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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Mayo's for a checkup, and I went to New York on a city trip with Gene Boehringer Lasseter, and we did a lot of sight-seeing. She went to see a young man from East Texas who was destined to make quite a mark for himself in the world of music. He was Van
  • Closing up LBJ's Senate campaign headquarters after the 1941 loss; trip to New York City with Gene Boehringer Lasseter to see Van Cliburn; the political importance of postmasters; LBJ's involvement in the extension of Selective Service and the draft
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a big part of his life and a big part of his companionship. He looked up to the old chairman, Carl Vinson from Georgia, with the greatest admiration and affection. And then he had a lot of other good friends on there, too: Sterling Cole I think of New
  • death; Harry Truman receiving the news of FDR's death at Sam Rayburn's "board of education;" LBJ's relationship with FDR; Milo and Tharon Perkins; President Truman's friends; LBJ's level of conservatism, especially following FDR's death; KTBC sending
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XI -- 6 J: Oh, I know he did! He just opened his eyes to--well he just--not opened his eyes; he turned his eyes in the direction of the outside world. Of course, I do remember a lovely spring trip into New
  • to Washington, D.C.; Dorothy Jackson's marriage to Philip Nichols; anticipation of a world war; Charles Marsh telling the Johnsons about the dangers of Adolf Hitler; Welly Hopkins' work for United Mine Workers; the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Country in the spring. It'd been a long time since I'd been in the countryside repeatedly in February, April, May, June, and I saw it all unfold. And there's just nothing in the world as green, and as new, and as fresh, and as sure of the revival
  • Furniture for the LBJ Ranch; living at the Ranch for the first time in the summer of 1952; LBJ's legislative work in 1952, including military waste and tidelands; the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago; controversy surrounding
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or July or when, because I did return to Austin later on. At any rate, sometime during the summer I went to see our old friend Dr. Will Watt in Austin and got the big news that I was, at last, pregnant. It was big news because from 1934 to 1943--of course
  • , 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 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • go up East somewhere, to New York sometime, to Chicago sometime, once a year to listen to the opera. She loved grand opera. She had stacks and stacks of Red Seal records by people like 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • a very strong man for a very long time, was finally getting gnawed at by age and physical problems, and financial problems. To begin new endeavors when you are in your seventies and eighties is, I think, an unwise thing, and Daddy had made, actually, he
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the hours and the strain. It brought some new figures into his life, at least in more common daily contact: Les Biffle, who was secretary to the Senate, and Felton Johnston, whom he called Skeeter--everybody did--who was secretary to the majority. Besides
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and a new life beginning. It was roughly divided between business school, which took up about five or six hours of the day [and the office]. I went to a very ordinary sort of a loft place and took typing and shorthand for about three hours and then studied
  • Lady Bird Johnson's daily activities in Washington, D.C., while LBJ was serving in the navy in 1942; LBJ's congressional office staff and Lady Bird Johnson's role as manager of the office in LBJ's absence; correspondence with constituents; living
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know whether they ever made their ways into the Library or not. G: That's a new one on me. Let's see if I can find some. Was that the last year you were there? J: Probably so, because actually I was only there two years. G: Any other activities
  • . Johnson writing for the Daily Texan; early career plans and ideas; how attending UT changed Mrs. Johnson's life; exploring Longhorn Cavern; Captain Roy Wilkinson Aldrich; land Mrs. Johnson's father purchased from the Haggerty family.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • handsome Chippendale chairs with leather seats, at which first and last I expect a quorum of the Senate sat, and [there was] an awful lot of good talk around it. Lyndon, of course, was just settling in to this huge new job. He would get an enormous amount
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the existence of, and I wonder if they're still on the map. This was all salted and sprinkled through with daily talks with his office in 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the LendLease hearings with Elizabeth Rowe, and we listened to [James Bryant] Conant, the president of Harvard and to the bouncy little mayor of New York, [Fiorello] La Guardia. I remember [Wendell] Willkie passed me in the hall, one of the most vital, vivid men
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVII -- 3 got to know Don Cook from New York, who became special counsel of one of those subcommittees. Absenteeism involved his hours and his brain and his passion, but some of his thoughts were
  • in the 10th District in 1943; Mrs. Johnson's teeth; portraits and photos hung in the new KTBC office.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , an old patrician, delightful character, so far removed from Lyndon geographically and socially and in so many ways, but always very fond of Lyndon. And [he was] seconded also by [Dennis] Chavez of New Mexico. The fact that Chavez was Latin American
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- X -- 2 characters of the New Deal: Secretary [Harold] Ickes; the new
  • Johnson's time spent sight-seeing and attending events at the Congressional Club or the 75th Club; visiting Bill White in New York City; Sam Rayburn, Wright Patman, Nat Patton, and other Texans in Washington, D.C.; visits with Aunt Effie Pattillo; summer
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1978 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: The LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your trip to New York in June 1934, I guess it was. J: Yes. My daddy gave me that as a graduation
  • Lady Bird Johnson's June 1934 trip to New York City with Cecille Harrison; receiving LBJ's name and contact information from Gene Boehringer; touring New York City; traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Johnson's impressions
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have to use your judgment in cases like that, and I didn't have much judgment. I was pretty new at that sort of thing. So I decided to let him in. It turned out Lyndon didn't know him at all and the man wanted to get a job as a cook at a CCC [Civilian
  • Johnson's finances; a summer 1937 trip to New York City with friends; meeting Alice Maffet Glass and Charles Marsh; Marsh's influence on LBJ regarding international matters; a bill requiring a public referendum before war could be declared; LBJ's interest
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • party was a big occasion. [It] always called for new and 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , "Just look out there at them, and imagine that they came from Dime Box or Rosebud." Those were two of the most country towns in our beloved 10th District, or so we used to say. M: Before that, I note here that you hosted a lunch for the wives of new
  • Lady Bird Johnson's first impressions of Fidel Castro; Hester Beall Provenson's public speaking course; the Johnsons' 30th Place home in 1959; early impressions of Jacqueline Kennedy; hosting a lunch for the wives of new senators; Sam Houston
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • DATE: January 9-10, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: The winter and spring of 1950 began a new thing in my life and that is carpooling. Lynda, at six
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • appointed, of course, is the correct phrase--as public news officer for some military-related job. The legislative events of that spring and summer: price supports for farmers ground on and on. It's amazing to remember that one of our problems were those
  • visit to Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Johnson's trip with them to New York City; F Street Club; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; visits to Senator Harry Byrd's home; "Byrd houses" along the Appalachian Trail; socializing with the Texas delegation; Tony Buford
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • for appointments, positions, being heard. And here he was, and he just drew a little circle around it and just worked away, beautiful work. I do want to talk about the new building at KTBC. Does that come along later? M: Yes it does. Here on the twenty-fourth
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Senator Connally, and Democratic Leader [Ernest] McFarland, and all of his--he really did his best for them. Then, we also went up to New York, and [I] have a delightful picture of all the six of us on the Empire State Building. In fact, that was our
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • didn't want him to. But I was not the fellow that was going to have to do the job, bear the burden. So I just really drew back from trying to influence anything. I did not know which was right. But this was so new and strange and such a break with much
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • machines just go roaring across this rich, beautiful earth. And gosh, I wish I could come back and see it in planting time, and harvest time. And this is quite a phenomenon. And then, in October, especially, we would find ourselves in New England, and we'd
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • what Lyndon had done for the Naval Air Training Base in Corpus Christi. About that time it looked like a couple new ordnance depots were going to move to Houston. In fact, other states were being tapped, somewhat, for things that were moving to Texas
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by us is the highway system because we sure did get to work building one giant one across the United States. That was the spring, I think, that A.W. and Mary Alice Moursund and Melvin and Nita Winters came up to visit us, and we went to New York. We all
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at that meeting got up to make their responses, who all they had been able to enlist and to give their testimonials. The big news that happened while we were at Mayo's was about the helicopter. A bunch of Lyndon's friends, I would say led by Carl Phinney
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- V -- 9 perhaps, or Birmingham? I don't remember which one, because from time to time she would find some new doctor or some new source of help. I think perhaps this may
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a memory of our good friend Helen Gahagan Douglas getting tarred with that brush, most undeservedly. She was a spirited fighter for all the New Deal legislation and the things that later made up Lyndon's Great Society legislation. But she was a patriotic
  • of the country's rubber plants; a trip to New York City with LBJ's relatives; Warren Woodward and Horace Busby joining LBJ's staff; Soviet control of the occupation zone in Germany; LBJ's first television appearance and why he was a less effective speaker
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that affected just the wives, just me, but it's interesting to recall. I met Mrs. Clark Foreman on one of my formal calls. It was the custom of that day that a new congressman's wife called on all those who preceded her, all the members of her own delegation
  • problems of the South; Clark Foreman; a new congressman's wife's duty to call on the wives of her husband's delegation, committee chair, cabinet and Court members; visiting Joseph Edward Davies at Tregaron; LBJ helping Jewish people from Germany in the late
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXIII -- 5 April was a time of many meetings. The newspaper people always came for the ASNE [American Society of Newspaper Editors], to Washington, and then went on up to New
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • precious glass. She was a great companion, and I was so glad for every one of those trips she made. And we went to New York--well, I can't say that I know much about that. I do know that I took her to a play or concert. Another interesting thing I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it loose and built a new one and established a new one around the turn of the century, I think, in Johnson City. Anyhow, a very old but still moldering feud. But Lyndon managed to get the votes from both communities because, as he laughingly and very
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they'll suffer from a Republican victory." Another kind of a thorn in Lyndon's side, as I remember, was that he wasn't really simpatico with the new head of the Democratic National Committee. I believe it was Steve Mitchell. They were just on different
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I dated. This was not the first Every time I meet somebody new in the Marine Corps they will come up and say, "Is that true? We heard that story." LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XLII -- 11 new thing, a carpet, a sofa
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . To introduce them to the whole bunch of people that they already knew but to sort of give a special stamp to saying this is a new marriage starting among two families that matter in this town, and we care about both of them. And that was also the year that we
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 34 (XXXIV), 2/23/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about little bitty new quails falling into those cracks. Lyndon was introducing, along with other senators, a request for emergency aid to the cattlemen. [Dwight] Eisenhower had already declared the area a drought disaster area. G: LBJ worked