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- tired. I had not seen him that way before. And it concerned me a lot. So I talked
with Lady Bird on the phone. As I recall, the hour was perhaps five o'clock, I think
Sunday, because she was coming in later. I talked with her and I said, "Bird, I'm very
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oxygen. But I don't recall the details of that.
G:
Okay.
H:
And the next time I was intimately involved was the twenty-third of March, 1972. He
and Lady Bird were visiting Lynda and Chuck Robb in Charlottesville. Johnson had
severe chest pains
- recall my own little emotional problem of, what will I call him? Over
the years I had called him "Lyndon," called Mrs. Johnson "Bird," and they had called me
"Willis." As he became vice president, I fumbled around a little bit and would say, "Mr.
Vice
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business, and accepted the fact he has had a heart attack. He has the problems of
convalescence to worry him and so forth. But still that same night, in the process of
getting his thoughts in order, he talked with Lady Bird. Mrs. Johnson, I