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Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the presidency. From that moment on, well, we didn't see each other for a few years, but we became friends. Eventually, of course, as a news reporter I spent almost ten years with the Associated Press in Texas, started as a sports editor in the Southwest
  • Biographical information; association with Richard Kleberg; first meeting LBJ; Roy Miller; association as a newspaperman with LBJ; LBJ’s temper; Senate race; visits during the presidency; LBJ and press criticism; W. Lee O’Daniel; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • saw eye to eye. F: Did you see much of Johnson in his Senate years, back here in Austin? K: Not a whole lot, periodically-- F: Did he come around the press room any? K: Yes, he would do that every now and then just on a hand-shaking tour. F
  • First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with you? H: Yes, we had a very close association during the time. When I entered the Congress he had preceded me by two years, I believe it was. He was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives at that time
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ in Congress; LBJ’s chief motivation and goals; 1943 and 1948 elections; Sam Rayburn; Charlie Murphy; oil/gas industry; Bob Kerr; Natural Gas Act of 1938; Senator Francis Case; Area Basin decision
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Taylor, I know you've had a very long and close association with the Johnson family, and I would like to just begin this interview with asking you: first, when did you come in contact >vith the Johnson family, and what were the circumstances
  • relationship with Lynda and Luci; Lynda’s illness; the girls’ early education and personalities; Mrs. Johnson; the day of JFK’s assassination; LBJ’s 1955 heart attack; Marshall McNeil; the press; 1954 campaign for re-election; LBJ’s aspirations; 1960 convention
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT W. INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Murphey's office, Nacogdoches, Texas f~URPHEY Tape 1 of 1 G: All right, Mr. Murphey, would you begin by telling us what your association was with Governor Coke Stevenson? M: I
  • support; States’ Rights Party; Stevenson and the press; the 1948 campaign; George Peddy votes; election controversy; Murphey’s election as sergeant at arms; Stevenson’s attitude about the decision on the election.
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in January of 1946, became a campus stringer for Associated Press during that semester, was offered a full-time job right after that semester ended, took it and went to work I think it was July 1 of 1946 for AP . That got me into covering state government
  • Biographical information; first coverage of LBJ in 1946; personal evaluations of various Texas Capitol Press reporters; Stuart Long; reporters' preference for candidates at the time; LBJ's 1948 campaign for Senate; the helicopter; on the road
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • during my freshman year. I later became Rice correspon- dent for the Chronicle, and went on into journalism. went into politics. years. President Johnson Therefore we still had a close association over the We saw each other a great deal, communicated
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • house. We had quite a visit at that time, but of course that was the first time I had seen him since 1940. F: Were you associated in the army with Hardy Hollers? P: No, sir. F: So you had no personal interest in that Hardy Hollers-Johnson campaign
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • are in Mr. Timmons' offices in the National Press Building, Room 1253. My name is Dorothy Pierce McSweeny. Mr. Timmons, to begin this interview, I would like to give a very brief background on your very long journalistic career. You began as a reporter
  • after the 1964 election; Credibility Gap; press secretaries; books about LBJ; letters from LBJ; LBJ’s personality; 1948 election; 1941 special election; foreign affairs; LBJ’s withdrawal; opinion of LBJ as a President; Lady Bird and their daughters.
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , headed by Sam Rayburn of Texas, in connection with the big financial bills for fiscal reform in the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] and the utility field which Roosevelt was pressing. I was particularly fascinated by the Texan contingent
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • haven't seen him for some time.--and others. And they got out literature on their own steam, maybe using some of the printing presses at the Normal--I'm not sure. bit. I had very little money; I contributed a little Lyndon traveled with me from time
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • in at the last minute and saved the day. So we had two or three of them that saved the day when they were certifying. But I think, when it was all told, that they did have votes enough that they weren't worried about it. B: How did the press handle this issue
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the State Democratic Executive Committee, 1946-48. I've held various otherm.inortype jobs, like president of the Hillsboro School Board for a period of time and things of that sort. I was nominated in the Democratic primary in 1950 for an associate justice
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , is that correct? M: That's right. G: Did he ever have you up to Washington? M: Oh, I was up to Washington. I didn't ever stay in the White House. One time I went in there when Kennedy had all the Texas press in there, and I wasn't on the list and I got
  • ; the Brazos River Authority; LBJ makes a last visit to Temple, Texas; at the Dallas Trade Mart with Storey Stemmons during the JFK assassination; LBJ is faithful to his friends; investigating the M-16 rifle; observing the Tet Offensive; Ted Connell; the press
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; there wasn't any quesTruman and Maury came to ~~ashington at the same time; I forget the Congress that it was, but that's how it was that I got to know them. And I was in Chicago at the time he· was nominated for Vice President. F: Were you associated
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and a doctor that was diagnosing their ills sort of nunc pro tunc as we say in the law, now for then. Oh, the Houston Press ran a hell of a story on it. one young doctor in a bunch of trouble. It got But we issued a statement that these people had been
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and was a daughter of my oldest brother. She had married a University professor of engineering, and they went back over to Lebanon and were living over there at that time. F: Was this in Beirut? J: In Beirut, yes. So the Associated Press and UP came out
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was pretty strongly entrenched in Jim Wells County. G: Who else do you think was implicated? Who else would have had to be involved? R: Well, in Mangen's story, the Associated Press man Mangen--I've forgotten his first name--he says others were
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Roberts -- II -- 2 R: No~ I was a housewife. was one of his NYA boys~ I was married to Herbert Ray Roberts~ who and met him of course because of his and Ray's friendship and past association. F
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • associations with Governor Price Daniel and with President Johnson. In the spring of 1965 you joined the White House staff as Special Counsel to the President and served in that position until the spring of 1967. Could we begin by your telling me a little
  • Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the 1948 election
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • belonged to the Press Club. this column, "El Toro." that'd stack up. ~- 17 I was associate editor and I wrote You know they couldn't get rid of the newspapers Nobody wanted that College Star. Some of us got to writing things like that, you know
Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whiteside he was always trying to do something for Dr. Evans. buttons to press, all I .:..:. 21 He knew which right~ G: What did he do for Dr. Evans? W: I don't know that he ever did
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • moved my office to Houston . M: Did you join a law firm here? L: No, I practiced by myself . I had associated with different law firms, just shared offices, but I had an individual practice . M: Why did you move, incidentally, from San Antonio
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Stevenson. This was the primary of course, because that's the important campaign in Texas. r It is to this day, I believe. was supposed to travel with the candidate and the press and the speech writer. After the first week when I came back dragging
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Provence -- I -- 5 press. I was editor or managing editor, whatever year it was, on the campus paper. M: Well then, you went ahead and worked through that 1941 campaign which Johnson
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)