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Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Mrs. Johnson, correct? C: Yes, sir. The second trip, in the late summer of 1966. This trip also included a visit to Denver, where Mrs. Johnson planted a tree on the campus of Denver University. F: Why did she go back? C: I feel because of her
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to go back and see what's happening in the way of population growth to my home State. I came to Washington on my third tour of duty in 1961, as Assistant Superintendent of National Capital Parks. At that time we had a quite different organizational
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and they have been living on one of their farms in Virginia. F: Ever since. C: Ever since. F: No attempt to get them back home? C: They have never attempted to get them back home. I don't think they could afford to do it. It would be very expensive
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , I suggested to Mrs. Johnson that she consider the establishment of her girlhood home in Karnack, Texas, as an historic site. All the years that I worked with her in Washington there were constant allusions to Karnack and Caddo Lake and her growing up
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • : On the creation of the LBJ Memorial Grove, you started to tell me a little bit ago about the beginning of it. Why don't you go over that again and I will stop you when I have a question. C: Okay. The day that the President died, Bette and I were home. I had
  • Efforts to establish a historic site at Lady Bird Johnson's childhood home in Karnack, Texas; early planning for the National Wildflower Research Center; the first board of directors for the Center; Carlton Lees' assistance in writing the charter
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • months after the last election that Gray had literally started packing up to return home to Illinois because he did not think he would be re-elected. And it came as a great surprise to him that he was re-elected. You see, he injected himself
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and extraordinary talents to the projectF: She does more than just give money? c: Oh, yes! She has. great know-how in matters relating to horticulture and landscape architecture. She maintains five homes in the United States and other parts of the world. long