Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette

Title:

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette

Number of Pages:

26

Description:

Visitors during LBJ's hospitalization after appendix surgery in 1937; LBJ's efforts to befriend political opponents, such as C. N. Avery and Polk Shelton; LBJ meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's trip to Washington, D.C. following LBJ's 1937 election to Congress; the Johnson's apartment in Washington, D.C.; LBJ's first congressional office staff; the Texas delegation in 1937; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to entertain constituents; political social clubs; LBJ's work to get dams built along the lower Colorado River to produce electricity for his congressional district; the introduction of a minimum wage bill; the Johnsons' early relationship with George and Herman Brown; socializing with Senator Alvin Wirtz; early Washington, D.C. friendships with people such as Grace Tully, Tom Corcoran, Jim Rowe and Abe and Carol Fortas; arguments for building the dams on the lower Colorado River; LBJ's admiration for FDR; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee and the friends he made there, such as Carl Vinson and Warren Magnuson; LBJ's father, Sam Ealy Johnson, his declining health, and death; LBJ's time in his district when Congress wasn't in session; LBJ's role in his family after his father's death; Sam Ealy Johnson's finances; a summer 1937 trip to New York City with friends; meeting Alice Maffet Glass and Charles Marsh; Marsh's influence on LBJ regarding international matters; a bill requiring a public referendum before war could be declared; LBJ's interest in public housing and the completion of the first public housing units in Austin; the Johnsons' visit to Brenham, Texas, in 1937.

Contributor:

Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

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Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Lady Bird Johnson

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details