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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • . 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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