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Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • 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