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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, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , Hollis Frazier, a few other fellows, give them some competition. We got most of the class officers and the charge of the college newspaper and of the college annual, things like that, and the student council for a year or two or three. F: Was young
Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • hard to find. F: But he didn't invent that either. He's been accused, in the eastern press at least, of chewing out newspaper men. K: He was usually a pretty good I can't recall. Did you ever see any evidence of it re re in Austin? As I say, he
  • First association with LBJ; 1948 election; Star-Telegram’s campaign support; Preston Smith; Byron Utecht; George Parr; covering 1952 and 1956 Texas state conventions; LBJ’s response to an article by Kinch; Frankie Randolph; Mrs. Bentsen; Byron
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, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Taylor, I know you've had a very long and close association with the Johnson family, and I would like to just begin this interview with asking you: first, when did you come in contact >vith the Johnson family, and what were the circumstances