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Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and Bird, they'd call and we'd go up to the Ranch or the lake house, or we'd go to the horse races or we'd go to San Marcos for him to get his [honorary] doctor's degree. Things like that. Oh yes. And we even went up to Washington to see them, the girls

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the [Marco Aurelio] Robles government"--or some government--"and get them some help." Then on the twenty-sixth we pick up with--this is yet another meeting. We talked about the safety problems, the perishable food problems, the adverse impact on the balance

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

she had an office. We made our opening campaign speech in San Marcos and Dr. [Cecil] Evans, the president of the school when Lyndon was there, was at our side lending dignity, and Ed Cape, of course. It was a summer of enormous effort. I remember

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a decision for thirty to sixty days. Then Lyndon comes out to Mama's and says, "Sam Houston, I don't want you to take either one of them. I'm getting ready at San Marcos tomorrow night, I'm going to blast the OPA. Next thing is, I don"t want you working

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was received. He had rules that mail must be answered the same I was amused that my wife's maiden aunt, who was not receiving postal service in San Marcos at her address, wrote the Congressman a letter asking for mail delivery to her home, which was very near

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

persuade President Johnson to deposit his papers here rather than, say, at San Marcos? R: I didn't have anything to do with that. M: That was already done? R: Qh, yes. The planning committee here was appointed after it had been decided

Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was going to ask you about J. Ed Smith, who was the chairman of the delegation, and his association with LBJ here. S: Well, Ed Smith and LBJ had been in college together at San Marcos. Ed Smith was probably the most distinguished trial lawyer among

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

invited by the Vice President, Mr. Johnson, to go to the Ranch that afternoon--or, no, I guess that evening, late, late that evening. I was due to speak in San Marcos College-- F: Southwest Texas State. P: That evening when I got to Austin to change

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. He really felt very strong about Head Start, that and some of the other programs as well, but particularly Head Start, because it applied to such a young group and more appealing group. They weren't bums that you put down here at Camp Gary [San Marcos

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

married a Kellam. moved to San Marcos and ran a boarding house. never close. Then she But the Kellams were There was Jesse and his brother, which I'll think of in a minute, but I'll give you an idea about his brother, Claud. Claud Kellam was coach

Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

, and that's how he got started. He went to a teachers college in New Braunfels [San Marcos]. And, he was a wellorganized person, dynamic, strong, and he made up his mind that's what going to happen. That's how I saw Mr. Johnson again, because we met with him

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Marcos, and the years when he lived in Stonewall and also in Johnson City. His stories seemed to come from all of those times. He was always picking out stories that had happened at different times with him to tell us how to treat our children or how

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

fundamentals? C: I doubt if he ever studied many economic courses when he was at San Marcos [Southwest Texas State] Teachers College. His experience as a legislator was probably the background he had. In considering many of the legislative bills before

Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

to that idea, Juanita stayed opposed to that idea. She felt that Lyndon Johnson, who had never attended--she didn't see the logic of giving his papers to the University of Texas, that they were more properly given to Southwest Texas, to San Marcos, where he

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, their interest as to what kind of gift should be exchanged and such things. You find out that one of the presidents, I believe it was Marcos of the Philippines, or it might have been Park of Korea, was an avid golfer. So the ideal gift for President Johnson

Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, then their elections came up. F: This was a natural political issue. V: Yes. And there was no chance, we decided, of getting ratification by the Panamanian legislature, and so we had to go into the new cycle. After [Dr. Arnulfo] Arias was elected replacing [Marco

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that I go to Vietnam. I can tell you that I had a later experience in the Philippines, where I applied an American campaign procedure to Marcos' democratic election, and I felt quite good about it. I was obviously taken aback when democracy disappeared

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)