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- interest was in her family. From my
observation Lyndon and Lady Bird have had a very happy life together. He is a devoted
husband just as he was a devoted son. The Congressional wives loved both Lyndon and
Lady Bird. They were very popular with all groups
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In 139.
He had an office there.
In the Co-op. [Pedernales Electric] From September 15
when I went to "vork until the first of the year, we worked there.
And then the boys drove up to Washington and I spent Christmas with
Bird at her home in Karnack
- ; LBJ’s sensitivity; Mary Rather; Dorothy Plyler; helicopter campaign; Lady Bird; JFK assassination; 1964 campaign; first woman to work for LBJ; living in Johnson City; Congressional Ball; LBJ’s friendship with Senator Alvin Wirtz; former political enemies
- warning of possible danger; reaction to the assassination; 1964 convention in Atlantic City; appointment to Court of Claims; differences between LBJ as a public and as a private man; LBJ’s unwillingness to delegate authority; 3/31 announcement; Lady Bird’s
- call me Bird."
I called her Bird until she became the
First Lady, when I just don't think that outsiders should be calling the
First Lady by her first name; that is for immediate family and very, very
close people.
P:
Was she at that point taking her
- could about him, and
I thought she was the best source on
him . And she was .
She was such a
graciots lady too that--well, you'd walk into
the Driskill with her on
your arm, and they had an old white-haired
maitre d' in the dining
room of the Driskill
- Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
- through the Committee on
Agriculture, a bill to put a license on migratory- -to hunt migratory
birds known as the Duck Stamp Law.
And we've collected millions
of dollars out of that, and we saved the ducks that way.
Then I helped to enact a law called