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Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in this--Senator Bob Kerr, Speaker Rayburn, myself and Mr. Johnson. President Truman at that time sent Clark Clifford and myoId friend who just left the chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board not long ago, who was one of the attorneys at the White House
  • 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, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • certain about this, that he and Mrs. Johnson were married in about 1934. F: Right. J: They lived at 2808 San Pedro with Dr. and Mrs. Montgomery. F: The economist. I stopped and talked to Bob yesterday. J: The economist. I think that they had
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • brother Bob Phinney, who resides in Austin and who is the Internal Revenue Director for the Southern District of Texas. Bob had been working with Mr. Johnson in the Youth Development Program before he went to Congress with Congressman Kleberg. After
  • Biographical information; family history; Sam Houston; Sam Johnson’s speech to Texas House of Representatives regarding Ku Klux Klan; Congressman Kleberg; Bob Phinney; Col. Ernest O. Thompson; LBJ’s use of a helicopter in 1948 campaign; labor’s
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • could, but she found she couldn't do very much with him because he was the type of person that he was. You know, he was a driver. that she could cope with it. somewhere along . . . If it I She just hoped She thanked me particularly. S It's
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it to them? You and Bob Poage?"--the ranking Democrat from Texas on the Agricultural Committee. I said, "That's quite an order, you know." And he said, "Oh, well, you talk to Bob about it." And I did. bill. We worked it o~t. So I ended up voting against
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days and then as a delegate to the national convention in Chicago, long with Alvin Wirtz, Roy Miller, Frank Scofield, and Bill St. John and any number of political--Bob Holliday from El Paso and others. F: You served in the Texas legislature for awhile
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • didn't really change the course of events, we were on the wrong side, as it turned out. So I didn't have any objection to coming down. I really wanted to, but I was pretty well tied up. In fact, But I went ahead and made the concession and, as Bob
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • between this and his apparent reluctance to commit himself on Taft-Hartley? M: Well, here again now, this is Bob Murphey speaking. I think if Coke Stevenson had been elected to the United States Senate that organized LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be undependable for Mr. Roosevelt. It seemed to Williams so much more important to have Johnson in the Youth Administration than to have him a member of a captive delegation in Congress that Williams hoped somehow Mr. Roosevelt would get a message down to Johnson
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Richardson's. Do you know him? B: I know of him. You mean the Fort Worth millionaire? W: He was a self-made, not millionaire, billionaire. that was the first billionaire he'd ever known. Bob Anderson told me But anyway, Sid had a place down off Aransas
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • might be able to do it today. You've got Bob Eckhardt and Henry Gonzalez, who by the way, is also about to fallout with the liberals too, who can pretty well represent a state like Texas and be friendly with the liberals. Now, to get back to your
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • largely restricted to buttonholing. D: Yes, meetings at night and over the weekends and times like that. F: There is a story that I like and hope it's true that you offered him your savings account at that time to help underwrite a campaign
Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /oh Parr -- I -- 27 dead and had hoped that it would be announced at a more appropriate time. Well, I wasn't about to go out and say anything about it, nor was I going to call in--my place was on the job. Well, that gook sat there and by the end
  • ; Parr not being allowed to return to Duval County or politics; the treatment and punishment Parr received following his conviction for making false statements to a grand jury; Parr's hope of being pardoned and reinstated to the bar; selecting a site
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • of the council and what it was not doing for them. So it gave me a good chance to bring out all the things that needed to be done and that I would hope to do if I got elected. And all the men ran, and that day we just had--what is it? A plurality? They had five
Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • recall, were quoted as being confident of the outcome on the basis of their private, unofficial canvass. The Stevenson people had some hopes that they still might win, but everyone LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and shake their hands, and say, "I'm Lyndon Johnson, and I want to be your senator, and I hope you'll vote for me," and some of the people would come up. They were his supporters. The first blush of activity was the people who certainly were for him
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --I'm not sure about Pennsylvania. We were next in number of delegates, you know, so we were important. We met with him and Sam Rayburn. They were promoting him to be president, with the possible hope that he might be vice president. Of course, we voted
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bet that he did not tell you. G: Well, that could be. C: But I do not see any reason--I would think that George would want to ask Mrs. Johnson first. But I would hope that Mrs. Johnson would permit LBJ Presidential Library http