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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

relations office; Mike Mansfield bringing senators to O'Brien for briefings; Bobby Baker's talent for head counts and projected attendance counts; Bob Kerr; Jacqueline Kennedy's interest in congressional relations compared to that of Lady Bird Johnson
briefed as to the attention that should be paid. She did that extremely well with these members of Congress and their wives and would devote a good deal of attention to them. But on an individual basis, to seek or maintain contact, unlike Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

be possible to know a more charming, wonderful in every sense of the word, person than Lady Bird Johnson . I just think she is one of the great women I've ever been privileged to know . Her role in the government, I would say, is intangible, but very, very

Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh COLMER -- I -- 18 F: In 1964~ Lady Bird came through here on that Dixie swing, didn't she? C: Right. F: Were you here at the time? C

Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, that he really did talk this frequently about getting out, quitting, and so on, and it was kind of the same thing that Stevenson did so often? A: I don't know how to weigh the story about Lady Bird having made him promise four years before. Rusk

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

two hundred years. LBJ and Lady Bird [were] right out of this background, same as I was. It's unbelievable that a Lyndon Johnson would have the guts to even take it on. You know, a Rex Tugwell, that's something else, than Lyndon Johnson, even

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

relationships, he'd have to decide in favor of Johnson because he had grown up-Tape 2 of 2 J: --Mr. Taylor, Lady Bird Johnson's father, was his closest friend, and if he had based it on friendship. . . . I don't remember just at what point he said

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips
at least could express herself on some of those things in which local people were interested. coordination on these trips. So we had a little extemporaneous As a matter of fact I probably was with Lady Bird on that trip and saw more of her than I have

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

beyond our comprehension and it still goes on even though that country now has had a great deal of economic recovery. But one day I remember in particular, the day we went to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal, which was Lyndon and Lady Bird's wedding

Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and then--what's his speech writer's name? M: There are several. Harry McPherson? T: No, no, he's a businessman--Horace Bubsy. About a week after this first joint session that Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird had the Chancellor down for, I got a call from Jesse

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Porter -- I -- 29 or he knew I was in Aransas Pass, but somehow he wanted me to meet his wife. I had never met Lady Bird at the time. I went to Corpus

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

said, "All right, Mr. Senator." I went there. That's when I met Lady Bird. It was a very interesting meeting, because at the end it developed into some kind of polemic about the policies of the new administration in Mexico regarding foreign

Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to exercise. He used to go with walks up the runway with Lady Bird, and during his presidency, he--after dinner, they all used to take a walk, and one of his favorite things was to walk down to Cousin Oreole's and talk to her for a few minutes, and everybody

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the Ranch . He said something like this, "Whenever Lady Bird hires anyone � � � 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

Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Biographical information; Senator William Knowland; Chief Justice confirmation; “Impeach Earl Warren and Lady Bird” signs in Texas; John Birch Society; appointments to Supreme Court; swearing in of four Presidents; White House comments on Court
in Texas later on put up signs to impeach Earl Warren and Lady Bird, which I thought was a nice coupling. W: Oh, no! Did they put us together? F: Yes, they had you together, and I didn't know who was more honored in this case. W: Well, I feel honored

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--it was interesting, the way Johnson got him back. LBJ later was sorry that he had fired him because he was, if you'll forgive me, cutting off his nose to spite his face. (Laughter) G: Literally. L: Literally. Lady Bird knew that he was unhappy that he had

Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

1948 Senate race; KTBC radio; Lady Bird; LBJ's recreational activities; KTBC-TV; station policies; JFK assassination; Jim McCrocklin; impression of LBJ

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

DOUGHERTY -- II -- 17 G: Did you have much contact with LBJ in his later years? D: He and Lady Bird came to my house in 1959 for cocktails. My wife and I went in Lyndon's office when he was vice president and Mary r~argaret Wiley, she became Valenti

Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in a jeep. I can't drive; he drives very well. ETO: We were in Florida-0: Mexico, dear. ETD: Mexico, was it? Yes. Oh, yes. And Lady Bird's brother flew a plane in, didn't he? He said he was going there anyway, and he took us back to the ranch. 0: We took

Oral history transcript, Paul G. Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Administration at all on any of this conservation? H: No. F: H: F: Not with Lady Bird? No. Mrs. Hoffman did. I didn't. You urged in '68 the doubling of aid from the rich nations. What kind of reception did you get to. that? I don't know about aid generally

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

have much use for him, and he wound up as Lady Bird's clerk writing memos on hm'l the Library should function and that sort of thing. VJhen I say Johnson destroyed him I don't really mean there was any deliberate attempt. I don't think Johnson really

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Potomac on the Presidential yacht. But those were some of our warmest moments with Lady Bird and the President and some of the most refreshing, some of the most enduring-F: Did you talk policy, or was it personal, or--? M: Oh, a lot of it was kind

Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 12 the President to Lady Bird, and everybody \'Jas very jumpy about this because very many congressmen contributed bV billboard neople. frir-:nds

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Sen. Russell Long--I--8 for it. Then he headed for another man like a bird dog after quail, and that man stood up and changed his vote from

Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

?], and I've gotten along reasonably well--in fact, I consider her a good friend of mine--with Lady Bird, who was there. I got in and she was very gracious to me. They had a marine there and she suggested that I'd like a little coffee and something or other. I

Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of accepting? A: No. I went over to his room, and he still was in a bathrobe and so was Lady Bird and they were both busying around. I finally said to him that I thought it would be a mistake if he ran for Vice President, under these circumstances

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for regulating the billboards at all, do you recall? M: You know, I don't know. Later on, of course, with Lady Bird's involvement he became much more of a controller of billboards, but I don't know. My guess is he didn't have any particularly strong views. He

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 37, 15 June 1986," LBJ Library (Item)

could be used to gam a.The favorable response to this boob. encouraged m to edlt a second volume to cover muny of the topics left out of the origi nal. such as Lady Bird Johnson and beautification. the cm

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Children in Crisis, 18-19 September 1992," LBJ Library (Item)

Chris,tmas vacation with a card carefully ad dressed, "To whoever the teacher may be." The child's class of 57 kids had had 19 teachers in 20 days. "In its sweeping innocence," Lady Bird Johnson told the conference, "this declara tion of rights

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

wanted to do, go down and see Lady Bird for Labor Day. He left and we had to do some work over that weekend with Abel's executive board. He had a batch of negotiators down there but we had to make damn sure that everybody would stand behind him

Oral history transcript, Hale Boggs, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of political courage to do that-- to make a speech like that in Louisiana. Did you know beforehand that it was going to be that kind of speech? Bo: I had no idea what the President was going to talk about. I had been in charge of the Lady Bird train--we met

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

McKenzie gave a big party out at the Shoreham [HotelJ in which he, of course, invited me and my sister and my date and Lyndon and Lady Bird--they hadn't been up there but just a few months--and Senator Welly Hopkins, who was working in Washington

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and wanting to get married, and I suppose that would cloud any man's vision. (Laughter) Bird was much nicer than any law school. G: You would go to class together in the evenings, I guess? J: Yes. Then we'd come back to the office or go home

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of that nature, we would not even turn that letter over to the agency as we would with any other letter. G: Why were those two singled out? R: Well, Federal Conmunications Commission for the obvious reason of Lady Bird's holdings in radio, KTBC. The tax

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

[inaudible]--? M: No, I knew who he was. Everybody in Austin knew everybody else in the early 1930s, and he had an office here. Lady Bird, his wife, and I were in the university together, but I really don't remember much about her. She was--I think she

Oral history transcript, Leslie Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Personal observations of LBJ and JFK before their White House years, especially LBJ in the congress; LBJ's Senate campaigns; the 1960 campaign; "Whistle Stop" campaign of Lady Bird; the Bobby Baker scandal; Rayburn-LBJ relationship; LBJ

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

could use if I wanted to use it, and I did not use it because I didn't want to be in a caucus squabble that was already a foregone conclusion and endless. But I came out of the caucus and I met some lady I was introduced to in a hotel, a prominent club

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