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  • Contributor > Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • government field for how many decades? A long, long time. He came during the last days of Woodrow Wilson, I believe, and the best of all times were when he would reminisce about the whole broad stretch of his life in Congress. This was the month when our 75th
  • ; LBJ's and Alvin Wirtz's continued interest in the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA); Welly Hopkins' work with United Mine Workers and John L. Lewis; visits to Harold Ickes' home; hosting other Texans; Tom Corcoran playing the accordion
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Harold Talbott for the air force, I believe. He ran into a good deal of flak on Wilson, who was such a big stockholder in General Motors that the ghost of conflict of interest, whether it was called that or not I don't know in those days
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the administration. Mr. Johnson had me in from time to time when I could do something, or others had me in. On this particular occasion, because I knew some of the people in the British government, I had been sent over to talk with them a little bit before Harold
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • important dropping out at the last minute, I was invited to Mrs. Tydings' house for a small luncheon for Lady Astor. Mrs. [Woodrow] Wilson, the widow of the President, was there, a handsome woman, full-bosomed, feminine, likely to wear a big black velvet hat
  • broken leg; Lady Astor; Mrs. Woodrow Wilson; LBJ's subcommittee work in 1951; tension between Truman and General Douglas MacArthur; MacArthur's dismissal and his testimony before a joint committee hearing; the Johnsons' interest in starting a television