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  • Subject > Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 (remove)
  • Time Period > Presidential (Nov. 22, 1963-Jan. 20, 1969) (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Judge R.E. Thomason, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • interest was in her family. From my observation Lyndon and Lady Bird have had a very happy life together. He is a devoted husband just as he was a devoted son. The Congressional wives loved both Lyndon and Lady Bird. They were very popular with all groups
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dedication of Sam Rayburn Statue, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, 1/6/1965" (Item)
  • Lady Bird Johnson speeches and statements
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : In 139. He had an office there. In the Co-op. [Pedernales Electric] From September 15 when I went to "vork until the first of the year, we worked there. And then the boys drove up to Washington and I spent Christmas with Bird at her home in Karnack
  • ; LBJ’s sensitivity; Mary Rather; Dorothy Plyler; helicopter campaign; Lady Bird; JFK assassination; 1964 campaign; first woman to work for LBJ; living in Johnson City; Congressional Ball; LBJ’s friendship with Senator Alvin Wirtz; former political enemies
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • warning of possible danger; reaction to the assassination; 1964 convention in Atlantic City; appointment to Court of Claims; differences between LBJ as a public and as a private man; LBJ’s unwillingness to delegate authority; 3/31 announcement; Lady Bird’s
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • call me Bird." I called her Bird until she became the First Lady, when I just don't think that outsiders should be calling the First Lady by her first name; that is for immediate family and very, very close people. P: Was she at that point taking her
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • could about him, and I thought she was the best source on him . And she was . She was such a graciots lady too that--well, you'd walk into the Driskill with her on your arm, and they had an old white-haired maitre d' in the dining room of the Driskill
  • Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • through the Committee on Agriculture, a bill to put a license on migratory- -to hunt migratory birds known as the Duck Stamp Law. And we've collected millions of dollars out of that, and we saved the ducks that way. Then I helped to enact a law called