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Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

recall my own little emotional problem of, what will I call him? Over the years I had called him "Lyndon," called Mrs. Johnson "Bird," and they had called me "Willis." As he became vice president, I fumbled around a little bit and would say, "Mr. Vice

Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was the apartment? T: Oh, Woodley Park Towers on Connecticut Avenue. And I don't know now whether that was their first home or not. I don't recall that. But I know they did live there for a number of years, and we lived there. Certainly Bird, as we called her
Biographical information about Albert Thomas; Thomas’ race for Congress in 1936; appointment to House Appropriations Committee; Thomas’ contributions to Houston and Harris County; First acquaintance with LBJ; role of a politician’s wife; Lady

President's Daily Diary entry, 7/4/1968 (Item)

asked hi m an d Gov. Connall y to sig n the gues t book. Ladie s al l i n sittin g roo m chatting . 10:35a Entir ' Ambassadors __ I 10:40a ~ U.S Openin 10:42a j e grou p departe d Amb . Clark' s suite , goin g upstair s t o th e lobb y portion o f

Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

she performed her role as first lady sufficiently? V: Oh, I would say that's an understatement. I think she's been one of the best first ladies we ever had. M: Why do you say that? V: Well, partly because I think that she could meet with any
First meeting LBJ; impressions of LBJ as a Congressman and Senator; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; rural electrification; defeated in 1946 Senate race against Nixon; Cooperative League; meeting Lady Bird; assessment of LBJ's performance

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 20, 1 August 1980," LBJ Library (Item)

Documentary On Lady Bird Johnson Charles Guggenheim (center), President of Guggenheim Productions, Inc. and members of bis film crew confer with Mrs. Johnson on steps of Library's Great Hall during filming of a motion picture documenting the former First

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 40, 15 May 1987," LBJ Library (Item)

"LBJ: The Early Y ar.,,' • with Randy Quaid and Patti Lupone a~ Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, and PBS's une-man shov. "Lyndon," starring Laur nee Luckinbill, suggest that the in terest in LBJ is not restricted 10 historians but is felt in the public

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 76, October 2001," LBJ Library (Item)

postmaster in 1934. A few years later, when LBJ and Lady Bird Taylor made their abrupt deci ion to get married in San Antonio. it was Quill whom LBJ called on to make the frantic last-minute arrangements for the Johnsons' wedding-includ ing a dash to ears

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

president, the former president and now a statesman . F: Our former friend . J-9 : No, he's not a former friend because he's still my friend . He and his wife have been my friends for a long time and I've been their friend . In fact, Lady Bird has

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to stand still. F: Was there any time for socializing? C: Not really, initially. You mean with him? F: With him or with Lady Bird or with each other? Or make outside friends? Did he encourage you to spread yourself around so that you would know people

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

factotum. was in the Eisenhower years. This I was in Washington for a meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and at some raucous late-night party I ran into Lyndon and Lady Bird. We were standing around talking and drinking--it was very
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; Democratic political campaigns leading to 1956 Convention; Central High School integration; 1960 Democratic Convention and Kennedy-Johnson nomination; relations with LBJ as VP; ghost writing for Lady

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

rOOIn and there were only, four or five there. r guess I remeInber Lyndon Johnson talking about his great need • • • the way he put it, that he owed so Inuch to Lady Bird and the fact that he was determined to, as it were, pay her back and Inake
Biographical information; initial association with LBJ; 1948 Senate campaign; Carl Estes; 1952 campaign and Texas Democrats; Texas delegation to Chicago Democratic National Convention, 1956; Lady Bird; racism and civil rights; Democratic State

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

something, so Lady Bird came down and was quite gracious. She really rescued the occasion. It wasn't much, but this honor guard had pulled out there; you can't just leave them alone. Then, let's see now. G: Now, there were several days of briefings

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: And his sweet wife, Lady Bird . That relationship began in 1937, again, in a left-handed way because I was not involved personally in that campaign . I happened to be in Brenham in the spring or early summer of 1937, just after Lyndon had announced

Folder, "White House Fashion Show, 2/29/1968 [2 of 3]," White House Social Files, Bess Abell Files, Box 23 (Item)

] February 26, 1968 MEMOltANDU l FOR MILDRED STEGALL From.: Carol Carlyle The tollowln, young ladi•• are moditl• who wi.U be doina the fa•hion •ho on Tbu•t·d ay. We would like to have them come in on Wednesday, ao eowd •• have your okaya u aooa aa poa•ible

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to see the people with whom they Some of the classes with children were con ducted in the center and she was involved in those . [She] wanted to see the classes in operation and wanted to participate in them. We wondered how the First Lady was going
VISTA Training program; Lady Bird Johnson's visit and commencement address to the first VISTA class; Office of Emergency Planning

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to come to dinner quite often at our house with Lady Bird, and he was a great talker and a great charmer. Let's say we had twelve people for dinner, and sitting around after dinner he would grab them and hold them for a long period. You have been

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the time . Pt : Did Lady Bird campaign? 0: Yes, she did . I never followed her, but I knew, as a matter of fact, that she was having receptions different places . . M: She went one direction, and he went another . 0: They didn't go together

Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

time we were out there, and he just decided to take the press corps on a tour of the Ranch house. We walked in there and he said--and I quote--we were upstairs looking in the bathroom and he says, "Lady Bird's going to kill me for showing you all

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that kind of thing that I think most people don't know about Lyndon Johnson. I think people realized that Lady Bird was very much that way, but I don't think they realized that he was the kind of person that in the middle of a busy day and you said your
of Distinguished Service Medals; LBJ's preference for organization and good management of time; LBJ signing photographs and his use of photography; LBJ's teasing; how Bonanno learned from LBJ to use her temper to her advantage; LBJ's moods; Lady Bird Johnson's

Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

was his cook. He said, "You all know Zephyr. Lady Bird and Zephyr and I were driving from the Ranch back to Washington last August. We passed through some Oklahoma town and Lady Bird said, 'Lyndon, would you mind stopping at the next gas station? I would

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, as a consultant. He set up an I think he must be on to Lyndon's payroll. F: Was Lady Bird much in evidence in those days, or did she emerge later? Was she pretty much just the wife? H: You mean when he was--? F: When he was senator. H: Well, she

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in their home while I was in company punishment, and my wife's reactions to the rather summary and, to her, high-handed way he ran his household served to highlight the fact that lady Bird is an unusual person. She never gave the impression of worrying at all
; LBJ’s 1937 campaign for Congress; Claude Wild’s influence on LBJ as his campaign manager; Lady Bird; Fort Worth incident to keep LBJ off the runoff ballot; Abe Fortas’ prepared opposition paper.

Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

coffee, and I got off to one side, and I was talking to Lady Bird and Johnny Lyle. Lyle was the congressman from the Fourteenth District at the time, and I was never so embarrassed in my life. Johnny Lyle got to talking. He said, "You know, I came

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, have you ever met or had any dealings with Mrs. Johnson- -with Lady Bird? c: No, but my wife has. My wife has, on numbers of occasions, been a guest of hers in the White House. So I might have been in the White House, but- -I used to kind of play
independence; wife's opinion of Lady Bird; strong Kennedy supporter; supper with RFK the night before his assassination; incident on plane after RFK's death; relationship between RFK and LBJ

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to Lady Bird's and his thirtietb anniversary, which fell a few days after the 1964 election. very good party. It wasn't a. I remember I sat between Mrs. Justice [Tom] Clark and Mrs. Scooter Hiller, which is not my ideal seat at table. About the only

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 47, 1 July 1990," LBJ Library (Item)

(above) and his performance. At right, he has a word with a cowering Cactus Pryor who, in the program at the Library, has just given a review of Johnson wit and humor. Lady Bird Johnson meets with the LBJ Cabinet members assembled for the Washington

Folder, "Johnson, Lyndon B. [1941-1955]," Papers of Charles Marsh, Box 14 (Item)

for the numerous senators nding their temples in fury because i Family group: Lucy Baines, aged 3, sits at the senator's feet; Lynda Bird, now 6, is with her mother, Claudia. Her husband and her friends call Mrs. Johmon "Lady Bird" PHOTOGRAPHS FOR COLLIER'S 11Y
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. M: Johnson worked for Kleberg for awhile, did he not? B: Yes, this was earlier before he became NYA administrator . As a matter of fact he lived here in Corpus for awhile, he and Bird both after he married . But this was before my time with him

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 28, 15 May 1983," LBJ Library (Item)

. Lady Bird Johmon paid tribute to ~1eanor R osevelt, saying, "Few people have marked the world and our con5cience as E:leanor Roosevelt" . . . he "taught U5 that sometimes silence is the greatest ~in." Uz Carpenter remimled the audience of anotht.:r

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; the 1964 presidential campaign; Bean's return to law practice as Johnny Cash's lawyer; Tony Lama's connection to Bean and boots for LBJ; LBJ's delay in supporting civil rights legislation; Bean's opinion of Lady Bird Johnson.

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1948" (Item)

of women in the Regular Navy and Marine Corps, and Naval and Marine Corps Reserves, which passed the Senate on 7/23/47. 1/27 CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and LBJ attend the Army-Navy-Air Force Reception at the White House, 9 p.m. 1/28 Stag Reserve Officers

Reference File, "Jenkins, Walter" (Item)

on Lady Bird fohri: • . Army, which he entered· as a. private uiet and ubli • • son's KTBC television iitatjon in Austin.·. ~-nd,Ieft as a QuartetQ\aster Corps capReynolds said he. hnd no u&-e for the ad- tain :t,1fterserving .in North Africa -and uarlere

Reference File, "Jenkins, Walter" (Item)

on Lady Bird fohri: • . Army, which he entered· as a. private uiet and ubli • • son's KTBC television iitatjon in Austin.·. ~-nd,Ieft as a QuartetQ\aster Corps capReynolds said he. hnd no u&-e for the ad- tain :t,1fterserving .in North Africa -and uarlere

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ink. F: On that Senegal trip, I seem to remember an incident of he and Lady Bird going out among all the tailors in the place and with a sewing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
humor; camel driver's visit to U.S. and LBJ ranch; travel with LBJ as President; LBJ's selection of presidential gifts; graciousness of LBJ and Lady Bird; ambassadors' visits with LBJ; state dinners; LBJ's concern for people needing help; foreign policy

Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that church and has done an awful lot for the little church there. And I believe Lady Bird brought a stained glass window from Europe and it's in the little church now. Really, it was nothing but a one-room church when I was a girl, when we were children

Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)

. The best thing he ever did for himself was marrying Lady Bird. He married up. The Johnsons were lower middle class, damn low middle class; the Taylors, upper, upper middle class. Captain Thomas Jefferson Taylor, Lady Bird's father, he was somebody
How Clark met LBJ; how Governor James Allred helped LBJ run for Congress in 1937; campaign costs in 1937; LBJ's support for FDR; fundraising for LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Brown and Root; W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel's victory over LBJ in 1941; Lady

President's Daily Diary entry, 7/21/1964 (Item)

of Pres Vashti aroused by call to WJ's ofc Bill Moyers 2 children Smith marble Falls Tex To Mansio n -- "Goodby e ladie s an d gentleme n " (to v m and mjdr ) - - the n half-way - out doorsays - - "Uh , oh, I've forgotte n something." "Mis s Vicky

President's Daily Diary entry, 5/9/1964 (Item)

in auditorium ended approximately on leaving US Pavilion the President stopped briefly in Lobby and said Now Lady Bird you can hold your own press conference if you want to and Mrs Johnson replied No No not this time Departed US Pavilion and stopped briefly

President's Daily Diary entry, 8/1/1966 (Item)

group PMG O'Brien (took call in Califano's ofc) 1, 1966 Date-august 1, 1966 ! '- White House Day MONDAY Activity (inctude visited by) To Oval Office w/ Clark Clifford Mrs. Johnson Lynda Bird - in for just a minute H Lt. General Victor Krulak

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