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Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- in his car or did you follow in [another]? W: I traveled in his car. Now Jake [Pickle] or John [Connally] would be in advance, and others in advance, setting up loud-speaker systems in a courthouse square, going around the town with a loud-speaker
- about that now. fall of '66 or the spring of r67. Either the I happen to remember it because of something that reminded me of spring, but I was called by John Duncan, the connnissioner at the time, and I was told that I was being considered for what
- See all online interviews with John W. Hechinger
- Tobriner; Warren Christopher; James Newmyer; Polly Shackleton; George Christian; Katie Loucheim; Mary Lasker; Mrs. Astor; Laurance Rockefeller; Lady Bird as First Lady; LBJ’s interest in development of the DC Council; LBJ’s responses to 4/68 riots; John
- Hechinger, John W.
- Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb
- John W. Hechinger
- INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES M. SIMPSON (with occasional comments by John McCarthy) INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Colonel Simpson's residence, Annandale, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Colonel Simpson, would you begin by just a brief overview of your earlier
- See all online interviews with John McCarthy
- McCarthy, John
- Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger
- John McCarthy
- McDonough; John Layton, the chief of the Metropolitan Police; Grant Wright, the chief of the Park Police, and his deputy, Al Beye; other city officials including the Corporation counsel, Charles Duncan, the director of safety for the District, Pat Murphy. We
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- said in a book--you don't have to take my word for it; it's in John Gunther's Inside USA--"Whenever I can get within 3,000 votes of anyone I can always win." And he went on and said that there was a young congressman here who thought he had it named
- situation down there, because it-G: It sounds like they had a real administration in place. L: Oh, they did. So I say they knew what they were doing and it was pretty well--so the countryside where I lived and where John Vann was, north of the Bassac
- with his bare hands. G: Oh, John Dos Passos book. B: Yes, John Dos Passos book. I did have it. I ' v e got it right over there someplace. I d o n ' t know, maybe I ' v e given it away, but I had it. Haven't read that one in several years. literature
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- to go--which I did. I had issued a Johnson-support statement, as acting chairman of the D.C. Democratic Party, like everybody else. on something like this. The press always tries to get an angle I don't think John Kennedy had been dead twenty-four
- Visits with LBJ immediately after the Kennedy funeral; Rauh’s encouraging LBJ and John Connally to do something about desegregation; working with LBJ and Clarence Mitchell; LBJ criticizing the ADA; the convention of Atlantic City; Reuther; Dr
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- took me around to lots of places. I was just seventeen and the world was just beginning to open up to me, and she got me a date with a newspaperman, Dawson Duncan. He was really very good looking and sort of filled a lot of the pictures of the romantic
- you personally ever do any sleuthing around George Parr's empire? K: Yes. Not at that time. I did it considerable later. I'm trying to think now--John Ben Shepperd was down there trying to find out about Parr's controls when the voters down
- Skelton; LBJ’s acceptance of VP; covered VP while in Austin; move of press from Austin to San Antonio; Eastern press; post-Presidential press conference; John Connally’s dissatisfaction for some of LBJ’s policy; off the record meetings; Sam Kinch, Jr
- that Bill I really For the Dallas Morning News , I can't person with a particular candidate but probably like Allen Duckworth, who was of course I would say the prime political correspondent for the Dallas Morning News , probably Dawson Duncan to some
- Pattillo Thomas, the daughter of Uncle John Will and Aunt Alice, who had been a close childhood friend. Her husband was either interning--maybe he was still in medical school or maybe he was interning. At any rate, she was working to help out the family
- , 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
- 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
- in the morning? C: Eight o'clock every morning. And we convened in Tom Fletcher's office, the deputy mayor's office, and in addition to Tom and myself, we had Bob Owen of Justice, John Layton, the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department. We had the guy
- ; Congressman Ken Gray's involvement in issuing a permit; Congressman John Marsh's effort to stop a permit from being issued; Senator Robert Byrd; Congressman Wayne Aspinall; laws governing demonstrations in Washington, D.C.; Castro's and the Southern Christian
- . P.nd, you know, through Dawson Duncan, and Bird liked Dawson and Dawson liked her, and vJhizzie Gerry [?] and HalTY Genge Crozier, Gordon Shearer [?l We had so many newspaper friends. And whenever they had parties, they always invited us, you knovJ
Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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- year at law It's funny how you can be a lawyer in one year. brother was a good friend of Dawson Duncan's. But his He had two older broth- ers who were Kappa Sigs that were really very, you know, big men on the campus, and Temple was a real nice boy
- session on the Poor People's Campaign which occurred at 8 o'clock every morning in the deputy mayor's office--representatives of the National Park Service, whose property the Poor people's encampment was on, and Mr. Dugas of city government, Mr. Duncan
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
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- during that week they would be rehearsing another one to open the next Sunday night. He'd run around with what we would now call the jet set and wouldn't learn his lines, and his leading lady was little Nancy Duncan. She was an experienced actress, about