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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
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
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
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I However, way back there several months ago, I wrote a memorandum recommending that he not run and I got no reaction from him at that time." So anyhow I left and I went into Lyndon's bedroom the morning of April 1, and he was playing
Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • for a news bureau which represented newspapers in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Wichita Falls, and Amarillo. So I started covering Lyndon Johnson then, and Liz--I think you've already interviewed her, Joe--wrote a column called "Southern Accents
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , you know; there wasn't much around. We wound up, the two of us, on the back seat of this car on a beautiful Sunday morning seeing Fulton Market and all that part of New York. A couple of hours cost us the magnificent sum of $5.00. That was either
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . . . . It was my habit every morning to come into the Speaker's lobby some time between 8 :00 and 8 :30 to read the news papers . It was a habit of Sam Rayburn's single morning . he did it every Just the two of us would be in that lobby together, and through
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that regard. Then he had the [Allan] Shivers conflict, which was very exciting for me to live through, because as a young woman, even though we had to go to the Capitol at times and run the robotype machines at three o'clock in the morning-(Interruption) Let's
Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • on the payroll. G: Just brand new then. I see. What had his background been? What was his professional experience? T: Whose? G: Mr. Teague's. T: He flew for Herman Heap here. G: Herman Heap? I see. T: And Continental Gas Pipeline in Houston, quite
  • (then) belonging to Emil Hartmann; the search for the plane; waiting for news of the wreck at the Teague home; events leading up to the plane's departure from Austin; Harold Teague's conversation with Homer Thornberry regarding the flight; the layout of the plane's
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • been in other parts of Texas, for Mr. Johnson over Mr. Stevenson was the right-towork law. The right-to-work law had been proclaimed by The Dallas Morning News and was picked up and eventually was incorporated partially into the Taft-Hartley Act
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went in the hospital? Was he at all senile? H: He never declined mentally. time he was lucid. elected to Congress. His mind was just as bright the last Two days before he died Henry Gonzalez was I got the Dallas News about six o'clock
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 O: The Oregon primary was hotly contested. [Eugene] McCarthy showed a better organization than he had shown
  • Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) loss to Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primary; support for RFK going into the New York primary; concerns going into the California primary and memories of 1960 California problems with Edmund "Pat" Brown; the RFK/McCarthy
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the summertime for the Humble Oil Company in Baytown, Texas, in the research department . I dropped out of the University of Texas, where I had been going to school . I stayed at Baytown, and during the course of my employment there the New Deal came along
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1982 INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE E. REEDY INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me start with a general question about 1953. Eisenhower Administration has come in. Of course, the I wanted
Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in those days. G: You mentioned when we were talking this morning about Minnie Lee Pattillo [Taylor] campaigning, I suppose, for a county commissioner's position. L: Yes. And as it turned out, the candidate [she opposed] was a first cousin of my mother
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • further about my status as the designee, or soon-to-be designated as the new military aide. Until one morning, one of the sergeants who worked on the White House logistics staff--mail handler and classified mail clerk, fellow named Duffy, fine man, just
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on a speech on this." During this early period, of course--this was toward the end of the first session of the Eighty-Ninth Congress--we had sometimes two and three bill signings a day. So we were up to four or five in the morning every night just turning
  • Kintner replaced Valenti; expanded writing staff; Larry O’Brien; 90 to 100 items a day marked in Congressional Record for LBJ who read each morning; LBJ never forgot opposition, insults or slights; Stewart Udall called LBJ "a man of the land;" Hardesty
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • shall ever have. A few things become quickly apparent. This is a whole new ball game. If I am to continue on the debate team, my outside activities will be largely confined to after-school practice and visits to the city library in the search of arcane
  • in Dallas.
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not too much attention to that election. lid read the paper every morning but I wasn't just carried away with all the news about it. I read the paper every morning now. live always read the paper every morning, just to see what's going on in the world
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . breakfast with him in the morning? have breakfast with you, 1 said, "Lyndon, and he I not only will but J'll arrange a luncheon for all the delegates in southwestern Pennsylvania. " M: This was prior to the convention in 1960? B: Prior
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • practically wrote a layman's handbook. B: I did my best to, because I felt that was crucial. You had to keep them with you there. F: All right. Now then, the President was murdered down in Dallas and you have a new President. Did it ever occur to you
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • growing years, and went to college at Wayne University in Detroit. Detroit is really--I still consider it home even though I came to Washington in World War II, 1942, and got a job as copy girl for the old Washington Daily News. I then went to UP
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Pat Coon and Ben Woodall, two lawyers who distinguished themselves later in a practice at Dallas. I watched that trial and I was so interested in it that I cut class and watched it to the end. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . About one o'clock in the morning I got a call from Coke Stevenson saying that they had lost something that I had done and they wanted to know if I'd come up and dictate it again. I said, yes, I would. My recollection is I had already undressed
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • me to New York to work at the United Nations and all those kinds of things. But that is how I got to know John Connally, whom Senator Connally wanted to run his re-election campaign. John Connally refused him. There was really very little doubt
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the evening said to the Vice President, "What are you going to say tomorrow, Mr. Vice President?" And he said, "Well, whatever Joe has written for me," at which I kind of gleamed a little in a quiet way. The next morning then as the local major domo we had
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . G: What was LBJ's relationship with organized labor that you recall? W: Taft-Harley Bill entered into that somewhere or another. G: Yes. He voted for Taft-Harley. W: I believe that's right. G: The reason I ask is in June the Dallas Morning
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And then the year 1951 came in with a little gathering that became a part of a succession of years. We went to the Hornadays. He was a newspaperman, Walter and Ann Hornaday. [I] think he was head of the Dallas News Bureau [Hornaday was a writer for the Dallas
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ORAL HISTO RY COLLECTI ON Narrator Gerald C. Mann · & Gerald C. Mann Jr~
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ?" This went on for some time, and they finally told me that they'd had my orders changed and rewritten and that I was going to be in charge of a training group on Martha's Vineyard. They were opening a new training school at Martha's Vineyard, and they were
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW VI DATE: February 11, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: [Let me ask you about some] issues in 1963. O: Yes. First of all, [I'll try
  • following the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu; JFK's attitude toward Vietnam and O'Brien's opinion of what JFK might have done if he had lived; LBJ's decision to ride on Air Force One from Dallas to Washington D.C. after JFK's assassination
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • life into your new? C: I never did. My mother still at this moment has some things at home that she packed up from the sorority house that day. I guess the only thing that I did as far as going to check in at that life again was to take off one day
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW V DATE: April 7, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 1 K: Now you can start with the tax thing or-- G: Let's do. Let me ask you about the effort to enact
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • candidacy. lllid on Sundays during that campaign, a campaign which I'll never forget, we used to all assemble - all the members of l~. Symington's campaign team used to assemble at his home for breakfast on Sunday morning, to LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the Secret Service on the new draft that would detail all of the agencies that they could command in the course of their task of protecting Presidential candidate or his family. And I was awakened at about 5 o'clock in the morning, the day that Robert
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- II -- 6 unequalled. this program. Johnson saw this, and this is the reason that he went for We used to talk about it about six o'clock every morning. G: What about
  • acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; whistle stop train trip through the South; Bart Lytton; helicopter incident in Rocky Bottom, South Carolina; New Orleans
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that he was going to run? Do you remember where you heard the news? O: The bustle, the hustle, bustle in his office one morning. People were running in and people were running out. And then I just plain overheard it from him. He says, "Well, running
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with my wife to upstate New York to visit her father and they started phoning me there--yes, that's right--they phoned me there several times. Also, he had the man from Dallas call me-- the man who had originally put me and Jenkins in touch with one
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , l987 INTERVIEWEE: WILLARD DEASON INTERVIEWER: Christie L. Bourgeois PLACE: Mr. Deason's residence, Austin, Texas Tape l of l, Side l B: Mr. Deason, I'd like to start this morning by having you tell me a little bit about Wilson County where you
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: GEORGE BALL INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Ball's office in New York City Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're George Ball, and during the Johnson Administration you served as under secretary [of state