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Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero
Biographical information; how Shanks met LBJ; LBJ's effect on industrial development in Austin; LBJ's effect on racial issues in Austin; LBJ's relationship with Austin mayor Tom Miller; desegregation in Austin; LBJ's influence on Shank's decision to…
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Deason's family history; Deason's uncle Charles' work around the Stockdale, Texas, area; Deason's parents and siblings; Deason's educational background; how Deason became a teacher and, later, an attorney; how Deason went to work under LBJ in the…
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Visiting LBJ after his 1955 heart attack; the advent of cable television; speaking to Emanuel Celler’s antitrust subcommittee on the House Judiciary committee and Stanton’s resulting relationship with Celler; the relationship between LBJ and Bill…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Support for Hubert Humphrey's nomination from George McGovern and Edward Kennedy, but not Eugene McCarthy; McCarthy's complaint that the Democratic National Convention had not been fair; O'Brien's August 27, 1968, memo discussing the campaign and…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) loss to Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primary; support for RFK going into the New York primary; concerns going into the California primary and memories of 1960 California problems with Edmund "Pat" Brown; the RFK/McCarthy…
Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Biographical information; Ingram's sister, Isabel, and Isabel's friendship with Lady Bird Johnson; the Johnsons' efforts to help people, including friends like Ingram and her sister; LBJ's sister, Lucia, and his mother; Ingram and Lady Bird Johnson…
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Rather rejoining LBJ's staff at the end of his presidency; Rather's nieces attending school in Washington, D.C.; LBJ's decision to retire from politics; the slower pace of office work at the White House and LBJ's daily schedule; night reading; dinner…
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener
Founding of the Pell Grant system; memories of days at Chapel Hill and university presidency; White House Fellows Program; relationship with White House while he was still an outsider; segregation in higher education and government’s role; National…
Oral history transcript, Robert F. McMahon and Mark T. Muller, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1987, by Ted Gittinger
McMahon and Muller's experience sailing from California to the Philippines and Australia; events surrounding the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor; training and setbacks in Australia; the February 1942 air raids on Darwin, Australia; how…
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Texas tideland issues in the 1950s; cross-filing, which allowed Democrats to support Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election; Allan Shivers' support for Republicans; LBJ's and Sam Rayburn's devotion to the Democratic Party; John Tower's…
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Career history as a journalist; work on the Texas Judicial Council; the Texas state legislature in 1933; how the problems of education, poverty, prisons, social security, and the like have spanned decades; a government pension system; differences of…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 22 (XXII), 6/19/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK) approach to his 1968 presidential campaign through primaries; seeking support for RFK before the Indiana primary; utilizing Matt Reese, block captains, and student volunteers in Indiana; receptions to thank local personnel…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
The 1968 proposed tax surcharge to address rising costs of the Vietnam War and curb inflation; support from the business community for the tax surcharge; Civil Rights Act of 1968; Everett Dirksen's role in passing the cloture vote; the Housing and…
Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Taylor family history; Mrs. Johnson's immediate family; business dealings of T.J. Taylor, Lady Bird Johnson's father; Taylor's and Lady Bird's childhoods and education; how Taylor met LBJ; LBJ's early political career; comparing the personalities of…
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Austin City Council’s concerns with civil rights issues in 1950s and 1960s; human rights commission not established until 1967; gradual desegregation of Austin; other Austin issues and Long’s activities; failed campaign for state Senate, 1954;…
Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger
Description of the plane Harold Teague and Charles Williams piloted that crashed near the Ranch 2/19/1961; how Harold Teague came to work for LBJ; activities and weather the day of the plane crash; J. Evetts Haley's description of the plane wreck in…
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
1948 election that certified LBJ as candidate over Coke Stevenson; Stevenson's suit in state courts and efforts to unseat LBJ in the Senate; election fraud in Texas; Henry Wallace; Stuart Long's letters to LBJ while Senator; LBJ's move from left of…
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Tax surcharge; balancing the budget and six billion dollars in budget cuts, pressure from LBJ; budgetary process reform; George Mahon; work on the Ways and Means Committee; appropriations.
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Biographical information; first meeting LBJ in the 1930s when he was state director of the NYA; LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate; 1952 split in Texas Democratic Party (Shivers’ “legal delegation” seated at the 1952 national convention);…
Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Martin's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; discrepancies in expenditures reported by different agencies and people; events leading up to the Federal Reserve Board raising the discount rate to 4.5 percent; LBJ's response to Martin's concern…
Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger
The University of Texas’ racist reputation; Mack Hannah; LBJ trying to recruit prospective black students for UT; Julius Whittier; Roosevelt Leaks; Earl Campbell; LBJ’s interest in football and attending UT games; LBJ’s Secret Service…
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger
LBJ's relationship with Sam Houston Johnson; LBJ's Christmas and birthday gift-giving; LBJ's boyhood home and Winters' work there; LBJ's 1969 will; LBJ's March 1970 hospitalization and 1972 heart attack; LBJ's exercise, smoking, and dietary habits;…
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger
How the Weinheimer and Johnson families knew each other; meeting LBJ and Lady Bird; LBJ’s 1954 campaign; the Weinheimers being Democrats; the history of party allegiances in Gillespie County, Texas; the impression LBJ made on local citizens by…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Preparations for the 1968 presidential election as of November 1967; O'Brien's involvement in the 1964 presidential election; O'Brien's white paper on how to wage a 1968 campaign; O'Brien's work on postal reform and efforts to include political…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
The loss of Democrats in the Congress in 1967, especially in the House of Representatives; O'Brien's continued involvement in the legislative program in 1967 while advocating for postal reform and a change in postal rates; the strength of House and…
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Meeting LBJ in regard to a CBS affiliate in Austin; LBJ’s involvement with, and knowledge of, the radio business; Jesse Kellam; radio stations as investments in the 1940’s; how LBJ obtained a television station; Larry Fly; the involvement of…
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Biographical information and family history; Scott's hearing and health problems; Scott's educational background; Scott's early work experience and how she became a newspaper reporter; Scott's work for the Houston Post and Hulsey Theatres; Scott's…
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee hearings in the early 1950s relating to the draft; problems with drafting doctors for military duty; Darden's work under the Armed Services Committee; problem with drafting WWII veterans for service in Korea; how the…
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Medicare bill history and Mills’ support of it; legislative support for the Medicare bill; increased hospital costs and doctors’ fees; Social Security benefits; LBJ’s support of Medicare; changes in Medicare bill during legislative process; Bob…
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Table of allocations concerning KTBC television station; problems with mixed television signals (220 mile separation); Federal Communications Commission; acquisition of KANG in Waco; Clyde Weatherby; history of the UHF station; Jesse Kellam; Tom…
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Broadcast activities of the Johnson family; Senator Alvin Wirtz; FM license for the Johnsons' radio station, KTBC; CBS radio affiliation; decision to go into television; station personnel; Ted Taylor; air personalities; Jim Nunby; rental of Connally…
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger
John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; the 1961 Lucy B Convair crash near the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's restlessness as vice president; LBJ's relationship with Robert and John Kennedy; the Johnsons' Tennessee walking horse; Konrad Adenauer's…
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; Winters' childhood association with LBJ and his siblings; LBJ playing baseball; LBJ's parents; the Johnson family car; dances and fights between young men; LBJ's personality as a young man; LBJ breaking his leg; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; press release regarding financial affairs of the Johnson family upon LBJ's death (released by Thomas); management of Mr. Taylor's estate (Lady Bird's father); LBJ as a good businessman; KTBC; LBJ's faith in banks; ownership…
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger
LBJ's feelings about Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954; LBJ as a medical patient; a 1955 highway construction bill; LBJ's cousin, Margaret, and her family; LBJ's smoking habits after his 1955 heart attack; going on walks with LBJ; the LBJ Ranch…
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Allan's Shivers' political philosophy; Shivers' refusal to place Dwight Eisenhower on both the Democratic and Republican tickets in the 1952 presidential election in Texas; Shivers' supporters and detractors; Sandlin's involvement with the Veterans…
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger
A.W. Moursund's 1946 district attorney campaign; the death of Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie Pattillo; LBJ supporting Dwight Eisenhower in the 1948 presidential election; LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate campaign against Coke Stevenson; Winters' offer to shear…
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
How Sandlin became associated with Governor Allan Shivers; the Texas State Democratic Executive Committee; the 1952 State Democratic Convention; Sandlin's work as secretary and chairman of the Texas Democratic Executive Committee; Governor Shivers'…
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Biographical information; working for Homer Thornberry; Lady Bird Johnson as a businesswoman; Jesse Kellam; how Gideon came to know LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; the relationship between LBJ and Wirtz; George and Herman Brown; the relationship between Wirtz and…