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  • store who adapts? M: No, we brought in an outside designer. We brought in Adele Simpson, to whom we introduced Mrs. Johnson, whose taste evolution was interesting to see develop because in early days her taste was very, very conservative, reflecting
  • ; 7th Avenue wholesalers; Dallas Morning News’ notorious advertisement; Bruce Alger; re-establishing Dallas as a good place to live and work; Bronze Abstract Wall commissioned by Dallas Public Library; problem with having an official designer; Adele
  • -- Interview I -- 14 White House dinner didn't want to walk in and see the hired help wearing the same dress. B: Did Mrs. Johnson favor any particular designers? A: Yes, she liked two lady designers who were very accommodating--Mollie Parnis and Adele
  • such and such a costume. lady's job. Clothes are just a part of a first She is the American woman on the scene, and women are interested in what she's wearing. And whether Adele Simpson mad it or Molly Parnis made it is, while not monumental, the fact that Mrs
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES M. SIMPSON (with occasional comments by John McCarthy) INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Colonel Simpson's residence, Annandale, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Colonel Simpson, would you begin by just a brief overview of your earlier
  • See all online interviews with Charles M. Simpson
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  • Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger
  • Charles M. Simpson
  • organized labor and a few intellectuals and liberals in Galveston came to feel apparently that our efforts offered the most hope for some changes in Galveston. We endeavored to elect Jim Simpson, now a prominent attorney in Texas City, as county attorney
  • Biographical information; Dean Colwell; Al Smith; first political speech; 1932 and 1936 support of FDR; Jim Simpson
  • done to prepare the way for the Nixon people? L: Several things have been done. Starting last fall, Secretary Cohen asked Ralph Huitt, who was the assistant secretary for legislation, Don Simpson, who was the assistant secretary for administration
  • , that I was working on, with the Atlas Corporation. And through Mr. OdIum I met some of the Simpson Thacher and Bartlett partners and they induced me to stay in New York. F: How did you happen to go with Paramount Pictures? W: The Atlas Corporation
  • outside counsel. So he called his good friend Ed Weisl from Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett in New York and actually coerced him over the telephone to come and take it. And it was really a tough job because this was around November 4 or November 5
  • this [one at] Baylor. G: Another note I have indicates he went out to see John Nance Garner in Uvalde with a man named George Simpson. R: I don't know. G: You don't remember that. R: I'm not ~ure: Do you remember Dick Brown's visit to Texas? LBJ
  • with him." They moved me up to his plane on the way back. I remember then thinking, "Oh, gee, shall I talk to him about all these problems and things that I have?" I stewed about it. The plane was full of others--Bill Simpson was on, I remember he
  • . The press was down there. So he set it up. goddamned party. It was a big They brought down Vietnamese popsies for the corre- spondents to take out in the woods, which they were doing with enthusiasm. But Howard Simpson and I were down
  • investigation? C: Yes, but I had become so deeply involved here that it just wasn't possible for me to do that. B: Did you once again recommend an alternative? C: Yes. I thought that Ed Weisl, who is a partner of Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett, would
  • attorneys to the bench. First, Jim Simpson, who was the Director LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • the vote, or if-C: Yes, Mack Hannah was one of those who did. Now, Mack Hannah was always a strong supporter of President Johnson's. The late Reverend M. M. M. Simpson, one of the early leaders in Houston in the integration movement but certainly