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- , 1978
INTERVIEWEE:
EDWARD JOSEPH
INTERVIEWER:
MICHAEL L. GILLETTE
PLACE:
Mr. Joseph's office, Austin, Texas
Tape 1 of 1
G:
That's a point that I'd like to get on tape.
We're talking about Sam
Houston Johnson, the President's brother.
J:
I've
- See all online interviews with Edward Joseph
- oh-josephe-19780223-2-81-3
- Joseph, Edward
- Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 2 (II), 2/23/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
- Edward Joseph
- Go to Interviewee bio page
- -of-a-bitch, because I was a Catholic
for Johnson, as I told you, the issue of Look came out that day. Did I tell you about this?
F:
No.
C:
The issue of Look came on the convention, and there were four places across an open
page: Clark Clifford
- would logically come out of the White House at that
particular time.
And you may have read that this system came "a cropper"
because on one day at the ranch, Joseph Laitin then an assistant press
LBJ Presidential Library
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
- Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Estes Kefauver; Douglas Dillon; Pierce Salinger; Joseph Laitin; Horace Busby; George Reedy; Henry Fowler; Bill Moyers; Bob McCloskey; Frederick Deming; George Christian; relations with the White
- it was
finished it was considered good, so they kept it for the White House.
That was the beginning.
Then, shortly, well, anyway, the whole
project regarding President and Mrs. Johnson's portrait started that
fall.
I was contacted by Mr. Clark Clifford and we
- and locations of sittings, comparison of FDR’s and LBJ’s behavior during sittings; visits to LBJ Ranch; Clark Clifford’s involvement in Mrs. Johnson’s portrait; how Shoumatoff found out that a portrait she painted would be used for a stamp.
- with Clark Clifford about LBJ Library; Lady Bird talks with Luci Johnson; staff invited for dinner; Dominican Republic
- conference about Vietnam, LBJ's campaign trips, and civil rights; more houseguests expected; Lady Bird compliments her staff; LBJ addresses volunteers; Johnsons helicopter to Haywood Ranch with the Clark Cliffords; boating; dinner at LBJ Ranch
- Funeral service for Adlai Stevenson; Lady Bird talks with Clark Clifford about LBJ Library; Lady Bird to Scharnhorst and Lewis Ranches with John William Klein to clean and decorate; University of Texas coaching staff and families to LBJ Ranch
- Lady Bird feels overwhelmed; Lady Bird talks with Clark Clifford about portrait for White House; Lady Bird & Liz Carpenter discuss transcription of diary tapes; Lady Bird has hair styled by Mr. Per; Lady Bird is filmed giving tour of the White House
- .
This, then,
called us to the attention of many of the groups that were working in this
field, including some that were close to Secretary Ickes, who had set up a
racial advisory office under Clark Foreman--a white Georgian but had worked
with the Roosevelt-F
- came back to Austin after clerking for Justice Clark.
I didn't
have much to do with him when he was working for the governor, although I
used to do things like write civil rights speeches for the governor, but that
was another-B
- to the Capitol; Lady Bird reminisces about Sam Rayburn; Lady Bird describes ceremony; Nixon gives inaugural address; Johnsons to party at the Clark Cliffords'; LBJ gives speech from porch; large crowds at Andrews AFB and Bergstrom AFB; party at LBJ Ranch
