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- for the Senate. G: That was 1941. M: Yes. That was the last year that I worked for the Associated Press before joining the Dallas Morning News. It was quite a campaign. He was sort of an uptight man, particularly during campaign periods, and that's when
- that we got to the automobile the news was on the radio that the President was dead. It was a terrific shock. I belong to the Dallas Country Club and it's noted for its conservative members. I often kid them out there that Pat, the colored locker boy
- 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
- day. Mr. Johnson wanted to cover every community in Dallas County if he could, not by helicopter, but by automobile. We were staying at the Adolphus Hotel and as prior arranged, I met Mr. Johnson at 5:30 in the morning in the lobby of the Adolphus
- donated by various dealers. G: Really? Were they new cars? N: Yes. There were--in fact, one morning we were following one of the other cars. One of the young guys who was going to be the drummer as it were, he passed us, and I had LBJ Presidential
- had an opportunity to ride with him up to Hyannis Port. So I got on the plane. He had a man from Georgetown and he had [Allen] Duckworth from the Dallas [Morning] News. Most of the agencies preferred to have their people at the various points to make
- ; 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
- Monday morning and went into New Orleans and spent the second night in Atlanta and were having breakfast somewhere in Atlanta Wednesday morning when we heard the ra9io had been counted out. was wonderful about it. F: ~eport that he So it was a sad
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Force One in Dallas on that day in November of 1963. Many times in his political career President Johnson was referred to by the news media as a political animal. Yes, President Johnson had been a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
- Wolters stalked up to my table and saluted and said, "Lieutenant, what are you doing here?" When I told him I was on my way to Mexico, he blandly said, "Well, all of us are away from our jobs, and you'll report to Camp Hutchins tomorrow morning
- interviewsII_this was before TV--"on Sundays and make news stories out of them for Monday morning's paper, so why don't you start you a Sunday broadcast and get it wherever you can get it. Furnish a copy or a news story based on it to the wire services and see how
- , you know; there wasn't much around. We wound up, the two of us, on the back seat of this car on a beautiful Sunday morning seeing Fulton Market and all that part of New York. A couple of hours cost us the magnificent sum of $5.00. That was either
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- not too much attention to that election. lid read the paper every morning but I wasn't just carried away with all the news about it. I read the paper every morning now. live always read the paper every morning, just to see what's going on in the world
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , just completely like that, he realized that I couldn't take it all the time, so three of uS were put on and we alte rnated weeks on the road, Mary Rather and I and Dorothy Plyler. What it amounted to was we got up at 5: 00 o'clock in the morning
- . friend of Aubrey Williams who loves these black people." "Why, he's a It was kind of bad. One morning in the middle of the campaign, about two weeks before the election, Aubrey shows up at my door at my home at six o'clock in the morning. I said
- one of the Dealey boys [of the Dallas Morning News]. Anyway, we went out to the Army-Navy. those days. I was playing fairly good golf in And, of course, we had a match and Lyndon complained that he'd LBJ Presidential Library http
- like that and you could understand why he would want it off the record. I don't know if there were every any violations. F: I presume that when Sam Jr. fOllowed in your footsteps--well I know he went with the Dallas News in Washington--that President
- [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rowe -- I ~- 2 Up until 1948 I had never heard of a reporter coming down from any of the big papers. Morning News, the After 1948 even the New Y~~Li
- Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people
- in Northeast Texas, thirty-six miles from Dallas, Texas, and went from there, when I graduated from high school, to Baylor University at Waco, then worked a year in Austin and then moved to Alice in 1941. G: And you took a law degree? D: Yes, I
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- first trip to Washington. I was a new member, I met all of the Texas members, of whom there were twenty-one, including myself, at the time. them, probably, on the opening day of the session. I met all of I'm sure I did. That included Mr. Rayburn
- Center in San Antonio by JFK and subsequent trip to Dallas; LBJ’s "Great Society;" Vietnam demonstrations; Fisher’s opinions on LBJ’s effectiveness as President: ambitious and hardworking.
- be there in the morning." I was making a hundred and thirty-five a month, for nine months a year. to Austin and talked to Lyndon, went back and gave the I g.rove down s~hoo1 board a week's notice and went to work on December 15 for NYA. G: This was December, 1935
- ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Kennedy -- I -- 2 B: Then you became bureau manager for the International News
- for the reason that while the people from Roosevelt's home country of New York and New England who were in some sense identified with the financial community were not willing to back him in the great LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 29, 1968 P: Today is Friday, November 29, and it's eleven in the morning. We are in the White House West Wing, and the interview is with Mrs. Willie Day Taylor. This is Dorothy Pierce. Mrs
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- to the Dallas News, which is the example of what I would think would happen. M: Mr. Jacobsen, one of the reasons for asking this is that there is a lot of material written about the fact that this is somehow indicative of Mr. Johnson's early aspirations
- into Washington and Jacobsen’s job; Larry O’Brien; morning bedroom duty with Marvin Watson; LBJ’s morning routine; Jacobsen’s duties on visits to the Ranch; LBJ’s personality and compassion; foreign relations; President LBJ’s relationship with Congress; trips
- ; served some in New Orleans; I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific. My last tour of duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese surrender took place. And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back to America
- has it I said, "All hell's going to pop So, the next morning the committee met, and they took these certificates. They had adding machines, and it was just a simple matter of adding the totals shown on these two hundred fiftyfour certificates
- from hunting up in Chama, New Mexico one time, out at the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation. George and I were talking about the 1948 election. He said, "You know, a lot of people have said this, that and the other thing, but you know I have never
- days? J: Yes, we talked politics. F: This was when the New Deal is hot, and Jimmy Allred is-- J: Yes, and we had a lot of mutual friends. The next recollection I have was going down to my store which I had at the campus. was a campus shop
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- papers are your columns carried in now, sir? T: Twenty-two. I only send columns to the papers that I send news to. M: How often do you write a column, as opposed to sending news dispatches? T: Until recently about three times a week; but right now
- Biographical information; Dockrey Murder case; Garner of Texas vs. Snell of New York; Miller’s appointment of LBJ; Edward Jamison; first impressions of LBJ; three famous Texas political figures; LBJ’s interest in military affairs; rating LBJ
- on it. And that night he called me in Baltimore and said, "Your papers are on the "'lay to Holabird. You can pick them up in the morning and report"--somewhere there in Maryland, I've forgotten where--"and be out of the army tomorrow." So that was the contact I had
- into effect, of course, but they're going to divulge a new project, as I understand it within the next [year]. F: Is there still some pressure along this line? L: Yes, sir, there's a lot of pressure. of pressure for it. Of course, there's a lot
- for the Texas Power & Light Company as a salesman. University. In 1927 and 1928 I went to New York They laughed at me for going to that little old school LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
- don't know if this is on the record. One morning Price Daniel--he was governor then--invited me over there to a breakfast for Jack Kennedy. He was running for president you know. I wasn't going to go. I said, "Oh hell, that's just a lot of politicians
- a lot in that Allred affair. They came in to see me one morning, and said, "We want you to manage Lyndon Johnson's campaign. II He had just announced the day before. I only knew him by newspaper accounts. I didn't know him personally. M; You had
- that was one of the cutest things that ever happened. F: I want to get .it down. W: All right. Just before we were married, in December of 1961, I was in New York, about in November--October or November--at the same time Lyndon Johnson and many of his
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- . respect. I never thought of Lyndon in that We've had some members who I hav~ thought of as populists, but I never really thought Lyndon was a populist. In those days we thought of him as a New Dealer and not the old term of populist, I guess. G: I
- LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
- ." We only had two, so we called one of them the "old building" and one the "new building." M: Like the Senate does now. H: It was the East Building for housing members of Congress, their offices and so forth, and I was on the east side--a long ways
- and I enjoy the funny things that happened. I remember a member of the legislature from Dallas, Texas, a very dry humor type of fellow, on the floor of the house during that controversy. When Rainey then later announced for governor, he said
- was in such a bind him- self--he was the new superintendent--he said, "Just go in there and take charge." Those kids were about to tear the building down. I went in there and stayed seven years. (Laughter) G: Was it common for jobs to get passed along like
- Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh KEENAN -- I -- 8 ~1: How soon after Kennedy' s assassination did you meet with the new President Johnson? K: Almost immediately