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Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Hollers; LBJ's rally in Austin's Woolridge Park where he dispelled rumors regarding his personal finances; LBJ's investments; LBJ's efforts to maintain military establishments in his congressional district; Lady Bird Johnson's role in the 1946 campaign
  • --contracts for Lady Bird's father, Mr. [T. J.] Taylor, with the federal government, and Mr. Johnson hadn't done that. He wasn't anything but a congressman. How could he be effective over in East Texas in getting the federal government to do something
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • How Rather went to work for LBJ; LBJ's work on National Youth Administration (NYA) projects on the West Coast before shipping out with the navy in World War II; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in photography, movie-making and drama; Rather's
  • Naval Affairs Committee work, was something that I hardly knew anything about. The Naval Affairs Committee had its own staff. I only know that he did go to the West Coast, that Lady Bird either went with him or joined him out there but didn't stay very
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • personnel; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Carl Vinson, the Naval Affairs Committee Chair; the Big Inch pipeline; how Lady Bird Johnson got the money to buy the KTBC radio station; Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie Pattillo; LBJ's early talk of buying a small
  • . On the second floor there was their bedroom and then two smaller bedrooms for the girls and a tiny room--not a tiny room, but a small room that Lady Bird used as her office. She had her desk in there and she kept up with her correspondence and her business from
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ's growing popularity throughout the state of Texas in the 1940s; work in LBJ's congressional office; LBJ's 1944 congressional opponent, Buck Taylor; efforts by oil men to defeat Sam Rayburn; Lynda Bird Johnson's birth and her name; LBJ's love
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- VI -- 9 Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was as president. They asked me to come to the Ranch and see them. And he said to me--and I do remember this very, very distinctly--Lady Bird had gone over to the--it might have been Christmas time. She had gone over to the Moursunds. The Moursunds were having
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, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • decision to enter active military duty following the attack on Pearl Harbor; how LBJ's office was run with Lady Bird Johnson's help during LBJ's deployment; life in Washington D.C. during World War II; LBJ's involvement in the Naval Affairs Committee
  • about, and she would talk to people who were in charge of that. It was not easy for her because it was something she wasn't used to doing. She's a very modest lady and a very smart lady, and she did it well, but I mean she felt like, "What am I doing