Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette

Title:

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette

Number of Pages:

17

Description:

LBJ's growing popularity throughout the state of Texas in the 1940s; work in LBJ's congressional office; LBJ's 1944 congressional opponent, Buck Taylor; efforts by oil men to defeat Sam Rayburn; Lynda Bird Johnson's birth and her name; LBJ's love for his daughters; the death of Rather's mother; the 1944 state democratic convention and later national convention; friction between Democrats who supported FDR and those who did not.

Contributor:

Rather, Mary Alice, 1912-1990

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 Mary Rather

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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