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Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • them with me. D: I didn't know this. C: And he said, "You talk to Senator [Alvin] Wirtz. You talk to Lady Bird. You talk to this one and that one, and then you make up your mind which position you want to file me for." D: Because you were
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • . But I brought her back to Austin right after World War II to what had been my home for seven or eight years and went to work in the radio business as a salesman for KTBC, Lyndon and Lady Bird's station. B: Did your wife have a hard time adjusting
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Friday -- I -- 9 F: To Raleigh. The Lady Bird Special. T: To Raleigh, right
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • gave it to Lady Bird, because Lady Bird caught me a week or so later and said she just thought that was lovely; she was just so impressed with it and she wanted to talk to me. And we did eventually talk about it. And I know of one occasion months
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Lynda Bird and Chuck Robb, Tom Johnson, Walter Jenkins, D. B. [HardemanJ. But there's ali ttl e ki nd of a thing that IS not compl imentary to him that nobody knows about that probably ought to be in the mix available only for .scholarly background
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the only time that we had any difficulty that affected our schedule. F: No contest with birds? M: No, no. We delayed a few times due to thunderstorm activity when we had to land and again we'd always land in a farmer's backyard; did this several times
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was there, and the message came through louder and clearer if the guy left the next day. But I know in a personal way, the Ambassador and Mrs. Lodge invited both Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Mecklin to dinner the nights of their respective husbands' departure, and these ladies
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the same reaction that Johnson had. He said, "This is not the kind of a letter that you write to a charming lady. got to be more gentle and more . . . " It's So he scribbled on it and redrafted it, put in some fulsome language at the end about how
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that, "We can't understand Lyndon." Now there's no point in repeating what live read. But I guess that Lyndon's own prescience, and the advice he may have gotten from Rayburn and others, including Lady Bird, encouraged him to accept. Kennedy had to have
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ at the Ranch; Lady Bird’s kindness; breaking the story of JFK’s assassination; transferred to Washington in 1964; contacts and conversation with LBJ; LBJ’s operation to remove a polyp on his vocal chords
  • everybody, but it was a little vignette that live always carried with me about Johnson. deal about him and Mrs. Johnson. It has always told me a great Of course anybody who is going to understand Lyndon has to understand Lady Bird; it was that kind
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, 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
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)