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Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to go a step further with respect to tidelands, when Daniel got to Washington, his big issue had been tidelands and Johnson was completely responsible for him being made a member of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee which was the committee
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • good system of roadside parks which NYA helped the highway department build. It was done with highway department funds for material, NYA funds for labor. And some two or three hundred parks were built in the period of six or seven years. La Villita
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --it was a seesaw affair up until the last minute. P: Were you in doubt: of Mr. Johnson winning that election? How did you feel about it before the actual voting day? T: There were only two elections I have ever bet on in my life--both of those were that summer