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Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 2/19/1942 (Item)
  • See all scanned items from the Personal Papers of Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, Box 2
  • Lady Bird Johnson personal
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 2/19/1942
  • Personal Papers of Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [is] because we were sort of a fivesome, with Carleen, Lyndon and Lady Bird . dinner and out a lot together . So we went to As I mentioned, Lady Bird and I always called each other cousins, although I really don't think we were . anyway, we were kissing
  • See all online interviews with Horace V. (Dick) Bird
  • ; shipbuilding operations; contractor, etc.; Bird as congressional liaison; Bird as naval aide to LBJ; LBJ and blacks; LBJ as VP; LBJ and Truman; Bay of Pigs; LBJ and Adenauer
  • Bird, Horace V. (Horace Virgil), 1912-1984
  • Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Horace V. (Dick) Bird
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, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Lady Bird carne with him. talk any politics. And he spent an hour wrth him. He didn't I remember Sam asking him how he got along LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . After all, Sevareid and Howard K. Smith were then as powerful as they are in fact now or even more so. So that's how our relationship really grew. always there and was so dear and so wonderful And Lady Bird was ~bout everythtng. LBJ Presidential
  • Washington career background from 1951; contacts with LBJ when Senator; LBJ's relationship with Washington and White House press corps; LBJ's control and selection of Lady Bird's wardrobe; early days in Washington as correspondent; impressions
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the point. When Lyndon finally came in as the president, I got in touch with Lady Bird. Now, up to this time Mr. Rowe had written Mr. Johnson a lousy letter which was not the right thing for Mr. Rowe to write, about which I've told you before. But I got
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • became president. Now he and Dawson Duncan never got along, one reason being that Dawson had courted Lady Bird before Johnson married her. G: Did Dawson Duncan generally write unfavorable stories? W: Well, Johnson probably thought they were. reporter
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh He fiddled around in Australia I think it was. I remember when we went out to the house after he was back and he showed some movies he'd taken. One was of a very pretty woman in a park, and Lady Bird said, "Who's that, Lyndon, that pretty
  • Can’t Do It Club; extension of the Selective Service Act; Rowe’s getting in to the Navy; Lady Bird’s work in the office; Tom Clark; KTBC; Eugene Cox incident; Brown and Root tax case; Hardy Hollers; tideland legislation; Leland Olds appointment; natural
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, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know him very well. I first really got acquainted with him at a dinner at Herman Brown's, where Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Lady Bird and Lyndon and my wife and I were the guests. That was really the first time I really got acquainted with him. He
  • ; Ed Clark; Texas businessmen who were friends with LBJ; Nash's opinion of Lady Bird Johnson.
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I f she was We were the first We passed out the balloons, the; popcorn--well, not popcorn of course, but the Lady Bird whistles-since it was a whistle-stop we passed out whistles--candy kisses, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • the assassination hurt Dallas’ reputation; Walter Jenkins; the effect of LBJ’s position on their friendship; Dale’s work as chairman of LBJ’s inauguration; the inaugural balls; money made from the inaugural events; accompanying Lady Bird to parties; LBJ and parties
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, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • McPherson; George Reedy; Lee White; LBJ as VP under JFK; John Connally; Preston Smith; Bobby Baker; Lady Bird Special, 1964; NSC 1965; escalation in Vietnam; Tonkin Gulf Resolution; dissenting group in the White House; John Stennis; LBJ's decision not to run
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • downtown Boston at lunch hour. his and was the first woman. I wa s in the car immediately behind I was dressed up with white gloves on, and lots of people thought that I was Lady Bird just because I was there, so I had a marvelous time waving. But he
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • educated really by him, having known our father He was extremely strict. day a different language at the table. He insisted that we speak every I went to a convent called the Convent of the Birds; it was called Les Oiseaux, which sounds funny in English
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Connally as very bright, more interested in politics than government; relationship between LBJ and the Rockefellers; trips to the Ranch; watching the Super Bowl during LBJ’s last weekend in the White House; thoughtfulness of LBJ and Lady Bird; mutual
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and exchange ideas and think a little. F: Deliberate. ?!I: And deliberate. Ue don't have the time now for deliberation that we used to have. F: In that brief period when Johnson was in the Navy, di~ you get any opportunity to observe Lady Bird running
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the new coliseum at Waco. he didn't stay. §ery~d Lyndon came up to it and spoke, but He went on back to Austin that night. No, I didn't see a great deal of him. I did get Lyndon and Lady Bird interested in a pet scheme of mine that I have been
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • been with Lyndon Johnson. I'd come in at nine o'clock or so just paralyzed. But by and large I got tremendous insights into how he worked, his personality, and I got to know Lady Bird through this process. Met Bill Moyers one day. I walked
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • president, the former president and now a statesman . F: Our former friend . J-9 : No, he's not a former friend because he's still my friend . He and his wife have been my friends for a long time and I've been their friend . In fact, Lady Bird has
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to come to dinner quite often at our house with Lady Bird, and he was a great talker and a great charmer. Let's say we had twelve people for dinner, and sitting around after dinner he would grab them and hold them for a long period. You have been
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [as servicemen], and then they were actually all recalled. did come back. first, to go in. Before the war was over, they all And Lyndon was one of the first ones, if not the I remember seeing him right before he left. turned the office over to Lady Bird. Lady
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, "For God's sake, go see Johnson." I said, "Well, I can't do that because Lady Bird says he can't be disturbed before ten o'clock and the convention's going to start in twenty minutes." So, we went to the convention. And John ran the convention
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, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • boy ." This is the truth! That's interesting, you know, to be able to say that . I'll tell you one thing I remember about his race--naturally I couldn't forget this . He wasn't known very well in this area--East Texas-­ even though Lady Bird
  • of Lady Johnson in LBJ's career
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, "We are going over to Lyndon's and Lady Bird's for supper. II We got some of Zephyr's [Wright] home cooking, and then would discuss the universe. Lyndon also had, as you may know, a kind of open house on Sundays. F: Yes. P: Bill ~Jhite
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, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • role as a hostess and first lady with a-- E: Top notch. With lots of charm, lots of warmth, and yet with lots of know-how. Nothing hard or brittle about the lady obviously, but she was sophisticated in the ways of the world, also quite interested
  • regarding banking and appointments; reaction to LBJ's decision not to run; admiration of Lady Bird
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, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • at least could express herself on some of those things in which local people were interested. coordination on these trips. So we had a little extemporaneous As a matter of fact I probably was with Lady Bird on that trip and saw more of her than I have
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and then--what's his speech writer's name? M: There are several. Harry McPherson? T: No, no, he's a businessman--Horace Bubsy. About a week after this first joint session that Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird had the Chancellor down for, I got a call from Jesse
Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 2 (II), 11/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the office, and frequently--no, not frequently, but from time to time, Lady Bird helped us some in the office. worked in the office, I believe. Sherman's wife I don't remember whether she worked full-time or part-time. But I want to tell you one thing
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • knew Lady Bird in school. I think I met Lady Bird probably about 1933, because I was going with a girl who lived in the same boarding house with her, and I knew all the girls in the boarding house. I did not meet Lyndon Johnson until after he came
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, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at the request of Mr. Johnson. And even the simplest question, "Is Lady Bird going to the hospital?" he'd say, "Well, I'll have to find out about that." Well, you know, that stuff. who knew about all this, I think did a very good job. is always difficult
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is another division was in Johnson City, held a meeting and the Vice President was, in her words, quite smitten with a young lady there in town and she happened to be a member of that church . And he escorted her to the revival every night, Brush Arbor
  • Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • there that day, his brothers and sisters, including his sister from Fredericksburg that later died, I believe. Well, Sam Johnson wasn't there, I don't believe, and Mrs. Johnson had not got home. Washington, Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson. She was still in But anyway
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