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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Time Period > Presidential (Nov. 22, 1963-Jan. 20, 1969) (remove)
  • Subject > LBJ Ranch (remove)

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  • ? D: Well, you remember at the outset of our conversation, I said I thought I could give you some human interest stories about the President, so let me back up. Over a period of many, many months, the period that I refer to as supplying goodies
  • didn't wake him up, let him sleep about two or three hours, and of course he needed the rest very bad. I always remember the table down there where he got massaged and he slept. Around a health club there's a good deal of conversation, you know
  • , "Could I have yOI.!r attention, please?" and conversing. And I said a little They went on eating Finally, I shouted out in my best Texas voice, "Simmer down!" And they did. I emceed very much like I did the other functions at the ranch, very
  • into Lyndon Johnson? G: It was shortly after I came to Texas in '55. I first ran across him through conversation before actually seeing him in the flesh; and I think for the record I should tell the story of the first real confrontation with the reality
  • but was seldom seen in anger. He loved to sit down on the front proch of his farm home, read the Bible or the newspaper or converse with some guests. His Gillespie County farm home is now owned by his illustrious grandson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and is one