Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette

Title:

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette

Number of Pages:

20

Description:

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 Roosevelt; LBJ's support for public housing in Austin; staff member Herbert Henderson; LBJ's work on lower Colorado River dams and rural electrification; the struggle to get public power to central Texas; Senator Alvin Wirtz's involvement in negotiating with private power companies; LBJ's re-election in 1938, 1940, and 1942; socializing with constituents and other politicians; traveling around Virginia with Rebekah Johnson and back to Texas when Congress was about to adjourn; LBJ's interest in the economic problems of the South; Clark Foreman; a new congressman's wife's duty to call on the wives of her husband's delegation, committee chair, cabinet and Court members; visiting Joseph Edward Davies at Tregaron; LBJ helping Jewish people from Germany in the late 1930s, including Erich Leinsdorf; Wirtz telling LBJ, "Don't tell folks to go to hell. You can't make them do it."; the Johnsons helping children out of a burning house; maintaining contact with National Youth Administration friends after LBJ became a congressman.

Contributor:

Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Lady Bird Johnson

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details