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Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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
Biographical information; Dockrey Murder case; Garner of Texas vs. Snell of New York; Miller’s appointment of LBJ; Edward Jamison; first impressions of LBJ; three famous Texas political figures; LBJ’s interest in military affairs; rating LBJ
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the reason that while the people from Roosevelt's home country of New York and New England who were in some sense identified with the financial community were not willing to back him in the great LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

, and he asked us not to say anything. We respected that, and about three weeks later I read it in the New York Times. Audience was a little bigger, I think. On another occasion three couples of us went over. They were showing us through their quarters
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

with International Petroleum in the legal department and was there until late, I guess, in 1922 when the Continental Mexican Petroleum Company was sold by General Petroleum of California to Standard of New York, and they operated as New England Fuel Oil
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

was Lorraine, and Jim was the guy on the phone. But I went up there on some kind of business, I've forgotten what now, towards the end of the campaign, I think about a week before it was over, when Johnson and Kennedy were in New York together for that final
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://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 26 from Washington, New York sources, wanting background information on Johnson
Skelton; LBJ’s acceptance of VP; covered VP while in Austin; move of press from Austin to San Antonio; Eastern press; post-Presidential press conference; John Connally’s dissatisfaction for some of LBJ’s policy; off the record meetings; Sam Kinch, Jr
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

. G: How did they get the application through? J: Royls application got hung up because they passed a regulation at the FCC, because of the need of strategic materials, that no one would be permitted to build a new radio station using strategic
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the Texas Power & Light Company as a salesman. University. In 1927 and 1928 I went to New York They laughed at me for going to that little old school LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

." One was 24-inch, and I think the other was 12-inch, if I recall. Came from Texas up to New York. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -22Schwartz from New York University Law School came down there and he was just going on a tangent that had ~ sound approach to finding out what was going on to the extent that something should
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that was one of the cutest things that ever happened. F: I want to get .it down. W: All right. Just before we were married, in December of 1961, I was in New York, about in November--October or November--at the same time Lyndon Johnson and many of his
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

, that their strength--because Duval County after all was a pretty small county as far as population goes--their strength lay in being able to produce a large bloc of votes, same kind of thing that made the Irish in New York and Poles in Chicago [powerful]. They didn't
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

was in such a bind him- self--he was the new superintendent--he said, "Just go in there and take charge." Those kids were about to tear the building down. I went in there and stayed seven years. (Laughter) G: Was it common for jobs to get passed along like
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

background and how I got started in Texas politics, I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and came to Texas during World War II. As a relatively young man and with very little interest in politics, I met my wife in Austin, Texas and went to law school
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Gardner covered the Senate campaign But I'm positive and I believe he covered LBJ, is correct, and possibly Bob Johnson for the Houston Post , I believe those two . remember a specific people don't a UPI reporter being there . I am certain
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--Auxiliary it was to be then--started, and my father was quite interested in it. It was he who wanted me to go, and judging by the news reports I wasn't too keen on it. I never got excited about it. Finally Papa went to the post office and got the papers
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Harvey O. Payne, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

reminiscences about because it seems to me that that was a turning point in Mr. Johnson's career. Anyway, what was your capacity in this 1948 campaign? HP: Well, let me make a few little comments here. In 1948 in my opinion he introduced a new dimension

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

; served some in New Orleans; I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific. My last tour of duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese surrender took place. And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back to America
for only VHF channel in Austin; JFK assassination; ICC Commissioner; change in LBJ after his heart attack; post-Presidential visit to Ranch; LBJ as a very sentimental man
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

things that would naturally ari~e, I suppose, in dealing with postmasterships and new post offices and appointments of various people where the House members might feel they were entitled to equal publicity in making the announcement. Nothing like
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. respect. I never thought of Lyndon in that We've had some members who I hav~ thought of as populists, but I never really thought Lyndon was a populist. In those days we thought of him as a New Dealer and not the old term of populist, I guess. G: I
LBJ’s association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O’Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election; Poage’s
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with each other a great deal over the years. The part where perhaps I came to know him best, and had the closest association with him, was right after he became president. He requested a news media liaison from Texas in Washington, and I was the one
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

had an opportunity to ride with him up to Hyannis Port. So I got on the plane. He had a man from Georgetown and he had [Allen] Duckworth from the Dallas [Morning] News. Most of the agencies preferred to have their people at the various points to make
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

from hunting up in Chama, New Mexico one time, out at the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation. George and I were talking about the 1948 election. He said, "You know, a lot of people have said this, that and the other thing, but you know I have never
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

you, and it'd be too messy, so we'll give you a few minutes, and everybody go to the corner of So-and-So and So-and-So, or out to the high school, or whatever, and they'd circle, and everybody would dash for the new place, and then they’d land
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and tell them, IIAll rightll--and he did do James Henry on the TV station the same way-"if you run one ad with him, you'll never run another ad in the Longview News and Journal." unpopular. Just such stuff as that. He was very In fact, I was trying
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, 1984 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES M. ROWE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gitt i nger PLACE: Mr. Rowe's residence, Ingleside, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr. Rowe, would you begin by giving us a little background? When did you become involved in covering the news in Duval
Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

sobered up from that FDR binge." L: (Laughter) That's the way he wrote to him. B: So apparently LBJ was perceived as much more conservative than he had been when he was a staunch New Dealer in the late 1930s and early 1940s. L: Yes, he had to do
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

it myself, but in many instances, Lyndon was very thoughtful. John Connally would call the affected Congressman and say, "Well, so-and-so department has just anno1.ID.ced a new post office or a new reclamation project, It something like that. He'd say

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

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Murphey -- I -~ 13 that he thought Lyndon was an opportunist, that Lyndon was a New Dealer, whom Mr. Stevenson utterly
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not too much attention to that election. lid read the paper every morning but I wasn't just carried away with all the news about it. I read the paper every morning now. live always read the paper every morning, just to see what's going on in the world
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh KEENAN -- I -- 8 ~1: How soon after Kennedy' s assassination did you meet with the new President Johnson? K: Almost immediately
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, "But I have promised my boss' wife some for a dinner party for tomorrow night. did. II And they said, "Well, we'll do the best we can." Well, they Bes s got her venison for her dinner party. But I left in the taxi a brand new evening dress that I had
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

was a form of fraud and di shonesty. Thi s is I got involved up to my neck in convention politics. when Some of us active in the party circles got control of the September convention of 1944,rernoved those electors, and appointed new electors. In those
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

. ments approved, that sort of thing? R: No. I don't think so. Most of the trouble I found at that time was selling the public on what we were trying to do. It was new. They couldn't believe, you know, that you could do anything like that, or LBJ
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

, It was a navel thing in those days. Helicopters were quite new in 1948, and nobody had ever done that before. My own idea of it was that it was a stunt, but I don't know what anybody else thought about it, what Coke thought about it. G: You don't know
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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

days? J: Yes, we talked politics. F: This was when the New Deal is hot, and Jimmy Allred is-- J: Yes, and we had a lot of mutual friends. The next recollection I have was going down to my store which I had at the campus. was a campus shop
Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, and getting out releases after he'd been on a trip. Tuen the late hours usually were ended up with Walter Jenkins who would be going over all the mail. And as he would sign it, I would fold and stuff it; and we usually ended up by getting it to the post

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

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