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Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • proving that it would require more steel to reinforce a concrete pipeline than it would take to build an all steel pipeline. We had a very good MIT engineer, out of the organization of Standard Oil of New Jersey, who very effectively made that point
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • willing to assign that man. R: Well, yes, certainly, because there's a rapport there, and when a new man comes in it's an advantage because there's an understanding there and and it makes it much easier for us to present our problems to the extent
  • Review of career; dealing with various Presidents; assignment of agents; the Johnson family; effect of JFK assassination on duties; the Texas operation; Presidents traveling abroad; demonstrations; the Dallas tragedy; the Warren Commission's
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to come up for re- election, say in 1940 I suppose was the year, because it wasn't that first election, of course, and we were invited to come to Fort Worth-no. We got the news of that sometime in the morning in Marlin, and LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , of course. A: Liz was during the campaign but, you see, Liz was going back to work with Les in the Carpenter News Bureau. She went back there before she joined the Vice President's staff the second time around. So really it was just me. Before that Grace
Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [1964 - 1967]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)
  • the document. (Cl Closed In accordance with ntstrtctiona contained in the donor'• dead of gift. 11/1/2007 --UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In &ply, PleaaeReferSO FU.No. Newark, New Jersey August 31, 1967 NATIOrTAL
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • answer this? Should we ignore it?" He would check on there what [he wanted] or he would say something. After he'd looked at all the mail and watched all the news in the morning--and he watched all three stations while he was talking to you, reading
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 71, 1 September 1999," LBJ Library (Item)
  • ). This will cover the ··new Texas" of the modern period, including the development of the major metropolitan areas of Houston. Dallas, and Austin; The University or Texas. the growth of stale govern­ ment and the evolution of selected industries, such as the oil
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • coming in, and news wires and all like that. So I really don't know how much of the time we were at Dillman and how much at some hotel. But Sunday morning the Dallas Morning News said, "The Senate race looks like a photo finish, with Stevenson holding
Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was always as a tax adviser or attorney to the Johnsons. M: Then when President Kennedy was killed here in Dallas, apparently the new President, Lyndon Johnson, contacted you immediately. Is that correct? B: He endeavored to. I was in Shreveport
Vice-President's Daily Diary entry, 7/14/1961 (Item)
  • :30p 1:55p 7 8 9 10 2:00p 2:15p 2:30p t 3:00p t 11 12 3:35p t 4:00p Expenditure Code The Ambassador from Senegal Gerry Mann (Dallas) --to say he couldn't come to the barbecue at ranch July 16 Jim Mathis VP opened the Senate lunch at Skeeter's
Vice-President's Daily Diary entry, 8/10/1961 (Item)
  • 4:30p 13 14 15 4:45p f 5:30p t 8:00p Date Activity (include August 10, 1961 visited by)* LD arrived P-38 Will Wilson VP opened the Senate Red James and Roy Hofheinz Sen Randolph Anna Rosenberg (New York City) re : something concerning Sec
Telephone conversation # 5853, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER JENKINS, 10/10/1964, 10:38AM (Item)
  • HARRIS TEXAS POLL; DALLAS NEWS ENDORSEMENT OF LBJ; LBJ GIVES LIST OF TASKS FOR JENKINS: THANK YOU TO BETTY TALMADGE, CHARLES GUY; PUBLICITY FOR PRINCETONIAN ARTICLE; BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN ADS; USE OF TERM "PRESIDENT," NOT "LBJ"; JIM NOVY; CAMPAIGN
Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 8/5/1964 (Item)
  • for Syracuse, New York 1:30 Return to White House 1:40 To roof for sun. Sign mail and autograph pictures. 3:00 Robin Duke and Kandi Ohno 4:15 Rest on bed 6:00 Mary Foote (CPA from Dallas - working on auditing books) 9:00 Dinner w/ President, Mayor Daley and son
Senate Daily Diary entry, 12/28/1959 (Item)
  • :00a 10:15a 10:30a 10:45a Dave, Harry, KWFT News Wichita Falls on 1760 F Cong Thornberry, Wash Marvin Callie and Jim Bird (Houston) Art and Bruce Kowert F Ben Wooten (Dallas) re: for Johnsons Dec. 31 prior to Cotton Bowl Game Woody, Austin 11:30a 11
Lyndon Johnson's 1954 Desk Diary I, beginning 5/7/1954 (Item)
  • , Time Mlga.zine Senator HUm.phrey Peyton McKnight ( Senator Hill Senator Russell Bill Kittrell Ed Hyde in Senator Sparkman's office Gerry Siegel Bobby Baker Skeeter John V. Singleton in Houston ( Don Cart~r (of. Dallas) in New York Wright Patman
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1946" (Item)
  • 1945 12/26/45 LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) goes to Austin intending to spend only ten days, part of which he spends in Dallas with Speaker Rayburn. January 1/8 Stag party honoring Sam Rayburn is scheduled at summer cabin on the shores of Lake Texoma. LBJ
Folder, "Our American Government (Ziff Davis Publishing Company)," Papers of Wright Patman, Box 120-C (Item)
  • atman. I am I Mr. B. G. Davia Auauat 11, 1948 Page 2 P.S. Juat before the new COJ13reaa opens, I will aend you new to the ·House and Senate in blank, which you can uae to accommodate your friend ■ when they come to Waahtnston,. similar to the ones
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of January of the year after one's election. I was a candidate in 1934 in the new district, the Nineteenth District, that cut Marvin Jones' district about half in two. I ran along with--there were nine of us--no incumbent [who] ran for the position and I
  • How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/22/1967 (Item)
  • meTelephon f In Ou e Whit e Hous e ____ e or t Expendi . Activit oL D Cod tL _ Day_Thur sday y (includ e visite d by ) tur e (Mr. Wal t Rosto w brie f th e Press thi s morning an d said essentiall y that: the meetin g o f the President , Prim e
Reference File, "Dogs (Johnson family's)" (Item)
  • him with his grandparents at the White House and take a short vacation. We sent our dogs along, too-as a bonua. Greatest politician The first morning, when arrived in New York · City, the newspa~r., gave u s a hint of how things were d eveloping
Reference File, "Dogs (Johnson family's)" (Item)
  • him with his grandparents at the White House and take a short vacation. We sent our dogs along, too-as a bonua. Greatest politician The first morning, when arrived in New York · City, the newspa~r., gave u s a hint of how things were d eveloping
President's Daily Diary entry, 1/6/1967 (Item)
  • McPherson (pl) ! i 10:10a j i t George Today issued proclamation for observing Feb. 1967 as American History Month ~~~~ ; | 10:09a | t Moyers (pl) ' —— 1 . I 10:07a t Mike Mansfield Bill ~"\ "' i Sunny this morning, increasing cloudiness
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 15, 15 February 1979," LBJ Library (Item)
  • at the Lyndon Eames Johnson Library m Austin. -The Dallas Morning News November 5, 1978 World War I veteran salutes a11 members of service organizationr;i lay memorial wreathR C remon,>hegin~ at 2 The opening was a community affair. The Austin-Travis County V
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 38, 20 October 1986," LBJ Library (Item)
  • of the Texas Association for the tudy of Afromerican Life and History, Inc.; mem rs of the ibrary's oral history staff; and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Craig Flournoy, whose report of the event for the Dallas Morning New contained the following excerpts
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the editors of the conservative publications that were not sympathetic to Johnson anyway were not present at this thing--the Dallas [Morning] News was not there; maybe one editor was, but not the top people. They were dissatisfied by and large. They did
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and press assistant to then-Representative Jacob K. Javits from what was then the Twenty-first Congressional District of New York, which is the upper west side of Manhattan ranging at that time from West 114th Street north to the end of the island
Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1954" (Item)
  • was “Setting a new and dangerous policy by not informing his colleagues in advance of the night session. Governor Shivers is in Washington to protest with the Veterans Administration against a proposed transfer of the Dallas district VA office to Denver. LBJ
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
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Force One in Dallas on that day in November of 1963. Many times in his political career President Johnson was referred to by the news media as a political animal. Yes, President Johnson had been a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was asking Maury who he should hire to handle his stuff in NYA. And he recom- mended Herbert Henderson, you know. G: Oh, really? J: Yes, we were having breakfast that morning. Lyndon had Bill White. Bill had forgotten this until I reminded him
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to Congress on April 10, 1937, through the elimination of ten opponents . His campaign was based on strong support for President Roosevelt's New Deal program . iii : Did you work i n that campaign? B: Yes,sir, in a general way . the Of course he
President's Daily Diary entry, 3/1/1966 (Item)
  • and Regional Directors of HEW to meet \\ith him and the Regional Directors of HEW for coffee for CONGRESSIONAL r) this morning, and it occu -red to Senator MauReen Neuberger Congresswoman Leonard K. Sullivan him tha t the President might like Senator John
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: EDIE ADAMS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Miss Adams, first of all, how did you get mixed up in politics? A: Well, it was the 1964 campaign. Before that I really felt that anyone
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, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • we call Long News Service which is an independent Capitol News Service. We correspond for eighteen daily newspapers in Texas. Among them the San Antonio Light, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Beaumont Enterprise, EI Paso Herald-Post, Texarkana
Telephone conversation # 3113, sound recording, LBJ and WILLARD WIRTZ, 4/23/1964, 12:01PM (Item)
  • PRESS STORY ON NEW YORK CENTRAL LABOR STRIKE; RAILROAD DISPUTE SETTLEMENT; CHARLES LUNA; LBJ'S MEETING WITH RAILROAD UNION LEADERS THIS MORNING
Telephone conversation # 6756, sound recording, LBJ and BUFORD ELLINGTON, 1/29/1965, 7:18PM (Item)
  • LBJ AND ELLINGTON DISCUSS THEIR COLDS; ELLINGTON TELLS LBJ HE IS READY TO JOIN THE ADMINISTRATION, ASKS LBJ TO TIME ANNOUNCEMENT SO THAT DEMOCRATIC MORNING NEWSPAPERS GET NEWS FIRST, TELLS LBJ HE HAD DISCUSSED HIS JOB WITH MARVIN WATSON
Telephone conversation # 7941, sound recording, ABE FORTAS and ROBERT MCNAMARA, 5/20/1965, time unknown (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF PRESS STORIES THIS MORNING IN WASHINGTON POST ABOUT DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; CABLE FROM MCGEORGE BUNDY ABOUT HIS POSSIBLE RETURN TO WASHINGTON; MCNAMARA TELLS FORTAS HE WILL COME TO WH FOLLOWING HIS MEETING WITH NEW ZEALAND DEFENSE MINISTER
Telephone conversation # 11910, sound recording, LBJ and JULIAN GOODMAN, 6/21/1967, 9:50AM (Item)
  • "PRESIDENT OF NBC";"RE PAULINE ON THE MORNING SHOW SAYING KOSYGIN IS MEETING PRES. JOHNSON WHEN IN FACT K. HAS NOT AGREED TO MEET THE PRES."
  • LBJ DISCUSSES CONTINUING EFFORTS TO ARRANGE MEETING BETWEEN LBJ AND ALEXSEI KOSYGIN DURING KOSYGIN'S VISIT TO UN AND PROBLEMS THAT NEWS REPORTS ABOUT POSSIBLE MEETING HAVE CREATED; SOVIET PROBLEMS IN MIDDLE EAST, CHINA, VIETNAM; POLITICAL TURMOIL
Telephone conversation # 12105, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN LINDSAY, 8/24/1967, 10:02AM (Item)
  • "LOCAL SHOREHAM HOTEL"; "TO MAYOR JOHN LINDSAY AT SHOREHAM HOTEL RELATIVE TO NEWS LEAK ABOUT WALTER WASHINGTON BEFORE APPOINTMENT IS DEFINITE..."; "THE PRES IN HIS BEDROOM EITHER EVENING OF AUG 23 OR MORNING OF AUG 24, 1967"; "MAYOR JOHN LINDSAY?"