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- Meeting on Arts project; Executive Order establishing Society for Preservation of the White House and permanent curator; possible members of Society; Jacqueline Kennedy; Fine Arts Committee and the Painting Committee; swim and trip to Mr. Per's
- February 1 , 1965
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- Lady Bird meets with J.B. West about household matters; office work; swims laps in pool; seventh Congressional reception; Education Bill is out of committee; Congressmen to briefing and wives to theater and second floor; funny story about Mrs. Ralph
- with Jesse Kellam and the Thornberrys; upcoming Lady Bird trip with President Truman to Greece for funeral of King Paul; Executive Order creating Committee for the Preservation of the White House
- Lady Bird flies back to Washington, D.C.; upcoming party for Orville Freeman's daughter; party for friends to give them magnolias; meeting of the audiovisual committee of the LBJ Library; "Life in the White House" exhibit; CBS and NBC films
- Dedication of Sam Rayburn statue at new Rayburn House Office Building; Lady Bird gives short dedication speech; Lady Bird stops at Inaugural Committee office to thank staff ; Lady Bird works on Inauguration planning; Lady Bird starts new diet
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lady Bird to hairdresser; meeting of Preservation of White House Committee; new drapes and rugs for White House; briefing on finances of White House Historical Association by Clark Clifford; lunch; reception for Fine Arts Committee; Lady Bird's
- Meeting with Madam Shoumatoff about FDR portrait; Lady Bird, Nash Castro and Mary Lasker visit award-winning beautification sites; Beautification Committee meeting; Lady Bird mentions attendees and agenda; award ceremony in Jacqueline Kennedy Garden
- LBJ is in a dark mood; death of Senator Richard Russell's son; White House Festival of the Arts; press response to Festival; Lady Bird takes a nap; reception for Inaugural Committee workers; quick remarks by LBJ; visit by Tony and Matiana Taylor
- Second Beautification Committee meeting; participants take tour of Washington for possible beautification projects; office work; nap; Selma, Alabama, and Voting Rights; ninth Congressional Reception; Selma incident
- Committee of U.S. and Canada; Talk with Luci and Lynda Johnson; Time magazine article on John Connally; Dinner with Congressman and Mrs. Jack Brooks; LBJ's sleeping habits
- are to limit & reduce nuclear weapons & anti-missile systems; reception; LBJ meets Latin American ambassadors; Lady Bird receives International Consumers Committee; meeting about the White House China dessert plates; Lady Bird to Perle Mesta party
- Lady Bird attends St. Marks Church and mentions the sermon; parishioner mentions one of LBJ's poverty committees; church members take communion; Lady Bird returns to White House and coffee with Lynda Johnson and George Hamilton; lunch was Mexican
- Presentation of Johns Adams silver urn to White House with Adams family members present; Mark Bortman, People-to-People program, and visit of Bashir Ahmed, camel driver, during Vice Presidency; Committee of Preservation of the White House; Bortman
- Hair salon; Luci Nugents escorts Tricia Nixon & Nixon Cabinet members' children through White House; Lynda & Chuck Robb are in Bangkok; last meeting of Committee for the Preservation of the White House; report on White House Historical Association
- Lady Bird watches Chancellor Adenauer's funeral on television; annual meeting of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House; Oveta Culp Hobby donates Waterford Crystal chandelier; Lady Bird is in receiving line at Senate Ladies Luncheon
- ; bus tour & dedication of Haines Point fountain; remarks by Lady Bird; LBJ gives remarks to Committee; Beautification booklet; Lady Bird meets with Charles Maguire; LBJ to reception given by African-American appointees; LBJ awakens ill and goes
- Office work; Promotions for Women in Armed Forces bill signing ceremony; LBJ presents Bronze Star to Major Marie Rodgers, an African-American, and a Legion of Merit to Colonel Ethel Hefley; Committee for Preservation of the White House meeting
