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Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and all--But somewhere I think the story will somehow come out that it was not true. Now, I was in Dallas the night it occurred. The Washington representative of the Times-Herald telephoned Mr. Felix McKnight of the Times-Herald and said Mr. McKnight
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • myself. I did check I wrote a letter I remember it was at a time when Peter Marshall was quite a popular and widely heralded minister. He would have been in that period somewhat like Billy Graham today. And Mrs. Peter Marshall had come to Dallas
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and graduated from high school at Brownwood in 1920. the University of Texas from 1921 to 1928. practice of law in Dallas, Texas. I attended In 1931 I commenced the During that time I served in the 36th Infantry Division of the Texas National Guard
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Was it Sam? No, it wasn't Sam, it was Sam's brother [it comes to me now, Alex] who was on the Dallas Times Herald and he and I usually rode together . And in those days--Horace Busby rode with me quite a bit--he was working for the Vice President, the Senator
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , which became known as the DOT. B: Was this immediately after the Dallas convention in the spring, or was this on after the national party convention? S: I don't remember that chronology. I think it was going on all the time-- the preliminary work
  • and 1960 campaigns; Democratic National Committeeman; Los Angeles Democratic Convention; JFK’s meeting with Houston ministers; LBJ’s running for Senate and VP; LBJ relationship with John Connally; LBJ as VP; reasons for the 1963 Dallas trip; wrote letters
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • have in their appointments becoming known ahead of time. In my case it did not get into the papers, but when they started the FBI investigation of me, in a city like Dallas, there did develop a little comment of "Wonder what's up? We got a call today
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the FBI? S: Oh, I went in about the time of the beginning of World War II and stayed in till the end of the war. I returned to Dallas then to practice law. [vi: Did you join this firm that you're now in at that point? '. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • us about that election. H: That was the election in which W. Lee O'Daniel and Congressman Johnson ran for the Senate. It was a special election, and they didn't have much time to prepare. It seems that frequently we had to work without much time
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ugliness in Dallas toward Johnson [the Adolphus Hotel incident], when he'd been up there he'd been spit on one time in public, a mess. I just didn't see any point in having these big parades, but I wasn't consulted. And they had this parade and all
  • ; 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, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and then stood in the center of the room and talked for about thirty or forty minutes and answered questions from those who were there about the political environment of that time. I must say I was quite struck by him, I thought he was strong, he was greatly
  • Meeting LBJ; Albert Thomas; seeing his wife for the first time; events before and during the 1960 convention; LBJ accepting the vice-presidential nomination; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Valenti’s role in the 1960 convention; advertising
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , represented by Republican lawyers--and they filed this suit in the state court in Dallas and made the same challenge. was a violation of our state Constitution. But this time asserting it The other suit had rested primarily on an alleged violation
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh T . O'Neill--I-- 8 she was young . Herald . She later went to work for the Boston As a matter of fact, she's Mrs . John Finney now . John writes for the New York Times
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • The President doesn't like your work, so for God sakes, be careful." I could, from time to time, sense a nervousness when Maggie Higgins was out there. She came out from the [New York Herald] Tribune and did a series of bizarre stories. She was only
  • Early contact with LBJ during 1960 campaign; going to Vietnam for the first time; learning about Vietnam and gaining the confidence of the people there; deciphering the motivation of the officers that spoke to him; Homer Bigart; John Vann; John
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ORAL HISTO RY COLLECTI ON Narrator Gerald C. Mann · & Gerald C. Mann Jr~
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the dance was to be held, I met a hostess who asked me what my fraternity was and I told her Phi Delta Theta. So, some time later, in the course of the afternoon--I didn't intend to stay any more than just to make certain that I could get in there if I
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio . You notice I said Fort Worth first . down here and make a speech to us,which he did . prominent speaker we'd had up to that time . much . In 1949--or 1948--they passed a bill I asked him to come He
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org H: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] He's an old-time newspaper man. the Dallas Ne\V's at one time. More on LBJ -9-Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh those strange individuals that they passed the late wh?was in school that said hereafter that everybody that doesn't graduate by a certain time must take the bar exam . I was working and a number of the other students were
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • changed this Internal Revenue ruling to make it an ordinary loss instead of a capital loss. lk: Yes. Lyndon Johnson was majority 1eader at the time. M: At that time, yes. • > LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • targets for years from Franklin Delano Roosevelt on through to Johnson's time--substantial numbers of these were passed. Slum clearance, housing, the poverty programs, the interstate highway systems, airline and airport legislation, and the development
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then as an afterthought she said, "I wouldn't have had the stinking stuff either!" F: West was primarily a farming community, right? B: West is a community of Bohemians and farmers, sausage makers, bread bakers; it's a great place for sausage and salami. At this time
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not have enough funds to develop good programs. It occurred to me that the time had come for federal assistance in order to make this possible. bne Sunday afternoon I do remember I was visiting at the Johnson residence and I brought the subject up. I
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for approximately a year--which, by the way, is the length of time people ordinarily stay with the Supreme Court as youngsters because it's a very low-paying job. It's more for the training and the honor than it is for the pay. Governor Daniel hired me
  • ticket; LBJ becoming Minority Leader in 1953 and Majority Leader in 1954; time following LBJ’s 1955 heart attack; LBJ vs. Price Daniel on civil rights; Majority Leader LBJ’s attempts to balance his duties to Texas and the nation; LBJ’s talents as Majority
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • political you must have been aware of him for a long time. C: Yes, I was aware of him quite well because of his Senate career particularly, congressional career, and his early days with the New Deal. I was just starting practicing law at that time, and I
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , from the time he went there until he left . F: You were educated entirely in California? B: Yes, both my wife and myself are products of Lowell High School in San Francisco . She went on to the University of California . I went to San Francisco
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: T. H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Hardeman's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Last time we were talking about Mr. Rayburn in Congress. During those years there, after you got with Mr. Rayburn from the late
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of running for political office when I was in high school, and so one step led to another and it turned out that I did manage to win a couple of offices. A great many other people, especially when I was in college, had ambitions. lone time thought
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • remember, I've had it. And the time then seemed to be a good one in which to enter the political field, as I was just resuming my practice. It might have been more difficult a few years later when the practice was better established--or better re
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . But that was due to Clarence Cannon and Sam Rayburn. M: Have you had opportunity to see Johnson operate in the Senate? H: Oh, yes. I wasn't, not being in Washington much at the time, but I was well aware that he probably was the greatest Senate minority
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 10, 1968 B: All right, sir, if we may start here, when did you first get acquainted with Mr. Johnson? H: I met Mr. Johnson some time in the forties. assignments--OPA, Agriculture, other things. I was in Washington
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • have them I served my last term as Supervisor--I ran for the I was elected in the 1922 election, when Governor Alfred Smith was reelected Governor. So I served one term in the state legislature. At that time there was a bill introduced known
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • through my husband in about 1956. I believe it was then that we perhaps had dinner with them two or three times. F: You didn't have more than a casual social relationship during his early days as a Senator? G: No, we knew them a little bit, but I
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is an interview with Milton S. Eisenhower, in his office in Baltimore, Maryland. The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz. Dr. Eisenhower, very briefly, let's run through your career from the time you were
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Texas along the Rio Grande River, and there he set up his business and we were actually raised there and went to school. M: What kind of business was he in? G: He had a general grocery store at that time with his brothers, who are still living
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at that time, that is correct. viaS majority leader at that time? t~y particular area of responsibility was--well at that time I was working pretty LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 5, 1968 M: The machine is now on. You can lean back and it will pick you up from the back of your chair. Your career, as you have no doubt realized from time to time, is in many ways parallel
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I met my wife, who at the age of seventeen years old was a junior at the University of Wisconsin. I had just gotten out of the Marine Corps and was on the 52-20 Club. I took her out a couple of times and liked her. I asked her to marry me
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 that in Montana . He talked me into extending my leave of absence another six months and going to work on one of these bridges, which I did . When my leave was up by that time I
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • programs and in beautification, things which you are associated with--desalination of water, the whole myriad. L: I'm interested in health programs because as a child I had poor health-- F: This is in Wisconsin? L: In Wisconsin. At one time I