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received. Anyhow, at the christening there was all the family and such old-timers as Bess Beeman and her husband, and Sherman and Delle Birdwell, and Paul and Dolly Bolton. Paul was with us at KTBC. (Interruption) Max and Marietta Brooks and Herman Brown

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

about that time, the Ladies for Lyndon movement. Predictably, Marietta Brooks was a big factor in it, and a lady named Mrs. W. A. Griffis, from, I believe, San Angelo. Later on they wore darling little red, white, and blue costumes, girlish straw hats
Governor Pat Brown, his wife, Bernice, and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies; India Edwards; friends such as Zendra Pipkin and Richard and Maureen Neuberger; LBJ's battle with Tom Miller over what Austin citizens had to pay for electricity; Luci's

York--and also I'm practically sure he was Republican, but that never made any difference to Lyndon--and [Edward] Hébert of Louisiana and Bill Hess and Warren Magnuson, Maggie, who was on Naval Affairs until he went to the Senate in--when was it? Did he

. Meantime, we were considering moving back into my apartment. We told the Edwards that we would like to have it back April the first. I planned to ask Mary Rather to move in with me. It had been marvelous living with Nellie Connally, but it was possible
impression of Australians, including Dame Mabel Brooks; President Franklin Roosevelt ordering congressmen and senators who were on active duty to return to Washington, D.C.; LBJ's meeting with Roosevelt to discuss problems in the military; the Johnsons

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

with consummate skill and a quick gavel. M: Well, all I can think of is chairman. J: Chairman, I guess he was. And she, she may have had the title of secretary. And she would make the announcements. M: Was that Indiana Edwards? J: No. Beautiful Alabama

adjourned. Max Brooks was the architect. We had chosen Marcus Burg, absolutely local contractor--Stonewall, not even Johnson City. I think our bid was twelve thousand dollars. Obviously we had not taken the advice of our good friends the [Wesley] Wests
1952 trips to Texas to oversee LBJ Ranch house renovations; Max Brooks and Marcus Burg's involvement with the Ranch house; decorating the Ranch; visitors to the Johnson home in Washington, D.C.; the Johnsons' relationship with the Melvin Winters

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

of January you met with Max Brooks to talk about the new KTBC building. J: Ever since we went on the air with the television station, in Thanksgiving Day of 1952, we had been living in crowded, inadequate, temporary quarters. As I said, the radio station

on the job, things were not idle at home. There was a big program put on, I think it was June 2. It was a women's rally. Marietta Brooks was the state chairman of the women's division, and Claude Wild, of course, was the state chairman. Bess Beeman
relationship with the oil industry; the Taft-Hartley Act; Marietta Brooks' leadership in the women's division; the work of the female volunteers; the increased role of women in campaigns; the work of LBJ's advance men; LBJ's campaign locations and audiences

directive and got more active, including me, and Marietta [Moody Brooks] especially. We took a trip to Corpus Christi with Elizabeth Odom and [attended] a meeting of the women leaders. Meanwhile, Lyndon was checking in with all his bases of good friends
Texas; the death of Mary Rather's father; public speaking; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson's support for LBJ's campaign; Lady Bird Johnson's car accident with Marietta Brooks near Seguin; the Johnson family calling everyone in the Austin phone book to seek

years would we have been married then? From 1934--this was 1951, seventeen? Seventeen years. I think the Connallys, and Pickles, and Kellams, and Deasons, and Thornberrys, and Phinneys, and Max Brooks, and I don't know quite who all, were

Brooks, a very nice little curve to it, winding out to the front gate under the master tree--one of the glorious trees of the yard. Lyndon picked up a stick and wrote in it, "Welcome. LBJ Ranch. August 1952." We soon established habits. We would buy eggs

of more jobs for more men. He made sure the newspapers got that word through his good friends Gordon Fulcher, Charlie Green, I guess Buck Hood probably, and Raymond Brooks. How many jobs there would be, how much the power bill would be reduced. 2 LBJ

, a character--he was a strong supporter of ours, I'm proud to say, because I had a lot of respect for him, and Beauford Jester, who was later to become governor. There was a women's division. Marietta Brooks headed it. Betty Long had a big part in it; I'm sure

rooms, one of the most filled-with-history rooms in that vast Capitol, to my thinking. I just loved it. I was very proud to host anything there. It seems to me--was Marietta Brooks?--she is a natural clubwoman and I feel sure she must have been one

. Her husband was such a tough, able man, and years later when he was ill, I'll always remember something that Jack Brooks said about him. And that is on his dying day he would be getting up, conducting a fight, which was a pretty good assessment

into the women's division and what it did and how it operated. J: Marietta Brooks was chairman. Mrs. Bob Long may have been vice chairman, at least she had an important role. She was always president of some woman's civic club. There was an elderly lady of very

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

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