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governments, i n plan s an d preparation s fo r a se a leve l cana l i n thi s area .
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Bundy
Arrived Oval
Pierre
Room
Salinger(BM
Secretary
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informal
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Taylor,
before
out
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Undersecretary
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To Fish
Room
for
taping
of news
conf. on Labor
Return
to ofc.
(w/ JV)
Geo. Reedy
Marshall
McNeill
(n/r - fr. lounge)
Max Freedman
(n/r)
// 9:35
- dep.
for mansion)
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for M
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(n/r
mansion)
Luci
(Dining
Room
- , o f Urbana, Illinoi s
Julian R . Goldsmit h o f Chicag o Illinoi s
William W . Hagert y o f Philadelphia, Pa .
Patrick E. Haggerty , o f Dallas
, Texa
s
Mina S . Ree s o f New York Cit
y
John I . Snyder , Jr. , o f New York City , Ne w York
Julius
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G Reedy
Mr Robert Meyner
former
governor of New Jersey
until
Bill Moyers
J Valenti
out
at
J Valenti
To Cabinet Room, stopping to remark about the noisy clatter of typewriters, "Goodness,
that sounds good."
page
1
To Cabinet Room to meet
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delivering
cable
Amb
Duke
To Fish Room for talk with Prime Minister Ikeda of Japan over new Transpacific Cable Present at ceremony: H. E. Ryuji Takeuchi, Ambassador of Japan; Angier Biddle Duke;
Robert Fearey, State Dept; Genichi Akatani, Counselor
- Moyers in office - discussing
call from J Edgar Hoover
Sheldon Cohen
Secretary
Freeman
and
Roland Renne
Secy Vance
To Rose
Garden
to receive group
in connection
with
New
York
Registration
Program
- shook
hands w/ the
group as he walked
around
garden
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;
:
. Mrs
e fro m Langle y AF Bas e t o Shipbuildin g Yard, Newpor t News , Va .
,
,
e ^jjptmim&f* helicopte r lande d an d th e Presiden t wen t immediatel y t o hi s
r w / Marvi n Watso n an d procede d t o th e receptio n room wher e h e me t _
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- Date December
LBJ RANCH Day
18, 1966
SUNDAY Expendi-
Activity (inciude visited by) ture
Code
The President later in the day reported that he had awakened at 4:30a and read the
Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and New York Times and Wall Street
- visited by)
To Oval office w/ Jake Jacobsen- -who was out immediately
OFF RECORD: Paul Miller, President of Gannet Newspapers
.Tom John son
Press
card
Mr. Miller invited the President to address the Associated Press Editors
Convention meeting in New
- for Washingt
On the way picked up Julie & Karen Jones, daughters of LCDRJohn Paul Jones
Datf October 2, 1966
Camp David p^
Sunday
Activity (include vtsited by) ture
Expend!
Code
Joe Califan
In living
o
room reading
U.
S.
News
and
World
Report
- calls
&
security
checked
Date November 11, 1966
L B J Ranch Dav
Friday
Activity (inctude visited by)
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The President awakened (as he told Sen. Mansfield in telephone conversation later in
the morning. )
Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, New York
- ranch by car , drivin toward Johnson City with the President at the wheel.
They looked at the Park Land.
They drove around looking a the new park site, the old park site, and the boyhood home,
not stopping at any of them.
Depart Johnson City
Dale Meeks
- )
Marvin Watson
To the Oval Rm Ofc w/Jake Jacobsen
i^,r May
White House .
Dav
25,
1966
Wednesday
Activity (inc!udp visited bv)
Oke in for pics
Maurice Johnson - of UPI - President of White House News Photographers Assn
Ollie Atkins - Saturday
- news
Bill Moyers
NBC group
Bob Fleming
A copy of the film was presented to the
President in a special case.
Bob Fleming made available to the President the mail reaction on the "Hill Country:
program -- favorable - 260; critical - ^§4; miscellaneous
- to be read at the dinner.
Bill Lawrence, Bob Fleming.
ABC
News
To mansion w/ Bill Lawrence.
Bob Fleming
Lunch w/
Bill
Laurence,
Bob Fleming
Requested gt bring papers from desk in lounge re Polls to mansion. GT took them
and returned.
Paul Glynn
- contribution to ecumenical interests and the renewal of the Church Universa
(the request for this appt came from Cong Rooney, who has a new district and felts: th
appt of great importance to him)
Mr. Joh n Crimmins, Lincoln Gordon, Secy Ball, Dick Helms
- House p^
Sunday
Activity (inctude visited by) tut
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Mrs. Johnson went to the Navy Yard from the MacArthur residence
The President returned to the mansion, greeting his dogs -- incuding
a new male beagle, which he fondly
- neither su )j ^
Bill Moyer s meet s Pres . an d tells hi m t o com e int o hi s Ova l R m Ofc. - ou t Ci ) 2 -
Director
M
Chas
Schultze
Watson
Jake
Jacobsen
w/
new
suit
for
Pres
walk ss ou
ou t to
to MJDR'
MJDR's
of c w
w// new pants
and
Pres
- - Austin , Texa s
Judge A . W . Moursun d - a t hi s ranc h - Roun d -Mountain , Texa s - als o talke d w /
Mrs. Johnso n ( VM still i n the room ) Mrs
. Moursun d - Mrs . J . talke d to o
Listened t o th e new s an d watched th e 11:0 0 pm new s o n
- Louis University*
H. R. 8272, An Act to provide for the free entry of an isotope separator for the
use of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey,
H. R. 4845, An Act to provide for the economic and efficient purchase, lease,
maintenance, operation
- a Marti n
Mr. an d Mrs. Birg e Alexande r
Jake ixK k Jacobse n
VM, M F
Dale Maleche k •
Joe Califan o
Governor Joh n Connally , Austi n
Edwin Weisl , Sr . - NY C - discusse d Ne w York Cit y Mayolalt y contes t
To the offic e t o Watc h Televisio n 7 news
- of any new policy resolution
Congress __
Organization of non-military efforts
RE: The Vice President's return from his trip throughout SE Asia and other
Asian countries
^
,_
RE: Vietnam ,
During the meeting, the President asked for 2 letters:
1) Ltr. fr
- Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz Government
employees be enlisted in
formally introduced to his Cabinet^ Under Secy of HEW, Wilbur J Cohen Savings
Bond effort. Discussion of ef
the two new Special Assistants that .Secretary of HUD, Robert C. Weaver
-
Frank Theis - Kansas
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brown - New Mexico Tom Corcoran - Kansas
Mrs. U D Sawyer - New Mexico
Violet Snedeger - West Va.
Mrs. Aliens on - California
James Sprouse - West Virginia
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Rawlins - Utah
Ludy Red - Utah
Mr. Luke
- - - an d to mak e som e new
sports clothes .
Judge A. W . Moursun d - Johnso n City , Texa s
To the offic e - - signe d som e mai l an d worked papers o n his desk .
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LUNCH w/ Mrs . Johnson , Mr . Ro y White, Mr . Irvi n Frank, J
Bob Hardesty
- to the birthplace - - which
is a mile - - then to the Jordan House and into the cattl e pe n where som e
new calves were being weaned from their mothers. Th e President went into
the pen and played w/ the calves. .
Driving in the convertible -- looking a t th e
- in the highway
and w/Mrs. Johnson , mf and yb returned to the airstrip where he noticed a plane had just
landed. (Mrs.
Johnso n into the House)
NOVEMBER 30 , 196 5
WHITE HOUS E - TEXAS
TUESDAY
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' To the airstrip - an d aboard new DC-9 which had
- ,
December 7 , 1965
White House -- LBJ Ranch, Texas
TUESDAY
The President went ridin s in the car w/ Se cy. Rusk, Se cy. McNamara. Mr . Komer
and Mr. Bundy - - down by the guest house -- and then to Mrs. Bailey's new house. . .
Returned to the front lawn
- .
/
December 11 . 1965
White Hous e -- LB J Ranch, Texa s
SATURDAY
• The Presiden t departe d the ranc h w / Mr . ai d Mrs. Arthu r Kri m an d went t o th e
new suest hous e near Mrs . Bailey' s house. . . (Mr s Johnso n had gone w/ the
Wests an d w/ th e Mrs
-
On the Martin ranch area
On the Dan z Ranch area
Driving on the Danz Ranch area -- going west -- then turned aroun d and headed eas ;
Arrived a t th e Main residence
In the office -- watchin g the news on television and reading the tickers on his desk
- ---(Oke taking pictures the whole time. . .).
Into the Oval Office (JV
went in shortly afterwards -- and came_ out into mjdr's
room asking for the New Jersey polls )... then took it into the President. . .
To Jack Valenti's office w/ JV -- where Brooks
- City Cmtee
of New Yor k - honoring Howard Samuels. -Approved and dispatched at 6:10p
V^ ^v^
^
Jack
Valenti, (pl)
^
Jack Valenti and Joe Califano - to the President's bedroom - The Mansion
JV (pl)
*
Marianne Means Riardon (fm the Mansion - at her
- to go riding around the main ranch
house area and some of the other ranches .
During the ride, vm radioed the President twice -- 1.) Senate confirmation of John T. Connor
as the new Secretary of Commerce. 2.) to tell the President that in minutes
- tonight and that the Vietnam thing was taking much of his tim e
and wearing on him. H e introduced Secretary Ball (subbin g for Secy Rusk who
was iaaaesc in New York) who dealt exclusively with comment s on the political
and economic side of the Vietnam
- , and pinned th e medals on the winners
WINNERS: '
Christine Ciesla. 12 of Buffalo New York John
Abel . 13. Thre e Rivers, Mich.
David Hrdlicka. 13 , o f Bridgeport, Conn. Donald
Brunner. 12 , Three Rivers , Mich
Tusha Helen a Sobek, 12, Blue Springs, Mo. Nesto
- U.S. New s an d Worl d Report
Owen L. Scott , Executiv e Edito r
Geo Reedy
Carson
Carson FF.. Lyman
Lyman , Managin g Editor
Edito r
Horace Busby
John R . Fleming
Fleming , Directin g Editor , Internationa
Internationall Staf
Staf f
Jack Valenti
Ben J
- Telephone
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In Out
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20,
1968
White House ~
Monday
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fort
Activity
LD
^
(include visited by)
On board the President had chili and two saltines and a cup of coffee
8:51 p Arrived
Floyd Bennet Field, NeW York
8:54p Departed
Floyd Bennet Fiel d
- by )
9:52am Presiden
t i n stateroo m fo r OF F RECOR D briefin g (Georg
• wit
h Pres s Poo l ~
note
10:57a Bil
l Gill , AB C
10:57a Jac
k Southerland , U . S . New s an d World Report
10:57a : n Fran
k Swoboda , UP I
10:57a T L Fran
k Cormier , A P
10
-
Allen Ellender
R. Pontius
D. Connell ,
Melchiori
11:23a _
Take
^ _, The
off for New Orleans, La. t o address American Legion in Nationa l Convention
The President and Senator Ellender together in lounge.
President worked last night's "Night Reading
