Wilson's work with the First Lady's Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; difficulties keeping committee projects on track; Mary Lasker; Laurance Rockefeller; Stewart Udall; the White House Conference on Natural Beauty; highway beautification; billboard and junkyard legislation; restoration of downtown areas; publicity for Mrs. Johnson's trips; controversy surrounding dams in the Grand Canyon in the mid-1960s; White House staff support for Mrs. Johnson's activities; Mrs. Johnson's positive influence on history and on Wilson.
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1985, by Lewis Gould
Citation
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1985, by Lewis Gould, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 30, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-wilsonc-19851107-2-00-14