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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner for the eastern states and went to a reception for Adlai Stevenson, given by Averell Harriman. Steve Mitchell had been made chairman of the Democratic National Committee, being Adlai's choice. It ushered in--well
  • LBJ's election as Senate minority leader in 1953; the small numerical difference between majority and minority parties in the 1953 Senate; committee assignments; the Johnsons' social life in early 1953; the Eisenhower inauguration and related events
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the President and the head of the Democratic National Committee, [who] was a venerable and very nice old gentleman, but I don't think he was very active-was that Drury [Flynn]? G: It may have been. J: It resulted in Lyndon being asked to take over
  • to Washington, D.C.; Dorothy Jackson's marriage to Philip Nichols; anticipation of a world war; Charles Marsh telling the Johnsons about the dangers of Adolf Hitler; Welly Hopkins' work for United Mine Workers; the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • immediately sort of vibes in Texas as the year got in gear. At the Democratic National Committee, overtures were being made to it to have [Allan] Shivers recognized as the leader of the Texas Democrats. That developed steam as the year went 1 LBJ
  • ; assembling a Senate committee to investigate Senator Joseph McCarthy; LBJ's support for President Dwight Eisenhower; Lynda's illness in the fall of 1954; Willie Day Taylor's help to the Johnsons; South Korean President Syngman Rhee's toast regarding war
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that loomed before us was September 13, which was about at that time seven or eight days away, when there was going to be a State Democratic [Executive] Committee meeting. It was going to be in Fort Worth. Lyndon began to get out word to all of his friends
  • against the certification of LBJ as the Democratic nominee for Senate; Davidson's relationship with Mrs. Johnson's father, T. J. Taylor; irregularities in voting results throughout Texas; Judge Davidson signing the injunction enjoining the Texas secretary
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have an uninstructed delegation go to the Democratic National Committee. And [Joseph] McCarthy, that show was still going on. He was suing Senator [William] Benton for libel, and Senator Benton was proposing his ouster from the Senate. 12 LBJ
  • committee work and tidelands issues; the dedication of the Alvin Wirtz Dam; the Paley Report on the use of natural resources; Coke Stevenson's possible run against LBJ in 1954 and other political races; Christmas 1951 and visiting with the extended Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they'll suffer from a Republican victory." Another kind of a thorn in Lyndon's side, as I remember, was that he wasn't really simpatico with the new head of the Democratic National Committee. I believe it was Steve Mitchell. They were just on different
  • The presidential campaign in the fall of 1952 and LBJ's involvement; controversy surrounding LBJ's support for Adlai Stevenson; LBJ's travel to campaign for fellow Democrats; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriage in the fall of 1952; Senator Ernest
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Clarence had simply settled here, regrettably, and nobody had gotten the county lines changed, because Lyndon voted in Blanco [County] always, from the beginning, as I still do. The Republican National Committee met in Chicago. [Robert] Taft's drive simply
  • Furniture for the LBJ Ranch; living at the Ranch for the first time in the summer of 1952; LBJ's legislative work in 1952, including military waste and tidelands; the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago; controversy surrounding
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • worked fairly well with Morse, and [Styles] Bridges, a Republican, who was anathema to a lot of Democrats, was our good friend and he visited us down here at the Ranch. G: Let me ask you as long as we're on the subject of the committee, about committee
  • friends of Luci and Lynda who regularly attended their parties; LBJ's appointment to a Senate Preparedness Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee; Don Cook of the Securities Exchange Commission; a barbeque hosted by Senator Bob Kerr where no alcohol
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Lyndon as majority leader had to do with that. I thought that came from some committee in the Senate. Was it an appointment delivered by the Majority Leader? M: The Senate Democratic Steering Committee gives the committee assignments, but the majority
  • 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 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , there was a great outpouring, both at the time and when he returned in January, of affection and of comradeship for him. I just sort of breathed a sigh of relief because I thought he was good for the Democratic leadership for goodly more span of time, that he would
  • Democratic National Convention; the support of John Connally and the Wesley West family; early memories of John F. Kennedy; LBJ's senate majority leader office; committee to select the best senators throughout history; LBJ persuading Texas delegates to vote
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ones were going on in very full scale. The Dale Millers, by that time their party for the Speaker--for his birthday--had become customary at the Woman's National Democratic Club, a heavy contingent of Texans, but a widely expanding group. You felt two
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the Democratic Club, the Women's National Democratic Club on New Hampshire. A great gathering of the clan, lots of Texans, lots of other congressmen, and just all the family of the Rayburns that could be present. It was a much-looked forward to, and very special
  • on television; visits to historic sites around the Washington, D.C. area with guests; the 75th Club, the Congressional Club, and Women's National Democratic Club; Mrs. Johnson's interest in interior design; LBJ's decision to run for the Senate in 1948
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of one little room in a hotel, like I think he said Truman had done. Ed Johnson, predictably called Big Ed, senator from Colorado, had us out to his state for a meeting of Democratic leaders, which Lyndon addressed. And I think it was called the national
  • ; the 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's reluctance to fight for presidential candidacy in 1960; support for and disapproval of LBJ accepting the vice-presidential nomination, including the reactions of Sam Rayburn and John Connally; Lynda's location
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • finally got stationed back there, I think, in mid-June. Jesse Kellam would come through every now and then. Sometime along the way that year he got assigned to--he was in the navy. He'd gotten out of the NYA [National Youth Administration] and gone
  • , 1944; press support for LBJ; LBJ's work in the 1944 election; Mrs. Johnson's trip to New Hampshire to christen the U.S.S. Tench; family members hospitalized in the summer of 1944; the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; LBJ winning his
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • booth, there's President Johnson on the telephone. CA: (Laughter) Can I tell one of my Johnson experiences? In the summer of 1964, during the Republican National Convention, the Democrats as usual had a recess. So we recessed until they finished
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Birthplace? J: From where you would cross the river on the dam, the low water dam. You do not now cross it; nobody does. The National Park Service has closed that entrance. But then you 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • night, I understand. J: Yes. Well, Wooldridge Park was the place, I don't know what the agora was really like in the life of democratic, so-called democratic Athens, but I gather it was a place where everybody went and spoke their piece. Well
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • from NYA [National Youth Administration] days, where he'd been on Lyndon's board of advisers, and his pretty, perky little wife. Everybody in town was there, probably a quorum of the Senate, Senators [Estes] Kefauver and Kerr with their wives, Dick
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Republican or Democrat, and I never was sure who was who. Somewhere along the line Maggie--Warren Magnuson--was a member of Naval Affairs. Lyndon got the Chairman to appoint a committee to investigate naval personnel itself, to make sure that able-bodied men
  • LBJ's involvement with the Naval Affairs Committee in 1943 and efforts to stop absenteeism in navy jobs; food rationing in World War II; how life in the United States changed during WWII; attitudes toward military service; German-American
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was there as an honor guest, and also Mrs. Alma Lee Holman, who was the Democratic committeewoman. John Connally gave a talk on the man, Lyndon Johnson, and then naturally they had some singing. There always is. This time it was old familiar Jesse James of KTBC fame. He
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but at first he refused to go along with Truman. Later on I think he did raise money for the national ticket. So the Democrats had appointed [Byron] Skelton, but they couldn't get him in somehow; I don't remember the details of the fight. (Interruption) So
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Democratic National Committee. They would enjoy some relaxing moments on the ship. G: Was there a vacuum in Washington, a political vacuum, after Roosevelt's death? J: There was a queer sort of a sense, as I said, of everything having come to a halt
  • on the Naval Affairs Committee; LBJ's interest in defense and the military; constituents staying in the Johnsons' home in Washington, D.C.; Lynda Bird Johnson's first birthday; African-American employees; LBJ's career aspirations; Bill Deason's marriage; FDR's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the problems of the world do change. NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] was coming into being, the long torturous steps of being proposed by [Harry] Truman and nations signing it, and then its having to go through both bodies. And foreign aid, both
  • of Texas; LBJ's continued interest in his local Texas supporters as he became senator and took on national interests; civil rights and the desegregation of the military; Alger Hiss and his sister, Anna Hiss; David Lilienthal; South Texas federal judgeships
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there was no job description for it. Of course, I couldn't vote, nor could I serve on the committees, but a congressman's office is largely a service organization. He deals with his three hundred thousand or so constituents and tries to lead them by the hand
  • . Cecil Evans; Allred's Senate loss to W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel; time spent relaxing at the National Youth Administration building on Buchanan Dam; LBJ's fried egg breakfast being interrupted by telephone calls; the Johnsons' house at 4921 Thirtieth Place
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • given for Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose birthday was about January the sixth. The most important one was always Scooter Miller's and Dale's, which usually took place at the Women's Democratic Club. However, we began having one for the children
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Roosevelt was talking about--I don't remember exactly, but probably it was lend-lease. At any rate, he was nibbling at the edges of help to Britain. We were not scared as a nation and we were not sold on it. He was trying to take us as far as we would go, I
  • to be on the Appropriations Committee; the many visitors and long hours of work LBJ enjoyed; socializing in Washington, D.C., at the 75th Club, the Congressional Club, theater and parties; Lady Bird Johnson's movie camera; Lady Bird Johnson's walk through the slums
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , announced, just a few weeks later, and also the terrifically well-known, very popular chairman of the Un-American Activities Committee, Martin Dies, and he was a national figure, far better known than we were. And a fine young man [also announced] who had
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Electric Association] lines for the Pedernales Electric Co-op out of Johnson City and the building of the co-op building itself. He got an architect whom he had known in NYA [National Youth Administration] days to design it and NYA labor participated
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • events casting their shadow before, and that is a minimum wage bill was proposed. Texas was a conservative state. Lyndon voted to report the minimum wage out of committee. Minimum wage, incidentally, was twenty-five cents an hour at that time. There were
  • Washington, D.C. friendships with people such as Grace Tully, Tom Corcoran, Jim Rowe and Abe and Carol Fortas; arguments for building the dams on the lower Colorado River; LBJ's admiration for FDR; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can't exactly remember when, Herbert and his brother, Charles Henderson. I believe they go back to NYA [National Youth Administration] days. He had talent and artistry. He had everything except just ordinary stability. I mean, sometimes he went off
  • problems of the South; Clark Foreman; a new congressman's wife's duty to call on the wives of her husband's delegation, committee chair, cabinet and Court members; visiting Joseph Edward Davies at Tregaron; LBJ helping Jewish people from Germany in the late
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to me. We had been married I forget how long, I think Lyndon was in the NYA [National Youth Administration]. We still always saw a great deal of the people who had been close to us, and L. E. had been Lyndon's secretary, as you know. We were driving down
  • ; the Johnsons' first apartment; LBJ being chosen to head the National Youth Administration (NYA) in Texas; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Richard Kleberg; early married life; snow in Washington, D.C.; Maury and Terrell Maverick; Bill White; Welly Hopkins