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  • , there were lots of those--I met the Senator. Within a short while, he and Lady Bird--I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • Circumstances of joining LBJ’s staff; duties in the Texas office; Arthur Perry; Walter Jenkins; office operation; LBJ and the Texas office; Lady Bird; transfer to the Majority Leader’s office; office staff; traveling with the Johnson’s; Johnsons
  • , that we all know. But what he did was, he always paid his debts-- that little thing that I did for him. I tell you, they were so nice to me, even after [my] doing a lady Bird impression and things. As a matter of fact, that's the thing I miss now. I
  • ; political humor; Lady Bird impression; LBJ's entertainment preferences; dances at White House; Shirley Maclaine; 1968 campaign appearances for Hubert Humphrey; LBJ's interest in dogs and his dog at White House; not asked by LBJ to sing at White House
  • /loh/oh 25 any quote that he wasn't interested in second place. But a few nights before that, we'd had some Texans out to a little barbeque including Lyndon and Bird and a group of mutual friends; and of course it came up then. And Lyndon said he
  • campaign; ambition; Johnson treatment; LBJ’s acceptance of the VP nomination; LBJ’s problem with public media communication; Lady Bird; Luci and Lynda; Lady Bird’s influence on the LBJ’s decision not to run; thoughtfulness of the Johnsons; LBJ’s major
  • educated really by him, having known our father He was extremely strict. day a different language at the table. He insisted that we speak every I went to a convent called the Convent of the Birds; it was called Les Oiseaux, which sounds funny in English
  • ink. F: On that Senegal trip, I seem to remember an incident of he and Lady Bird going out among all the tailors in the place and with a sewing LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • humor; camel driver's visit to U.S. and LBJ ranch; travel with LBJ as President; LBJ's selection of presidential gifts; graciousness of LBJ and Lady Bird; ambassadors' visits with LBJ; state dinners; LBJ's concern for people needing help; foreign policy
  • 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