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  • Contributor > Castro, Nash, 1920- (remove)
  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)

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  • it, in Lady Bird Johnson Park," which in 1969 had been named after Lady Bird at my suggestion, by Stewart Udall. This is on the Virginia side of the Potomac River between the Memorial Bridge and the 14th Street Bridge. That was all that was said about
  • Efforts to establish a historic site at Lady Bird Johnson's childhood home in Karnack, Texas; early planning for the National Wildflower Research Center; the first board of directors for the Center; Carlton Lees' assistance in writing the charter
  • to Shreveport, Louisiana, in Laurance's plane and rented a car, and we drove to Marshall, Texas, where we met Lady Bird. We looked at the house, and again Mrs. Taylor was not present. Her [Mrs. Johnson's] stepmother's son showed us the house. We got back to New
  • The creation of the LBJ Memorial Grove and the committee that oversaw its planning; finding stone in Texas to create a megalith for the memorial; the location of the memorial in Lady Bird Johnson Park and the creation of the Lady Bird Johnson Park
  • on to announce that hereafter the lands on Columbia Island would be known as Lady Bird Johnson Park. overwhelmed when the announcement was made. She was really Joe, her eyes opened as big as saucers and she smiled and her face brightened. It was a show
  • Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; Mrs. Paul Mellon; Lady Bird Johnson Park
  • alone with Liz's lovely young secretary in the Brinkerhoff Lodge and it wouldn't do, for obvious reasons; so I told Liz about this. I said, "I'm going to get one of the press ladies to chaperone us, because I don't want to compromise Lynn's virtue. If I