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Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 16 S: It all came from my association with this Mexican restaurant owner in Houston, whose philosophy was that they should learn English early. They had a better opportunity in our culture if they did. Shivers had a lot of supporters like this man

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that was Another one though, I think this was the opportunity to see the Peace Corps ; there was a big Peace Corps mission there, I believe, and it was an opportunity to see what was happening . G: Anything on his association with LBJ that you observed during

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that is, in the years that I knew him and worked for him . Now, I had what you would call a casual acquaintance with him when he was in the NYA and when he was a congressman . Then our association started when he was a senator . G: Right . You had talked about

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Judge Powell, who was the uncle of his long-time secretary Mary Rather. Anyway, through the years Senator Johnson had many ties and associations with this firm. F: Let me intrude just a moment. You mentioned the five most important. Can you name

Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to run and would not run--that he had too much to do in the Senate--but still there was a tremendous amount of speculation and comment in the newspapers that he would be a candidate. M: And his immediate staff acted like he might be running? V: Yes

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

about this aspect of it. There are very practical political reasons for that. If you advertised a big rally in Hermann Park and you get two hundred people or three hundred people to show up, it did look bad in the newspaper. But that was the kind

Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. She was attending the joint convention of the National Council of State Garden Clubs in the American Forestry Association. This was one of the first trips, one of the first follow-throughs, after the White House Conference on Natural Beauty_ TOg

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Association about ten days ago, and I had lost that card, so I went out to the back of my office where my father's trunk is . in his trunk . I felt I'd find another one of these cards What I wanted to emphasize to the Northeast Texas Bar Association

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

finally formulated and encompassed in a report called "American Women,ll which was presented to the President. of 163. That was in October At that point the com.mission went out of business. The people who had been associated with the commission

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Presidential years. K: Well, of course, some of that is tactics on Johnson's part. He was wise enough and clever enough to know, once he became President, that the more he could associate Eisenhower in his own actions, the better likelihood there would

Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, because most of the East does have an abundance of water supply, either ground water or streams that can be tapped for ready diversion for irrigation. So the Eastern irrigation up to now has been largely by individual enterprise, farm by farm, without

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--and this is a step-out move--was the acquisi- tion of KANG in Waco. That was the station that I told you had been put on the air by Clyde Weatherby of Hamilton, Texas, whom I always thought of as an honest promoter. ness enterprises. stamps. He's a man

Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and this is one of the reasons that I admire President Johnson--that he in a very real way was running the government toward the latter years of the Eisenhower Administration. Much of the initiative and enterprise in our government toward the late fifties

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connally -- II -- 2 C: No, I really think, so far as I know, it partially developed out of Johnson's friendship with Charlie Marsh. It doesn't predate my time and association, but I was never in on it particularly. Charlie Marsh, as I

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

moved my office to Houston . M: Did you join a law firm here? L: No, I practiced by myself . I had associated with different law firms, just shared offices, but I had an individual practice . M: Why did you move, incidentally, from San Antonio

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. live often wished that lid come from something a little more unique, you know, than just a proper name. But, as that may be, how did you get to Washington, briefly? H: l~ell, I worked on a number of newspapers in North Carolina, the largest

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was. Mr. Rayburn's office was in the Capitol. It was really just a place where friends, some close associates in Congress would get together, it wasn't a big crowd at all, and you couldn't go unless you were invited. Nobody could just decide they'd run
trip to the Mayo Clinic for a kidney stone and his opinion of disclosing health-related information; how the Texas reporters covered LBJ's and Stevenson's campaigns; varying levels of support for LBJ from newspapers around Texas; opposition to LBJ

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as a general assignment reporter for about six months till the end of 1963, then went to Newsweek in early 1964, spent three years there as an associate editor largely in charge of the radio and television departments, otherwise just "swing writing

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of close associations with him when he was Speaker of the House ; and through that I was acquainted with Mr . Johnson, but not to the point that he would have recognized me in a crowd . � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the cattlemen to take protection and all that. G: Right. J: All that stuff affected the King Ranch, you see, and the cattlemen. That was one reason. Then you take it that the general counsel for the Texas Cattle Raisers Association was none other than

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was delivering newspapers in Bishop and I read in the Houston Chronicle that the NYA had been set up, and that he was going to be the administrator of it ; that you could get $15 .50 a month and go to the University by working two hours a day or some such thing

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, say, in 1941 and 1947, a lot of them were gone. Old [Harry] Benge Crozier was a very dear friend of mine. F: Mine, too. B: And you had kind of a different type of newspaper reporter there. Of course, just this last week I was in Dallas and I

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the difference between page one and page seventeen in the newspaper. G: Right. Was it generally divided by importance here? If it were more important, the White House would announce it. B: If it were important to the White House or if it were important

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

heels all the time, and he kept him fairly well out of Texas. Almost all of Johnson's newspaper friends refused to publish Pearson, and one of them continued to get the Pearson column simply so he could notify Johnson of any bad columns that were

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the President reach his conclusions. M: I think perhaps one of the reasons that this has been brought up in some of the articles and publications on the presidency was that in uncovering associations or making a judgment on a personal problem, that you were

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

implying. B: That's what I had reference to. S: I was not associated in those lawsuits. B: Can you now, over a distance of time, make any judgment on the validity of the various charges on all sides of fraud etc., in that election? S: Of course, I

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

night reading together was going to get our piece of paper in there . I think on one or two occasions, perhaps during the time I was Chairman, I had some little complaint or reminder that he had read something in the newspaper that he should have known

Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was afraid that the Court might go off in a direction that would keep us from having an exception. And on the day that the California tidelands case was argued, I went up for the National Association of Attorneys General and made a short friend

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. There are those who call it the "department of dirty tricks." A: It started out, the basic precept of the Five O'Clock Club was that we would take stories that Johnson or people very close to Johnson wouldn't really want to be too closely associated with, dirty

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a two-year appointment to the Atomic Energy Commission from 1952 to 1954. From 1954 to 1960 you were in private law practice in Washington, D.C., and associated with several companies working in the atomic energy field. Also, you co-authored a book

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to write a speech about this, and I agreed to do it . I heard that he wanted to give it at the Associated Press dinner in April, I think, '66 or '67, but I got through with it too late and missed my chance . It could have been a good speech though

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

just drafts that Udall brought over for her to use. I don't remember what portion of my work she may have used or not, but I was the person he turned to to help him to do that for Mrs. Johnson. So, in his mind there was an association between me and her

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Birdwell, and Sugar Pickle, the lively, cute, funny wife of Jake Pickle. Eloise Thornberry, and Margaret Mayer from the newspaper world. When Lyndon came down, he began covering the state, speaking to his usual constituency, associations of postmasters

Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MILLER -- I -- 6 of people, somewhat of a recluse. That is not true at all. delighted in the association with a small group. He And I thought it interesting, too, that he always went to every

Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

handling. You write a letter to an associate, or you may make a reference to someone which is not unkind but may be true, but you don't want it misinterpreted or to get out to the press. You could say so-and-so is a great guy, but he has this weakness
on donations; 1969 tax law; physical move of material to Austin; typical appraisal workday; comparison of working conditions on LBJ and Nixon papers; controversial Nixon deed of gift; President Eisenhower memorandum; personal association with LBJ; Pentagon

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

anything- M: Yes, I was very typical, or, as it turned out, typical of the first year's fifteen Fellows and I believe also of later years. us simply read about it in the newspapers. The vast majority of Publicizing the program has 2 ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. President. I know that your principal newspapers and your key Senators will collapse when I put on the pressure." That's a very good way to have war. The credibility of the President of the United States at a moment of crisis and the fidelity of the United

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

lucky I just think that our association turned out right. For example, in our visit in Korea, the big mix-up when they lost a favorite suit of his, and by luck, more than anything else, I was able to get it back. ing. I retrieved it. There was a big

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[was] that the newspapers constantly say [that] Shivers is going to run against Johnson. Shivers, as I recall, did not vote for Stevenson, because of Stevenson's position on tidelands in 1952. But any time Shivers would come to Washington and Johnson knew about it, he

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