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Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • tired. I had not seen him that way before. And it concerned me a lot. So I talked with Lady Bird on the phone. As I recall, the hour was perhaps five o'clock, I think Sunday, because she was coming in later. I talked with her and I said, "Bird, I'm very
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • oxygen. But I don't recall the details of that. G: Okay. H: And the next time I was intimately involved was the twenty-third of March, 1972. He and Lady Bird were visiting Lynda and Chuck Robb in Charlottesville. Johnson had severe chest pains
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • recall my own little emotional problem of, what will I call him? Over the years I had called him "Lyndon," called Mrs. Johnson "Bird," and they had called me "Willis." As he became vice president, I fumbled around a little bit and would say, "Mr. Vice
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • care of his business, and accepted the fact he has had a heart attack. He has the problems of convalescence to worry him and so forth. But still that same night, in the process of getting his thoughts in order, he talked with Lady Bird. Mrs. Johnson, I