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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

downtown Boston at lunch hour. his and was the first woman. I wa s in the car immediately behind I was dressed up with white gloves on, and lots of people thought that I was Lady Bird just because I was there, so I had a marvelous time waving. But he

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

here from 1947. It says here that Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie died on New Year's night of 1947 and she was very depressed about that. Do you recall anything of that? W: Well, that aunt raised Lady Bird from the time she was five or six years old. She

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

1963 Northern Europe trip; photo session with Lady Bird in Helsinki; talking about the Finnish War; LBJ's visit with Mrs. Seppala's father; estimate of LBJ as a subject for photographs; gentlemanly qualities and courteousness of LBJ
there and I got a call from Liz Carpenter. She said, "Kurt, Mrs. Lady Bird would like you to come down and see her." So I immediately went down to their suite of rooms, and there was Mrs. Johnson resting on the bed and she had curlers in her hair. She

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

yes, she's first-rate in every way . M: Do you have any opinion on how she played her role as First Lady? B: I thought she was great, myself . I might have been prejudiced . think everybody who knew Lady Bird admired her . I I don't know

Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and Senator John Stennis; Evers as NAACP field director; work for education; housing; employment; Ramsey Clark; Lady Bird's Dixie tour; federal programs in Mississippi; friends Charles Percy of Illinois and Nelson Rockefeller of New York; SNCC; CORE; SCLC
that we didn't have too much to worry about. And Ramsey was even tougher than his dad was. F: Ramsey looked like one of those thin reeds up there. But you never could break him. E: Right. F: Did you get in on that Dixie tour that Lady Bird made

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

things succeed? B: It was a part of both . It was a family organization, number one, but each of us was assigned particular duties . the state . I was finance officer for At this time, Lyndon and Lady Bird lived out on San Gabriel Street in Bob

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the atomic bomb weren't nearly as well kept. I doubt if even Lady Bird could have given you a good guess. I had an idea that he might go for somebody like Gene McCarthy, seeing that the Catholic vote had become a very important factor and that I don't think

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Castro; Committee for National Health Insurance; beautification stamps; 1968 campaign; dedication of Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park in Fredricksburg; Laurance Rockefeller and Mrs. Aston; how to spread beautification around a city.
daffodils in what is now Lady Bird Johnson Park. Altogether over 1,110,000 daffodils were planted, about 2500 dogwood trees were also planted, and we're planting a few more dogwood trees this fall and in the spring to fill out the gaps. So I hope

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

apartment there at--oh, I think it was Kalorama Road was what it was. Lady Bird had one and he had one. Lyndon. And his car. He had two cars; So we went down. So here comes Gene Latimer, one of the boys, I got him a job with the Federal Housing

Oral history transcript, Ralph Moreland, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

on Airport; LBJ’s feeling for business; KTBC; LBJ’s staff; guest in June 1969 at the Ranch; LBJ’s feelings regarding Nixon’s economic policies; conversation with LBJ regarding deer; impressions of Lady Bird; invitation to Scharnhorst Ranch to hunt; contact
Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MORELAND -- I -- 5 all seriousness. Mc: I always heard that Lady Bird was a good businesswoman, too. Did you ever have any contact with her in business matters? M

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Relationship with LBJ in Congressman Kleberg's office in 1933; airline regulations; LBJ's election to Congress in 1937; Senate campaign in 1941 and 1948; 1956 Democratic Convention; 1960 campaign with JFK; influence of Lady Bird Johnson on LBJ's
highways are a monument to his [Lyndon Johnson's] vision and that of his lovely wife, Lady Bird . M: Excuse me a moment, do you recall having any impressions about young Mr . Johnson at that time? B: Yes, I thought that he was one of the most

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that. Bird ran that, and Mary Rather. All right. Lady Now, Jim Forrestal was under secretary of the navy and [Frank] Knox was secretary of the navy. You know, he was a Republican from Chicago. And Roosevelt had made [Henry] Stimson, a Republican

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for the program to begin, what I didn't know was that the President was upstairs in the Mansion. Lady Bird was in Texas. He was alone, and this was significant. Lady Bird, I think, played a very important role in his life. But he was alone and looking at me out

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that. Yes. What was your role in that? Johnson. I am very fond of Lady Bird In the first place, I think she is a person of great charm, and [she has] an exquisite sense of words and the best judgment about human affairs that I can think of. judge. She

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

African-Americans and the poor; "make work" projects; roadside parks; 1937 campaign; Uncle George; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; LBJ as Deason's best man; Hardy Hollers campaign in 1946; Lady Bird's business interest in her radio station, KVET; application
it was called secretary--same job. F: Did you ever see the secretary or administrative assistant in Washington during that period? D: Yes, I made one trip up here and visited with him; stayed, of course, in the little apartment that he and Lady Bird lived

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

alone with Liz's lovely young secretary in the Brinkerhoff Lodge and it wouldn't do, for obvious reasons; so I told Liz about this. I said, "I'm going to get one of the press ladies to chaperone us, because I don't want to compromise Lynn's virtue. If I

Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

district of Denver; Boyhood Home legislation; role of Lady Bird with National Park Service Advisory Review Commission; appointment of son (Owen Aspinall) as governor of Samoa; island elections of governors; Saline Water Bill; National Park System and Wild
Thornberry, had been taking up Lady Bird's time, and pretty soon he yelled over to Judge Thornberry, "Homer, you've been sitting by Lady Bird long enough. You make way for ltJayne." And I went over and sat LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Who else was there? Lady Bird, Watson, [Larry] O'Brien some of the time, about just how to organize and how to get started. G: Was there a general strategy for 1968? R

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

philosophy. What I'm looking for is the conflict involved there that throws everybody off. That he really manufactured and--I don't know how we can analyze it, but the thing is that he was an insecure person. He even sent those girls and Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

How Shoumatoff became a presidential portrait painter; planning with Mrs. Johnson the portraits of FDR, LBJ and Mrs. Johnson for the White House; painting portraits of LBJ, Luci and Lynda Bird; process of painting: photographs, sketches, number
interviewed so many people, I've seen a lot of people who weren't friendly to Johnson-S: Oh, did you really? F: Yes, but invariably they always say nice things about Lady Bird Johnson. I haven't found a real critic yet, and that in itself is quite

Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

president of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation; organizing LBJ's and Lady Bird Johnson's 1964 visits to Atlanta; the 1964 Lady Bird Special campaign train trip; Jones' interest in returning to government work; a cancer and heart disease report

Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: No, no way. T: I can hear Homer, turn around and said--and he would have asked Lady Bird--"Is there room for them to spend the night, so that we can take off early in the morning?" G: So there wasn't any conversation between LBJ and Mr. Teague? T: None

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to it that I know it." I'm not saying she did it or who did, but someone did. So Sunday night Lady Bird called me and said, "Sam Houston, Lyndon and I want you to come and be here and stay with us. II I sai d, "Oh, Bird, that's awful thoughtful and I

Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

lawyers, we didn't know a damn thing. I didn't know anything that was going on. But after the vote was taken, then that broke that up, and I never shall forget, I walked over and spoke to Lyndon and he and Lady Bird. Lyndon said, "Now, damn it, you

Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)

. Johnson. You have to give Mrs. Johnson credit for the beautification of Town Lake. It's been my ambition to see that that lake is someday not named Town Lake but named Lake Lady Bird. LBJ is responsible for all the lakes--where the LCRA [Lower Colorado

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

educated really by him, having known our father He was extremely strict. day a different language at the table. He insisted that we speak every I went to a convent called the Convent of the Birds; it was called Les Oiseaux, which sounds funny in English

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
, 1977 INTERVIEWEES: Lady Bird Johnson [CTJ] , O. B. Hardeman [OBH], Ralph Huitt [RH], Lindy Boggs [LB], J. J. Pickle [JJP], Lynda Robb [LR], Luci Nugent [LN], Dean Reid [DR], Patsy Steves CPS], Carl Albert rCA], Beryl Pickle [BP], Richard Neustadt [RN

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

1964, 1968; Lady Bird; LBJ as President
://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Lady Bird on a personal basis, a social basis. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh It extended to the children; Lindy

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

nomination; Lady Bird Johnson being spat on at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas; the 1952 presidential campaign; LBJ's career in the 1950s; Allan Shivers and his relationship with Rayburn; Rayburn turning down the vice presidential nomination in 1944 and how
for lunch, I went to the Adolphus Hotel. [Grover] Sellers from Sulphur Springs, ex-[Texas] attorney general, and I were standing on the ledge just before you go into the ballroom, and the lobby was full of Democratic women. Lyndon and Lady Bird were coming

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lady Bird Johnson's social life in Marshall and Jefferson, Texas; Jay Gould's efforts to bring the railroad through Jefferson and Marshall; Mrs. Johnson's experience riding a bicycle; writing articles for the Marshall Parrot; the African-American
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Lady Bird Johnson
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007
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, 1977 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 3 G: When we stopped yesterday, I was going to ask you a little about your social life prior to going to St. Mary's. Would

Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

met Lady Bird, and she took to her very much, a very warm relationship. And then I didn't see him until I began to consult with him on the White House Conference and so forth. M: All right. Some place in here you were involved in the White House

Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; LBJ's relationship to his staff; LBJ's burial; Ziegler's function in the NYA; LBJ's interest in roadside parks; LBJ's admiration of FDR; relationship between LBJ and Alvin Wirtz; 1941 Senate campaign; Lady Bird as an asset to LBJ's political career; 1960

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Knudsen and I, and Abbie Rowe as the case may be, we went back into our usual routine of coverage. Bob continued to cover the ladies, Luci and Lynda and Lady Bird, and I would cover the Office of the President. it went, back to normal. And that's the way

Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

on salary and so forth. So he just picked up the phone and called Mrs. Johnson in Washington and said, "Lady Bird, this is Pat Adelman. I want you to meet 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

properly; rumors that LBJ acquired his wealth unethically in the 1940s; Jesse Kellam's work for the Johnsons' radio station, KTBC; Lady Bird Johnson's business and financial skills; ownership of KTBC; execution of a trust instrument for LBJ immediately
gentle in making suggestions to him. Is that correct? B: Yes, sir. M: And that he on his part would respond to her and seemed to take great stock in her counsel? B: Yes. M: Do you think that Mrs. Johnson played her role as first lady as it should

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

impressions of Eartha Kitt; Mrs. Johnson and porcelain Dorothy Doughty birds given to her as gifts; automobile privileges; Mrs. Kennedy taking a presidential desk; establishment of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House and Office of the White
and some of the other porcelain birds. I just assumed the way people had given them to Mrs. Johnson left and right that these were her favorite things. Because they were birds for a woman named Lady Bird, to me it just all was part of a fanciful picture. I

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

training for government service; Lady Bird's studies of historical places and events in the DC area; Gene Latimer's letter writing for LBJ (to LBJ's mother); Texas State Society; Governor Jimmy Allred and LBJ
Pearson . many others, but I don't have their names in mind . Tom was There were I would say that those two were our most frequent callers and the ones we knew best . Talking about the newspapermen though, shortly after Lyndon and Bird. got married I

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Becoming personal secretary; LBJ’s personal interest in employees; Bobby Baker; characterizing Johnson family members; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ’s acceptance as VP; campaign; LBJ as VP; duties as Lady Bird’s secretary; traveling with Lady Bird
period, she always had a smile and did what had to be done and enjoyed doing it. M: During this period of '64 and '65 and part of '66, did you do any traveling with Mrs. Johnson? G: Yes. I went with her on the Lady Bird Whistlestop, and made a good

Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Connally as very bright, more interested in politics than government; relationship between LBJ and the Rockefellers; trips to the Ranch; watching the Super Bowl during LBJ’s last weekend in the White House; thoughtfulness of LBJ and Lady Bird; mutual

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