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Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] apartment. Then he asked if he couldn't call Mr. and Mrs. North, and he did. Mr. North was editor of the [Fort Worth] Star Telegram at that time. came down. So they both Lyndon had been with Phil about two days before that in the South Pacific
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the annual reunions because of being in the military. G: Is there anything else about LBJ and San Marcos, or LBJ and the White Stars that you feel is worth talking about? M: I really don't know. As I say, he was gone when I arrived and he never did come
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; College Star; White Stars; membership; purpose; LBJ as state NYA administrator; NYA public relations activities; staffers; structure of the NYA; projects; Herbert Henderson; working habits; later contacts
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1979 INTERVIEWEE: CALVIN HAZLEWOOD INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Hazlewood's home, Fort Worth, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Hazlewood, let's start with your background. You're a native Texan? H: Oh, yes, yes. G: Can you briefly
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • You see, they'd laid great plans for this roadside park between Dallas and Fort Worth. Lyndon had asked several of the district dir- ectors to come into Dallas, because we knew President Roosevelt was .. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Roth’s childhood; meeting and interacting with LBJ at Southwest Texas (teachers’ college); White Stars organization; Professor Howard Mell Greene; Roth’s work for the NYA; relationship between the NYA and WPA; Senator Alvin Wirtz; President
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : June 2, 1976 INTERVIEWEE : CHARLES BOATNER and TONY 7IEGLER INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Boatner's office in Fort Worth, Texas Tape 1 of 3 G: Okay . We're on again . Why don't we start with the kangaroo story that you had
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was head of one of the secret social organizations in the college down there, and Lyndon was head of the other . Stars and one was called Black Stars . One was called White I was such an outcast I didn't belong to either . I didn't know much about them
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in to the committee--I can't recall exactly, I believe the convention was in Fort Worth in 1948--and the committee worked on it all night, they finally got around to hearing the thing on the next morning. Mc: Now where do you fit into all this? Ma: I was just
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • assistant now and was his assistant then--Craig told me this story--made the mistake just before the vote of taking about three hundred angry telegrams from Fort Worth businessmen over to the speaker's lobby and showing them to Jim just before the vote
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of them, and I'm sure he quoted hi s, tooo And that when I got that done I got my secretary trained--I had two secretaries trained to do that. "Then I spent a lot of time out traveling over Texas writing stories for Houston papers, Dallas, Fort Worth
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , this would have not been in my jurisdiction so I don't recall. I think so. G: A junior placement service in Fort Worth, do you remember that? S: This I'm not familiar with. G: Elimination of traffic hazards from highways and planting shrubs along
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in August, 1936, you went to Texas . There was a banquet in your honor in which you were presented a Texas hat and-B: Made a Texas Ranger . G: An honorary Texas Ranger . B: Oh, yes, that was at the time of the Fort Worth--Dallas big fair, you know
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • use of some things that had been set up. For example, on Friday we got a telegram from Elliott Roosevelt, who was running a radio system at Fort Worth at the time, in which he wished him all good luck and so on, that Johnson was authorized to use
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 1 (I), April 1963, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . He was known on the Hill as one of the top Congressional secretaries. For instance, there was always quite a bit of competition between the Congressmen’s office and say, one of the U.S. Senators to get a telegram out announcing approval of a Texas
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Quill -- I -- 14 And he kept thinking they were genuine.” But they promised to send me a telegram in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The train got
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • another experience also. I was on the debating team and some question came up as to whether or not Princeton would be a problem for us to visit. One of the eager beavers, who was the coach, sent a telegram saying that I was a Negro and would
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • or But there was a telegram that I'm sure wasn't from the President, but it carded the Presidential imprimatur so to speak. EG: While he was working in Kleberg's office, are there any anecdotes or stories which particularly illustrate what he was like during that period
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • secretary, I had to resign from the National Youth Administration, which I did. I was still living in Buda . He left the hospital and went up to Johnson City, and I went up there . We had lots of calls and telegrams about his health and congratulatory
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • concerning the controversy that existed between two "secret" organizations on the campus, one called the White Stars, the other the Black Stars. The Black Stars organized prior to the White Stars and were composed of athletes. Athletes, back in those days
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; Professor Greene; White Stars; NYA; roadside parks; projects; programs; LBJ's activities; Lady Bird; Alvin Wirtz; 1937 Congressional campaign
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • of the history record? D: Yes, I would repeat for you the White Star-Black Star story because I think that I can give you a pretty accurate summary. The Black Star and the White Star were secret organizations on the campus. For a number of years, the Black
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • a matter of getting a job to stay in school, to pay your room and board and things like that. PB: What sort of work did you all have to do? TD: Oh, some worked on the campus; Lyndon was editor of the College Star. Of course, that was one
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , was a district director. never will forget . I Mr . Kellam had just gotten this wire to add five hundred, we'll say--I've forgotten, it was a pretty good-sized figure-­ "Add five hundred immediately ." and he said, He brought the telegram in to the meeting
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an office here in the Executive Office Building, and there was that stack of mail and telegrams for my handling just the same as when I left, but it was a new angle, of course, that I had never experienced before. It was pretty exciting and moving. F
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in East Texas. East Texas was tremendously anti- Roosevelt, I don't know why. But that hurt. I think the biggest thing they did to help was to see that he had some campaign money. G: I understand that they would also provide him with telegrams