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Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on several occasions. Lady Bird are favorite friends of mine. Lyndon and I know when we had our com- bined meeting in Washington of the American Institute of Park Executives and the National Conference of state Parks, which brought together the city
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • alone with Liz's lovely young secretary in the Brinkerhoff Lodge and it wouldn't do, for obvious reasons; so I told Liz about this. I said, "I'm going to get one of the press ladies to chaperone us, because I don't want to compromise Lynn's virtue. If I
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Thornberry, had been taking up Lady Bird's time, and pretty soon he yelled over to Judge Thornberry, "Homer, you've been sitting by Lady Bird long enough. You make way for ltJayne." And I went over and sat LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • district of Denver; Boyhood Home legislation; role of Lady Bird with National Park Service Advisory Review Commission; appointment of son (Owen Aspinall) as governor of Samoa; island elections of governors; Saline Water Bill; National Park System and Wild
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 1919, and I found it was a bird sanctuary in California, islands south of Mexico and the Congo. As you will see in my remarks [see attachments], at that very time those four subjects were right in the news again, and my theme was that maybe
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But we were encouraged by it, because at least half of them did leave and go utilize their time in other sight-seeing activities. So with the permission of the new First Lady, we will continue to experiment LBJ Presidential Library http
  • and overnight accommodations; commuter-type bus for TN in parks; comparison of management of National Seashore over National Park; George Washington Parkway; park service in non-continental area; Scenic Riverway Program and Trails; Mel Grosvenor; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • very vividly because it's so belied by what has happened, even in recent days of the birth of Lynda Bird's daughter. It amuses me that--the girls are big and I remember the time he told us, when Lynda was about five, how he took her to Neiman-Marcus