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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • . 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
  • 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
  • ://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
  • 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
  • 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
  • was reacting to the broad-brush, general, bird's-eye view picture, whereas the press very often--and with the inherent nature of its business, looking for the negative--would focus on the specific, the individual incident, the individual situation
  • know when I was conducting the briefing, we would hand out something like forty press releases, which would just inundate them, including a press release from the National Park Service about some new species of birds that were seen in some National Park
  • White House receptions, and somewhat better because my daughter, Ann, and Lynda Bird were classmates at the Cathedral School, became good friends and did a little dating together. When the people in their class at school had parties, the parents were
  • /show/loh/oh 2 eX2.,;~?l(;, held ho.nu the speech to Hrs. Johnson there in his bedroom and say; in effec t; F: "Bird, ",hat do you think about this?" Hm.J long in advance did he start that speech? You might say five years in advance, in one sense
  • best. Kansas Ci ty. Thanks for reminding me of the telegram I am to send to II That had to· do with a meeting I was runni ng, "Bird joins me in best wishes. Sincerely . . . " Well, he did appoint a woman. I really tried to find the best woman I
  • , he called me and authDrized me to notify the Howard community. But the President carne out accompanied by Mrs. Johnson and Lynda Bird, and he made a tremendous impression. The people were so in tune with what he was saying that the whole thing just
  • it made it worth doing too l that he did take it seriously . M: How many hours a day would you work? 0: I never really kept a record . I'm not an early bird . I got into the office 9, or 10 after 9, but rarely left before 8 :30 p .m . ; often took
  • was godawful. That's what they thought they were going to do, you see, they thought, "We'll kill two birds with one stone. We'll re-establish the strategic reserve, not just for Vietnam but for the whole world, and for more important areas than Vietnam
  • they always disclaimed that. I never heard anybody say he was leaving because of Viet Nam. But it was a part in Moyers and Goodwin and others getting out. And I had stayed. And across the hall from me was John Roche, an extremely intelligent bird, one
  • TWA C-47 school which was a big transport back in those days, the old gooney bird. Went from there, made two trips down to South America with TWA, picked up a few flying hours, and we just floated around and for a while they just sent us from there out
  • Johns on, and pointed ou t that thes e g uy s might take anoth er look a t these birds down in history; that these Texans weren't all that b a d; th at they were go ing to b e mi ssed in Was hing ton. Th a t is probably a typical reaction to a ma n