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Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)

to say that it was his marriage to Lady Bird. I'm sure that even today she remains the balance wheel that took Lyndon Johnson from a freshman congressman to the Senate to the vice-presidency and to the presidency. Her ability to make friends, her
Views on LBJ's Congressional days; LBJ and Rayburn; Lady Bird's effect on LBJ's career; LBJ's setting up naval facilities in Texas; Vinson's leaving Congress

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XL covering 1959 DATE: August 1994 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: HARRY MIDDLETON
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Lady Bird Johnson's first impressions of Fidel Castro; Hester Beall Provenson's public speaking course; the Johnsons' 30th Place home in 1959; early impressions of Jacqueline Kennedy; hosting a lunch for the wives of new senators; Sam Houston
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
Lady Bird Johnson

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] 6 F: Did you ever hear the President comment on these revelations--charges? C: Yes. He was annoyed. He was annoyed that they would exploit it, but he was annoyed that it happened. And he let Lady Bird hear a lot
Reaction to William Manchester book; personal statement on Bill Manchester; Lady Bird’s trip to the University of Alabama; flap over Lady Bird’s property in Alabama; Lady Bird’s TV tour of Washington; criticism of Lady Bird for spending

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XXV 1949-1950 DATE: January 2-3, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L
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1949 employees, including Zephyr Wright, Patsy White, and Lewis; Drs. John Washington, Radford Brown and Lawn Thompson; Lady Bird Johnson's work managing the household finances; Leland Olds nomination to the Federal Power Commission; agricultural
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Lady Bird Johnson

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1978 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your trip to New York in June 1934, I guess it was. J: Yes. My daddy gave me that as a graduation
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Lady Bird Johnson's June 1934 trip to New York City with Cecille Harrison; receiving LBJ's name and contact information from Gene Boehringer; touring New York City; traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Johnson's impressions
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Lady Bird Johnson

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, 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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW IX covering 1938 DATE: January 24, 1979 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L
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Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Lady Bird Johnson

Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

around together for a while. r~: Do you have any memories about that? L: Yes, you know, we were talking about that not long ago when we were together. He and Lady Bird invited us to the Ranch and we were talking about it and he said, "You know

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Stanton -- III -- 4 candidate, although I'm not sure that he was; if the date ever becomes important, I can check it--he and Lady Bird called and asked Ruth and me to have dinner with them. And my wife was either out of town

Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Zoo. And we secured authority from the Secret Service to present those, not as a gift to the President that night, but to name them Lyndon and Lady Bird. And they were brought into just part of the pleasant part of the evening which we went through
in their meetings with LBJ and Hubert Humphrey; tiger cubs at Atlanta zoo named for President Johnson and Lady Bird; relations with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Mrs. King; MLK's assassination and resulting racial problems in Atlanta; concerns and involvement

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XVII covering 1943 DATE: September 20, 1980 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L
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" bill LBJ supported; LBJ's family, where they lived and what they were doing in 1943; train trips between Washington, D.C. and Texas, sometimes with Rayburn; Lady Bird Johnson's extended trip to Austin to organize KTBC's finances and get it running more
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Lady Bird Johnson

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

DATE: August 1994 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Harry Middleton PLACE: Martha's Vineyard Tape 1 of 2, Side 2 M: This is side one, Lady Bird Johnson oral history interview [covering] 1957. J: I can talk about [Estes] Kefauver
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Washington, D.C., to Austin with the Johnsons' dog; story of Lady Bird Johnson trying to find a hotel where her African-American employees could stay in Memphis in the 1940s; Virginia Durr's story of Tuskegee Institute's president's wife being refused the use
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
Lady Bird Johnson

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this thing was done or failed. In the matter of the President's wedding, he called me up one Saturday morning, about 8 o'clock from Texarkana, and said that he and Lady Bird wanted to be married in St. Mark's Episcopal Church at LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Vice President's home, and that was the first time I met Lady Bird. The Vice President was a terrific host; it was one of those times when he was going around handing out the drinks and everything. I remember Kennedy and Gene Kelly singing some old

Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

never was around Lyndon but once or twice before that, and then Bird came down here to school. And, of course, she was a very close friend of Gene Lasseter's. F: They lived in the same rooming house, didn't they? L: No. As I remember, Bird stayed
files a perjury complaint against LBJ; Long seeks a no-bill; Dan Moody; Judge Archer; Coke Stevenson; James Allred; Lady Bird evaluated; Rebekah and Sam Ealy Johnson; the trial of Mac Wallace for the murder of Doug Kinser

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, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

there at the Ranch. He drove me in his golf cart, and Lady Bird drove Sarge in her golf cart, and we went to the Ranch house. I had genuine compassion for him. He said, "You guys think I am crazy over Vietnam, and I think you are crazy to take the positions you have

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Lady Bird for Thanksgiving lunch. Then we agreed to meet at the football game, and we met at the game and I sat next to Lady Bird with him on the other side. It started to drizzle, and sometime I think in the third quarter Texas must have been, I don't

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEW XIX covering 1945-1946 DATE: February 6-7, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER
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for the University of Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's input on LBJ's decision-making; Dr. Everett Givens; Texas friends who kept LBJ updated on 10th District events and opinions; LBJ's efforts to balance his time in Texas and Washington, D.C., during his campaign; 1946
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Lady Bird Johnson

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 2 (II), 1/6/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

influence." I said, "How much influence does Lady Bird have on you, Mr. President, may I ask?" He said, "You're a sassy lass, aren't you?" times nagging does more harm than good." are. I said, "You know, some- And he said, "How right you It makes me so

Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know enough to really have an opinion. F: Now the girls started, of course, in this national limelight as bare teenagers and grew to young ladies during that period. Did they develop, along with their mother, independent tastes and pretty positive
Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; social relationship; selection clothes for Lady Bird; inaugural clothes; Lady Bird as a dutiful and cost conscious wife; 1965 inaugural festivities; Mrs. Angier Biddle; Lady Bird’s image; Women’s Wear

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, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, it would be on very short notice, but she [Lady Bird] accustomed herself to it very, very well--to everything very, very well, because you can imagine the change in her life from the quiet way in which she was brought up. G: Would he normally call

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, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

in the White House and out and entertained any Johnson who happened to be in London. We are deeply, deeply devoted to Lady Bird as I was to the President. Lady Bird is my icon. If I could attain any element of her greatness I would be very proud. M: You

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

remember that he came out and shushed We were a little too noisy out there in the courtyard. In any event Lyndon and Lady Bird and her bridesmaid whose name I can't remember did arrive and we went into the church. P: And this was in the evening time? H

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, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

a relieved way and began to file out. People looked a little pitying. But we were laughing. Lady Bird said to both of us, she took my hand and Petey's, "Thank you for being so nice about it." Well, we really hadn't been at all. She went out, and Luci

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

) Lady Bird Johnson spent a great deal of her time trying to understand her husband and trying to support his ideas and ambitions, rather than trying to dictate her own ideas and ambitions. She looked for evidence each day to support what he was trying
Vietnam policy; post-presidency contacts and work with LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ State Park; Hubert Humphrey's 1968 Texas campaign; LBJ's role in politics in post-presidency period

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, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

on the courthouse lawns, and schoolhouses, and I remember in some places that the men sat on one side of the room and the ladies on the other. That's how antiquated they were. And here I was, a lady running for the state senate! But I got a lot of respect from them

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-weather coat, but very finished looking. Kennedy. It was such a contrast with Mrs. Then we saw Johnson get off. and Lady Bird. I felt so sorry for him The only time he smiled in that whole occasion was [when] he saw Sally and he said, "Hello, Sally

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

: August 1994 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: HARRY MIDDLETON PLACE: Martha's Vineyard Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 M: Oral history, Lady Bird Johnson, year 1955. Mrs. Johnson, the big event of that year, obviously, was the President's heart
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; family and staff who helped with Lynda and Luci while Lady Bird Johnson stayed with LBJ at the hospital; LBJ's relationship with his siblings; LBJ's health causing him to miss the signing of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) treaty
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
Lady Bird Johnson

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, Kitty Mae Wirtz, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

younger. See, Lyndon was up working, and Bird had gotten two degrees at the University when they married. M: Oh, I see. W: But anyway, they were close friends. Of course, I was a whole lot older, but we were together quite a bit. Lady Bird had

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/loh/oh 25 any quote that he wasn't interested in second place. But a few nights before that, we'd had some Texans out to a little barbeque including Lyndon and Bird and a group of mutual friends; and of course it came up then. And Lyndon said he
campaign; ambition; Johnson treatment; LBJ’s acceptance of the VP nomination; LBJ’s problem with public media communication; Lady Bird; Luci and Lynda; Lady Bird’s influence on the LBJ’s decision not to run; thoughtfulness of the Johnsons; LBJ’s major

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in it for conunercial p\_1rposes. 11 problem. This was a constant You have such things as real estate firms in San Antonio adver tising Lady Bird houses, almost as though she'd put some kind of beautification stamp of approval on them. F: Jackson and Perkins
Jenkins; evaluation of LBJ’s press secretaries; break between Moyers and LBJ; George Christian; Lady Bird as a business manager; LBJ’s love of giving gifts; communication between Lady Bird and Jackie Kennedy.

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

job. Now, that's awful embarrassing to Charlie to think that he's being fired because he d idn' t do a good job. II Homer bit for it. Lyndon met us at the airport, picked us up. Lady Bird hadn't gotten to Washington, so we all went to Lyndon's

Oral history transcript, Victor Jaeggli, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

beautiful wildflowers along our highway right-of-ways in the state. I'm sure Lady Bird had a lot to do with this, too, because she was very interested in this very same thing. G: She certainly became well identified with it later. J: Yes, she surely did

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