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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Contributor > Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 (remove)

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  • [Hubert] Humphrey, Senator [John] Kennedy announces his candidacy, and then on the Republican side, Vice President [Richard] Nixon announced his. Still no personal activity on the President's part, and you weren't aware of anything at this early stage
  • ; Pat Nixon; Marvin Watson; visiting Acapulco and Mexican President Miguel Aleman and his family; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Sam Houston Johnson's hospitalization for alcoholism; a Johnson family history of alcoholism and depression
  • . [Richard] Kleberg and having met just about everybody in the Fourteenth Congressional District, and because of the U.S. Naval Training Station--I think that was approximately the name of it--which he had helped get placed and kept there. In fact, I think he
  • was undersecretary of war for air, and was really the author of--I forget just when this happened, but when Germany, which was divided, and Berlin, right actually in the Russian zone, but it was supposed to be a neutral spot, when we began an air lift to supply
  • to apply for a network--I think we may have tried NBC first. We wound up by making our big push to get CBS. We did get it. G: He went up to New York, I guess, and met with Dick Berlin and maybe Bill Paley. J: Bill Paley, and of course Ed Weisl. Bill