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Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ the rancher; the tidelands issue; Senate Preparedness Subcommittee investigation; Shivers takes control of Texas Democratic Party; Russell campaign for president
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
First association with LBJ; recollections of James V. Allred; support of FDR; memories of Roy Miller; LBJ’s aptitude for acquiring information; views on LBJ; 1941 race; recollections of George Parr; circumstances of Lyle’s election to Congress…
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances of joining LBJ’s staff; duties in the Texas office; Arthur Perry; Walter Jenkins; office operation; LBJ and the Texas office; Lady Bird; transfer to the Majority Leader’s office; office staff; traveling with the Johnson’s;…
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes
First contact with LBJ; attending meeting at the White House to discuss legislation; early impressions of LBJ; election to the Texas Senate; service on income maintenance; commission; introducing LBJ at Houston fundraiser; LBJ’s help in her race…
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette
Why LBJ hired Eckhardt; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; downplaying LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; how Eckhardt’s opinion of LBJ improved; the Southern Manifesto; LBJ’s public vs. private opinions.
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; how Abram met Richard Russell; Georgia’s county unit system; Russell and civil rights; Herman Talmadge; Charlie Bloch; Thurgood Marshall’s appt. to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court appointments; the Democratic…
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
How Krimer came to work for the State Department as an interpreter in 1963; biographical information; Krimer's World War II experience; Krimer's first work interpreting for LBJ; Krimer's early impression of LBJ; traveling to Germany to interpret for…
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Adlai Stevenson; 1952 presidential election; Dwight Eisenhower; Harry Truman; Gene McCarthy; John Sparkman; Amon Carter; Senator Richard Russell; Kentucky Derby; LBJ’s relationship with President Eisenhower; economics
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
1958; Kennedy-Ives bill; Texas labor; Arthur Goldberg's concern about Senate Republican Policy Committee charges; federal aid to education; National Defense Education Act; Mike Mansfield's leadership abilities; Supreme Court bills; death of Mrs.…
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s recovery from 1955 heart attack, thoughts about becoming President, attitude toward civil rights, and race relations; covers period of 1955-1957.
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Foreign trips with LBJ: Senegal, France, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey; visit with Pope John; LBJ’s kidney stone problem at Pope John XXIII’s funeral
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
How Eckhardt and first husband, Billy Lee Brammer, came to work for LBJ; early impressions of LBJ; Ronnie Dugger; clipping articles from Texas newspapers for LBJ; LBJ’s senatorial staff; socializing with the Johnsons; how LBJ treated people;…
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's attempts at negotiation with the USSR and North Vietnam; LBJ's treatment of Hubert Humphrey in the final months of LBJ's administration; Humphrey's personality; LBJ's decision to not attend the Democratic National Convention and support…
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Stevenson’s personal habits; Stevenson’s humor; Stevenson’s interest in his ranch and hunting; Stevenson’s opinion of FDR; Murphey’s later involvement in political affairs; comparison of LBJ and Stevenson as ranchers.
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people;…
Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Roberts' career in the Texas state legislature and work on the Democratic executive committee investigating alleged voting irregularities in Jim Wells County in 1948; Roberts' relationship with Coke Stevenson and serving under him on the Texas Liquor…
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger
biographical information; how Dean got a position as a lawyer in Austin; Dean's military and law career history; the political situation in Jim Wells county in the mid-1940s; the connection between Dean's law firm and the George Parr family; the…
Oral history transcript, C.W. Price, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Light vote in primary and run-off, 1948; examination of voting records at the bank; additional names; impressions of LBJ; Parr group and ant-Parr group; local people and their roles; vote figures; Stevenson people who came to the area; role of Frank…
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby
Dr. Michael DeBakey; the Heart-Cancer-Stroke Committee; LBJ’s interest in helping people; Albert Lasker giving money to the University of Chicago; George Brown; the regional medical program; Senator Lister Hill; Dr. James Shannon and the NIH; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ and Senate activities, 1958; hearings resumed; LBJ and the press; LBJ and the telephone; jury trial amendment; LBJ and the Hill Country; LBJ and foreign trips; LBJ's accomplishments; LBJ personal considerations, 1959-1960; Texas issues; LBJ and…
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ and Senate activities, 1957; Middle East problems; disarmament issue; open curtain proposal; USIA; J. Edgar Hoover; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Little Rock crisis; Senators Walter George and Richard Russell; Sputnik; space hearings; Johnson…
Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger
How Owens got involved in the 1948 Texas Democratic Senate primary investigation; what Owens learned in questioning people in Jim Wells County for the investigation; Owens' relationship with Coke Stevenson; Owens' relationship with the Johnson…
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Southern Manifesto; farm legislation; Francis Case; social security; LBJ and Paul Butler; LBJ and Nixon; 1956 Democratic National Convention
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s election as whip; Senator Ernest McFarland; Senator Richard Russell; Preparedness Committee; Senator Estes Kefauver; Douglas MacArthur’s speech to Congress; natural gas bill; Tidelands bill; Walter Jenkins; LBJ’s love for the ranch and…
Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; first coverage of LBJ in 1946; personal evaluations of various Texas Capitol Press reporters; Stuart Long; reporters' preference for candidates at the time; LBJ's 1948 campaign for Senate; the helicopter; on the road with…
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Bryant's work on the Empire Ordnance investigation; Don Cook's work in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the preparedness subcommittee; Bryant's meetings with LBJ; LBJ's night reading; the preparedness subcommittee's work related to…
Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger
Mrs. Dorbandt’s vote in the 1948 Democratic Executive Committee meeting that certified LBJ as the senatorial nominee; bringing Charlie Gibson in to break the tie in the 1948 Senate Executive Committee meeting.
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger
Relationship with Coke Stevenson; Stevenson’s background; Stevenson’s 1938 campaign for lieutenant governor; campaigns for governor; Stevenson and the Fergusons; W. Lee O’Daniel and his relationship with the Stevensons; Homer Rainey;…
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; coverage of creation of LCRA in 1934; Alvin Wirtz; opposition to Wirtz and Buchanan forces in the legislature; water rights issues; public power; first association with and impressions of LBJ during the NYA period; Mrs.…
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger
1948 election and the State Democratic Executive Committee; Byron Skelton; HST and General Marshall collaborate on the Truman Committee; the 1960 convention in Los Angeles; meeting JFK at Hyannis Port after the convention; Ted Dealey insults JFK; the…
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; prosecution of George Parr while U.S. district attorney; fist knowledge of LBJ; friendship with Dan Moody; appointment as master in chancery for Jim Wells County for 1948 election controversy; Judge J. Whitfield Davidson;…
Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances leading to employment by the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson
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;…
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Senate activities and LBJ, 1957; Mike Mansfield; Mideast Resolution; Texas political problems; LBJ and labor; activities and KTBC; Bill Brammer
Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Early professional contact with Lady Bird during the presidency; Bess Abell as the First Lady’s Assistant; requirements for a first lady’s wardrobe; Lady Bird and clothes; LBJ’s influence on Lady Bird’s wardrobe; LBJ’s generosity with gifts…
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing;…
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Appointment as ambassador by LBJ; Guam Conference, 1967; impressions of Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky; Vietnam's presidential election campaign in 1967; religious factions; advice to Thieu; recommendation for U.S. to close Viet Cong's use of…