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- LBJ and Lady Bird drive to Blanco to the Episcopal Church; lunch; Lady Bird and Mathilde Krim fly to Santa Fe, NM, to see brother, Tony Taylor; Lady Bird reads paper on urbanization; shopping at her brother's shop for home furnishings; Lady Bird
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- Lady Bird has nightmares; Lady Bird makes telephone calls; Lady Bird goes to the first meeting of the Johnson City Garden Club; lunch; drive to Danz and Sweeney houses to view renovations; Lady Bird drives to Luci & Pat Nugent's home in Austin; Lady
- Luci & Pat Nugent's Home, Austin, Texas
- ; Lady Bird bowls; LBJ comes home for dinner
- Bird taking home movies; back to Schornhorst; Okamoto takes photos for Beautification Committee; boating at the Haywood Ranch; helicopter to West Ranch for dinner
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- Visit from Tony and Matiana Taylor; trip to the LBJ birthplace home; trip to Johnson City to Sam Johnson House with discussion on landscaping; city park for Johnson City; Johnson family gift of trees for Johnson City; lunch at the LBJ Ranch
- LBJ and Lady Bird talk about many subjects; LBJ Library; Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; LBJ returns to White House; Lady Bird entertains family; photographs taken outside the house; Lady Bird takes walk to birthplace home; visit
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- 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
- Women Doers Luncheon on Beautification; reception for Senate Youth Program; Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson watch home movies
- 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 rises early and drives to LBJ Boyhood Home; LBJ gives speech on Middle East; Lady Bird & Neva West decorate the LBJ Ranch house; lunch; Lady Bird to Bailey House at Reagan Ranch to hang paintings and decorate; Lady Bird & Dale Malechek
- Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
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change clo th es and get re a d y for m y tea.
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- Lady Bird & Liz Carpenter to Boyhood Home in Johnson City; Lady Bird is recorded reading script; late lunch; Lady Bird records narrative to be used at the LBJ Birthplace; Lady Bird has tea for her restoration friends from Fredericksburg, TX; tours
- home; drive around town, Caddo State Park and to Lady Bird's childhood home, the "Brick House;" tour by Ruth Taylor; photos for press; helicopter back to LBJ Ranch; funny story about Ashton Gonella in Shreveport airport; Johnsons and guests to West
- Lady Bird drives alone to St Barnabas Episcopal Church; long meeting with Roy White about renovations to LBJ Ranch home; lunch; Lady Bird has hair styled; Lady Bird & Luci, Pat & Lynn Nugent fly to Amarillo; Joe Batson takes them to Neil Johnson
- on plane; Lady Bird says goodbye on intercom to fellow travelers in Austin; to LBJ Ranch; party for hostesses of LBJ birthplace & boyhood home; Lady Bird, LBJ & John Connally speak to group; Lady Bird gives awards; appointments to State Department
- Tony Taylor home
- ; 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
- Lady Bird rides through New England countryside to Shaker Village near Pittsfield, MA; stop for lunch at roadside park; to home of Yale President Brewster in New Haven, CT; Lady Bird is greeted by anti-war protestors; Lady Bird rests; to Yale's War
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- 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
- Johnsons, Don Thomas & John Ben Shepperd scout out proposed LBJ National Park; Lady Bird describes obstacles to creating the park; to Johnson City, by LBJ's boyhood home, and to three of the ranches; Lady Bird considers plantings by the runway; Lady
- 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
- ; Lady Bird & Alan Boyd discuss highways in San Antonio; Lady Bird & George Mahon discuss deeding the LBJ Boyhood Home & LBJ Ranch to the National Park Service; Beautification Bill is up for vote; bridge game with friends; military ceremony at Mount
- wasteful practices at the White House; Johnsons attend dinner at the Bill Whites' home
- ; visit with Luci Johnson about Christmas gift list; beautification program benefits nurseries; dinner party at Abe Fortas' home; Fortas meeting with Jacqueline Kennedy about Kennedy Center; Lady Bird swims
- 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
- ; Johnsons ride to Scharnhorst with guests; Lady Bird mentions renting the Scharnhorst to movie studios for westerns; guests from Houston arrive; Oveta Culp Hobby gives desk for boyhood home; boating; LBJ uses amphibious car as joke
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g a t h e r e d up i n t h e s t r e e t s , b oys fro m p o v e r t y s t r i c k e n
homes who were w a n d e rin g l o o s e , j u s t w a i t i n g t o g e t
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- Poor weather delays flight to East Texas; Lady Bird answers questions from reporters in Shreveport, LA; drive to Dorris Powell's home in Karnack; new Karnack post office made with bricks from T.J. Taylor's general store; meeting about landscaping
- Conference on Youth for Conservation and Natural Beauty group at ranch; LBJ reads proclamation for 1967 Conference; Lady Bird makes remarks; car tour of LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird gives deerskin bookmarks; work on James & Mary Davis' home; pick up
- Lady Bird views areas at LBJ Ranch that needs wildflower seeds and describes how previous plantings are blooming; back to LBJ Ranch to work on renovations to the house; dinner at Luci and Pat Nugent's; to Rebekah Johnson's former home on Harries
- m a l l m a r b l e h e a d of A u g u s t u s C a e s a r ,
p i r a t e d out of Ita ly , it h a d b e e n found in s o m e c o n s t r u c t i o n b u ild in g
or home.
A n d a c c o m p a n y i n g it a l e t t e r i n J o h n S e c o n d a r i
- Lady Bird, with Dr. & Mrs. Correll, look for blue bells for flower seed at the Gibson Ranch; to the Diamond X Ranch where they picked Mountain Pinks flowers for seed; stop at LBJ Boyhood Home; lunch; drive to Martin Ranch; Lady Bird makes river walk
- Lady Bird to New York City; signs photos for Christmas; meeting at Mary Lasker's home on beautification; Lady Bird mentions Mary's art collection; possible television program about beautification in cities; Lady Bird & Liz Carpenter to Carlyle Hotel
- LBJ leaves next day for German Chancellor Adenauer's funeral; Lady Bird cannot go with him; Lady Bird works on family album; lunch; drive through Watts Branch on way to Betty Talmadge's home to play bridge; Lady Bird describes Watts Branch; Lady
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A s m u ch a s I w ould love to,Xl h ad alw ays sa id
- Carpenter; meeting with Bess Abell; tea for Marilyn Walz; meeting, future transfer of LBJ Boyhood Home & LBJ Ranch to the National Park Service; bowling, massage & television; dinner with LBJ; Mary Lasker's book on health initiatives; phone call with Hubert
- ; speeches by Stewart Udall, Carol Fortas, Nash Castro & Lady Bird; Lady Bird Johnson Park; drive by Columbia Island; Beautification Committee meeting at Rockefeller home; National Street Hardware Study; Anacostia Park; overlook at LBJ Library; toasts
