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Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • out of the army. So I went, as a captain at this time, on terminal leave, which expired in January, 1946. M: Then you got out of the army, and did you return to Houston then? J: Yes. M: Did you go to work for the Chronicle then, or what? J: My
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • out of the army. So I went, as a captain at this time, on terminal leave, which expired in January, 1946. M: Then you got out of the army, and did you return to Houston then? J: Yes. M: Did you go to work for the Chronicle then, or what? J: My
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • one of the Houston Chronicle that he had not counted the absentee votes cast for Lyndon Johnson in his precinct. that they were illegally cast. He claimed The county clerk of Harris County, who under the law was the one responsible for saying
  • How Collier met LBJ at Sam Houston High School; Cliff Carter; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with With the Houston Chronicle it would have [?] from Houston and Dick Wall, who was the bureau chief and essentially was the only correspondent here could put on the road, because Ed Rider was almost in Austin they blind so he couldn't really get out on the road
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Chronicle editor Everett Collier was on the telephone from Houston giving me some things to do, and I was trying to talk to the White House on one phone and Mr. Collier on the other, and I said, I kept saying, "Please tell the President I appreciate his
  • Biographical information about Albert Thomas; Thomas’ race for Congress in 1936; appointment to House Appropriations Committee; Thomas’ contributions to Houston and Harris County; First acquaintance with LBJ; role of a politician’s wife; Lady
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , and they left. I was there, I guess, about four months, maybe a little more, with no salary, but I lived in the dormitory, and my brother, Jess, had a big ranch out near Brownwood, and I grew up there. Anyway, after that, I went to Houston, and my dear friend
  • Biographical information and family history; Scott's hearing and health problems; Scott's educational background; Scott's early work experience and how she became a newspaper reporter; Scott's work for the Houston Post and Hulsey Theatres; Scott's
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIHJER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: Well, let's see, we were talking about Congressman Dick Kleberg. was he? Where did he come from? tage is a most important thing
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • stayed there a short time I think and got this job over in Houston as debate coach at Sam Houston High School. I \'Ias teaching in San Antonio, and he was teaching in Houston. Eyery month or two I'd go to Houston to visit him or he would come to San
  • LBJ-Deason contacts while teaching in Houston and San Antonio; LBJ becomes secretary to Congressman Kleberg; LBJ returns as state director of NYA; Welly Hopkins' recommendation; LBJ's energy; Wilton Woods; LBJ at state meeting in Corpus Christi
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was a child. I've always heard it dis- I can remember going down and watching the election returns on the old Houston Chronicle building flash, written out on a blackboard. But I really started getting interested in politics during college years. M
Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that night. I forget the fellow's name--he was the Capitol bureau manager for the Houston Chronicle. G: It wasn't Les Carpenter, was it? R: No, no. He was the Chronicle's representative in Austin and a good friend of ours and a friend of Coke's. G: Bo
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , big ones supported Stevenson, like the Dallas News and the Houston Chronicle. But the middle-sized dailies were mainly for Johnson, the Harte-Hanks chain in Wichita Falls and Austin and Waco and Port Arthur. G: Did you make any attempts to get
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • voting on that. You gentlemen just take a deep seat and a long breath and enjoy yourself." The next week he resigned off the port commission. As a result of that, Julian Fisher [?J, who represented the Houston Chronicle, thought that that was a great
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Avenue. It is July 10 at approximately 2:30 in the afternoon. First of all, I'd like to know a little bit about you. you born? K: When? Hhere were Where did you get your education? I was born in Tomball, that's in north Harris County above Houston
  • Biographical information; LBJ’s two years as teacher and debate coach at Sam Houston High School, Houston; LBJ’s role as Congressman Kleberg’s secretary; life in Washington for underpaid federal workers; Dodge Hotel; Little Congress and LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Let me ask you about the newspapers in Houston during that election, the Post and the Chronicle in particular. S: I'm not sure but what they both endorsed Coke. remember. I'm not sure. I can't I'm not sure we got either one of the newspaper
  • 1948 Senate race; black vote in Houston; George and Herman Brown; Gus Wortham; Houston law firms; Judge James Elkins; Taft-Hartley; support of Connally for Governor; meetings of LBJ’s district men; LBJ’s speech to Mid-Continental Oil and Gas
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: "Years later, when I was on Johnson's staff, Sam Houston felt only irritation when the Majority Leader was hailed in newspapers
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • on with sweaty palms. Interesting man, and I liked him very much. That year Sam Houston had more than his usual number of bouts with bad health and bad luck. He broke his leg, and it had to be set several times and reset; that was really a problem. His wife, Mary
  • ; Arthur Godfrey's farm; Sam Houston Johnson's broken leg and his wife, Mary; LBJ's relationships with Bill Moyers and Sam Houston Johnson; Sam Houston Johnson's book My Brother Lyndon; LBJ's relationship with Senator John Pastore; the 1957 Civil Rights
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , at seven o'clock when the polls closed, we began to get these early returns. At that time you could release returns during the day. The Houston Chronicle under Jesse Jones always seemed to get the first released votes and put it on the wire early
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . J: If he did it just to one, they might get offended, but he did it to everybody. That's the way he did that. That's funny. I've laughed about that many times. G: Let me ask you about Jesse Jones. He had the [Houston] Chronicle, and he
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a youngster who's now a veteran up there with the Houston Chronicle. I d o n ' t think he showed any--Bo is a very liberal boy--I d o n ' t think he showed any signs [?]. This doesn't particularly refer to Lyndon, but a boy named Bill Carter succeeded me
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was supporting Roosevelt . G: I wonder if Lyndon Johnson ever tried to get the [ Houston ] Chronicle to support him in some of the campaigns--the Senate races, for instance . B: Well, I'm sure he did . � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: Well, I'll probably discuss Lyndon's boyhood, as I see him. to understand that he was born on the Ranch. and Josefa, were born up
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Cain had married Alvin Wirtz s daughter. 1 So Jim Cain was there attending this case. There wasn't much I could do, so I returned to Texas. I remember I went to Houston, and the last thing that the Congressman said to me, 11 Be sure and send me
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • correspondent for the Houston Chronicle and the Tulsa World. Since then you've added papers just throughout Texas and have been really a regular fare for many of us over many, many years. You've also added papers in the South and in the Midwest. About how many
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Johnson's residence, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: Now, this is going to be something repetitious, but I was trying to think of some of the things that I hadn't said
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the files [and] newspaper stories [is] Vice President Johnson's efforts to combat segregation at Houston hotels, particularly the Shamrock and I guess the Rice Hotel. Any recollections of that? R: None at all. Not on that one. Do you have any idea
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • the effusive, close ones. T hat's predictable. M: Marvin Watson was on a trip with you in early February. I don't think his name has appeared in this chronicle before. What were the circumstances, if you remember them, of his entering your official lives? J
  • ; Pat Nixon; Marvin Watson; visiting Acapulco and Mexican President Miguel Aleman and his family; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Sam Houston Johnson's hospitalization for alcoholism; a Johnson family history of alcoholism and depression
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • that they stemmed the tide somewhat? L: I think that they contributed to it. The majority of the Texas press was extremely conservative. The Dallas News was the dominating paper throughout the state; it was very conservative. The Houston Chronicle
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that's right. G: The [Houston] Chronicle, for example. He may be clobbered on the editorial pages, but held get good [coverage]. M: Well, that was right to a degree. Some publishers, his close friends, got along fine with him, but the hell-raising
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1976 INTERVIEWEE: SAt~ INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas HOUSTON JOHNSON Tape 1 of 2 J: Refreshing what I've already said about the--here's the most important part of the thing. Number one, you gave me
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  • Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • school level that is a little more important than declamation. G: Did he upgrade the debate program there at Sam Houston? L: Well, I do know that when he came there and took G. P. Smith's place, I was already on the debate team but Sam Houston High
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- VIII -- 8 and various other things. Sam [Houston Johnson] had a desk toward the back of the room
  • The "Board of Education" room where Sam Rayburn and, later, LBJ and other members of the House met to socialize and discuss legislative strategy; Rather knowing where LBJ was at all times so she could contact him if necessary; Sam Houston Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • . Jesse Jones--Johnson got a good relationship with Mr. Jones and you know of course he owned the Houston Chronicle and it was as friendly to Johnson. The Chronicle was about as friendly as any paper in Texas. Most of them [were], but really the only one
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No, this was in Houston Heights. I was born and reared in Houston. Of course, the Heights is kind of an East Texas sort of place. I never have liked that saying too much, but nonetheless I think that's true. F: It's valid. R: But the point is that he was recognized
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : That's right. Sam Houston [Johnson] has a pretty full report on that in his book--of that meeting. I was not at the meeting. G: But can you collaborate what he said? M: Yes, I think that's the way it happened all right. I did see Shivers at some
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I think Duncan was a fair At least I thought he was. at the time. Maybe if I went back and read his stuff I'd decide that he wasn't. G: With Everett Collier, who I guess covered it for the [Houston] Chronicle, you had a case where perhaps
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN CONNALLY INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Governor Connally's office in Houston, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Governor, you and I, I think, share experiences in this. We must have both been undergraduates at the time that Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Deason -- Special Interview -- 11 school teaching job and went to Houston working for the Federal Land Bank as a junior attorney. In 1934 when the depression
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , it's on my record here, I had an operation down in Houston. F: Was that open-heart? C: Yes. F: How did you happen to pick DeBakey? C: Well, I knew about his record, his experience, and I knew a lot Dr. DeBakey. He did a miraculous job. about
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the load got big, and we had Sam Houston [Johnson] on our couch most of the time, because he was either frail or drying out. But he was always good company. We just had great fun and worked real hard in that room. Let's see. It seemed like as long as people
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • out there at the University of Michigan. He went to the law school at Michigan, and I went to college there. So I knew him from Detroit and I had a paper in Detroit, the Michigan Chronicle, which I started in 6 LBJ Presidential Library http