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Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

around and the reason he picked Lady Bird was because she too had extraordinary sensitivity as well as a great deal of intelligence and a fine character. All these talents counted up. I wrote a piece about her, right after they went into the White
of HHH; JFK, LBJ and press attitudes; anti-Johnson campaign 1960-1969; contacts with President LBJ and Lady Bird;

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

recall my own little emotional problem of, what will I call him? Over the years I had called him "Lyndon," called Mrs. Johnson "Bird," and they had called me "Willis." As he became vice president, I fumbled around a little bit and would say, "Mr. Vice

Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

was the apartment? T: Oh, Woodley Park Towers on Connecticut Avenue. And I don't know now whether that was their first home or not. I don't recall that. But I know they did live there for a number of years, and we lived there. Certainly Bird, as we called her
Biographical information about Albert Thomas; Thomas’ race for Congress in 1936; appointment to House Appropriations Committee; Thomas’ contributions to Houston and Harris County; First acquaintance with LBJ; role of a politician’s wife; Lady

Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

she performed her role as first lady sufficiently? V: Oh, I would say that's an understatement. I think she's been one of the best first ladies we ever had. M: Why do you say that? V: Well, partly because I think that she could meet with any
First meeting LBJ; impressions of LBJ as a Congressman and Senator; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; rural electrification; defeated in 1946 Senate race against Nixon; Cooperative League; meeting Lady Bird; assessment of LBJ's performance

Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

president, the former president and now a statesman . F: Our former friend . J-9 : No, he's not a former friend because he's still my friend . He and his wife have been my friends for a long time and I've been their friend . In fact, Lady Bird has

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to stand still. F: Was there any time for socializing? C: Not really, initially. You mean with him? F: With him or with Lady Bird or with each other? Or make outside friends? Did he encourage you to spread yourself around so that you would know people

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

factotum. was in the Eisenhower years. This I was in Washington for a meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and at some raucous late-night party I ran into Lyndon and Lady Bird. We were standing around talking and drinking--it was very
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; Democratic political campaigns leading to 1956 Convention; Central High School integration; 1960 Democratic Convention and Kennedy-Johnson nomination; relations with LBJ as VP; ghost writing for Lady

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

rOOIn and there were only, four or five there. r guess I remeInber Lyndon Johnson talking about his great need • • • the way he put it, that he owed so Inuch to Lady Bird and the fact that he was determined to, as it were, pay her back and Inake
Biographical information; initial association with LBJ; 1948 Senate campaign; Carl Estes; 1952 campaign and Texas Democrats; Texas delegation to Chicago Democratic National Convention, 1956; Lady Bird; racism and civil rights; Democratic State

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

something, so Lady Bird came down and was quite gracious. She really rescued the occasion. It wasn't much, but this honor guard had pulled out there; you can't just leave them alone. Then, let's see now. G: Now, there were several days of briefings

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: And his sweet wife, Lady Bird . That relationship began in 1937, again, in a left-handed way because I was not involved personally in that campaign . I happened to be in Brenham in the spring or early summer of 1937, just after Lyndon had announced

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to see the people with whom they Some of the classes with children were con ducted in the center and she was involved in those . [She] wanted to see the classes in operation and wanted to participate in them. We wondered how the First Lady was going
VISTA Training program; Lady Bird Johnson's visit and commencement address to the first VISTA class; Office of Emergency Planning

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to come to dinner quite often at our house with Lady Bird, and he was a great talker and a great charmer. Let's say we had twelve people for dinner, and sitting around after dinner he would grab them and hold them for a long period. You have been

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the time . Pt : Did Lady Bird campaign? 0: Yes, she did . I never followed her, but I knew, as a matter of fact, that she was having receptions different places . . M: She went one direction, and he went another . 0: They didn't go together

Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

time we were out there, and he just decided to take the press corps on a tour of the Ranch house. We walked in there and he said--and I quote--we were upstairs looking in the bathroom and he says, "Lady Bird's going to kill me for showing you all

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that kind of thing that I think most people don't know about Lyndon Johnson. I think people realized that Lady Bird was very much that way, but I don't think they realized that he was the kind of person that in the middle of a busy day and you said your
of Distinguished Service Medals; LBJ's preference for organization and good management of time; LBJ signing photographs and his use of photography; LBJ's teasing; how Bonanno learned from LBJ to use her temper to her advantage; LBJ's moods; Lady Bird Johnson's

Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, as a consultant. He set up an I think he must be on to Lyndon's payroll. F: Was Lady Bird much in evidence in those days, or did she emerge later? Was she pretty much just the wife? H: You mean when he was--? F: When he was senator. H: Well, she

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in their home while I was in company punishment, and my wife's reactions to the rather summary and, to her, high-handed way he ran his household served to highlight the fact that lady Bird is an unusual person. She never gave the impression of worrying at all
; LBJ’s 1937 campaign for Congress; Claude Wild’s influence on LBJ as his campaign manager; Lady Bird; Fort Worth incident to keep LBJ off the runoff ballot; Abe Fortas’ prepared opposition paper.

Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

coffee, and I got off to one side, and I was talking to Lady Bird and Johnny Lyle. Lyle was the congressman from the Fourteenth District at the time, and I was never so embarrassed in my life. Johnny Lyle got to talking. He said, "You know, I came

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, have you ever met or had any dealings with Mrs. Johnson- -with Lady Bird? c: No, but my wife has. My wife has, on numbers of occasions, been a guest of hers in the White House. So I might have been in the White House, but- -I used to kind of play
independence; wife's opinion of Lady Bird; strong Kennedy supporter; supper with RFK the night before his assassination; incident on plane after RFK's death; relationship between RFK and LBJ

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to Lady Bird's and his thirtietb anniversary, which fell a few days after the 1964 election. very good party. It wasn't a. I remember I sat between Mrs. Justice [Tom] Clark and Mrs. Scooter Hiller, which is not my ideal seat at table. About the only

Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. M: Johnson worked for Kleberg for awhile, did he not? B: Yes, this was earlier before he became NYA administrator . As a matter of fact he lived here in Corpus for awhile, he and Bird both after he married . But this was before my time with him

Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; the 1964 presidential campaign; Bean's return to law practice as Johnny Cash's lawyer; Tony Lama's connection to Bean and boots for LBJ; LBJ's delay in supporting civil rights legislation; Bean's opinion of Lady Bird Johnson.

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ink. F: On that Senegal trip, I seem to remember an incident of he and Lady Bird going out among all the tailors in the place and with a sewing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
humor; camel driver's visit to U.S. and LBJ ranch; travel with LBJ as President; LBJ's selection of presidential gifts; graciousness of LBJ and Lady Bird; ambassadors' visits with LBJ; state dinners; LBJ's concern for people needing help; foreign policy

Oral history transcript, Georgia Cammack Edgeworth, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that church and has done an awful lot for the little church there. And I believe Lady Bird brought a stained glass window from Europe and it's in the little church now. Really, it was nothing but a one-room church when I was a girl, when we were children

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[as servicemen], and then they were actually all recalled. did come back. first, to go in. Before the war was over, they all And Lyndon was one of the first ones, if not the I remember seeing him right before he left. turned the office over to Lady Bird. Lady

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

long. But anyhow, he accepted the invitation and came up by helicopter on a rainy night, brought Lady Bird along. He sat in the chair there waiting for his turn to speak, and I talked to Lady Bird, and I said, "Lady Bird, tell me the truth. What

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

/loh/oh WIGGINS -- I -- 25 watermark in the turning of the tide. It was the first real legislative defeat he had and he did everything to get that bill passed but beyond that he was interested in the District everywhere. M: Of course, Lady Bird. W

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

then in the government. I have a very vivid recollection that one of the persons present was Lady Bird Johnson, whom I guess I had never heard of before. he \'/as ill. He [Lyndon Johnson] was not there because The one thing that stands out in my memory of the whole

Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the country. a story can. You see what I mean? And then here is the A picture can tell more than You can write what you want to. Now, if you ' 11 move over here a minute. [Looking at photo in his book], "Teenager Lynda, Lady Bird, Lyndon, and Mother

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and it was at the guest house--and when they had the blueprints out, my mother asked Lady Bird for a copy of the blueprints, which she gave her. And that was the beginnings of Waverly, and Waverly is essentially a modification, a much larger home than that original
Humphrey and Lady Bird Johnson; Humphrey Jr.'s activities in the years immediately following the Johnson-Humphrey Administration; Humphrey Jr.'s forgiving nature; LBJ's and Humphrey Jr.'s inability to connect with television viewers; the 1960 Democratic

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was talking to? F: Yes. But there were two ladies in nice tweed suits and good flat, solid shoes with cameras, and they saw us. Well, I was wearing a yellow costume, Mrs. Johnson was wearing red, and Liz was wearing bright green. Or maybe vice versa
[For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] Johnson, Lady Bird. True, they had the whistle-stop and, true, the Senator and Mrs. Hill rode with them, but again I don't recall that as taken as a real great effort. It was an effort. I think that's about the best you can say for it. G: Was Senator
1960 Democratic National Convention; Alabama citizens' opinion of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon; the Kennedy/Nixon debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; LBJ's and Lady Bird Johnson's 1960 campaign trip through Alabama; LBJ's ambition; LBJ as vice

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

consideration. That was somewhat controversial, as I recall, but again, insofar as back home, we really didn't have any interest in that. G: How about the Highway Beautification Act? C: Well, if it's the one I'm thinking about that's the one that Lady Bird

Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there practically living with Lady Bird during that time, and I asked Elizabeth how did an experienced man like Lyndon get trapped into that war. The only answer I got out of El izabeth was, "I think I ought to ask Lady Bird about that." Of course, George Ball

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

. That's General Ernest Thompson and he said, "Lady Bird, do you have a cat?" She said, "Yes, I have a cat." He said, "Well, why don't you go on home and attend to it and let them run the campaign." Then they yielded. Lyndon said at one time that he
“Who the hell is Lyndon Johnson?” Martin Harris; Ray Lee; basic strategy for LBJ; Lady Bird; headquarters in Capital National Bank Building; LBJ meeting with FDR; Maury Maverick; LBJ’s illness; Ben Crider; hillbilly; election night; radio station

Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with people. So we greeted each other in a big way. I introduced my nephew and Lyndon said, "I'm going in for breakfast. with me." So I went in. Come on in He said, "Estelle, I have found the girl I'm going to marry." Then he told me all about Lady Bird

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