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Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • )--and we'd all know--we're talking about the year 1968, not all the years he was in Congress. And I won't go into what a dramatic and effective leader he was. I don't think there's ever been one like him. G: Tell me about the night reading. What did
  • 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 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and into the night, that I think that's one of the reasons that I can't remember very well. There were too many things going on. As a result of the 1941 campaign for the United States Senate, which Mr. Johnson lost by a very, very few votes, he became a statewide
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there? Would it be every evening? R: No, not every evening, but pretty regularly, and they wouldn't stay until late at night or anything like that, but the little group--I can't tell you who all was in it because I don't know--they all liked and respected
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • out to Buchanan Dam, days and nights. I didn't go every time and I don't remember who he and Lady Bird took with them or any special occasion, but he did enjoy it. [Reading a document] "Raise the price of milk or reduce the price"--"or reduce the price
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in drama that led to--? R: It might have been. And she did love to read, and she was a real learned person. And by reading, I mean, I'm sure she read plays as well as novels and history and everything else. Now this is simply a guess on my part
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • kind of a vacation and he needed some kind of a vacation, too, and he told me to take some time off. He was going to take Mrs. Wirtz and go on a trip. One night, however, while I was at a party Congressman Johnson and Senator Wirtz phoned me from
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been over there. He looked him up, but I'm not sure about that. He was in Germany. Maybe he hadn't quite been released yet. Oh, and Roosevelt died. G: He was in Washington when that happened, LBJ was. R: Well, he was back. I'm reading the next