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- in Texas history, nothing she didn't know. She knew One of the funniest things that happened, we had Wilton Woods, whom you read about. We called him Noisy. He never talked. Her pet peeve was somebody coming in late. toeing, late. She had already
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
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- it out, and it was still wet, but I did it again the next night. I took along a book to read, and I read line 4 on page 13 for the six weeks that I was on the road. There was one funny incident, you were talking about running out of gas. We were
- -time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs
- Lufkin that were on the football team: and Elvin Read. Ardis Hopper, Clark Gordon The first week of training I was there in order to get acquainted with the coaches, and at a Mrs. Gates' house, where the training table was being maintained, I met
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
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- report that r made to Judge Davidson after the hearing was over, I read it, but I can't think of anything out of the ordinary that happened. I do remember that a subpoena was issued for Luis Salas, and the marshal couldn't find him the night before
- to the polls in Duval County. They were never able to check that out because of the fact that the ballots were burned, but on the night of the election, I got a report from the county chairman at nine-thirty at night. G: Now, this was the Duval County chairman
- and Hays Counties, and he did a magnificient job for me. but very active working group. He set up an informal I remember Wilton Wood and Bill Deason who, I think now, is on the Interstate Commerce Commission-F: I saw him election night. H: Well, I
- the steam right out of us. In that particular campaign, why, we worked all night long getting our committee plans ready. The next morning we'd read the Los Angeles paper, which was being put out with the aid of Mr. Kennedy out there, wherever he sat his
- Party in 1956? P: In 1956? No, I wasn't in on that. (Laughter) I've heard enough about it. M: Sounds almost as if you're ,happy you weren't. P: I sure am. That was a trauma. (Laughter) Judge Wilson, who died here last Friday night
- in the helicopter, and we didn't know how it would do, and actually, it did real good, but we made that whole trip. In any event-G: You were there primarily to maintain-- N: Well, I was the crew chief on the helicopter, yes, and every night I would look
- normally at a night speaking where he would spend the night and take off the next morning maybe for some other area. F: Did you spend the night there or would you be busy getting to the first place the next day? P: Well, I would not spend the night
- theme that might be injected . If you thought you had some- thing that was really a lot better than you'd written the night before for your overnighter, we'd call in and dictate a new lead . Virtually never dictated a complete new story during
- with LBJ; San Antonio leaders; advance work; oil support; Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ and Coke Stevenson; the Taft-Hartley issue; LBJ's treatment of staff; women in campaign; spending nights at Dillman Street at time of the election; impressions of frenzied
- think he was down there. I never heard he was down there. I read some of this--I never heard that he was down there. There were others that I heard were down there, but I don't know that they were. I saw one or two friends down there. G: Who did you see
- family; Owens with the Johnsons at the Driskill Hotel in Austin the night of the 1964 presidential election.
- days you could enter the law school with two years of academic work. I was in and out of school some; worked in the state night watchman. departments, and as a I finally finished my law course in January, 1931, got my license in February and my
- and that $10 a day wasn't hay back in those days of depression. Anyway, Lyndon was the same age. everything I read and heard about him I liked. I didn't know him then but And certainly we had a common bond being young and in politics and trying to get
- at the Fort Worth Club. I wrote my story, and about three o'clock in the morning I got a phone call, and it was from Lyndon Johnson. And he said, "I'm down in the lobby. read the Dallas News and I want to thank you." I've just I said, "For what?" He
- on it. And that night he called me in Baltimore and said, "Your papers are on the "'lay to Holabird. You can pick them up in the morning and report"--somewhere there in Maryland, I've forgotten where--"and be out of the army tomorrow." So that was the contact I had
- assistant and Lyndon was in on the same thing. Lyndon was interested in that sort of thing. F: W: This was kind of a luncheon debating society, in a sense? A dinner--I mean a night thing. great went. It was a night thing, and some of the Don't ever
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to pass out cards for a young candidate at a political rally there in Smithville; that candidate was Lyndon Johnson. Cliff Carter met Lyndon Johnson that night. He became so deeply impressed with the man that he devoted much of the remainder of his life
- in the city of Chicago November 5, 1896; on the near west side, a short distance from the Loop. My education was just a grammar school education and some courses at night school at Lewis Institute. M: You went to work at an early age? K: I went to work
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- Presidential candidate with Mr. Stevenson to represent the South? J: Yes, I recall there was, but I was not a participant in any of the convention procedures at that time. Yes, I did hear and read that this might have been a feeling of those people
- Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 San Antonio at Alamo Heights Junior High School. During those four years, I was going to night law school in San Antonio at the old San
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- and many senior members. My recollections about Mr. Johnson in particular are rather hazy at this time. I do recall that he was a rather prominent member of the delegation and I, therefore, was somewhat attracted to him out of curiosity, having read a lot
- announced for the Senate, and that he was leaving and to get him a bag packed. And he flew out that night. F: Did she seem surprised? R: Well, there was so much excitement--I'm confident that they'd talked it over, because I think that they have been
- transpired. But he did regard this man--now I'm aware that they had some words about the Vietnam War and some differences. I Johnson did not go to his funeral, I'm aware of that. did not know that incidentally until I read Cliff and Virginia Durr's
- these boys, so there were a lot of court-martials around there. So I would train the troops all day and then I would prosecute cases from six o'clock till about midnight every night, for malingering and for shooting themselves in the foot and for theft
- , that ever occurred in connection with Lyndon Johnson was that my wife and I were invited to the White House to a dinner one night when [Eamon] de Valera, the President of Ireland, was over here. It was quite an occasion, and Lyndon and Lady Bird came walking
- inside the convention hall because they didn't have enough places for reporters, and he was a reporter for the College Star and he had gotten in and he wouldn't leave. He slept on the table, and they ran it day and night, and these other reporters, him
- the history of those machines down there--and I think at least the Parr machine was broken up, it's a thing of the past, I guess, from what I read in the papers, I haven't got any recent infonnation about it--they were originally, and probably continued
- /exhibits/show/loh/oh Parr -- I -- 5 P: He didn't talk to him on the telephone either, sir. After I was married and what have you, I lived with George for quite a while. And George and I would sit around and talk at night. We'd cook supper together; he'd
- Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] the paper. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -9- They just read his speeches
- in the Governor's Mansion in Austin. G: Not many people can make that claim. M: I'm sure that many people have spent the night in one or more of the places, but I may be the only survivor who has slept in all three of them. But we would visit, as families back
- any project to Mr. Roosevelt- who hated to read more than one side of one sheet of paper--was to show him a picture, which Johnson did. Between myself and Ickes in the Public Works Administration, of which Ickes was then the head, we managed
- , if he could inherit the governorship . And so he is the man who did most of the work in getting the election of W . Lee O'Daniel to the Senate, to make way for him . Now that came about in this way . When we went to bed on Saturday night, we were, I
- for Johnson's TV station, he and I were out at the airport catching a plane when we heard it on the radio. F: What did you do then? K: Nothing. Boatner, he was covering it, and he was still there, so he covered it. No, Mr. Rayburn had indicated the night
- road. I was ,Alabama, the youngest of her died shortly after I was born. seventh grade and I attended school only through read law whi We I was a switchman for the Southern Pacific Rai Later I left that job to become clerk to the Justice
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- courted them too much at the start, and then they fell out. I think he gave great weight to what was said in the eastern newspapers, the New York Times and Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. that are read in this town. Those are the papers I think he
- didn't read in the paper that SOIneone froIn your district had gotten a job and that was the first you had heard of it? L: That ' s right. And even if it were sOInething that you knew that he had a part in but that he didn't control and it caIne up