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- Show; tea with the Bill Livingstons; tea with houseguests; late night due to House vote; 8th Congressional reception; men receive briefing while women have program from Presidential descendants; dinner; Johnsons to Texas; Lady Bird sleeps & reads
- not u n n o tic e d by m e .
It j u s t h ap p en s t h a t e v e r y night a t d in n e r s in c e
t h e 22nd of N o v e m b e r , L yndon h a s e i t h e r s a id g r a c e o r a s k e d s o m e
a p p r o p r i a t e m e m b e r of th e gro u p to s
- At Camp David; LBJ to Episcopal Church service; Sen. Dick Russell stories about Robert E. Lee and Civil War; Lynda Johnson's knowledge of Civil War; Lady Bird reads news articles; bowling with Secretary McNamara; return to WH; Lady Bird intimidated
- Smith; Kermit Gordon; painting from Queen Elizabeth; Lincoln Room; Carl Hayden; Mrs. Paul Douglas; social gathering after dinner; night reading on Panama; Lady Bird's praise for Bess Abell and dinner menu
- e , u n d e r E is e n h o w e r, I th in k .
I th o u g h t it w ould ta k e the a tte n tio n , the
a c c la im , th e s p o tlig h t, off the D ip lo m a tj a n d th is w a s th e ir night,^ th e ir
l a s t n ig h t w ith th e J o h n so n a d m
- Start children; Johnsons hold Diplomatic Reception; Lady Bird names guests; small dinner party for the Joe Frantzes and Governor & Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller; Lady Bird reads before sleep
- enough to get good and tire d ..
Th e n we w alked.
Th e n everybody la y down f o r a nap o r f o r read ing,
getting up in tim e to watch F o re ig n M in is t e r Thanat Khom an of Th a ila n d
on M E E T T H E P R E S S .
C alm , a u th o rita tiv
- Mother's Day; gifts from Lynda & Luci; "gourmet" breakfast; bowling and a walk; naps or reading for all; on television, watching Foreign Minister Khoman of Thailand on "Meet the Press;" Bill White; more bowling and dinner; back to the White House
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than I had thought that man of iro n would.
He mentioned they would have
had their thirtieth a n n iversa ry in a few months.
A ft e r eve ryb od y le ft, I took the time to do some reading and som e
w ork, and then clo se to seven, J e s s e and I
- Kellam; Lady Bird reads and works; to the Warren Woodward's for supper
- Room with a daughter, a nephew. and some friends, beginning
properly, of course, with the blessing.
In the afternoon v:c slept and read.
revival.
Sundays are our day of
A'1
- Johnsons to National City Christian Church; walk around White House grounds--LBJ invited about 200 tourists from Southwest & Southeast Gates to walk with them; Him and Her beagles entertain group; bowling, nap, reading and television; dinner
- read
j u s t n o t boun c y-
retriev e
was g e t t i n g
d i s s p i r i t e d b ed tim e,
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- Lady Bird works with her office staff; Luci Johnson and her conversion to Catholicism; Lady Bird talks with Lynda Johnson; LBJ returns to work; Lady Bird reads Task Force on Beautification report
- ls e in a c ir c le around u s, and I began, a la s ,
by read in g (and h e r e in l i e s one of m y g rea t d iss a tis fa c tio n s w ith m y se lf)
the sta tem en t that I had in m y hand.
F ortu n ately, the f ir s t p a r t /w a s read ing
a B
- to know, as a fem a le
p a rticip a n t in a p ictu re s to r y w as what to w e a r . I d ecid ed on m y
h ea v y w alking sh o e s from the Grand Tetons and p o ss ib ly som e
h ea v y u n d erw ea r.
And m y b eig e pants s u it .
He sp read out m aps
- Lyndon's s ta ff Dorothy Territo,
Juanita, and Harry Middleton on whom we have come to depend more and
more.
The dominant question was the short movies,
"Space" is under
way, Leonard reported. He read us a le tte r from [John] Secondari,
the gist of which
- in answering the m ail M rs, Kennedy had received
af ter the P resid en t’ s assassination.
L iv e ly , attractive, a newspaperman's
wif e - she said you could read just so much of it, day after day, time after
time until you fin ally got saturated with g r
- of showing w om en 's p±ax3e in
space, and it 's peaceful b y -p ro d u c ts .
On reading about it, I d is c o v e r that 14% of the p a y r o ll a re women,
in another place, 20% of the p a y r o ll a re wom en, and at Cape Kennedy, clo se
to
33% a re
- begun when
I read a Joe A ls o p column about an elem en ta ry school tea ch er i n H a rlem^
M rs , Kate Tutman, whose s tudents w e re fro m a m ighty u n d erp riviled ged
segm ent o f A m e r ic a n l ife , and about her tough, and rath er gay re
- was.
To m e
the m ost touching thing of al l w as Anna R osen berg Hoffman,
handsom ely dressed , h er fin g e rs as bright with j e w e l s as her mind it s e lf
is bright, reading the la st l e t t e r s that she r e c e iv e d from M r s . R o o s e v e
- attending Eleanor Roosevelt event; Anna Rosenberg Hoffman reads letters from Eleanor Roosevelt; Adlai Stevenson
- Breakfast with LBJ; coffee with niece, Becky Alexander; Lady Bird meets Dave LeFevre's parents; sunbathing and mail; reading, swimming and walking with dogs; dinner with LBJ; LBJ's decision to run for Presidency; letters from parents of fallen
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the Saturn rocket.
That^plus voluminous m a t e r ia l that L illia n L e v y and
Jim Webb had sent m e, gave me heavy reading fo r a long evening, and^I
hope/y^better preparation fo r what I see to m o rro w in Hun
t s v i lle .
I certa in ly wouldn't c
- read y for
But m y en e r g y , m y sh e e r stren g th , sim p ly d o es not
MEMORANDUM
T u esd a y , M ay 14, 1968
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHXNOTOH
m a tch a ll the th in g s to be d o n e.
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So on the th ree h ours back to W ashington,
I la
- ; Lady Bird swims; Mr. Per shampoos & sets Lady Bird's hair; Lynda Robb reads aloud letter from Chuck; Lady Bird names guests at dinner; LBJ & Mrs. Marcos exchange toasts
- ext y ea r or so I want to n ail down som e h isto r y .
Then w e had b re a k fa st in the kitchen and read w ith a little
pain, a little s a d n e s s , that te m p est that L u ci's c o n v e r sio n to C a th o licism
h a s ca u sed .
L iz sa id
- 50 or
so le t t e r s , a ll h ostile, about speeding, b e e r and dogs.
Some o f them w e re
MEMORAN DUM
THE W H ITE H OUSE
W A S H I N G T ON
^
W edne s day, A p r il 2 9, 1964
s illy , cru el, quack - r ig h t read y fo r the waste basket file
- Office work; lunch with Mayor Daley's wife, Eleanor, and others; stag reception for Latin American Ambassadors; Dorothy Vredenburgh and needlepoint chair for Blair House; dinner with LBJ; Lady Bird mentions books she is reading
- Personal reading; telephone call with Mary Lasker about items for White House; Philip Bobbit's visit to White House; walk on White House grounds; to "West Side Story" with Lynda Johnson and Philip Bobbit; LBJ & Lady Bird watch Republican Convention
- wa$ never heard .
This is Lynda 1 s first day at work in
McG~orgc
Du:i
- NBC interview with Nancy Hanschman; Lady Bird's reads and edits Ruth Montgomery's biography on Lady Bird; reception for Blair House Fine Arts Committee with Robin Duke; needlepoint cushion tops by Lady Bird and ladies of the Cabinet
- 's read
about m e.
I did not sit down with her and have a lengthy talk and it would
probably^,profited therefrom,.. I think.
A t any rate, it gave me a good
opportunity to thank Katie.
Since K a tie 's business is being on the desk at the State
- LBJ & Lady Bird read newspapers about LBJ's Gridiron speech; lunch and a swim with the McNamaras; LBJ, Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy to Burning Tree for golf; Lady Bird reflects on LBJ's recent actions and successes; dinner at the McNamaras
- eB a k ey^who w e m igh t want to in v ite to le a v e th e ir p a p e r s.
;
As
D r. G ro v er sa id , you sp read a w id e net and g et a m ig h ty few f is h and yet
I, m y s e lf , can t e s t if y that to b e ask ed i s taken a s a com p lim
- Gloomy day; breakfast & reading newspapers; LBJ & Lady Bird to National City Christian Church; Dean Rusk to testify before Congress; upcoming Women Doers' Luncheon on child health; Johnsons have lunch with the Arthur Krims; walk around South Grounds
- e s and L iz had a r r iv e d .
B e s s and the c h ild r e n and S im o n e.
E verybod y w as read y,
And so I w en t b a c k to the R a n ch , b o a r d e d
the c o n v a ir fu ll of film c r e w s , s te w a r d s , a n d our lit t le g ro u p
- .; Lady Bird reads headlines, "50,000 March in Support of the Poor"
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his arm around m e, and the resulting picture was r e a l l y amusing.
The
caption under it read, or so L i z opined, " L a d y B ird , a fte r this is o v e r,
le t 's you and m e go out and have a drink.
T h e re was a second and somewhat le
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I had w aked up th is m orn in g to/the m o st m a rv elo u s fu ll-p a g e 'a d jl
in the N ew Y ork T im e s w hich read: " F r o m sw eat sh op s to S t o kow ski",
and it w a s a trium phant tellin g of the p r o g r e s s of labor from lo fts
- discussed his Honolulu Conference, Vietnam and the SEATO Treaty; LBJ and Lady Bird call Maxwell Taylor about his TV appearance; Johnsons read newspapers
- Lady Bird records diary; Lady Bird walks Scharnhorst and Danz ranches and talks about harvesting wildflower seeds; Lady Bird describes a family of armadillos; Lady Bird reads "The Devil's Advocate" by Morris West; another walk later that day; Lady
- with pneumonia.
Imagine walking in an apple orch a rd at nine
o 'c lo c k in the morning, in a sheer organza evening d ress, in about 50 d eg ree
tem perature, m istin g rainj
I ve b e en delighted to read that she ' s posed w illin g ly fo r the many
- being the life
blood of T exas, and dams and irrigation the biggest interest Lyndon
during his fir s t four ye a rs in the C on g re ss, so we had our conversation
cut out for each other.
. / ?
And another thing, I had read with great delight aboutDr
- s te m h a s b e e n i n s t a l l e d and new t u r f
c
MEM ORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
S a tu r d a y , Ju n e 13, 1964
sp read .
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Soon t h e r e w ill be a l it t l e s u m m e r h o u s e , w h e r e one c a n have
te
- e p t e m b e r and O c t o b e r and November o f 1 9 3 4 , a n d f r o m
me t o h im a b o u t t h e same t im e a n d t h e r e were a few
f ro m hi m i n s u c c e e d i n g y e a r s on up t o 1 9 4 0 .
Though I
h a v e n ' t re-read them i n
- LBJ and the Vietnam War; Lady Bird's interview with a magazine; Lady Bird reads about Beautification; Lady Bird has lunch meeting with Bess Abell about mail; Lady Bird meets with Stewart Udall about Beautification; Lady Bird swims and has
- Johnsons to church with the Hubert Humphreys; party for Bill White; Lady Bird reads "The Ordways;" LBJ meets with House and Senate leaders about Selma and voting rights; dinner with the Valentis and Harry McPherson
