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Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really right or wrong in your own heart. But one night, a long time after the election, I'm going to be in bed and I'm going to turn over to Lady Bird and say, 'Bird, you know those folks dovm in New Orleans. their judgment.'" at that point. (Laughter

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

President, the new President, sworn in-F: Or to accompany a new president. R: --and even less that we were going to fly back on the plane with the dead President, the new President, Jackie, and Lady Bird, and most of their staffs. F: Let's slow up just

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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.

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was, to me, of the highest caliber. a dedicated American. I believe him to be a good American, I think his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, is one of the most charming women I have ever met. I think she, too, was an excellent companion for him and a woman who

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was there, and the message came through louder and clearer if the guy left the next day. But I know in a personal way, the Ambassador and Mrs. Lodge invited both Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Mecklin to dinner the nights of their respective husbands' departure, and these ladies

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

everybody, but it was a little vignette that live always carried with me about Johnson. deal about him and Mrs. Johnson. It has always told me a great Of course anybody who is going to understand Lyndon has to understand Lady Bird; it was that kind
Biographical information; first meeting LBJ at the Ranch; Lady Bird’s kindness; breaking the story of JFK’s assassination; transferred to Washington in 1964; contacts and conversation with LBJ; LBJ’s operation to remove a polyp on his vocal chords

is a fairly shy bird; that all we could do was to indicate to them that we preferred that they should make some share of their capital available to Australians, and that's all. It wasn't a matter of compulsion. There we~e one or two people who thought

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to have a bird cat seat at what went on in those days, because he had been tipped off that there was going to be some trouble. He reported from an intelligence stand- point what the events were, and he did a good job of it. But he was under

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh 2 eX2.,;~?l(;, held ho.nu the speech to Hrs. Johnson there in his bedroom and say; in effec t; F: "Bird, ",hat do you think about this?" Hm.J long in advance did he start that speech? You might say five years in advance, in one sense

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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