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- I discovered Mr. West and
th is wonderful s t a f f .
Now I shall return to i t .
I rested and worked
with Ashton, and then close to four, had my h a ir combed and went down
to the Blue Room for a reception fo r the Democratic National Committee
- ; Lady Bird reminisces about coming to the White House in 1963; reception in Blue Room for the Democratic National Committee; the Johnsons fly to New York City to the Pierre Hotel; dinner party for 450 at Plaza Hotel
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in the · Washington Hilton who had paid $250 a plate -- the proceed~ to be
divided equally between the Senate and House Congressional committees.
Phil Re.&an singing the National Anthem .as he has since time began,
and looking very . little older .
A new touch
- National politics
- assistance; Lady Bird has dressing fitting with Adele Simpson; tea for East Wing staff; Democratic Campaign Committee Fund Raising Dinner; John McCormack, Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey & LBJ give speeches; Richard Daley family are houseguests
- by the go vern o rs conferen ce jointly,
with the national go vern o rs association of Japan and the State Department.
T a ll, s e v e ra l-tim e s -g o v e rn o r of D elaw are, E lb e rt C a r v e ll, who’ d
made s e v e r a l trips to Japan
- as Queen Shenandoah; Lady Bird meets with Clark Clifford about Committee for Preservation of the White House; reception for Japanese Governors and wives; dinner with Jack Valenti; LBJ speaks to Democratic Women's Conference
- some o f the problem s o f the d a y .
,
D e m o cr a tic Committee i s f u l l o f p ro b lem s and d e e p l y
i n d e b t.
The N a t i o n a l
A rth u r Krim has been l a b o r i n g v a l i a n t l y
to b e h e l p f u l .
n
Neh
rIid
a r u had
- National politics
- and Roy White about the LBJ Library; LBJ and Lady Bird have dinner at Bill White's home; guests discuss Richard Russell; LBJ talks of Democratic National Committee problems; article about White House art
- National politics
- speech; Democratic National Committee
- , is
E isen h o w er."
J
of
And then he ta lk ed D ie m .
he d o e s.
It alw ays m ak es me u n com fortab le w hen
H is death, he reg a rd s a s a h ideous turning point in the w ar and
a b la c k sp ot in our nation al life .
And then h e talked o
- LBJ's lack of sleep; Lady Bird visits National Art Gallery; meeting with J.B. West and Jim Ketchum about Committee for the Preservation of the White House; LBJ & Lady Bird have lunch; Lady Bird has dress fittings and a nap; Lady Bird & Jane Freeman
- National politics
- is visiting; Luci is writing book about Yuki; LBJ teases Luci about her briefcase; filming in Treaty Room; tea for Connie Freeman; visit with the Bill Whites; Dean Rusk testifies before committee of Democratic National Convention; Vietnam; USSR invades
- in 1968; post-mortem discussion; Lady Bird has clothes fittings & desk work; LBJ gives prepared speech at dinner for Democratic National Committee and then goes "off-the-cuff"; that morning, LBJ meets with Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Henry Fowler & John
- National politics
- ; Johnsons to party for National Council on the Arts at Roger Stevens' home; to party for Lynda Johnson at City Tavern; Lady Bird mentions guests; visit at White House with Arthur Krim, Abe Fortas & Marvin Watson about Democratic National Committee
- ; dedication ceremony for Wilkes College's Science Center; homes along the Susquehanna River; back to Washington for meeting with and reception for Democratic National Committee; with LBJ to Camp David
- acro ss
to any m em bers of the Committee who might care what labor thought,
th eir hopes in favor of the beautification legislation, and that he
would think about a donation to the National Capital, and he wanted
me to think about being chairman
- Johnson's Diary May 1-14, 1964 [Book 7]
Folder Title
Box Number
1
Restriction Codes
(A) Closed by Executive Order 13292 governing access to national security information.
(B) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.
(C) Closed
- of the Senate Rules Committee and the Ways and Means Committee; LBJ goes to REA meeting; Lady Bird has dinner with Tony Taylor and Dr. Hurst; Lady Bird discusses family problem with LBJ
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to the C h ie f of P r o t o c o l ,
In
to see were the
on the Committee f o r
the White House,
Assistant
and then he
r ec eiv e
I were pa r t i cu l a r l y g l a d
George Browns s h e ' s
tion
2
is
appointment
Inform ation
the Small B u s i
- Possible dam at Caddo Lake; reception at White House for women appointees in LBJ Administration; Lady Bird mentions names and titles of several appointees; LBJ dinner with George Browns; Lady Bird to National Theatre for Royal Shakespeare Company
- DuPont
and Mrs.
DuPont, the Chairman of Mrs.
Arts Committee,
came and seemed to enjoy them selves.
And the next day had many good
it.
Kennedy's Pine
things to say about
The Lloyd Hands were about the handsomest coup le
there.
And Clark C l i f f
- Natural resources and national parks
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Collection Title Lady Bird Johnson's Diary
Folder Title
Lady Bird Johnson's Diary, April 9-30, 1964 [Book 6]
Box Number
1
Restriction Codes
(A) Closed by Executive Order 13292 governing access to national security information.
(B) Closed by statute
- Lady Bird meets with Henry DuPont; upcoming meeting of Committee on the Preservation of the White House; chandelier in Green Room; lunch with Lynda Johnson; Lady Bird has tea with Lady Jackson (Barbara Ward), Florence Mahoney, Lynda and Luci Johnson
- the Advisory Committee for the
National Parks to get some briefing on i t ) , and Orville and Jane, C.R.,
B ill and Jane Wirtz, and Wilbur and Eloise Cohen, our bridge playing
friends the Alan Boyds, Bob Weaver without Ella, who has been absent
from a ll
- Natural resources and national parks
- Desk work & phone calls; plaque from National Recreation and Park Association; 220 dogwoods for Columbia Island from 1965 Inaugural Committee; tea for Beautification Committee who donated 2500 dogwoods; 1 million daffodils; hike & bike trails
- of the National Parks S ervices and M r.
West, and we had a final going over of the agenda for the Com m ittee fo r
the P reserva tion of the White House, which m eets Thursday, May 7th,
because M r . Hartzog, as Dire c to r of the Parks S ervices, is the Chairman
- agenda for Committee for the Preservation of the White House; paintings from Alice Brown
- -27, 1966 [Book 30]
Folder Title
Box Number
3
Restriction Codes
(A) Closed by Executive Order 13292 governing access to national security information.
(B) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.
(C) Closed in accordance
- meeting on LBJ Library; planning committee stays for dinner; Lady Bird discusses need for more artwork at the White House; announcement of Luci's wedding goes out to press
- Natural resources and national parks
- dinner with Harry McPherson and Joe Califano; Indira Gandhi was name India's Prime Minister; Inaugural Committee completed its work LBJ talks about hostility in newspaper stories, including one on Tony Taylor
- Johnson's Diary March 10-April 8, 1964 [Book 5]
Folder Title
Box Number
1
Restriction Codes
(A) Closed by Executive Order 13292 governing access to national security information.
(B) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.
(C
- 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
- Lady Bird breakfasts with LBJ; Lady Bird appointment with Indira Gandhi of India; Lady Bird's lunch with Jane Everhard about Fine Arts Committee; reception for wives of National Academy of Sciences members; LBJ's impromptu speech about "can-do
- Johnson's Diary May 16-June 6, 1965 [Book 21]
Folder Title
Box Number
3
Restriction Codes
(A) Closed by Executive Order 13292 governing access to national security information.
(B) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.
(C
- Presentations in Jacqueline Kennedy Garden to companies who donated landscaping at schools in Washington; Lady Bird fills in for LBJ to greet group from North Carolina; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital meets on the SEQUOIA; tour of Washington
- v e r y m uchr-^ow g r a te fu l I w a s.
■:iA■
O ver the p a st th ree y e a r s , the people in th is room h ave p rod u ced n e a r ly
"
two and a h a lf m illio n d o lla r s to take step s tow ard m aking th is nation*s
ca p ito l m o r e liv e
- of Beautification Committee; Lady Bird bowls two games; Lady Bird records diary, eats cold dinner, watches television & receives massage; Lynda Robb attends Women's National Press Club Dinner
- ith A r t h u r Kr i m .
hav e b e e n .
And a d i s t u r b i n g one i t m u st
Krim h ad been a n a l y z i n g t h e s t a t e o f a f f a i r s
a t t h e D e m o c ra tic N a t i o n a l Committee and th e y a r e
bad.
H e a v i ly i n d e b t
- LBJ and Lady Bird attend National Christian Church with guests; LBJ whispers a joke to Lady Bird during the service; press stories about Johnson family; lunch at White House and watching Senator Russell Long and Averell Harriman on television; Lady
- Lady Bird performs doctor-recommended exercises; luncheon for women; Helen Hayes; Luci Johnson, National Cathedral School and eye problems; dinner for Senate Committee heads and leadership; briefing for men and tour of WH for women; Margaret Chase
- Natural resources and national parks
- for Citizens Advisory Committee on Recreation and Natural Beauty where Lady Bird makes statement and helps Alan Boyd present awards; Laurance Rockefeller speaks; LBJ joins reception; LBJ swims; Lady Bird reads Elia Kazan's "The Arrangement"
- LBJ has Congressional Leadership Breakfast; Lady Bird meets Ladies Committee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; planning for the Women Doers' Luncheon on child health; photos with the National Association for Retarded Children and their poster child
- ik I n a u g u r a l
n memory, w h ic h makes Howard B u r r i s , th e
Parade Committee Chairman a D ip lo m a t as w e l l a s an
E x e c u tiv e .
Texas had a f l o a t t h a t was a r e p l i c a o f
th e LBJ r a n c h h o u s e , w i t h a p
- 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
- Natural resources and national parks
- Abe Fortas' nomination as Chief Justice; arrival ceremony for President Tombalbaye of Chad; Luci & Lyn Nugent are photographed by the press; LBJ signs bills creating Wild and Scenic Trails, Wild & Scenic Rivers, and two National Parks; LBJ gives
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The meeting was all about the Fine Arts Committee, of which it may be a long time until I
hear the last. Bess and Liz were there. Clark is a most remarkable man, so suave and
persuasive and handsome with an almost Shakespearean delivery. I tried to tell him
- Friends and volunteers help in White House living quarters; Lady Bird meets with Clark Clifford and others about the White House Fine Arts Committee; preservation of the White House and the Capitol; Jacqueline Kennedy's recommendation to discontinue
- Harry Middleton in the Yellow Oval Room about our films,
a never-ending project.
And then on into the Treaty Room for our
last meeting of the Audio-Visual Committee.
I think when this is
over I want to declare a long moratorium on several words
- Brief conference with Abe Fortas; meeting with Henry Middleton about films; meeting of LBJ Library Audiovisual Committee; to theater to view "The President's House;" office work & telephone calls; hair styled; portrait party at the White House; Lady
- Meeting with Clark Clifford about Fine Arts Committee; possibility of permanent Curator; Committee on the Preservation of the White House; interview with "Look" magazine; tea with Governor and Mrs. Breathit of Kentucky; Luci Johnson; dinner
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Wednesday, May 17, 1967
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in South Texas. It is hard for us to keep current, to bring in new names—new blood for
invitations to committees, to add their strength to our personal and political life.
Cecil showed me a delightful picture of a big complex
- Bird reminisces about reading "Peter Rabbit" to daughters; Spanish lesson; Military Reception; Baroness Maria Von Trapp is guest & she wants to take "Sound of Music" to Vietnam for servicemen; dinner upstairs with guests; Committee on Retardation
- Bird taking home movies; back to Schornhorst; Okamoto takes photos for Beautification Committee; boating at the Haywood Ranch; helicopter to West Ranch for dinner
- double amputee ..-
-/re lost to Romney .-fr'nd his pretty wife Alice.
Dear Robin Duke's frienrl, Mrs. Harcourt Amory, who helps h(:r
out by being Chairman of the Blair House Fine Arts Committee.
The luncheon was remarkable for several
the
loudspeaki
- 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
- NBC interview with Nancy Hanschman; Lady Bird's reads and edits Ruth Montgomery's biography on Lady Bird; reception for Blair House Fine Arts Committee with Robin Duke; needlepoint cushion tops by Lady Bird and ladies of the Cabinet
- LBJ, Lady Bird, Lynda Johnson and the McNamaras to St. Mark's Church; lunch with George Browns and Bob McKinneys; Alice Brown asked to be member of Committee for Preservation of the White House; paintings for White House; LBJ and golf; Lady Jackson
- Lady Bird with Carl Rowan to Smithsonian's USIA exhibit, "Architecture USA;" meeting of the Committee for a More Beautiful Capitol; Lady Bird mentions members of the Committee, agenda and beautification projects ; Lady Bird meets with Horace Busby
