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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

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; examples of educational, social and health-related skills that were taught in Job Corps; placement for Job Corps graduates; how Shriver developed the idea for Head Start; the Head Start advisory committee; how Lady Bird Johnson became involved in supporting

Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in Washington, and after I got to know him better I determined that his politics were obviously somewhat more liberal than mine or perhaps the gentleman from Kentucky. And then to keep the thing in perfect focus, there was a lady that showecl up who

Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it had happened. F: It didn't make any commotion. L: No, oh no. I would have felt terrible if I had. But then Lynda Bird felt faint right after that. F: Then you rush off for the reception. L: Then back to the reception. F: What was that like

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the struggles we had on the task force. F: H: Ladies' garden clubs and so forth. Ladies' garden clubs. You throw a few flowers, and the blacks are supposed to be happy inside the ghetto. that kind of incongruity about it. I mean, it has Now, when Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at the college; the College Star; LBJ in later years; Fenner Roth, Wilton Woods and LBJ; other students at the college; Welly Hopkins’ campaign; opinion about Box 13; LBJ as a politician; LBJ and debates; Dr. Evans; impressions of Lady Bird; religion.
? R: History major. G: Okay. R: We had some wonderful history teachers. G: Who were some of your memorable teachers? R: Well, I remember Miss [Retta] Murphy. I can't remember why I knew that, but-- She was a large lady. every little detail

Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for that family, and I think perhaps that was one tbing that helped him help me, because he could see that he would like to have his women, wife and daughters, in the same position. I'm not sure, but I felt that sometimes. F: Did you get to know Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

said, "Look, this is a ridiculous situation," and furthermore, now that I look back on it, it does seem funny. He said, "Lady Bird (oY! the Hfll) has got her beautification bill up thereX Now, we can't mess up the beautification bill in Congress just

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there was a very close, personal friendship between them, and still now between Mrs. Wirtz and her daughter, Ida May, and Lady Bird. G: What was Senator Wirtz like? How would you describe him to someone who never met him? D: I would say he was a little larger

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

; contact with community leaders; conflict of subway vs. freeway; housing problems; unique business and economic situation in D.C.; tourist trade; LBJ's interest in D.C. government; Lady Bird's beautification program; bipartisan support; personal summary

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

after the 1964 election; Credibility Gap; press secretaries; books about LBJ; letters from LBJ; LBJ’s personality; 1948 election; 1941 special election; foreign affairs; LBJ’s withdrawal; opinion of LBJ as a President; Lady Bird and their daughters.

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

house, he was head of NASA then. Lady Bird came in and she just let me have it. M: About the same piece? R: About the same piece. Mr. Roberts? Finally she said, "What would you have us do, How should the Vice President conduct himself? You

Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that quest for votes. I remember Tom Clark and his wife were along, and one other couple. They also invited Lyndon and Lady Bird. It was on Sunday, and we were on one of the Treasury boats on the Potomac. And Lyndon was just as mad as he could be because

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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