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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there that day, his brothers and sisters, including his sister from Fredericksburg that later died, I believe. Well, Sam Johnson wasn't there, I don't believe, and Mrs. Johnson had not got home. Washington, Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson. She was still in But anyway

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

but that was really an escape valve to free him for the big decisions. I remember. . . . These are just personal observations. I called him a real bird because he was a uniquely humorous person. Did I mention about Wong, the Chinaman, on the other tape? F: No. J

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. Am I correct? J: That's correct. M: In our last session, we had gone through your earliest part of contact with Mr. Johnson and the Johnson family. This was in 1964. You had told me about the campaign and advancing the Lady Bird tour. We had

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

pay your expenses; we'll pay the fare. We just want you to come down here.” I'd forgotten I had an engagement Easter Sunday. I had to do the commentary on a fashion show at the Plaza Hotel on a ladies' hat show, Easter bonnet parade at the Plaza. So I

Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and was standing in a kind of small sitting room place with Lady Bird and I think Lynda, it may have been Luci--one of the daughters. Whichever daughter it was stamped her foot and said, "Daddy makes me so mad when he does that!" I mean, he had obviously just been

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

split four ways. I remember he got a million and a half for the first book. I think the others only commanded a hundred thousand apiece or something like that. So I worked on that during this period. I do believe I worked on Lady Bird's book later. I

Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Lyndon would bring Lady Bird with him most of the time, and this would be when we clang it up with a banquet . The way we'd conduct them, there were no speeches ; you merely introduced all your congressman guests, your Department of Labor guests, your

Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

come because they were in such grief, he and Lady Bird. So I got the Senator to get on the line and call the Vice President down in Texas. I'll never forget that conversation either because Lyndon was explaining how wrought he was. G: What did he say

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

There may very well have been other things. Go back to this business of Johnson's progressivism. I have never known, but I have always had the belief that Johnson very quietly voted for Dr. Homer Rainey in 1946. that. Lady Bird would know. I have

Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had every kind of problem. We first had to agree to selected categories for the Johnson photograph file. Some of those headings could not be repeated in the subject file because they were such as animals, birds, bill and treaty signings. Then we

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; examples of educational, social and health-related skills that were taught in Job Corps; placement for Job Corps graduates; how Shriver developed the idea for Head Start; the Head Start advisory committee; how Lady Bird Johnson became involved in supporting

Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in Washington, and after I got to know him better I determined that his politics were obviously somewhat more liberal than mine or perhaps the gentleman from Kentucky. And then to keep the thing in perfect focus, there was a lady that showecl up who

Oral history transcript, Helene Lindow Gordon, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it had happened. F: It didn't make any commotion. L: No, oh no. I would have felt terrible if I had. But then Lynda Bird felt faint right after that. F: Then you rush off for the reception. L: Then back to the reception. F: What was that like

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the struggles we had on the task force. F: H: Ladies' garden clubs and so forth. Ladies' garden clubs. You throw a few flowers, and the blacks are supposed to be happy inside the ghetto. that kind of incongruity about it. I mean, it has Now, when Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

? R: History major. G: Okay. R: We had some wonderful history teachers. G: Who were some of your memorable teachers? R: Well, I remember Miss [Retta] Murphy. I can't remember why I knew that, but-- She was a large lady. every little detail
at the college; the College Star; LBJ in later years; Fenner Roth, Wilton Woods and LBJ; other students at the college; Welly Hopkins’ campaign; opinion about Box 13; LBJ as a politician; LBJ and debates; Dr. Evans; impressions of Lady Bird; religion.

Oral history transcript, William Lewis and Margaret Chase Smith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1975, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for that family, and I think perhaps that was one tbing that helped him help me, because he could see that he would like to have his women, wife and daughters, in the same position. I'm not sure, but I felt that sometimes. F: Did you get to know Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, some times we'd talk about other things. F: When did you all tend to meet--after hours? C: Oh, yes, always. F: What were after hours? C: It was really amazing. I have been over there again and again, and Mr. Johnson would call up Bird

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Friday -- I -- 9 F: To Raleigh. The Lady Bird Special. T: To Raleigh, right

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

said, "Look, this is a ridiculous situation," and furthermore, now that I look back on it, it does seem funny. He said, "Lady Bird (oY! the Hfll) has got her beautification bill up thereX Now, we can't mess up the beautification bill in Congress just

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

who are there but whom we haven't been able to put our fingers on. can do that for me. You If you don't get the proper kind of response from me, take it up with Lady Bird because she and Liz Carpenter mount that door all the time, and put

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there was a very close, personal friendship between them, and still now between Mrs. Wirtz and her daughter, Ida May, and Lady Bird. G: What was Senator Wirtz like? How would you describe him to someone who never met him? D: I would say he was a little larger

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

; contact with community leaders; conflict of subway vs. freeway; housing problems; unique business and economic situation in D.C.; tourist trade; LBJ's interest in D.C. government; Lady Bird's beautification program; bipartisan support; personal summary

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

after the 1964 election; Credibility Gap; press secretaries; books about LBJ; letters from LBJ; LBJ’s personality; 1948 election; 1941 special election; foreign affairs; LBJ’s withdrawal; opinion of LBJ as a President; Lady Bird and their daughters.

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

; campaigned in Texas in every election since 1954; 1957 Civil Rights Act; LBJ’s philosophy of the art of the possible; labor issues; 1960 support of Symington; Lady Bird; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt; comparison of Labor Department under JFK and LBJ; LBJ’s

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

house, he was head of NASA then. Lady Bird came in and she just let me have it. M: About the same piece? R: About the same piece. Mr. Roberts? Finally she said, "What would you have us do, How should the Vice President conduct himself? You

Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that quest for votes. I remember Tom Clark and his wife were along, and one other couple. They also invited Lyndon and Lady Bird. It was on Sunday, and we were on one of the Treasury boats on the Potomac. And Lyndon was just as mad as he could be because

Oral history transcript, G. Mennen Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/8/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the White House as the most rewarding time of his life; why O'Brien never ran for elected office; the role of women in the 1960 and 1964 presidential campaigns; Lady Bird Johnson's 1964 whistle stop tour through the South; the excitement of election night

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, we landed on the private strip. I don't say anything to Gronouski [or] Rusk, and nobody says anything to me. I was considerably at sea about this whole thing. So, anyway, Lady Bird greeted us and made us feel at home, and everything is wonderful

Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

back on the old championship 1921 team. He's a good friend of my brother's and they go bird hunting together down there. He'd tell me about the time Ed Horton and I--Ed's dead now--they'd take us on the bus and feed us because we just took off to see

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

PrHsident from time to time and l liked him and p:irticularly liked Lady Bird, and on at least one occasio'1 I was at his ho1.ise for that period. dinn·~r, and 0:1r relations seemed p•2rfectly amicab12 in And I llked George Reedy and Walter Jen'

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Scott -- I -- 20 he'd call and say, "Lady Bird, can we pick you up? We've got a few sticky children here that want to tell you hello

Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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