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Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --of the President and his family? Mc: I was absolutely delighted with Lady Bird Johnson. I think she is one of the sweetest and most genuinely sweet people, with more native phrase-making LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 1963 Northern Europe trip; photo session with Lady Bird in Helsinki; talking about the Finnish War; LBJ's visit with Mrs. Seppala's father; estimate of LBJ as a subject for photographs; gentlemanly qualities and courteousness of LBJ
  • there and I got a call from Liz Carpenter. She said, "Kurt, Mrs. Lady Bird would like you to come down and see her." So I immediately went down to their suite of rooms, and there was Mrs. Johnson resting on the bed and she had curlers in her hair. She
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 1919, and I found it was a bird sanctuary in California, islands south of Mexico and the Congo. As you will see in my remarks [see attachments], at that very time those four subjects were right in the news again, and my theme was that maybe