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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/13/1965 (Wednesday)

Lady Bird works on mail and inauguration; Lady Bird visits with Jean Kintner; LBJ gives Ashton Gonella a birthday gift; four planes are shot down in Vietnam; Lady Bird talks of the presidency and LBJ's fears; Lady Bird swims and talks with Lynda and…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/14/1965 (Thursday)

Lady Bird meets with Sargent Shriver and Eric Goldman about Operation Head Start and VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America); Lady Bird must decide which program to focus on; Lady Bird assesses Shriver; farewell party for Luther and Martha Hodges;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/15/1965 (Friday)

Lady Bird meets with Roy Rodman, chief landscape designer for Texas Highways; arrival of Canadian Prime Minister Pearson; Lady Bird takes Mrs. Pearson on tour of LBJ Ranch; Winston Churchill's illness; Pearson relates story about Andrei Gromyko; John…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/16/1965 (Saturday)

Lady Bird & Mary Bundy go for walk; farewell to Prime Minister and Mrs. Pearson; Lady Bird meets with LBJ Ranch staff; Lady Bird meets about Johnson City homestead and Texas State Parks; LBJ and Lady Bird to Moursunds; dinner with the Melvin Winters;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/17/1965 (Sunday)

LBJ & Lady Bird to Christian Church in Johnson City; LBJ & Lady Bird to Sam Johnson house and to visit LBJ's sister, Lucia; Jessie Hunter, Uncle Huffman and Aunt Ovilee, et al to fly on Air Force One to Washington for Inauguration; LBJ & Lady Bird to…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/18/1965 (Monday)

Lady Bird breakfasts with LBJ and family; Lady Bird to National Gallery of Art for Distinguished Ladies' Reception; Lady Bird describes reception and people; Lady Bird visits with Luci Johnson and her girlfriends; Lady Bird and LBJ to pre-gala dinner…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/19/1965 (Tuesday)

Lady Bird and LBJ to Governors reception; Lady Bird's dress for Hubert Humphrey reception; reception at State Department for Medal of Freedom winners; Lady Bird mentions winners and her conversations with them; Lady Bird & LBJ to Inaugural Concert;…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/20/1965 (Wednesday)

LBJ, Lady Bird & Luci Johnson to prayer service at National City Christian Church; Inauguration; funny story about Fern Baines; seating on inaugural platform; LBJ takes oath of office and gives address; inaugural luncheon; Lady Bird's classmate from…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/21/1965 (Thursday)

Lady Bird visits with Margaret Truman Daniel and Johnson City family and friends ; LBJ meets with House leadership; dinner with the Hubert Humphreys and the Homer Thornberrys

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/22/1965 (Friday)

Office work; Lady Bird asks for letters of association that set up other presidential libraries; Lady Bird, LBJ, et al discuss appointments; Lady Bird to doctor; Lady Bird & Lynda Johnson preview "The White House Story" documentary; Lady Bird and…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/23/1965 (Saturday)

Lady Bird receives call during night of LBJ going to the hospital; Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson return to Washington and go to Bethesda Naval Hospital; Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; Luci Johnson to luncheon given in her honor; LBJ talks…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/24/1965 (Sunday)

Death of Winston Churchill; two press conferences from Bethesda Naval Hospital; doctors oppose LBJ attending Churchill's funeral; Jack Valenti brings LBJ items for signature

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/25/1965 (Monday)

LBJ's health improves, but others are getting same illness; Churchill's funeral; LBJ and Dean Rusk discuss the State Department; Luci Johnson's instruction in the Catholic Church; dinner with Abe Fortas at the hospital

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/26/1965 (Tuesday)

LBJ is released from the hospital; representatives going to Winston Churchill's funeral; Lady Bird meets with her staff about correspondence; LBJ meets with Jack Valenti, Bill Moyers and Horace Busby; Lady Bird assesses Bill Moyers and George Reedy

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/27/1965 (Wednesday)

LBJ has a fever; Lady Bird and Liz Carpenter work on beautification; lunch and discussion about presidential libraries; Lady Bird meets with Bess Abell; LBJ has press conference; representatives chosen for Churchill funeral; Nicholas Katzenbach and…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/28/1965 (Thursday)

Lady Bird works with her office staff; Luci Johnson and her conversion to Catholicism; Lady Bird talks with Lynda Johnson; LBJ returns to work; Lady Bird reads Task Force on Beautification report

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/29/1965 (Friday)

Lady Bird looks at portraits of FDR and a photograph album for the White House; Lady Bird visits with Usher about decorators for White House; subjects for meeting of Committee for the Preservation of the White House; Nathanial Owings invited to…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/30/1965 (Saturday)

Winston Churchill's funeral; Johnson Administration staff ill; Lady Bird works on Beautification and Washington, DC; dinner with friends

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/31/1965 (Sunday)

LBJ, Lady Bird and Luci Johnson to Red Mass at St. Matthews; LBJ spends day in bed; dinner with the Jack Brooks and Bill Whites; George Reedy and the press; visit with Luci and Lynda Johnson

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/1/1965 (Monday)

Lady Bird meets with James Fosburgh about art for the White House; LBJ presents Distinguished Service Medal to General Curtis LeMay; Lady Bird adds oral commentary to home movies; Lady Bird lunches with LBJ and his staff; Lynda Johnson's trip to…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/2/1965 (Tuesday)

Lady Bird has breakfast with LBJ; Lady Bird has lunch meeting with LBJ, Barbara Ward, et al, about Beautification; Lady Bird to White House Library for presentation of White House Guidebook; Lady Bird studies for dinner honoring Vice President, Chief…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/3/1965 (Wednesday)

Lady Bird visits with Mr. and Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller about Beautification; Lady Bird meets with Sargent Shriver and Advisory Council of the War on Poverty; Job Corps; Shriver asks Lady Bird to sponsor Head Start; Lady Bird visits with Mary Lasker…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/4/1965 (Thursday)

Congressional Prayer Breakfast; Lady Bird does office work; LBJ has television news conference; story about Adlai Stevenson's birthday cake; Stevenson discusses the Soviet Union, the United Nations, the Congo and China; Lady Bird meets with Barbara…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/5/1965 (Friday)

Women Doers Luncheon on Beautification; reception for Senate Youth Program; Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson watch home movies

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/6/1965 (Saturday)

Lady Bird meets with Tom Watson of IBM and Elliott Noyes; Lady Bird meets with Liz Carpenter about upcoming events and tours Washington by automobile; Lady Bird walks White House grounds; Lady Bird to Bess Abell's party; Lady Bird visits with Luci…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/7/1965 (Sunday)

Viet Cong attacks American barracks in South Vietnam; LBJ meets with National Security Council; LBJ & Lady Bird to St. Mark's Church; naps; dinner with friends

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/8/1965 (Monday)

LBJ and the Vietnam War; Lady Bird's interview with a magazine; Lady Bird reads about Beautification; Lady Bird has lunch meeting with Bess Abell about mail; Lady Bird meets with Stewart Udall about Beautification; Lady Bird swims and has…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/9/1965 (Tuesday)

Attack on U.S. Embassy in Moscow; Luci Johnson gives tour to her history class; possible paintings for the White House; Lady Bird meets with Liz Carpenter about interview with U.S. News & World Report; Congressional reception with briefing for…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/10/1965 (Wednesday)

LBJ & George Reedy telephone call about budget and Congress; planning for Beautification meeting; attack in Vietnam; Lady Bird takes dog for walk; Lady Bird visits with Luci Johnson; LBJ & Lady Bird dine with the McGeorge Bundys; George Reedy

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/11/1965 (Thursday)

Tea for and meeting of the Committee on Beautification; the second Congressional reception; dinner with the George Mahons, Hubert Humphreys, et al; Buford Ellington to head the Office of Emergency Management

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/12/1965 (Friday)

Lincoln's Birthday celebration; LBJ receives Gold Medal of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission; LBJ gives speech at the luncheon; Lady Bird has meeting for West Hall Project; Lady Bird has meeting about LBJ Library and University of Texas…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/13/1965 (Saturday)

Lady Bird and Margy McNamara walk White House grounds; renovations discussed for Fish Room; bowling with Margy McNamara; Luci Johnson to winter dance at National Cathedral School; Johnsons spend evening at Jack Valenti's house; anti-American riots

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/14/1965 (Sunday)

Valentine's Day; Johnsons to National City Christian Church; Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson to National Gallery of Art; dinner with the Robert McNamaras, Bill Fulbrights, and Tom Manns; Latin America; airplane junkyard is moved; LBJ talks about William…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/15/1965 (Monday)

Lady Bird to New York City for premier of "The Greatest Story Ever Told;" Lady Bird visits a playground project in Harlem; Lady Bird views Bobby Lehman's art collection; Lady Bird to Ambassador Adlai Stevenson's home before show; Lady Bird to…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/16/1965 (Tuesday)

Lady Bird meets with Robert Dowling about Beautification and Sterling Gardens; Lady Bird flies back to Washington, DC; Lady Bird presents award for American Heart Association; the third Congressional reception is held at the White House

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/17/1965 (Wednesday)

Meeting of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House; publications by the White House Historical Association; possible paintings for the White House; completion of the White House Library; Lady Bird visits with President Dwight…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/18/1965 (Thursday)

Lady Bird and White House Usher tour White House storage; Lady Bird attends birthday luncheon for Muriel Humphrey; fourth Congressional reception is held, for the Senate; Paintings of the White House film shown for ladies, along with tour of White…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/19/1965 (Friday)

Project West Hall renovations; Seminar in East Room for Operation Head Start; Lady Bird mentions several participants and attendees including some from Hollywood; Lady Bird has photo taken with Gina Lollobrigida; Johnsons have dinner at the Marshal…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/20/1965 (Saturday)

Lady Bird works in office; Lady Bird walks White House grounds; Lady Bird has lunch with LBJ; dinner is at the White House with the Cecil Burneys; Lynda Johnson goes to party given by Carol Channing; there is a possible donation of a Sully painting…

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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/21/1965 (Sunday)

LBJ and Lady Bird to Christ Church in Alexandria (George Washington's church); Lady Bird describes service, including baptism of two-month-old girl; Johnsons walk White House grounds; lunch and bowling with the Marvin Watsons; LBJ sends plane to…

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