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Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to you that you're not going to win this election unless you take Johnson on for vice president." F: This is long before Los Angeles? C: This is in Los Angeles, after the vote on Lyndon. I had gone earlier to Sam Rayburn--I was out in Los Angeles
; Corcoran's work for LBJ at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; Corcoran's efforts to convince Sam Rayburn that LBJ should accept the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Mike Mansfield as Senator Majority Leader; Jim Landis; Ambassador

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BASKIN -- I -- 17 factor in the convention. But neither of those trips produced any delegates to speak of. F: Well, now after he became, obviously, the number two candidate in Los Angeles, most people agree that his only

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and saw something of the then-Senator Johnson at that time. The first time I recall talking with Senator Johnson was during the fall of 1956 when Senator Kefauver and I were campaigning throughout Texas with Senator Johnson. Senator Johnson led us
House press apparatus; Dean Acheson; Dean Rusk; Senator Aiken; Congressman Moss; Mr. Rooney; Mr. Katzenbach; Eugene Rostow; the press; Joe Alsop; Vietnam coverage; mail; lag time in making records available; Douglas Cater; transition; Lady Bird; trip

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and invited her for dinner to our house. And at the same time invited a man who is now dead named Aaron Schaffer, who was head of the French Department, or maybe the Romance Language Department, at the University of Texas. He and his wife Dorothy were

Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

States, I think in Texas, spoke English. Therefore, he used to be the person in the hotel that would come and take care of the influential or outstanding men coming to Acapulco at the time. Through that he knew President Johnson, I think as a senator

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

known Sam Houston since he was a young man. He has always been connected with Lyndon in almost everything that he's undertaken other than just when he was secretary to Congressman [Richard] Kleberg. At that time Lyndon was very alert, very

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. This has become home to you. S: Oh, completely, completely. 19l7~ He liked it very much. Quite a long time. Anyway, the portrait was very small, and they liked -it. _ The President said, "Well, sometime would you do another one for the White House

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: CECIL STOUGHTON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 - begi:ns at about 350 F: Okay, Cecil, this is the next morning, March 2nd now. S: Right, I've got a little time left. F: Yes. And we'll go on from

Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Secret Service. interview is in his office in Washington, D.C. 1968. The time is 10:45 a.m. The The date is December 17, My name is David McComb. First of all, may I ask you something about your background? I'd like to know where you were born

Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on two or three months to finish up some work I was doing and then came to the Urban Coalition. I donate my services here on a part-time basis. M: You are, of course, with the Texas nativity. in connection with Mr. Johnson is cronyism. The obvious

dead now. R: Oh, he is? I didn't know that. G: He was around for a long time. R: He came here in 1919. I used to like to have coffee with him and listen to him talk about what it was back in those days. I believe--well, I know it was Speaker Sam

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. He was born a freedman in Washington; thus the name Freeman was no coincidence. He looked around to find a dental school that would accept him in the l860-s, and there were about four or five dental schools in the country at that time. Harvard did

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

appropriations to the Senate, he had time to open the hearings. He didn't stay there for all the hearings, but he opened them and I was always intrigued, though at a distance. I was at a table making part of the presentation, but I was always intrigued

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the deep depreSSion days), and I had only had that position a short time; about a post office. I I was satisfied and didn't know anything told him that, but he said I'd make a good one and insisted that I accept it, which I did. ?: Have you been

Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)

he was raised. After that, in 1916, his nephew, Tom Martin, was elected to the House of Representatives in Texas. was a vacancy. In 1917 he quit and joined the army and there Ferguson was governor at this time. He gave Sam Johnson, Lyndon's dad

Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

at KTBC as an announcer. B: And after being hired as an announcer, Mr. Pryor went on to be program director and master of ceremonies of, I should say, national fame. You ha ve done shows all ove r the count ry since that time, have you not? P: Yes

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