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Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Kleberg. Of course, I was not living in that Congressional district at the time this took place. F: Then you were in Dallas? P: Yes, sir. Subsequent to that, when he made the race for Congress down there, I met him on two or three occasions through my
support of Stevenson; General Mark Clark; 1948 and 1954 campaigns; 1960 campaign; President’s club; assessment of LBJ; reserve cutbacks.

Oral history transcript, J.C. Looney, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Johnson? L: During his first campaign for the Senate in 1941. F· What part did you take in that? L: I believe they designated me as his district manager; that is, I looked after the 13 counties that were then in the 15th Congressional District
; “Viva Kennedy-Johnson Clubs;” LBJ’s effort to build up leaders of Mexican background; LBJ’s political sense; BRACERO problems; U.S.-Mexico relations; LBJ’s appeal to Mexican-Americans

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. She was the one that unconsciously had advised him and helped him along. She is a wonderful person. She had a lot of personality, she had a lot of savvy, and she was very knowledgeable in the matter of his congressional business as well as his

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. And I just knew that I was going to be called before a congressional committee to testify as to why I had bought this substandard � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Biographical information; Low’s father’s work in LBJ’s 1937 Congressional campaign; 1941 special election to fulfill Senator Morris Sheppard’s term; explanation of the east Texas ballots that allowed W. Lee O’Daniel to win over LBJ; Low’s WWII

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of NYA. F: Now, he had had a good job with the NYA; why did he quit it to take the chance on getting defeated as a Congressional candidate? D: Well, I think that having served as a Congressman's secretary in Washington, that he appreciated the work

Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that the President was trying to exercise. And of course Lyndon was a "me too" to FDR; if FDR had said jump, Lyndon would have said how high. Of course, he rode into his first congressional election on the coattails of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He ran

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to intrude too much of James into this story because I know you want to hear about LBJ. G: Well, we want your perspectives of him. J: You asked me the question of Aubrey's relationship. In 1950 I ran for Congress in the Seconrl Congressional District

didn't think Roosevelt was going to run for a third term. M: Do you recall thinking back there in his early congressional years that he had a possibly long political career ahead of him? T: I never had any doubt about it from the time he got

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It was political. At that time, you see, we didn't have fra- ternities and sororities on the campus. legal. At that time they were not The teachers colleges had literary societies like the Harris Blair, and the Jeffersonians, the Newman Club. But the Black

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the Texas legislature, the House. I heard about a young whipper- snapper who was in the Congressional race to succeed [James P.] Buchanan who had died. He had been chairman of the Appropriations Committee. I say a young whippersnapper because that's

and he had his second drawer full of ashes and sand and held spit in there. We had a club--the class was fifty-five minutes long, and we had a certain size plug of tobacco that if you put in the side of your jaw and you could keep from spitting until

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or whatever so that he could give a speech to the--maybe the Lions clubs or somebody at lunchtime. He'd have a commitment at lunchtime. He'd have lunch and give a speech. G: He'd leave the helicopter and [inaudible]. N: Yes. Yes. Well, we'd be pretty close

of Houston and I had offices on the fourth floor of the old building just as far from anywhere as you could get, way back toward the Republican Club of today. Lacey Sharp, who later was my secretary for eighteen years or more and then for my Agriculture

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the Press Club? 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Richards -- I R: Yes, I

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Corpus Christi for him to make a a speech at the Rotary Club. year before this election. This was in the fall of 1947, almost a I heard the conversation between him and the folks in Laredo, including Ramon and whoever else was at the meeting. It seemed

Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

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