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  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MILLER -- I -- 3 OM: There was a vacancy in Congress at that time and Dick Kleberg of the Kleberg and King Ranch Families in South Texas ran for Congress. Now in those
  • franchise than the Anglo Saxons. However, it is all directed toward the village, the hamlet, the town, the provi-nce; and what's all this stuff about a national government. David King, who was a very brilliant congressman from Utah who lectured
  • , and the Belden survey indicated this, that they held the count out in about ten of those counties. Martin Dies of course was very popular in that whole area, some of those counties were in his district, and when it became obvious that he was a hopeless fourth
  • the trip was cancelled, but do you remember the circumstances of it? B: No, but I do know that Admiral [Ernest] King, who was then our chief of naval operations, wanted to use Lyndon as much as he could on these kinds of things because Lyndon was good
  • The intervievler is Joe B. Frantz. 21, 1974. To start, let's just talk about when you first became aware of Lyndon Johnson. R: Down at the King Ranch, when I was visiting Bob Kleberg and his brother Dick Kleberg, and Lyndon Johnson was A. A. for Dick Kleberg. F
  • in 1964. F: Kind of like waiting for the King of Sweden to pass on. M: Well, yes. I was heavily involved with defense spending, all the missiles programs and so forth, and I enjoyed my work tremendously as the head man of this committee handling all
  • because they're colleagues from the same state. If it was a bill, for instance, that was out of the Ways and Means Committee, you'd have Mr. Mills there and Congressman King. Of course Mr. ranking member on Ways and Means. ~oggs, the majority whip
  • to Texas on a few weeks' visit in 1928. These events that we're tal king about i.n my contacts with Lyndon in California were in 1925. I am sure that I saw him in 1928. I think he was then in college maybe, wasn't he, or do you know? G: Well, part
  • on the Government Operations Committee with Frank Ikard from Texas, he was senior to me, and with six other members of Congress-­ F: I must say, Jack, you have a facility, though, for getting put on I committees kind of like being Crown Prince to the King
  • the Vice President in Uvalde . As that ceremony was breaking up, classmate of mine named Tom King . I was with a He presently is an attorney in San Antonio, and he was from Stockdale in Wilson County, the county seat of which is Floresville . Tom
  • it is characteristic of all of them, and Roosevelt was no exception, that the king can do no wrong and you're supposed to say "yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir." You're supposed to think that even beyond his capacities as a political leader he is the quintessence