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the family graveyard.
the biting wind.
And this morning we were heavily bundled up against
The country is gray and sere.
The only splash of color
the small p ilo t [?] down by the river close to the Lutheran Church.
is the time I shall want to travel
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- of the Chiang
horses of the Ming dynasty I believe
Kai-sheks.
overwhelming.
And an exquisite piece of jade for me.
And another piece of
jade from the Yens, and an enormous water color of a forested ino"untain
with a waterfall and a temple whose roof
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- and Frances
L ew ine, whom I think are p ra ctica lly twins; M a rie Smith of the Post; Isabelle
Shelton of the Star; Eleanor P o llock of the Philadelphia Bulletin; and Nan
Robertson, who w rote such good color s to rie s in the New Y o rk T im es about
- is a v ictim of
and
h e m o p h ilia , xrf the Nation al H em oph ilia Foundation had brought him to the
White H ouse to b egin its cam paign to help the hundred thousand or so v ic tim s
o f the d is e a s e .
He w as a slig h t, fr a il, s e lf - p o s
- Meeting Timothy Carroll, poster child for National Hemophilia Foundation; meeting Dr. Daniel McKay, President of the Mormon Church; meeting 100 high school students under U.S. Senate program; Lady Bird's feeling of kinship with the South; dinner
- . Per's for a shampoo and set.
Desk work these days is happily sprinkled with pictures for
autographing.
Because the end of our Administration is near at hand,
people in the government, people in the White House, old friends far
and wide are sending
- tim e , and th e re is m uch u se of ivy. And a
o v e r it
long p e rg o la o r a rb o r w ith v in e s g row ing/in the su m m e r tim e , b u t, a la s ,
in w in te r quite b a r e , an d s e a ts u n d e rn e a th , w h ere old people c an s
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- to Americana Hotel for benefit for the Association for the United Nations and the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Fund
- be a centerpiece from a different
adm inistration.
Of course, not ev ery one of the 36 Presidents has had
a special china.
When the supply gets low enough that you can’ t seat a
State Dinner of 100 or m ore people, then its time for the adm inistration
- , and the James S. R o c k e fe lle r s of the F i r s t National C ity Bank of
New Y o r k City.
LrtL
And then the Bob Steven s , f o r m e r l y in^Eisenhower government;, and
the W alter Toueys o f the C&O R a ilw a y Company, who are^besides^associated
tJ/t
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And it was a p erfec t color match for
the deco ratio n s.
roses of Texas,
l i t t l e bird ,
Second Vice
Bowls of - you guessed it -yellow
and on time o f one p e r c h e d / a p retty
the property of Betty Talmad
g e,
A
M rs,
Dirksen put me in the re c e
- Natural resources and national parks
- 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
- , the coach of the number one team in a ll the nation.
A ll
the T ex a n s in town are going, entertaining, talking, letting Washington
know that T e x a s h as invaded in fu ll fold, and v icto rio u s, both in culture
and in athletics.
Going to the beauty
- in the even in g, ^e w as to m ake h is talk oi^ w ar.
T he
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
■■WASHINGTON
Sxinday, M arch 31, 1968
sp e e c h w a s n ot y e t fir m .
P age 2
T h ere w e r e revision s^ ^ people to see^»* so he
b egan to put on h is c l o t h
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- -27, 1966 [Book 30]
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(B) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.
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- Valentine's Day; LBJ has medical exam; Luci Johnson and Pat Nugent's plans after wedding; LBJ is locating Jerry Nugent in Vietnam; Lady Bird does office work; Lady Bird attends American Heart Association luncheon and style show; Lady Bird attends
- Natural resources and national parks
- Breakfast; to Calvin Coolidge home, Plymouth; clean water project; National Historic Landmark plaque placed; John Coolidge tour of home; to First Congregational Church & Woodstock Historical Association; ride through Woodstock in 1911 Stanley
- to see - the TIME-LIFE people were on their way, they were already enroute,
no chance to postpone their meeting) and a call from Bill Moyers,
which disturbed m e.
He said something had happened that he wouldn't
go into, it was all his fault, that had
- on in the minds of the Secret Service Agc>nts.
But
the guar.ds opened the gate, in streamed the peopl e , and d.ov,•n the road
past the fountains we trailed, Him and Her ut'
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- Johnsons to National City Christian Church; walk around White House grounds--LBJ invited about 200 tourists from Southwest & Southeast Gates to walk with them; Him and Her beagles entertain group; bowling, nap, reading and television; dinner
- .
I readily agreed and said le t's set it up
for tomorrow, Wednesday, so as to catch those m em bers of the
T to T Club, Tuesday to Thursday.
How we used to laugh when
we w ere in the Senate at people who went away for weekends
. Thursday afternoon
- 1964
Sat urday, July 25~
Was an easy and pleasant day.
About noon I W(·nt ove r to Lyndon's
office, hoping I could snare him, a nd walked right into an informal press
conference.
Lyndon in his rockin;; chair, some 25 or 30 news paper peopl e
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- to do this.
It's one of the many
things that the Department of L a b o r is doing to bring people with special
needs, in this ca s e h a ndicapped people, back into the m ain stream of econom ic
life .
The ubiquitous E sther Pet erson, A ssistan t S e
- me to say
No to anything that Frank asked me to do.
Oddly enough, I got a note from Frank, saying that because of his close
association with the broadcasting business, he would not be out at the a irp ort
to m eet m e.
He thought the press might make
- , but I would say it would be pretty poor pickin 1 G for such as
us in Dallas.
At seven was the big event of the day - - the Am
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- " . . . . that m odern nations no lo n g er can base their salvation and
w e lf a r e
upon an e g o tis tic a l and a g g r e s s iv e nationalism .
, A sm all a r r o w
thrown in the d irection of deGaulle.
Another good phrase was, "W e have our hand out
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THE
WHITE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Friday,
May 1, 1964
May Day dawned
Democrats
cold
tomorrow
About
and drizzly.
if it's
10 :3 O, I went
still
like
Oh,
poor
Luci
- Oh poor
us and
this!
out to the
National
Cathedral
- Lady Bird to National Cathedral; Lady Bird to Winchester for Apple Blossom Festival; lunch at Dr. Maguire's; Luci Johnson on float in parade; Lady Bird back to Washington; visit at White House by the Abe Fortases; Lynda Johnson
- Johnson's Diary July 1-31, 1964 [Book 11]
Folder Title
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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
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- Johnsons to National City Christian Church; lunch, newspapers and Republic Convention on TV with LBJ; cocktail party at the Jack Valentis; dinner at White House with friends; news story about LBJ and the Presidency; Bobby Kennedy
- as a s ta rte r, to hel p
the people of H arlem to fig h t ju ven ile delinquency.
And then he c a lle d on
'
■?
them, lik e a p rea ch err|n
in a brush a rb o r - " A r e you w ith m e, " " W i l l you join
■p
me^".. and got a b ig resp on se, not ex
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- s, planted by the Associated Clubs o f V irg in ia fo r Roadside
Development.
And I spaded in the d ir t on a dogwood.
T h is is the Y e a r o f the
Shovel fo r m e!
Th e chief le sso n o f th is m orning is to see what has been done w ith
In te
- and others who w e r e com ing by, , ,
Some of the stuff I have liv e d with and lo ved at the E lm s.
A t 3 o ’ clo ck I had a picture with Womens' National D em ocra tic Club,
that i s M rs . K e y s e r ling, the P r e s id e n t of it; Kay H a l l e
- Lady Bird does desk work; Lady Bird has photograph taken with Women's National Democratic Club; Lady Bird attends reception for University of North Carolina group presenting John White drawings to White House Library; Lady Bird relates stories about
- a ra cte r.
I liked his wife very much.
She was an attractive
brunette, a little over 35 I'd say, good English, lively, one of those people
I'd like to know better.
As we walked up on the reviewing/^ after the National Anthems
the sp e e ch e s
- in ch arge of e v e ry th in g. ”
This is one o f the good sm all things that happened and something that
I want to make sure happens again--its the p rog ra m to bring bright young
people to Washington to w o r k i n governm ent departments during
- LBJ and Lady Bird to National City Christian Church with the Bill Wirtzes and Orville Freemans; swimming at the White House; Presidential Scholars program and Milton Eisenhower; LBJ golfs with Walter Jenkins and McGeorge Bundy; visit from Jesse
- us, and Lucy Baines
an d in the car with us Bob Waldron and the H arry McPhersons. There w ere long,
long lines of solemn, respectful people, all along the hill in Robert E. Lee’s home as we
wound up to the gravesite. The gravesite was covered
- LBJ's is briefed by John McCone; visit to see Charles Marsh, a family friend; to service at St. Mark's Church; visit to Arlington National Cemetery to place flowers at JFK's grave; returning to White House, Lady Bird greets Tommy Corcoran and James
- Johnson's Diary March 10-April 8, 1964 [Book 5]
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(B) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.
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- Removed from 05/14/1968, page 1.
Paper Clip Removed from 05/14/1968, pages 1- 7.
MEMORANDUM
^
T u e sd a y , M ay 14, 1968
THE WHITE HOUSE
wASHiNOTON
Page 1
What a d a y . A s w e advance farth er into M ay I fe e l m ore and m o re lik e
- of ab out six cot:ple s that
~hey
would particul
- of the Soviet Republic w ill come to our
land, " and the line about "I am su re the A m erican people would like to h ear
le a d e rs of the Soviet Republic on our TV and le a d e rs of this country would
be glad to speak to le a d e rs of the Soviet Nation
- because I ’ ve gotten
to f e e l that I know h er w e ll enough that the d iffe fe n c e s rub off,x^^d one
cea se s to c a te g o riz e people.
David Dubinsky was there, bouncing liv e l y around; and the ubiquitou s
P e r le M esta, whose appetite fo r
- LBJ and Railroad Strike; Lady Bird to first anniversary luncheon of the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation in New York; Lady Bird & Jean Kintner to Needlework Shop to design needlepoint pillows for White House; Lady Bird mentions many people
- Vredenburg B u s h , C h r i s tine Jones and M r s . Owen s ,
the National Com m itteewom an.
So I w a s w e ll flanked by Alabam ians.
The fir s t , the inevitable event, was the greetin g c e r e m o n ie s .
w e re about 300 people down in front
- of t hought in the cou_n l r y, Gold,va t c: :·
said,
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Eighty per cent of my people ar e conservati ve; abou t t w enty p e r cent
disagree . "
The n he said -- and
h t:.~ !" e
Lyndo n felt that h e showed th e most
enthusiasm, t he most real
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WASHINGTON
T u e sd a y , F e b r u a ry 16, 1965
P age 2
B e a u tific a tio n is c e rta in ly exposing m e to in te re s tin g people of
achievem ent^
T h en, I flew hom e and in the a fte rn o o n d e liv e re d the H e a rt A w ardi / uto
M
- 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
- , probably a little m o re re lia b le
and old fash ion ed than m ost papers.
We le ft the P h il P o t t e r 's ra th er e a r ly , with M a ry M a rg a re t and Jack
V a len ti, stopped by the W om ens National De m o c ra tic Club, w here Diana
and Donald
- to Women's National Democratic Club; Lady Bird visits with Taylor family, including her niece, Diana MacArthur and brother, Tony Taylor
- m o rie s t he W hite H ouse, the home that belon gs to a ll the A m e ric a n
people, is a ric h sto re house o f re c o lle c tio n s o f our w hole past as a Nation.
. w the s c o re s o f h is to r ic paintings which
I am happy to w elco m e you
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- Lynda Johnson to Camp David; Lady Bird records for Westinghouse movie on White House paintings; LBJ, Lady Bird and Luci Johnson to dinner at the International Inn; to D.C. National Guard Army for gala "Salute to President Johnson"; LBJ speech; Luci
