How Eckhardt and first husband, Billy Lee Brammer, came to work for LBJ; early impressions of LBJ; Ronnie Dugger; clipping articles from Texas newspapers for LBJ; LBJ's senatorial staff; socializing with the Johnsons; how LBJ treated people; Senator Robert Kerr; John Connally; Jim Rowe; LBJ's paternalism; LBJ's temper; how LBJ controlled the Senate; a birthday party LBJ threw for Eleanor Roosevelt; Eckhardt's personal life during the 1950's.
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Citation
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-eckhardtn-19840222-1-02-11