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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-04-28 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson? G: The ftrst time I met him was when he was vice president and he kindly came to the dedication of the Richard Byrd Memorial Statue out on the approach to Arlington. The National Geographic supported Byrd for many, many expeditions back
  • Contact with LBJ; dedication of Richard Byrd Memorial Statue; award for the Hubbard Medal; Senator Byrd's garden party; Jane N. Smith Medal; building dedication; White House Historical Association; presidents book; The Living White House; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : That's right. I believe it was Harry Byrd's party, where he said, "The next trip you make, please let us know; we'll send somebody in. We'd like to do an article." I was the one that was picked to go, rather abruptly, toward the tail end of the summer