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Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the ladies ready-to-wear department at Goldstein-Migel Company. After that I decided I wanted to travel, so I picked up a dress line out of Dallas, which was Justin McCarthy line of dresses and did some traveling there. M: What did you do, travel all over
Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • No, maybe [to] some brokers Anyway, my God, there it was in the New York Times the next morning, where else could a minister's son be a candidate, he was going to cut out the waste. President. G: It's there. P: It's there. I remember writing a letter
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was still strictly on a volunteer basis; this was a part of the campaign organization. Then he won the Democratic nomination and went on"to win the election as United States Senator in November, 1948. And on June 8, 1949, he called me one morning--8
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • which for all intents and purposes was a legal holiday but still he said, "You be at your desk at eight o'clock in the morning." That was after working beyond micnight on New Year's Eve. Well, two guys--and I rememQer one of them but I don't remember
Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was just awful. So I don't I was able to get one guy, one man, John Hicks from KRLD in Dallas, and he and I really did almost everything. G: Did you replace the salesmen, get some new salesmen? W: Yes, sure did. G: What was Jesse Kellam's role
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Washington Star or the Washington Post or the New York Times, or in those days the New York Herald Tribune, the story hadn't been published with LBJ. I should add one other paper, the Austin-Statesman, or, you know, the Dallas News or the Dallas Times-Herald
  • and President Kennedy; Presidential scholar ceremony invitee list; Laitin losing his code name; LBJ not wanting people to know who he was taking to Camp David; how the press manipulate the people who release the news; LBJ’s relationship with the press; the focus
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • stood in all of those doors that read Look Magazine and New York Herald Tribune and a lot of publications that I was too intimidated to even go in. bureau for twenty-six dailies in Michigan. She had a news For twenty-five dollars a week I could
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • your sentiments. W: Oh, yes, Walter did that night. F: Did you see the new nominee the next day at all? W: No, we left early the next morning. . , We went on up and we watched his acceptance on TV, I believe, but we didn't stay for that. We
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Is this background information all correct? W: It is all correct. It is true that I was executive assistant to the President of Lone Star Steel, but I officed in Dallas although our home was in Daingerfield. P: When did you first meet Lyndon Johnson and what were
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Research Institute of America, again, one of these news services for big business executives like the Kiplinger Washington Letter. Toward the end of World War II, I went out to the Far East as a war correspondent for Reuters, the British news agency, and I
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and had brought all of these extra delegations to be heard in Dallas . So just as we were ready to present my name, this was early in the morning, we were ready to present my name to the convention for a vote, some man broke into the hall and ran down
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • greatly appreciated. r might add I campaigned for him for re-election in 1946. F: He needed you in that. S: ~-and F: You were in Dallas in 1948 v/hen he had his kidney stones. also in 1948 when he ran for the Senate. Cochran flew in. th.e
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Texas . Realizing that Congressman Johnson was not known very widely outside of the Tenth Congressional District, we made a pretty good campaign . In fact, on the morning after the election, the Dalla s Morni ng Nevus had a headline, "Congressman
  • Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 If he was in an area where the paper had--say we were in East Texas--why Dawson Duncan of the Dallas News or Allen Duckworth or Dick Morehead were along, he would be sure
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: IRVING GOLDBERG INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Judge Goldberg's office in Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Judge, tell us something about your background. Where you are from, and how you got to this point of being a circuit
  • ; 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
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Texas, in Belton, and lived there a good portion of my early life. I graduated from high school in the Depression years, when it was practically impossible to get any \vork. In 1933 I was offered a job as an employment service manager for a new U. S
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • Interview -- 6 The significant thing of the 1941 campaign, which I think everyone needs to understand, is that Johnson, in my judgment, won that race. We were convinced of it. The Dallas Morning News, ran the Texas Election Bureau, which was an unofficial
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab." to stay. So I
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , a quivering young reporter from Galveston who most recently was given an administrativeeditorial position on the Houston Post after many years as their Capitol correspondent; Wick Fowler, who was later a war correspondent for the Dallas News; the brilliant
  • Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Governor Connally did, and plenty of mayors did. The mayor of Oakland, California, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, the mayor of Syracuse--it wasn't political, you understand. They reacted--and not all of them reacted that way. And I want to give you one
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the morning, the majority leader and the minority leader always are at their desks. and the press comes in, and they hold a very brief news conference. So you could see him every day without fa i1 that way. F: Did Johnson show that procl ivity for getting
  • Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • to show up and [inaudible] what this fine man was saying. B: Really, you, as a reporter and especially from a conservative paper like the Dallas Morning News, would actually feel threatened at times? M: Yes. A reporter is not supposed to be part
  • ; higher education for African Americans; Morehead's work for Southern Education Reporting Service and Southern School News; negative press coverage of the South; school integration and racial violence in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957; the legal
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know. The other man you mentioned, Harry Benge Crozier, was a corre­ spondent for the Dallas Morning News ; then became executive secretary of the American Petroleum Institute where he served many years . I don't know when or why he returned to Texas
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • couldn't do that in Chicago. I was going to help him on that when we got back to New York the next morning. Then when I got up the next morning, Sam Rayburn had already had his talk with Lyndon and it was set the other way, and that was that. So, yes
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • The House Ag. Committee then was chaired by Congressman Bob Poage of Waco. I retired last year. G: What year did you come to Washington? E: Reported to work for Associated Press on Monday morning, March 15, 1937. G: Okay. Did you know Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of--was it the Dallas News? G: Well, or the Times Herald. B: Times Herald, yes, Times Herald. G: Tom Clark was there, too, I think. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • forget you start off with twenty-two votes from the ex­ Confederate states. Then you add to that Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, New Mexico, that's another eight [ten] votes, that gets you up to thirty [-two]. Then you pick up a few oddballs here
  • and its results; contrasting of Dallas and Houston.
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in Waco, up in his suite. He had some of the regulars, some of the top state political reporters in his suite, talking to them, stroking them. Felix McKnight was there, from the Dallas News. I'm not sure that Allen [Duckworth] wasn't there, too, but I
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • , telling political stories. So then the next morning--we were assigned different bedrooms or cabins--after breakfast he said, "Well, let's all go in the new office." It wasn't completed then; it was just being built. So we sat on the saw-horses and piles
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I was the advance man in Rome when LBJ, on that round-theworld trip, went to the funeral, as I recall it, in Australia of the prime minister who was drowned, and decided to come by Rome. Then, preceding that, when the Pope came to New York, I did
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • going to be in the book--it could well be called the annual--of the House. They'll have a picture of each committee. G: I suppose that will be your last committee picture, won't it? P: That may be so. G: I remember the morning I saw you last time
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an interview with him. R: You've interviewed him. G: Yes. [Interruption] G: You were saying when Henry Wallace and New Deal agriculture people started the committee-- 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on a non-commercial basis. There were a substantial number of those already in existence, but they lacked substantial funds; could not enter into the FM spectrum, which was a new field that had just opened; they had poor equipment, and they certainly did
  • Biographical information; public educational broadcasting legislation; 1960 campaign; liaison with Eastern states; vice presidential nomination; media campaign; LBJ and JFK in New York; LBJ and television; Cuban Missile Crisis; USIA; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • problem also was a problem of newspapers, too, because they couldn't get all the newsprint paper that they wanted, among them the Dallas [Morning] News, who is someone else that always fought Mr. Johnson. But he saved the day for them as far as their paper
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • than anticipated. G: What about Dallas? Did you 'ever think of duplicating the program in Dallas to reach that audience? D: I didn't do it in Dallas. The bill was $57,000. I raised [a] consid- erable amount of money, and I went up through East
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that morning. way behind schedule. So he was late coming down and we were We started down the road to Dallas, and he looked at his watch and we were going to be late. He just fussed and exploded, and he said, "I loathe being late, and I loathe peo!Jle who
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was there and he was sitting with Allen Duckworth, back in the crowd. You know about Duckworth. G: Political writer for the [Dallas] Morning News. B: Yes. Big, big influence for a period in Texas. It partly was just Duckworth's presence. He walked into a room