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Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22. The other time 1 saw the President was when my wife and 1 were invited to a White House dinner. Lady Bird went up to bed about midnight while President Johnson stayed on and danced until about three-thirty. I was so
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were coming back from We had been to a cocktail party, and we were in terrible distress--is the best word I know to use--to go to the bathroom. There was Lady Bird and Dorothy, my wife, in the car with us, and he just stopped the car out
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the newspapers. So Lady Bird and Johnson, any time one of them came to town, they were treated like royalty. So they sort of denutted poor old Shivers because they took away his strength. I mean, if Shivers doesn't have the support of the Fort Worth paper
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Biographical information; Rayburn; JFK; 1960 Democratic campaign; LBJ’s vice presidency; Lady Bird; Interior; Job Corps; RFK and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Moving ahead just a minute, were you around when Walter resigned? V: Yes. I was not working for the President but Jack was. F: I mean in these very troubled hours when the story first broke. Were you with either Lady Bird or with the President? 10
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to this He invited my wife and me to the White House to a couple of dinners and always recognized us. was always extremely cordial--wonde rful woman. was nothing but kind to us. Lady Bird And the President I remember when I won the Pulitzer Prize, his
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • gave it to Lady Bird, because Lady Bird caught me a week or so later and said she just thought that was lovely; she was just so impressed with it and she wanted to talk to me. And we did eventually talk about it. And I know of one occasion months
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Lynda Bird and Chuck Robb, Tom Johnson, Walter Jenkins, D. B. [HardemanJ. But there's ali ttl e ki nd of a thing that IS not compl imentary to him that nobody knows about that probably ought to be in the mix available only for .scholarly background
Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the only time that we had any difficulty that affected our schedule. F: No contest with birds? M: No, no. We delayed a few times due to thunderstorm activity when we had to land and again we'd always land in a farmer's backyard; did this several times
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was there, and the message came through louder and clearer if the guy left the next day. But I know in a personal way, the Ambassador and Mrs. Lodge invited both Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Mecklin to dinner the nights of their respective husbands' departure, and these ladies
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the same reaction that Johnson had. He said, "This is not the kind of a letter that you write to a charming lady. got to be more gentle and more . . . " It's So he scribbled on it and redrafted it, put in some fulsome language at the end about how
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that, "We can't understand Lyndon." Now there's no point in repeating what live read. But I guess that Lyndon's own prescience, and the advice he may have gotten from Rayburn and others, including Lady Bird, encouraged him to accept. Kennedy had to have
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • everybody, but it was a little vignette that live always carried with me about Johnson. deal about him and Mrs. Johnson. It has always told me a great Of course anybody who is going to understand Lyndon has to understand Lady Bird; it was that kind
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ at the Ranch; Lady Bird’s kindness; breaking the story of JFK’s assassination; transferred to Washington in 1964; contacts and conversation with LBJ; LBJ’s operation to remove a polyp on his vocal chords
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : We did, the second day [after] he was sworn in. G: Let me ask you to describe that evening. M: It was very pleasant. I always thought so much of Lady Bird. 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that . lady, a zealot, down to make her point . Mrs . Peabody was an elderly I had forces in St . Augustine, but I took the position that I couldn't run somebody's restaurant . At that time the civil rights law had not been adopted . I could persuade
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him talking to Senator Russell and Senator Kerr about Lady Bird had spent some of her money buying a ranch. that particular time I had ever been to Texas. was his love. I don't think at This was his hobby, this This did more for him mentally than
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • storm and headed to the Ranch. three or four o'clock in the morning. Got in there around Mrs. Johnson and the other ladies, a friend of hers and Josefa, his sister, were there to meet us and had LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and Jack Vaughn. It was at a cocktail party at Honolulu that President Johnson came up and quietly said--you see, Mac Bundy had already resigned, and there was quite a lot of talk about a successor--that, "Lady Bird and I had been talking about it, and we'd
  • staff and operations; JCS; Rostow’s relationship with LBJ in the White House; Lady Bird; diplomacy with chiefs-of-state; ECAFE; Asian development; LBJ’s speeches; Tuesday Lunches; Vietnam policy under JFK and LBJ; Laos; peace negotiations; RFK and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did, too. Bob had a much looser schedule in that he was covering mainly the First Lady and the East Wing of the White House. That left Kevin and I to operate on an alternating schedule. One of us would be, for a week, on from eight in the morning
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • friendship with Mr. Johnson and with Lady Bird. F: This is rather subjective, but in 1953 he had just been chosen minority leader, a rather junior person really. H: That's right. -- . :t LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; attack on LBJ and Lady Bird at the Adolphus Hotel; Adlai Stevenson; Position of U.S. Attorney; Reception for VP LBJ at the Adolphus Hotel; planning for JFK-LBJ trip to Dallas; November 22, 1963; Bill Alexander wanted to file a complaint on Oswald’s behalf
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; contact with LBJ; Lady Bird; access to the President; Kennedy Round; comparison of LBJ and JFK staffs; support of RFK after 3/31 announcement; LBJ request not to actively support a candidate; difference in general agricultural policy between LBJ and JFK
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the President; he was very sensitive to Fulbright. He had Lady Bird and Mrs. Fulbright socially engaged, trying to keep Fulbright contained. Fulbright was a man of conviction, and he was not trying to destroy Lyndon Johnson; there was nothing personal about
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • another thing on the telephone and I've forgotten what the first name of the Secretary of the Interior was, but President Johnson said, "I've been talking to a friend about the importance of having trees along the highways ; Lady Bird and I have often
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , I wasn't looking for anything, any appointment of any kind. F: You don't want really to get back into that? C: I don't want to go back into that. I just wanted to quit and open my law office. F: Yes. D,id you plant any seeds in Lady Bird's
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, W. Sterling Cole, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • i p he had i n v i t e d to h i s h o u s e — i t was r i g h t soon a f t e r Lady Bird gave b i r t h to t h e e l d e s t d a u g h t e r - - i n v i t e d Ramsey and t h e boy who w r o te t h e book— G: Edd ie H e b e r t . C: Eddie H e b e
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 'Now, I'll let you know, Lady Bird, when I decide to quit.' That's all he would ever tell her, never said yes or no. That's not the answer. I want you to know something. This man does everything for a reason, and so he's got his reasons
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and how you happened to be in Europe at the time of LBJ's trip in May 1945. E: I was stationed at that time at the Rainbow Corner in Paris, and I had been there since about February of 1945. I had been in correspondence with the Johnsons, both Bird
Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had been worried and concerned about both the President and Bird, and I was very proud of them . Because obviously they had gone through three days of extreme emotion by the time we got there, and they were very self-contained and very concerned about