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After all, Sevareid and Howard K. Smith were then as powerful as they
are in fact now or even more so.
So that's how our relationship really grew.
always there and was so dear and so wonderful
And Lady Bird was
~bout
everythtng.
LBJ Presidential
- Washington career background from 1951; contacts with LBJ when Senator; LBJ's relationship with Washington and White House press corps; LBJ's control and selection of Lady Bird's wardrobe; early days in Washington as correspondent; impressions
- :
In 139.
He had an office there.
In the Co-op. [Pedernales Electric] From September 15
when I went to "vork until the first of the year, we worked there.
And then the boys drove up to Washington and I spent Christmas with
Bird at her home in Karnack
- ; LBJ’s sensitivity; Mary Rather; Dorothy Plyler; helicopter campaign; Lady Bird; JFK assassination; 1964 campaign; first woman to work for LBJ; living in Johnson City; Congressional Ball; LBJ’s friendship with Senator Alvin Wirtz; former political enemies
- it was called secretary--same job.
F:
Did you ever see the secretary or administrative assistant in Washington
during that period?
D:
Yes, I made one trip up here and visited with him; stayed, of course, in
the little apartment that he and Lady Bird lived
- African-Americans and the poor; "make work" projects; roadside parks; 1937 campaign; Uncle George; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; LBJ as Deason's best man; Hardy Hollers campaign in 1946; Lady Bird's business interest in her radio station, KVET; application
- 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
- the President of Costa
Rica.
There were hundreds of people out on the streets, openly crying
and coming to the Embassy to express their sympathy.
I remember I had
one little lady, an old lady--and she was a very poor person--that came
up to me and wanted
- boy ."
This is the truth!
That's interesting, you know, to be able to say that .
I'll tell you one thing I remember about his race--naturally I
couldn't forget this .
He wasn't known very well
in this area--East Texas-
even though Lady Bird
- of Lady Johnson in LBJ's career
- 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
- 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.
- 1948 Senate race; KTBC radio; Lady Bird; LBJ's recreational activities; KTBC-TV; station policies; JFK assassination; Jim McCrocklin; impression of LBJ
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was, to me, of the highest caliber.
a dedicated American.
I believe him to be a good American,
I think his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, is one of the
most charming women I have ever met.
I think she, too, was an excellent
companion for him and a woman who
- attack; Lady Bird's increased role in the office
- First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956
- 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
- 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
- ; 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