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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • first meeting with Robert Kennedy, would it? Or might it have been? J: I think so. I don't really remember. M: He came to the LBJ Ranch once while President Johnson was Majority Leader, but there is no indication that you were there at that time. So
  • to Hyannis Port to visit the Kennedys; Mrs. Johnson's impressions of the Kennedy family, including Robert Kennedy; campaigning in Texas with John F. Kennedy's sisters and mother; JFK's meeting with Protestant ministers in Houston; incident with anti-Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • was stopped on the highway, and there is just something peculiarly poignant in that. Here was a man running for vice president and trying very hard to help the man he was serving, President Kennedy, in becoming president. And stopped in a funeral procession
  • . Johnson's appreciation for the variety in lifestyles around the United States; voting and election day 1960; the Johnsons' activities in the days following the election, including John F. Kennedy's visit to the LBJ Ranch; the apartment on the fifth floor
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • presence as the sudden president of the United States after he had perhaps come to like Kennedy, or at least Jacqueline Kennedy. But Lyndon only regarded him because of his relation to his people, was my impression. And he used to just say, "Don't you do
  • Governor Pat Brown, his wife, Bernice, and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies; India Edwards; friends such as Zendra Pipkin and Richard and Maureen Neuberger; LBJ's battle with Tom Miller over what Austin citizens had to pay for electricity; Luci's
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "I'd like to speak to Lyndon Johnson." but he's out. I said, "Oh, I'm sorry, But may I take a message?" And this person said, "This is Jack Kennedy." CTJ: Don't (Laughter) But I want to ask, out of all of those good, wonderful vignettes that you
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , but comes later on in his life and I probably already have recited that in my White House things about after he--having taken over as President after the death of President [John F.] Kennedy--in August of 1964 was approaching the convention time. And he had
  • Democratic National Convention; the support of John Connally and the Wesley West family; early memories of John F. Kennedy; LBJ's senate majority leader office; committee to select the best senators throughout history; LBJ persuading Texas delegates to vote
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , or home on leave, and hotel rooms were scarce. I think I've already told you about the time I had Mrs. [Jacqueline] Kennedy there. M: I don't believe so. J: It was when she was a brand new Senate bride. As I recall, Senator [John] Kennedy had already
  • to see him remarry; Horace Busby's employment with the Johnsons; Robert Kennedy's visit to the LBJ Ranch; Hubert and Muriel Humphrey's visit to the Ranch; Lady Bird Johnson's birthday celebration at the Ranch; the Johnson for President headquarters
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson -- XI -- 2 at the Kennedy-Warren in a small apartment, our return to the Kennedy-Warren actually, because it had been our first, brief home after Lyndon came to Congress. Lyndon had had, for a few weeks, a little apartment over there the summer
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Johnson -- XXXVI -- 16 who had to deal with that, that is, first, [John] Kennedy, succeeded in multiplies by Lyndon Johnson, were not present, did not sign it. Lyndon was in Mayo having a kidney stone operation. That was something that plagued him much
  • of Mary Rather's brother and sister-in-law and Rather's efforts to care for their children; Juanita Roberts; Oklahoma Senator Bob Kerr; LBJ's view about alcohol; Averell Harriman; Estes Kefauver and his speech in Waxahachie, Texas; Christmas Eve at LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and got an answer back that, yes, it would be all right. We decided to have it at the Kennedy-Warren, and it was going to cost a dollar seventyfive a plate, and I invited, as I always did, choosing very carefully because one was limited in the number
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • believe it could have been anybody that he would have liked better. And there we were, opposite numbers to that great Senator [Robert] Taft, the majority leader, who had Bill Knowland of California for his number-two man. But the shocking change
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was through him that we first heard--I'll continue this when I get back-(Interruption) An interesting little sidelight is that it was through Senator John McClellan that somewhat later on, and I don't remember what year, we first heard of Robert Kennedy
  • ; the relationship between LBJ and Richard Russell; Robert Taft; tidelands controversy; Felix Longoria's burial; a letter from Herbert Hoover to Harry Truman regarding Hoover's public service; buying souvenir pieces of the White House during its renovation; Paul
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • [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
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be a combination. I believe that that is the time that Juanita Roberts gave us --no, I think she later gave us a big tea in Port Arthur. But somebody would stand up and talk after refreshments had been served, and we would tell people what they could do. They could
  • and his supporters; Lynda and Luci's whereabouts during the campaign; Lady Bird Johnson traveling around Texas attending political events and campaigning; Juanita Roberts; McCarthyism, Alger Hiss and his sister Anna Hiss; Taylor family support in East
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . That didn't come about until whose time, Kennedy's? Or was it Eisenhower's? It was Eisenhower's. It was Eisenhower's, because Oveta Culp 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • be except to ease Mrs. Kennedy's burdens if I could. S: Whenyou did become aware of things that you wanted to do--probably after the 1964 election--and started deciding what your role was going to be, did President Johnson help you in picking your three
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • and JFK [John F. Kennedy], except it's not very nice to say about--well, Lyndon was fond of Kefauver, but he thought he was a lightweight, and that is not nice to say. M: Well, sure, that--he is long gone; his wife is long gone. And anyway, when you see
  • of the school; Sputnik and LBJ's interest in space; LBJ's cousin, Oriole Bailey; Jack and Mary Margaret Valenti's courtship; John F. Kennedy's 1956 visit to Texas and the LBJ Ranch while campaigning for Adlai Stevenson; Christmas family tradition, including
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the table and really took pleasure in doing it, although I never for a moment thought I was going to make a life's career out of that. I was just doing it until we had a more expansive household and more means. G: Was this the Kennedy-Warren place? J
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was that McFarland lost to Barry Goldwater, and that was a personal sadness and an opportunity for a forward step for Lyndon. And, going against the tide, Henry Cabot Lodge was defeated by Kennedy--young Jack Kennedy. Price Daniel was elected handily and also