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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • public speaking. I didn't even want to get up and say, "Thank you for inviting me to this barbecue." But she could make you think that there were people out there just like you, and look them straight in the eye. Try, and never, never begin with saying
  • 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
  • ; the likelihood that LBJ would go to the Democratic National Convention as Texas' favorite son in 1956; political allies from around Texas meeting at the Ranch; Mrs. Johnson's 1964 letter to LBJ regarding his future as president; Austin Mayor Tom Miller's
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)
  • been to parties at his house, which is right across from where the girls went to school at National Cathedral. And he always had fascinating people to his house. We saw a good deal of newspaper people in those days; chiefly, of course, the Bill Whites
  • 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)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Johnson -- XXXVI -- 2 M: Absolutely. How about any of the people around him? Do you know that any of the people around him were pushing him or hoping that he would--that lightening would strike? J: I think
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • the staff. My memories of him, which I've already mentioned, [are of him] sitting in P-38 typing out imperturbably these wonderful memos and letters, with the confusion around him just cranked up to circus proportions, people coming, going, jostling