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Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /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
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . They knew he was a man of great force . This is before he became President . Ba : Did he have any knowledge of British leaders before he became President? Was he acquainted with Mr . Douglas-Home or the future Prime Minister, Mr . Wilson? B: Whether he
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to you, you have any changes or corrections or additions--anything like that. Has that ever occurred? A: No, I think that won't be a problem with us here. M: Sir, you came to Congress just two years after Mr. Johnson ran and was elected
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JACK VALENTI INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: His office in Washington Tape 1 of 1 B: This is the interview with Jack Valenti. Sir, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? V: Yes, I do. Houston. I met him sometime in, I believe
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Also, sir, in that primary campaign so far as Mr. Johnson's campaign speeches and so on went, was he going pretty well down the line with the Truman administration? S: Yes. He was, and with the Democratic Party generally. We considered him of course
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape ff:3) July 29, 1969 B: This is a continuation of the interview with the Reverend Luther Holcomb. Sir, before we get back into the chronology-- H: Excuse me, have you met Judy Miller? B: We've been talking out there. H
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh July 8, 1969 B: This is a continuation, the second interview with Rev. Holcomb. Sir, we left this after about 1961 or so. The next thing would be in '62 when you were appointed by President Kennedy as chairman of the Texas
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "I don't know just what you mean, sir ." And he said, � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the South is concerned. I liked Symington. I liked him. I liked Paul Douglas, And I perhaps liked somebody else--I can't remember any other candidates at the moment of that time. F: Stevenson was still around. S: I had about done all I could do
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • moved out in their [areas] back home, they would swing delegates. didn't ,happen It just that way. M: It didn't work that way. S: No. M: Did you go to Los Angeles? s: Oh, yes, I went to Los Angeles. M: Were you a member of the Texas
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 24, 1969 B: This is the interview with Luther Holcomb. Sir, to begin in the beginning, do you recall when you first met Mr. Johnson? H: Yes, I can reconstruct. It was during the campaign of--the one when W. Lee
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • him in January of 1935. I started work in Washington on January 3, 1935 as secretary to Congressman A. L. Ford of the Fourth Mississippi District, whose home is here in Ackerman. I went to work for him six days before I was twenty-one years old
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] spent three days in that campaigning and by the last day, I had a very rough throat, got to where I could hardly speak, and I came home on Saturday night, went to bed. no better; in fact, if anything, I was worse. The next morning I was So my wife
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , sir, I wanted to ask you about that. To back up into the '40 IS, even if you had not met Mr. Johns·--a had you formed an opinion about him? Had you classified him as a Congressman? M: Yes, I had. I was a pretty conservative young man, and it seemed
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --I--3 I said fine. He said, "Do you want me to come downtown?" "Oh no, sir. I'll come me up there to see you." see him. I said, So I went up there to He said, "I made a commitment to you, and I find out that it's downright embarrassing to me
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • some of the homes down there, although it was available to them--electricity was available to them--they were still using the kerosene lamp and I'm quite sure that nine-tenth's of the kitchen tables down there were still covered with oil cloth. F
Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 Well, during the time that Mrs. Felix Longoria was making the arrangements in Three Rivers with the Rice Funeral Home, they refused her the use of the chapel. already on his way back. By this time Felix Longoria
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and succeeded in getting a scholarship to A&I for two years--Texas A&I University in Kingsville . I could live at home in Bishop and commute back and forth for the six miles there, and I did ; I hitchhiked back and forth every day . Then in 1933 I left Bishop
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with this firm ever since 1931? J: Yes, except for the war years. M: And during the war you were in the Army, were you not? J: I was in the Army, yes, sir, and I received a commission in June of 1942, which I requested that I be admitted to serve--I
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, Gerald C. Mann and Gerald C. Mann, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • home district? M: Yes, I spent a little better than six years. F: When you were on the Planning Board in Washington, did that get you in any contact with Mr. Johnson? M: No. When I was on the Planning Board in Washington, I really never had
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and would have the Johnsons. As I recall, the President first invited me to their home in 1957. I don't have a diary invited to dinner with Mary the first time. SQ I can't pinpoint the r~argaret year~ but I was and was very excited about going
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • II. T: That's right, and in the Reserve between the wars. M: Yes, sir. You married Miss Libbie Moody, is that correct, in 1918. And apparently the Marine Corps brought you to Galveston, and here you met under rather unusual circumstances
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in any facility to bring about something he wanted to get done. interests. And at that time, he had several One was getting home rule for Washington. One was making Washington a better place to live in in every way. And he was very concerned
  • First acquaintance with the Johnsons; Clean Elections Bill; Philip Graham’s background; Joe Rauh; Graham’s support of LBJ in 1960 election; selection of home for Johnson family; 1958 dinner at Alsop’s with JFK; Washington Post editorial policy
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Utah. I I come from That is my home state where I have connections, so I Has assigned to work there, and I did a good deal, I would say I took a major responsibility in the Moss campaign out there. fvl: How did t1r. Johnson get involved in that? P
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; and back to Chicago and home. And when I got home, the morning I got home I issued a statement and said that in my judgment President Roosevelt was certain to be nominated on the first ballot in Chicago and would be elected and would carry, in my judgment
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh He didn't ever really trust Joe Clark very He was skeptical about Paul Douglas. Did it seem to you sometimes he was more suspicious of fellow Democrats than he
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • visited his home for breakfast one Sunday before the national convention. I'm sure that as Governor I had met with him on several occasions in connection with California problems. I have no distinct recollection of meeting him during the period I
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--9 else do iti Connally wasn't going to get involved in this kind of amateurish politicking. John threatened to go home. And then two or three days later, we got permission to put the sign up, so we were in business. Now
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • President Johnson? Yes, we did, I guess. Did you see him any after the election? M: Yes, I saw him in groups and at his home shortly after he was elected Vice President with a group of Texas bankers and others. Me: Did you talk with him? M: Only
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him at his home. not a great distance apart. We lived No, I won't be certain of that. I was in his home at different times, but I'm not certain that I visited in his home at that time. G: Of course he did run in 1960, and there's some indication
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • assistants. So I was administrative assistant to him for awhile, and again did whatever I could to help him in his office in Washington. In fact, I lived with Congressman and Mrs. Johnson. F: You mean in their home? H: Yes, in their home. They had
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and I said, "Now, will you give us a courtesy vote on the first vote from the Illinois delegation." of blew up the hope. And the answer was "no." And so this kind If we couldn't go in with the home state of the man who had been governor
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . It really has been remarkable. M: Eisenhower liked Johnson very much--I remember that very much. F: What prompted your decision to sell your home to Johnson after he became Vice President? M: There were two acres there and that was a great deal
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Washington. I was met by Bobby Baker, who was then working for him, and he took me out to Senator Johnson's home. Lady Bird was there, too. So we started in a conference that I thought would last maybe an hour, and we wound up late in the afternoon
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Late thirties. M: Do you remember anything about when you first met him? What he was like, what he looked like, what he acted like? H: I first met him with Abe Fortas, Bill Douglas, Tommy the Cork, arid other friends of LBJls. He was a very
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE : ALLEN BARROW INTERVIEWER : JOE B . FRANTZ PLACE : The home of James Jones in Tulsa, Oklahoma . Tape 1 of 1 F: Judge Barrow, first of all, how did you get involved with Senator [Robert S .] Kerr? B: It was in his 1948
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • home, but I'd been hearing that all my life and I just didn't believe him. G: I just ignored it. Now, also that March you and Teddy White met with Johnson in the Oval Office. R: Yes. G: Do you recall the substance of that meeting? R: Yes. Teddy