Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger

Title:

Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger

Number of Pages:

20

Description:

LBJ's relationship with Sam Houston Johnson; LBJ's Christmas and birthday gift-giving; LBJ's boyhood home and Winters' work there; LBJ's 1969 will; LBJ's March 1970 hospitalization and 1972 heart attack; LBJ's exercise, smoking, and dietary habits; the last time the Winters saw LBJ; LBJ at Dolph Briscoe's gubernatorial inauguration in January 1973; the LBJ Library dedication; LBJ's feelings about his health and his death; LBJ's death, funeral, and burial; LBJ's reaction to birds the Winters cared for; LBJ's eating habits and his favorite foods; Tom Mills; Clarence Knetsch; LBJ's lack of popularity in Gillespie and Blanco Counties; local resistance to the Johnsons buying the land around the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's sense of humor.

Contributor:

Winters, Anita P.

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details

Interviewee:

Anita P. Winters

Interviewer(s):

Ted Gittinger

Specific Item Type:

Oral history

Type:

Text

Format:

Paper

Identifier:

oh-wintersa-19870424-2-14-03

Date:

1987-04-24

Time Period:

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)