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  • of that Doctrine as well as the terms of the Monroe Doctri.1e. Caracas Conference resolution is embodied in this resolution. But we must recognize changing times and changing conditions which call for a reaffirmation of that doctrine. We must bring it into line
  • him say that but what I don't remember the way that car took off in Dallas [sic]. It zoomed. And at the same time, this great big old boy from Georgia [Rufus Youngblood] said, "Down!" And he got on top ofme. I knew then this was no normal operation
  • all day, except for meeting Mr. & Mrs. Graham Purcell at Friendship and stopping by Thornberry office staff party. 1/29 Attends coffee in McCormack’s office for Purcell. Meets with Gene Chambers; Bob Donovan (Times Herald); Andrew Heiskell (Life
  • arrived this morning fm Neiman-Marcus in Dallas (the President had ordered for Mrs. Johnson --and the President said "here let me carry it -- it's my wife!" Upstairs in the Mansion LUNCH w/Secy McNamara Secy Fowler Joe Califano McN, Fowler & J. Califano
  • Houston San Antonio Austin eto. The main thing is not to miss the daily happenings as they occur, and to get the news in time · to make useful suggestions., if possible. What about Dorsa, or one of the girls in the Dallas office of the Johnson campaign
  • . time really: They were contemporaries in Martin Winfrey and the other one. But, anyway, he was very, very well known in Texas politically, and nationally for that matter. His father at one time was police commissioner of Dallas and was very well
  • ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; Walter Jenkins; Goldberg suggesting that LBJ take the oath of office in Dallas from Judge Sarah Hughes after the JFK assassination; appointment to Court of Appeals; Court of Appeals procedures from 1966-1969
  • . expense~ That put an end to my travels until I got into aviation and finally into World War II, before I ever got to take in a good part of the rest of the world. But Dallas has always appealed to me. I've been away from it several times but I've
  • , with the beginning of the Nixon Administration in January of '69. I've been here a year and a hal f. F: Hhen did you first get acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? W: The first time I met him was when I was district attorney in Dallas. F: You weren't active
  • for two offices ; and as the Democratic precinct chairman (which office he held at that time and I believe was automatically a member of the Dallas County Democratic Executive Committee, as such), asked us to file a lawsuit, and paid us to do so, as I
  • and then lots of casual dinners for staff, newspaper friends, other senators. We began to branch out more in that year. The children's doctor was Dr. John Washington, who would come any time of day or night, if he felt that tone in your voice that said, "I'm
  • and practice law with [Alvin] Wirtz, and I had to give up my lucrative practice of being a good-time boy down in Mexico and coming to work for Lyndon, one of the first things that [happened], here come the papers through for Charlie Herring to be federal
  • Merriam of the Dallas Times Herald, as well as with Stewart Alsop. The Harold Stuarts host a mint julep party in honor of the Bentsens. 6/5 LBJ greets students from Gladewater, Texas at the Capitol Rotunda. 6/7 Maury Maverick dies in his sleep at Nix
  • , e.nd will l et you know. V1 lf' you are going to cell tomorrow. let• a sign night. orr-. It's late. Good­ Frank Bttldwin. Editor Waco Herald Tribune, l!I.Jld C. E. M. Tuesday 11115 P• m. M1 How is this thing coming down 1n ·central Te~aa1 More
  • any time to ask questions. So Walter Hornaday of the Dallas [Morning] News, who is now dead, wanted to ask him some questions, and of course Walter would try to interject a word, interrupt and get in. Lyndon would say, "Now be quiet. minute
  • . GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Busby's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: I arrived in Washington on the afternoon of March 16 [1948] and met with the Congressman [Johnson] for the first time about seven o'clock that night. When I was at the Kennedy
  • , 1970 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY ASHMORE INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Santa Barbara, California Tape 1 of 3 F: Mr. Ashmore, let's talk first chronologically. let's give a very brief resume of your life up to the time that you began to emerge
  • . . ."there's no point in going to a point two hours away from a city. . taking our time and their time. . . and having no crowd. ") Mayor Bryant of Summervsille welcomed the President. Governor Smith made brief remarks Senator Jennings Randolph introduced
  • other agency in Texas. He has been associated -2- with Radio Stations WFM in Dallas , KTRH in Houston, and KrrAT in Fort Worth, as well as other smaller stations in the state. At one time he was Program Director of the Southwest Broadcasting System
  • extensive damage to its public airport facilities located at Foster Field during Hurri­ cane Carla. As a result of this damage, we requested that we be designated a major disaster area under the provisions of Public Law 875 and were in due time so designated
  • came out of the assassination, regarding its location, was the very strong anti-Dallas, anti-Texas feeling on the part of a lot of people. Certainly that encompassed a great number of Kennedy people. The viewpoint I would hear repeatedly [was], "I would
  • How John F. Kennedy's (JFK) assassination affected the reputation of Dallas and Texas; the emotional toll of JFK's and Robert Kennedy's (RFK) deaths on O'Brien; being asked to identify the missal that was used when Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) took his oath
  • I ,"f"'- • FOR RELEASE UPON DELIVERY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1964 - 5:15 p . m. EST REMARKS BY MRS. LYNDON B . JOHNSON THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA Mrs. Sanders, the wife of your governor , tells me this is great quail country. I don't have time today
  • in 1949, post-war. One of my patrons went to Dallas to drive a garbage truck at $2,400 a year. and went to Dallas. He was a farmer So I sponsored a bill at the time I got to the legislature, to raise the minimum salary, House Bill 8, to raise
  • , newspaper people--there were days when we got along much better with the press than in the later years of the presidency--and Texans. Among them there was Albert Jackson, who actually ran the Dallas Times Herald. Mr. [Tom] Gooch--it was their family
  • VICE PRESIDENT LYNDO N B. JOHNSON DAILY DIARY The Vice Presiden t began his day at (place) Entry No. Telephone f or t Time Lo 1 9:30a 2 3 4 5 10:45a 11:00a 11:05a t 11:12a 6 7 8 9 11:43a 11:53a 12:00n 12:30p 10 l:17p 11 2:42p 12 2:55p 13 3
  • Monda VICE PRESIDENT LYNDO N B . JOHNSON - Day DAILY DIARY The Vice President began his day at (place). Entry No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Time Telephone fo rt Lo 9:30a 9:40 10:00
  • SENATOR LYNDO N B . JOHNSO N DAILY DIAR Y The Senator began his day at (place). Entry Time Telephone fo rt No. Lo 1 2 3 4 10:00a 11:00a 11:15a 11:30a 5 6 12:00n 1:00p 7 8 9 10 11 1:30p 2:30p 3:00p 3:15p 3:30p 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
  • in 1957 to fill Price Daniel's seat, did not want to run that year. Congressman Bruce Alger of Dallas, who was our sole Republican congressman at that time, did not choose to run. And so the party asked me, since I could articulate the party viewpoint
  • off last time with Johnson coming into the White House and those early days, I don't suppose it made any great difference in your life in the Senate except that you did have a new President. And things were a bit torn up at that time. T: Well, when I
  • Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald. Meets Mr. & Mrs. J.H. McCammon at Baker Hotel at 4:50 p.m. and attends public reception in hotel ballroom. Sen. Monroney phones re: Oklahoma visit. Dinner in suite with CCC, Carl Phinney, Gene Locke, Cong
  • PLACE: Mr. Bullion's office, Republic National Bank Building, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born, when, and where did you get your education? B: I was born in Eden
  • to the dining room to confer w/ Mrs. Johnson and Mr. Roy White on plans for theTHHHHH^: construction of their bedrooms at the Ranch House. Plans are to enlarge the President and Mrs. Johnson's bedrooms. President 5 min said Col. Harold Byrd, from Dallas ] Mr
  • purposely--there was no advantage or disadvantage of putting somebody over in Dallas, because they were at the convention anyway. Well, that's the only time and place they could do any good was at the convention. I remember (laughter) somebody criticizing me
  • people; the 1956 Texas State Democratic conventions; Shivers' offer of support to Price Daniel as his successor as governor; J. J. "Jake" Pickle in Daniel's campaign; the precinct and county Democratic convention in Dallas in May 1952; the power
  • , former defense secretary who left the government on 10/8, but said this decision might be “reconsidered” in view of Wilson’s statements to a New York Herald Tribune reporter on 12/30 disclaiming responsibility for holding down military spending. Wilson
  • voting records of any member of Congress, non-Constructive all his life, through his ability to glibly express himself is a Presidential possibility. _ -DALLA$.TIMES HERALD' Mo~tViciousEnemy :'of tneChurch ·Th~~- ;.;;;_tvicious enemy or the ·ch\m:h
  • , for one year and transferred to TCU for a year and, of course, no degrees either place. I entered the business world just before the stock -market crash of 1929, a very inappropriate time to start something, but [it was] a very educational experience
  • , 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
  • has told me many, many times how pleased he was that I showed my colors_and joined with other loyal Democrats in support of Stevenson. I remember on one occasion we had a big meeting--it seems to me it was the fair grounds in Dallas-where Stevenson
  • --it was noisier outside and around the aircraft, but there was--you would hear--the transmission had a distinct whine to it that you could hear all the time. G: When you were working out the plans in Dallas for what you would do, was there one LBJ Presidential
  • for the campaign trip; the logistics and staff work involved in the helicopter-based campaign; costs associated with using the helicopter; public reaction to LBJ's speeches and the helicopter; LBJ shaking hands; typical flight times and experiences for pilot, Jim
  • ugliness in Dallas toward Johnson [the Adolphus Hotel incident], when he'd been up there he'd been spit on one time in public, a mess. I just didn't see any point in having these big parades, but I wasn't consulted. And they had this parade and all
  • ; the Brazos River Authority; LBJ makes a last visit to Temple, Texas; at the Dallas Trade Mart with Storey Stemmons during the JFK assassination; LBJ is faithful to his friends; investigating the M-16 rifle; observing the Tet Offensive; Ted Connell; the press
  • was elected. So I became very interested in politics at that time, running my own race. M: What year were you elected? B: I was elected in--well, let me see, 1938. I was elected the year Bill Boyd was born. I spent a great deal of time studying
  • nomination; Lady Bird Johnson being spat on at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas; the 1952 presidential campaign; LBJ's career in the 1950s; Allan Shivers and his relationship with Rayburn; Rayburn turning down the vice presidential nomination in 1944 and how