Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois

Title:

Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois

Number of Pages:

31

Description:

Biographical information; working for Homer Thornberry; Lady Bird Johnson as a businesswoman; Jesse Kellam; how Gideon came to know LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; the relationship between LBJ and Wirtz; George and Herman Brown; the relationship between Wirtz and Harold Ickes; Gideon's work on LBJ's 1960 campaign; LBJ appointing women to government posts; Texas politics in the 1940s; Gideon's post-presidential visits to the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's awareness of his own heart condition; Gideon's preferred method of addressing LBJ; LBJ giving gifts; LBJ's dog, Yuki.

Contributor:

Gideon, Olga Bredt, 1910-2005

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 Olga Bredt Gideon

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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