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Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • certain swing people like Tiger Teague or Cabell or Casey that sometimes would vote for us, sometimes not. Then on the other spec- trum, you had Jack Brooks, and Henry Gonzaalez--I hate to leave anyone out--and John Young that voted very much
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • four of us from Texas, Albert Thomas, Jack Brooks, [Henry] Gonzalez and myself. were about six from the whole South. So there Of course that caused a flood of mail later, four or five hundred letters from all over my distri'c t, bitter, bitter
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • able people, and I allocated areas among them. I went to Brookings, and Alice [Rivlin] was sort of a very low-level researcher, and I offered her to be the education person. And then she became my general deputy. And Bob [Robert N.] Gross, who I had
Oral history transcript, Victor Jaeggli, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . [Effie?] Brooks--I am sure you've heard of Mrs. Brooks--she was in my office. She was working under me as state director of Work Projects. She did a wonderful job, and this was a tremendous thing for these young ladies. I say young ladies; they were most
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • corps, in Texas. I graduated from Brooks Field in San Antone. That was 1943. Then I flew combat in B-25s in Italy and France. I flew sixty-five combat missions there before going home. I received eight air medals and the Distinguished Flying Cross
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Arkansas who beat Wayne Hays. No, I'm thinking about Brooks Hays, who was really a fine congressman and who left Arkansas and moved to the central part of North Carolina and ran for the House up there and got beat, but he did--he did run. Brooks Hays, yes
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • jurisdiction. This was a little upsetting. I never heard any- thing about this and if the press had seen it I think they would have played it up. But we stayed outside and talked and wondered and so on. And then finally I believe Thornberry and Brooks
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • service on it, because everybody knew he was the minority leader. Everybody knew that he might become, and of course he did become, the majority leader in a couple of years. A little later in 1954 I went over and spent about six weeks in Jack Brooks
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • directive and got more active, including me, and Marietta [Moody Brooks] especially. We took a trip to Corpus Christi with Elizabeth Odom and [attended] a meeting of the women leaders. Meanwhile, Lyndon was checking in with all his bases of good friends
  • Texas; the death of Mary Rather's father; public speaking; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson's support for LBJ's campaign; Lady Bird Johnson's car accident with Marietta Brooks near Seguin; the Johnson family calling everyone in the Austin phone book to seek
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • years would we have been married then? From 1934--this was 1951, seventeen? Seventeen years. I think the Connallys, and Pickles, and Kellams, and Deasons, and Thornberrys, and Phinneys, and Max Brooks, and I don't know quite who all, were
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --Congressmen Gonzalez and Brooks and Thomas and Thornberry, as I recall, were there, and a number of congressmen on the trip. Congressman Thomas had flown to San Antonio and came in with President Kennedy on his plane. Then they all filed in to a big ovation
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES L. SCHULTZE INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Dr. Schultze's office at Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 M: Let me ask you, to start off with, about the credit crunch of 1966 and various items and legislation
Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • , and also personal friends of mine. Henry Brooks, who had been the former district attorney of Travis County supported me and did all he could for me. PB: I understand that a man of our age who is now in Corpus Christi, named Vann Kennedy, was also one
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty (Item)
  • • aboard, but there were some familiar face• aboard--Congre••man Albert Tho1n1u, Congre11man Jack Brook•, Congre••man Homer Thornberry come to my mind. One particular 1cene that i i 1till vivid in my me=ory i i that I c&Jl'le mid-•hip to the Fre1iden.t
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; initiative for ordinances or legislation in D.C. government; Cloud 9 concept; new D.C. government; urban problems; D.C.'s preparation for marches; April riots after MLK assassination; Brookings study; prevention of riots; gun legislation; Resurrection City
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in. I think he bought into a little venture with Jack Brooks that I carried in Brazos Tenth. Jack Brooks had a little bank down there in East Texas somewhere that he organized. thousand dollars. Why? Not any big money maybe, maybe ten Do you have
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 visualized flood control situations. It might be remembered that Raymond Brooks, who was a reporter and editorial
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of your notes indicates that Jack Brooks, an old friend of the President, had been angered by Weaver, perhaps. C: Yes, Brooks did not like Weaver. What we found out when I called around about him was that he did not have good relations on the Hill. He
Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the Brookings [Institution]. M: Kermit Gordon. C: Kermit Gordon, right. "Kermit," [I said], "I need at least another quarter of a million dollars, at a minimum." And he said to me, "Manny, I'm sorry, but I promised the boss that the books were closed
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • vision. But he was a very determined politician. He brooked no opposition, he forgave no opposition, and it made life very, very difficult. K: You said morale improved beginning with Stans in the late Eisenhower years. Why was that? What made
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: KERMIT GORDON INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Gordon's office, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Last time, Dr. Gordon, we were talking about the transition to Lyndon Johnson after the death
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • others at that time. When Mr. Ralph McGill of Atlanta-- he has passed away--but he was appreciated perhaps more on the national scene than he was in the State of Georgia. At that time Mr. Brooks Hays was in Congress from Arkansas, and his voice
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • then, but still it's the same basic pattern. Then in 1960 the Brookings Institution set up an advisory committee on transition to work with their professional staff people who were actually doing some serious work and serious study on this. I was a member
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . INTERVIEWER: Eric F. Goldman Wild's office in the Perry Brooks Building, Austin, Texas, May 7, 1965 G: Mr. Wild, would you begin by telling us how you became the Johnson campaign manager in the first Congressional campaign? W: In 1938 Congress Buchanan
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but I cannot recall any specific instance except in Austin where I know he cultivated Raymond Brooks, [and] Charlie Green later on . When I say later on [I mean] after the initial begin­ ning of this program . In San Antonio I know he did, because - I
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to his two girls. G: Everything went to the two girls. Okay. In March of 1970, LBJ spent about a week at Brook Army [Hospital]. He'd gotten ill. Did y'all visit him at that time? Do you remember that incident? W: I remember it but we never visited him
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was Mr. Roberts, the president of our bank in Wharton. of our bank, E. G. Brooks. There was another one, a vice president They've always been as nice to me as any- body you ever saw in your life. When I came to Houston a letter of introduction
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Texas delegation; and Jack Brooks. Now I don't remember who else, but I remember those four. were riding along, and then we heard what were the shots. We We didn't know for sure what it was at first, but you could sense that something was wrong
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a letter here where I wrote my good friend Philip [C.] Brooks out at the Truman Library. They only had thirty thousand pictures and they had put them in chronology but no subject identification, and he doubted if they ever would. He said that, as usual
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the House delegation, in those days Brooks Hays, who was a leader in the House side. All the Arkansas people, particularly Brooks Hays and Wilbur Mills, were very close to Sam Rayburn, whom I knew very well. They were .part of Mr. Sam's orbit and that made
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the bus tour. I think again this reflects her degree of detailed interest, that she would go out and join us on an expedition like that. Diana MacArthur called and said she had an indication from Henry Diamond that Laurance Rockefeller and Brooke Astor
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Mayor [Robert F.] Wagner that rIm not sure- ... G: That was this trip. N: That was in October? Yes, we met with Mayor Wagner at the time. G: It was Jack Brooks that went along. N: Jack Brooks, that's right, absolutely. There's nothing like
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , however, as parliamentarian, but he's still in Washington. He was a close adviser to Speaker Rayburn. And then members of the Texas delegation who were particularly close [were] Frank Ikard, Homer Thornberry, Jack Brooks. G: How about Lloyd Bentsen? H