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Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NRA; LBJ as state director; National Youth Administration; Harry Drought; John Nance Garner; NYA-WPA relationship; roadside parks; 1948 helicopter campaign; LBJ as a Congressman; competition between Braniff…
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; how Elson came to work for Carl Hayden; Hayden's office staff and how he trained them; Elson working for Hayden again after serving in the military; Hayden's strengths; Elson's efforts to write a report on Grand Canyon…
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Election to the Senate in 1954; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Dick Russell; committee assignments; LBJ moving to the left; 1964 Civil Rights Bill; 1965 Voting Rights Bill; 1957 filibuster; the Southern Manifesto; HR3; LBJ’s hunger for power and…
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
[For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ’s role as member of House Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s role as Democratic leader in the Senate; LBJ’s qualities of leadership; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; White House-Congressional relations.
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; regional staff; appointment to Naval Affairs Committee; Albert Thomas; 1941 Senate campaign; Colorado River dam projects; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; WPA; National Youth Administration; Harry Drought; school program; NYA projects; LBJ's techniques in running statewide agency; Lady Bird; KVET; contacts with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ as Senate Majority Leader in 1959 when the Landrum-Griffin Act passed; JFK as floor manager; May 1966 Pat McNamara died and Griffin succeeded him in the Senate; Michigan delegation opposing LBJ as VP because he wasn’t strong on labor or civil…
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Association with LBJ; Senate; McCarthyism; impressions of LBJ; Johnson leadership; relationship with William Knowland; techniques; timing; LBJ temper; space program; relations with Eisenhower; Nixon and Dirksen; Lewis Strauss nomination; 1957 civil…
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
[For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ’s role as member of House Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s role as Democratic leader in the Senate; LBJ’s qualities of leadership; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; White House-Congressional relations.
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
National Youth Administration
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; school aid programs; Prairie View; LBJ; NYA projects around the state; staff meetings; NYA and WPA relationship
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; gaining employment with the NYA; staff; advisory boards; NYA-WPA relationship; Harry Drought; student programs; visitors; staff meetings; Gibb Gilchrist; LBJ's abilities and activities; chapel at North Texas State…
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; NYA; day-to-day operations, projects; political support
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
National Youth Administration
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; NYA; publicity; personnel; visits from national office; Mrs. Roosevelt; project procedures; 1937 Congressional campaign.
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; setting up NYA offices; residence programs; staff meetings; NYA visitors; personnel; LBJ techniques; political aspirations; publicity; roadside parks; school projects; 1937 Congressional race; 1941 Senate race
Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
How he met LBJ; impressions of LBJ; Keating’s mediations between Texas’ head of WPA and LBJ as head of National Youth Administration, 1936; finding qualified youths for the Texas NYA project; LBJ’s management of Texas NYA.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Questions in 1940 about whether Franklin Roosevelt would run for a third presidential term; the Marshall Ford Dam; social activities in Washington, D.C. in 1940; the death of LBJ's uncle, George Desha Johnson; Rebekah Johnson's 1940 visit to…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Political issues of 1939; where the Johnsons lived; the Johnsons' friends; raising the height of the Marshall Ford Dam; the extension of Rural Electric Association lines and building of the Pedernales Electric Co-op in Johnson City; Lady Bird…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Driving from Texas to Washington, D.C. with LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; the Columbia Road apartment the Johnsons rented in Washington, D.C. in 1938; taking Rebekah Johnson to a congressional reception hosted by President and Mrs. Franklin…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Visitors during LBJ's hospitalization after appendix surgery in 1937; LBJ's efforts to befriend political opponents, such as C. N. Avery and Polk Shelton; LBJ meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's trip to Washington, D.C.…
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Scott's background; how the Malecheks came to work for the Johnsons on the Ranch; meeting LBJ; improvements made to the Ranch under the Malecheks' care; LBJ's fond memories of his childhood; LBJ's Ranch "family"; Ranch employees and their duties;…
Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's 1937 Congressional race; campaigning in Elgin; relations with LBJ; 1941 and 1946 Congressional races; how LBJ represented his constituents; last contact with LBJ; biographical information
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Roth’s childhood; meeting and interacting with LBJ at Southwest Texas (teachers’ college); White Stars organization; Professor Howard Mell Greene; Roth’s work for the NYA; relationship between the NYA and WPA; Senator Alvin Wirtz; President…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's early congressional and senate campaigns; Governor James V. Allred's support for LBJ's 1937 congressional campaign to succeed James P. Buchanan; LBJ's opponents in the campaign; 1937 campaign strategy and contributors to the campaign; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
As Engineer met LBJ, the NYA director; WPA started by Roosevelt, NYA started by Mrs. Roosevelt; NYA tagged onto WPA for financing through Congress; WPA located in San Antonio, NYA in Austin; LBJ as state of Texas administrator of the NYA; Griffith's…
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; investigation of the returns in Jim Wells County of the run-off between Coke Stevenson and LBJ; Stevenson’s campaign style; Stevenson as governor; political machine in South Texas (Parr Machine); Manuel Ramon, County Judge…
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ-Deason contacts while teaching in Houston and San Antonio; LBJ becomes secretary to Congressman Kleberg; LBJ returns as state director of NYA; Welly Hopkins' recommendation; LBJ's energy; Wilton Woods; LBJ at state meeting in Corpus Christi of…
Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
How Reynolds came to work for Senator Robert Kerr in 1953; LBJ's relationship with Kerr and Richard Russell, especially regarding civil rights; cooperation and leadership among Russell, Kerr, and LBJ and why they were successful; Senator Robert…
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Service on Senate Finance Committee; Civil Rights bill; Bobby Baker; Joe McCarthy
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Ketchum’s early days in Washington D.C. and early contact with the Johnsons; Mrs. Johnson’ interest in the history of the White House; Mrs. Johnson’s sense of humor; Mrs. Johnson’s encounter with Eartha Kitt at the Women Doers’ Luncheon;…
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
National Youth Administration; Aubrey Williams; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; NYA; Alvin Wirtz; advisory boards; roadside parks; NYA projects; Sam Rayburn; Congress; Eleanor Roosevelt; FDR; WPA; regional and district organization; Lady Bird
