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Oral history transcript, W. Sterling Cole, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

i p he had i n v i t e d to h i s h o u s e — i t was r i g h t soon a f t e r Lady Bird gave b i r t h to t h e e l d e s t d a u g h t e r - - i n v i t e d Ramsey and t h e boy who w r o te t h e book— G: Edd ie H e b e r t . C: Eddie H e b e

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)

you that I would not have agreed to this interview had it not been that Lady Bird personally asked me to do it. I have such high regard and affection for her that I hate to turn down a personal request. And even then I doubt that I would have agreed

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 'Now, I'll let you know, Lady Bird, when I decide to quit.' That's all he would ever tell her, never said yes or no. That's not the answer. I want you to know something. This man does everything for a reason, and so he's got his reasons

Folder, "Diaries [Transcripts of Tapes 11-20]," Papers of U. Alexis Johnson, Box 1 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and how you happened to be in Europe at the time of LBJ's trip in May 1945. E: I was stationed at that time at the Rainbow Corner in Paris, and I had been there since about February of 1945. I had been in correspondence with the Johnsons, both Bird

Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had been worried and concerned about both the President and Bird, and I was very proud of them . Because obviously they had gone through three days of extreme emotion by the time we got there, and they were very self-contained and very concerned about

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

nine o'clock at night, and that's no damn time to go house hunting ." He then related that he and Bird had bought a house out on 52nd Street, and they had stuff over there and some of the rooms were fixed up and the cook was working over there every day

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: This is the morning of the March 31 speech? R: Yes, when he pulled out. She says that that morning, Lynda Bird came in to breakfast and she had a letter that had been written to her by some woman talking about her husband who was a marine, and how they'd gotten

Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at that rally, was introduced. I think she'd been ill. Hadn't she been ill sometime? G: Yes. E: So I imagine she and Bird sat with their hats and their gloves on like the picture down there, because we all had hats and gloves at that time. G: How about

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

him other than by reputation, so Lyndon was very helpful in that regard. Then when I went to Washington he and Bird were very gracious to Gertrue and me, and helped us in every way. We were in their home at least once a week. I was visiting

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be among those present there has to be a unanimous consent and Anderson requested it and thought it was routine and then there was an objection on some ground like Bird wasn't present and maybe he would have objected. So he was going to enter

Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was there to do some pick-up work. Toward midday, I think it was--oh, that was the Z day that Lynda Bird arrived home, and she arrived home quite early from having come all the way from California. Naturally the child was very upset because Chuck was on the way

Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know, Bird's on the board [U.T. Board of Regents] down there." I said, "Yes, I heard." And he said, "Well, you know, Darrell's from Oklahoma, and we're good friends." He said, "Darrell says he's not prejudiced, but they just don't have no black

Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

is a fairly shy bird; that all we could do was to indicate to them that we preferred that they should make some share of their capital available to Australians, and that's all. It wasn't a matter of compulsion. There we~e one or two people who thought

Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was like a huge bird of prey standing over him--arms outstretched. Morris looked up. Well, the President went on, his arms spread further, "In the Pedernales in the springtime, the sun begins to come up early, and it gets right high, and you just look out

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to New York? Who else was on the trip? Do your notes show? G: Yes. You, [H. V.] Dick Bird, Mary Margaret [Wiley Valenti], Tazewell Shepard were there in Kansas City, and then you went to New York, and apparently Weisl was the host there, Ed Weisl. R

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. Johnson during this period? W: That pretty well covers everything because I saw a lot of him, again socially, my wife and I, and him with Bird Johnson. Of course, in that time Mr. Johnson was not creating policy and was not active in it. Again, as I say

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and guerrilla warfare and jungle training and that sort of thing. So I had a bird in my hand, so why not keep him there, he might be going in the right direction. So we got an extra year. Then a year after that along came Anderson, who was under secretary

Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

married in Texas, weren't they?--he brouqht her back to to my house. Washin~ton, I had them I think it was New Year's Eve or some holiday. Bird was unaccustomed to drinking and had a drink or two and really got sick. Johnson berated me, and has many

Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

gain surprise completely. I wouldn't mark the LZ [landing zone] until about three seconds before you hit it, and I come in with the first bird and throw a smoke bomb and that's when the guy landed, wherever they saw the smoke hit, and all the troops

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of the early birds had to leave and go back to their jobs, the people who were in the Urban Areas Task Force were people who had been with this from the beginning. group. It was the same So the group that was, in his words, developing a structure

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

to have a bird cat seat at what went on in those days, because he had been tipped off that there was going to be some trouble. He reported from an intelligence stand- point what the events were, and he did a good job of it. But he was under

Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the bag at the time when the birds came home to roost, if that is not too mixed a metaphor. I: Your own position on Vietnam seems to go throughsort of an evolution, or does it? Six weeks or so after you came home you, in a speech, said something about

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

there and what the whole thing was about. M: He's the Foreign Minister? R: No, he's the Prime Minister--a very powerful and tough little bird who had indicated considerable independence on the foreign side and runs a very tight dictatorship on the domestic

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the locals are afraid that it's going to take land off the tax roll. They're suspicious of whether it really will bring in enough tourism trade to offset this; they'd rather have a bird in the hand than two in the bush; they'd LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. They didn't really become personal except in his vice-presidential years as a result of the friendship of Lynda Bird with my daughter, Ann, about which I think I told you last time, until the blackout and the report on it, when he got to know me and some

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was primarily on bird life and in the last few months the focus has been on what effect this has on man himself. In this way it's sort of indicative of the whole sweep of the conservation movement and the fact that it's taken on new dimensions in the last few

Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bayh -- I -- 9 Bird, as he called Mrs. Johnson, was shopping in New York, so we sat there and ate and heard him reminisce, and we ended up about 11 o'clock at night with him in the back seat of that big chauffeured limousine

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

very vividly because it's so belied by what has happened, even in recent days of the birth of Lynda Bird's daughter. It amuses me that--the girls are big and I remember the time he told us, when Lynda was about five, how he took her to Neiman-Marcus

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember any conversation about that at all. MG: Do you remember talking about meeting MacArthur? IG: Oh, if he did it was not anything that was important. I think he might have made a statement that "Bird ran the office very well while I was gone

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)