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- , 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
- 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
- . F o s b u r g h t o
to R obin;
H e came home a n d
th e r e p o r t b y L y n d o n 's
R o c k e f e l l e r a n d Ken Galbraith a r e
tr i e d to c a l l
talk
t o Mary L a s k e r t o
h im and i t
and a r a t h e r e a r l y
I h a d been
I
- real happy that we'd come.
There were two young Rowes
home, Clarissa and young Jim, and B ill Bundy and their son, who is studying
government at Harvard under [Richard] Neustadt, and Mrs. Stroud [? ].
Lyndon was in a mellow mood, amusing, jovial
- LBJ & Lady Bird swim; LBJ is exercising regularly; Lady Bird is trying to organize LBJ Ranch & items from their Washington homes, and decorating the LBJ Ranch; hair styled; sorting materials for LBJ Library; Johnsons to Luci Nugent's home in Austin
- J a n u a r y 2 6 , 1965
Tuesday-
Sm,'
A fter
a m o rn in g o f u n c e r t a i n t y i t was d e -
c i d e d t h a t L y n d o n w o u l d j o i n me i n g o i n g home a b o u t
2:00 o ’c lo c k .
O b v i o u s l y t h e r e w as no r e a s o
- Lester's home; tours and visits at several homes including 91-year-old Mrs. Carlson who knew Aunt Effie Pattillo; Lady Bird reminisces about her youth; flight back to LBJ Ranch; LBJ makes TV report to the nation on Dominican Republic; LBJ has cold
- e com ing home from th e h o s p i t a l .
We went to t h e
Red Mass a t S t . M a tth ew s, a t r a d i t i o n a l s e r v i c e
b e g a n some 7 0 0 y e a r s a g o , or s o ,
th at
i n E n glan d w h ere
p r a y e r s a r e ^ o r a l l the l
- 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
- Johnsons play bridge for three nights; LBJ is exercising every day; Lady Bird completes household chores; lunch; Lady Bird meets Jesse Hunter about decorating LBJ boyhood home; LBJ & Lady Bird to A.W. Moursund's office; drive through Scharnhorst
- LBJ & Lady Bird wake early, but LBJ barely slept; LBJ leaves for Chancellor Adenauer's funeral; Lady Bird to home of Mrs. George Maurice Morris, originally located in Revolutionary War, Connecticut; lunch with Marny Clifford and to Fredericksburg
- Johnson family to National City Christian Church; to Abe Fortas' home; Johnson family have lunch together at the White House; LBJ takes nap; Lady Bird goes swimming; Lady Bird records her diary; LBJ visits with Luci & Pat Nugent; Lady Bird has
- 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
- ; 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
- n t h e r home to bed at the W h ite H o u se .
L y n n , o u r c o m fo rte r, w is e beyond h e r y e a rs ,
D e a r W a r r ie
sa id goodbye.
She
w a s going to catch the 5 :0 0 o 'c lo c k plane and L u c i, having f u lf ille d
Sa tu rd
- & inflation; Lady Bird to Austin with wedding gifts, bed & table for Luci; Lady Bird compares Luci's home with heads of state weddings gifts; Lady Bird to Scharnhorst & Orange ranches & then walks along river; to ranch for dinner; phone call with Luci
- a c r o s s the c o u n try , and you think th a t nobody o u ts id e
c a n e v e r b e a t u s - - w e , th e A m e r i c a n p e o p l e - - a n d w e c a n s o l v e a l l o u r
problem s h ere at home.
w hiners,
But m a y b e th e re a r e enough
- ib le u s e s
of the p la c e .
A nd she h ad , in fa c t, so g e n e ro u sly in v ite d m e to com e up
to h e r A d iro n d ack s s u m m e r home^vlind to P alm B each b e fo re .
/
.
A s m u ch a s I w ould love to,Xl h ad alw ays sa id
- Lady Bird talks by phone to LBJ and Dr. Hurst; Laurence Rockefeller has press conference and spoke about beautification and conservation; Congress and environmental bills; Lady Bird lunches with the Rockefellers; Lady Bird takes home movies
- Christmas Eve; Tony Taylor had brain surgery at Mayo Clinic; LBJ is home from Bethesda Naval Hospital; Johnsons have party for close friends; Johnson Family exchanges gifts; LBJ is buying the White House Christmas ornaments for the LBJ Library; LBJ
- a s s e d .
come?
No
P o r te n t o f th in g s to
Ah, I c o u ld s e t t l e i n t o t h i s easy!
We went home on th e s h u t t l e and a t th e W hite House had lu n c h
on a t r a y w ith L u c i i n my room, worked w ith A shton i n th e a f
- on Johnson City boyhood home; astronauts and wives to Paris Air Show; to State Department reception; astronaut wives borrow clothing from Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson; dinner with Governor Tom Dewey
- e n Ly ndon began t o t a l k ,
qui e t l y , low key , g e n tle h i ^ a c t.
^ t woA good a n d 9- wo a
pAoud o^ him.
;
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And tn e n -it ujcla t i me. to go home and eve.Agbodg. began t o
j
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dr i f t away ~ - l t wo.a abaul 11: 00
