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Oral history transcript, Inez Hughes, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • . Or maybe you did. Have you heard people mention her mother or the kind of woman that she was? H: Yes. A very good friend of mine from Hallsville taught down at the Baldwin School when Lady Bird was just a child. This girl lived--too bad she's dead now
  • Biographical information; Marshall High School in the 1920s; Lady Bird Johnson's brothers, Tommy and Tony Taylor, and her father, Thomas Jefferson Taylor; Hughes' contact with Lady Bird Johnson after the 1920s; items in the Harrison County
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • of things? LC: My memory goes back to when he was in his vice-presidential years, when I went to work for him. But at that time there was a little house in Johnson City, his boyhood home, and already he and Lady Bird were trying to fix it up because
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • it. I decided I might as well find out now if it is safe for a man and a wife to walk the streets of Dallas, and so Lady Bird and I went ahead. They did the same thing later to Adlai Stevenson. I never wanted to go to Dallas in 1960 and things didn't get
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, 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
Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- Special Interview -- 8 But I also saw him on occasion get quite upset. I remember one time when he had left office, I was visiting with him and Lady Bird, and he had sold his stations
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Biddle -- Special Interview -- 15 B: And of course, Lady Bird herself was always interested in this area, but more in the beautification
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • . And he said that ever thereafter when he saw Johnson, it would be "Goodman," or "Goatman," or anything that was wrong. B: Have you run into the great habit that Lady Bird had, when she discovered that you had been sent to left field
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • to be serious about how important education is." He said, "Bird, what would you think if I dropped off the last two para­ graphs?" He handed her the card and she read it and she said, "Yes, I think you are right and I would leave them out." do you think, Bob
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • them with me. D: I didn't know this. C: And he said, "You talk to Senator [Alvin] Wirtz. You talk to Lady Bird. You talk to this one and that one, and then you make up your mind which position you want to file me for." D: Because you were
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • . But I brought her back to Austin right after World War II to what had been my home for seven or eight years and went to work in the radio business as a salesman for KTBC, Lyndon and Lady Bird's station. B: Did your wife have a hard time adjusting
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
  • you that I would not have agreed to this interview had it not been that Lady Bird personally asked me to do it. I have such high regard and affection for her that I hate to turn down a personal request. And even then I doubt that I would have agreed