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Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 15, 15 February 1979," LBJ Library (Item)

a great Toward a New Partnership deal of pain. All of us will miss him and remember him, especi 12:30-3:00p.m. Panel 4: ally his strength and courage over the last span of years." Roger B. Smith, Executive Vice President Speaker: -Lady Bird Johnson

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 25, 7 May 1982," LBJ Library (Item)

Martin and Mrs. Johnson tour lhe exhibit. In a settmg matched only by a New York opening, Mary Martin, Broadway star and Texas daughter, joined Lady Bird Johnson and a cast of hundreds to launch an exhibit entitl d "Women in Texas History" al the Library

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 34, 15 July 1985," LBJ Library (Item)

Krim, Clark Clifford, new member Roben Strauss, making his first Board meeting, Perry Bass Lady Bird Johnson. Foundation staff member )blanda Boozer. Secretary-Treasurer John Barr, President Tom Johnson and Henry Fowler. Present but not pictured

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 53, 1 July 1992," LBJ Library (Item)

Austin's inner-city neighborhoods. The project, a first-of-its-kind effort to mobilize various ele ments of public and private sectors, was initiated by Walt and Elspeth Rostow. New bride Nicole Nugent with her grandmother Lady Bird Johnson and her

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 65, 15 March 1997," LBJ Library (Item)

experience in the public arena. He was this year's Harry Middleton lecturer in the series created by Lady Bird Johnson in the name of the Library director. His speech climaxed a symposium on U.S. Political Parties (pages 2-5). For President Ford's address

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the kind of pressure we were under and the hours we were keeping that if he gave me any inkling of what he'd do on Taft-Hartley, I'd tell somebody. It was the old Johnson theory. We used to say on the staff, "LBJ doesn't trust anyone except Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into an urban area, you notice in Daly's letter he said, "I wish Lady Bird would get more involved in urban beautification." You know, the east was more urban, Chicago. South was still more concerned about racial issues. Water, natural resources. But in issues

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

may be wrong about that, but I believe that he virtually quit drinking. I can remember the doctor or Lady Bird or people even encouraging him to have a couple of drinks at night to relax, but he rarely did it. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on that; of course, signed the bill, but I don't know that he got involved. That was done-- G: Governor Reagan opposed it initially. H: Right. Right. Senator [George] Murphy opposed it. The Congressman from the area opposed it, but when Lady Bird came out

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

care of his business, and accepted the fact he has had a heart attack. He has the problems of convalescence to worry him and so forth. But still that same night, in the process of getting his thoughts in order, he talked with Lady Bird. Mrs. Johnson, I

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

when he was riding high he confided to me that he had already--he and Lady Bird had discussed it and that he would not run at the end of that term. So I put that in for the record as a fact of what he told me. Now, let's-G: Did you question him about

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

your father taught. F: Yes, my father taught. He said that one day she was planning to go on a vacation with her husband and she came to them and told them where she was going on her vacation. And Mrs. Johnson, Lady Bird, asked Mrs. Wright to take

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was worried that it would get out that his house--once upon a time he was away; this was soon after they bought the place. And it flooded like this and he couldn't get across to Lady Bird, and he came out in a little plane that landed on that highway. I don't

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

out on him? C: I don't remember. I don't think so. F: He probably kind of sensed it was time for the little bird to fly out, too. C: Right. I honestly don't remember. F: Where did you move to? C: Well, not knowing Washington and not having

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

apartment at the Cliff Towers Apartments, you know, didn't tell a soul. So Lady Bird kept coming out to Mama, you know. staying at my mother's, being single then. are your plans?" insurance." "I really don't know. Uh huh. "Well, Sam Houston, what I am

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as a family, too. You see, we were I even gave Lady Bird a transfusion once. F: Oh, really? G: Anyway, we had a close personal relationship. personal than political. I would say it was more Bird very often would ask me what did I think about something

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

How the Weinheimer and Johnson families knew each other; meeting LBJ and Lady Bird; LBJ’s 1954 campaign; the Weinheimers being Democrats; the history of party allegiances in Gillespie County, Texas; the impression LBJ made on local citizens
we'd like for them to stop in Stonewall, and they seemed to appreciate that very much. I’ll never forget his mother, she just was the most charming lady. Of course, Mrs. Johnson always--Lady Bird always is, but I'd never met his mother before, and her

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

President? M: Then I went by to pay my respects to the Johnsons--Majority Leader Johnson. I saw him, and Lady Bird was most gracious and everything. At that point, it was only an hour or so before the decision was announced, I would have bet my car

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

they stopped the elevator and he sa i d, I'll see you later." up to Lady Bird's bedroom and he waited for her. And he carried her She appreciated that. Then that night at the state dinner he told a joke about, something about, well maybe Lady Bird would run

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: No. Never. F: Rather intriguing, H: Yes. F: I gather you were right alongside with Mary Lasker and Lady Bird in isn't it? the beautification program. H: Yes. F: How did you get into that? H: Well, Mary Lasker is very interested. She's my

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

University; blacks and the NYA; problems of administration; Congressional campaign; Lady Bird.
Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Skiles -- I -- 25 S: Yes. This was something that, of course, Lady Bird picked up later and did such a nice job with. The direction

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

was the other Senator from Texas, all three were housed out here at a motel on the edge of San Antonio when Kennedy was the main speaker at our rally here. I had the best suite in the motel set aside for Kennedy and Johnson. LBJ and Lady Bird were there in one

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Johnson wrote--, he said, "Bird and I are looking forward to seeing you and Bob November 1. Enclosed is a preview. That an outdoor dinner gong for the meals we eat outside. It reminded us of the many pleasant suppers we've had in the Clifford yard and I

Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

went down and there was Walter and his wife, Marge, and the President and Lady Bird and the two Johnson girls, Jack and Mary Margaret Valenti. To me that was pretty heady stuff. But I enjoyed the privilege. The President was very nice. He met my wife

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

me that the first day of school. M: You got an A.B. degree from Harvard-- P: It reminds me of Lady Bird Johnson. Someone asked her where she got the name of Lady Bird and she described that. She said, "S ome people call me Claudia, but when

Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to them, but I didn't conduct them. C: There is an incident that George told me that I think should be in the historical record on Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, that I know only from George, but George was there first hand. the one to tell it. And I'd

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to stand there and let him say it and not answer, and then wait for the truth to start coming out. And he went through two or three more runs of distortion and evasion, and finally he said, "Well, I've talked the last several nights with Lady Bird." And we

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to speak with you, Senator." It was about a minute later, the President came on the phone with Lady Bird. Then he said this astonishing thing, he said, "I'm going to talk to Hubert and I'm going to strongly reconnnend that you be his choice for the Vice

Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; cooperation White House and governors; creation and administration of Commission on Civil Disorders; LBJ reaction to Commission report; Lady Bird; Illinois

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Vietnamese regime; Westmoreland; Abrams; personnel in Vietnam; Clark Clifford; LBJ’s acceptance of Locke’s race for Governor of Texas – no aid from LBJ; 3/31 announcement; estimation of LBJ; Texas political structure; Lady Bird; political nature of LBJ.
always just sort of come up. For example, they tell a story on the President which I believe and which illustrates what I'm talking about. They say there's a -- I don't know her name -- a lady down in Johnson City, I guess, or Stonewall. She and her

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; GREEN BOOK; LOOK magazine feature; Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue; John Saylor; Lady Bird’s Committee for the Beautification of Washington; THE AMERICAN AESTHETIC; reflecting pool at the Capitol; Pennsylvania Avenue and the Mall or national
, and it may spread to their own areas :'" And he agreed ; I'd say that the central focus for the whole effort was Lady Bird's committee . And I'll go further and say, as I have in my book on The American Aesthetic, that I believe that the impact of her

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Lady Bird were right there. sa i d, IIMrs. Boddy. "Yes . II II I remember she came through and I And after she [Mrs. Boddy] got through the line she [Mrs. Roosevelt] turned to LBJ and said, III wonder where she came from?" (Laughter) She made some

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 5 lived when he was working for Congressman Kleberg, and that a room was not available at that moment but would be during the week and we should stay at his house. Lady Bird was gone, and he would bring us to work each morning with him until

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

. And he said that ever thereafter when he saw Johnson, it would be "Goodman," or "Goatman," or anything that was wrong. B: Have you run into the great habit that Lady Bird had, when she discovered that you had been sent to left field

Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations (UN); a UN resolution regarding the rights of individual countries to control their own natural resources; Roosevelt's experience working with the UN; Roosevelt's opinion of Lady Bird Johnson; the Watts Riots in 1965.
: Who were these staff members? Do you recall? R: I'm sure I could look it up for you, but one of them was a lady, who was the official secretary of the committee. G: Was it [Louise] Dargans? 19 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as a President; Secretary Udall; Lady Bird’s effort to make America conservation conscious; assessment of history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency; LBJ’s interest in the space program.
and Lady Bird made this country--what it's been I suppose since Theodore Roosevelt--conservation conscious, but they put it on a plane I think from which there is no retreat now. Did you work with that story yourself? H: Yes. I never went out on any

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Education; Heller plan; James Farmer; open accommodations ordinance; Chapel Hill; 1964 Lady Bird’s whistle stop tour; Governor Dan Moore; possible cabinet position; 1968 Democratic National Convention; Richard Nixon and Duke University; Sam Ervin
that probably became a general feeling in this state, but not for that. F: lady Bird came through in the fall of '64 on that whistlestop trip through Dixie, and you joined the train. let's talk about that a little bit. Tell me what you remember. S: Okay. F

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Claude Wild disagreed? Was it an issue of how to spend money or how to allocate time or which towns to visit or what issues to address? W: lady Bird just said in the past month or less that Claude Wild didn't want women working in the campaign, so she

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