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Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --contracts for Lady Bird's father, Mr. [T. J.] Taylor, with the federal government, and Mr. Johnson hadn't done that. He wasn't anything but a congressman. How could he be effective over in East Texas in getting the federal government to do something
  • Hollers; LBJ's rally in Austin's Woolridge Park where he dispelled rumors regarding his personal finances; LBJ's investments; LBJ's efforts to maintain military establishments in his congressional district; Lady Bird Johnson's role in the 1946 campaign
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Naval Affairs Committee work, was something that I hardly knew anything about. The Naval Affairs Committee had its own staff. I only know that he did go to the West Coast, that Lady Bird either went with him or joined him out there but didn't stay very
  • How Rather went to work for LBJ; LBJ's work on National Youth Administration (NYA) projects on the West Coast before shipping out with the navy in World War II; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in photography, movie-making and drama; Rather's
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . On the second floor there was their bedroom and then two smaller bedrooms for the girls and a tiny room--not a tiny room, but a small room that Lady Bird used as her office. She had her desk in there and she kept up with her correspondence and her business from
  • personnel; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Carl Vinson, the Naval Affairs Committee Chair; the Big Inch pipeline; how Lady Bird Johnson got the money to buy the KTBC radio station; Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie Pattillo; LBJ's early talk of buying a small
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- VI -- 9 Lady Bird
  • LBJ's growing popularity throughout the state of Texas in the 1940s; work in LBJ's congressional office; LBJ's 1944 congressional opponent, Buck Taylor; efforts by oil men to defeat Sam Rayburn; Lynda Bird Johnson's birth and her name; LBJ's love
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was as president. They asked me to come to the Ranch and see them. And he said to me--and I do remember this very, very distinctly--Lady Bird had gone over to the--it might have been Christmas time. She had gone over to the Moursunds. The Moursunds were having
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it would be on very short notice, but she [Lady Bird] accustomed herself to it very, very well--to everything very, very well, because you can imagine the change in her life from the quiet way in which she was brought up. G: Would he normally call
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about, and she would talk to people who were in charge of that. It was not easy for her because it was something she wasn't used to doing. She's a very modest lady and a very smart lady, and she did it well, but I mean she felt like, "What am I doing
  • decision to enter active military duty following the attack on Pearl Harbor; how LBJ's office was run with Lady Bird Johnson's help during LBJ's deployment; life in Washington D.C. during World War II; LBJ's involvement in the Naval Affairs Committee