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Senate Daily Diary entry, 7/3/1960 (Item)
  • To home to bed 2. Home all morning Guest on College News Conference television show 4. Home all afternoon With Mrs. Johnson fo r dinner at the Gene Worley's Selected names should be underscored. SEE VERSO FOR TRAVEL ACTIVITY AND CODE Page No.
Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)
  • two or three ladies sitting there; I didn't know what their role was. So what? A: This is in New York? R: Yes. One piped up--what was it? Well, "Mr. Rosenthal, you will see me on Monday morning at 10:30 at my office on Times Square." "Yes ma'am
  • family home in Cologne, Germany; photography methods and a photograph of LBJ in Austin with the Jewish Brotherhood; the work of the Joint Distribution Committee and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in New York and Amsterdam; LBJ's involvement
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , I had no call to be of any personal assistance to President Eisenhower . THB : Then, sir, after the election of John F . Kennedy as President, what was your status? B: The election of John F . Kennedy was general news and information to all of us
  • Medical training; first association with White House; President Eisenhower; General Snyder; Dr. Tkach; Kenneth O'Donnell; Dr. Janet Travell; Dr. Eugene Cohen; Dr. Pep Wade; Dr. Hans Kraus; events in Dallas; campaign travel with LBJ; Dr. Cain; Dr
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • then. B: But your papers did have a record of supporting the Democratic nominee. H: yes! B: Mr. Harte, we've sort of skipped around, but generally that brings us I remember in 194-- I think the Dallas News even supported Roosevelt then. w
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • " but I said, "I want to write news stories and features," and at first he wasn't going to consider it at all. I said, "I'd like to work through the summer for nothing if you'll just let me work here and learn it. I know this is what I want to do!" 5
President's Daily Diary entry, 6/10/1967 (Item)
  • /Marvi n Watso n -- walke d int o Mrs . Roberts ' offic e j sayin g "wel l there' s Mis s Yoland a kar d a t wor k s o earl y i n the morning . " n gav e Mrs . Robert s instruction s o n engraving t o b e pu t o n accutron watc h the Presiden t gav e Sec
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not have co-channels within, I believe it was, 220 miles. So if you had a Channel 7 in Austin and you wanted to put a Channel 7 in Dallas, Austin being nearer than 220 miles, then the Dallas signal and the Austin signal would just go head on. Presumably
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • came back to the office and answered some phone calls and went to lunch. While sitting at lunch in the White House Mess the telephone rang with the news from Dallas. Of course we did not know at that moment that the wounds necessarily were fatal
President's Daily Diary entry, 8/23/1967 (Item)
  • / RECORD: Robert Baskin of the Dallas Morning News (Bob) Johns on \; jflHH^ Appointment 2 . -i requested by Mr. Baskin--interested in doing birthday story VHITE House Date August DENT LYNDON B . JOHNSON MARY President began his day at(Place) Time
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the morning press which (I hoped) would also be positive. Much more important, my idea was that I felt certain I could get my old Treasury boss, Bob Anderson ­ Dillon's predecessor, who was held in high esteem abroad to come down from New York City
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIHJEES: GOVERNOR AND NRS. RICHARD HUGHES (Betty Hughes) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Hughes' home in Princeton, New Jersey Tape 1 of 2 F: First of all, Governor Hughes, tell us briefly where you came from, how you gradually moved up
  • Meeting LBJ in 1959; Governor of New Jersey, 1961; LBJ and Kosygin held a meeting at Glassboro State College; Kosygin’s daughter, Dr. Gvishiana, joined Lady Bird, Lynda and Mrs. Hughes for lunch at Island Beach; Ramsey Clark; candidates, 1966-1968
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Truman Democrat and I am an Orval Faubus Democrat." F: And never the twain shall meet! H: That experience~ of course, is beside the point, except that it brings us together in this matter of geography. F: I think New York City is beginning to get
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But at the beginning Johnson thought that he would take as many newspapermen with him as he possibly could, and actually it turned out that there were not very many that could go along. As I recall, Allen Duckworth from the Dallas News [and] Maggie [Margaret] Mayer, I
Vice-President's Daily Diary entry, 11/19/1963 (Item)
  • To Austin Municipal Airport via bonanza w/ Rufus Youngblood, Mr. Kellam, MF - arr.at 9: 12 To Dallas, Texas, arriving at 10:40 Drive to New Market Hall w/ Carl Phinney and Cliff Carter VP speaks to American Bottlers Convention - Market Hall To Love Field w
Senate Daily Diary entry, 8/13/1959 (Item)
  • to group of Christian church Senate Johnson opened the Senate Secretary Anderson f Governor Robert Meyner, New Jersey re: nomination of Phil Foreman for federal judge left for House steps to see and hear Texas choir boys Mr. and Mrs. Murray Marshall (Dallas
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Wolters stalked up to my table and saluted and said, "Lieutenant, what are you doing here?" When I told him I was on my way to Mexico, he blandly said, "Well, all of us are away from our jobs, and you'll report to Camp Hutchins tomorrow morning
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you pack a bag and come with me, fly in my plane to Fort Worth and we can go on to Dallas the next day and then be with me in Austin for the dinner," and then I could fly back to Houston on Saturday morning when they went back to Washington. My
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : In 1954? W: Yes. G: Really? W: Absolutely. The same people. G: Well, let's talk about the first convention. W: Was it in Dallas? G: One was in Dallas, the other one was in Fort Worth. I guess the first one was Dallas. W: The first one
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , hardly--and it was the leading station here for most of those years. KVET came along probably in about 1947 or 1948 and it always commanded a good audience. At one time it had a news broadcast, Stuart Long, at ten o'clock at night that LBJ
Folder, "Ex FG 618 Federal Executive Board," WHCF FG, Box 372 (Item)
  • •• We muat seek new way• to better serve the public . ...._ 1 am gratlfled that you continue to communicate wltb and encoura1e other org-anlzatlon• of Federal flold offlc:tal8. The concept of cootdlnated Fede1ral action on national goals at the local
Folder, "Berlin Trip, August 1961," Papers of William F. Jackson, Box 2 (Item)
  • , Hilitary Aide to The Vice President Mr. Baskin, Dallas U ews Mr. Bell, AP Mr. Scali, ABC Miss Hi ggins, New York Herald Tribune Mr . Miller, Time Mr. Greene, New York Daily News j\'h". Alexander, McNaughton Press Mr. Spivak, UPI Mr. Freedman, Manchester
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • weeklies except the Austin paper. And Camp Swift is still there in some capacity. G: Can you recall any other times when you gave him important news like that? R: I don't know. That was just one of the very first times when I had started working for him
  • in a Dallas hotel [the Adolphus Hotel in November 1960?]; the Taft-Hartley amendment; George Parr; LBJ's strategy in the two 1948 primaries; African American support for LBJ in Texas; the death of Rather's father.
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • interviewsII_this was before TV--"on Sundays and make news stories out of them for Monday morning's paper, so why don't you start you a Sunday broadcast and get it wherever you can get it. Furnish a copy or a news story based on it to the wire services and see how
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 8, 15 April 1976," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Folk Art in l'iew York City, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the Witte Museum in San An­ tonio, and Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin. She is currently represented bl Webb and Parsons (,al­ lery in Bedford Village. New York. 3 WOMEN: NEW VOICES
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • margin, though, wasn't it? CH: Very, very narrow margin. As a matter of fact, as I remember, the election was on a Saturday, and the Sunday Dallas News came out with big headlines that Lyndon Johnson had been elected to the Senate. That was before
Folder, "Ex FG 245 Housing and Home Finance Agency, 6/11/65 - 9/23/65" WHCF FG, Box 288 (Item)
  • • to the Urban Development Committee, which waa Jointly obaJnd by Mr. WNver and Dalla ■ J)ffelo,er laymond Na■h•• The IC'l group bellwea th11 would be a parUoularly appropdata Um• to make thia atata1ent, 1n view of lntare ■ t 1n the new De,-nment and the 1•1111
Folder, "Diary: Vol. #8, 6/6/67 – 3/29/68," Papers of Orville Freeman, Box 11 (Item)
  • "new era" programs, I went on to a strong pitch on bargaining power. All of this ' extemporaneous, with bright lights on me and late at night, so I really don't know if it was really worth doing, but apparently it was. Up again early in the morning
Folder, "Ex HU 2/ST 1, 11/23/63- 3/17/65 [EQUALITY OF RACES / ALABAMA]," WHCF HU, Box 24 (Item)
  • , 1965 Mr . Bill D. Moyers Assistant to the President The ·white House Washington, D. C. Dear Mr . Moyers : I was greatly distressed at the report of my Sunday sermon in the WASHINGTON POST this morning. The notice was brief, but was plainly and simply
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape #1) NOVEMBER 10, 1969 F: This is an interview with Helen Gahagan Douglas in her apartment in New York on November 10, 1969. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Mrs. Douglas, briefly run over your career, at least get
Folder, [Correspondence and clippings from James and Peter Mangan], Papers of James W. Mangan, Box 1 (Item)
  • by the co1 mitt~. Usually, there's only a few vpt difference from the unofficial electi, night figures; this time there was tremendous change." DuBosedispatch, the new figw:es to the Election Bureau Dallas. Salas said that in a book he is writiJ about
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Dallas, the old firm my father had 'way back in 1881. So I would go to Austin sometimes when the legislature was meeting, quite often, other times not so often. I met Mr. Johnson there as Youth Administrator, and I think I knew him slightly when he
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is May 11, 1971. I'm in l~orth, Texas. It is about 9:30 in the morning, and my name is David McComb. First of all, to get some background on you, Mr. McLean: Where were you born and when, and where did you get your education? HM: I have to first
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 47, 1 July 1990," LBJ Library (Item)
  • . A month later, some of them joined members of the Friends of the LBJ Library for a celebration that saw I ,600 people dining on the Library's plaza (see cover photo). At both the Washington and Austin events, a new film titled "LBJ: A Remembrance
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Dallas and Houston, Austin and San Antonio . I'm sure you're aware that the NYA was really a supplemental program to WPA . We were really to try to provide useful employment and training to secondary breadwinners in the family . The breadwinner
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/10/1968 (Item)
  • by ) The Presiden t remaine d i n his bedroo m muc h o f the morning , makin g telephone call s an d talking to various staf f members . 8:20a t Dal 9:02a f r e Meek s - Ft . Worth , Texa s . Marvi n Watso n - Washingto n 9:06 a t Dal e Maleche k - LB J Ranc
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/14/1968 (Item)
  • _: to Dale Fehmer at parent's home"" Meeks _ ______________„ During the course of lunch the President decided to have Dale Meeks fly th e Krim's to Dalla s instead of the K Krim's driving to San Antonio fly back to New York. He said that the Krim's would
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the vaudeville circuit, and it was not until the next morning when I went to the Capitol to be put on the payroll and was met by these battalions of people wearing green that I came to appreciate that the Irish were one of the great sub-forces in American
Vice-President's Daily Diary entry, 6/15/1961 (Item)
  • (include June 15, 1961 visited by)* Code LD Cabinet Meeting VP opened the Senate; VP swore in the new Texas Senator, Tower. Just before the swearing-in Rev. and Mrs . Towe r (Senator Tower's parents); his wife, sister and children cam e into P-38
Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • that I met John Connally. I remember that he introduced me to Senator Johnson just after he was elected, I think by just a few votes. B: That's correct. G: It was at a dinner either in Dallas or Fort Worth. Senator Johnson said that he had heard
Folder, "Hoover Commission," Papers of Drew Pearson, Georgetown Files, Box G 285 (Item)
  • , New York ot my (€1Jrouitle Dtmocmf ... MORNING AND SUNDAY ROCHESTER NEW YORK 4, November 9, 1955 Dear Mr. Pearson: In answer to my query regarding where I could lay my hands on some real, undoctored lowdown on Herbert Clark Hoover's mysterious