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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • won; [Dwight] Eisenhower was going to be inaugurated on January the twentieth. We had lost Senator [Ernest] McFarland in the election, and Lyndon, who had been McFarland's whip, or assistant, was elected minority leader of the Senate. At forty-four
  • LBJ's election as Senate minority leader in 1953; the small numerical difference between majority and minority parties in the 1953 Senate; committee assignments; the Johnsons' social life in early 1953; the Eisenhower inauguration and related events
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , but it was a prime festival of Washington. (Interruption) J: And back home one weekend Luci was confirmed at Saint David's Episcopal Church. She would have been--let's see, born in 1947, she was just about turning thirteen. M: Was she as devote Episcopalian as she
  • A Theta Sigma Phi breakfast in 1960; the Ladies for Lyndon movement; the Johnson daughters' activities; Luci's interest in religion; preparing for LBJ's political rise; public speaking; the Johnsons' connection to St. David's Episcopal Church
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • feelings. And his feelings were opposed to Adlai Stevenson, period, and ardently supportive of [Dwight] Eisenhower as I remember. And Lyndon, who believed that, as he would express it, from the court house to White House, on balance, adding it all together
  • vacation to Daytona Beach; getting to know Liz and Les Carpenter; James Forrestal; Dale and Virginia "Scooter" Miller; Lynda's experience with a cotillion for congressional children; Mrs. Johnson's impressions of President Dwight Eisenhower; LBJ's view
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Taft and Eisenhower. G: Do you recall LBJ's reaction to this, to the Truman announcement? J: No. I think he liked Truman, and he liked him better in perspective as the years went on, as so many people did, but he was very much aware of his
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were standing around there watching. President Truman referred to it as a mood in the country, as a "wave of hysteria." I guess that was a good description. Meanwhile, David Lilienthal, whom we had known and knew later, and I must say I liked him, he
  • of Texas; LBJ's continued interest in his local Texas supporters as he became senator and took on national interests; civil rights and the desegregation of the military; Alger Hiss and his sister, Anna Hiss; David Lilienthal; South Texas federal judgeships
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . That microphone is not going to pick me up, but it doesn't make any difference. We are right in the [Democratic National] Convention of 1960. Right at the point that Governor [David] Lawrence is going to nominate LBJ for the vice presidency. And in previous
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of respect for the military, but he really came from that old-time school that wanted the civilian to be looking down the throats of [the military]. G: Anything on his association with David Lilienthal? Did he have much contact with Lilienthal during
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh "One More Story" -- I -- 13 David. They were talking in French, and pretty soon
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Texans who just couldn't take Truman's stand on tidelands, on FEPC [Fair Employment Practices Commission], on Taft-Hartley. There was a strong tide running for [Dwight] Eisenhower. You were really bucking it when you went against it. However, there were
  • and pets; LBJ's relationship with his mother and siblings; LBJ considering if he could be an effective Senate minority leader; LBJ's relationship with Allan Shivers; LBJ's view of Dwight Eisenhower.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • party at the Carlton Hotel for the two Texas members of [Dwight] Eisenhower's cabinet, Oveta Culp Hobby, who was secretary of HEW [Department of Health, Education, and Welfare], and Bob Anderson, who was secretary of the navy, both of whom had been our
  • Activities and volunteer work in the spring of 1953; dinner parties and socializing with Washington, D.C. friends; a party the Johnsons threw at the Carlton Hotel; Mamie Eisenhower; LBJ's political career in 1953; the early stages of public
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • fizzled out. I don't know exactly when and how it lost all its steam; I don't remember. But at any rate, the Republican one was over in rather quick time with [Dwight] Eisenhower nominated and [Richard] Nixon nominated for the vice presidency
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ] Thornberrys. J: Yes, we saw a good deal, in those days, of Senator George Smathers. And we went down to Florida with the Thornberrys and Mary Rather to go to a dinner in his honor. And then [Dwight] Eisenhower, in his path, was doing some of the same things
  • LBJ's January 1956 return to Congress following his heart attack; Jesse Kellam; the Johnsons' interest in sports; KTBC's success; criticism of LBJ; President Eisenhower's February 1956 announcement that he would run for re-election; the table Frank
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , there was, even President [Dwight] Eisenhower, with whom Lyndon and the Speaker had gotten along so well, and had served so well, pushing his legislation when they could. They had just made an art, I think, out of helping run the government, although they were
  • ; assembling a Senate committee to investigate Senator Joseph McCarthy; LBJ's support for President Dwight Eisenhower; Lynda's illness in the fall of 1954; Willie Day Taylor's help to the Johnsons; South Korean President Syngman Rhee's toast regarding war
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
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • candidate for death. Eisenhower's name began to show up on those early primaries that began to happen in New Hampshire and New Jersey and places like that. He finally came out with a statement that he would run on the Republican ticket if he heard the clear
  • 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 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • office played a big part in our lives. I just really cannot overemphasize how much Lyndon loved the Senate and being majority leader. And I know he could see in the changing situation--[Dwight] Eisenhower going out of office--who would the next president
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • form, if it hadn't been for Senator Yarborough and his ardent work in its behalf. You know, the Eisenhower years, as I look back on them with the dates before me, seem to have been more relaxed years, for all the knife-edge [inaudible] number
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . Her's death occurred in her puppyhood. Him lived on for a long time. M: In January the name Lewis Strauss comes up, because President [Dwight] Eisenhower 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • them, as did [General Dwight] Eisenhower. I don't know whether it 1 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
  • role in that position; 1951 congressional issues, including initiating a military draft; attempts to persuade Dwight Eisenhower to run for the presidency; Major J. R. Parten; Washington, D.C. social events, especially involving Texans; Zephyr Wright's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the underground city of Berchtesgaden, and oh, just a whole lot around over Europe, saw the devastated cities. I think it strengthened forever his determination that nothing like that was going to happen to us. G: He met with General Eisenhower, and that could
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • humanbeing if you can have both joy and suffering, S: so you sure don't ever have boredom. WhenJulie Nixon Eisenhower was here, she said that it was often very lonely in the White House. She felt that her mother was occasionally very lonely as First Lady
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)