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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/14/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • End of weekend with Walt Rostow family; Air Force One from Austin to Washington, D.C.; Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Burg are houseguests; Paris Peace Talks; announcement about Lynda Robb's pregnancy; dinner for Imelda Marcos of the Philippines; office work
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/25/1966 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • Breakfast, mail & hair done; coffee with Imelda Marcos & other First Ladies; gifts; bus tour of Manila; Lady Bird describes clothing, scenery, art & architecture; Lady Bird chooses artifact from archeological dig; dedication ceremonies, Freedom
Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/9/1942 (Item)
  • Press; Homer Williams of the Postal Clerk (about you); and Mr. Buckner of the San Marcos Record. Today I see I have the fo~lowing to write: Mrs. Dale of the J3J..a.nco_Oounty News; Mrs. Glidden of the Johnson City Courier; and Leslie Cooper ot the San
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 28 (XXVIII), 3/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Georgetown, San Marcos, and an address in Houston to the Independent Petroleum Association. And then a big important thing, the JeffersonJackson Day Dinner in Oklahoma City for Senator [Robert] Kerr and Senator [Mike] Monroney. But he did not get away from
  • Senate Preparedness Subcommittee work trying to control spending and corruption; Luci's early interest in religion; the tidelands issue; the possibility of Dwight Eisenhower running for president; returning to visit San Marcos with LBJ; growing media
Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/17/1942 (Item)
  • it and see that you did in San Marcos and later sp~eohes. However, it is just a brief sentence and says "I am for maintaining the 27½ depletion allowance".) Mr. Gibbons also said it would be helpful to have such statements to keep any of the oil men from
Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/18/1942 (Item)
  • Marcos citizens, one by about a dozen citizens. the other by fully fifty. They are demanding action by Congress to abolish the 40 Hour week-but this is not adequate--! shall just make a copy for us and send the wires on t~ you. I called Malcolm and on his
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/21/1965 (Thursday) (Item)
  • with a group of friends into the libra1·y for 1.f tea and the Miguel Guajardos, from .Acapulco, Babe Yiggins :rnd his . ~ Thursday, January 2 l (Cnntinucd) wife--he is one of Lyndon's old friends from College in San Marcos. ,. Diana, of course
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that we started running for the Senate in 1941, when I remember clearly pictures of us on that front porch. But I think it is the Senate that I am remembering. G: The President made his initial speech in San Marcos at the college. J: Yes. G
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • than she had anticipated and perhaps a little more seriously than she had anticipated. (Laughter) G: Did you start the next morning for San Marcos? J: Yes, he came by and picked me up. I was hesitant and unsure, but I knew that I didn't want to say
  • Johnson's financial difficulties; the relationship between LBJ and his father; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; Mrs. Johnson's trip with LBJ to San Marcos, the King Ranch, and Corpus Christi; the Kleberg family, including Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg, Richard
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/14/1965 (Saturday) (Item)
  • LBJ and Lady Bird walk down to Cousin Oriole's for a visit; breakfast at the pool; Lynda Johnson takes friend sightseeing; Luci Johnson visits and brings friends, and they are going to Mexico; Lady Bird to Blanco State Park and San Marcos; dinner
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • similar to 1937. We opened in San Marcos; we closed at his boyhood home in Johnson City. The same factors were strong helpers, the people he had gone to school with at San Marcos, the people he had worked with in the NYA [National Youth Administration
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in San Marcos. Remember, you stopped there on your way down to the King Ranch? You said it was a rather modest house, but do you remember [any details]? J: It was a modest frame house, Victorian, as I recall. San Marcos was a center where a lot
  • The Johnson family's home in San Marcos; what Lady Bird Johnson thought of LBJ's early career prospects; LBJ's response to a job offer from Charles Marsh; LBJ's ability to remember names; Mrs. Johnson's reluctance to marry LBJ; the weeks leading up
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • was to us to have given us Jesse Kellam from 1945 to his death in 1977. [Inaudible] enabled Lyndon to say in public office. M: How did he come into your life? J: Lyndon had known him in Southwest Texas, in San Marcos, Teacher's College. Jesse was a little
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/10/1965 (Saturday) (Item)
  • San Marcos, Texas
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/21/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • , Braintree, MA; Lady Bird visits with Mrs. Ed Cape of San Marcos about 1937-47, campaigns, and LBJ shaving in a stream; visit with Ambassador and Mrs. Heisberg; dinner with LBJ; Lady Bird catches up on reading; Lady Bird & LBJ talk of railroad negotiations
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/20/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • i t . There had been q u i t e a d i s c u s s i o n a s t o wh i c h band w ou ld l e a d th e p a r a d e . L i t t l e San Marcos S o u th - w e s t S t a t e C o l l e g e Band, L yndon’ s Alma ma t e r or t he proud ora n g e and w h i t e o f
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/7/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • ; Johnsons ride around in "broncos;" Lady Bird back to LBJ Ranch to meet the John Secondaris; several guests for dinner and then viewing of the beautification film; LBJ shows guest his college editorials; bill signing at Texas State University, San Marcos
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/28/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • for Sears, Roebuch community development program; LBJ talks about what he did as a young man and how he went to college; LBJ's life at San Marcos State Teachers College; dinner at Camp David; helicopter back to White House
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think it was, River Authority. I remember we went once more-through the years this was a constant thread--to his old alma mater, San Marcos. This time it was to homecoming festivities, a very picturesque campus. I've always approached it with a lot
  • fondness for his alma mater in San Marcos; the House Un-American Activities Committee; Christmas 1947; a portrait of Mrs. Johnson, Lynda, and Luci given to LBJ for Christmas; Luci's christening; the creation of a 70-group air force; LBJ's relationship
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • she had an office. We made our opening campaign speech in San Marcos and Dr. [Cecil] Evans, the president of the school when Lyndon was there, was at our side lending dignity, and Ed Cape, of course. It was a summer of enormous effort. I remember
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/13/1967 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Marcos; Lady Bird says what conditions would cause LBJ to run again; Fortas says it depends on Vietnam; Lady Bird analyzes her own feelings; Johnsons fly to Camp David with guests; walk with Commander Jones' daughters, Karen & Judy, and Courtney Valenti
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/20/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • training camp (Job Corps); LBJ Library and School of Political Science; San Marcos home of LBJ's parents; visit to Julia Kellam; Great Britain & our economy; beautify Washington; Great Society & Department of Interior; deer hunting
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • route to that, Marietta and I were going to attend a tea at Seguin put on by Lyndon's old San Marcos friend and NYA [National Youth Administration] friend Wilton Woods and his sweet little wife, Virginia. They had just invited everybody, every lady
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the Capitol, sponsored by the American Legion. And back to his old, most friendly town of San Marcos for a speech. And Lockhart. It was just a constant thread of going through these ten counties and these hundred or so towns. I remember the phrase often used
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • got good crowds and good response. All of the things that he had-seeds that he had sown in the past bore fruit, especially and continuingly his association with San Marcos, the school where he went, and with the NYA [National Youth Administration
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was certainly one of them. In the early days we would go to Cape Camp on the Blanco River--I think it's the San Marcos River, same clear green though. At times it was Charles' and Alice's [Marsh] beautiful Longlea down in Culpeper. It became Brackettville
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/27/1966 (Thursday) (Item)
  • LBJ's phone calls & conferences make them late; President & Mrs. Marcos meet Johnsons at airport; flight to Thailand; met by Prime Minister Kittikachorn; helicopter to Bang San; Lady Bird describes landscape, fields of tapioca, beach house, flora
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a key man behind it, and Everett Looney would have been helping, and all of Lyndon's old, strong folks from the NYA and the San Marcos school were getting organized for a campaign to sign petitions for him to run again, thinking that if they showed up
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXVII -- 4 universities outside the ones that the Tenth District had made his chief objectives, like Southwestern and San Marcos. He would go to Lubbock
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • of John Henry. M: You were right to the end of his life, as I recall. J: Yes, yes. And I want to tell you this. Many years later, at one of those annual parties that are given on Lyndon's birthday, at San Marcos State Teacher's College
Folder, "[Public Activities - Biographic Information - Navy] Sampling - Mrs. Johnson's Correspondence During LBJ's Active Military Duty," LBJA, Subject Files, Box 74 (Item)
  • . Johnson House of Representatives Washingbon, D.C •. Dear Bird: I was delighted to have your letter and to hear the report of your conversation with Mr. Cawthon. Needless to say, it was exceedingly good news to me and to Boyd. Boyd is in San Marcos