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Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and say, "We're going to go to Bonham," or to Dallas ; it was whether Mr . Rayburn was in the hospital or at home . � � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEW IX DATE: April 9, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3, Side 1 G: Let me ask you to first talk generally about the campaign of 1964 and discuss
  • organizations found in Philadelphia under the leadership of Bill Green, Chicago under the leadership of Richard J. Daley, Minnesota under the leadership of the Democratic-Farm-Labor group, and in Albany, New York; O'Brien's concern about the two-party system
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , just completely like that, he realized that I couldn't take it all the time, so three of uS were put on and we alte rnated weeks on the road, Mary Rather and I and Dorothy Plyler. What it amounted to was we got up at 5: 00 o'clock in the morning
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Adlai Stevenson fan in both of his campaigns. Looking onto the 1960 election, of course, I felt this was a great opportunity for the party. As late as early 1958 I think I was still a Stevenson man. In fact I wrote an article for the New Republic which I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Those are the hallmarks of after an election. I do not remember the time, but at any case the Texas Election Bureau announced that Lyndon was elected with a five thousand vote lead, at some point. So that the next day's paper, the Dallas Morning News
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that meeting got up to make their responses, who all they had been able to enlist and to give their testimonials. The big news that happened while we were at Mayo's was about the helicopter. A bunch of Lyndon's friends, I would say led by Carl Phinney
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • coming down through here and he would--Well, I remember going up to Gonzales some place up in there, and picking him up one morning early in my car ; we worked our way south to Corpus Christi by night ; started at an eight o'clock breakfast in Gonzales
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • members of the House Committee on Armed Services, which had just been created by--[there was] a violent fight over it--the merger, the forcible merger, of the old Naval Affairs Committee and the old Military Affairs Committee into the new Committee
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of 1963, Ed Weisl and I went up to the Hotel Carlyle to visit the President. It was after Dallas, and we sat around for a few hours. F: That's in New York. W: That's in New York. At the end of the discussion, I turned to him and said, "I'd like to ask
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Austin. The Percy V. Pennybacker wrote a history of Texas which was a textbook which we had studied in school. So I happened to see the paper that morn- ing--the Austin American-Statesman, I suppose--announcing the death of this member. It wasn't
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . friend of Aubrey Williams who loves these black people." "Why, he's a It was kind of bad. One morning in the middle of the campaign, about two weeks before the election, Aubrey shows up at my door at my home at six o'clock in the morning. I said
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , they couldn't let NYA pay for somebody doing some job, then if the school had been paying for him, pay the one the school had been paying for off. It was to create new jobs. That's the big LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -Roosevelt position because I was a very ardent supporter of the New Deal. I thought it was a terribly exciting time. Of course Pappy [W. Lee] O'Daniel had become the political salvation of Texas. He had run for governor that year; beat Bill McGraw and Ernest
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: E. INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: ~lr. 24, 1969 B. GER~1ANY Germany's offices, Sherry Lane, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 2 M: Mr. Germany, as president and chairman of the board of Lone Star Steel, you have long been a very
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and I finished law school in 1934 when the New Deal was really getting under way. I came to Washington to be law clerk to Mr. Justice Holmes and stayed with him until his death in I think March, 1935. I had hoped to go back west to practice law
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • than Bo Byers that--well, Dick Morehead was there before the war, Dick, with the Dallas Morning News, was there. Sam Kinch, Jr., is there now and his father was there when I was there. In the legislature when I was there in 1941 and again even in 1947
  • ; LBJ's behavior at a 1956 event for JFK in El Paso; Bean's efforts to build a new port bridge along the El Paso/Juarez border; LBJ's involvement with the bridge in El Paso; the Chamizal agreement between the U.S. and Mexico and its relation to the port
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there? G: Yes, Right. I did go to Hockaday Junior College in Dallas, which gave me a little taste of Texas. But in these days I think every Senator had only people from their own home state, but I think Mr. Johnson was as awed by me wanting to go
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • one of the Dealey boys [of the Dallas Morning News]. Anyway, we went out to the Army-Navy. those days. I was playing fairly good golf in And, of course, we had a match and Lyndon complained that he'd LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was practicing law, simply on some sort of business or other, and my mother and father were invited to the home of the Johnsons for a quite large party which they gave for three new congressmen from Texas. B: That would have been to the Ranch? W
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • recall, maybe a little later, the place was pretty secure, but some pretty rough and wild people had come from hundreds of miles away. People had come from Dallas and Atlanta, Georgia, for instance, hearing about this situation on the radio, they had
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him the next morning in Austin, that he wanted me to come down and be his assistant, that he was going to be put in charge of the NYA for West Texas. Is that something like YMCA?" I said, "NYA? What is that? "No," he said, "Come on down here
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • like that and you could understand why he would want it off the record. I don't know if there were every any violations. F: I presume that when Sam Jr. fOllowed in your footsteps--well I know he went with the Dallas News in Washington--that President
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as quite a good one. Also you must admit that one of my major arguments with the news media people, with other people, is that I don't see how you can compare presidents without comparing the decades of which they were president. The fifties bear
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that. I can't tell. The thing that I thought was that you can't force people to obey laws, that police can't really control society. I noticed the David Burnham article in the New York Times this morning in which he said it would cost twenty-five billion
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Yes he had. He had discovered me because I had attended a governors' conference once at Salt Lake [City], Utah, and the press was having a conference for a few governors. And they called me first one morning and asked me if I would submit
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rowe -- I ~- 2 Up until 1948 I had never heard of a reporter coming down from any of the big papers. Morning News, the After 1948 even the New Y~~Li
  • Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that Kennedy left for Dallas? T: Yes. And my husband went with him. M: And you stayed here? T: I was here with some guests from New York and Washington. I told him that I would join him the next night in Austin. I was going up by private plane with some
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • magazine went to press on Sunday night, but they did most of their editing through Saturday. He knew that correspondents had to file overnight Thursday, so that the editors in New York got the raw copy on Friday morning. zine's night. Now, I want you
Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • them back, they voted on it, and we voted on the measure about four o'clock in the morning on Christmas eve. B: And there were some members, at least, who were mildly 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • interest in passage of legislation; RFK; 1964-1965 legislative success; Congressional briefings on Vietnam; compromise on seating of the Mississippi delegation; LBJ’s political speech in New Orleans; inactivity of the DNC; media image of LBJ; assessment
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • thing that ought to be part of some record. Naturally you get curious about a new president, so I pulled the Lyndon Johnson file--Congressman and Senator Lyndon Johnson file--after he became president of the United States, or maybe even while he was vice
  • treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • came close to passing word over to the White House that I thought that the President should reconsider his plans because at that time there were certain evidences there of a strong feeling. I don't mean that Dallas had any appreciable number
  • Premonitions about the Dallas trip of November, 1963, and the JFK assassination; the transition from JFK to LBJ; Hays-Moyers relationship; LBJ story of internal revenue and a contribution to a Baptist Church; anecdote on admission of Outer Mongolia
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • graduated from college, and my first job in the real world was the office of Vice President Johnson, then located in the new Senate office building [the Dirksen Senate Office Building]. As far as my tasks go, just out of college I didn't have a great deal
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the new LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pollak -- I -- 2 Solicitor
Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Field, I had a total of fourteen hours in fighter aircraft, four of which were in a P-36, and none of them in the new P-40 E. But we did get them assembled, more or less, with the aid of some Aussies and the tutelage of a few sergeants that were destined
  • McMahon met LBJ; air combat in Papua New Guinea; McMahon meeting LBJ again after LBJ had become a U.S. senator.
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and Sam Kinch, who was with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. And Dawson Duncan, Dick Morehead with the Dallas News, Allen Duckworth with the Dallas News, Tootie Thornton, who was with the Dallas News, Roy Grimes, who was with the San Antonio Express News
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to kind of stay in the middle and keep both sides together. G: Russell gave an interview I think to U.S. News and declined to say whether he would support the Democratic ticket or would refuse to head a 5 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh Shriver -- I -- 2 to working with poor people, you might say almost exclusively; third, to pacifism. I used to work from time to time in the office of the Catholic Worker, which was down in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. So
  • to that column; Shriver’s opinion of LBJ keeping Kennedy’s cabinet members; Shriver’s ideas for new vice presidential duties; Shriver’s conflicts with Secretary of Labor Wirtz; the Neighborhood Youth Corps; Shriver’s determination to solve problems without
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but it was, I suppose, the manner of delivery. F: I know when Alf Landon used to get up, you must remember the newsreels, when Landon ran against Roosevelt. D: I took an avid interest in that. I followed. I was only eleven or twelve, but I had two very new
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Robert E. Jordan III Subject(s) covered 18,19 Events in Dallas 19,20,21 Warren Commission Report 21,22 Autopsy on Senator Kennedy 23,24 23,24 James Rowley Rufus Youngblood 24
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the task force: Ben Heineman, president of the Northwestern Railroad, and Senator Ribicoff. Charlie Haar and I then took off (that was on a Saturday) and met Ribicoff on Sunday morning at the Carlton Hotel in New York and chatted with him. I phone