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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to us a little later. We went once more to Rosemont to Senator [Harry] Byrd's, to his annual May 11 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • Byrd's annual May Sunday lunch; LBJ's relationship with Harry Byrd; visits from the Federated Women's Club and Texas high school classes; drought and water management in Texas; Luci and Lynda's involvement with Girl Scouts and school friends; Luci's
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of the sort of social life I've been describing, and the home life, the wheels of the process of working up toward trying to become the nominee of the Democratic Party went on. But if I have not mentioned our Sunday trips down to Senator [Harry] Byrd's home
  • African-American employees; Sunday meals at Senator Harry Byrd's home; Byrd's personality and interests; story of LBJ getting stopped for speeding on the way to the Byrd home; uses for the Sequoia; the Senate Ladies Club; decorating LBJ's office with items
  • Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mentioned, but which I think this was the very first year that we went to it, was dinner at Berryville, Senator [Harry] Byrd's at Rosemont. That broad veranda, that white-columned house, looking out to the Blue Ridge and to the apple orchards stretching
  • visit to Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Johnson's trip with them to New York City; F Street Club; Joseph Davies' home, Tregaron; visits to Senator Harry Byrd's home; "Byrd houses" along the Appalachian Trail; socializing with the Texas delegation; Tony Buford
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conservative and had a handsome blonde wife. Harry Byrd of Virginia is one. He was an archetype to me. Lyndon had, and I had, enormous respect and affection for him, and his Sunday lunches down at Rosemont were an annual thing that I'd just get mad as hops if I
  • Clinton Anderson, Harry Byrd, Tom Connally, Paul Douglas, James Eastland, Allen Ellender, Allen Frears, Walter George, Theodore Francis Green, Hubert Humphrey and others; Estes Kefauver; Bob Kerr; Russell Long; Joseph McCarthy; George Malone; Wayne Morse
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • group of southerners who had been New Dealers in large per cent, but in some strongly not, like [Lister] Hill and [John] Sparkman, and I think [Russell] Long might fit into that. Then there were the old-line conservatives, led, I guess by [Harry] Byrd
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)