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  • 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
  • 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
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  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
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  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XII covering 1941 DATE: August 19, 1979 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L
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  • to be on the Appropriations Committee; the many visitors and long hours of work LBJ enjoyed; socializing in Washington, D.C., at the 75th Club, the Congressional Club, theater and parties; Lady Bird Johnson's movie camera; Lady Bird Johnson's walk through the slums
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • , there were lots of those--I met the Senator. Within a short while, he and Lady Bird--I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • Circumstances of joining LBJ’s staff; duties in the Texas office; Arthur Perry; Walter Jenkins; office operation; LBJ and the Texas office; Lady Bird; transfer to the Majority Leader’s office; office staff; traveling with the Johnson’s; Johnsons
  • . 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
  • -- 2 putting the advance operation together for the Lady Bird Special which was the train tour through eight southern states, on which Mrs. Johnson and Lynda and Luci were the chief attractions. Following that experience I went into the Army in November
  • : September 4, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The spring of 1953 was a time when, on looking back through the lenses of the years, it seems that Lyndon's career
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  • television; attending the Kentucky Derby; Carl Estes and Longview, Texas; a Senate ladies trip to Delaware and Winterthur; funerals for Wesley West's mother and Mary Rather's brother and sister-in-law; Mary Rather as a member of LBJ's staff; Senator Harry
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XIII covering 1941 DATE: September 2-3, 1979 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L
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  • Visiting the home of Evalyn Walsh McLean and socializing in 1941; Lady Bird's participation in a 75th Club luncheon honoring Eleanor Roosevelt; riding in Sam Rayburn's car; diversity in the 10th District; Lady Bird Johnson using her movie camera
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • hotel up on East 10th Street. But later on when he moved into Dr. Bob Montgomery's house it had two bathrooms, several bedrooms, and he and Lady Bird didn't need all of that space. So L. E. Jones and I, being bachelors, moved over there and lived
  • questions about broadcasting he would give me a call, and I made trips down to Washington to see him and ultimately met Lady Bird, and then [we] picked up again, of course, after the war years. Throughout that period, there were numerous telephone calls
  • believe, maybe Pat Lawford came down, and they had teas with Lady Bird in various towns. Did you cover any of those? T: I went to some teas in the Washington area, but not those. F: How did that seem to go? Was Lady Bird in charge, or was it a Kennedy
  • a great relief to have it finally over with. A: But we missed it! We really missed it. We wanted to take another train trip. We loved it. B: Was there serious talk of another trip? A: We ended up with a flying Lady Bird Special, which went to three
  • Mrs. Johnson as first lady; trips into poverty areas; Mrs. Johnson and speeches; Lynda and Luci during the presidency; 1964 campaign and train trip in the South; press on train trip flying Lady Bird Special; Mrs. Johnson's control and self
  • DATE: November 15, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 1 J: The first of the year, as I have said, was always a series of celebrations of Speaker Sam Rayburn's
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  • Stag parties early in 1949; decorator Genevieve Hendricks; acquiring furniture for the Johnsons' home; LBJ's Senate staff; LBJ's interest in children who were named after him; social and service opportunities for Lady Bird Johnson
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • DATE: January 9-10, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The winter and spring of 1950 began a new thing in my life and that is carpooling. Lynda, at six
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  • Bird Johnson's niece Diana Taylor's visit to Washington, D.C.; the Senate Dining Room; LBJ's favorite places to eat; Lady Bird Johnson's household duties; canasta parties and spring activities in Washington, D.C.; plants in the Johnsons' backyard
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XIV covering 1941 DATE: September 9, 1979 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L
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  • LBJ's 1941 Senate campaign; problems with LBJ's voice; LBJ's opponents in the race, including Gerald Mann, Governor W. Lee O'Daniel, and Martin Dies; filming the campaign on Lady Bird Johnson's movie camera; entertainment at campaign stops; LBJ's
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XI covering 1940 DATE: January 27-28, 1979 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L
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  • in the fall of 1940, especially with the Democratic Campaign Committee; Nellie Brill Connally, Sugar Critz Pickle and Lady Bird Johnson driving from Texas to Washington, D.C. during this election committee work; LBJ's State of the District letter to voters
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • . L: Yes. I guess it was the summer of 1918, perhaps. The war was still going on, and I remember she came and had with her a daughter who was Lady Bird; I guess Bird was about six years old. But I remember her out on the long porch of our home
  • Biographical information; association with Lady Bird; life and activities in Austin in the 1930s; the University of Texas; the Johnson courtship and marriage
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XV covering 1941-1942 DATE: January 4-5, 1980 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL
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  • in Austin with LBJ's family; the train ride from Texas to California to begin LBJ's military training; Lady Bird Johnson managing LBJ's congressional office during his absence; LBJ's California training and navy duties; purchasing Asian art prints in San
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • remember once he and Lady Bird and I visited Mr. Jones in Houston, who was most gracious. G: How about the tidelands issue? I understand that you had some dis- cussions with Adlai Stevenson about his position on this in 1952? S: I don't remember. G
  • was as president. They asked me to come to the Ranch and see them. And he said to me--and I do remember this very, very distinctly--Lady Bird had gone over to the--it might have been Christmas time. She had gone over to the Moursunds. The Moursunds were having
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW VIII covering 1937 DATE: January 23, 1979 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L
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  • Visitors during LBJ's hospitalization after appendix surgery in 1937; LBJ's efforts to befriend political opponents, such as C. N. Avery and Polk Shelton; LBJ meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's trip to Washington, D.C
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lady Bird Johnson
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XX covering 1946-1947 DATE: February 20-21, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER
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  • the Johnsons went to relax, including Brackettville, Texas; Bess Beeman and other women who worked to support LBJ; Aunt Effie Pattillo's death; the Johnsons' home at 30th Place in Washington, D.C.; dancing at the Shoreham Blue Room; Lady Bird Johnson's role
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • back to Texas. He said, "Well, a fellow's got to do what he thinks best." But we had a nice long visit, then, and we've really been close friends over many, many years. At that time Lady Bird was staying at least part of the time in Austin. She and I
  • that was really funny. Lynda will kill me when she listens to this tape, but I remember somebody coming up to her once when we were in the ladies room somewhere, and the woman said to her, "Do you know you look just like Lynda Bird Johnson?" and Lynda said, "Do I
  • and Tom Johnson taking speed-writing lessons; LBJ's awareness of his standing in political polls in 1968; Lady Bird Johnson's ability to balance work and family and to support LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Lady Bird; how LBJ wanted to be portrayed
  • style music, good music. do you recall when the President met Lady Bird? L: Well, the first I know of, that was on the 10th of September 1934. There's when he met Lady Bird in Austin and he fell in love with her. He followed her and I think
  • ; Sam Johnson as Justice of the Peace; dances; Lady Bird; political support for LBJ; family history of Sam Ealy Johnson Sr. and Sam Ealy Johnson Jr.; childhood and school days of LBJ; LBJ as a teacher; history of LBJ’s career.
  • excellent place for dinner. So would Senator Wirtz. That was always cause for celebration when he would come. The Texas Ladies' Luncheons continued to be a large part of my life, and when constituents from home would come up--I think Mrs. Ben Powell and her
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  • Lady Bird Johnson's daily activities in Washington, D.C., while LBJ was serving in the navy in 1942; LBJ's congressional office staff and Lady Bird Johnson's role as manager of the office in LBJ's absence; correspondence with constituents; living
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • , that we all know. But what he did was, he always paid his debts-- that little thing that I did for him. I tell you, they were so nice to me, even after [my] doing a lady Bird impression and things. As a matter of fact, that's the thing I miss now. I
  • ; political humor; Lady Bird impression; LBJ's entertainment preferences; dances at White House; Shirley Maclaine; 1968 campaign appearances for Hubert Humphrey; LBJ's interest in dogs and his dog at White House; not asked by LBJ to sing at White House
  • - December 1952 DATE: March 29, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Johnson's apartment, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 J: October of 1952 saw the campaign, such as it was, get into full sway. There were
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  • The presidential campaign in the fall of 1952 and LBJ's involvement; controversy surrounding LBJ's support for Adlai Stevenson; LBJ's travel to campaign for fellow Democrats; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriage in the fall of 1952; Senator Ernest
  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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  • - March 1953 DATE: August 3-4, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: We're going to begin 1953. J: 1953 was of course a time of big change. The Republicans had
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  • Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Lady Bird Johnson