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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • ] Castro assuming power in Cuba. Do you remember anything of that? J: Yes. I remember that he came to Washington, made a speech at the press club, was lionized. Everybody was talking about him, except I do not remember anything that Lyndon said
  • Johnson's work for LBJ; Beagle getting loose; how the Johnsons named their dogs; birthday parties for Sam Rayburn and his interest in including the children; Lady Bird Johnson's experience with, and view of, spanking; the American Heart Association's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , the really important people in town must have been absent or something, because I was asked to go and greet him. And this was a benefit for the Washington Heart Association fund drive, in which I was associated. In fact, I was vice chairman of the premiere
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • feel that in that building, and you certainly do through the people that were associated with him. But the fact that Harry was part of his 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of the proper tombstones. Mrs. Johnson also loved to go looking for antiques, particularly early American pressed glass. And every now and then she would buy something so big, like a piece of furniture with a rounded glass front, which was much used, and almost
  • of a restroom; a 1956 birthday party for LBJ with several senators in attendance; LBJ's relationship with Senator William Fulbright; socializing with Walter Lippmann and other members of the press; the National Guard presence in Arkansas to allow desegregation
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • : Yes, yes, yes. How could you not? In fact, that very day Lyndon had had a press conference that had some very difficult questions that made him angry, he probably responded to poorly. Well, I think at some point at the cost of taking more time
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • getting references not only to the fact that he was a representative in front of the press, but that he wrote political memos to the Senator. J: He did. And he joined us I just can't remember exactly when. But Lyndon was very proud of him and was always