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Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • just remember hearing Daddy tell about how Luci just decided one day [to see Speaker Rayburn]. We were very free children. loose on the Hill. We were just let run (Laughter) LB: Hill children. LR: We were raised up there. We all knew where
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would call the "State of the District" letter. The Department of Agriculture issued a lot of little bulletins, a couple of hundred as I remember, and a citizen could send in and check the list and get I believe it was five of them free. If you wanted any
  • 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 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and join us at the dinners. Another part of my life, one that began immediately when we went to Congress and never ceased it seemed, was to address envelopes. Lyndon had a great sense of putting any idle hands to work. Also he liked free workers. I
  • 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 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • somebody else about that, because we did not really have an opponent that summer. Perhaps it was too far along into the summer, I guess it was, by the time they saw the caliber of person he was. But we did get a free ride, so to speak, that summer
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 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the position of agriculture, to enrich the life of the community, to free men and women from the heavy drudgery of the home and farm, this generating plant was erected in cooperation with the federal government by farmers and ranchers of the Hill Country
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Texas politics since the hillbilly band and the free barbecue." G: Do you recall how you first learned of the idea and what your reaction was? J: I don't remember really, but I clearly remember standing in the backyard at Dillman and seeing it go
  • ; 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, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , newspaper people--there were days when we got along much better with the press than in the later years of the presidency--and Texans. Among them there was Albert Jackson, who actually ran the Dallas Times Herald. Mr. [Tom] Gooch--it was their family
  • 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 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was purely by chance. Helen Bird, as the daughter of an Episcopal minister, could, I'm sure, get a very favorable rate there. I don't know what they did for daughters of ministers; I hope to heavens they let them in free. The tuition, however, was fairly high
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 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 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • a very good politician herself, which is a surprise to a good many people. Because it did appear at one point, a generation ago, that she was not going to be all that comfort with the press, but she seems to be--it's a transformation, don't you think? J
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • veterans, offering free schooling and good loans on homes and businesses. But there was a nasty buildup of anger against Truman, particularly in Texas. I do not know how nationwide it was, but down here they were very mad at him. Tidelands a major reason
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
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • metals, like tin, and prices going sky high on everything we had to buy for the military, on passing the draft bill, on trying to find 4-F men or women who could replace men at desk jobs and free a lot of physically fit men for combat duty. A lot of grist
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 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 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 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in that, too. J: Oh yes, he did. Ray Lee was with the newspaper. G: Let me ask you about the press in that campaign. He had, I guess, some good friends among the newspaper publishers. Do you remember any of them, and the reporters and the editors
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 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the spectrum there continued our talking evenings with people like the Bill Douglases, the Bill Whites, Dick Russell. And a sizeable number of press people were a part of our life. Doris Fleeson, of the acid tongue and very perceptive eye. We got along
  • in Korea; LBJ's work to cut wasteful spending; press attention for his subcommittee work.
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 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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 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
  • , 1944; press support for LBJ; LBJ's work in the 1944 election; Mrs. Johnson's trip to New Hampshire to christen the U.S.S. Tench; family members hospitalized in the summer of 1944; the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; LBJ winning his
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . J: Because he was walking into an elevator--this I remember hearing him tell--when a press man-- G: Bill White. J: --came up to him and said, "What do you think?" G: Well, when did you first see him after that? Do you recall? J: No, I don't