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  • Subject > Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 (remove)
  • Subject > Assassinations (remove)
  • Time Period > Presidential (Nov. 22, 1963-Jan. 20, 1969) (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : 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
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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