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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of what a congressman does, small bits of service to the people back home that are not small to them. They matter a lot. Also one of the main jobs that women did--you asked me about the women's division--was to divide up the telephone book of the major
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • all those books about how if you always told the truth you'd be all right. So lid say, "Oh, no sir, I don't have to go to bed till eight o'clock." And one time I was brash enough--I was in a conversation with the Speaker, it was maybe at the Ranch
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was coming to Washington. She wrote down his name and address on a slip of paper, and I think perhaps his telephone number, too, and put it in my purse and said, "Now you take that out and you call him when you get there. He's going to be expecting you." I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the Tenth Congressional District chairman of the women's division. So they had a big meeting. I believe it took place in the Austin Hotel. Lyndon talked to them, by telephone, from Mayo's. Of course Marietta presided and Mrs. Sam Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the White House for the army and navy and met lots of admirals and generals and saw exotic Mrs. [James] Forrestal there. One of the interesting things that happened in those days was to go to dinner at the Bob Kintners, Bob and Jean. The conversation
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , I talked, I didn't run. M: But you were conversant with the business of the-- J: Yes, yes. I had evaluations of all the people. Crazy about some, didn't like others so well. And in those days, seems to me that the natural gas bill and offshore
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or telephone bill or a purchase of furniture going back to heavens knows when, at least I had them until not long ago. G: So you managed the finances, in other words? J: Indeed I did, all of that, the income and the outgo, and around time for the income tax
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the Big Inch pipeline that went all the way from my own East Texas way up somewhere into Illinois was completed. It was a lot of topic of conversation in our house. G: We really don't have much on the President's attitude toward the Big Inch. I know
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Arkansas right down to Texas, and believe me, there were plenty. My Aunt Effie sat there beaming from ear to ear and just soaking it all up, because she loved a good conversation. The Civil War was right back where her ancestors had played a part, and she
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a problem of one constituent on the telephone to the letter that was next up on my desk when I finished. It was straining. By the time we finally left the office, which might be eight-thirty, nine, nine-thirty, to go out to dinner, I wanted somebody else
  • . Cecil Evans; Allred's Senate loss to W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel; time spent relaxing at the National Youth Administration building on Buchanan Dam; LBJ's fried egg breakfast being interrupted by telephone calls; the Johnsons' house at 4921 Thirtieth Place
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • built by Saturday night, and this was on a Tuesday or something like that. But we kept the yard full of deck chairs and had lights strung, and there were many happy summer gatherings out there, and a telephone placed handy in a tree. G: Now were
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and their conversations. Except in a few brilliant cases, the conversation among the women was not nearly as fascinating, and I was always glad to stick around with the men. G: Did they argue? J: In a good-natured fashion, yes. In an exchange of banter, and no doubt
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the University? J: No. I persevered in French, but I can't say it was very fruitful, because it never was conversational, and it just has to be that way. I think the least fruitful course I ever took was chemistry. That seems a shame, too, because there's got
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not all stag. I was included in some--I remember, with Abe and Carol Fortas and Bill Douglas, and many times of good conversation. The New Deal, although battered in some respects and the clouds of war already gathering over us, they were a mighty vigorous
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XLII -- 10 instance, telephone service to talk to him, or so it was said. She lived, I believe, at Wardman Park Hotel, in a reasonably modest suite
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in conversation with Earl Browder, who was the head of the Communist Party. Wasn't that the election in which he was also defeated, do you recall? G: Yes. He was. Let's talk some more about the California election. Did LBJ do anything to help Helen Gahagan
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • the hospital for any length of time. I did call them on the telephone and talk to them, every day. I got Willie Day Taylor, God bless her; she was already my great reliance with the children. She was on Lyndon's staff. She had been married, years earlier
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think it's really just a matter of concentration, of wanting to do it, and perhaps calling the person's name two or three times in the conversation after you've just met him helps to fix it in your mind. G: How good at it was he? Was he pretty
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and he liked him very much, but he never could understand his South Carolina accent. They would just go through a whole conversation, which Lyndon didn't understand, or so he said. Maybank was a member of an aristocratic, old South Carolina family, as I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the Mayflower. G: Would you get together a lot with him in the evenings? J: Yes, yes. His coming was always an opportunity for a good dinner and good conversation, in which women were included, although we did not participate too much in the conversation
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or a small group of people to be with him and have long conversations, and Lyndon sought out those times. One stopped and changed and spent a while in St. Louis, and they early had good friends there who would come join them at the station. G: Also
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • only speak English and that I think was a big drawback. It is one of the things that is a very sizeable asset to be able to converse in two or three languages. And also I argued against and felt sorry about the fact that those poor Chiefs of State
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he ventured to call upon him and had a lengthy conversation in which he impressed the old gentleman. But Lyndon always had a lot of respect for older men, successful men in the field in which he was interested. He wanted to learn from them, and he got
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ; could take dictation lickety-split, and the fact that he was a man made him all right to be in Lyndon's bedroom at twelve, one, two, taking shorthand and, you know, avoid a lot of conversation that you didn't need to have on the part of opponents
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of conversation and bantering exchange, and planning, and social events were very much a scene of conducting business, too. Also in the early spring, in April, the Johnsons had a party, those non-party goers or givers. We really had a great big fancy, beautiful
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . We'd go to dinner with the Bill Whites, or down to Speaker Rayburn's quarters, where the conversation was unparalleled, and the food came over from across the street from a good cafe. He was a natural host, the Speaker was. We actually that year went
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • thought he was her friend, and she was annoyed when Lyndon wanted to monopolize the conversation with him, because she wanted to. (Laughter) I think it is the only time I ever saw Lyndon spank her, is when he was trying to get her to leave the room and let
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was certainly one of the most time-consuming and heatedly argued things of several years, but you well remember all about it. But it filled the newspapers and it filled the Texans' conversation. I remember going down to the Supreme Court one day and sitting
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for the pleasure of a conversational meal. But I never really made a sale. He said, "If you had worked your way through school like I did, in full college course, four years in two and a half years, and carried a forty-hour work week," then he'd rattle off all
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of the southern senators, and he just thought it's just going to be better for them if finally, now, when we are within grasp, we fail to rise to it. Just on that basis, just on the basis [of] his conversations with me, he thought it was best for the South