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  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Willis - -II- - 6 worked in that campaign? W: After the second primary it became very difficult because of course as you know, in 1948 Harry Truman made a stand for civil rights. And of course
  • it to carry the supplies in. II So I bought it, and it was pasteboard. And I put all this heavy paper in it, and I stuck in a bottle of bourbon, which we had left over from the weekend. We had very little time to have a drink during the week
  • Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
  • well." He said, 'IWell, do you suppose you could get them to come out against me? II I said, "What do you mean?'1 "I'll tell you what happened. He said, .A little while ago I came home one night and I said to Bird, 'I'm tired of voting the way I
  • Symington was gOing to be the vice presidential candidate. I asked him, II I remember one of them telling me; Well , which one's it going to be?' "It's going to be Symington." And he said, I remember a good deal of surprise LBJ Presidential Library
  • on the plane at seven o'clock that morning, he was dozing and Lady Bird was reading a book. my books out of my little case and began to read. Lady Bird asked me, "Betty, what are you reading?" Il m just studying a lesson. II So I slipped In a few minutes
  • , really? N: He said, IIWhen you're the president or the vice president, or even a governor, all of your dissidents are spread out, II I think his \'lOrds were, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • wonderful. wonderful. II Then we got in the cars and started downtown. Except for a few signs on the way, it was a fantastically friendly crowd. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • should receive II I talked to Walter about it and I said, "I'll undertake this if you want me to," and I did. F: You worked around the clock. S:ยท And I immediately became just swamped with correspondence, but we did try to get out-- F: You had
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Ii~TfTT!IE\'!LE : n:TElzl.'IHJER: Augus t F: LA;~r,.y JOE B, TErlI'LE More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MILLER -- I -- 7 OM: I think I would call him a "hail fellow well met. He never forgot anybody. body. II
  • around the door out there, but [there was] one I took down and now I think I had better put it back. II It was autographed, From Lyndon to Ma rsha 11 McNei 1, my fri end except where a story is concerned. II I thought that was about the finest
  • by eighty-seven votes, I think it was, and they called him IILandslide Johnson. II With that memory tucked way back in there in my mind, I read with interest the statement by this election official or party official or Johnson organizational official [luis
  • of the Preparedness Committee, because he remembered very well that during World War II Harry Truman had been selected as Roosevelt's running mate because of the reputation he made from the old War Preparedness Committee that Truman was the chairman of. I think
  • in the newspaper business, magazine business, World War II service in the Air Corps, and, after the war, your own public relations firm. When in this process did you first meet Mr. Johnson? M: I saw him when he was running for the Senate in 1948. I did
  • Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker
  • II. T: That's right, and in the Reserve between the wars. M: Yes, sir. You married Miss Libbie Moody, is that correct, in 1918. And apparently the Marine Corps brought you to Galveston, and here you met under rather unusual circumstances
  • received a letter from some man who had served with somebody named Ahmed in India during World War II and he wanted to know if it was the same Ahmed. So the White House was calling him, and Ahmed was quite the center of attraction for a while. Lyndon
  • you have learned that the public works bill is alive again. The pro- posed new dam at Waco will be up for consideration, and [he should] get busy and be ready to support it. II Why he didn't pi ck up the phone and call Bob Poage across