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Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was talking to? F: Yes. But there were two ladies in nice tweed suits and good flat, solid shoes with cameras, and they saw us. Well, I was wearing a yellow costume, Mrs. Johnson was wearing red, and Liz was wearing bright green. Or maybe vice versa
  • [For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Johnson, Lady Bird. True, they had the whistle-stop and, true, the Senator and Mrs. Hill rode with them, but again I don't recall that as taken as a real great effort. It was an effort. I think that's about the best you can say for it. G: Was Senator
  • 1960 Democratic National Convention; Alabama citizens' opinion of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon; the Kennedy/Nixon debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; LBJ's and Lady Bird Johnson's 1960 campaign trip through Alabama; LBJ's ambition; LBJ as vice
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • consideration. That was somewhat controversial, as I recall, but again, insofar as back home, we really didn't have any interest in that. G: How about the Highway Beautification Act? C: Well, if it's the one I'm thinking about that's the one that Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Graham -- Special Interview -- 8 But I also saw him on occasion get quite upset. I remember one time when he had left office, I was visiting with him and Lady Bird, and he had sold his stations
Oral history transcript, Chris Dixie, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there practically living with Lady Bird during that time, and I asked Elizabeth how did an experienced man like Lyndon get trapped into that war. The only answer I got out of El izabeth was, "I think I ought to ask Lady Bird about that." Of course, George Ball
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . That's General Ernest Thompson and he said, "Lady Bird, do you have a cat?" She said, "Yes, I have a cat." He said, "Well, why don't you go on home and attend to it and let them run the campaign." Then they yielded. Lyndon said at one time that he
  • “Who the hell is Lyndon Johnson?” Martin Harris; Ray Lee; basic strategy for LBJ; Lady Bird; headquarters in Capital National Bank Building; LBJ meeting with FDR; Maury Maverick; LBJ’s illness; Ben Crider; hillbilly; election night; radio station
Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with people. So we greeted each other in a big way. I introduced my nephew and Lyndon said, "I'm going in for breakfast. with me." So I went in. Come on in He said, "Estelle, I have found the girl I'm going to marry." Then he told me all about Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • prepared for us. We We learned the lady of the house was a widow who had lost her husband two weeks prior. We changed into parts of his clothing. That was a big sacrifice on her part because it's a custom in Holland to retain the LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was Davenport Street. Washington they were married. I think that when they first came to He'd lived, I think, at the Dodge when he first worked for Mr. Kleberg. But after they were married and Lady Bird came up, why, I think that's where they were, because
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a pretty good staff and worked the hell out of them, as he did all his staffs. himself, and so did Lady Bird. But he worked He was doing his best to do the people's business, and I think did it damn well. Now if you ask for specifics, it's so damn
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that in this oral history project, Lady Bird played a large role. So where has Mrs. Johnson come into this? When did you meet her? F: I'm going through this somewhat tedious recounting of my life with Lyndon Johnson, although it may have something to tell you. I
  • ; the Supreme Court; Jake Pickle and John Connally’s connection with LBJ in the late 1930’s; connection between UT and LBJ through Pickle, the Connalys, and Lady Bird Johnson; Pappy O’Daniel; informing LBJ of J. Frank Dobie’s death; how Frantz joined
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 1919, and I found it was a bird sanctuary in California, islands south of Mexico and the Congo. As you will see in my remarks [see attachments], at that very time those four subjects were right in the news again, and my theme was that maybe
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • trust. They treated him as a usurper. Now I understand that the Honorable--wait a minute now, I'm getting old--who's the press secretary to-­ F: [Pierre] Salinger. C: No, the press secretary to Lady Bird. F: Oh. Liz Carpenter. C: Liz's book
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 4 (IV), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson has been in his career, particularly in the Presidency? G: I would guess and hope very influential. She's my particular folk hero at this moment. being. She's a lady in every respect, and she's a very broad-gauged human I've no doubt about her
  • Assessment of LBJ; Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Bertha Allman Graef, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was very humorous at times. Oh, he never did tell many stories, but once in a while he would tell us stories about his little sister, Josefa. She was in school down there at the same time. She was a beautiful young lady and in some of my classes
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ]? S: I don't know. All I know is she did an outstanding job. She's a tireless worker and one of the great ladies that I have ever met in my life, in every respect. G: Who did she look to for advice on how to handle correspondence or issues? S
  • First meeting LBJ; UT campus 1941; 1941 campaign; Pearl Harbor; 1942 work in LBJ’s office; Lady Bird and the Congressional office; service in the Navy; LBJ and FDR
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to Nashville and got a Tennessee walking horse from Governor Buford Ellington. W: [Inaudible] made him president. G: Was that the Lady B? W: I don't know what he named that. I believe it was Lady B. G: Was that Mrs. Johnson's horse? W: Well, maybe
Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • has a simply fabulous wife to help him. With any other woman, I don't know whether he would have made it or not. M: I've heard lots of compliments about Lady Bird. TF: Yes, she's real nice, real nice to everyone. M: When did you first meet her
  • home; campaigning for LBJ in central Texas; admiration of Lady Bird; effect of LBJ’s fame on the Fawcett drugstore and Johnson City in general.
Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of this interview, there was a park dedicated to Mrs. Johnson in Fredericksburg. H: Yes, I think it was just a month or so ago. B: Yes. A park, Lady Bird Park, with a swimmingpool, operated by the City of Fredericksburg. H: Right, B: And I heard that Mr
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 14 (XIV), 7/19/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't think I knew that at the time. I don't But I remember when she came. G: Anything significant or memorable there about her? J: Well, she was allowed to visit him clearly more than anyone else unless it was Mrs. Johnson, Lady Bird. What
Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • believe you took them around. Do you recall that occasion? It was just a month before Pearl Harbor. D: Yes, I remember it well. I took Lady Bird to a meeting of the ladies of the city, which was held downtown in a federal building, and then I escorted
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about, and she would talk to people who were in charge of that. It was not easy for her because it was something she wasn't used to doing. She's a very modest lady and a very smart lady, and she did it well, but I mean she felt like, "What am I doing
  • decision to enter active military duty following the attack on Pearl Harbor; how LBJ's office was run with Lady Bird Johnson's help during LBJ's deployment; life in Washington D.C. during World War II; LBJ's involvement in the Naval Affairs Committee
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was a person who lived life to its extremes. He was a person who took risks, personal risks, political risks, intellectual risks. I think the only thing he never risked was financial risks because he let Lady Bird run that side of the family. Did he need
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in New Orleans? C: Meeting the Lady Bird Special? G: Yes. He spoke at the Jung Hotel, I think, in New Orleans at the end of that . . . . C: I was there, because I remember calling some friends of mine who were there and just talking on the phone
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . don't recall. G: I just Maybe Lady Bird drove him part of the time. Was there a campaign theme like "Youth and Progress," something of that sort? D: I do not recall that there was a campaign slogan like "Youth and Progress." Maybe there was. G
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that he wouldn't take a chance with the life of Lady Bird and Neva and that he under dangerous conditions went back and withstood the embarrassment." Apparently Wesley had said some LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Let's see here, I knew Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird shortly after they first came to Austin. In fact, we had them over to our house several times after I became NYA State Director of Projects for Texas. MG: Was this while he was NYA director? LG
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, "For God's sake, go see Johnson." I said, "Well, I can't do that because Lady Bird says he can't be disturbed before ten o'clock and the convention's going to start in twenty minutes." So, we went to the convention. And John ran the convention
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • or for Lady Bird?" At heart I am sure he was glad to see me get away for awhile. After LBJ became President he said many times "wouldn't Glynn have been proud of me being President," and indeed he would have been as Glynn loved that man with all his heart. One
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • shindig in Omaha, the main thing I remember about that was a marvelous speech that Lady Bird made, talking about she'd always wanted to see the state because down in Texas they produced all this beef, which was all range-fed. It was sent up to Nebraska
  • Cabot Lodge campaign; Kennedy's speech to the Houston Ministerial Alliance; JFK/LBJ campaigning in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson speaking at campaign stops; Mrs. Johnson's influence on LBJ; how dates and places get confused while campaigning; campaign fatigue
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • stayed at the house. We were with her a great deal. She was at the hospital a great deal, too. Lady Bird was at the hospital all the time. We were at the hospital a great deal, too, but not in his room. I didn't go into the room very often. Sam went
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • -- 21 holes. May Santa Claus fill your sack so full it falls off the mantle." And I had similar letters like that through the years, and then in l965, I had a letter from Lady Bird, and she says--he had been in the hospital--: "What a dear, sweet letter
  • children's education; Scott's children's college experiences; Scott's son's trouble in college and his military career; Scott's relationship with Lady Bird Johnson; visiting the Ranch; summary of LBJ's character.
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • the home in San Marcos have books around? She was a rather bookish lady. WH: Yes, she was. I would doubt that there was a library as such. She had books in and around the house in profusion, but I can't recall a library. I'm quite sure that the books
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was treated. When she came to me and told me that story when Lyndon was president and asked me to tell Lady Bird who had also been on the plane that she wanted to be made ambassador to Spain and she felt she was entitled to it. I went over to talk to Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Johnsons because I think that he had--of course, he had known President Johnson politically--he had known [Lady] Bird in college, and he'd been everywhere else, he was just going everywhere he could find. know where his first approach was. I don't I know
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • great knowledge of political affairs and things generally in the country. And then I remember a situation developed after he and Lady Bird had gone on back. I watched her taking a few notes and listening most intently while he was talking freely
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kellam's place and I took Deason's place in San Antonio. After Lyndon was elected, he had an appendectomy during the campaign-he still wasn't well. He got Bill Deason and I to go up to Marshall with him to Lady Bird's home, her father's home, and we
  • Roosevelt not stopping to dedicate a roadside park; LBJ’s relationship with Lady Bird’s father; LBJ’s involvement with NYA after becoming a Congressman; La Villita in San Antonio; Maury Maverick; working for OPA; Roth’s involvement in the 1948 campaign; feud
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • hours. And, of course, that was where I developed a crush on Lady Bird, who was marvelous--is a marvelous person and so forth, was always, whatever the day, hour of the day or night, there to do the honors of the house--"How about a cup of coffee
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • assignment for me, and it meant lots and lots of conversation sitting on the airplanes and the buses and every spare moment as we proceeded on the trip. The question that I found hardest to cope with which a number of them asked me was, "Why is the First Lady
  • [For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GOLDSCHMIDT -- I -- 22 periQdici.ty of our relationships with Johnson and with Lady Bird, too. And this was not due to any falling out, it was just the circumstances of our