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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

. In giving this history of Wilson County to my niece, I pointed out that Charles Deason, my daddy's older brother, was quite a community leader. I guess today we would call him an activist but he was instrumental in getting the first rural telephone line

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)

of this district. She just really worked at it. She had trouble getting office help, enough people to help her answer all the mail she got and all the telephone calls, but she worked at it and she did a good job and it got to be kind of a joke around that Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Deason -- VII -- 4 D: . . . be a different item. I've just finished telling you about my conversation with the President when I agreed that I would take and he would give to me the appointment

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1988 INTERVIEWEE: WILLARD DEASON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Deason's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 D: Since talking last I have had two or three other thoughts about our conversations and our connections

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)

order. D: Oh, well, that was a lot of fun. Horace and Whiteside always argued about who was number one and number two. I didn't know there was an argument about nine and ten. R: It's led a lot of conversation. Number eleven Harvey Payne, one of our