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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/14/1964 (Friday)

Valentine gifts; D.C. League of Women Voters fundraiser; Heart luncheon; "Americans-At-Home" Program; visit by the John Steinbecks, and their story of visiting Russia; office work; LBJ to St. Louis for its Bicentennial; visit with Mary Lasker about…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/15/1964 (Saturday)

Lady Bird and Mary Lasker to Smithsonian to choose artwork for the White House; Lady Bird makes appointment for visit to National Gallery; Society for Preservation of the White House; dinner for the McGeorge Bundys, Jack Valenti, Ted Sorenson and…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/16/1964 (Sunday)

Luci and Lynda Johnson on trips; Lady Bird and LBJ to church services; Lady Bird on Luci and Lynda Johnson; Robert, Marge and Craig McNamara to White House for swim; drama critic Richard Cole; Robert McNamara's plan to help those unfit for military;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/21/1964 (Friday)

LBJ and Lady Bird stay at Taubman home in Palm Springs, CA; meeting with Mexican President Lopez Mateos; Charter Day exercises at UCLA with speeches by LBJ and Mateos; luncheon for women given by Governor's wife, Mrs. Pat Brown; visit to Abraham…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/23/1964 (Sunday)

LBJ and Lady Bird to St. Paul's in the Desert church; lunch at Taubman home with friends; visit with the Taubmans; Air Force One to Washington; Lady Bird on Virginia Rusk;; greeted on White House lawn by beagles, Him and Her; greeted in White House…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/24/1964 (Monday)

Lady Bird desk work at the White House; decorating Luci's and Lynda's rooms; meeting with Lillian Levy and Liz Carpenter about proposed visit to space facilities; LBJ's early involvement in space; women on payroll at NASA facilities; civil rights;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/25/1964 (Tuesday)

Lady Bird visits with volunteers working on Mrs. Kennedy's mail in the EOB, WH telephone operators, and WHCF; meeting with Walter Jenkins and J.B. West about household matters; lunch with Lynda Johnson; article about spelling of Luci Johnson's name;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/26/1964 (Wednesday)

Lady Bird's trip to New York for clothes fitting; lunch with Billie and Wendy; Tax Bill passed and signing ceremony; LBJ's speech and praise for Sen. Byrd; LBJ & Lady Bird to Mrs. Kennedy's house to present 4 signing pens; presentation of tray by…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/27/1964 (Thursday)

LBJ, Lady Bird, Lynda & Luci to Paltka, FL, for Intercoastal Canal ceremonies, flipping switch for initial excavation, and presentation of ceramic bull; to Palm Beach to visit Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Kennedy; to reception for President's Club;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/28/1964 (Friday)

Return home from Florida; Visit to and meeting with Mrs. Kennedy about Society for the Preservation of the White House and its members; Mrs. Kennedy agrees to be public member; Fine Arts Committee; gift of four JFK minted coins; office work; John &…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/29/1964 (Saturday)

Visits by Darrel Royal, University of Texas football coach, and the Houston Symphony; Lady Bird to beauty parlor; LBJ's first press conference; luncheon with Miss Ima Hogg and others; visit with friends, Ann Clark and Mrs. Herring; stories about…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/1/1964 (Sunday)

LBJ and Lady Bird to National City Christian Church; Texas State Society brunch honoring Darrell Royal; Lady Bird rests and works; Texas guests to the White House; dinner at Pierre and Nancy Salinger's home

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/2/1964 (Monday)

Project Art; written response to questions from Jack Anderson about teenagers; sale description for house at 4040 Fifty-Second St.; lunch with Abe Fortas; teas with Mrs. Harold Wilson and son from U.K.; LBJ meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/3/1964 (Tuesday)

Lady Bird has coffee with Kate Louchheim about Ladies Home Journal article; joined by Doris O'Donnell; Lady Bird poses for Vogue magazine photos; fourth Congressional reception; Lynda Johnson as Azalea Festival queen; Luci or Lynda Johnson as queen…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/4/1964 (Wednesday)

Meeting with Sen. Richard Russell about Lady Bird's visits to space installations; suggested visit to Emory University research center for control of communicable diseases; Lady Bird photos with Muscular Dystrophy poster children; Lady Bird to…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/5/1964 (Thursday)

LBJ to New York for Mrs. Robert Wagner's funeral; Lady Bird meets with Jim Webb about trip to space installations; lunch meeting with Mr. Ketchum; Look magazine photo session for Lynda and Luci; fifth congressional reception; Johnson family vacation;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/6/1964 (Friday)

Lady Bird meets with newspaper woman, Maxine Cheshire; office work; planning with Luci Johnson for clothes for Apple Blossom Festival; visit by Dr. and Mrs. Bronfenbrenner to show slides of Russian schools; LBJ & Lady Bird meet Mexican…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/7/1964 (Saturday)

Meeting to discuss upcoming speeches; Lady Bird's space trip to Huntsville, AL; office work; LBJ's press conference in East Room, with critique by Lady Bird; press conference questions; Eisenhower comment about press conferences; family dinner with…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/8/1964 (Sunday)

LBJ, Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson to Christian Church; Lady Bird bowls with Lynda Johnson and Warrie Lynn Smith at the Executive Office Building; family dinner with Warrie Lynn, Jesse Kellam, the Bill Moyers and the Bill Whites; Lady Bird's thoughts…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/9/1964 (Monday)

Lady Bird meets with Bess Abell, Liz Carpenter & Angier Biddle Duke about upcoming state visits and entertainment; meeting with Mr. Boudin and Mr. West about drapes for East Room; The Elms; concert by Charlie Byrd for children of Congressional…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/10/1964 (Tuesday)

Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson go for walk and bowling; trip on Air Force One to Greece with President Harry Truman for funeral of King Paul; Lady Bird visits with others on plane including Archbishop Iakovos, head of Green Orthodox Church; stories and…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/11/1964 (Wednesday)

Lady Bird arrives in Athens for funeral of King Paul of Greece; welcoming ceremonies; Lady Bird lunches at restaurant along Aegean Sea; background briefing on Greek government; Georgios Papandreou and son; visit to Byzantine Monastery; drive by…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/12/1964 (Thursday)

Greek King Paul's funeral; Archbishop Christostomas of Athens; Prince Phillip of England; unpleasant incident with Archbishop Makarias of Cyprus and crowd; long funeral procession to gravesite; Prince Loraton of Cambodia and stone-throwing at US…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/13/1964 (Friday)

Lady Bird tour of Agora; to American Embassy in Athens to meet and speak to the staff; Cyprus situation; Lady Bird met at airport by American schoolchildren; to Shannon, Ireland, airport where Lady Bird meets first female mayor of Limerick; Lady Bird…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/14/1964 (Saturday)

LBJ's network television interview about "the first hundred days" with Eric Sevariad, Douglas Brinkley and William Lawrence; Luci Johnson returns from New York shopping trip; Lady Bird, Lynda Johnson, Warrie Lynn Smith & Jesse Kellam watch "The…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/15/1964 (Sunday)

Lady Bird bowls at the EOB with LBJ and Lynda Johnson; Lady Bird watches the LBJ television interview from the day before

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/16/1964 (Monday)

Lady Bird meets with Bela Kornitzer for article on LBJ's father, Sam Houston; Lady Bird meets with Oliver Jensen and Eric Goldman for article on the grandfathers of candidates; Lady Bird uses Rebekah Johnson's scrapbooks and personal anecdotes;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/17/1964 (Tuesday)

Lady Bird meets with Sen. John Sparkman and Liz Carpenter about Lady Bird's trip to NASA in Huntsville, Alabama; tea with Clifford & Virginia Durr and daughter, Ann Lyon, Helen Fuller of "New Republic," and Anita Williams; LBJ to New York to address…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/18/1964 (Wednesday)

Lady Bird's speech at Texas Women's University in Denton; Women Doers Luncheon with speaker, Eleanor Pressley, of the Goddard Space Flight Center; tour of White House lawn with head gardener, Mr. Williams; hanging pictures in Lynda Johnson's room and…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/19/1964 (Thursday)

Lynda Johnson's birthday; flowers for Lady Bird from LBJ; furniture from Elms to Solarium; Democratic Dinner at the Armory; Pierre Salinger's resignation; St. Patrick's Day theme at the Armory; LBJ's speech; birthday cake for Lynda Johnson; dinner is…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/20/1964 (Friday)

Tour of White House gardens with Mrs. Paul Mellon; plan to create a Jacqueline Kennedy garden; personal time swimming with friends and family; approval for Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; telephone call to Jacqueline Kennedy

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/21/1964 (Saturday)

Lady Bird's trip to New York Historical Society to see a Rembrandt Peale portrait of Thomas Jefferson for the White House; Audubon exhibit; lunch at James Fosburgh's home; Winslow-Homer painting for White House; Fine Arts Committee; Vincent Price…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/22/1964 (Sunday)

Removing items from The Elms with Lynda Johnson; LBJ and Lady Bird to Palm Sunday vespers at St. John's Church; Lady Bird's dislike of photographers; dinner guests at the White House; discussions with Robert McNamara and other guests about Vietnam;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/23/1964 (Monday)

Final sale of The Elms; meeting with Jacqueline Cochran about a home for wives of dependent military families; LBJ & Lady Bird lunch with the Huff Baines'; Lady Bird films TV clip for American Cancer Society; story about Cancer Society sword; Embassy…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/24/1964 (Tuesday)

Lady Bird at Marshall Space Center, Huntsville, Alabama; presentation of personalized hard hat for Lady Bird; tour of laboratories; lunch with 48-49 Alabama relatives; watching test firing of Saturn I rocket; photograph of Jim Webb and Lady Bird;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/25/1964 (Wednesday)

Coffee with Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush; supervised moving of furniture from The Elms and house wares to LBJ Ranch; drinks with LBJ and staff; swimming laps; dinner with LBJ, Luci Johnson and the Valentis

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/26/1964 (Thursday)

Lady Bird sleeps in; meeting with Eleanor Lemair about changes to Solarium; meeting head of Florists Association about Lady Bird delivering Easter flowers; Lynda Johnson in New York City; LBJ and Lady Bird to LBJ Ranch; dinner at Ranch with Jesse…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/27/1964 (Friday)

Lady Bird to Austin to Hausman Beauty Shop; press at the beauty shop; Lady Bird to Johnson City with LBJ and the Jack Brooks'; to the Haywood Ranch and a boat ride; Lady Bird mentions the abundant bluebonnets; relaxed evening with friends at LBJ…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/28/1964 (Saturday)

LBJ is sick with coughing, throat congestion and fever; LBJ receives call about earthquake in Alaska; press conference at the LBJ Ranch; tours given for some press members at the Scharnhorst Ranch; dinner at the West Ranch with the Moursunds and…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/29/1964 (Sunday)

LBJ and Lady Bird to St. Barnabas Church; new minister is Rev. J. W. Langford; to Lewis Place with Jesse Kellam and Marianne Means; brunch at LBJ Ranch; visit from John and Nellie Connally; mention of progress of John Connally's right hand; Lady Bird…

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