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Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : We did, the second day [after] he was sworn in. G: Let me ask you to describe that evening. M: It was very pleasant. I always thought so much of Lady Bird. 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that . lady, a zealot, down to make her point . Mrs . Peabody was an elderly I had forces in St . Augustine, but I took the position that I couldn't run somebody's restaurant . At that time the civil rights law had not been adopted . I could persuade
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him talking to Senator Russell and Senator Kerr about Lady Bird had spent some of her money buying a ranch. that particular time I had ever been to Texas. was his love. I don't think at This was his hobby, this This did more for him mentally than
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • storm and headed to the Ranch. three or four o'clock in the morning. Got in there around Mrs. Johnson and the other ladies, a friend of hers and Josefa, his sister, were there to meet us and had LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • staff and operations; JCS; Rostow’s relationship with LBJ in the White House; Lady Bird; diplomacy with chiefs-of-state; ECAFE; Asian development; LBJ’s speeches; Tuesday Lunches; Vietnam policy under JFK and LBJ; Laos; peace negotiations; RFK and LBJ
  • and Jack Vaughn. It was at a cocktail party at Honolulu that President Johnson came up and quietly said--you see, Mac Bundy had already resigned, and there was quite a lot of talk about a successor--that, "Lady Bird and I had been talking about it, and we'd
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did, too. Bob had a much looser schedule in that he was covering mainly the First Lady and the East Wing of the White House. That left Kevin and I to operate on an alternating schedule. One of us would be, for a week, on from eight in the morning
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • friendship with Mr. Johnson and with Lady Bird. F: This is rather subjective, but in 1953 he had just been chosen minority leader, a rather junior person really. H: That's right. -- . :t LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the President; he was very sensitive to Fulbright. He had Lady Bird and Mrs. Fulbright socially engaged, trying to keep Fulbright contained. Fulbright was a man of conviction, and he was not trying to destroy Lyndon Johnson; there was nothing personal about
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • another thing on the telephone and I've forgotten what the first name of the Secretary of the Interior was, but President Johnson said, "I've been talking to a friend about the importance of having trees along the highways ; Lady Bird and I have often
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , I wasn't looking for anything, any appointment of any kind. F: You don't want really to get back into that? C: I don't want to go back into that. I just wanted to quit and open my law office. F: Yes. D,id you plant any seeds in Lady Bird's
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
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, 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
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