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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Fulbrights. And always our Texas delegation, Lyndon never lost contact with them. Lera [Mrs. Albert] Thomas was one of my good friends. We would go to dinner there occasionally. She was a great collector of antiques, one of those lively, undefeatable women
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Philadelphia, and Governor Thomas Dewey emerged from that as their nominee. Lyndon went on in the helicopter but got stopped. Well, first he did Hillsboro and Meridian. At Hillsboro, all of Mary Rather's folks turned out. Her younger brother, Ed Rather
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had never sought anything himself. And he did--I don't remember how much, but I'm sure we put into it just as much as we could. My brother, throughout all this period, through every race that Lyndon had, Thomas Jefferson Taylor III was county man
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)