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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a secret understanding with the CIO [Congress of Industrial Organizations]. Lyndon spent a lot of time in Dallas. I went to a tea there. I believe that was the time that Mrs. Barefoot Sanders, Jan Sanders, gave one for us, and Tom Clark's--I cannot remember

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 5/5/1943 (Item)

the Dallas office ot WPB, but Jamie in collaboration with lb-. Eeooe had already filled out some Saturday night and ot them oft to the San tonb> otfioe ot B., whioh is the first agency through which they must paaa. Jamie says Ur. Sourry a~s he hae requested

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXII -- 22 recopy them in their own newspapers. The Dallas Times-Herald with Tom Gooch and Albert Jackson at the helm, it was mightily helpful. We've had it both ways, with the press for us and the press against us, and as Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, they were never on the same wavelength. Not hostile, but just distant, I mean Mitchell and Lyndon. Our old friend, Albert Jackson, of the Dallas Times Herald came up and we went 13 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

York. Lyndon usually attended both things, quite often with Johnny Runyon and the Dallas Times Herald people. The American Legion had a big dinner. G: Did you go to that event in New York with him, the newspaper--? J: I often did, and I think

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--no, no, no, no, eight times. They came in in 1945, didn't they? In April of 1945. So, there'd been, possibly, close to eight. Other visitors were our old contingent from the Dallas Times Herald, good friends through the years, Albert Jackson--growing more hunched over

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and then lots of casual dinners for staff, newspaper friends, other senators. We began to branch out more in that year. The children's doctor was Dr. John Washington, who would come any time of day or night, if he felt that tone in your voice that said, "I'm

Letter, Lyndon B. Johnson to Lady Bird Johnson, 5/21/1943 (Item)

other agency in Texas. He has been associated -2- with Radio Stations WFM in Dallas , KTRH in Houston, and KrrAT in Fort Worth, as well as other smaller stations in the state. At one time he was Program Director of the Southwest Broadcasting System

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, newspaper people--there were days when we got along much better with the press than in the later years of the presidency--and Texans. Among them there was Albert Jackson, who actually ran the Dallas Times Herald. Mr. [Tom] Gooch--it was their family

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. We had a cocktail party for them. Spring was the traveling time for constituents, heralded by the Cherry Blossom Festival, and main groups were the DAR [Daughters of the American Revolution], who always came in April and it was impossible to get

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

was seeing, because this was a tightly packed, angry crowd, and these were the people that we had represented since January of 1949. And that was--what was that, eleven years by that time? We thought we knew them. Never [had] been a strong hold for us, Dallas
/Johnson picketers at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas.

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 2/9/1942 (Item)

., Hrs. Palmer waa so cordial 1n her inaistanoe tha:t l drop by 8 omt afternoon for oooktaila that I might do that. I really must clarity to mya•lt wheth•r I can still apend any time on so.o ial stur:. ::r .:;. ,h0'c Stall asked me to lunoheon

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

a job of candid photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, I believe it was. It 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was attorney general of Texas then. Oh, Bill Douglas and Fred Vinson were often there. Judge Marvin Jones and Bob Hannegan and Ed Clark and dear Albert Jackson from the Dallas Times Herald, and Bill Kittrell, who could tell some of the best stories of anybody I
for the University of Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's input on LBJ's decision-making; Dr. Everett Givens; Texas friends who kept LBJ updated on 10th District events and opinions; LBJ's efforts to balance his time in Texas and Washington, D.C., during his campaign; 1946

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 5/10/1943 (Item)

Antonio, .found from San Antonio t hat the PB 800 had been forwarded to Dalla Friday_. found fro r1 Scurry that he ha.d secured authority from aeh ·n ton to pass on the pro3eot, and Scurr;- ea.id he would paa s 1 t with as much spoed as poaaible a.a soon

Press release, "Text of Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Convocation, Texas Womans University, on Receipt of Doctor of Laws Degree, 3/31/1964" (Item)

of the world were swinging open. That is the feeling of great adventure which you have today. The future of young women like you looms bright. Your horizons are not finite. You wfire born at the right time. It is a good time to be a woman. It is a good time

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/10/1967 (Sunday) (Item)

at the door. It was one of the most relaxed and satisfying parties I've been to in a long time, partly because I was still flowing from that sensation of obligation finished -- job accomplished. I had told the White House that there would be no one for supper

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/22/1943 (Item)

your letter of April 17 about Duke Richardson. I talked to Richardson ebout three hours on the train going to Dallas and liked him very much. He sounds like a rather good sales~en, has some ideas, is the sort of man whµ would me.ke himself a part

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/17/1942 (Item)

going to quote to you in part.· · · ,, k,e A,,+Jr.; "Bird, I am so very sad about all this war conditio:;.,,~~,.--so many bad things happening all the time. I an also sad about Bob for I can see nothing ahead for him. If he should have to go he says

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

were due to address the House of Delegates of the American Nedical Association in Dallas. tape) (Gap in But H. G. Dulaney, who runs the Rayburn Library, was going to drive us down, and Mr. Rayburn, for some reason, just couldn't get it together

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/8/1943 (Item)

to ltr-. Escoe, said that he would give notice but he had to talk it over with his wife. 'Nhie:h definitely 1 imi ts his time -r;vith us. because even if he does not quit. I do not want anyone working· for us who has that a tti tu.de. The reason

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/7/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)

a r y 's MEMORANDUM THE W HITE HOUSE Tuesday, A p r il 7, 1964 WASH INGTON Page 5 in Dallas, when I was 15. A l l in all, I'd say, I'd settle fo r m y p erfo rm a n ce today, both fo r m y intake and m y give-ou t, but there is in the background o
Roanoke Island; Lady Bird sees childhood friend, Emily Crow Selden, from St. Mary's Episcopal School in Dallas; Press Reports about LBJ's fast driving at the LBJ Ranch

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

November. If 1949 was a period that for us, and in retrospect it seems to me for the country, was a sort of happy time, in 1950, particularly as the year wore on, there were rising clouds and frustration. The war was continuing in Korea and getting more

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/6/1943 (Item)

ngto n next 5 tur da,y. l b-01 d Es coo I t hollght the A&M b>.1sinea s was in a.b f1te- ment ponding our g etti:ng night time--no need to undertako the e.xpen6e i nvolved in synohronita. tion if th.e ro is a goo d cbnnoe ot ::rett:hig Qn othor frequ

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 5/7/1943 (Item)

advort'i.ain . on the atatlon d 1f he £&Ve orders to run auch advertising he did it without author1&&t1on or aey right to do so. 1 did buy eane time from him,• little bit. on the Tyler atation, thinkin it would be good business to et to thoae oil men dova1

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/31/1964 (Friday) (Item)

Lady Bird lunches with Hugh Sidey and Jean Franklin of Time magazine for study on Lady Bird; tea with friends; visit with friend from youth at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Dallas; Lynda Johnson to New York for Young Citizens for Johnson; Luci

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/4/1943 (Item)

~~'twork .. t t1ona ao• thl 8.JIDlnt eaeh station ets depent191g to a ne extent o.n ow they o n get together on time gen•r l eoo er 1Ye as~ at the gener l policy beine toke p 1t bout even. I' au.re we sell epota before en after the ahowa don'~ know nether e
Johnson family updates, dinner with Mrs. Beale to learn about Radio House (school that produces programs), personnel issues (hiring in times of war), program contract (?), Paul Bolton, Administrative matters - letterhead, CBS, station research

Collection, Papers of James Cato Pattillo (entire collection) (Item)

in our lives some time to go back to Alabama and see all of our kinfolks together. He certainly enjoyed getting to know Uncle John Will and thinks a lot of him. With all best wishes, I am Sincerely '°~~ Pf~ Lady > ird Johnson Mr. J. C. Pattillo

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. They were a big asset to our life and fortunately got along all right, more or less, with Zephyr [Wright]. Because we couldn't have done without Zephyr either. G: Did Helen do any cooking at all when Zephyr wasn't there? J: Yes. There was a time when

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

enable us to see each other several times a week. I'm not sure whether I went over every day; anyhow, we were together a good bit. G: Did you see much of Dallas? I realize that you were sort of walled off. J: A little bit, yes. With a teacher
colleges in Marshall and deciding how to address the president of Wiley College; Mrs. Johnson's experiences as a student at St. Mary's Episcopal School for Girls in Dallas; Mrs. Johnson's appreciation of, and participation in, theater; friends made at St

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Fair in Dallas, a project much softened by the kind presence of Bob Clark and Albert Jackson, those loyal gentlefolk. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to Lyndon. His position on a strong national defense was becoming firmer all the time. The Truman Doctrine was coming into being and the Marshall Plan for economic recovery in Europe was on track and was being evolved by Secretary of State [George] Marshall

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was a center of activity. It was great big, screened on three sides, ceiling fan, lots of comfortable furniture. At some time there arrived in it, as a gift from Tom Clark, a great big double chaise lounge and we covered it full of pillows and everybody headed

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

remember, but living in Dallas at the time. Lyndon was very glad to get him in the Democratic Party, but not really sure that he would go. He did, however. I remember a very nice luncheon being given for him in one of those old Senate rooms that I just

Collection, Papers of Virginia Durr (entire collection) (Item)

will . . : from you - least .' . . . : l clasp your hands • Obviously, coverage I would like, few days this this isn't the thorough but with fifty and is the bs~t we can do. With love and hope that together states at some quieter time, c5la&1

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1977 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Johnson's KTBC apartment, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: I thought that we would talk about your early education and work up to St. Mary's if we have time. J
; attending Marshall High School; Mrs. Johnson's closest friends, including Carl, Gene, and Emma Boehringer and others from Marshall and St. Mary's Episcopal School for Girls in Dallas.

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/21/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

the ranch country; Gwen Gibson of the New Y ork H erald Tribune; and M ary Packinham of the Chicago Tribune; and M u riel Dobbins of the B altim ore Sun, Karen K le in felter, the best thing that happene d to the Dallas N ew s in years; and Norm a Ekdahl

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Judge Jones had been replaced by that time by a young, handsome, affable congressman named Gene Worley. He and his wife Ann became some of our closest friends. Then there was Hatton Sumners from Dallas, quite a character, one of the most conservative
Johnson's time spent sight-seeing and attending events at the Congressional Club or the 75th Club; visiting Bill White in New York City; Sam Rayburn, Wright Patman, Nat Patton, and other Texans in Washington, D.C.; visits with Aunt Effie Pattillo; summer

Press release, "Remarks of the President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Dedication of Eufaula Dam, Eufaula, Oklahoma, 9/25/1964" (Item)

. That development will go ahead, and as President, I am here to promise you that it will go on schedule. just had to break my budget one time this year. I had ::il billion less in the budget this year than last year. I was determined to keep it that way until ~-1ike

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Those are the hallmarks of after an election. I do not remember the time, but at any case the Texas Election Bureau announced that Lyndon was elected with a five thousand vote lead, at some point. So that the next day's paper, the Dallas Morning News

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