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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Contributor > Rather, Mary Alice, 1912-1990 (remove)
  • Date > 1982-09-09 (remove)

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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