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- , sir. Yes, sir. I was going to school at Texas A&M when he died, and came home for the funeral. Shortly after that I joined the Marine Corps. F: Where did you serve? P: In the South Pacific. F: This was in World War II? LBJ Presidential Library
- /show/loh/oh -28- Did you have any advance notice that the President wasn't going to run again? P: No, sir. F: Where were you when this happened? P: I was at home listening to his speech on television. F: You were as shocked then as I was? P
- Lyndon the prime mover in this? D: Well, he was certainly one of the prime ones, yes, sir. I might relate one incident which will show you that even at the age of eighteen or nineteen he had some of the qualities which later came forward in his
- , didn't you? H: Yes, sir. I had gone to the House in 1928 as representative of Gonzales County and had gone to the Senate in 1930, representing the Nineteenth Senatorial District. Going back just momentarily, my two years in the Department of Justice
- oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Whiteside ~- I -~ 3 But I also had access to the records of some rental property that they had. Dr. Evans had a garage apartment behind his home that had a room and a half
- ; selling Real Silk hosiery; LBJ’s parents; visiting in the Johnson home; entertainment; Dr. Evans and LBJ; Professor Greene; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; Deacon Wright; origin and activities of the White Stars; the Black Stars; social cleavage between local
- ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 HP: Yes, sir, that's right. PB: And rented out the other? HP: Yes, sir. PB: How
- the drainage problem. F: Was it as close an election here as it was over the State? L· The first election? F· Yes. L: Yes, sir, it was. The way I remember it in this county, I believe O'Daniel probably led the ticket. second, and Johnson was third
- , but a few voters, and as I said, I went down with my wife and my five-year old daughter, stayed in the hotel, did my job, and came home. That is really what I did, but when I came home, the investigation was, we thought, complete, but I didn't spend a lot
- them with him to compare them, and he said everything was aboveboard. On his way home though, he said he stopped at a beer joint and he left the poll and tally lists in the glove compartment of his car. Those were two sets. The only remain- ing
- INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD JOSEPH INTERVIE~JER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: t~r. Joseph's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 F: We'll make this informal, Eddie. Are you an Austin boy? J: Yes, sir, I was born and raised in Austin. F: That's what I thought. J
- born, sir; I was about four years old. W: Well, you don't know how hard it was to make a living. money. Nobody had any The bank closing certainly didn't affect me, I didn't have an account anyway. Most people didn't. Most of them were like Lyndon
- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: Oren Harris INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan M: Let's begin, sir, by identifying you. More on LBJ
- to run for the Senate. you want my real honest opinion based on r~ If observations and all, I think if Mrs. Stevenson had still been alive that she may have wanted Governor Stevenson to run for the Senate, but I think he would have gone home
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- very brief? F: Correct. Yes. Mc: Sir, have you ever participated in any other oral history project of this type? F: No, I have not. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- , and it was all over before I really got my breath. I don't suppose I had been there ten minutes till it was all over. G: And then you flew back to Nashville the next day? M: I went back to Nashville the next morning. I came on home to Temple, where I had
- . 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
- was a good-natured guy. He wasn't smart like I was writing for the newspaper, the College Star, and I had this in there--what I did was buy a joke book and substitute a college student's name because then they took the papers and sent them home because
- ; there was politics in my old home of Kaufman. I remember some of that as a boy growing up. I was in Sam Rayburn's district, and Mr. Rayburn was very popular, and we had local politics there. When I got down here this county, Jim Wells County, had for years been
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- people's minds that knew anything about it that this fellow Dougherty could ever beat Johnson. M: Did Mr. Johnson discuss or members of his staff talk very much about his political base and broadening his political base at home? He had, of course
- 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
- down. and I left the next morning and drove down. Mrs. Johnson We went the favored route down through the valleys in Virginia and across Tennessee and into Texarkana, stopped off in Marshall. just outside of Marshall. You know, her home
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
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- INTERVIEWEE: W. R. POAGE INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Poage's home in Rosslyn, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's begin, Representative Poage, with a meeting I think took place in 1938 with President Rooseve1t at the White House, when a number
- in debt, and ,vas planning to go home and start out the next morning looking for a job. That afternoon Ralph Shinn called me alld asked if Dorothy Plyler had reached me; said she had been trying to get me about a job. I called Dorothy and she asked me
- the situation between the Kle"bergs, because they were finally divorced. It 1t/as another one of those Washington situations that happen; sometimes a terrible life a woman, and for a man, too. of your home. It sometimes upsets the \
- funeral was in Texarkana. I was in the home of my predecessor, whose name was Frank Baldwin, late the afternoon of the funeral-we hadn't gone there, we didn't have any reason to go to Texarkana for that--when Lyndon Johnson phoned Frank Baldwin
- the company was reasonably well pleased . M: That paid your salary! L: That paid my expenses . M: Yes . L: So that brought me back to Texas . And after a short visit at home, I decided to capitalize on my knowledge of Spanish and of code laws
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , [and] had her, and he and Mrs. Johnson arrange that wedding. story white house in Austin. that wedding. He said that Mrs. Johnson would handle the It was in the Johnson home, that old twoAnd they handled every arrangement for They got the preacher
- had one reader anyhow. K: Yes, I didn't know we circulated up there. people that he really chewed out. papers, though. No, I don't recall any I heard that he did on the local Of course this is getting pretty close to home. I guess he probably
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
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- remember that, in April of '45? N: Yes, I do. Yes, he was bringing Dorothy Plyler and me home the next day I think it was. I said, "He's gone; who do we have now?" And he said, "Honey, we've got Truman." I don't remember what I said, but he said
- , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: HARRY NACHLIN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Nachlin's home in Pacific Beach, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 N: In this instance, I got the word along with Jim Chudars that we were going to Texas, which was quite
- that you were living in, wasn't it, or a rooming house? R: Well, see, they didn't have dormitories in those days for boys. boys stayed in rooming houses. you might say. All This \'/as Mrs. Hopper's home, I guess She rented the house, and we all paid
- on that one? K: That's right. . - !r I think the one occasion that brought it to me pretty strong was the fact that on the night of the passing of the McClellan amendments we had the votes and he sent Jim Murray home! 14e lost it by one vote. So
- - tive assistant before he got the NYA job. Fore was from John Connallyls home town, and they were all friends there together. M: So they turned to you, and you met Lyndon Johnson. What did you think about him? W: Well, I thought he had some
- , 1975 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES P. NASH INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Nash's home in Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Nash, let's begin with a little of your background. You were born in Pennsylvania, I think, Philadelphia? N: Yes
- until St. Augustine County, which was Ed Clark's home county-and of course Ed was in Austin--changed about five or six thousand votes. A man came, Paul Bramlette, who is now deceased, and told him he could handle it either way in st. Augustine County
- the little woman that ought to be home taking care of my children, and I had a six-weeks-old baby when I announced. That was Jeff. He was just hardly out of the hospital. Yes. He worked very hard on that. But we were well organized. That was the year we
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- practicing law in El Paso, which was my home town, at that time. In 1926 Robert Ewing Thomason, who was later in Congress from that district, kind of revved me up to run for the legislature. There was a man, an incumbent, that he and his friends didn't
- on a temporary slate of officers. But the convention became drawn out, got bogged down in long, tiresome procedures. Meanwhile, many of the victorious Johnson delegates left and went home. But many of the anti-Johnson people and people who were with Johnson
- that year for the San Antonio Light as a cub sports writer and each summer thereafter for three years, coming home from school for the summer months, and then went to work full-time for them about 1930-31. I left the sports arena and went into general news