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Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with LBJ; San Antonio leaders; advance work; oil support; Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ and Coke Stevenson; the Taft-Hartley issue; LBJ's treatment of staff; women in campaign; spending nights at Dillman Street at time of the election; impressions of frenzied

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and get something to eat and maybe change your shirt and get over there . About eleven or eleven-thirty lady Bird would come in with coffee and cake for all of us . G: If you disagreed with him on something like that, was he responsive to this? B

Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have that background. B: I was working at McCall's magazine with Lynda Bird. She and I became good friends, and I came to Washington several times. I was in her wedding, and I got to know the family pretty well. One day her father called me

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

executive; withdrawal from office; Cater’s resignation and campaigning for HHH; impressions of Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

at the request of Mr. Johnson. And even the simplest question, "Is Lady Bird going to the hospital?" he'd say, "Well, I'll have to find out about that." Well, you know, that stuff. who knew about all this, I think did a very good job. is always difficult

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

heard that. J: I know you haven't. There's a hell of a lot that Lady Bird never heard, or Lyndon never--and I'm not making it up, because I used to sit for hours with Lyndon, talking about it. But it's a fact. You can go check when he finally

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, Laurel, Hattiesburg and on down into Poplarville I remember and maybe two or three other places. F: Did you get a good reception? s: Yes, yes, we had the band and everything. years It was a real campaign. later, Lady Bird came down and I met her

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. That's the way I size it up. most powerful influence. I'm not too sure which of those is the I daresay that in a decision like this I know that Lyndon Johnson would have instinctively reached out for the opinion of Lady Bird. He always has in moments

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was in the doghouse and I had to overcome the little things, but I thought the world of him. Once he came up there with Lady Bird; he brought her out there. She was as cute as anybody I ever saw. G: When did he come out there? H: 1936. He had a new Pontiac and he

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was, to me, of the highest caliber. a dedicated American. I believe him to be a good American, I think his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, is one of the most charming women I have ever met. I think she, too, was an excellent companion for him and a woman who

Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that he did. I didn't know much about it if he did. You see, Lady Bird had a radio station, and Lyndon didn't want anyone LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would you describe President Johnson's interest in these health issues? M: Well I think that--I don't know how interested he was before he had the heart attack but one time I went to see him and I went to see Lady Bird, and I maybe heard what the heart

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

advised against it, but nevertheless he was doing it, and he did. He signed it in my presence. We talked about--I've forgotten, a lot of different things. Lady Bird talked to me about conflicts of interest, whether or not she could rightly accept presents

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as I can remember, in addition Bird and Lyndon would both come- we would have a big party and usually the guests at all these the hired help at the LBJ Ranch were among the cook and oh, three or parties each year . And that would include his name, I

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Biographical information; Jesse Jones; Charles Marshall; Alvin Wirtz; LCAR; LBJ's personality; war years; LBJ and business; vice presidency; presidency; Vietnam; the Great Society; education; retirement; Lady Bird Johnson

Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or in the Executive Office Building Lady Bird became quite concerned because that was on her budget. He said he told her that he fed us good only once; not to worry, that it was inexpensive, that he fed us well only once and that it was very meager. M: He wanted us

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. He didn't appear in Nebraska very much, but every member of the cabinet did, and Lady Bird was out a time or two. G: One more question about the Bobby Baker thing in here on the Kennedy Administration. Did you ever get the impression

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Robb, Lynda Bird, 1944-
is another division was in Johnson City, held a meeting and the Vice President was, in her words, quite smitten with a young lady there in town and she happened to be a member of that church . And he escorted her to the revival every night, Brush Arbor

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Can we decipher my note on Lynda Bird and civil rights? W: Yes. F: You just said ask you about it later. I hated to give up those good cigars. I think what I might have talked to you about is one time- 19 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Anything else on the budget discussions that is memorable? C: The only thing I remember [inaudible]-- G: Then you had lunch. C: I just don't remember the lunch. I see it. I had lunch with the President. Was Lady Bird there? G: Yes, Mrs. Johnson. C

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know we used to say the only person LBJ trusts is Lady Bird and her only 90 per cent of the time. But I think in that context

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. We had passed highway beautification the year before but Lady Bird was bananas about junk autos. And you know you'd see all those automobiles piled on the side of the road and he wanted us to figure out some way to get us into the business of how you

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as well in that regard? C: Well, you know I used to say, I don't think he trusted anyone except Lady Bird and her only 90 per cent of the time. But I think, sure, he would not trust a guy like J. Edgar Hoover, just instinctively wouldn't trust him. He'd

Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with than Governor Barnett, was he not? E: No, I got along all right with both of them. I had supported both of them. F: Did you ride that Lady Bird Special in the fall of '64? E: Yes. F: Tell me what that was like as you went through Mississippi

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: No. As a matter of fact, Johnson had a train that year like we had four years later when we had the Lady Bird Special--that was in the '64 campaign--and he whistle-stopped all the way down to New Orleans. 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

where they were--little birds--it began to hit me. They're not going to be there long. This is not where they want to be. Well, right after the 1948 campaign the great depopulation of 239 of the Texas counties began, you depopulated about that many

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there that day, his brothers and sisters, including his sister from Fredericksburg that later died, I believe. Well, Sam Johnson wasn't there, I don't believe, and Mrs. Johnson had not got home. Washington, Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson. She was still in But anyway

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

but that was really an escape valve to free him for the big decisions. I remember. . . . These are just personal observations. I called him a real bird because he was a uniquely humorous person. Did I mention about Wong, the Chinaman, on the other tape? F: No. J

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

split four ways. I remember he got a million and a half for the first book. I think the others only commanded a hundred thousand apiece or something like that. So I worked on that during this period. I do believe I worked on Lady Bird's book later. I

Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Lyndon would bring Lady Bird with him most of the time, and this would be when we clang it up with a banquet . The way we'd conduct them, there were no speeches ; you merely introduced all your congressman guests, your Department of Labor guests, your

Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

come because they were in such grief, he and Lady Bird. So I got the Senator to get on the line and call the Vice President down in Texas. I'll never forget that conversation either because Lyndon was explaining how wrought he was. G: What did he say

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. Am I correct? J: That's correct. M: In our last session, we had gone through your earliest part of contact with Mr. Johnson and the Johnson family. This was in 1964. You had told me about the campaign and advancing the Lady Bird tour. We had

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

pay your expenses; we'll pay the fare. We just want you to come down here.” I'd forgotten I had an engagement Easter Sunday. I had to do the commentary on a fashion show at the Plaza Hotel on a ladies' hat show, Easter bonnet parade at the Plaza. So I

Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and was standing in a kind of small sitting room place with Lady Bird and I think Lynda, it may have been Luci--one of the daughters. Whichever daughter it was stamped her foot and said, "Daddy makes me so mad when he does that!" I mean, he had obviously just been

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

There may very well have been other things. Go back to this business of Johnson's progressivism. I have never known, but I have always had the belief that Johnson very quietly voted for Dr. Homer Rainey in 1946. that. Lady Bird would know. I have

Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had every kind of problem. We first had to agree to selected categories for the Johnson photograph file. Some of those headings could not be repeated in the subject file because they were such as animals, birds, bill and treaty signings. Then we