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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was there. It was [an] across-the-board sort of a gathering, all of whom loved the Speaker, all of whom profited from their association with him, from a give and take, from a learning and sharing. He was a remarkable catalyst in that body, the House, and indeed in the whole
  • helped them; support for LBJ in the press; Welly Hopkins' letter to friends in support of LBJ that resulted in a perceived connection between LBJ and the Congress of Industrial Workers (CIO).
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a hotel room when they were in town and when the American Association of Newspaper Editors was there, followed by the Associated Press gathering. Of course, since those days, conventions have proliferated, but the two months of April and May were certainly
  • in Korea; LBJ's work to cut wasteful spending; press attention for his subcommittee work.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • made his peace with his own future. That nettle was scratching and hurting as he tried to swallow it and digest it. M: And the press descended on you at that point. J: Yes. M: And I imagine that that was--well, the Diary says that the President
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • was to the Big Bend National Park and of course, over and over to the Grand Tetons. S: Oh how I loved that! Did you delight in subjecting the press to this? And making them all go down on the rafts? J: Well, actually, I think they came to regard it as quite
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ] Castro assuming power in Cuba. Do you remember anything of that? J: Yes. I remember that he came to Washington, made a speech at the press club, was lionized. Everybody was talking about him, except I do not remember anything that Lyndon said
  • Johnson's work for LBJ; Beagle getting loose; how the Johnsons named their dogs; birthday parties for Sam Rayburn and his interest in including the children; Lady Bird Johnson's experience with, and view of, spanking; the American Heart Association's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to remember the helicopter over the years and associate it with him. J: Yes, it became a kind of a trademark. He called it the Johnson City Windmill. G: There have been stories told about him pitching his hat to the crowd from the helicopter when
  • ; how the campaign stops and speeches were planned; LBJ's ability to mimic Coke Stevenson; press coverage of LBJ's campaign; LBJ's strengths and advantages over Coke Stevenson; Mrs. Johnson's life as a political wife; cities and towns LBJ visited in June
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were due to address the House of Delegates of the American Nedical Association in Dallas. tape) (Gap in But H. G. Dulaney, who runs the Rayburn Library, was going to drive us down, and Mr. Rayburn, for some reason, just couldn't get it together
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • sorts of miscellaneous civic leaders, PTA [Parent Teacher Association], BNBW[?], Civil Defense, a cross section of the country, farmers' wives from Grand Prairie and Cedar Hill, the sort of people whom we hoped would be our supporters. We were trying
  • to be on the ballot for more than one office; Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners; Mrs. Johnson's ability to remember names; Hubert Humphrey's political defeat; the Women's National Press Club and May Craig; Mrs. Johnson's uncertainty regarding LBJ's rise in political
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . They set a lot of store by their annual summer barbeque, or their dances, or their camaraderie. G: You were elected vice president of the UT [University of Texas] Ex-Students Association in Washington that year. J: That was something else, a much
  • and letters to high school graduates; John and Nellie Connally's wedding; LBJ's respiratory problems; friends in the press and the Johnsons' widening circle of friends.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 5 decided, after quite a while of seeing the fair, we would slip away and see our old friend, Bill White, who had been transferred by the Associated Press to New York. [He] lived in one of those huge apartment
  • Political issues of 1939; where the Johnsons lived; the Johnsons' friends; raising the height of the Marshall Ford Dam; the extension of Rural Electric Association lines and building of the Pedernales Electric Co-op in Johnson City; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at Floresville, who was at one time president of the Texas Press Association, all of the Texas weeklies and small town papers. In fact, Lyndon's inheritance from the Kleberg years is just incalculable. It's big and continued to be big, on up into the Senate years
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , the really important people in town must have been absent or something, because I was asked to go and greet him. And this was a benefit for the Washington Heart Association fund drive, in which I was associated. In fact, I was vice chairman of the premiere
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that it could be promoted. I must say, in those days Lyndon had good press relations. He worked at good press relations. He had many friends in the press: Charlie Green, Buck Hood, Lorraine Barnes, Gordon Fulcher in Austin. He and the Mayor, Tom Miller, would
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. Lyndon dedicated a new building in Austin, the Texas Medical Association, and reminded them that he was on the board of Scott & White [Hospital], and also said, as he said many times, that he was against socialized medicine. This was in 1952, and the FEPC
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • governor was invited to the inaugural, so far as I know, always. G: Was that your first association with him? J: That was the very first time I remember him in our life. He became one of the staunchest friends. So we went on up and we watched
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXV -- 20 G: Tony Buford must have been a business associate with the station, or did they do business with him? J: Well, he was Gussie [August] Busch's right-hand man, his lawyer and the one who dealt with all his
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the last two years instead of just the last year. I made a decision, having graduated with a major in history and a minor in philosophy in June of 1933, to continue on for another year, because I didn't have anything pressing that I needed to go home and do
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Birdwell, and Sugar Pickle, the lively, cute, funny wife of Jake Pickle. Eloise Thornberry, and Margaret Mayer from the newspaper world. When Lyndon came down, he began covering the state, speaking to his usual constituency, associations of postmasters
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of respect for the military, but he really came from that old-time school that wanted the civilian to be looking down the throats of [the military]. G: Anything on his association with David Lilienthal? Did he have much contact with Lilienthal during
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and it was a most satisfying joy to me that they liked, appreciated, respected each other so much. G: When Aunt Effie would visit for these extended periods, would she become part of the working family, the household? Would she be pressed into service to help
  • Taylor; LBJ's view of minorities in the 1930s and 1940s and some of his unpopular actions; LBJ's association with African-American education leaders; Bill Deason and the Johnsons' first victory garden; guests and friends; the changing morale regarding
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? Was it evident at this point? J: I usually was pretty aware of who he knew beforehand. His letters, his stream of letters, were almost daily, and if I needed to do something, he could and did give me advice on how to do it. One of the most pressing things
  • with the press, specifically newspapers; LBJ's interest in Lady Bird Johnson's appearance; Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to get Tom Miller, Jr., into Officer Candidates School; time LBJ spent with Ed Weisl while in California in the navy; Lady Bird Johnson's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , liking, being amused by, were very strong between me and Tony, my younger brother, who was himself eight years older than me. M: Because you were involved in a national campaign at that time, was there a lot of press there when your--at the funeral? J
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but he still won the support of the reporters. Do you remember anything like that? J: Well, I know he sure did try to. This, I guess, was the high tide for us in our press relations, because they were always good, as I remember. There was very little
  • Looney and Tom Miller; LBJ smoking; final campaign stops in Houston and Johnson City; LBJ's handshakes; LBJ's relationship with Jesse Jones; LBJ's relationship with the press in 1941; campaign finances; waiting for the election returns in Austin
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • anything to say about [whether he] might run against Lyndon in 1954. He didn't. G: Did LBJ feel that Shivers might consider running? There was an awful lot of-- J: --talk about it. No, I don't think he ever did. But he was aware that the press
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of the proper tombstones. Mrs. Johnson also loved to go looking for antiques, particularly early American pressed glass. And every now and then she would buy something so big, like a piece of furniture with a rounded glass front, which was much used, and almost
  • of a restroom; a 1956 birthday party for LBJ with several senators in attendance; LBJ's relationship with Senator William Fulbright; socializing with Walter Lippmann and other members of the press; the National Guard presence in Arkansas to allow desegregation
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could stay home without-- G: This one is regarded as being one of the best ones. J: Really? G: Yes. It really got a lot of play in the press. He was evidently in rare form. Do you recall him talking about it? J: No. About the only one that I can
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • : Yes, yes, yes. How could you not? In fact, that very day Lyndon had had a press conference that had some very difficult questions that made him angry, he probably responded to poorly. Well, I think at some point at the cost of taking more time
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • getting references not only to the fact that he was a representative in front of the press, but that he wrote political memos to the Senator. J: He did. And he joined us I just can't remember exactly when. But Lyndon was very proud of him and was always
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • little opposition. I myself began to show up occasionally in the newspapers. Isabel Shelton wrote a very nice article about me. I got better than I deserved, I think, from the press in general, and almost never ran head on into them. However