Senator Robert Taft stepping down as Senate majority leader in 1953 and later dying; the Texas drought; LBJ's travel throughout Texas in the summer of 1953; C. T. McLaughlin; Mrs. Ben Powell; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to improve her public speaking skills; Thanksgiving 1953 with Mrs. Johnson's family at the LBJ Ranch.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette
Citation
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 6, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-ctj-19910223-34-11-42