Biographical information; working for Homer Thornberry; Lady Bird Johnson as a businesswoman; Jesse Kellam; how Gideon came to know LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; the relationship between LBJ and Wirtz; George and Herman Brown; the relationship between Wirtz and Harold Ickes; Gideon's work on LBJ's 1960 campaign; LBJ appointing women to government posts; Texas politics in the 1940s; Gideon's post-presidential visits to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's awareness of his own heart condition; Gideon's preferred method of addressing LBJ; LBJ giving gifts; LBJ's dog, Yuki.
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Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-gideono-19870302-1-05-11