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Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , is that right? L: No. Club. But I don't know about that. I lived at Mrs. Randolph's before I moved to the Aust-in vJomans I 1 i ved at Mrs. Randolph's where everybody girl except me. thel"e was a soro¥'ity But I worked and you couldn't belong
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: JERRY HOLLEt·1AN INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Holleman's office at 2909 Fredericksburg Road, San Antonio, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, Mr. Holleman, lid like to know something about your background. Where you
  • Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was not to be scott-free, in the election, that is. 2 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
  • and Ralph Yarborough; Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision and LBJ's opinion of racial issues; how LBJ worked for racial equality; LBJ's Senate race against Dudley Dougherty; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Johnson's public appearances and travel
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • -- At this time who would you consider the leaders of the liberal-labor group? S: Mrs. R. D. Randolph of Houston, who later became national committeewoman, was one of them; and Kathleen Voigt of San Antonio; LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? Is there any moment? S: I can't think of any great moment. Ft It's not like Saul on the road to Damascus. $: Not like the moment on the road to Damascus at all. Scott's campaign for the United States Senate. with IHm in any paid capacity. I managed Kerr
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . At the early days, in the Senate, it should be clear that the labor movement was not close to Johnson at all; on the contrary, with the exception of David Dubinsky,-Johnson always broke into groups, wedged his way in, on a personal relationship. David Dubinsky
  • Initial awareness of LBJ; Senate run by Southerners; Tidelands; political albatross; DC’s Southern atmosphere; Dick Russell; Harry Byrd; Eugene Milligan; Bob Taft; LBJ as a political operator; LBJ’s relationship with David Dubinsky; Walter George
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: Emmette S. Redford (Tape 1) INTERVIEWER: David G. McComb DATE: M: More on LBJ Library oral
  • Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it used to beat the daylight out of us. B: That's right. Abner McCall, who's now the president of Baylor University, was my roommate there. So I think that's practically about the only claim to fame that I've got. F: Was Abner Scott's brother? 2 LBJ
  • convention; the Democrats of Texas organization; Mrs. Frankie Randolph; the 1956 National Democratic Convention; Bean's invitation to JFK to visit El Paso in 1956; LBJ's effect on the 1956 Ralph Yarborough/Price Daniel primary run-off for Texas governor
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Ariz.] nor Senator [Scott W.] Lucas [D. Ill.], both of whom 21 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, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • from Houston for twenty-five years up there. And here's Bob Michel; [he] was a Republican leader for twenty years in Washington. Senator David Pryor. Al Gore. John Connally. I don't know. Charlie Rangel, he's going to be the next chairman of the Ways
  • . Bender, Lloyd Bentsen, Tom Bevill, Marilla Black, Charlie Blake, Dolph Briscoe, Lansing Brisbin [?], Alger Brit [?], Jack Brooks, Jerry Brown, James Bunning [?], Horace Busby, George H. W. Bush, Liz Carpenter, Scott Carpenter, Jimmy Carter, Bob Casey, Jr
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • --named Frankie Randolph who financed a magazine--gee, I never thought I'd forget the name of it but I have--devoted to liberal causes in Texas and-M: Wasn't the Texas Observer? J: Yes, that was it. And Lyndon was their target and they often took out
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • J. TAYLOR INTERVIEWER: DAVID IvlcCOHB DATE: November 23, 1969 PLACE: ~lr. Taylor's office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tape 1 of 1 N: Let me identify the tape first of all. Anthony J. Taylor. This is an interview with lvlr. I think you
  • Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • knew that Antioch College was then trying to recruit blacks, and I transferred. The day I entered Antioch Martin Luther King's wife Coretta, Scott was her last name then, also entered. That is the reason why I transferred from Purdue to Antioch. F
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to other rancher friends, and businessmen to their fellow businessmen. Lyndon, after a vast spurt of energy and exertion in the month of May, went to the hospital--I don't remember the exact dates--Scott and White, with his throat. He could just hardly
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were standing around there watching. President Truman referred to it as a mood in the country, as a "wave of hysteria." I guess that was a good description. Meanwhile, David Lilienthal, whom we had known and knew later, and I must say I liked him, he
  • of Texas; LBJ's continued interest in his local Texas supporters as he became senator and took on national interests; civil rights and the desegregation of the military; Alger Hiss and his sister, Anna Hiss; David Lilienthal; South Texas federal judgeships
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • quite enchanted with them. We then formed a non-profit corporation in November of 1961 called liThe White House Historical Association." At our first meeting in the fall of 1961, David Finley, who was then chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • #2) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB May 8, 1969 M: This is the second session with Mr. Douglass Cater. Once again I'm in his office at the Brookings Institution. The date is May 8, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you mentioned that you had
  • Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 3 (III), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to retire from the Senate and come back to Texas. a~ governor. That was in 1956 that he was elected The groups at the May convention in Dallas in 1956 nearly-­ they literally did gain most of their objectives, Mrs. Frankie Randolph and her people
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XIII -- 16 G: Now, I think it was the columnist David Lawrence who came out and said that Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of respect for the military, but he really came from that old-time school that wanted the civilian to be looking down the throats of [the military]. G: Anything on his association with David Lilienthal? Did he have much contact with Lilienthal during
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Selden -- II -- 2 after they got married. But when she was at the University she never spent much on anything for herself. She never wanted to seem to have more money than most of her friends had. G: She attended St. David's Episcopal
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . In the last few years, as you know, it was Camp David. Of course, the Ranch was always a wonderful escape valve. But all of these places, he took people with whom he was doing business, and he did business. But he did it at his own pace, in a leisurely fashion
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Castro -- IV -- 25 In addition to him, we had the Under Secretary of the Army--oh, Lord, I can't remember his name at the moment [David McGiffertl, who usually sat with us every day. He also met with us
  • York Puerto Ricans on the grounds of the Washington Monument; SCLC lawyers Frank Reeves and Leroy Clarke; Coretta Scott King; Walter Washington's response to Martin Luther King's death; Ramsey Clark, Stephen Pollak, Fred Vinson, Jr., Matthew Nimetz
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that boy-G: [David] Schine, was it? J: Sch i ne, yes. G: Well, now, who said, "Let's squeeze him"? And so forth. Was that what McCarthy said or--? J: That's what Symington told the Republican Secretary of the Army Stevens, "Now we've got him
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was and where it was coming from. My recollection is more of remembering [Roy M.] Cohn and [David G.] Schine and that whole crowd, because I would see them drinking over at the Carroll Arms. Cohn I really didn't think very much of at all. He was an evil person
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I found myself missing it, and I did just seek it out and start going to an Episcopal church. And I did join about a year after I left there. G: That was St. David's, I guess, wasn't it? J: Yes. G: In addition to the curriculum, and of course
  • ; Huey Long's tenure as governor of Louisiana; Mrs. Johnson's political interests before meeting LBJ; enjoying the outdoors around Austin and other forms of inexpensive entertainment during the Depression; Wayne Livergood; Zachary and Elaine Scott; Mrs
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1968 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES QUIGLEY INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 M: To start off with your biography, according to my information, you were born in Pennsylvania at Mt. Carmel. Q: Mt
  • Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mills. Anyway, about the fourth or fifth person that I called was a Reverend Bread, I think Scott Bread was his name, an Indian living on a reservation--or was it off the reservation? I don't know. I guess off the reservation. He took about ten minutes
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he won out. I don't need to go into details of that, but Cliff Durr was the one that pulled him out. James Lawrence Fly was determined; it was something he had put his staff on, Pete Shuebruk and Nate [Nathan H.J David, two brilliant lawyers
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is that Scott Lucas had gotten defeated in 1948 [1950]. That left a rather dangerous gap in the Senate. Up to that point there had been an understanding in the Senate that the Democratic leaders would come largely from the Middle West. It was because
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • point than any other time I've ever seen him. Because you know this is a fairly impressive list, Martin Agronsky, Popham, Walter Mansell, Paul Scott-­ who's a real nut; that's a little bit harsh, he's quite fanatical-­ Bill Stringer, Ray Brooks, Ray
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • running for president right now." I forget what he said, I have it in my book. What they did was they would go into, we'll say, Pennsylvania. Governor [David] Lawrence is an old pro, you know. So when they went in there and asked Lawrence's support, he
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: GENE LATIMER INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Latimer's residence, Denton, Texas • Tape 1 of 2 G: You mentioned in that interview with David McComb that your first glimpse of LBJ was when he came in to teach