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Are there any other stories of this period like that which you remember?
Q:
I remember when I first met Lady Bird.
G:
Yes, would you tell us the whole marriage story as you recall it. Just start from the
beginning.
Q:
Then I’ll tell you when I first met
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naturally follmved--because of the type of
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people he and his
sweet wife, Lady Bird are--this also went into a very fine and
wonderful personal and social relationship.
PB:
What kind of a man would you say that Mr. Johnson was
in those days
- was as pretty as
a bird; and that was the way her name became this--Lady Bird.
And so we went on to Washington-P:
This was on your first trip to Washington?
B:
On my first trip to Washington.
I went on up with Lyndon.
I was having
to make arrangements
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There've been his wife, Lady Bird, and John Connally,
about both of whom I will have more to say later on in
this interview.
But to name a few of my contemporaries--Jesse Kellam,
Willard Deason, Jake Pickle, Mary Rather, Walter Jenkins,
Ray Lee
- LBJ as NYA state director; the Great Depression; the 1937, 1941 and 1944 campaigns of LBJ; rural electrification and LCRA; characterization of LBJ; Mayor Tom Miller of Austin; John Connally; Lady Bird
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don't recall.
G:
I just
Maybe Lady Bird drove him part of the time.
Was there a campaign theme like "Youth and Progress," something
of that sort?
D:
I do not recall that there was a campaign slogan like "Youth and
Progress." Maybe there was.
G
- the home in San Marcos have books around? She was a
rather bookish lady.
WH:
Yes, she was.
I would doubt that there was a library as such.
She had books in and around the house in profusion, but I
can't recall a library.
I'm quite sure that the books
- a great deal pro and con.
I recall a number of
occasions, one in particular on a Sunday afternoon when he and Lady
Bird and Alice, my wife, and I took a long ride up towards Harper's
Ferry over in West Virginia.
We spent the whole afternoon
- Biographical information; San Marcos; Professor Greene; White Stars; NYA; roadside parks; projects; programs; LBJ's activities; Lady Bird; Alvin Wirtz; 1937 Congressional campaign
- attack; Lady Bird's increased role in the office