"Mr. West, if you can't get that shower of mine fixed, I'm going to have to move back to the Elms," Johnson reportedly said in a raised voice (the Elms being Johnson's former private residence in DC).

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"I called the Johnson house, the Elms, to see if I could be of any help," Mrs. Gonella said in a 1969 oral history. "Mrs. Johnson asked me if I would come out and help them with telephones and ...

"Mr. West, if you can't get that shower of mine fixed, I'm going to have to move back to the Elms," Johnson reportedly said in a raised voice (the Elms being Johnson's former private residence in DC).