Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette

Title:

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette

Number of Pages:

28

Description:

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee; William Fulbright and his relationship with LBJ; writer William S. White's relationship with LBJ; Fulbright's opinion of minorities; LBJ's opinion of Head Start and Job Corps; the relationship between LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ's support for Lady Bird Johnson's work; LBJ teasing people he liked; LBJ's love of good clothes; how the Johnsons treated each other; Mrs. Johnson telling LBJ, "You know you are loved" when he was under stress; a story involving J. J. "Jake" Pickle waiting all day to join LBJ on a trip to Texas; LBJ's temper and what/who angered him; why LBJ was harder on some people than others; Mrs. Johnson's role in supporting beautification; the outdoor advertiser billboard lobby; LBJ wanting Mrs. Johnson to model herself after Eleanor Roosevelt; LBJ's office schedule; night reading; LBJ's morning bedroom routine, including contacting people, reading newspapers, and seeing a doctor; LBJ's evening routine after leaving the Oval Office, including a massage; LBJ and alcohol consumption; Secret Service and LBJ's inability to sneak off alone; LBJ's increased independence at the Ranch; LBJ's use of the presidential yacht Sequoia; LBJ driving a boat and taking people on the lake to water ski; the amphicar.

Contributor:

Jacobsen, Jake

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Jake Jacobsen

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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