Biographical information; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martin; school in Johnson City; childhood memories of LBJ; Rebekah Johnson's desire for LBJ to attend college; George Johnson; Sam Johnson; Booker's mother loaning LBJ $100; living in Houston with LBJ and Mr. and Mrs. John Bright; LBJ and his students; George Johnson; LBJ teaching in Pearsall then Houston; LBJ going to work for Congressman Robert Kleberg; Booker attending Rice University; Booker's teaching career; a Cotulla teacher who disliked Booker because of her relationship to LBJ; leaving Cotulla; Margaret Kimball; poverty in Cotulla.
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Oral history transcript, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 2, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-bookerr-19860814-1-04-23