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that we started running for the Senate in 1941, when I remember clearly pictures of us on that front porch. But I think it is the Senate that I am remembering. G: The President made his initial speech in San Marcos at the college. J: Yes. G

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 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in San Marcos. Remember, you stopped there on your way down to the King Ranch? You said it was a rather modest house, but do you remember [any details]? J: It was a modest frame house, Victorian, as I recall. San Marcos was a center where a lot
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 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

was to us to have given us Jesse Kellam from 1945 to his death in 1977. [Inaudible] enabled Lyndon to say in public office. M: How did he come into your life? J: Lyndon had known him in Southwest Texas, in San Marcos, Teacher's College. Jesse was a little
arguments with LBJ regarding the cost of electricity and the need for parks in Austin; Edgar (E. H.) Perry; Lynda and Luci at Camp Mystic; Lynda and Luci's work as adults in public service; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn and his sister, Miss Lou; the 1956

think it was, River Authority. I remember we went once more-through the years this was a constant thread--to his old alma mater, San Marcos. This time it was to homecoming festivities, a very picturesque campus. I've always approached it with a lot
fondness for his alma mater in San Marcos; the House Un-American Activities Committee; Christmas 1947; a portrait of Mrs. Johnson, Lynda, and Luci given to LBJ for Christmas; Luci's christening; the creation of a 70-group air force; LBJ's relationship

reasons for elation and reasons for depression just buffeting you, just slap, slap. You sort of felt like one of those clowns that they're throwing balls at at the fair, you know. One blow came from E. B. Germany in East Texas [who said] that we'd had

friends answering some of the charges. [W. E. "Ed"] Syers answered the one about us owning KVET and I think pretty much refuted it in the minds of people who could bear to give up the idea. Then Lyndon would go down to the other end of the district

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVIII -- 2 from our neighbor, Dr. O. E. Reed, with a huge elm tree that shaded the whole backyard for many years before it died. That backyard was a scene of just much happiness during the years from 1942 to 1960

was a key man behind it, and Everett Looney would have been helping, and all of Lyndon's old, strong folks from the NYA and the San Marcos school were getting organized for a campaign to sign petitions for him to run again, thinking that if they showed up

you recall? J: I think maybe it was Lufkin, and maybe it was E. L. Kurth, but I better check that. Then you better make sure that you covered the local radio station and got them to do two sorts of things: cover it as a news story, because indeed

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXVII -- 4 universities outside the ones that the Tenth District had made his chief objectives, like Southwestern and San Marcos. He would go to Lubbock

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

of John Henry. M: You were right to the end of his life, as I recall. J: Yes, yes. And I want to tell you this. Many years later, at one of those annual parties that are given on Lyndon's birthday, at San Marcos State Teacher's College

: Georgetown, San Marcos, and an address in Houston to the Independent Petroleum Association. And then a big important thing, the JeffersonJackson Day Dinner in Oklahoma City for Senator [Robert] Kerr and Senator [Mike] Monroney. But he did not get away from
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee work trying to control spending and corruption; Luci's early interest in religion; the tidelands issue; the possibility of Dwight Eisenhower running for president; returning to visit San Marcos with LBJ; growing media

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

than she had anticipated and perhaps a little more seriously than she had anticipated. (Laughter) G: Did you start the next morning for San Marcos? J: Yes, he came by and picked me up. I was hesitant and unsure, but I knew that I didn't want to say
Johnson's financial difficulties; the relationship between LBJ and his father; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; Mrs. Johnson's trip with LBJ to San Marcos, the King Ranch, and Corpus Christi; the Kleberg family, including Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg, Richard

she had an office. We made our opening campaign speech in San Marcos and Dr. [Cecil] Evans, the president of the school when Lyndon was there, was at our side lending dignity, and Ed Cape, of course. It was a summer of enormous effort. I remember

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