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  • to you that you're not going to win this election unless you take Johnson on for vice president." F: This is long before Los Angeles? C: This is in Los Angeles, after the vote on Lyndon. I had gone earlier to Sam Rayburn--I was out in Los Angeles
  • ; Corcoran's work for LBJ at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; Corcoran's efforts to convince Sam Rayburn that LBJ should accept the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Mike Mansfield as Senator Majority Leader; Jim Landis; Ambassador
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh BASKIN -- I -- 17 factor in the convention. But neither of those trips produced any delegates to speak of. F: Well, now after he became, obviously, the number two candidate in Los Angeles, most people agree that his only
  • and saw something of the then-Senator Johnson at that time. The first time I recall talking with Senator Johnson was during the fall of 1956 when Senator Kefauver and I were campaigning throughout Texas with Senator Johnson. Senator Johnson led us
  • House press apparatus; Dean Acheson; Dean Rusk; Senator Aiken; Congressman Moss; Mr. Rooney; Mr. Katzenbach; Eugene Rostow; the press; Joe Alsop; Vietnam coverage; mail; lag time in making records available; Douglas Cater; transition; Lady Bird; trip
  • up^ I r e a liz e d that I had an 11 o 'c lo c k appointment with E lea n o r L e m a ir^, that I needed to get m y hair combed, and that I was suppo s ed to have m y picture made fo r the F lo r is ts Association,,-at a little bit past eleven. So
  • this. A ft e r b rea kfa st, around the kitchen table I c a ught an e a r ly plane into Austin and went to Hausman Beauty Shop. A s soon as I took m y seat, there was Anita B r e w e r , of the Austin A m e r ic a n Statesman, who said rather ap o lo g e
  • e lle r w a s g o in g to m a k e i t p o s s ib le to h a v e a lo n g te r m p la n fo r th e J o h n so n P a r k i- ^ ^ n e by. the N a tio n a l P a r k S e rv ic e . how m u c h /^ 6 ^ 1 p o u t w ith th e e x h ib its . h e s it a t e a m o m
  • to L y n d o n . A ll m o r n in g h e w a s on th e p h o n e, w ith e a c h c a ll r e s t iv e to g e t o ff and in to th e p o o l b y 11 o ’c lo c k . H e s a id , "D on't you w an t to s w im w ith m e?" I h a v e to o b r o a d a s tr a in o
  • Lady Bird preparing for guests at the LBJ Ranch; LBJ signs a highway construction bill on the porch; hostess duties is time-consuming; LBJ tells about communion at the Christian Church; Lynda Johnson moves I to Austin for school; Johnsons greet
  • is parched and a«fr^ T h ere i s no, touch of, g r e e n a n yw h ere. ;:We have had only about an in ch of ra in s in c e the l a s t o f S ep tem b e r . : It is approaching a d esp e ra te r e c o r d of d r y n e s s . ^A. doesn't rem em b er a time
  • talks with G eorge R eedy, S e c re ta r y Vance, M cG e o rg e Bundy, G o vern o r Eagen of A laska, and B ill M o y e r s . So many ca lls that I fin a lly went into the next room and went to sleep and didn't wake up until c lo s e to noon. It had
  • M EM ORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE S a tu rd a y , J u n e 4, 1966 WASHINGTON Page 1 S a tu rd a y , Ju n e 4th, b e g a n w ith a sw im w ith L yndon - - j u s t the two of u s . I lo v e to be a b le to s a y " y e s " to h im w hen he w a n ts u s
  • LBJ & guests tour the ranches; Lady Bird spends time with Lynda Johnson; Lady Bird talks about Rebekah Johnson; photos taken of LBJ and Lady Bird in the wildflowers; LBJ and Lady Bird vote at the courthouse; Lady Bird mentions 1941 Senate race; LBJ
  • , and invited her for dinner to our house. And at the same time invited a man who is now dead named Aaron Schaffer, who was head of the French Department, or maybe the Romance Language Department, at the University of Texas. He and his wife Dorothy were
  • . . /Tie . That Ui& j La expeAj i &nce^ , at me mor a b i l i a that a nd cJ j z aAj i j n^. J Lo i k e made up Late in the we helicopter wer e ike^e the to Austin. we A& o^ Aj z Ai , ^ a kaJjuLo a n d d i c t at i n g mai l
  • ; meeting with Harry Ransom & Frank Erwin about University of Texas, Wayne Grover & LBJ Library; first time LBJ has been guest at Luci's table; Pat Nugent coming home from Vietnam; Nugents will vacation in Formosa; Johnsons spend night at KTBC
  • g h t i t w a s too m e a s u r e d , s lo w , d e l i b e r a t e . d ra m a and fire . At It n e e d e d m o r e A n d th e n c l o s e to th e e n d w h e n h e p o u n d e d h o m e th e f a c t t h a t the p a r t i e s to th e w a r m u s t
  • to Johnson City for flower harvesting; dinner with Luci & Pat Nugent and friends at Steak Island in Austin; Luci has encounters with the press; Lady Bird to bed and reading "Of Time and The River" by Thomas Wolfe
  • I would U.a fOI' JOll to ge, eonftl"IIA111oa on tbia u d pt 1-\ cloWA aa aoon a ■ you oan beoa\lae I want t o ll&k• &rrangeMllt • tor a aaw to •ut do-. aOllle oed&r wben I aa I plu lo tly d.o-. there a b0u1i Oeto'ber lObb. hca•. Low. l.1»Jlcm Ola
  • m p a n i e d th e m f r o m H o u s t o n f o r d i n n e r . T h e s u m m e r t w i l i g h t is v e r y lo n g in J u n e . I a r r iv e d a little p a s t 7 :0 0 a t t h i s h o u s e t h a t h a s b e e n so m u c h a p a r t of o u r lif e f
  • house; Lady Bird to Wesley West Ranch for dinner; Lady Bird describes the night sky and imitates a bullfrog; Lady Bird reminisces about time at the West Ranch; possible donation to the LBJ Library; Lady Bird sleeps in car on way back to Luci's home
  • l t h e v e r y d a y I go o u t - - " C a r e s s I n f a n t i n e " . This w o u ld b e f o r the b ig 4 - p o s t e r b e d a n d f o r the curtains^ in c o m b in a ti o n w ith the lo v e ly , c l e a r , yello w b r o c a d e - - soft a n d
  • At 10:33, the time Lady Bird says is "11:30" rather than "11:00"
  • States, I think in Texas, spoke English. Therefore, he used to be the person in the hotel that would come and take care of the influential or outstanding men coming to Acapulco at the time. Through that he knew President Johnson, I think as a senator
  • known Sam Houston since he was a young man. He has always been connected with Lyndon in almost everything that he's undertaken other than just when he was secretary to Congressman [Richard] Kleberg. At that time Lyndon was very alert, very
  • . This has become home to you. S: Oh, completely, completely. 19l7~ He liked it very much. Quite a long time. Anyway, the portrait was very small, and they liked -it. _ The President said, "Well, sometime would you do another one for the White House
  • INTERVIEWEE: CECIL STOUGHTON INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 - begi:ns at about 350 F: Okay, Cecil, this is the next morning, March 2nd now. S: Right, I've got a little time left. F: Yes. And we'll go on from
  • Secret Service. interview is in his office in Washington, D.C. 1968. The time is 10:45 a.m. The The date is December 17, My name is David McComb. First of all, may I ask you something about your background? I'd like to know where you were born
  • on two or three months to finish up some work I was doing and then came to the Urban Coalition. I donate my services here on a part-time basis. M: You are, of course, with the Texas nativity. in connection with Mr. Johnson is cronyism. The obvious
  • dead now. R: Oh, he is? I didn't know that. G: He was around for a long time. R: He came here in 1919. I used to like to have coffee with him and listen to him talk about what it was back in those days. I believe--well, I know it was Speaker Sam
  • . He was born a freedman in Washington; thus the name Freeman was no coincidence. He looked around to find a dental school that would accept him in the l860-s, and there were about four or five dental schools in the country at that time. Harvard did
  • appropriations to the Senate, he had time to open the hearings. He didn't stay there for all the hearings, but he opened them and I was always intrigued, though at a distance. I was at a table making part of the presentation, but I was always intrigued
  • the deep depreSSion days), and I had only had that position a short time; about a post office. I I was satisfied and didn't know anything told him that, but he said I'd make a good one and insisted that I accept it, which I did. ?: Have you been
  • he was raised. After that, in 1916, his nephew, Tom Martin, was elected to the House of Representatives in Texas. was a vacancy. In 1917 he quit and joined the army and there Ferguson was governor at this time. He gave Sam Johnson, Lyndon's dad
  • at KTBC as an announcer. B: And after being hired as an announcer, Mr. Pryor went on to be program director and master of ceremonies of, I should say, national fame. You ha ve done shows all ove r the count ry since that time, have you not? P: Yes