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Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Sr., interview 1 (I), 1/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Hobart Taylor's birth and youth in Wharton County; race relations; transportation business in Houston; Wharton; NAACP; education; automobile sales; Taylor's father's contracting and farming businesses; cowboy; Jesse Jones;…
Oral history transcript, Sarah (Mrs. T. J. .) Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb
Getting the T.J. Taylor’s straight; How she met Mrs. Johnson; How she met Mr. Johnson; How Mrs. Johnson received her nickname; Life at the Brick House; Relationship with the Johnsons.
Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb
Thomas Jefferson Taylor’s work; the education of all three Taylor children; how Lady Bird got her nickname; childhood activities; Doris Odam Powell; the siblings’ inability to be together, due to circumstance; early impressions of LBJ; hunting…
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb
Speeches Taylor wrote for HUD; citizen participation programs; Public Administration Society speech in Dayton, Ohio; black power; Graham Watt; Roger Prear; rhetoric vs. reality; operating through city government James Sundquists’s view of citizen…
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical and educational background; Taylor’s relationship with Hubert Humphrey; getting involved in housing and HUD; how Taylor might have altered the Model Cities legislation; funding the Model Cities programs; coordination in the Model…
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Meeting and working for LBJ during the 1948 campaign; LBJ’s campaign staff; going to Washington D.C. to work for LBJ; Christmas with the Johnsons; Taylor’s tasks on LBJ’s staff; LBJ’s views on the UMT bill and General MacArthur hearings;…
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker
Contact with LBJ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; 1963 Philadelphia speech; Green funeral; 1963 meeting of American Municipal Association in Houston; city program; HHH; urban disorder; 3/31 announcement; 1968 campaign
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; met LBJ in 1952 at Chicago Convention; close relationship with LBJ as Senator; Russell was LBJ’s mentor; LBJ was mentor to Talmadge; LBJ recognized as the ablest of parliamentarians in the Senate; most Senators except…
Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; no personal knowledge of his father's relationship with LBJ; LBJ working with Taft Sr, on committee appointments; difference between JFK and LBJ's Administrations; 1964 Ohio race; 1968 election; Foreign Affairs Committee;…
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; Joseph McCarthy; tin smelter; agricultural issues; impressions of LBJ and his relationship with other Senatorial leaders
Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz
Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; 1948 kidney stone attack; B52s, B70s, B36s; Senate Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; NASA; impressions of LBJ and his…
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
The possibility that LBJ made Symington chief of protocol to smooth relations with his father, Stuart Symington; experiences that prepared him to be chief of protocol and the transition into the job; Symington’s relations with the state department;…
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Symington’s limited contact with LBJ after 1960; relationship between LBJ and RFK; 1964 campaign; the Poverty Program; Dave Hackett; how Symington became the Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and his work to…
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Family political history; early recollections of the Johnsons; campaigning in 1952 and 1960 for/with his father, Stuart Symington; biographical information; 1960 convention and their belief that Stuart Symington would be asked to run for VP; LBJ’s…
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman
Life at the Dodge Hotel; LBJ as secretary to Congressman Kleberg; Arthur Perry as secretary to Senator Connally; LBJ early participation in state campaigns; working conditions in Washington, social life, diet, etc.; LBJ a bundle of nervous energy,…
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; first association with LBJ while working for Senator Patrick McNamara; impressions of LBJ; LBJ’s techniques for garnering votes; “Johnson Treatment;” LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; total liberal; LBJ lacked…
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Working on the War on Poverty Task Force; JFK’s plans for “Widening Participation in Prosperity”; Economic Opportunity Bill; land reform proposal; extension service; urban vs. rural poverty; lack of support for rural communities; division in…
Oral history transcript, O.B. Summy, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1965, by Eric F. Goldman
1925 trip to California with LBJ; where they went in California; when and why they returned to Texas; helping some stranded women from Minnesota; the Johnsons' land and house in Johnson City.
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Informing Vice-President LBJ of international affairs; announcing that the U.S. would be out of Vietnam by 1965; Sullivan’s appointment and work as chairman of Interagency Task Force on Vietnam; contingency planning to get North Vietnamese to…
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; Julius B. Richmond; Richard Boone; Economic Opportunity Act; David Hackett; Presidential Commission on Juvenile Delinquency; Fred O.R. Hayes; Community Action Programs; Adam Yarmolinsky; Edith Green; Mobilization for Youth;…
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; 1941 and 1948 Senate campaigns; John Connally; Irving Goldberg; 1960 campaign; assassination; Presidency; John Connally; Arthur Krim; 1968 campaign; HHH
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Transition during LBJ’s first days in office; Stoughton’s continuing position as White House photographer; arrival of Mr. Okamoto to photograph behind the scenes activities and Stoughton’s subsequent alienation; Okamoto’s dismissal;…
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Stoughton’s background and how he became involved in photography while serving in the Air Force in WWII; Stoughton’s newsreel camera business in the 1950’s; his work in the Army and as a space program photographer at Cape Canaveral; experiences…
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
The Civil Rights Commission; Storey’s work on a state commission to investigate the JFK assassination; interaction with the Warren Commission; Earl Warren investigating the site of the assassination; Jack Ruby’s sanity; Rudolph Hess’s sanity…
Oral history transcript, Sam V. Stone, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1968, by Paul Bolton
Biographical information; Georgetown Oil Mill; M.F. Smith; American Legion; Tax Collector
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Bane Committee membership; Health Professions Act; AMA limits number of doctors; Surgeon General’s Report on Nursing; Health Professionals Education Assistance Act; NDEA; passing legislation; Krebiozin; Medicare hearings;…
Oral history transcript, Roger Stevens, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Stevens' involvement in entertainers that were invited to the White House; how Stevens became Special Assistant on the Arts; Robert Fleming's support in getting Howard Worth "Judge" Smith to support an arts council; John McCormack's assistance in…
Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Candidacy for the Senate; first acquaintance with LBJ; Minority Leadership; Senate Club; FEPC and Tidelands; LBJ
Oral history transcript, John M. Steadman, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Comparison of JFK and LBJ administrations; Lisle Carter; HEW; Adam Yarmolinsky; Chris Weeks; Sargent Shriver; discusses basic staff relations and how matters were handled; Job Corps; VISTA.
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker
Working with Senator LBJ; dealing with Vice President LBJ on space program and budget; JFK’s inexperience in the Senate; the JFK assassination; the tax reduction bill; working on the budget and LBJ’s involvement; LBJ’s interest in education…
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Campaigning for LBJ in 1964; serving on National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; disagreement about Vietnam War; letters to LBJ about the war; RFK; HHH candidacy; White House Conference on International Cooperation; Spock trial; civil…
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb
Spears’ youth; Spears’ entry into politics; getting to know LBJ; Spears role in the 1948 and 1954 elections; LBJ becoming favorite son in 1956; Spears’ relationship with Allan Shivers; Shivers becoming a Republican; 1960 Los Angeles convention;…
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
[For interviews 1 and 2] Sparkman and LBJ's careers in the House of Representatives; the Selective Service extension bill in 1941; FDR's handling of the PWA and WPA; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; economic problems in the South; LBJ as…
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
[For interviews 1 and 2] Sparkman and LBJ's careers in the House of Representatives; the Selective Service extension bill in 1941; FDR's handling of the PWA and WPA; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; economic problems in the South; LBJ as…
Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Tom Mann; LBJ’s working relationship with Under Secretaries; coordination of Bureau of Economic Affairs; staffing; interagency cooperation and coordination; concept of country team; cooperation of American business firms;…
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 W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Organization of Democratic Advisory Council; Sam Rayburn; LBJ and labor; the black community; Brown and Root; Harris County Democrats; Frankie Randolph; precinct organization; 1956 State Democratic Convention; committeeman/committeewoman controversy;…
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
[For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ and the business community; businessmen’s committee for LBJ in the 1964 campaign; money-raising; the SST; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; purpose of Cabinet meetings; Department of Commerce; 3/31 announcement;…
Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; debate team; faculty; clubs; activities; teaching jobs; attached memoir
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…