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- , 1978
INTERVIEWEE:
W. ERVIN II REDII JAt1ES
INTERVI HJER:
MICHAEL L. GILLETTE
PLACE:
Mr. James' office, Houston, Texas
Tape 1 of 2
J:
I first met Lyndon B. Johnson sometime in the mid 1930s.
I was a clerk in the old WPA.
At that time
Aubrey
-
hO~-J
he stood either on Taft-Hartley or some other
bi 11.
CG:
That's not what I remember.
He went to Washington and made some
more or less formal statement about the Taft-Hartley
keeping it or repealing it.
either
Act~
I don't know what side
- to
get a job with one of the real estate firms there .
Then I went in with a group of lawyers .
We organized the firm of
Conger, Low, and Spears, with Judge A . W . Conger and George Conger .
M:
Is that C-0-N-G-E-R?
L:
C 0 N G E R.
lawyers .
And J
- activities in Chile with Board of Economic Warfare; LBJ’s 1948 campaign for the Senate; the Taft-Hartley Act and LBJ’s relationship with labor forces; LBJ’s enemies in the 1940’s and 1950’s; Coke Stevenson; Clint Small; Wright Morrow; Dan Moody’ J. Evetts
- Hormachea [?J.
His
daddy was called Joe the tailor and he had a taxi as well as a tailor
shop there.
He was of Spanish descent, and he and Lyndon were very,
very close friends.
Antonio.
He died soon after graduation I think in San
But he and Lyndon
- last month of the Hoover Administration, as part of the
staff of an administrative agency called the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which
was set up on a bipartisan basis mainly to keep the banks from collapsing with the help of
government loans