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Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

office, and it certainly became the rallying place for a lot of inte~esting people. Well, it was simple enough for Lyndon and Mal- colm Bardwell, my husband I s secretary, to get together. many conversations. So, I remember And one day I was down

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the single room with the single cot I managed to get that single room most all the time, and later on--I didn't know Lady Bird very well except over the telephone when she'd call for me, when I was mayor of Pasadena, to get a crowd up for Lyndon and get

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

, I've noticed that he criticized him particularly on his voting against labor and civil rights. L: Yes. Early. Early on. Yes. Yes. And he would always answer. You notice he always answered those letters. They had an ongoing conversation. B: One of my

Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in my hand, which was more money than I had ever seen. So I went back to the--oh, before the conversation ended, Mr. Miller said that he would like for me to meet a young man in an adjoining room. He opened the door and this tall, stringy fellow just

Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to move down here in '47. I knew Byron. I had known him through the years. I went to work for the Star-Telegram in '34 and, of course, up until he left in '46 we had telephone communication. except-- I never did work with him, LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in government service ." So some months afterward, I had a telephone call from the Chilean Ambassador in Washington saying that the President had sent up this decoration, and could I come to Washington and receive it . went to Washington and picked up Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

knew instantly who it was, and I stood up also. It was the President. He sat down in a little rocking chair there in Valenti's office, and we talked for more than an hour. Much of that conversation was devoted to the coming Republican

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. They were a little But in conversation with Governor Stevenson and visiting with him and hearing him talk about the Fergusons, actually Coke Stevenson got along splendidly with the Fergusons. He was not susceptive to some of the Ferguson policies

Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a letter from him, a telephone call from him, a telegram from him urging me to run" and so forth. And Carl did help him every way that he could with the paper, probably to the extent of hurting him, because the paper was not popular at all. Neither

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Johnson let us all be privy to the conversation of what he thought and what Mr. Truman thought, and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

things for publicity stories, and we were in contact with the Harte papers, for example; they were on Johnson's bandwagon, and I was back and forth with them with mats and copy and so forth and getting all sorts of telephone communication with the Johnson

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Corcoran -- I -- 17 hearing by the radio how we were behind by so many votes. Just before I got into the mouth of the Mississippi River, I managed by ship telephone to get

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

tax evasion. After I had been in office just a month or two, I had a telephone call from Claude Pollard who had been an attorney general of Texas. This former attorney general of Texas telephoned me in my office there LBJ Presidential Library http

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

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Corpus Christi for him to make a a speech at the Rotary Club. year before this election. This was in the fall of 1947, almost a I heard the conversation between him and the folks in Laredo, including Ramon and whoever else was at the meeting. It seemed

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

backing among the Mc: ~ress and a good many influential and well-to-do people. In =.:-:y occasion of his being up for election, did you have any conversations with him regarding getting more support for his candidacy? F: The only time that could have

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

any conversations of the two of them together or any . . . gi ve us a picture of. . • N: I don't remember that conversation, but I remember the time that they were sitting at the big table in my office over at the Capitol having lunch. I was having

Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

happeneu:. though. G: Did he talk to you about his decision to run for the Senate in 1941 against W. Lee O'Daniel? P: No, I don't recall that we ever had any conversation on that. Of course, after he was running I must say Lyndon never met you

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

conversation at a dinner table. I don't recall any particular version of politics except that we kind of congratulated him on getting elected to Congress. G: What about Mrs. Johnson then? What were your first impressions? N: Mrs. Johnson, I thought

Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the meeting and the conversation, and it was decided that he would take on O'Daniel. So he got everybody that he knew, and held kept a good list of people who had been interested in him, people who had supported him. He determined he was going to make

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

getting a secretary. M: Do you know what had persuaded Representative Kleberg to select Mr. Johnson? Was it Miller's recommendation? T: It had a great deal to do with it. But as Kleberg said himself, he liked the letter he wrote or the conversation he