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  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
  • the results. Do you remember? Q: Well, the Election Bureau in Dallas--I think they were getting what reports they could, but so many of the~ boxes in the country, you know, the judges take the boxes home with them and wait until Monday morning to deliver
  • we found to be of tremendous use. As a matter of fact, I recommended it to Walt Rostow yesterday to be continued in the new Administration. Every morning at about ten o'clock, we have a conference call between the White House, the Defense
  • , the late caterer I should say, because he died about a year ago, would set up his chuck wagon and portable barbecue pits, and by nine 0' clock in the morning the aroma of the barbecuing pork ribs, for which he was famous, the beek brisket and the chicken
  • a secret weapon that we've hesitated to mention this morning, or we haven't mentioned. That's prayer! And actually, we don't use the term "worry." A good agent cannot really worry; he can be concerned, but if he worries, he won't be an agent long
  • to take the inevitable trip around the Ranch? S: That was the next morning after breakfast. F: You got there too late to do it that evening? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • INTERVIEWEE: CECIL STOUGHTON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 - begi:ns at about 350 F: Okay, Cecil, this is the next morning, March 2nd now. S: Right, I've got a little time left. F: Yes. And we'll go on from
  • at dinner; and Aaron Schaffer was a man that I would normally consider a very kindly and gentle person, but an unreconstructed liberal out of the New Republic school. And after dinner, we got around to coffee. He turned to Miss Grace and he said, "After
  • to the Johnson's at night and went back to Fredericksburg the next morning. I: That was his headquarters. Now let's go back to those earlier days if you can recapitulate perhaps some of the experiences the President had in his early youth before he went
  • , 1973 I NTERVI EloJEE: MADAME ELIZABETH SHOUMATOFF INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Her home on Long Island, Locust Valley, New York Tape 1 of 1 F: Suppose you tell me at the beginning how you got to be a president's portrait painter. S: You
  • and the final denouement of the MLF? M: The meeting was in the summer, and the final killing of the MLF --actually, Of course they dragged it through the ANF thing for another year. But I think in November or so of '64, was the news leak you mentioned, so
  • so. He would look at those books and say, "There's not a damn thing in it. It's just a bunch of words. There's no new policy. reason for me to go. '1 There's nothing new. There's no new stateMent. There's no new So we tried to get the desk
  • their friendship or their loyalties. Johnson and Clinton Anderson of New Mexico and Kerr and [Richard] Russell of Georgia really ran the Senate on the Democratic side along with the late Styles Bridges, [Everett] Dirksen and some of them on the Republican side. G
  • . paper clippings of things. Dan ~'oody I think I still have some news- I had written in to the newspaper chiding for his actions and what he had been accusing Lyndon of and things like that. Mrs. Moody and I almost had a. . . . And Ed Clark took
  • upset. It seemed as though President Roosevelt had been campaigning in New York and the impetuous, southern born, Steve Early had kicked a Negro policeman in the groin. This had been played up quite a bit, and Jonathan suggested that I get the boys
  • to LBJ Ranch regarding housing message; his impact on LBJ’s thinking; reason for resignation; prejudice; feeling that the new administration will attempt to make administrative reform
  • of the electorate in Texas and point out to me that in substance, Texas, because of the way in which it was settled was as big a melting pot as New York, and that particularly he had always been able to have the support of the Negro and the Mexicans. His problem