Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/3/1966 (Sunday)

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Title:

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/3/1966 (Sunday)

Duration: (min: sec):

16:02

Number of Pages:

9

Description:

Breakfast by the Odessa chuck wagon gang; brief Palm Sunday church service; Lady Bird plants a pinon tree; rafting trip down the Rio Grande; Lady Bird describes the terrain; training astronauts in Big Bend for the moon; fossil remains, including giant crocodile viewed; Lady Bird describes 139 people laughing, shrieking, joking and falling out of rafts; press women and Lady Bird all manned the paddles; box lunches; rain; dinner and music

Contributor:

Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007; Mrs. Johnson's secretarial staff

Collection:

Lady Bird Johnson's White House Diary

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Sound Recordings of Lady Bird Johnson's Diary; Annotated Transcripts of Lady Bird Johnson's Diary

Location Details:

Big Bend National Park

Subject:

Lady Bird Johnson travel; Natural resources and national parks; Religion; Space program; Press relations; Outer space

Archivist's General Note:

An edited transcript for this day was included in Lady Bird Johnson's book "A White House Diary," published in 1970.

Rights:

Public domain

Specific Item Type:

Personal diary

Type:

Text; Audio

Format:

Audio tape; Paper

Physical Item ID #:

D-43

Identifier:

ctjd-19660403

Date:

1966-04-03

Location(s):

Texas

Time Period:

Presidential (Nov. 22, 1963-Jan. 20, 1969)

Citation

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/3/1966 (Sunday), Lady Bird Johnson's White House Diary Collection, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed April 19, 2024, https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/ctjd-19660403