes when war time Governor, to plot over-throw of war time President Roosevelt • . Please Ytire your xxxx c ounty campaign Ub.W:Lger name of fourth ma.n in room amd your denial . Roy Lumpkin 3--Please
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F.Robe rts - -1- - 2 the as sistant to Mr. Johnson came up to ins f>ect the Dallas office. He talked with me for a long time, talked with Armstrong
Folder, "Wallace, Henry A. [1942]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 21 (Item)
  • to take is this: Do every­ thing we can to speed our drive for victory, because unless Hitler and his Italian and J apanese partners are de­ feated there will be only the cold, bleak hopelessness of a new Dark Age. At the same time, think hard and often
Folder, "Bush, George," White House Name Files, WHCF, Box B-611 (Item)
  • . DeMoss • Richard L. McGraw P1 1ard P. Bond Rob_ert H. Gow ·'• , ; :·•· · Tim Moffett , •• J. B: Thoma s, Jr. : : • Rkha.rd B. Dewey ·:., - J. Holland McGuirt (~ r, Boyle Don_Graubar_t . . Dallas H. Moore·-•:.:· .. ··.·:·:· D~vid R. Underw9()(1
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • red me. . Then we'd work late every night . I 4le was working on the student aid part df it then, so a lot'of times we'd be there at eleven . or twelve o'clock at night . LBJ would come by or be there and sign the payro! 1 s and . send them on i n
Folder, "Civil Rights – Alabama," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6 (Item)
  • in compl.iance, and . the regulations provide sufficient · leeway so that the · timing of the cut off of funds is at the discretion .o~ the ~g~ncy < afteJ; the heari~g. ' j • . I i . ~ ; 'i , I