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Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Knowlton's military background; working in the office of Secretary of the General Staff, Harold K. Johnson, in the mid-1960s; Knowlton joining Joe Califano's staff when Califano was special assistant to the secretary and, later, deputy secretary of…
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Nixon’s assessment of LBJ in the late 1950’s; JFK’s selection of LBJ as a running mate; LBJ’s failure to understand or relate to the press; attempts to manipulate the press; press’ attitude toward LBJ; Vice-Presidential trip to India and…
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Ketchum’s early days in Washington D.C. and early contact with the Johnsons; Mrs. Johnson’ interest in the history of the White House; Mrs. Johnson’s sense of humor; Mrs. Johnson’s encounter with Eartha Kitt at the Women Doers’ Luncheon;…
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Keith's military service with the Merchant Marines and the U.S. Marine Corps in Korea; Keith's marriage; how Keith went to work for Judge Harry Blackmun; Blackmun becoming a Supreme Court justice; Keith becoming a state…
Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger
Career history as a photographer; Kaufman's work in Dallas covering Lee Harvey Oswald after the John F. Kennedy assassination; covering LBJ at the LBJ Ranch while staying in a Stonewall hotel; LBJ's recovery from gallbladder surgery; finding the…
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter
Biographical information; how the U.S. government can help people despite its budgetary constraints; politics interfering with Congress doing what is best for the people; why Jordan left Congress and her future interest in politics; Jordan's career…
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes
First contact with LBJ; attending meeting at the White House to discuss legislation; early impressions of LBJ; election to the Texas Senate; service on income maintenance; commission; introducing LBJ at Houston fundraiser; LBJ’s help in her race…
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
Townsend Hoopes; LBJ’s decision-making; LBJ’s relationship with Dean Rusk and Ramsey Clark; Clark Clifford; the relationship between LBJ and his staff; Spring 1968 turnaround in attitudes regarding Vietnam among LBJ’s staff; General William…
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Starting work for Marvin Watson; Jones’ work responsibilities; logging White House calls; LBJ cutting expenses; turning off the lights at the White House; reviewing FBI reports on prospective hires/appointees; LBJ’s desire to appear honest and…
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Career history; early advance work; meeting W. Marvin Watson; meeting LBJ and getting advice on how to be a good employee; working on the Whistle Stop Tour; LBJ’s ability to size people up and communicate effectively; LBJ staffs’ youth; LBJ staff…
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny
LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; Martin Luther King’s death and LBJ’s view of King; LBJ on civil rights; open housing bill; trip to Chicago 4/1/68; the idea of moving the Democratic National Convention from Chicago;…
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; meeting LBJ through the National Youth Administration (NYA) and Dr. J. Willis Hurst; Jones' work to develop Emory University's health services, including its medical school; Jones' work on the National Advisory Health…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
Congress in 1957; Senator Ralph Yarborough; moving KTBC to the Driskill Hotel; Mary Margaret Wiley joining LBJ's staff; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Rebekah Johnson's visits to Washington, D.C., her interests and hobbies; LBJ teasing Glynn Stegall;…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
Interviewing Henry Blackburn for a LBJ Ranch foreman position; LBJ's interest in running for president in 1960; Bill Moyers' work style; purchasing a building to house KTBC and an apartment for the Johnsons; decorator Genevieve Hendricks; income from…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's election as Senate minority leader in 1953; the small numerical difference between majority and minority parties in the 1953 Senate; committee assignments; the Johnsons' social life in early 1953; the Eisenhower inauguration and related events;…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
1952 trips to Texas to oversee LBJ Ranch house renovations; Max Brooks and Marcus Burg's involvement with the Ranch house; decorating the Ranch; visitors to the Johnson home in Washington, D.C.; the Johnsons' relationship with the Melvin Winters and…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Carpooling with Lynda to Ben Murch Elementary School in Washington, D.C.; Lynda and Luci's physical appearances; organizing the Texas ladies' luncheon in Washington, D.C.; socializing with other members of the Texas delegation; Doris Fleeson; Lady…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's 1946 campaign and schedule of campaign activities; Gene Autry campaigning with LBJ; criticism after LBJ shook hands with African-American constituents; Wooldridge Park gatherings for food and political speech-making; the women's division of the…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
A January 1945 dinner for Grover Sellers at the Johnsons' home; Franklin Roosevelt's 1945 inauguration; the relationship between Senator Alvin Wirtz and Secretary Harold Ickes; the Johnsons' relationship with the Henry Wallace family; LBJ's work on…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Closing up LBJ's Senate campaign headquarters after the 1941 loss; trip to New York City with Gene Boehringer Lasseter to see Van Cliburn; the political importance of postmasters; LBJ's involvement in the extension of Selective Service and the draft;…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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;…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Political issues of 1939; where the Johnsons lived; the Johnsons' friends; raising the height of the Marshall Ford Dam; the extension of Rural Electric Association lines and building of the Pedernales Electric Co-op in Johnson City; Lady Bird…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton
LBJ's opinion of accepting the vice-presidential nomination; how Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ's closest supporters felt about LBJ accepting the vice-presidential nomination; LBJ's activities immediately after the Democratic National Convention; trip to…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton
A Theta Sigma Phi breakfast in 1960; the Ladies for Lyndon movement; the Johnson daughters' activities; Luci's interest in religion; preparing for LBJ's political rise; public speaking; the Johnsons' connection to St. David's Episcopal Church in…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette
Senator Robert Taft stepping down as Senate majority leader in 1953 and later dying; the Texas drought; LBJ's travel throughout Texas in the summer of 1953; C. T. McLaughlin; Mrs. Ben Powell; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to improve her public speaking…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Furniture for the LBJ Ranch; living at the Ranch for the first time in the summer of 1952; LBJ's legislative work in 1952, including military waste and tidelands; the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago; controversy surrounding…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Hiring Gene and Helen Williams and their job duties; Lady Bird Johnson's massages; Sugar Pickle's health; Jac Gubbel's assistance in landscaping the LBJ Ranch and Mr. Erb's help with the trees and yard work; hiring a foreman for the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's 1949-1950 concern over the rising cost of defense; LBJ's work on the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee; Lynda's first grade school in Austin; Austin family activities, like dance classes and visiting friends; LBJ's travel and social events…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
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, such as the Senate…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Campaign strategies for the second 1948 primary against Coke Stevenson; voter support from the 10th District throughout LBJ's political career; Stevenson's weaknesses; political organization among women in Texas; seeking the votes of George Peddy and…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
A women's rally to organize LBJ's 1948 Senate campaign while LBJ was still at the Mayo Clinic; arranging for LBJ to campaign while traveling by helicopter; what it was like to campaign by helicopter; LBJ's efforts to plan for the future; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's involvement with the Naval Affairs Committee in 1943 and efforts to stop absenteeism in navy jobs; food rationing in World War II; how life in the United States changed during WWII; attitudes toward military service; German-American…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Returning to Washington, D.C. from Texas in January 1941; LBJ's hospitalization for pneumonia; LBJ's visitors during his hospitalization, including the Marshes; socializing with Decca Romilly and Virginia and Clifford Durr; anticipation of World War…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Driving from Texas to Washington, D.C. with LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; the Columbia Road apartment the Johnsons rented in Washington, D.C. in 1938; taking Rebekah Johnson to a congressional reception hosted by President and Mrs. Franklin…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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.…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's early congressional and senate campaigns; Governor James V. Allred's support for LBJ's 1937 congressional campaign to succeed James P. Buchanan; LBJ's opponents in the campaign; 1937 campaign strategy and contributors to the campaign; LBJ's…