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Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • working either. There was another problem--not a problem, but we had a handicap in the office; I guess it would be a problem. Slowly we lost to the military all of the young men that worked there, and we were constantly getting new employees
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And I went to work at the White House. (Interruption) R: Recently Nancy and Drew were on a trip to New York and New England, and then coming back they stopped in Washington and saw the sights there. Nancy told me that all of a sudden they passed
  • Rather rejoining LBJ's staff at the end of his presidency; Rather's nieces attending school in Washington, D.C.; LBJ's decision to retire from politics; the slower pace of office work at the White House and LBJ's daily schedule; night reading
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- VIII -- 7 around in that area, because everybody would be delighted, and to the weekly or daily newspapers. Most of them were
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • his office from the New House Office Building to 504 in the Old [House] Office Building. Do you remember that? Is there any significance to the change? R: Yes. Well, it was significant because it was an unusual thing to do. The members of Congress
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you. G: Where were you when you received news of Pearl Harbor, do you remember? R: My cousin Ben Powell was in the army reserve; he was a graduate of VMI [Virginia Military Institute]. He was living down here in Austin and practicing law
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and things of this nature. Do you recall anything about his work on the West Coast? R: Not much, because I was so new in the office for one thing. I had enough to learn about how to do his office work representing the Tenth District. His committee work, his
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and the people were saying, "This is Lyndon Johnson's filling station," but it wasn't at all. (Laughter) Anything new that came up, it seemed like they would say belonged to him. So finally he had this big rally in Wooldridge Park. Do you know about this? G