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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
- —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
- ; railroad negotiations in the Cabinet room; dinner for Henry Fowler at C. Douglas Dillon's home
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Smith, and Lynda Johnson; Warrie Lynn Smith; card from Lady Bird's cousin, Esther Lanier Dade in Ft. Lauderdale; LBJ home from New York
- ; Barbara Walters interview with Lady Bird; office work; Lady Bird swims 30 laps; LBJ comes home late for dinner; Lady Bird exercises, has massage and goes to bed
- Bird to movie theater to view clips of her home movies for a documentary; answers letters about "speeding, beer and dogs"; LBJ and Lady Bird to dinner at David Brinkleys
- ily of his home -- h e and Tlatharint· travd a lot
together.
school.
Ann ls mar de d to a Catholic, a young man who is slill in
Buford said he had behaved ver y ba dly about it l1imsdf, but
now he's r eco ncil e d - - thinks he 1 s a wonde rful
- me fine! o n e .
One b e lo n g s t o James R o o s e v e lt, hang s in h i s home and
was done b y a German Jew d u r in g th e e a r ly y e a r s o f
H i t l e r ' s a sc e n d e n c y i n t o Germany.
B oth p i c t u r e and
a r t i s t g o t sm
- 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
- 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
- Laurance Rockefeller home, Woodstock, Vermont
- s i d e t h e p o i n t .
And t h e n t o t h e b e a u t y
p a r l o r an d t h e n t o work w i t h Ka n d i
in t r a n s f o r m i n g
some o f my e a s t e r n f a b r i c s i n t o ha n d so m e "a t home"
c l o t h e s f o r s m a l l d i n
- her trip to Acapulco; bowling with Muriel Humphrey; dinner at Hubert Humphrey's home; discussion about Senate and leadership; return to White House and to sleep
- Lady Bird is at Luci & Pat's home; Lady Bird has hair styled; Lady Bird to Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX; program at Coty Library for opening of Edward Clark collection; Lady Bird receives fifth honorary degree & makes a speech
- Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
- Lady Bird meets with James Fosburgh about art for the White House; LBJ presents Distinguished Service Medal to General Curtis LeMay; Lady Bird adds oral commentary to home movies; Lady Bird lunches with LBJ and his staff; Lynda Johnson's trip
- Lady Bird to New York City for premier of "The Greatest Story Ever Told;" Lady Bird visits a playground project in Harlem; Lady Bird views Bobby Lehman's art collection; Lady Bird to Ambassador Adlai Stevenson's home before show; Lady Bird
- Lady Bird and Paul Southwick work on Mrs. Johnson's home movies; Lady Bird meets with staff for photograph project at the Johnson City House; staff meeting about Lady Bird involvement in a foreign cultural or educational event ; Lady Bird meets
-
house, at times of ordinary duty and probably at times of outrageous
inconvenience to them—besides a never ending general public, my own
groups of friends from home, or friends from the campaign t r a i l , or
from my trip s , or my Alabama cousins, a ll
- p y so
up in bed w ith a l l
D e p a r t m e n t 's
S ta te
that the
get a tt e n d e d t o .
reache d home I r e a l l y w a s n ' t
the
indeed a
When I
I propped
info rm a tio n
on Jordan and took a q u ic k course on y oung K in g Hus s
- LBJ and Lady Bird stay at Taubman home in Palm Springs, CA; meeting with Mexican President Lopez Mateos; Charter Day exercises at UCLA with speeches by LBJ and Mateos; luncheon for women given by Governor's wife, Mrs. Pat Brown; visit to Abraham
- ; Lady Bird travels to Jane Engelhard's home; tea on terrace; tour of the Engelhard home; dinner party; Lady Bird names guests; LBJ sends telegram to Engelhards thanking them for being so nice to Lady Bird; toasts; dancing; security concerns; Brick House
- u sin e ss
c o n fe re n c e w ith J o e .
t o g o home w i t h h i m ,
J o e h a d a s k e d h im
T rudyeh ad cooked th e
t h i s he f o u n d a v e r y p l e a s i n g
" o f my h u m b l e o r i g i n ."
to
He h a d b e e n h a v i n g
So I
- Lady Bird goes to Marjorie Post's home, Hillwood; office work; meeting at home of David Lloyd Kreager to view artwork; visit with Peter Hurd about portrait of LBJ; Johnsons go to Camp David with guests; Lady Bird watches Gregory Peck movie, Mirage
- Surprise birthday party for Ashton Gonella at Patsy Chaney's home; beautification meeting, with LBJ joining to give inspiring talk; LBJ reminisces about NYA highway parks in 1936; Johnsons meet Prince Juan Carlos & Princess Sophia of Spain; Lady
- v e enough sp a rk le and v ita lity to k eep th in gs going and sen d people
home fe e lin g r e a lly e x c ite d that th ey had b een to a g rea t W hite H ouse p arty .
- Lady Bird is guest of Laurence & Mary Rockefeller; Lady Bird reads "The Hudson River" by Carl Carmer; Lady Bird & Rockefellers to Van Cortlandt Manor; to Sunnyside Estate, home of Washington Irving; lunch; presentation by Carl Carmer; actor tells
- Laurence Rockefeller home, Tarrytown, New York
- LBJ and Lady Bird have breakfast and go for walk; new wrought iron gate at family cemetery; meeting about landscape design for ranch; Lady Bird lunches with LBJ and others; LBJ's weight loss; renovation of Johnson home in Johnson City; Lady Bird
- Mrs. Cantinflas [Valentina Ivanova Zuvareff] dies; steel strike; Lady Bird dubs home movie of 1941 Senate campaign; White House maid finds rat in Luci Johnson's room; Lady Bird has lunch with Luci; new Chef for the White House; LBJ lunches and has
- Lady Bird goes to New York City to purchase clothing; Lady Bird attends dinner party given in her honor at Brooke Astor's home; Lady Bird mentions several people at the party; Charles Engelhard tells a funny story; Lady Bird recounts an earlier
- 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
- with a portrait; Lady Bird rests before working on Alabama speech; Lady Bird bowls and works on her home movies; LBJ and Lady Bird have dinner
- Visit of Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Italy; Lady Bird takes home movies in the Rose Garden; state dinner; Lady Bird mentions attendees; Lady Bird converses with Foreign Minister Fanfani at dinner; Leontyne Price is entertainment for the evening
- meets residents, Episcopal Home for Aged, and the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce on 66 thousand project; Lady Bird to Senate Ladies Luncheon; LBJ briefs members of Congress, has Congressional Leadership meeting, and presents award to Adm. H.P. Smith
- Peter Hurd is working on LBJ portrait; Johnsons and guests to Central Christian Church, Johnson City; Lady Bird mentions the ecumenical group with them; communism; group to LBJ's boyhood home followed by the press; Bob Akers' appointment to USIA
