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Vice-President's Daily Diary entry, 2/17/1962 (Item)

Lippmann Haywood Ranc h a t Llan o 2 7:00 Dinner a t LB J Ranch ; Mrs . Johnson ; Liz , MMW , Jac k Valenti , Dea n Amstead, Dean Haggerty ; Walte r Lippmann ; A W an d Mariallen ; Go v an d Mrs . Daniel ; Bill Steve n (Housto n Chronicle) ; Pau l Bolto n

Bundy, McGeorge, 1919-1996 (Item)

. The next decade he spent teaching history at New York University. During this time Bundy published his Pulitzer-prize-winning book Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb and the First Fifty Years, in which he chronicled decisions made about nuclear

Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Mary Rather (Item)

and memorabilia that chronicle her work as Johnson’s assistant. They also include publicity materials and correspondence about Robert Caro’s work as Johnson’s biographer, and news articles about Texas politics in the 1980’s. • • • • Date range of collection: 1957

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

stayed there a short time I think and got this job over in Houston as debate coach at Sam Houston High School. I \'Ias teaching in San Antonio, and he was teaching in Houston. Eyery month or two I'd go to Houston to visit him or he would come to San
LBJ-Deason contacts while teaching in Houston and San Antonio; LBJ becomes secretary to Congressman Kleberg; LBJ returns as state director of NYA; Welly Hopkins' recommendation; LBJ's energy; Wilton Woods; LBJ at state meeting in Corpus Christi

Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

was a child. I've always heard it dis- I can remember going down and watching the election returns on the old Houston Chronicle building flash, written out on a blackboard. But I really started getting interested in politics during college years. M

Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that night. I forget the fellow's name--he was the Capitol bureau manager for the Houston Chronicle. G: It wasn't Les Carpenter, was it? R: No, no. He was the Chronicle's representative in Austin and a good friend of ours and a friend of Coke's. G: Bo

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, big ones supported Stevenson, like the Dallas News and the Houston Chronicle. But the middle-sized dailies were mainly for Johnson, the Harte-Hanks chain in Wichita Falls and Austin and Waco and Port Arthur. G: Did you make any attempts to get

President's Daily Diary entry, 4/11/1965 (Item)

r in Mr. an d Mrs. W . W . Heap h Mr. an d Mrs. Harve y Ecker t Mrs. Lydi a Bowle s Mr. Everet t Collie r - - Managin g Editor o f Houston Chronicle Sunday April 11 , 1965 Sunday White Hous e -- LB J Ranch, Texa s •Released toda y to A . M

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

voting on that. You gentlemen just take a deep seat and a long breath and enjoy yourself." The next week he resigned off the port commission. As a result of that, Julian Fisher [?J, who represented the Houston Chronicle, thought that that was a great

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Avenue. It is July 10 at approximately 2:30 in the afternoon. First of all, I'd like to know a little bit about you. you born? K: When? Hhere were Where did you get your education? I was born in Tomball, that's in north Harris County above Houston
Biographical information; LBJ’s two years as teacher and debate coach at Sam Houston High School, Houston; LBJ’s role as Congressman Kleberg’s secretary; life in Washington for underpaid federal workers; Dodge Hotel; Little Congress and LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Let me ask you about the newspapers in Houston during that election, the Post and the Chronicle in particular. S: I'm not sure but what they both endorsed Coke. remember. I'm not sure. I can't I'm not sure we got either one of the newspaper
1948 Senate race; black vote in Houston; George and Herman Brown; Gus Wortham; Houston law firms; Judge James Elkins; Taft-Hartley; support of Connally for Governor; meetings of LBJ’s district men; LBJ’s speech to Mid-Continental Oil and Gas

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: "Years later, when I was on Johnson's staff, Sam Houston felt only irritation when the Majority Leader was hailed in newspapers
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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
Sam Houston Johnson

Reference File, "Mrs. Johnson -Lady Bird Johnson Award for Highway Beautification (Texas Dept. of Highways)" (Item)

Towell, Salsbury, North Carolina. Contlnaecl from pap 1, aee. 1 Horse show • committeemen will be Oliver Rode, Orlando DeHoyos, earl Hansen and Mike McCormick. Johnny Conn of Houston will be the coune designer, while CUrtis Eckhardt of Fredericksburg

Reference File, "Mrs. Johnson -Lady Bird Johnson Award for Highway Beautification (Texas Dept. of Highways)" (Item)

Towell, Salsbury, North Carolina. Contlnaecl from pap 1, aee. 1 Horse show • committeemen will be Oliver Rode, Orlando DeHoyos, earl Hansen and Mike McCormick. Johnny Conn of Houston will be the coune designer, while CUrtis Eckhardt of Fredericksburg

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1963" (Item)

:55 a.m. 4/15 At Ranch. Day spent driving around with guests, lunch at Ranch, boating at Haywood and dinner at Ranch with Cong. and Mrs. Jack Brooks, Jessie Hunter, MF, Mr. & Mrs. Bassell Wilson. 4/16 Speaks separately with Houston Harte and Conway

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1956" (Item)

to the West Ranch, and then fly to Houston via Austin, where they pick up Sam Houston and Mary Johnson. Johnsons return to Washington on 2/17 after stopping in Floresville and Austin. 2/17 Eisenhower vetoes the natural gas bill, saying that while he favored

Folder title list, Lyndon Baines Johnson Archives (LBJA) (Item)

, 1954 Honeyman, Nan Wood, 1954 Horany, J. P., 1949 [See Texas Legislators] Houston, Reagan, 1939 Howard, E. E., 1956 Hoyt, Palmer, 1949 Huddle, E. C., 1954 Hughes, William R., 1952 Hume, David, 1956 Humphrey, George M., 1957 6/6/23 Lyndon Baines

President's Daily Diary entry, 9/14/1966 (Item)

. Ralph S. O'Connor, Houston, Tex Mr. and Mrs. Steve Parker, Mrs-ac tress Shirley McLaine Mr. and Mrs. James V. Pickering, NYC Mrs. Merriweather Post, Washington, DC Mr. and Mrs. Walter Reuther, Pres., United Auto, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement

Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fore (Item)

. and Lady Bird Johnson. For fifty years Mr. Fore owned and published the Floresville Chronicle-Journal, a weekly paper in Wilson County, Texas. Scope and content note: This series consists of papers of Sam and Elma Fore reflecting their personal friendship

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

on with sweaty palms. Interesting man, and I liked him very much. That year Sam Houston had more than his usual number of bouts with bad health and bad luck. He broke his leg, and it had to be set several times and reset; that was really a problem. His wife, Mary
; Arthur Godfrey's farm; Sam Houston Johnson's broken leg and his wife, Mary; LBJ's relationships with Bill Moyers and Sam Houston Johnson; Sam Houston Johnson's book My Brother Lyndon; LBJ's relationship with Senator John Pastore; the 1957 Civil Rights

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1962" (Item)

houseguest) Johnsons host dinner at Ranch for Lippmann, Liz Carpenter, Jack Valenti, MMW, Dean Ahmstead, Dean Haggerty, Moursunds, Price Daniels, Bill Steven of Houston Chronicle, Paul Bolton. 2/18 Lying in sun talking to Lippmann. Joined at lunch by CTJ

Folder, "Black National Movement - FBI Report - File #3," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 14 (Item)

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 71, 30 April 1999," LBJ Library (Item)

. The preser vation work on several colleclions of Johnson family photos has been completed. [t has been a busy year. Juan Williams Chronicles Life of Thurgood Marshall Juan Williams calls Thurgood Marshall "a genuine American hero." Late in his years

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, at seven o'clock when the polls closed, we began to get these early returns. At that time you could release returns during the day. The Houston Chronicle under Jesse Jones always seemed to get the first released votes and put it on the wire early

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1954" (Item)

of the voters in the county, are hopped up about the Bricker Amendment . . . The tactics being used by the Houston Chronicle, the Legion officers and the Minute Women are nauseating in the extreme but they have stirred up public sentiment which can be compared

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. J: If he did it just to one, they might get offended, but he did it to everybody. That's the way he did that. That's funny. I've laughed about that many times. G: Let me ask you about Jesse Jones. He had the [Houston] Chronicle, and he
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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
Sam Houston Johnson

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a youngster who's now a veteran up there with the Houston Chronicle. I d o n ' t think he showed any--Bo is a very liberal boy--I d o n ' t think he showed any signs [?]. This doesn't particularly refer to Lyndon, but a boy named Bill Carter succeeded me

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was supporting Roosevelt . G: I wonder if Lyndon Johnson ever tried to get the [ Houston ] Chronicle to support him in some of the campaigns--the Senate races, for instance . B: Well, I'm sure he did . � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: Well, I'll probably discuss Lyndon's boyhood, as I see him. to understand that he was born on the Ranch. and Josefa, were born up
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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
Sam Houston Johnson

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1948" (Item)

McClendon and Bob Johnson, of the Houston Post, but still would not give his intentions as to the Senate race. O’Daniel said he would take care of this “burning question” when the proper time came and that he’d play by “current rules” in the Senate

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Cain had married Alvin Wirtz s daughter. 1 So Jim Cain was there attending this case. There wasn't much I could do, so I returned to Texas. I remember I went to Houston, and the last thing that the Congressman said to me, 11 Be sure and send me

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

correspondent for the Houston Chronicle and the Tulsa World. Since then you've added papers just throughout Texas and have been really a regular fare for many of us over many, many years. You've also added papers in the South and in the Midwest. About how many

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Johnson's residence, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: Now, this is going to be something repetitious, but I was trying to think of some of the things that I hadn't said
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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
Sam Houston Johnson

Folder, "Johnson, Lyndon B. [1941] [2 of 3]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 14 (Item)

D. Roosevelt. I want a moment to thank the press of South Texas- the Houston Post, the Houston Chronicle. the Houston Press. and the Port Arthur News--whioh has seen in iq candidacy tor the Senate the effort of one to serve under

Vice-President's Daily Diary entry, 3/9/1963 (Item)

of the word. He gave unstintingly of himself and his talents to his community and they claimed him as friend in all walks of life. Dr. Webb was the great chronicler of the Southwest and West. He was a man of original thought and one of the most distinguished

Vice-President's Daily Diary entry, 10/6/1962 (Item)

. (Ft . Wort h Sta r Telegram ) Dr. Lam b (Schoo l o f Aerospac e Medicine , Brook s AFB) ; Ji m Walker ; Charli e Gibson; S . B . Whittenb urg (Amarill o New s Globe) ; Phi l Nort h (Ft . Wort h Star) ; Bill Steven (Housto n Chronicle) ; E d Ra y

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 45, 30 April 1989," LBJ Library (Item)

Uni versity. Then came the ?Os and 80s at the University of Texas. Not included in their chronicle, but in the minds of many in the audience, were Walt's prodigious production of 17 books to add to the 12 turned out earlier, and Elspeth's six-year

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the files [and] newspaper stories [is] Vice President Johnson's efforts to combat segregation at Houston hotels, particularly the Shamrock and I guess the Rice Hotel. Any recollections of that? R: None at all. Not on that one. Do you have any idea

Folder, "Disasters," 1962 Subject Files, VP Papers, Box 131 (Item)

you••• Clifton c. OarteJt 1. Aasltltant MPs._ Talmage Pull8 r 460) Kiaoaa Houston. Texas [2 of 8] CLASS OF SERVICE This is -:i fast message • u nless its deferred char• acter ls indicated by the proper symbol. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM w. P

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

the effusive, close ones. T hat's predictable. M: Marvin Watson was on a trip with you in early February. I don't think his name has appeared in this chronicle before. What were the circumstances, if you remember them, of his entering your official lives? J
; Pat Nixon; Marvin Watson; visiting Acapulco and Mexican President Miguel Aleman and his family; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Sam Houston Johnson's hospitalization for alcoholism; a Johnson family history of alcoholism and depression

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