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Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger
Walker's first contact with LBJ; Walker keeping LBJ informed of the views of the American Bankers Association (ABA) members; Walker's banking and economics background and support for increased political power of the ABA; Walker's December 1963…
Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger
Career history as a photographer; Kaufman's work in Dallas covering Lee Harvey Oswald after the John F. Kennedy assassination; covering LBJ at the LBJ Ranch while staying in a Stonewall hotel; LBJ's recovery from gallbladder surgery; finding the…
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger
How Pickle obtained an organ once owned by Walter Hornaday; signatures on the organ of important politicians and businessmen who visited Hornaday and Pickle; where the organ has been; how Pickle would like the organ to be displayed at the LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Abram V. Goodman, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1996, by Ted Gittinger
First contact with Mr. Johnson; an attempt to bring Hermann Winter from Germany to the United States in 1939; Goodman’s involvement with the Jewish Austin community; Joe Koen; Visits to Glehn, Germany.
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton
The creation of the LBJ Memorial Grove and the committee that oversaw its planning; finding stone in Texas to create a megalith for the memorial; the location of the memorial in Lady Bird Johnson Park and the creation of the Lady Bird Johnson Park;…
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton
Efforts to establish a historic site at Lady Bird Johnson's childhood home in Karnack, Texas; early planning for the National Wildflower Research Center; the first board of directors for the Center; Carlton Lees' assistance in writing the charter for…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton
Lady Bird Johnson's father's decline in health and death; story of Lady Bird Johnson's mother building up Mr. Taylor's health and physique early in their marriage; Mrs. Johnson's role in the 1960 presidential campaign; public speaking; Mrs. Johnson's…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton
LBJ's opinion of accepting the vice-presidential nomination; how Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ's closest supporters felt about LBJ accepting the vice-presidential nomination; LBJ's activities immediately after the Democratic National Convention; trip to…
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger
Trip to the Ranch in February 1970 to evaluate LBJ’s angina; 1972 heart attack in Charlottesville; moving LBJ back to the ranch; LBJ’s return to smoking; changes in treatment for heart attack patients from LBJ’s time to 1995; personal…
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger
Kennedy’s assassination and LBJ’s handling of the transition; gallbladder removal; LBJ’s display of his surgery scar to reporters; trip to Nicaragua; LBJ’s throat surgery and hernia repair; LBJ’s attempt to make Hurst White House physician;…
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton
Cowles' connection to the University of Texas; the origin of the Flair Symposium and its first symposia in 1994; Cowles' work at Look magazine; how Flair magazine was started and why it did not succeed; the Flair Annual; recognition Cowles has…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton
A Theta Sigma Phi breakfast in 1960; the Ladies for Lyndon movement; the Johnson daughters' activities; Luci's interest in religion; preparing for LBJ's political rise; public speaking; the Johnsons' connection to St. David's Episcopal Church in…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
The prospect in 1955 of LBJ being a candidate for the presidency; Amon Carter and LBJ's relationship with Carter; John Henry Faulk; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; humorous story regarding suits a tailor was making for LBJ at the time of his heart attack;…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
LBJ's January 1956 return to Congress following his heart attack; Jesse Kellam; the Johnsons' interest in sports; KTBC's success; criticism of LBJ; President Eisenhower's February 1956 announcement that he would run for re-election; the table Frank…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
Congress in 1957; Senator Ralph Yarborough; moving KTBC to the Driskill Hotel; Mary Margaret Wiley joining LBJ's staff; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Rebekah Johnson's visits to Washington, D.C., her interests and hobbies; LBJ teasing Glynn Stegall;…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
Interviewing Henry Blackburn for a LBJ Ranch foreman position; LBJ's interest in running for president in 1960; Bill Moyers' work style; purchasing a building to house KTBC and an apartment for the Johnsons; decorator Genevieve Hendricks; income from…
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater
LBJ purchasing and renovating the Boyhood Home; LBJ's interest in providing public access to his homes and his papers; LBJ's intended purpose for the Library; comparing the LBJ Presidential Library with other presidential libraries; the importance of…
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek
LBJ's decision-making in regard to the Dominican Republic in 1965; Abe Fortas' involvement with the Dominican Republic; LBJ's concern over press coverage and his naivety regarding favorable press coverage; Bundy's involvement in the 1967 Six-Day…