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  • Transcript of Mrs. Johnson’s Audio Diary Prepared by Staff of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum December 3, 1963 Tuesday, December third. The day began with the most wonderful bunch of volunteer workers helping upstairs – Abigail McCarthy
  • of America. Here people with the blood of your own ancestors in their veins have forgotten and overcome and laid aside divisions of the pJ..st. We live together in 50 States as one peopk, one people united and indivisible. lf such unity can
  • Latin America
  • LBJ & Dominican crisis; Lady Bird on LBJ's cold & weight; Lynda's article in "Life" magazine; Lady Bird meets Metropolitan Opera singers, two PROJECT HOPE workers, National Gallery staff on Pictures for Patients, and MS Mother of the Year; Lady Bird
  • Latin America
  • LBJ is in a dark mood; death of Senator Richard Russell's son; White House Festival of the Arts; press response to Festival; Lady Bird takes a nap; reception for Inaugural Committee workers; quick remarks by LBJ; visit by Tony and Matiana Taylor
  • lm , stron g - th ose that lo v e h im ,t/m u st have lo v ed him m o re - and those that hate h im , m u st at le a s t have thought -" H ere is a m an". And then c a m e the end. "What w e w on when a ll our people united, m u st not now be lo s t
  • Discover America
  • Lynda Robb returns from California seeing Chuck off to Vietnam; LBJ's speech on Vietnam; LBJ goes to church with Luci & Pat Nugent; LBJ visits with Hubert & Muriel Humphrey; Lady Bird's "See America" trip; Horace Busby & Lady Bird work on LBJ's
  • Tuesday, ~ ' '.~Y 21s t (c ontinued ) Sixty ~!our program , and wh en I ough t to come to the Convention and what should I do when I get there? Lyndo a was having a stag reception for the foreign ministers of Latin America, meanw hile
  • Latin America
  • ; news reports on the change in spelling of Luci Johnson's name; free concerts by National Symphony Music for Young America
  • Latin America
  • Desk work; Lady Bird visits with Luci Johnson; lunch; Lady Bird records diary; LBJ takes nap; Tony Taylor visits Lady Bird and they go bowling and swimming; newspaper stories about Tony Taylor and his work for AID; Taylor's work in Latin America
  • Latin America
  • Lady Bird meets leaders of "Let's Beautify America" campaign; Lady Bird's interview on beauty is published in "Reader's Digest" who donated 800 rose bushes for Union Station; Lady Bird mentions projects in Topeka, KS, & Greenville, MS; Dominican
  • Latin America
  • Valentine's Day; Johnsons to National City Christian Church; Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson to National Gallery of Art; dinner with the Robert McNamaras, Bill Fulbrights, and Tom Manns; Latin America; airplane junkyard is moved; LBJ talks about William
  • Eastern fabl'ic!-. and possibly a new dress for the Convenlivn. And then a quick trip dovm to the First Floor to say hello to the wive:,; of the foreign ministers from Latin America that Mrs. Rusk was condu
  • , and thank Heavens I rem em bered enough to autograph copies of A P resident’s Country to the three men . and of A More Beautiful America for M r. L i n e n and M r. Hardy, the only copies I had. To talk and listen at the same time is a difficult a rt
  • Latin America
  • to Dallastown for centennial speech; Lady Bird describes Amish; protests; LBJ goes off script; Lady Bird gives remarks; back to White House; Lady Bird bowls; Johnsons & guests on Sequoia; Thomas Mann writing book on Latin America; Gunsmoke
  • Discover America
  • Pat Nugent has 49 weeks left in Vietnam; "Discover America" Women Doers' Luncheon; Lady Bird to hair salon; Lady Bird visits with Frank Sinatra in LBJ's absence; Lady Bird names guests at luncheon; Lady Bird makes speech; LBJ makes quick remarks
  • Latin America
  • Bird reads newspapers; White House telephones; Lady Bird takes nap; guests for dinner and watching Dean Rusk on tv through Telstar; Lady Bird talks with John Macy about LBJ Library and Thomas Mann about Latin America; talks with Lynda Luci Johnson
  • Discover America
  • Lady Bird goes to hair salon and then meets Lynda Johnson at Boyhood Home; tree planting ceremony at Johnson City; Lady Bird mentions where Rebekah Baines and Sam Johnson met; Lynda Johnson's magazine article on "See America;" park is donated