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Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • remember when LBJ brought Lady Bird home the first time? W: Here? To Johnson City? G: Yes. 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
  • development; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in highway beautification and preserving trees; Winters' construction company and competition with Brown and Root and Cage Brothers; Winters' work on the Tom Miller Dam; LBJ's decision not to run for re-election
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ? W: No, I don't recall anything special. He probably--when did he and Lady Bird marry? G: Well, that was much later. That would have been-- W: I guess--yes, that's later. That was before he married. Because after they married, they spent a lot
  • Cooperative (PEC); Lady Bird Johnson's interest in preserving trees along the highway between Johnson City and Stonewall; Winters' involvement with the Marshall Ford Dam; LBJ's lack of popularity in Gillespie County; the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • here from 1947. It says here that Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie died on New Year's night of 1947 and she was very depressed about that. Do you recall anything of that? W: Well, that aunt raised Lady Bird from the time she was five or six years old. She
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • remember when you first met Jack Valenti? W: Lady Bird--after he went to work for him, I know. Got a long story on him. G: What's that? W: It's a pretty long story on him. G: Well, tell me that. 17 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to Nashville and got a Tennessee walking horse from Governor Buford Ellington. W: [Inaudible] made him president. G: Was that the Lady B? W: I don't know what he named that. I believe it was Lady B. G: Was that Mrs. Johnson's horse? W: Well, maybe