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Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as a family, too. You see, we were I even gave Lady Bird a transfusion once. F: Oh, really? G: Anyway, we had a close personal relationship. personal than political. I would say it was more Bird very often would ask me what did I think about something
Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • we'd like for them to stop in Stonewall, and they seemed to appreciate that very much. I’ll never forget his mother, she just was the most charming lady. Of course, Mrs. Johnson always--Lady Bird always is, but I'd never met his mother before, and her
  • How the Weinheimer and Johnson families knew each other; meeting LBJ and Lady Bird; LBJ’s 1954 campaign; the Weinheimers being Democrats; the history of party allegiances in Gillespie County, Texas; the impression LBJ made on local citizens
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • President? M: Then I went by to pay my respects to the Johnsons--Majority Leader Johnson. I saw him, and Lady Bird was most gracious and everything. At that point, it was only an hour or so before the decision was announced, I would have bet my car
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • they stopped the elevator and he sa i d, I'll see you later." up to Lady Bird's bedroom and he waited for her. And he carried her She appreciated that. Then that night at the state dinner he told a joke about, something about, well maybe Lady Bird would run
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But we were encouraged by it, because at least half of them did leave and go utilize their time in other sight-seeing activities. So with the permission of the new First Lady, we will continue to experiment LBJ Presidential Library http
  • and overnight accommodations; commuter-type bus for TN in parks; comparison of management of National Seashore over National Park; George Washington Parkway; park service in non-continental area; Scenic Riverway Program and Trails; Mel Grosvenor; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : No. Never. F: Rather intriguing, H: Yes. F: I gather you were right alongside with Mary Lasker and Lady Bird in isn't it? the beautification program. H: Yes. F: How did you get into that? H: Well, Mary Lasker is very interested. She's my
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Skiles -- I -- 25 S: Yes. This was something that, of course, Lady Bird picked up later and did such a nice job with. The direction
  • University; blacks and the NYA; problems of administration; Congressional campaign; Lady Bird.
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was the other Senator from Texas, all three were housed out here at a motel on the edge of San Antonio when Kennedy was the main speaker at our rally here. I had the best suite in the motel set aside for Kennedy and Johnson. LBJ and Lady Bird were there in one
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson wrote--, he said, "Bird and I are looking forward to seeing you and Bob November 1. Enclosed is a preview. That an outdoor dinner gong for the meals we eat outside. It reminded us of the many pleasant suppers we've had in the Clifford yard and I
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went down and there was Walter and his wife, Marge, and the President and Lady Bird and the two Johnson girls, Jack and Mary Margaret Valenti. To me that was pretty heady stuff. But I enjoyed the privilege. The President was very nice. He met my wife
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to stand there and let him say it and not answer, and then wait for the truth to start coming out. And he went through two or three more runs of distortion and evasion, and finally he said, "Well, I've talked the last several nights with Lady Bird." And we
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • me that the first day of school. M: You got an A.B. degree from Harvard-- P: It reminds me of Lady Bird Johnson. Someone asked her where she got the name of Lady Bird and she described that. She said, "S ome people call me Claudia, but when
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to them, but I didn't conduct them. C: There is an incident that George told me that I think should be in the historical record on Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, that I know only from George, but George was there first hand. the one to tell it. And I'd
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to speak with you, Senator." It was about a minute later, the President came on the phone with Lady Bird. Then he said this astonishing thing, he said, "I'm going to talk to Hubert and I'm going to strongly reconnnend that you be his choice for the Vice
Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ; cooperation White House and governors; creation and administration of Commission on Civil Disorders; LBJ reaction to Commission report; Lady Bird; Illinois
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • always just sort of come up. For example, they tell a story on the President which I believe and which illustrates what I'm talking about. They say there's a -- I don't know her name -- a lady down in Johnson City, I guess, or Stonewall. She and her
  • in Vietnamese regime; Westmoreland; Abrams; personnel in Vietnam; Clark Clifford; LBJ’s acceptance of Locke’s race for Governor of Texas – no aid from LBJ; 3/31 announcement; estimation of LBJ; Texas political structure; Lady Bird; political nature of LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and it may spread to their own areas :'" And he agreed ; I'd say that the central focus for the whole effort was Lady Bird's committee . And I'll go further and say, as I have in my book on The American Aesthetic, that I believe that the impact of her
  • ; GREEN BOOK; LOOK magazine feature; Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue; John Saylor; Lady Bird’s Committee for the Beautification of Washington; THE AMERICAN AESTHETIC; reflecting pool at the Capitol; Pennsylvania Avenue and the Mall or national
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Lady Bird were right there. sa i d, IIMrs. Boddy. "Yes . II II I remember she came through and I And after she [Mrs. Boddy] got through the line she [Mrs. Roosevelt] turned to LBJ and said, III wonder where she came from?" (Laughter) She made some
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 5 lived when he was working for Congressman Kleberg, and that a room was not available at that moment but would be during the week and we should stay at his house. Lady Bird was gone, and he would bring us to work each morning with him until
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • . And he said that ever thereafter when he saw Johnson, it would be "Goodman," or "Goatman," or anything that was wrong. B: Have you run into the great habit that Lady Bird had, when she discovered that you had been sent to left field
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in Washington. We interview these guys--I say ''We,'' Commander Latimer specifically interviews these gents, and he coordinates this with Bess Abell's office. some place between thirty-five and forty. It fluctuates. marriage rate among these birds is pretty
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • help him in Texas. Maybe I can help some, but he can help himself, Lady Bird can help him, and then Muriel can help him." Oh, and then he said, "Congressman Jim Wright." man Jim Wright very lavishly. Vice President. And he praised Congress- He
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • call me Bird." I called her Bird until she became the First Lady, when I just don't think that outsiders should be calling the First Lady by her first name; that is for immediate family and very, very close people. P: Was she at that point taking her
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Who were these staff members? Do you recall? R: I'm sure I could look it up for you, but one of them was a lady, who was the official secretary of the committee. G: Was it [Louise] Dargans? 19 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations (UN); a UN resolution regarding the rights of individual countries to control their own natural resources; Roosevelt's experience working with the UN; Roosevelt's opinion of Lady Bird Johnson; the Watts Riots in 1965.
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 8 (VIII), 7/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • relationships, he'd have to decide in favor of Johnson because he had grown up-Tape 2 of 2 J: --Mr. Taylor, Lady Bird Johnson's father, was his closest friend, and if he had based it on friendship. . . . I don't remember just at what point he said
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Lady Bird made this country--what it's been I suppose since Theodore Roosevelt--conservation conscious, but they put it on a plane I think from which there is no retreat now. Did you work with that story yourself? H: Yes. I never went out on any
  • as a President; Secretary Udall; Lady Bird’s effort to make America conservation conscious; assessment of history’s judgment of LBJ’s presidency; LBJ’s interest in the space program.
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that probably became a general feeling in this state, but not for that. F: lady Bird came through in the fall of '64 on that whistlestop trip through Dixie, and you joined the train. let's talk about that a little bit. Tell me what you remember. S: Okay. F
  • Education; Heller plan; James Farmer; open accommodations ordinance; Chapel Hill; 1964 Lady Bird’s whistle stop tour; Governor Dan Moore; possible cabinet position; 1968 Democratic National Convention; Richard Nixon and Duke University; Sam Ervin
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Claude Wild disagreed? Was it an issue of how to spend money or how to allocate time or which towns to visit or what issues to address? W: lady Bird just said in the past month or less that Claude Wild didn't want women working in the campaign, so she
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • briefed as to the attention that should be paid. She did that extremely well with these members of Congress and their wives and would devote a good deal of attention to them. But on an individual basis, to seek or maintain contact, unlike Lady Bird
  • relations office; Mike Mansfield bringing senators to O'Brien for briefings; Bobby Baker's talent for head counts and projected attendance counts; Bob Kerr; Jacqueline Kennedy's interest in congressional relations compared to that of Lady Bird Johnson
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; I've forgotten exactly what the date was, but Lady Bird owned a Convair airplane which crashed and the two pilots were killed . 1960 . It seems to me it was in the fall of And he was very much concerned about that . He was concerned about
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • be possible to know a more charming, wonderful in every sense of the word, person than Lady Bird Johnson . I just think she is one of the great women I've ever been privileged to know . Her role in the government, I would say, is intangible, but very, very
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and known throughthe city and the country that this was a special emphasis and interest that high priority was being placed on it . So then it went to the floor . The Republicans, at this stage, made the tactical error of attacking it as Lady Bird's bill
Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh COLMER -- I -- 18 F: In 1964~ Lady Bird came through here on that Dixie swing, didn't she? C: Right. F: Were you here at the time? C
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , that he really did talk this frequently about getting out, quitting, and so on, and it was kind of the same thing that Stevenson did so often? A: I don't know how to weigh the story about Lady Bird having made him promise four years before. Rusk
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • two hundred years. LBJ and Lady Bird [were] right out of this background, same as I was. It's unbelievable that a Lyndon Johnson would have the guts to even take it on. You know, a Rex Tugwell, that's something else, than Lyndon Johnson, even
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • at least could express herself on some of those things in which local people were interested. coordination on these trips. So we had a little extemporaneous As a matter of fact I probably was with Lady Bird on that trip and saw more of her than I have
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; 1960 convention; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Lady Bird campaigning in North Carolina; civil rights legislation; religious issue; Senate luncheon; LBJ’s trips
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • beyond our comprehension and it still goes on even though that country now has had a great deal of economic recovery. But one day I remember in particular, the day we went to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal, which was Lyndon and Lady Bird's wedding