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- 1979x
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- Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007x
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- 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…
- Visiting the home of Evalyn Walsh McLean and socializing in 1941; Lady Bird's participation in a 75th Club luncheon honoring Eleanor Roosevelt; riding in Sam Rayburn's car; diversity in the 10th District; Lady Bird Johnson using her movie…
- LBJ's 1941 Senate campaign; problems with LBJ's voice; LBJ's opponents in the race, including Gerald Mann, Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, and Martin Dies; filming the campaign on Lady Bird Johnson's movie camera; entertainment at…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…