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- . Or maybe you did. Have you heard people mention her mother or the kind of
woman that she was?
H:
Yes. A very good friend of mine from Hallsville taught down at the Baldwin School when
Lady Bird was just a child. This girl lived--too bad she's dead now
- Biographical information; Marshall High School in the 1920s; Lady Bird Johnson's brothers, Tommy and Tony Taylor, and her father, Thomas Jefferson Taylor; Hughes' contact with Lady Bird Johnson after the 1920s; items in the Harrison County
- of things?
LC:
My memory goes back to when he was in his vice-presidential years, when I went to work
for him. But at that time there was a little house in Johnson City, his boyhood home, and
already he and Lady Bird were trying to fix it up because
- it.
I decided I might as well find out now if it is safe for a man and a wife to walk the streets
of Dallas, and so Lady Bird and I went ahead.
They did the same thing later to Adlai Stevenson.
I never wanted to go to Dallas in 1960 and things didn't get
- was his cook.
He said, "You all know Zephyr. Lady Bird and Zephyr and I were driving from
the Ranch back to Washington last August. We passed through some Oklahoma town and
Lady Bird said, 'Lyndon, would you mind stopping at the next gas station? I would
- .
The best thing he ever did for himself was marrying Lady Bird. He married up.
The Johnsons were lower middle class, damn low middle class; the Taylors, upper, upper
middle class. Captain Thomas Jefferson Taylor, Lady Bird's father, he was somebody
- How Clark met LBJ; how Governor James Allred helped LBJ run for Congress in 1937; campaign costs in 1937; LBJ's support for FDR; fundraising for LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Brown and Root; W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel's victory over LBJ in 1941; Lady
- histories:
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Graham -- Special Interview -- 8
But I also saw him on occasion get quite upset. I remember one time when he had
left office, I was visiting with him and Lady Bird, and he had sold his stations
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Biddle -- Special Interview -- 15
B:
And of course, Lady Bird herself was always interested in this area, but more in the
beautification
- . And he said that ever thereafter when he saw Johnson, it would be
"Goodman," or "Goatman," or anything that was wrong.
B:
Have you run into the great habit that Lady Bird had, when she discovered that you had
been sent to left field
- to be serious about how important education
is."
He said, "Bird, what would you think if I dropped off the last two para
graphs?"
He handed her the card and she read it and she said, "Yes, I think
you are right and I would leave them out."
do you think, Bob
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them with me.
D:
I didn't know this.
C:
And he said, "You talk to Senator [Alvin] Wirtz. You talk to Lady Bird. You talk to this
one and that one, and then you make up your mind which position you want to file me
for."
D:
Because you were
- . But I brought her back to
Austin right after World War II to what had been my home for seven or eight years and
went to work in the radio business as a salesman for KTBC, Lyndon and Lady Bird's
station.
B:
Did your wife have a hard time adjusting
- you that I would
not have agreed to this interview had it not been that Lady Bird personally asked me to do
it. I have such high regard and affection for her that I hate to turn down a personal
request. And even then I doubt that I would have agreed