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

--and I don't know just quite when it was; perhaps I'll run across it in the year 1960 or 1961--but at one point, I joined Mary Martin in christening--I think it was the first big jet of a whole family of jets, at Dallas. M: I think that will come up

of the military by civil authorities, and the president is the commander-in-chief. However, anything that produced that much division in the country he deplored. G: Did he have any advance warning, do you know, of the letter that Joe Martin released
and friends' children getting married; buying the Ranch property from LBJ's Aunt Frank Martin and plans to improve it; Senator Alvin Wirtz' death.

it all ready to go, and they slammed the gate shut on any further discussion of licenses, is the way I remembered it. He just wanted to get it judged to whether he could have the license or not, and then he would take his chances. Martin Winfrey and Tony

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

and liked very much, Mr. Hiram King, who was a vice president of Sinclair Oil, had written some of his friends up there to take these two young girls out. This time we were 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Johnson's financial difficulties; the relationship between LBJ and his father; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; Mrs. Johnson's trip with LBJ to San Marcos, the King Ranch, and Corpus Christi; the Kleberg family, including Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg, Richard

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)

chief of state, for instance, let's say the King of Nepal1 s son was going to Harvard and we had him downon LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

. But Cousin Nat called everybody in the whole wide world his cousin. He was from deep East Texas and sort of a professional East Texan. I remember when the King and Queen, King George and Queen Elizabeth of England, came. There was a big reception--I think

he could satisfy all of that wide range of philosophies, bind them together, make a team that could do a good job out of those forty-seven highly individual, "every man's a king" senators. Somebody told him--I wouldn't be surprised if it were Russell

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, a handsome étagère or something from her house, because gradually, gradually I was wanting to make home a more beautiful place. One of the fantastic dinners at the White House they had us to was the King and Queen of Nepal with unpronounceable names

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in San Marcos. Remember, you stopped there on your way down to the King Ranch? You said it was a rather modest house, but do you remember [any details]? J: It was a modest frame house, Victorian, as I recall. San Marcos was a center where a lot

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- III -- 26 the lobbyists as well. One of her friends, Mr. Hiram King, was a lobbyist for Sinclair Oil. He used to take her to dinner, and he got into the habit of taking her

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