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  • Subject > Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, Elaine Fischesser and Ellen Taylor Cooper, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1967, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • Bird's mother's sister. She died at the age -- I don't know the exact age, but Lady Bird was five at the time of her death. MR. CATER: How many years did you say she lived there? ·MRs. FISCHESSER: She lived -- I could not : remember the exact dates
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Mrs. Fischesser first encounters Lady Bird; Lady Bird's Aunt Effie; Lady Bird's love of reading; Mrs. Fischesser's first encounter with LBJ; Mrs. Cooper's first encounter with Lady Bird; Nettie Mason Patillo; Mrs. Cooper's first encounter with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Cecille Harrison Marshall, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and it would be better to stay in Texas, so I went to the univers ity. I really can't tell you how I came to room with Bird, and I shall call her Bird throughout, if you don't mind. I suppose my mother arranged it_through the school, because it was a boarding
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Rooming with Lady Bird at the University of Texas in 1932; a Thanksgiving in Karnack; graduation trip to New York and Washington, D.C.; meeting LBJ; LBJ-Lady Bird wedding; Aunt Effie; a visit to the White House; Lady Bird evaluated
Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But She would patter in with her hair rolled up, with her bathrobe on, and bring us our breakfast. [Lady] Bird was so funny. Sometimes we didn't care for the breakfast, and Bird would mix everything together, the orange juice over the cereal and milk
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • First meeting with Lady Bird; Lady Bird as a student; early impressions of Lady Bird; life at UT; the Matthews Rooming House; arrangements on meals; the DeWitt Reddicks; the Austin Women’s Club; recollections of Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter; Lady