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  • Lady Bird works on Johnson City House; telephone conversation with Lucia Johnson; LBJ on six-state tour of Midwest tornado damage; Lady Bird drives by the Schornhorst place and the bluebonnets; guests for dinner at the LBJ Ranch
  • ? D: Well, you remember at the outset of our conversation, I said I thought I could give you some human interest stories about the President, so let me back up. Over a period of many, many months, the period that I refer to as supplying goodies
  • and others to Johnson City property; Lady Bird and LBJ to Moursunds and 3 Springs Ranch; LBJ reminisces about picnics and swimming as child; Lady Bird likes river-rafting; Peter Hurd's portrait of LBJ; telephone conversation with Nellie Connally
  • with the number of balls he had in the air. He had George Reedy scurrying about with memos, and somebody else whispering in his ear; there were telephone conversations going on, and he seemed to be very much at ease handling four or five things at the very same
  • didn't wake him up, let him sleep about two or three hours, and of course he needed the rest very bad. I always remember the table down there where he got massaged and he slept. Around a health club there's a good deal of conversation, you know
  • getting names on this petition. In some congressman's office, finally the White House telephone caught up with me and the President was on the phone. He said, "Tommy, how are you doing?" I said, "I'm doing wonderfully well." And he said, "Well, I want
  • him. Bell Telephone and a bunch of the people opposed it. They came down. I've forgotten who was head of the Bell Telephone at that time. But he showed them, he said, "Boys, you can make money withholding on this dividend. You'll have that cash at your
  • : Right. 8: But I had envisioned he was running the United States on another scale. F: Right. He really had a facility, I think, of keeping several conversations going at once. I'm sure, you know, he's not so busy running the Ranch that he's
  • LBJ & Lady Bird review progress on Danz house; LBJ & Lady Bird to Stonewall; wildflowers and crepe myrtles for planting; LBJ & Lady Bird swim with Luci & Lyn Nugent; Lady Bird has hair styled; dinner guests; conversation about oral history project
  • Sale of The Elms; Luci and her friends at the White House; LBJ invites A.W. Moursunds and Jesse Kellams to White House; dinner with friends from Congress and their wives; dinner conversation about the Dominican Republic, Thomas Mann's appointment
  • , "Could I have yOI.!r attention, please?" and conversing. And I said a little They went on eating Finally, I shouted out in my best Texas voice, "Simmer down!" And they did. I emceed very much like I did the other functions at the ranch, very
  • birthday party at the Haywood Ranch; Lady Bird has phone conversation with Lynda Johnson in Europe
  • LBJ and Lady Bird talk about many subjects; LBJ Library; Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; LBJ returns to White House; Lady Bird entertains family; photographs taken outside the house; Lady Bird takes walk to birthplace home; visit
  • into Lyndon Johnson? G: It was shortly after I came to Texas in '55. I first ran across him through conversation before actually seeing him in the flesh; and I think for the record I should tell the story of the first real confrontation with the reality
  • ; phone conversation with Lucia; Lady Bird meets LBJ & guests at Lewis place; Lady Bird watches "Gunsmoke"; meeting about tv and radio properties
  • LBJ has phone conversation about appointments at Treasury and Budget; Lady Bird receives international YWCA delegates; Henry Fowler accepts Secretary of Treasury position; LBJ makes press announcement; diplomatic reception at Blair House; Lady Bird
  • but was seldom seen in anger. He loved to sit down on the front proch of his farm home, read the Bible or the newspaper or converse with some guests. His Gillespie County farm home is now owned by his illustrious grandson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and is one
  • that time. They went on with thei r paper for over, oh, I guess, ten years or longer, but they finally just closed it up and folded. G: Do you recall--again, going back to that conversation in the Austin Hotel coffee shop--was it pretty cordial? LBJ