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Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • because I'd just got back from the army. The first thing I did was to start buying newspapers and doing things, and I wasn't very much involved with political party activity. I don't remember having gone [but] to maybe one or two meetings, if we had
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at a time, because I'm afraid you'd fall into the same category. I think it's very useful. Mc: M: Were you assigned to any other government committees? Yes. I was appointed. I am on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association
  • on housing (Suburbia) in 1965; impressions of Robert Wood and Charles M. Haar; evaluation of task forces; service on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association.
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that way for a number of years. Fulbright has been dead for some twenty years; Crooker, Freeman, and Bates are all retired from this law firm--they have no further interest in the firm. I'm really the senior partner. M: And you've been then associated
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , at the time when he was majority leader . He was speaking of Trinity, and Kerr was talking about this last watershed to be developed . And Lyndon Johnson was behind him one- hundred per cent on that, and they became even closer through this association
  • ; Kerr's involvement in the vice presidential decision; Kerr's 1960 campaign; Kerr and LBJ's friendship; Tulsa newspapers; federal judgeships; Kerr and JFK and RFK; personality and character of Kerr
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)
  • for the Fort Worth Record-T: Fort Worth Record in 1906, I was 16 years old. M: 1906, right. And in 1912-1913 you came to Washington and worked for the Washington Post. You have been an editor and owner of newspapers. In 1917 you became the Washington
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • found a great interest in public service. had that interest ever since I was a young man. I've My father, who ran a weekly newspaper in a small town near Fort Wayne, was interested LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • sir, and it became a link in the chain which was later to be American Airlines, formerly named American Airways . M: And you've been associated then with American Airlines? B: I've been associate general counsel to American Airways and American
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the newspaper business, magazine business, World War II service in the Air Corps, and, after the war, your own public relations firm. When in this process did you first meet Mr. Johnson? M: I saw him when he was running for the Senate in 1948. I did
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: LeROY COLLINS INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Collins· office in Tallahassee, Florida Tape 1 of 1 F: Governor, when did you first get any sort of an association with Lyndon Johnson? I know with your interests in things
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • completed, and we will have sent it to all of the judges and all other interested parties for their comment . But we are seeking a year's extension . F: Governor, let's talk politics today . In your association with Mr . Johnson personally, when did you
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and Mr. Johnson as Vice President. So Mr. Wilkins said to his associates, "Suppose we go over on the Hill." He did not spell out to them just what he had in mind. over there, they go to the office of the Vice President. very late in the afternoon
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 13, 1969 F: Mrs. Graham, when did you first get to know the Johnsons beyond just an ordinary business relationship in your position with the newspaper? G: I got to know them
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and the interviewer is Joe B . Frantz. Mr . Boatner, first of all, tell us a little bit about your own background and how you came to this spot in your life . B: My background is that of a newspaperman and my newspaper was the Fort Worth Star Telegram . I
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the American economy? P: That was when they said I was going to ruin the free enterprise system and the whole world was going to come tumbling down. I thought, "Bless you, Halter Jenkins.1I But I have always interpl"eted his note to mean that the President
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • never forget, I saw him in Paris. He was in NATO. I called on him one day with a friend, an associate, of mine in Paris. At that time I kidded him. I said, "This is a Tammany Hall Democrat calling on you, and I'm probably one of the few persons who
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Mrs . Johnson and my wife and the President reached the point where he was detailing how he studied at night, he was associating himself with those people at West, finding a common point of interest . He detailed how at night after they had dinner why
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of government information for war purposes, and I did the study that led to the creation of the Office of War Information. And later--I'll come to that in a moment--I became its Associate Director. I scarcely finished this subject when the President called me
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was delivering newspapers in Bishop and I read in the Houston Chronicle that the NYA had been set up, and that he was going to be the administrator of it ; that you could get $15 .50 a month and go to the University by working two hours a day or some such thing
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • implying. B: That's what I had reference to. S: I was not associated in those lawsuits. B: Can you now, over a distance of time, make any judgment on the validity of the various charges on all sides of fraud etc., in that election? S: Of course, I
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with at that Convention. I made many friends over the country, and I have been pleased with what happened there at that convention. F: Let's talk about your own career for a moment. In 1963, you were heralded by the newspapers and by general sentiment as the person
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1952, I talked to Senator Johnson about the possibilities of establishing federal assistance for the construction of public broadcasting stations, stations that would be associated with colleges and universities, established by local community groups
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on that. I've always understood that the Chiefs of Staff--certainly some of them-- and Secretary of State Dulles, recommended that we intervene at Dien Bien Phu. I remember quite well a newspaper man one time asked Secretary Dulles--. This was about
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, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Warren Woodward who at that time had moved to Houston and was with a savings and loan association there. B: Were you involved with or associated with any of the various groupings in Texas' factional politics at the time? V: No, not really. I did
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of interview: Discusses his knowledge of politics and his association. Date Oct. 12, 1968 Place Tape index: Page or estimated ' time on tape Subiect(s) covered 1-2 First association with Lyndon Johnson Biographical Texas Planning Board 2-4
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to be for Kennedy." I said, "Well, With what you stand That was a persuasive thing, and I won't go into all the details. I talked to Bert Bennett, who was my campaign manager and a very successful young businessman; prior to get associated with me, he was never
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of freshman Congressman Johnson in those days? C: Oh, yes. I did, but not to be associated with him on anything other than just meeting and speaking. After all, I was still a secretary and he was a very busy co'ngressman. F: Did the secretaries pay any
  • First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson
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
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • interesting experience because, as I men- tioned in the earlier interview, one of Mr. Johnson's closest and long time associates was Irving Goldberg, who now serves as a judge on the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Goldberg agreed to become vice chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • away. I started to work with the Retail Clerks' International Association and other organizations, too, and did some practice of law. The important thing about President Johnson--and I really was very impressed with him--was this. minimum wage bill. I
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • contracts . M: Was it during this time that you met Alvin Wirtz of Austin? B: We'd met him, I think, before that time--in late '20's . M: Was he a business associate or what was his relationship? B: No, he was a lawyer from Seguin, and, I think
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it over the radio. G: You had not really become close to him? W: Oh, I did not know him then. G: I see. Well, descri be the process whereby you became closely associated with him. W: Mainly through Judge and Mrs. Homer Thornberry, because
  • Biographical information; Senator Wirtz; associations with the Johnsons; travels with LBJ; impressions of LBJ; 1960 campaign and convention; vice presidency; NATO trip; LBJ and art; LBJ’s humor; Adenauer visit to the Ranch; Pakistan camel driver
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • them, they consider you're always against them. Me Senator, I know you've had a close association and interest in aviation problems and the SST--the Supersonic Transport. Did this come up during the Vice Presidential years? M: I rode the airplanes