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Cliburn. Somehow I didn't go to this concert with her, but Van Cliburn and his mother and father were her neighbors in East Texas and she'd known them for years. We didn't realize that we were seeing the start of a meteor-like career, but she
Closing up LBJ's Senate campaign headquarters after the 1941 loss; trip to New York City with Gene Boehringer Lasseter to see Van Cliburn; the political importance of postmasters; LBJ's involvement in the extension of Selective Service and the draft

Oral history transcript, Erich Leinsdorf, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the White House. That was a very nice affair. It was an informal supper and I played the piano for Veronica Tyler and Van Cliburn was Master of Ceremonies. It was as I've said before, when there musical and cultural things happening, the President used

States, and do it with a minimum of words, but with words that meant sornetbiµg. You know, I was proud of that part of Texas, to see that kind of performance, I don't think that Van Cliburn ever had a more appreciative audience than the one that he had

like that. I mean, he had Van Cliburn there on the piano, and I mean he had-BW: Oh, it was wonderful. He brought Van Cliburn; his piano was sent in about three days ahead, and all the school children were so in awe of that huge concert grand sitting

Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it. Of course, this is a man of vast--. J: First President in, I don't know when, that has been there. F: Yes. One evening, I remember very well, he went there--and perhaps it was the evening when Van Cliburn was the featured artist. J: He

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

." It was either Stonewall or Fredericksburg; I guess it was Stonewall, where Van Cliburn was going to have a concert later in the week for Chancellor--I guess it was [Konrad] Adenauer of Germany. Wasn't Adenauer the little short fat one? B: That doesn't sound

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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