Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette

Title:

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette

Number of Pages:

59

Description:

1949 employees, including Zephyr Wright, Patsy White, and Lewis; Drs. John Washington, Radford Brown and Lawn Thompson; Lady Bird Johnson's work managing the household finances; Leland Olds nomination to the Federal Power Commission; agricultural surplus and storage; programs that Harry Truman supported; Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson; tidelands; dispersal of surplus government facilities, such as the Austin magnesium plant, which became what is now the Pickle Research Campus at the University of Texas; LBJ's continued interest in his local Texas supporters as he became senator and took on national interests; civil rights and the desegregation of the military; Alger Hiss and his sister, Anna Hiss; David Lilienthal; South Texas federal judgeships and Jimmie Allred's appointment as a federal judge; LBJ's relationship with Senator Tom Connally; Cliff Carter; Lady Bird Johnson's policy regarding lending her name to organizations and events; social events of 1949; Bess Truman; Dorris and Diane Powell's visit to Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Johnson's trip with them to New York City; F Street Club; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; visits to Senator Harry Byrd's home; "Byrd houses" along the Appalachian Trail; socializing with the Texas delegation; Tony Buford; Marjorie Merriweather Post Davies and her father's story regarding Henry Ford; moving the Senate to the Old Supreme Court chambers during remodeling of the Senate chambers; China becoming a Communist country; LBJ's work as a senator; how LBJ handled mail; James Forrestal; socializing with people such as Gwen Tucker, Warren Magnuson, and Drew Pearson; the Sequoia; having Lynda and Luci's portrait painted; the Johnsons' Austin house on Dillman Street; vacationing in Brackettville and Fort Clark, Texas; helping Mrs. Johnson's father, T. J. Taylor, with financial problems; George and Herman Brown and their wives; the Johnsons' Halloween party for the children; socializing in Austin; Leland Olds' defeated nomination to the Federal Power Commission; visiting the Texas home of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's friendships with people in the newspaper industry; LBJ seeking treatment for a skin disorder he got during World War II; Sid Richardson's home on St. Joseph's Island designed by O'Neil Ford; Christmas at LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson's house; LBJ's brother Sam Houston Johnson; Wesley West's ranch and LBJ's interest in buying a ranch of his own; moving back and forth between Austin and Washington, D.C.; Lynda starting school at Ben Murch Elementary in Washington, D.C. in 1950; socializing in Washington, D.C.; club memberships; Senator Joseph McCarthy asserting that he had a list of Communists in the State Department; Rayburn's opinion of McCarthy; Stuart Long; Paul Bolton; dinner at the Bob Kerrs' house and his opposition to alcohol; Mrs. Johnson making and editing home movies; LBJ's interest in a natural gas bill in 1950.

Contributor:

Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

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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