Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz

Design of Pennsylvania Avenue; Civil War use of the Mall; Daniel H. Burnham; McMillan Commission; Smithsonian red brick castle demolition; Mrs. Jim Howe; Pennsylvania Avenue Commission; JFK's interest in Washington; Paul Thiry; contact with LBJ; GREEN BOOK; LOOK magazine feature; Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue; John Saylor; Lady Bird's Committee for the Beautification of Washington; THE AMERICAN AESTHETIC; reflecting pool at the Capitol; Pennsylvania Avenue and the Mall or national historic sites; Willard Hotel; J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Building; Lady Bird's time and attention; Federal Highway Commission; National Plaza; Owings close to the Nixon Administration; Nixon's interest in the National Plaza; LBJ Library; Skidmore-Owings-and Merrill; Hirshborn Museum; Lady Bird's intellectual curiosity; New Mexico Church of Los Trampos.