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: Georgetown, San Marcos, and an address in Houston to the Independent Petroleum Association. And then a big important thing, the JeffersonJackson Day Dinner in Oklahoma City for Senator [Robert] Kerr and Senator [Mike] Monroney. But he did not get away from
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee work trying to control spending and corruption; Luci's early interest in religion; the tidelands issue; the possibility of Dwight Eisenhower running for president; returning to visit San Marcos with LBJ; growing media

that we started running for the Senate in 1941, when I remember clearly pictures of us on that front porch. But I think it is the Senate that I am remembering. G: The President made his initial speech in San Marcos at the college. J: Yes. G

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

than she had anticipated and perhaps a little more seriously than she had anticipated. (Laughter) G: Did you start the next morning for San Marcos? J: Yes, he came by and picked me up. I was hesitant and unsure, but I knew that I didn't want to say
Johnson's financial difficulties; the relationship between LBJ and his father; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; Mrs. Johnson's trip with LBJ to San Marcos, the King Ranch, and Corpus Christi; the Kleberg family, including Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg, Richard

similar to 1937. We opened in San Marcos; we closed at his boyhood home in Johnson City. The same factors were strong helpers, the people he had gone to school with at San Marcos, the people he had worked with in the NYA [National Youth Administration

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in San Marcos. Remember, you stopped there on your way down to the King Ranch? You said it was a rather modest house, but do you remember [any details]? J: It was a modest frame house, Victorian, as I recall. San Marcos was a center where a lot
The Johnson family's home in San Marcos; what Lady Bird Johnson thought of LBJ's early career prospects; LBJ's response to a job offer from Charles Marsh; LBJ's ability to remember names; Mrs. Johnson's reluctance to marry LBJ; the weeks leading up

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

was to us to have given us Jesse Kellam from 1945 to his death in 1977. [Inaudible] enabled Lyndon to say in public office. M: How did he come into your life? J: Lyndon had known him in Southwest Texas, in San Marcos, Teacher's College. Jesse was a little

think it was, River Authority. I remember we went once more-through the years this was a constant thread--to his old alma mater, San Marcos. This time it was to homecoming festivities, a very picturesque campus. I've always approached it with a lot
fondness for his alma mater in San Marcos; the House Un-American Activities Committee; Christmas 1947; a portrait of Mrs. Johnson, Lynda, and Luci given to LBJ for Christmas; Luci's christening; the creation of a 70-group air force; LBJ's relationship

she had an office. We made our opening campaign speech in San Marcos and Dr. [Cecil] Evans, the president of the school when Lyndon was there, was at our side lending dignity, and Ed Cape, of course. It was a summer of enormous effort. I remember

route to that, Marietta and I were going to attend a tea at Seguin put on by Lyndon's old San Marcos friend and NYA [National Youth Administration] friend Wilton Woods and his sweet little wife, Virginia. They had just invited everybody, every lady

at the Capitol, sponsored by the American Legion. And back to his old, most friendly town of San Marcos for a speech. And Lockhart. It was just a constant thread of going through these ten counties and these hundred or so towns. I remember the phrase often used

got good crowds and good response. All of the things that he had-seeds that he had sown in the past bore fruit, especially and continuingly his association with San Marcos, the school where he went, and with the NYA [National Youth Administration

was certainly one of them. In the early days we would go to Cape Camp on the Blanco River--I think it's the San Marcos River, same clear green though. At times it was Charles' and Alice's [Marsh] beautiful Longlea down in Culpeper. It became Brackettville

was a key man behind it, and Everett Looney would have been helping, and all of Lyndon's old, strong folks from the NYA and the San Marcos school were getting organized for a campaign to sign petitions for him to run again, thinking that if they showed up

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXVII -- 4 universities outside the ones that the Tenth District had made his chief objectives, like Southwestern and San Marcos. He would go to Lubbock

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

of John Henry. M: You were right to the end of his life, as I recall. J: Yes, yes. And I want to tell you this. Many years later, at one of those annual parties that are given on Lyndon's birthday, at San Marcos State Teacher's College

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