LBJ's growing popularity throughout the state of Texas in the 1940s; work in LBJ's congressional office; LBJ's 1944 congressional opponent, Buck Taylor; efforts by oil men to defeat Sam Rayburn; Lynda Bird Johnson's birth and her name; LBJ's love for his daughters; the death of Rather's mother; the 1944 state democratic convention and later national convention; friction between Democrats who supported FDR and those who did not.
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Citation
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 7, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-ratherm-19820917-6-08-30