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Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Zoo. And we secured authority from the Secret Service to present those, not as a gift to the President that night, but to name them Lyndon and Lady Bird. And they were brought into just part of the pleasant part of the evening which we went through
in their meetings with LBJ and Hubert Humphrey; tiger cubs at Atlanta zoo named for President Johnson and Lady Bird; relations with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Mrs. King; MLK's assassination and resulting racial problems in Atlanta; concerns and involvement

Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Secretary of State, Katie Louchheim, and I would say that I was-going to the White House on this matter maybe three times a year. And always in the awards ceremony, I would stand there with Lady Bird and pass out these certificates. Of course, later on I
Tobriner; Warren Christopher; James Newmyer; Polly Shackleton; George Christian; Katie Loucheim; Mary Lasker; Mrs. Astor; Laurance Rockefeller; Lady Bird as First Lady; LBJ’s interest in development of the DC Council; LBJ’s responses to 4/68 riots; John

Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: He said, "Katie, I understand. It's administrative. You're cut out like Lady Bird, to be doing things, aren't you?" And I said, "Well, I feel so." He said, "Well, let's think about it. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; cooperation White House and governors; creation and administration of Commission on Civil Disorders; LBJ reaction to Commission report; Lady Bird; Illinois

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

; contact with community leaders; conflict of subway vs. freeway; housing problems; unique business and economic situation in D.C.; tourist trade; LBJ's interest in D.C. government; Lady Bird's beautification program; bipartisan support; personal summary

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh 2 eX2.,;~?l(;, held ho.nu the speech to Hrs. Johnson there in his bedroom and say; in effec t; F: "Bird, ",hat do you think about this?" Hm.J long in advance did he start that speech? You might say five years in advance, in one sense

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