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Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . No problem. MG: Yes. G: For one thing, Lady Bird would have taken care that he would be on his best behavior. MG: You mentioned earlier that he had been restless as vice president and that these trips provided him with an outlet, something to do. G
Oral history transcript, William F. Jackson and Lucy Ginter Jackson, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was that day, not a later date, that he took me in to meet Howard--called Howard Burris and George Reedy in, and I had a chance to meet and talk with them for a while. I liked both of them. I liked both of them. Of course, George I consider a very fine bird. 2
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to talk about it. He wanted to get it out of his mind if he possibly could. Later, when Rayburn actually died, I remember we were in an automobile and I don't recall the circumstances, but there was Lady Bird Johnson and myself in the front seat and I
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Biddle -- Special Interview -- 15 B: And of course, Lady Bird herself was always interested in this area, but more in the beautification
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /loh/oh 12 the stamina. Maybe she's the one that's held everything the way it's held. F: Did you get any opportunity to notice whether Jacqueline Kennedy slighted Lady Bird Johnson? M: I've known Jacqueline Kennedy since she was eleven years old
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • - ship that we wouldn't have had otherwise. I've had dinner in his home in Washington before, not when he was in the White House, but when he was in Congress. And I will say another thing: . Lady Bird \.oJould just bend over backwards to go along
  • Wirtz as LBJ’s primary mentor; LBJ’s relationship to Herman Brown and Alvin Wirtz; LBJ’s political style of compromise and how he exercised influence; unions; Brown and Root’s campaign contributions; Lady Bird’s ability to accommodate LBJ’s schedule
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that station at the tim.e that Lady Bird bought it would have seen it grow fantastically in value just because of the rate of growth of the industry. have no direct knowledge of it. But I myself It was just in the nature of the industry that people who got
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for all of the blessings that he had, like Lady Bird and his children and his mother and Walter and, you know, the people that he--I think he was thinking how lucky he was, but he would certainly never indicate to anybody around him that this was it, he's
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • House dinners? Was this used? D: Yes. All the state dinners would go from the State Department; State prepared them. They'd go from the State Department to the social secre- tary of the White House and the First Lady like for entertainment. They'd
  • of White House tours; state dinners; value of using the Sequoia; receptions and stag dinners for Congress at the White House; Lady Bird; Air Force One travel; appointments and congressional recommendations; LBJ's persuasive powers; Everett Dirksen; dealings
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • striving. It is difficult, particularly in the case of Rose Garden speeches, to give a substantive speech to a group of young children; to some collection of ladies clubs; to a group of visiting teachers from Ireland. Yet there, too, is the excitement
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on an hourly basis. I guess it was summed up one night when we had a loss in the House in the wee hours of the morning. I've told that story. But I think, again, it's like Lady Bird with the sweater. You're drifting home, you're rather depressed, it was unusual
  • of Congress; LBJ's long work days and Lady Bird Johnson's efforts to get him to stop working so he would eat or sleep; JFK's practice of delegating authority compared to LBJ's desire to be personally involved at all levels; JFK's and LBJ's relationships
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • President, the new President, sworn in-F: Or to accompany a new president. R: --and even less that we were going to fly back on the plane with the dead President, the new President, Jackie, and Lady Bird, and most of their staffs. F: Let's slow up just
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • quite a businesswoman. G: She is quite a businesswoman, and quite a lady, and they were very fortunate to have, handling their business for many years while they were here and were gone, Mr. Kellam 4 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Biographical information; working for Homer Thornberry; Lady Bird Johnson as a businesswoman; Jesse Kellam; how Gideon came to know LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; the relationship between LBJ and Wirtz; George and Herman Brown; the relationship between Wirtz
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • role as a hostess and first lady with a-- E: Top notch. With lots of charm, lots of warmth, and yet with lots of know-how. Nothing hard or brittle about the lady obviously, but she was sophisticated in the ways of the world, also quite interested
  • regarding banking and appointments; reaction to LBJ's decision not to run; admiration of Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • of time after he had run for the Senate and was defeated, and he went into the service in the Navy in the Pacific for a period of time. I remember so well the correspondence that I would get from his office was signed by Lady Bird. She was running his
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • charge. I think he was one of these men that can totally relax momentarily, rest, and then come back fresh and keep going. He put in tremendous hours. I've just never seen a man put in any more hours than he did. know Lady Bird was always worrying
Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember one very beautiful young lady who was named to represent youth, and it seems like her name was Nita Hines [?]. G: But he got distinguished business leaders and educators and people like that type and put them on that board. Did you notice
  • not be taken over by Works Progress Administration (WPA); LBJ's promise to make sure Olson had a job; Dr. Cecil E. Evans of San Marcos; LBJ's relationship with his mother, Rebekah Johnson, and wife, Lady Bird Johnson; LBJ's presidential aspirations; LBJ's 1937
Oral history transcript, Ewing Hass, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that; of course, signed the bill, but I don't know that he got involved. That was done-- G: Governor Reagan opposed it initially. H: Right. Right. Senator [George] Murphy opposed it. The Congressman from the area opposed it, but when Lady Bird came out
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • care of his business, and accepted the fact he has had a heart attack. He has the problems of convalescence to worry him and so forth. But still that same night, in the process of getting his thoughts in order, he talked with Lady Bird. Mrs. Johnson, I
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when he was riding high he confided to me that he had already--he and Lady Bird had discussed it and that he would not run at the end of that term. So I put that in for the record as a fact of what he told me. Now, let's-G: Did you question him about
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • . But it did come a bit as a surprise. I presume he and all others and Lady Bird must have evaluated this thing in terms of his future, his health, any other conditions that had to be taken into account, and then decided that this was the course to pursue
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • your father taught. F: Yes, my father taught. He said that one day she was planning to go on a vacation with her husband and she came to them and told them where she was going on her vacation. And Mrs. Johnson, Lady Bird, asked Mrs. Wright to take
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was worried that it would get out that his house--once upon a time he was away; this was soon after they bought the place. And it flooded like this and he couldn't get across to Lady Bird, and he came out in a little plane that landed on that highway. I don't
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out on him? C: I don't remember. I don't think so. F: He probably kind of sensed it was time for the little bird to fly out, too. C: Right. I honestly don't remember. F: Where did you move to? C: Well, not knowing Washington and not having
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • speech that he made on the air or not, on radio-G: I think we do. J: --but you have it up there anyhow. Now, Lady Bird came by the house and told me that Lyndon wanted me in Washington, so I went up there shortly after the election in November
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the centenary" or bicentenary of Napoleon, whatever it was. "And he told me that if I get a reservation for Mrs. Johnson that that was the Mrs. Johnson who was the first lady of the United States." And she said, "I did have a reservation this week for a Mrs
Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ? O: That's true. True. No, I haven't--I have been around members of the Johnson family. I respect them. I respect Lady Bird. I just think that I would not do anything that would be damaging to any of the family, and there's nothing to be gained
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Service car behind us with drinks for the asking. It couldn't have been more pleasant. We met a number of his friends. He and Lady Bird were absolutely perfect hosts. It was just a wonderful weekend. The only thing of substance, apart from describing
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • executive, went through the line with me and complained bitterly about "Texas roast beef." The President circulated and stayed quite awhile, but I don't recall meeting him again on that first occasion. I did spend some time with Lady Bird and was utterly
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reading that [on] February 29 he notes that his diary said that--the LBJ diary; that'd be Lady Bird's diary? G: No, that would have been his daily log. M: Well, he notes that LBJ said today that he did not know when the Senate would get a vote
Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? M: Well, they had a big [tent]. Of course, when you got there he greeted you graciously, he and Lady Bird both. They had cocktails and hors d'oeuvres under a tent, and then they had tables set out on the [lawn]. I get mixed up on which
Oral history transcript, Cecil D. Redford, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • contributed to the campaign during the general election when he was nominated for vice president. M: Did you have anything to do with Lyndon Johnson's wedding to Mrs. Johnson, Lady Bird? R: No. M: You didn't? R: I don't know where he was living
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • like a son, that they'd never had a son, he and Lady Bird. That was the only time I ever got "the treatment," and this call happened to come an hour before I was leaving for a Kennedy campaign meeting in Indiana. (Laughter) And so I was really torn
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Washington. I was met by Bobby Baker, who was then working for him, and he took me out to Senator Johnson's home. Lady Bird was there, too. So we started in a conference that I thought would last maybe an hour, and we wound up late in the afternoon
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • hour. Then if the President became interested in what was being discussed and wanted to pursue it a little bit further, he would say, "Bird, go in and fix us something to eat." And she would go in and we'd have wonderful things, but seemingly without
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the kind of pressure we were under and the hours we were keeping that if he gave me any inkling of what he'd do on Taft-Hartley, I'd tell somebody. It was the old Johnson theory. We used to say on the staff, "LBJ doesn't trust anyone except Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into an urban area, you notice in Daly's letter he said, "I wish Lady Bird would get more involved in urban beautification." You know, the east was more urban, Chicago. South was still more concerned about racial issues. Water, natural resources. But in issues
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • may be wrong about that, but I believe that he virtually quit drinking. I can remember the doctor or Lady Bird or people even encouraging him to have a couple of drinks at night to relax, but he rarely did it. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • apartment at the Cliff Towers Apartments, you know, didn't tell a soul. So Lady Bird kept coming out to Mama, you know. staying at my mother's, being single then. are your plans?" insurance." "I really don't know. Uh huh. "Well, Sam Houston, what I am