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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of the school; Sputnik and LBJ's interest in space; LBJ's cousin, Oriole Bailey; Jack and Mary Margaret Valenti's courtship; John F. Kennedy's 1956 visit to Texas and the LBJ Ranch while campaigning for Adlai Stevenson; Christmas family tradition, including
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • . And-- M: Was she--I'm sorry-- J: And I think we made one more trip to Mayo that year. Lord, we were--Lyndon was dogged with so many things. But this time they told him his condition was excellent. Shivers was saying that he could not support a Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • feelings. And his feelings were opposed to Adlai Stevenson, period, and ardently supportive of [Dwight] Eisenhower as I remember. And Lyndon, who believed that, as he would express it, from the court house to White House, on balance, adding it all together
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • Stevenson would not acknowledge him as a person of consequence. LC: Well, attention spans are shorter; elections are more difficult. I don't think presidential libraries have much to do with that. But I don't know, maybe you find that in the-- DC