Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb

Inviting LBJ to speak and meeting him at the 1962 Texas Council of Social Studies at the University of Texas; W.W. [Bill] Heath; Ray E. Lee; the NYA; I.B. Hand; UT students' political awareness when Frantz attended UT; LBJ's 1937 Senate race; the Supreme Court; Jake Pickle and John Connally's connection with LBJ in the late 1930's; connection between UT and LBJ through Pickle, the Connalys, and Lady Bird Johnson; Pappy O'Daniel; informing LBJ of J. Frank Dobie's death; how Frantz joined the National Parks Advisory Board; Stewart Udall; meeting Mrs. Johnson at the White House to discuss Big Bend National Park; traveling to Big Bend with Mrs. Johnson; the press at Big Bend; Judith Axler Turner; instituting a White House historical program; government agency history reports; contact with Doug Cater and LBJ regarding the White House history program; Frantz' experience with oral history prior to the LBJ project; Frantz's budget and official role; getting settled in D.C. and hiring a staff from Austin; George Reedy; examining FBI files for potential oral history board members; LBJ's involvement in the oral history program and reaction to what was said; H.T. Zachary and other failed interviews; Everett Dirksen; Rufus Youngblood and Dorothy Nichols.