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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

' Red Cross. B ut early in the year of 1949 when Lyndon was first sworn in as a senator, right on up through this whole year of 1960, I was a devoted, interested member. M rs. [Pat] Nixon, the wife of the Vice President, was the presiding officer
; Pat Nixon; Marvin Watson; visiting Acapulco and Mexican President Miguel Aleman and his family; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Sam Houston Johnson's hospitalization for alcoholism; a Johnson family history of alcoholism and depression

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

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

came up for that, and the Vice President, Mr. [Richard] Nixon, with Pat dropped by to pay his respects to his President's Cabinet members. In fact, we had a large quota of Republicans there: the Speaker, Joe Martin--it was a brief interlude when he

that one of the most faithful, and one of the nicest, ones we ever had was Pat Nixon. I don't think she missed a Tuesday unless she was out of the country with her husband. We took it rather seriously. I, too, later on acquired that job. We had a high point

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be better if he didn't come out, get involved in the political race and endorse Daddy. During the campaign it was reported that Dr. Graham's daughter was at a Nixon rally, so Daddy called up [Dr. GrahamJ. LN: Goldwater. LR: I beg your pardon

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)

or tips on to Mrs. Nixon? Dr. Gould's essay is going to focus in on the institution office of First Ladies and we're sort of interested of the in whether there LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

fizzled out. I don't know exactly when and how it lost all its steam; I don't remember. But at any rate, the Republican one was over in rather quick time with [Dwight] Eisenhower nominated and [Richard] Nixon nominated for the vice presidency

, and to take this lesser job. But, Lyndon feared that the Democratic Party would lose, [Richard] Nixon would win, and the Democratic Party would be out for years and years. And so he opted for doing what he thought of as a duty, and accepting the nomination

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXVII -- 7 whip. The most spectacular election, probably, was an ugly one, in which Richard Nixon defeated our old friend, Helen Gahagan Douglas. That was when
throughout Texas; LBJ's relationship with people in the oil industry; the 1950 congressional elections; Richard Nixon defeating Helen Gahagan Douglas in the 1950 California Senate race and how it affected LBJ's relationship with Nixon; Anna Rosenberg

] Nixon presiding over the Senate. Well, as far as my life goes, I didn't see an awful lot of Lyndon that fall and after the flood was over, the drought took up again. Oh, we had several years of a wretched drought. The ground cracked open. And sometime

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

you remember the hotel that you lived at? J: I think it was called the Nixon. It was the old Driscoll Hotel, it seems to me, that we stayed in when we made our brief trip down there to meet his boss. But I believe we lived in--frankly, I don't know

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

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

this was Liz's advice, and golly, I'm glad she spoke up and did it, because I think this is something that ought to have been done. Nixon had poured just as much effort into this 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

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

Clements, and it seems to me [George] Smathers, Senator Smathers, of Florida was a moving figure in that trip. I think that was the time that we meet Bebe Rebozo, the great friend of Nixon, whom we liked. And I believe it was the time when A. W. Moursund

, on the Capitol steps, with Nixon sworn in as vice president. There was general good humor all over the town, a sort of a--bitterness had seemed to stain the last couple of years of [Harry] Truman's time. Interesting to look back on in view of the warm

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