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  • of the Burg boys did that. He was the head of the lumberyard there at Stonewall, and he did all that carpenter work. G: You used to ride with LBJ in his automobiles, I guess. W: Yes, oh, yes. G: What kind of a driver was he? W: He was a good driver. G
  • volunteered a podium from the Episcopal church, and it turned out to be the pUlpit. And it was wrong. size, and it couldn't be adjusted. It was the wrong So I got a carpenter there at the airport, and we sawed off the pUlpit so that it would be the right
  • to this story. A fellow stopped and watched the carpenter and said, "What is this going to be?" "Well," he said, "This is going to be a 'Chic' Sale outhouse," and [the fellow] said, "Well, what is it going to be--a two-holer or a one-holer?" "Oh, my Lord
  • the side of a hotel, and I said, to the carpenter there, "Sir, if you'll tear it off real easy, I'll give you a dollar for it ." � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • their friends. didn't have to be congressmen or senators. They They loved people, and they "'JOuld have people like the Worleys or the Connallys or the Carpenters, or somebody like that for dinner. these people very much. I think they enjoyed Now they did