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Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • : Are there any other stories of this period like that which you remember? Q: I remember when I first met Lady Bird. G: Yes, would you tell us the whole marriage story as you recall it. Just start from the beginning. Q: Then I’ll tell you when I first met
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . And when Mr. Buchanan died, we drove to Brenham, and Lyndon and Lady Bird attended Mr. Buchanan's funeral. Shortly after we returned to Austin he began making his contacts with people in Austin and over the district, feeling them out as to whether he
  • 1948 Congressional campaign in south Texas; LBJ’s visit with all Robstown school children during 1954 campaign for Senate; LBJ’s personality traits (temper, impatience, intelligence); Lady Bird.
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into journalism school, as I told you, with Claudia Taylor, who was better known later as lady Bird Johnson. After the war I had moved back to Austin--after I got out of the service. I had taken my daughter to a little playland park out on lamar Boulevard
  • Biographical information; WPA; National Youth Administration; Harry Drought; school program; NYA projects; LBJ's techniques in running statewide agency; Lady Bird; KVET; contacts with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • naturally follmved--because of the type of ' people he and his sweet wife, Lady Bird are--this also went into a very fine and wonderful personal and social relationship. PB: What kind of a man would you say that Mr. Johnson was in those days
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was as pretty as a bird; and that was the way her name became this--Lady Bird. And so we went on to Washington-P: This was on your first trip to Washington? B: On my first trip to Washington. I went on up with Lyndon. I was having to make arrangements
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • here in that project? L: Not that I recall, other than through Lyndon of course. wouldn't know. I really In that connection we miss Lady Bird very greatly around Washington. The beautification program of course has held on to some extent
  • Biographical information; NYA; Alvin Wirtz; advisory boards; roadside parks; NYA projects; Sam Rayburn; Congress; Eleanor Roosevelt; FDR; WPA; regional and district organization; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • health . I have the impression that even then he pushed himself too hard, that he was con­ stantly being urged to slow down . B: That is true . Lady Bird tried her best to get him to slow down . But he had a very restless, driving energy that he just
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • things succeed? B: It was a part of both . It was a family organization, number one, but each of us was assigned particular duties . the state . I was finance officer for At this time, Lyndon and Lady Bird lived out on San Gabriel Street in Bob
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was called secretary--same job. F: Did you ever see the secretary or administrative assistant in Washington during that period? D: Yes, I made one trip up here and visited with him; stayed, of course, in the little apartment that he and Lady Bird lived
  • African-Americans and the poor; "make work" projects; roadside parks; 1937 campaign; Uncle George; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; LBJ as Deason's best man; Hardy Hollers campaign in 1946; Lady Bird's business interest in her radio station, KVET; application
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; LBJ's relationship to his staff; LBJ's burial; Ziegler's function in the NYA; LBJ's interest in roadside parks; LBJ's admiration of FDR; relationship between LBJ and Alvin Wirtz; 1941 Senate campaign; Lady Bird as an asset to LBJ's political career; 1960
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • . There've been his wife, Lady Bird, and John Connally, about both of whom I will have more to say later on in this interview. But to name a few of my contemporaries--Jesse Kellam, Willard Deason, Jake Pickle, Mary Rather, Walter Jenkins, Ray Lee
  • LBJ as NYA state director; the Great Depression; the 1937, 1941 and 1944 campaigns of LBJ; rural electrification and LCRA; characterization of LBJ; Mayor Tom Miller of Austin; John Connally; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , let's say, in this connection? Z: Well, I don't know how you would express it, but Catherine had that feeling--I think I told you--the first time she ever met him and we went down to San Antonio with Lyndon and Lady Bird for dinner. Lyndon and I went
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in their home while I was in company punishment, and my wife's reactions to the rather summary and, to her, high-handed way he ran his household served to highlight the fact that lady Bird is an unusual person. She never gave the impression of worrying at all
  • ; LBJ’s 1937 campaign for Congress; Claude Wild’s influence on LBJ as his campaign manager; Lady Bird; Fort Worth incident to keep LBJ off the runoff ballot; Abe Fortas’ prepared opposition paper.
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . don't recall. G: I just Maybe Lady Bird drove him part of the time. Was there a campaign theme like "Youth and Progress," something of that sort? D: I do not recall that there was a campaign slogan like "Youth and Progress." Maybe there was. G
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Let's see here, I knew Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird shortly after they first came to Austin. In fact, we had them over to our house several times after I became NYA State Director of Projects for Texas. MG: Was this while he was NYA director? LG
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • the home in San Marcos have books around? She was a rather bookish lady. WH: Yes, she was. I would doubt that there was a library as such. She had books in and around the house in profusion, but I can't recall a library. I'm quite sure that the books
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kellam's place and I took Deason's place in San Antonio. After Lyndon was elected, he had an appendectomy during the campaign-he still wasn't well. He got Bill Deason and I to go up to Marshall with him to Lady Bird's home, her father's home, and we
  • Roosevelt not stopping to dedicate a roadside park; LBJ’s relationship with Lady Bird’s father; LBJ’s involvement with NYA after becoming a Congressman; La Villita in San Antonio; Maury Maverick; working for OPA; Roth’s involvement in the 1948 campaign; feud
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GOLDSCHMIDT -- I -- 22 periQdici.ty of our relationships with Johnson and with Lady Bird, too. And this was not due to any falling out, it was just the circumstances of our
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a great deal pro and con. I recall a number of occasions, one in particular on a Sunday afternoon when he and Lady Bird and Alice, my wife, and I took a long ride up towards Harper's Ferry over in West Virginia. We spent the whole afternoon
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to go home and get in bed and go to sleep. I know I've got to go home and shave and go to mass." He was a very devout Catholic, very active in Catholic affairs there. The two, Lady of the Lake and what was the other famous girlsl school down in San
  • Braniff and Eastern Airlines over postal contracts and routes; grandfather clause in Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938; Texas National Aviation Defense Board; Lady Bird; soundness of the dollar; general impressions of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Long -- I -- 7 L: Well in that early stage, I do not remember Lady Bird at all. I suppose after he got in Congress, and after World War II, is when I first knew her and met her. And I can't even remember the first time I met her. B
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Brown -- I -- 9 That's pretty much what the story has been . When I was with NYA, Lyndon visited in our home several times . He and Lady Bird joined us in a picnic down in Rock Creek Park . I think we still have some pictures around of that . G
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that station at the tim.e that Lady Bird bought it would have seen it grow fantastically in value just because of the rate of growth of the industry. have no direct knowledge of it. But I myself It was just in the nature of the industry that people who got
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember one very beautiful young lady who was named to represent youth, and it seems like her name was Nita Hines [?]. G: But he got distinguished business leaders and educators and people like that type and put them on that board. Did you notice
  • not be taken over by Works Progress Administration (WPA); LBJ's promise to make sure Olson had a job; Dr. Cecil E. Evans of San Marcos; LBJ's relationship with his mother, Rebekah Johnson, and wife, Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ's presidential aspirations; LBJ's 1937
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Skiles -- I -- 25 S: Yes. This was something that, of course, Lady Bird picked up later and did such a nice job with. The direction
  • University; blacks and the NYA; problems of administration; Congressional campaign; Lady Bird.
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and wanting to get married, and I suppose that would cloud any man's vision. (Laughter) Bird was much nicer than any law school. G: You would go to class together in the evenings, I guess? J: Yes. Then we'd come back to the office or go home
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and get something to eat and maybe change your shirt and get over there . About eleven or eleven-thirty lady Bird would come in with coffee and cake for all of us . G: If you disagreed with him on something like that, was he responsive to this? B
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • Biographical information; San Marcos; Professor Greene; White Stars; NYA; roadside parks; projects; programs; LBJ's activities; Lady Bird; Alvin Wirtz; 1937 Congressional campaign
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was in the doghouse and I had to overcome the little things, but I thought the world of him. Once he came up there with Lady Bird; he brought her out there. She was as cute as anybody I ever saw. G: When did he come out there? H: 1936. He had a new Pontiac and he
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • attack; Lady Bird's increased role in the office
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • There may very well have been other things. Go back to this business of Johnson's progressivism. I have never known, but I have always had the belief that Johnson very quietly voted for Dr. Homer Rainey in 1946. that. Lady Bird would know. I have
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)