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  • for centuries is re-created in the panoramic displays which are part of the exhibition. During a press preview of the exhibit, Lady Bird Johmson observed, "I think it explains us to ourselves. It's sort of an introduction of some of us to the rest of us
  • . On the second floor there was their bedroom and then two smaller bedrooms for the girls and a tiny room--not a tiny room, but a small room that Lady Bird used as her office. She had her desk in there and she kept up with her correspondence and her business from
  • personnel; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Carl Vinson, the Naval Affairs Committee Chair; the Big Inch pipeline; how Lady Bird Johnson got the money to buy the KTBC radio station; Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie Pattillo; LBJ's early talk of buying a small
  • and visited. His Uncle George Johnson lived there. We were out to dinner with Lyndon and Lady Bird and Uncle George and one or two other of our friends, and I got to know her that way. The interesting thing I thought was after they were married and had
  • : January 23, 1996 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: HARRY MIDDLETON PLACE: Acapulco, Mexico Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 M: This is tape number one, recorded in January 1996 with Lady Bird Johnson. We are half way into the year 1960
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  • LBJ's opinion of accepting the vice-presidential nomination; how Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ's closest supporters felt about LBJ accepting the vice-presidential nomination; LBJ's activities immediately after the Democratic National Convention; trip
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • articulate advocate than George Christian. While the Library will miss his wise and calm counsel, it is a better and stronger institution be
  • Among Issue Number LXIV, January, 200 l Lady Bird Johnson Receives National Parks Honor National Park Foundation Officials Jim Maddy and George Bristol, with Mrs. Johnson and Daughter Luci Story on Page Six Senate Democratic Leader Daschle
  • . But She would patter in with her hair rolled up, with her bathrobe on, and bring us our breakfast. [Lady] Bird was so funny. Sometimes we didn't care for the breakfast, and Bird would mix everything together, the orange juice over the cereal and milk
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • First meeting with Lady Bird; Lady Bird as a student; early impressions of Lady Bird; life at UT; the Matthews Rooming House; arrangements on meals; the DeWitt Reddicks; the Austin Women’s Club; recollections of Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter; Lady
  • . Christian with Library Director Harry Middleton 3 LADY BIRD JOHNSON'S "A WHITE HOUSE .\t the entrance to the exhibit is a giant photograph of the author, talking into her recorder as he did regularly in a small room on the ).CCOOd lloor of the White
  • have any sort of historical became First Lady. Did you ideas in terms of what you felt that role required? J: No, frankly, because you will remember the hideous advent of us into the presidency. Nothing had been contemplated or prepared for--just
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  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • into it full force. He and Lady Bird came back, and we had a program, and he spoke to the school over there. I wasn't any longer in that school, but I went over, and lwas one of them on the platform with he and Lady Bird and the others, and it was good to see
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- VI -- 9 Lady Bird
  • LBJ's growing popularity throughout the state of Texas in the 1940s; work in LBJ's congressional office; LBJ's 1944 congressional opponent, Buck Taylor; efforts by oil men to defeat Sam Rayburn; Lynda Bird Johnson's birth and her name; LBJ's love
  • /show/loh/oh Taylor -- I -- 2 Taylor, now Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, was about eight years younger than I. That means that she was born about 1912. My brother and I were both born in a frame house in the village of Karnack. Before Lady Bird was born he
  • Thomas Jefferson Taylor’s work; the education of all three Taylor children; how Lady Bird got her nickname; childhood activities; Doris Odam Powell; the siblings’ inability to be together, due to circumstance; early impressions of LBJ; hunting
  • , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Johnson's KTBC apartment, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: I thought that we would talk about your early education and work up to St. Mary's if we have time. J
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  • Lady Bird Johnson's early education at the Fern School; childhood friends; Mrs. Johnson's relationship with Dorris Powell and her mother, Mrs. Odom; Minnie Lee Pattillo's mental health; attending African-American churches as a child; Mrs. Johnson's
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • -1952 DATE: March 15, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Johnson's apartment at KTBC, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 J: In our personal lives, one of the happy things that happened to us that fall
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  • Hiring Gene and Helen Williams and their job duties; Lady Bird Johnson's massages; Sugar Pickle's health; Jac Gubbel's assistance in landscaping the LBJ Ranch and Mr. Erb's help with the trees and yard work; hiring a foreman for the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • . another little interesting incident. And I'll tell you I don't know whether this is the time to tell it or not, but the first time that he brought Lady Bird to visit-B: Tell me about that. A: Well, we never had met her, but we were so anxious to meet
  • Personal relationship with LBJ; LBJ and his family; LBJ as a young boy and relationship with his parents; early relationship with Alvin Wirtz; Allison's first meeting with Lady Bird; memory of Lady Bird as very shy; days at the Ranch
  • . say? R: Jim and I went to dinner there, and we would talk about the passing scene. I spent quite a lot of time with Lady Bird there because I was a member of her committee, and I used to see him then. Oh yes, and then in 1964 I wo rked in the East
  • . Or maybe you did. Have you heard people mention her mother or the kind of woman that she was? H: Yes. A very good friend of mine from Hallsville taught down at the Baldwin School when Lady Bird was just a child. This girl lived--too bad she's dead now
  • Biographical information; Marshall High School in the 1920s; Lady Bird Johnson's brothers, Tommy and Tony Taylor, and her father, Thomas Jefferson Taylor; Hughes' contact with Lady Bird Johnson after the 1920s; items in the Harrison County
  • who understand the things I am try­ ing to do. . -· , Lady Bird joins me in warm regards . Mm Clifford J. Durr . 17 Molton Street Building Montgomery 4, Alabama I ~ANSf'l:iR,, S:LJ Ye HANl9WR1TlN0 l"IL.S
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  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • the appearance of Lady Bird .Johnsonin the lecture hall.) 3 "The role of education.' Cathy Gorn; Maura Pierce; Larry Hackman; Rosemary Morrow; panel chair David Eisenhower. releases public speeches, and media articles. That is the first topic the symposium
  • 26, 1996 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: HARRY MIDDLETON PLACE: Acapulco, Mexico Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 M: This is side number two of the tape made, oral history interview with Lady Bird Johnson in Acapulco, January 1996
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  • Lady Bird Johnson's father's decline in health and death; story of Lady Bird Johnson's mother building up Mr. Taylor's health and physique early in their marriage; Mrs. Johnson's role in the 1960 presidential campaign; public speaking; Mrs
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • coming home just before he went to work for Congressman [Richard] Kleberg? W: No, I don't. G: Okay. Do you recall when he brought Lady Bird home the first time? W: No, I don't remember that either. (Laughter) G: When did you first meet Mrs
  • and the chili there; Melvin Winters' construction work on the highway around Johnson City; LBJ's skill for politics from childhood; the Winters' first impression of Lady Bird Johnson; the relationship between LBJ and Lady Bird; Lynda and Luci staying
  • . 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
  • for anybody else. I did lots of things for him that lid I've never made men's shirts. But he kept kidding me and saying, "Listen, you're always doing things for Lady Bird and you never do anything for me," and I said, "All right, Mr. President, I am going
  • Early professional contact with Lady Bird during the presidency; Bess Abell as the First Lady’s Assistant; requirements for a first lady’s wardrobe; Lady Bird and clothes; LBJ’s influence on Lady Bird’s wardrobe; LBJ’s generosity with gifts
  • of the boys did back in the old days--in the basement of the Dodge Hotel. married. And then after that he and Lady Bird I was in Washington at the time--we were--so we didn't have anything to do with the details of getting the ring with Mr. [Henry
  • I sign, Alice I. Mrs. Hopkins, let's start with your first impressions of Lyndon I -S-A-A-C-S. I don't know why I have Wyatt down here. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. A: Well, I met Lady Bird casually the second or third day after she moved
  • of them had been helpful in bringing the projects to fruition. F: Right. Now, you said you planted your beautification seeds there. C: Well, if you want to talk about where was the beautification idea born, it really was born in Lady Bird Johnson
  • Evolving of Lady Bird’s role as First Lady; handled all speech invitations; beginning of beautification idea; Sharon Francis; beautification efforts; Walter Washington; planting of Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; billboards; LBJ’s interest
  • from the Morgan Libra!) in fliiewYork 1977 Helen Hayes, Pm;ton Jones, and Kirk Dou~ presented a prognun honoring Lady Bird Johnson in the culmination of a drin which rahed a S2 million endowment for the Friendsof the LBJ Library 1978 An e,hibil
  • attraction second only to the Alamo in popularity. Thousands more have attencJcJ Library symposia led by some of our most challenging contemporary thinkers. This is no gray and lifeless archival repository. It was never meant to be. Lady Bird Johnson, who has
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XLI covering 1960 DATE: August 1994 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Harry Middleton
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  • from Lady Bird Johnson's mother's estate; Bob Waldron; the death of Mrs. Johnson's father, T. J. Taylor; the Johnsons' relationship with George Reedy; Strom Thurmond and his wife, Jean; Lady Bird Johnson's involvement in the Senate Ladies' Red Cross
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • that he took. F: I don't know either. J: I don't recall whose seat that Kleberg took, but he went in at that time as secretary to Richard Kleberg. It was during that time that he met Lady Bird. My wife lived with the Terrells, C. V. Terrells, Judge C
  • , Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson's younger daughter. On behalf of my sister Lynda-who our father always called Daddy's Darling Daughter-we want to welcome you to this Centennial Celebration of Lyndon Baines Johnson's birth. A century ago, on this very day
  • ~~AmongFriends ofLBJ 1ssue NUMBER xi, JANUARY 24 1978 NEW§LEIJEREUIEUP§ PETHE PETHE LBJ8RAQY b1 ; :,;~;;~- ..~ ,_./!~ .... A National Tribute to Lady Bird Johnson (See pages 2-41 A National Tribute to Lady Bird Johnson It was a tribut
  • OSSUENUMa,,, .. ,, ...... Frie~~~,.?.! M.,,!:mong LADY BIRD IN CHINA ( p.1 •(' I ) Visitors to the Library August 27: Once again the Library served cake and punch lo it.svisilon, to commemorate the birthdate of Lyndon Baines Johnson
  • B." or "Lady Bird." B: I wonder how long she did that? [Inaudible] I: I don't know. I don't know. The first time I see her, if I remember, I'll ask her about it, because I read many times that--well, I'm sure "It wasn't allowed" is not the proper
  • Biographical information; Ingram's sister, Isabel, and Isabel's friendship with Lady Bird Johnson; the Johnsons' efforts to help people, including friends like Ingram and her sister; LBJ's sister, Lucia, and his mother; Ingram and Lady Bird Johnson
  • you just a few more questions about Mrs. Johnson as first lady, and also some other issues I should say. I think the first one I'm thinking of, and I'm asking you this primarily because of your own close association with Mr. Udall, who was secretary
  • [For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model
  • Humphrey--was he in it, too? RH: Hubert Humphrey, yes. BH: I remember that I was very impressed with Lady Bird. Naturally, she didn't have the youth of young Jacqueline Kennedy, but much more charm and self-possession. I was impressed, like Dick
  • Meeting LBJ in 1959; Governor of New Jersey, 1961; LBJ and Kosygin held a meeting at Glassboro State College; Kosygin’s daughter, Dr. Gvishiana, joined Lady Bird, Lynda and Mrs. Hughes for lunch at Island Beach; Ramsey Clark; candidates, 1966-1968
  • . Apparently he was a pack rat. When he got enough of this stuff put together, held file for another radio station. was a lousy station. It And the only thing that Lyndon and Lady Bird got when they bought it was the fact that it was on the air, and from
  • Biographical information; involvement with the 1941 LBJ campaign; LBJ’s speaking style; LBJ’s personality; W. Lee O’Daniel; FDR; early days of KTBC; becoming station manager; Lady Bird; LBJ’s involvement with KTBC; CBS network affiliation
  • : March 8, 1991 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Johnson's residence in Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 J: --Lynda's doing all right. G: I have really enjoyed the visits she and I have had over
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  • Social events of the 1950s; Senator Theodore Francis Green; Sam Rayburn; Senator Walter George; Herbert Hoover; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriages in 1954; the political situation in Vietnam in 1954; the Texas governor's race between Allan Shivers
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • and that is that prior to his marriage to Lady Bird he had an eye for girls with pretty faces and figures and did not regard too much what was behind those faces. One of the beauteous young ladies at Child's succumbed almost instantly, at least after two or three
  • from government agencies; letters to graduating seniors; courtship of LBJ and Lady Bird; marriage arrangements; job with FHA; Little Congress; 1937 Congressional campaign; office manager of FHA Houston district; rejoined LBJ’s staff; breakdown; mortgage
  • attention on contributions made by First Ladies in the White House, reviewed Lady Bird Johnson's efforts in the field of beautifica­ tion, and covered some of that area in his ad­ dress at the Library. Excetpts: ... Lady Bird Johnson's envi­ ronmental