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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a home; we did not have children. There was a sound base missing for me, whereas Lyndon had a very sound base, his work. I learned that I could do 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • because he changed planes at the last minute; movies of LBJ's military experience; General Douglas MacArthur awarding LBJ the Silver Star and his letter declining the award; LBJ's illness and hospitalization in New Zealand, Fiji, and Australia; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think that's one of the chances I missed to be a better human being, not to reach out to him more, although we did some. So it was a well-staffed household, within our limitations, and everybody very busy and lots of company, always visitors from home
  • visit to Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Johnson's trip with them to New York City; F Street Club; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; visits to Senator Harry Byrd's home; "Byrd houses" along the Appalachian Trail; socializing with the Texas delegation; Tony Buford
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on involvement in the war. But at least it began, 1940, with a happy note, with the official appointment of Senator [Alvin] Wirtz, and that meant he and Kittie Mae were coming to Washington and taking up residence, and we would have more of the close ones at home
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , but it was a prime festival of Washington. (Interruption) J: And back home one weekend Luci was confirmed at Saint David's Episcopal Church. She would have been--let's see, born in 1947, she was just about turning thirteen. M: Was she as devote Episcopalian as she
  • African-American employees; Sunday meals at Senator Harry Byrd's home; Byrd's personality and interests; story of LBJ getting stopped for speeding on the way to the Byrd home; uses for the Sequoia; the Senate Ladies Club; decorating LBJ's office with items
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXVII -- 3 And our business at home, our radio and television station which was KTBC, was still at the edge of our
  • Stanton gave the Johnsons for the LBJ Ranch and the Johnsons' relationship with Stanton; Lady Bird Johnson's father, T. J. Taylor, in his later years; the Southern Manifesto; meeting Sir Lawrence Olivier; attending events at the Olney Theatre
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , and Lyndon had thrust upon him, in July of 1955, more work than he should have done. He should have been home mending fences, tending to his own re-election. And he had been trying to fill two roles, as majority whip and substituting for Lyndon, so we bore
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 2 Presently down the hall came an affable, self-assured, nice-looking man and said, "I'd like to go in and see Congressman Johnson, please." And I said, "Oh, no, you can't." I said, "What is your name, sir?" He looked sort of flustered, and he said
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • home and they put the water LBJ Presidential Library http://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 "O ne
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • at home to put on the party, which always included about ten or twelve little girls and/or boys. And very often they would be members of the Texas Delegation's children. And a little conclave of mothers. And the mothers would sit up on the screened porch
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXI -- 2 He talked to his usual constituency like the Farm Home Administration about the programs on REA [Rural Electrification Administration
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --the road was full of us in those days going to Washington--and went as far as Roanoke. This again is sort of typical of that time. We spent the night in a tourist home. There were lots of rather nice-looking old homes, usually Victorian with white
  • of Washington, D.C., with Eleanor Roosevelt; friendships with intelligent, thought-provoking people; Mrs. Johnson's brother, Tony Taylor's divorce; a lunch at the home of James Forrestal; Senator Alvin Wirtz's appointment as undersecretary of the interior; Mr
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • heard a lot, and Russia was always looming in the background. So I went home sometime that fall, early I think, and put Lynda Bird in Miss Hubrick's [?] school, which was just about a block and a half down the street from 1901 Dillman. Community children
  • throughout Texas; LBJ's relationship with people in the oil industry; the 1950 congressional elections; Richard Nixon defeating Helen Gahagan Douglas in the 1950 California Senate race and how it affected LBJ's relationship with Nixon; Anna Rosenberg
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • many things were stag. This was a year when I had come alive to trying to make our home more attractive. I was busy. Hardly a week passed without conference with Miss Genevieve Hendricks, a wonderful decorator who became quite a friend of mine
  • Stag parties early in 1949; decorator Genevieve Hendricks; acquiring furniture for the Johnsons' home; LBJ's Senate staff; LBJ's interest in children who were named after him; social and service opportunities for Lady Bird Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 2 G: Now in January 1945 you gave a dinner at your home in Washington on Thirtieth Place for some very
  • A January 1945 dinner for Grover Sellers at the Johnsons' home; Franklin Roosevelt's 1945 inauguration; the relationship between Senator Alvin Wirtz and Secretary Harold Ickes; the Johnsons' relationship with the Henry Wallace family; LBJ's work
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Bristol we may have spent the night over there. Bristol was a place right at the line of Tennessee and Virginia where we usually spent the last night. In those days there were guest homes along the way. That perhaps was one of the 1 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Justice Bill Douglas was early a friend of ours; Jerome Frank, who I think took his place as chairman of the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission]; Leon Henderson, an economist; and by now our old friends, Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen and John Carmody
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of which was at the home of the publisher of the Louisville paper. Gosh, how names do elude me now. A very handsome, now white-haired man, very patrician, was with me on the White House Fellows Board. G: Did other senators make that trip? J: Oh, yes
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , inefficiency, red tape, foot-dragging; that became evident both in the military and in the private sector at home. He was at war against it, using as his tool the Naval Affairs Committee. That, from beginning to the end, was always one of the things he loved
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know, now I wish I had just shared every bit. I guess actually I just wouldn't have been that tough. G: When he would come home at night, would he recount the day's campaigning to you? J: Usually he was too weary. He would recite some
  • the Johnsons went to relax, including Brackettville, Texas; Bess Beeman and other women who worked to support LBJ; Aunt Effie Pattillo's death; the Johnsons' home at 30th Place in Washington, D.C.; dancing at the Shoreham Blue Room; Lady Bird Johnson's role
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • readily in our hearts and lives. I remember at that time, when I took her home, I believe I put her in the front room--we had just three bedrooms at that dear old house on Thirtieth Place, on the second floor, all small. Ours was the largest
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • work on the [George] Peddy voters. I think it was because of that that we decided to open the second primary in the little East Texas town, in Shelby County, wasn't it? I think in Center, because that was his home area, and we had tested the waters
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • DATE: September 26-27, 1980 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 3 J: It was such happiness to be back at home in Washington. Our back porch always in the summer
  • The back porch and yard of the Johnsons' Washington, D.C. home in 1943; Aunt Effie Pattillo's visits to Washington, D.C., her personality and her friendship with LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; Jesse Kellam joining the navy; the end of the National
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there. There was one table in a corner that belonged to Senator [Pat] McCarran; nobody would have taken it over. There were certain things that were served. For instance, a senator would bring up a batch of the favorite food of his home state perhaps once a year, some
  • ; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; Vice President Alben Barkley; Speaker Sam Rayburn hosting evenings in his home; socializing with Senate friends, such as Lister Hill and Millard Tydings; LBJ's business dealings with Mrs. Johnson's father; attending
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • so that you didn't begin until up in September, and they would have had a sizeable part of August to pick, and then in the afternoons when they got home they could pick. There may have been some of the bigger boys that might have been kept home. G
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , or the possibility of it? Why were you against it? Do you recall? J: I grew up in a milieu in which politics was not what you would want your son or your husband to go into, really. I remember in deep East Texas, which is my home, there was a sort of general
  • The Johnson family's home in San Marcos; what Lady Bird Johnson thought of LBJ's early career prospects; LBJ's response to a job offer from Charles Marsh; LBJ's ability to remember names; Mrs. Johnson's reluctance to marry LBJ; the weeks leading up
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the others, to just bulldoze the house down, but we were making a big gamble to see if we could take this old place and turn it into a livable home for forever. I went down in a grey, bleak February weather, stayed with Mrs. Johnson in Austin, would drive out
  • 1952 trips to Texas to oversee LBJ Ranch house renovations; Max Brooks and Marcus Burg's involvement with the Ranch house; decorating the Ranch; visitors to the Johnson home in Washington, D.C.; the Johnsons' relationship with the Melvin Winters
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the home of Evalyn Walsh McLean, a very famous hostess of those days. This was a one and only time for a young congressional couple like us. First thing, Lyndon didn't like to go to parties, as I've probably said a dozen times, and kept on turning things
  • Visiting the home of Evalyn Walsh McLean and socializing in 1941; Lady Bird's participation in a 75th Club luncheon honoring Eleanor Roosevelt; riding in Sam Rayburn's car; diversity in the 10th District; Lady Bird Johnson using her movie camera
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were Gene and Helen Williams. We knew we needed more help. I forget exactly the circumstances. I guess Patsy [White] had come home with us to Texas with her husband to settle down and have her baby here. So we were interviewing folks and Gene and Helen
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • similar to 1937. We opened in San Marcos; we closed at his boyhood home in Johnson City. The same factors were strong helpers, the people he had gone to school with at San Marcos, the people he had worked with in the NYA [National Youth Administration
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Building was one, the Driskill another. We just needed a home. At the corner of 10th and Brazos there was a good, sturdy, ugly building, gray brick facing, I think, that had been used by either the YWCA or the YMCA for many 3 LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for legislation. One time I went and, as you said, sat next to him at that party, and Lyndon later found out about it, and he didn't get home till about ten o'clock working hard on a bill that Senator Green wanted passed, that he had left in Lyndon's hands saying
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • -- XLIV -- 12 And that was home in Austin for quite some years. Actually, this was October and November of [19]60, and it was really home until [19]80--that is, home in Austin. Home was always the Ranch after we bought it, but our pied-à-terre in Austin
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pretty inept. I had a number of friends, who we'd spend the night at their house or they would come to the country with me, because I went home every weekend. I think I mentioned to you one time when Nellie Ford [?] and I and various others dressed up
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the job, things were not idle at home. There was a big program put on, I think it was June 2. It was a women's rally. Marietta Brooks was the state chairman of the women's division, and Claude Wild, of course, was the state chairman. Bess Beeman
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was well aware of their power. He must have sold them on it. I know he wouldn't try to put anything over on them. Meanwhile, on my home front, January always stood out as a rather bad month. The children did not like moving; children do not like change
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXIV -- 5 you invited ladies that the children that they had at home, that they couldn't leave at home, all came, too. (Laughter) There was one lady I could always depend on to play
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . GILLETTE PLACE: The LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 1 G: Let me ask you first of all, why did he decide to announce his candidacy on the front porch in the home
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the situation, at least I didn't, and did not realize what hung over us. We spent some weekends down in Virginia with Charles Marsh and Alice. We went home to the district. Lyndon always got with the postmasters and I think that was one of the things he did
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the hospital, and they started home. He began to run a fever, and by the time he got off the boat at Selma it was obvious that he was much more seriously ill. They made it as far as the relatives where they had left the children, and he died. So here she
  • . Johnson's family's love of reading; Aunt Effie Pattillo; Mr. Taylor's store; the Taylor home in Karnack, Texas; Mr. Taylor putting people to work during the Depression; Mr. Taylor's physical appearance; Mr. Taylor's love of Karnack and the Caddo Lake area
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thought I should stay at home one year, that was kind of the limit I gave it in my mind, and work on the Brick House and make it more comfortable, and habitable, and hopefully more gracious, see if I could get a better set up of a servant who was better