Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson
Title:
Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson
Number of Pages:
35
Description:
How Territo began working for LBJ in 1958; Territo's work organizing LBJ's paperwork; Bruce Thomas' work; how LBJ's mail was handled; Pauline Moore's work; the development of the LBJA file; sampling and disposition of LBJ's records up to 1960; getting LBJ's staff to submit documents to the new filing system; promises made in an effort to obtain Senate Democratic Policy Committee files; Mrs. Rebekah Johnson and her desire for a family library and community center; planning where LBJ's papers would eventually be held; the organization of LBJA and LBJ's speech file; Territo leaving LBJ's staff in 1959 and returning in 1961; Territo's efforts to obtain LBJ's Senate committee records; the development of the Daily Diary; Territo's work during LBJ's Vice Presidency; LBJ's office locations; LBJ's trip file; planning a future library before LBJ became President; JFK's assassination and the activities that followed; Territo moving to a White House office; packing LBJ's Vice Presidential office