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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
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Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . After all, Sevareid and Howard K. Smith were then as powerful as they are in fact now or even more so. So that's how our relationship really grew. always there and was so dear and so wonderful And Lady Bird was ~bout everythtng. LBJ Presidential
  • Washington career background from 1951; contacts with LBJ when Senator; LBJ's relationship with Washington and White House press corps; LBJ's control and selection of Lady Bird's wardrobe; early days in Washington as correspondent; impressions
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was called secretary--same job. F: Did you ever see the secretary or administrative assistant in Washington during that period? D: Yes, I made one trip up here and visited with him; stayed, of course, in the little apartment that he and Lady Bird lived
  • African-Americans and the poor; "make work" projects; roadside parks; 1937 campaign; Uncle George; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; LBJ as Deason's best man; Hardy Hollers campaign in 1946; Lady Bird's business interest in her radio station, KVET; application
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the President of Costa Rica. There were hundreds of people out on the streets, openly crying and coming to the Embassy to express their sympathy. I remember I had one little lady, an old lady--and she was a very poor person--that came up to me and wanted
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • boy ." This is the truth! That's interesting, you know, to be able to say that . I'll tell you one thing I remember about his race--naturally I couldn't forget this . He wasn't known very well in this area--East Texas-­ even though Lady Bird
  • of Lady Johnson in LBJ's career
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as a family, too. You see, we were I even gave Lady Bird a transfusion once. F: Oh, really? G: Anyway, we had a close personal relationship. personal than political. I would say it was more Bird very often would ask me what did I think about something
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Lady Bird made this country--what it's been I suppose since Theodore Roosevelt--conservation conscious, but they put it on a plane I think from which there is no retreat now. Did you work with that story yourself? H: Yes. I never went out on any
  • as a President; Secretary Udall; Lady Bird’s effort to make America conservation conscious; assessment of history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency; LBJ’s interest in the space program.
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 1948 Senate race; KTBC radio; Lady Bird; LBJ's recreational activities; KTBC-TV; station policies; JFK assassination; Jim McCrocklin; impression of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was, to me, of the highest caliber. a dedicated American. I believe him to be a good American, I think his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, is one of the most charming women I have ever met. I think she, too, was an excellent companion for him and a woman who
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was there, and the message came through louder and clearer if the guy left the next day. But I know in a personal way, the Ambassador and Mrs. Lodge invited both Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Mecklin to dinner the nights of their respective husbands' departure, and these ladies
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • storm and headed to the Ranch. three or four o'clock in the morning. Got in there around Mrs. Johnson and the other ladies, a friend of hers and Josefa, his sister, were there to meet us and had LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)