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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reading light, make sure there was an ashtray handy everywhere, and, in the living room, wherever he was going to sit, a good reclining chair, with a good light by it. We put the brass bed up in Aunt Georgia's room. The bed that was in Lyndon's and my room
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of them for most of his life, at least until the very late end of it. In his eighties he had some setbacks. G: I've noticed in reading some of his letters that he was a good writer. He had a good writing style and expressed himself well. J: Well
  • . 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 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
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • explicit here, but reading these documents from this year you really get the impression that he was raring to go after something else. He wanted to run for the Senate, or he wanted to do something else. J: Well, I think--yes. In every job that he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the biggest it ever was, pupils. They would range in grades from the first grade to the seventh. We didn't call it preschool; we probably called it primer, which was the first book one had. It began with one-sentence reading lessons: "This is Will. How do you
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he's come from something he never expected to raise his hand. (Laughter) CTJ: Oh, Lordy, Lordy, I'll raise both of mine. LB: Bird and I were talking about that the other night when I was saying how beautiful Austin was here, and she was talking
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • night and I nearly all night, because I think we reached New York and docked shortly after 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • much, that all credit was due to me for raising the girls. That's not so, but the compelling nature of his job did mean that he spent very little time with them, although when I read his letters to his 2 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that took place several years after we were married. We were down at White Sulphur Springs. We got in the car and drove all the way back to Washington at some ridiculous hour of the night, as I recall, because Lyndon--I just can't quite express it, and so I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • real and some of them perhaps imagined, I don't know quite where the line was. But at any rate, her eyesight was poor by this time and her reading limited. Sometime along about here I found out about, and secured for her, these records from the Library
  • Youth Administration; LBJ's work in the 10th District in the fall of 1943; LBJ's efforts to help individuals in his role as congressman; KTBC's affiliation with Columbia and capability to broadcast at night; losing office staff to the military; staying
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to remember the names of the very few whom we did know in Austin. I think one had a Johnson City background, a furniture man named Brown, and a hardware man named Davis. Oh, gee. G: Here's a list of contributors, if you can read that messy handwriting. J
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as could be, just jumping at the news of the day. In fact, we had had long discussions about all of the situation with Japan the night before and that morning at breakfast before I drove to Billingsley. I remember, with appropriate dismay, how I had said
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVII -- 16 two days. You could read all you wanted to and just look out at passing
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of your interests and specialties? J: Never, never, alas. I had the idea that anybody that could read could cook. And I did indeed cook everything for the first two years that we were married, and then, somewhere along the line, we acquired a cook. Help
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I probably got there around anywhere from four to five o'clock in the afternoon, but it was not unusual to leave at ten-thirty at night. It's marvelous looking back on that period to wonder at the amount of energy one has when one is young
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • make little notes in shorthand on the back of envelopes in my purse or I usually had a shorthand book around with me. So I was a kind of a conveyor for those late nights when I finally got to see him over those endless cups of coffee that I would bring
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and then lots of casual dinners for staff, newspaper friends, other senators. We began to branch out more in that year. The children's doctor was Dr. John Washington, who would come any time of day or night, if he felt that tone in your voice that said, "I'm
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in between, make speeches and then, at the night, there would be a major rally in a fairly large town. He'd go to Blanco and Johnson City and Round Mountain and Cypress Hills and Marble Falls and there make a sizeable speech. Meanwhile, we had our good
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • and to stop at a old farmhouse that had been turned into a restaurant and have dinner first. This night, though, it was a great play and a very romantic and splendid actor. So I still have and cherish a picture of me and Sir Lawrence Olivier. M: When you
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and an interesting fall, because he got some of the meanest letters you have ever read: "I will give you two weeks to send me a satisfactory answer," and, "We sent you there to do," so and so and so, and, "You can be sure we'll get you next time if you don't do what
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 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • England with Lera Thomas. We were looking for antiques. Lera bought a lot of antiques, loved it, and knew a lot about it. I just loved the countryside and traveling. Every morning we would pick up the paper and read about the invasion
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Toward the end of the month, Uncle Tom Johnson died in Johnson City, and that was one of the sort of the loosening ties with the older generation. Lyndon flew to Texas for the funeral, just stayed, I think, just a couple of nights, long enough though
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not all that demanding. He wanted a darn good reading light above his bed and a darn good shaving light in his bathroom. Incidentally, I think I have told you about Aunt Frank's two bathrooms? Well, sometime, years before, I think very early twenties, she
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • -- 8 me I could wait right outside the door. I asked them where could I spend the night. And they showed me to a room close by. And I called home to let Zephyr know, and Luci, and Lynda if she was there--funny, I cannot recall about Lynda at this moment
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • was going to die right there on the Senate floor while we were talking on civil rights, and all those long, long nights, and yet at the same time he was determined to hold them in session until some decision was reached. The Senate did pass a civil rights
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • to our right. And a population of bats (laughter) and swallows from some surrounding buildings that flew around at night. It was an interesting possibility; it offered us more room than we had ever had before. Max Brooks was a very able and creative
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 8 with him over the years, do you think? Did he hold that against Nixon, do you recall? J: I can't answer that substantively, because I know his affection for Helen remained. She was with us in the White House and spent the night with us once. I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • Lady to highlight President Johnson's programs. J: Yes, I used them the best I could. We all used each other. S: I've read that for a long, long time before you became First Lady you did not like making speeches, you did not like campaigning. Did
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was lying on President Truman's desk out at the [Truman] Library in Independence, Missouri, and President Truman was giving me what he called the five-dollar tour. He saw my eyes just dropping to that letter open on his desk and he said, "Pick it up and read