Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette

The "Board of Education" room where Sam Rayburn and, later, LBJ and other members of the House met to socialize and discuss legislative strategy; Rather knowing where LBJ was at all times so she could contact him if necessary; Sam Houston Johnson's duties in LBJ's House office and his personality; Sid Richardson's home on St. Joseph's Island; Luci Johnson's birth; LBJ's decision to run for U.S. Senate in 1948; Jim and Miriam Ferguson giving their files on supporters to LBJ for his use in the 1948 campaign; the roles of Claude Wild, John Connally, and Senator Alvin Wirtz in LBJ's campaign; LBJ's helicopter travel and how it was planned and arranged; the staff who traveled with LBJ during his helicopter trips; LBJ's imitation of Coke Stevenson; LBJ's trip to the Mayo Clinic for a kidney stone and his opinion of disclosing health-related information; how the Texas reporters covered LBJ's and Stevenson's campaigns; varying levels of support for LBJ from newspapers around Texas; opposition to LBJ in a Dallas hotel [the Adolphus Hotel in November 1960?]; the Taft-Hartley amendment; George Parr; LBJ's strategy in the two 1948 primaries; African American support for LBJ in Texas; the death of Rather's father.