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Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • place of friends and have lunch and things like that. F: On these Board of Education meetings, did they just sort of develop? P: They sort of developed. Say, Truman would some in--that's when Truman was President--he'd come over about 5 o'clock
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • remember when President Roosevelt died; Harry Hopkins called the Cabinet together, and he said, I~e must all resign in..11ediately and insist on President Truman taking our resignation, because no matter what President Truman did, lve would always say
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • years? S: I had been appointed deputy director of the Budget Bureau by President Truman in 1950 and had decided to go to Marshall Field and Company at the invitation of the president of the company, who had been a consultant to the Budget Bureau during
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • do, and how did you happen to get into the photography business. S: Well, I was born and raised in Iowa for twenty years. F: Whereabouts in Iowa? S: Oskaloosa, Iowa. [I was] attendin.g William Penn College and decided that I would see what
  • Stoughton’s background and how he became involved in photography while serving in the Air Force in WWII; Stoughton’s newsreel camera business in the 1950’s; his work in the Army and as a space program photographer at Cape Canaveral; experiences
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the Democrats quite well and faithfully--everyone from Truman forward as President. I wonder how you first came into contact with Lyndon Johnson. M: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in 1950 or 1951 when I was Under Secretary of the Air Force during