Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette

How Olson came to work in the Texas office of the National Youth Administration (NYA) answering mail with L.E. Jones; NYA office staff and space in Austin; LBJ's visit to the Austin NYA office; the NYA advisory board; long work hours; Jesse Kellam's role in NYA; the roadside park program; allocating jobs to high schools and universities; LBJ's efforts to get more funding; LBJ using his contacts with influential people to benefit NYA; LBJ's early attitude toward minorities; LBJ's insistence that NYA not be taken over by Works Progress Administration (WPA); LBJ's promise to make sure Olson had a job; Dr. Cecil E. Evans of San Marcos; LBJ's relationship with his mother, Rebekah Johnson, and wife, Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ's presidential aspirations; LBJ's 1937 congressional campaign to replace James Buchanan and LBJ's support for President Franklin Roosevelt; LBJ's relationship with Willard "Bill" Deason and Jesse Kellam; what Olson gained from her experience working for LBJ; visits from LBJ after he became a congressman.