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- ; exchange of State gifts; receiving line; Lady Bird mentions many guests; LBJ's toast about our form of government; Sir Alec Douglas-Home's toast about Cuba; the "Strolling Strings" and dancing
- , the w ife
of our old fr ie n d Gus Wortham.
In the next one was M iss Ima, v e r y
re g a l, v e r y e ld e r ly , but v e r y full of excitem ent and v^rve about what
^
was
going on.
With h er w e re the d im in u tiv e Sir John B a r b a r o l l
- doing m y home w ork
fo r the fiv e o 'c lo c k reception fo r the North C arolin a group, whi ch is a
presentation to the White House l ib r a r y of the A m e r ic a n drawings of John
MEMORANDUM
THE W HITE HOUSE
WASiriN O TON
Tuesday, A p r i l 7
- Lady Bird explores New Zealand's Governor General's home; Sir Bernard and Lady Ferguson show Lady Bird the grounds; exchange of gifts; morning with Mrs. Holyoke and Mrs. Powell; Lady Bird describes flowers; ride in cable car; motorcade to Civic
-
And then at 4 o 'c lo c k came the r e a lly im portant part of the day.
was the second big slug of mental fodder that I have had this week.
It
The
f ir s t being Helen Gahagan Douglas,
F lo re n c e Mahoney ca lled and asked if she could bring o v e r a Dr
- —I congratulated them on Jimmy's being in the
House, and Loraine McGee, very tan, without Gale, who's o ff making a
speech.
And from the Court, there were our life-long friends, Abe
and Carol, and B ill Douglas and Cathy—and I must confess looking
- A nderson Steinbeck (M rs. John St einbeck).
Am ong old frien d s w e re Helen Gahagan Douglas, India Edwards - ^
I
and how am azing in that group of women, M a jo r J. R. P a r t en of Texas'.
I was glad to see M a rg a re t Trum an Daniel there, and we had
- Visit of British Prime Minister and Ms. Douglas-Home; Citizen's Advisory Council on Status of Women meeting; tour for Billy Marcus and Wendy; tea with Anna Roosevelt Halstead, her reminiscences, and her remarks about Iran and the Shah of Iran
- ; railroad negotiations in the Cabinet room; dinner for Henry Fowler at C. Douglas Dillon's home
- a lw a y s f e e l good w hen I'm doing what I ought to do and t h e s e h o u r s
c e r t a in ly a s s u r e d m e that the s p e e c h w a s going to turn out b e tt e r than
.
it w ould h a v e ,
I
Home\work a lw a y s h e lp s .
T hen, I c u r
- Lady Bird, LBJ and staff are up late because of the Farm Bill; Lady Bird does office work; LBJ, Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson attend funeral for General Douglas MacArthur; Lady Bird exchanges brief remarks with Robert Kennedy; Lady Bird describes
- Birthday party for Muriel Humphrey with Cabinet wives; movies in the theater, including home movies and "A Thousand Clowns;" birthday party and dinner for Justice Hugo Black; Lady Bird talk with Bill Douglas about his book; Lady Bird conducts a tour
- Brandt, and I was glad to see there such old friends as B ill
Douglas, Dean Ache son, L u c iu s C lay, and Tom C orcora n
that Drew Pearson and Joe Alsop w ere included.
Glad al so
And Dr, M ilton Eisenhower,
who's working on Lyndon's P r e sidential
- Hunter to get the word around about the boyhood home
th a t’s the second la rg e st crowd in Johnson City -- and then she had to
leave to find such necessary equipment as a platform and a m ic rophone
and notify Mayor George B yers.
I gave up my p
- Telephone call from Bill Moyers; ceremony and presentation of Johnson City park; tour for guests from Time-Life; LBJ arrives in Texas; LBJ's gives a reminiscent speech; Johnsons and guests go to boyhood home; LBJ picks up little boy and gets a kiss
- Johnson family and friends to St. Barnabas Church; press corps is invited in for refreshments; LBJ's plane takes Cantinflas and his sick wife to Temple to hospital; lunch with Senator and Mrs. Paul Douglas; Senator Douglas reminisces about 1960
- 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
- to bring Senator Everett Dirksen to Walter Reed Hospital; nap; dinner with the C. Douglas Dillons
- e g oing to g iv e v e r y s e r io u s c o m p e titio n
f
MEMORANDUM
THE W H IT E HOUSE
V.
W A S H I N G T O N
M o n d a y , M a r c h 2, 1964
to Douglas Hume, and perhaps r e p la c e him ,
Lyndon had M r , W ils o n o v e r in his o f f i c
- LBJ's network television interview about "the first hundred days" with Eric Sevariad, Douglas Brinkley and William Lawrence; Luci Johnson returns from New York shopping trip; Lady Bird, Lynda Johnson, Warrie Lynn Smith & Jesse Kellam watch
- LBJ, Lady Bird, Lynda and Luci to St. Mark's with Secretary & Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon and Ambassador Adlai Stevenson; Dillons and Robert McNamaras to lunch at White House; LBJ takes nap; Lady Bird and LBJ say goodbye to Lynda's boyfriend, Bernie
- .
Up ea rly and out to the a irp ort to c atch
the chartered Convair at 7:00--with L iz , of course, and B ess b e cause we
w ere going to her home te rrito ry , Kentucky; and Congre ssman C arl P e rk in s
whose d istrict we would be covering; B ill
- Lady Bird trip to Kentucky; press; Lady Bird meets Gov. & Mrs. Breathitt; 8-hour tour by motorcade; Lady Bird halts car to shake hands with schoolchildren; Lady Bird walks to Arthur Robertson home & Lick Branch School; reminiscences about Fern
- belong
b o w in g
McNamaras
just
day in A p r i l ,
ihe
negroes,
there
q uite
a re f r e q u e n t l y
came home
an u p h i l l
who kno'ws/^I thinl#:/\ the
w ithout
A f t e r w a r d we to o k the
s e a r ch
M a r k ’ s i s always
is a s
- Gahagan Douglas to c o m e fr o m the banquet
the night b e f o r e spend the night with us.
He had supplied w ith h e r,
a p p a re n tly , with m y night gown and robe and th ere she w as on the third
flo o r.
So, at b r e a k fa s t, I c a lle d h e
- ; Cuban missile crisis; Congressional briefing; dance; swimming with the Thornberrys and the Pickles; overnight stay by Helen Gahagan Douglas
- erien ce a t Roy a l t y ^ ^ ^
Lu ci a r r iv e d fiv e minutes ahead o f schedule - Oh! Surpr i s e fo r m e ! - thi s
m orning, at the im posing white columned b r ic k home of State Senator H a r r y
Byrd.
The f i r s t big event o f the day
- .
And then home fo r lunch.
On m y last day there a rriv e d a sort of contentment that you wish you
could start getting at the v e ry beginning - a sense of having settled down
and having r e ached a peace,
I did do som e m ore work.
Made some guest lists
- --our first guest in that beautiful place. And so, she and I
walked through the family quarters, and we hung pictures. We put the scenes in the bedroom.
So I feel very much at home. We put Mr. Sam out in the—well, it’s what I call the family sitting
room
- , in the endless miles of empty bookshelves. And to put
around my beautiful Lowestoft pieces and my Dorothy Doughty birds.
Because I want it to start looking like, that is, the little bit of the room that I can call mine,
that is the Johnsons’ home, and I want
- Lady Bird has hair styled & makeup done; filming of ABC's Howard K. Smith interview; phone call from Muriel Humphrey about Mike Douglas show; Lady Bird has lunch with the Bill Hayes family; visit with Lynda Robb; nap; work on Chad state dinner
- of ground that his home stood in, in
those days.
The Museum was begun in 1929.
What an interesting picture that conjured up, and what an inte resting
fa m ily they’ ve been - the R ockef'ell ers - pouring back their vast fo rtune
into art and education
- Lady Bird's speech for the Museum of Modern Art that evening; to Carlysle Hotel in New York; speech by David Rockefeller; dinner and reception at Museum; party at Adlai Stevenson's home
- MEMORANDUM
c
T HE W H I T E HOUSE
WAS H I N GTON
Tuesday, M a r c h 3, 1964
This m orning about 11,- Katie L ochheim came fo r a cup of co ffee , bringing
o/
a bound copy of the L a d ies Home Journal^ with her a r t ic le about m e.
It’ s
r e
- Lady Bird has coffee with Kate Louchheim about Ladies Home Journal article; joined by Doris O'Donnell; Lady Bird poses for Vogue magazine photos; fourth Congressional reception; Lynda Johnson as Azalea Festival queen; Luci or Lynda Johnson as queen
- . So I
heartily enjoyed Diana's refreslunerits, went home a little past 7: 00 for the
walk slowly through the first floor of the White House. Already, the wedding
f
is confined to history.
A 16-foot spruce tree -- beautifully shaped -- went up today
- .
Then
to see if she wouldn't
because
house
at the flower
son,
Stafford,
had told me that
she was
mart.
and rushed
her
So I looked
home,
The booths
were
she would
we started
I
s missed
be.
down to Winchesterj\
-
~
in charge
for her
-
with
Ton y and B a rb a ra B i rd in the vanguard. —
It was an easy, in fo r m a l buffet supper, m o s tly T exans, t h e L eo n a rd
M a rk s,
a nd by 9:30, we w e r e home on the second flo o r .
Sundays a re our life s a v e r s, our chance to float
- MEMORANDUM
TH E W H IT E HOUSE
W A S H I N G T ON
P a ge 1
M o th e rs* Day, Sunday, M ay 10, 1964
A ctu a lly , it [th
ed
a
y]began rig h t a fte r we got home from A tlan tic C ity, about
a little p a s t one o 'c lo c k at night, with Lynda, L
- parti cular island of course, "Oh, you know, we
have a little place in the islands, "
Home ea rly, dinner with the Valentis, and that restless fe e l ing that
we may not soon see the end of the ac celeration of troubles
be getting under way
- children leave. We went first to 30th
Place, that I’d lived and loved for so long--18 years it was--and then to Mrs. Hendrick’s, and
looked at some chintzes. As usual, didn’t find just what we wanted; came home in time for
a 4:00 meeting with Clark Clifford
- Lady Bird takes food to Jesse Kellam's home in Austin; Lady Bird has Jesse Kellam to ranch for the evening; drive to see land that is for sale; LBJ has meeting with McGeorge Bundy and Walter Jenkins; Lady Bird watches "Gunsmoke"
- LBJ and Lady Bird to St. Paul's in the Desert church; lunch at Taubman home with friends; visit with the Taubmans; Air Force One to Washington; Lady Bird on Virginia Rusk;; greeted on White House lawn by beagles, Him and Her; greeted in White House
- , that
makes your h eart sing.
We w e r e just about 30 minutes too late, but we did see at lea st 40 o r
50 d eer.
A '
Then we a ll rendezvoused at the Scha rn horst house, went in and
replenished our b e e r, or w h a tever, and quickly back home to our
- ,, JLa>it u^ed ^ o a
ua
w a s b ein g fra m ed a n d h u n g in th e o fficer's clu b .
on ouA ret urn home
Friday January 32, 1969
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L o ts o f p eo p le sp o k e to m e in a ^Ax&n.
- a lr e a d y
knew and which I a c tu a lly had to t r y to p r y out of him - that we a r e having
trouble in A u s tin ,m y so s u c c e s s fu l, so b eloved home town, on the
in teg ratio n p ro b le m .
It s e e m s the m o re r a d ic a l n eg ro
