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  • are a public I think it is cruel, inhuman, unkind, and I think Jackie Kennedy has been extremely inhumane in the way she has treated Lady Bird and the Johnsons because of the fact that her husband was there. had to go. Nobody put a pistol to his head
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Symington -- I -- 14 staying with the Wesley Wests one day at their ranch, and he said, "Tomorrow Lady Bird and I are going down to look at a piece
  • birth place, and chase the deer. bit on a personal basis. You could get to know him there a little Also, of course, Mrs. Paine and I were thrown in with Lady Bird on these occasions, and when Lady Bird visited the Cape, as you recall. We had
  • ; ceremony and party plans after the mission; LBJ’s interest in the technical details of space flight; LBJ never attended a launch; Lady Bird’s concerns for benefits of space program to man on the street; relationship with HHH; consultant to HUD; The Space
  • charge. I think he was one of these men that can totally relax momentarily, rest, and then come back fresh and keep going. He put in tremendous hours. I've just never seen a man put in any more hours than he did. know Lady Bird was always worrying
  • 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.
  • of accepting? A: No. I went over to his room, and he still was in a bathrobe and so was Lady Bird and they were both busying around. I finally said to him that I thought it would be a mistake if he ran for Vice President, under these circumstances
  • , Laurel, Hattiesburg and on down into Poplarville I remember and maybe two or three other places. F: Did you get a good reception? s: Yes, yes, we had the band and everything. years It was a real campaign. later, Lady Bird came down and I met her
  • 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
  • friendship with Mr. Johnson and with Lady Bird. F: This is rather subjective, but in 1953 he had just been chosen minority leader, a rather junior person really. H: That's right. -- . :t LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • very vividly because it's so belied by what has happened, even in recent days of the birth of Lynda Bird's daughter. It amuses me that--the girls are big and I remember the time he told us, when Lynda was about five, how he took her to Neiman-Marcus