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Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at that particular time. One of the most exhaustive hearings for me occurred one night with Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who was then chairman of the District Committee. He invited only a few of us as witnesses, including Tom Fletcher, the deputy mayor
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • they simply wouldn't thrive in Washington. So we thought that we'd have to do something other than that. At dinner that night at the Ranch, Liz Carpenter came up with the idea of going to the quarry at Marble Falls and looking for a stone there. Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • asked Willie laBay, a Scripps-Howard writer and a very dear friend of mine, a lady in her fifties, I would say, if she wouldn't come and spend the night with us at the Brinkerhoff Lodge. Willie very graciously and understandably agreed to do
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Roanoke, our destination for the night. The Blue Ridge Parkway is not designed for fast driving, as you know; it's designed in such a way that people simply cannot drive fast, so they can enjoy the lovely scenery. Liz, you know, is a very nervous flyer
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • choosing. Mrs. Johnson used the arbor to sit and read and visit with friends. In the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, and to carry out the motif of the Rose Garden, we planted some magnolias soulangeana, a flowering magnolia that is very beautifUl. These trees
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , and he gave you a copy, and he gave me a copy. So I have read that and I am familiar with that in outline. I understand that since then he has also given you a copy of correspondence between you and Mrs. Johnson and I haven't seen that. So some