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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did you come to be appointed Postmaster? Q: Ivell, I got mixed up in politics in the campaign of Dick Kleberg, that's east of Dallas. Good farmland. the King Ranch, in a special election that he was running in for Congress representing
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, 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, 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
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, 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, 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, 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
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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, 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, 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, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the fact that other people at one time or another were partners in it. I particularly thought about this when I saw him down with Jimmy Webb at the blast-off to the moon, and I thought about it in relationship to the fact that in some ways I considered Mr
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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/27/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • like to take m y picture as I left. And ended This is the fi r s t time that I can re m e m b e r being c l e a r l y annoyed at the p r e s s . ■ Not knowing how to ask h er to le a v e , I talked to her about the situation of the press people fro m
Folder, "Johnson, Lyndon B. [1945]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 27 (Item)
  • by Januarr titteenth, as the sender ia going 011t or business about that time, pricee. A deposit baa been and wUl not !ix left with him to cover this tasting baaineaa.
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/25/1969 (Saturday) (Item)
  • g t o n M o n u m e n t a n d on .40Ai i i and I had a i n bad cold, a n d &A k o J i p i J a b J j e o^ g.ue^i 4 i o s o we J s - ^ i . i k e m ^eeJin^, u/ehi ^oa. i k e a i ik e one l >Ai ng. Ranch mil l i o n t h time in my life
  • ; meeting with Harry Ransom & Frank Erwin about University of Texas, Wayne Grover & LBJ Library; first time LBJ has been guest at Luci's table; Pat Nugent coming home from Vietnam; Nugents will vacation in Formosa; Johnsons spend night at KTBC
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/26/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • a long time since I'v e seen the country so green. F o r once th e re 's been enough rain and to add to it a ll, there was an alm ost fu ll moon. We drove until the last ra y was gone fro m the sky and then stopped by the house, where joined us fo r
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/28/1964 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Days in M ay), and I think p e r haps,^I^might have had F ra n ces and H elen , a t one time, and we drove over/the Scha rn h orst just as the shades of night w e r e fa llin g fast. I enjoyed particularly^^taking them around the perilou s stretch
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/3/1967 (Friday) (Item)
  • is parched and a«fr^ T h ere i s no, touch of, g r e e n a n yw h ere. ;:We have had only about an in ch of ra in s in c e the l a s t o f S ep tem b e r . : It is approaching a d esp e ra te r e c o r d of d r y n e s s . ^A. doesn't rem em b er a time
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/17/1967 (Saturday) (Item)
  • house; Lady Bird to Wesley West Ranch for dinner; Lady Bird describes the night sky and imitates a bullfrog; Lady Bird reminisces about time at the West Ranch; possible donation to the LBJ Library; Lady Bird sleeps in car on way back to Luci's home
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/19/1967 (Monday) (Item)
  • to Johnson City for flower harvesting; dinner with Luci & Pat Nugent and friends at Steak Island in Austin; Luci has encounters with the press; Lady Bird to bed and reading "Of Time and The River" by Thomas Wolfe
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/4/1966 (Saturday) (Item)
  • LBJ & guests tour the ranches; Lady Bird spends time with Lynda Johnson; Lady Bird talks about Rebekah Johnson; photos taken of LBJ and Lady Bird in the wildflowers; LBJ and Lady Bird vote at the courthouse; Lady Bird mentions 1941 Senate race; LBJ
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/28/1965 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird preparing for guests at the LBJ Ranch; LBJ signs a highway construction bill on the porch; hostess duties is time-consuming; LBJ tells about communion at the Christian Church; Lynda Johnson moves I to Austin for school; Johnsons greet
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/13/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • At 10:33, the time Lady Bird says is "11:30" rather than "11:00"
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/16/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Kennedy walked into his office, the first time after John Kennedy 1 s death. It was Lyndon that suggested that we see Guess Who's Corning to Dinner, and we all went out to the hangar which is completed now, for showing movies, . and very nice, except