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- Canadian Prime Minister Pearson gives speech about Vietnam; lunch with Pearson in Aspen Lodge; discussion is about Civil War and Lake Erie pollution; Lady Bird reads "Hurry Sundown" and goes for walk with Secret Serviceman Jerry Kivett; bowling
- b e f o r e ,
c o u ld s ta n d up as the
farces.
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that was never a f a v o r i t e
have read a b i t
everywhere
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I f i n a l l y got
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one
j u s t r ig h t
- and 16-hour w orking days a lw a y s on public v ie w .
And
la s t , a long sw im in the lake on Sunday.
I took w ith m e the G erm an background to read and le f t in str u c tio n s
with P a ts y to m e e t and put in th eir room s our h ou se g u e
- 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
- o m e o f h e r p i c t u r e s a n d s o m e of h e r p r i z e d b o o k s .
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a l i t t l e b i t i n U n c le R e m u s t h a t D ic k R u s s e l l h a d g i v e n h e r , p r a c t i c a l l y a
d e a d la n g u a g e now .
I l i k e d t
- at the White House; LBJ goes to office; Lady Bird tries to nap and reads script for Barbara Walter's interview; dinner party with friends; Lady Bird takes ladies through the tour she will give for Barbara Walters; John Gardner's resignation
- as up and d r e s s e d and had read m y little
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- Visit by Mayor Robert Wagner and sons; LBJ & Lady Bird to memorial service for Senator Clair Engle; lunch; Lady Bird reads "When the Cheering Stopped"; dinner with Anthony Celebrezze, Willard Wirtz, Dick Goodwin and their wives; Robert Wagner
- d slaw a n d
hot hom em ade b read .
A nd th e n a n g e l food cak e a n d h o m e m a d e p e a c h
i c e c r e a m , a n d a w o n d e rfu l c h o c o la te cak e th a t M a ria lle n h ad b ro u g h t
w ith L y n d o n 's b ra n d on i t
- ; Sargent Shriver on "Meet the Press;" Johnsons call Shriver; discussion about Vietnam; Lady Bird reads newspapers; Johnsons & guests to bowling alley; call to Luci Johnson Nugent; dinner; LBJ falls asleep during movie; bridge game; Commander Jones' girls
- Lady Bird reads the newspapers; Lady Bird to Johnson City for meeting about new Post Office; Johnsons & Krims helicopter to & drive around Green Mountain Ranch; helicopter to Davis Ranch; Lady Bird & Mathilda Krim walk through fields of wildflowers
- LBJ & Lady Bird to National City Christian Church; read newspapers; Saul Pett interviews Lady Bird for article on LBJ; Johnsons watch Sunday news programs; lunch; Lady Bird bowls; guests arrive for dinner on the "Sequoia;" Lady Bird names guests
- LBJ & Lady Bird are at Brooke Army Medical Hospital for tests; doctors find small growth in LBJ's colon; doctors issue press statement; Johnsons helicopter to LBJ Ranch; LBJ meets with Arthur Okun; lunch; Lady Bird to bed and reading; LBJ goes
- Cyrus Vance, Dick Helms & Dean Rusk fly to LBJ Ranch; Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew arrive by plane; lunch; guests depart; Lady Bird still feeling ill, lies down to read; tours of Danz & Martin Ranches; Marvin & Marion Watson arrive by plane; George
- LBJ & Lady Bird meet with John Ben Shepherd & Mark Gosdin about the LBJ Park & Visitors Center; LBJ drives around with Drew Pearson and German editor, Henri Nanen; Lady Bird meets group from Time-Life; Lady Bird reads "The Eighth Day" by Thornton
- goes backstage to see Mary Martin & Robert Preston; delay at Newark airport because first pilot is drunk; Lady Bird reads James McGregor's book on JFK; return to White House
- , Lady Bird & friends go for drive; LBJ swims & stays on diet; "Sound of Music" & "Dr. Zhivago" movies shown at the ranch; men have domino tournament; Luci, Pat & Lyn Nugent visit; Lady Bird reads "Nicholas and Alexandra" in her renovated bedroom
- nap; news story about Pat Nugent; Lady Bird is interviewed by New York Times about art; Willard Deasons and Emmet Riordans for dinner and to pick out one of Him's beagle puppies; Lady Bird reads "Guns of August"
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a t a b o ut l 2 :0 0 .
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i n my h an d ,
Good, b u t th e f l e e t in g
c o u ld have b o rn e more g o ld e n
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- Washington's Birthday; Lady Bird joins LBJ in bed for coffee and to read newspapers; tension about Vietnam; LBJ mentions role of press; Lady Bird works on tile samples and clothes from Mollie Parnis; Lady Bird talks with Luci Johnson about article
- 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
- ; Lady Bird back to White House; wedding gift for Luci Johnson; funny story about 25 tourists as stand-ins; LBJ gives speech to American Alumni Council; talk with Luci and Pat Nugent about wedding; Lady Bird reads press stories about White House weddings
- Marshall as Solicitor General, Leonard Marks to USIA, and Penelope Thunberg as U.S. Tariff Commissioner; LBJ praises Dean Rusk; Arthur Schlesinger's account of LBJ becoming Vice President; Lady Bird reads Agatha Christy
- LBJ sits for Peter Hurd's portrait; Marvin Watson arrives with Texas friends; Lady Bird takes a nap; Lady Bird asks guests for suggestions on books to read; Lady Bird's brother, Tony Taylor, talks about his trip to Peru; Johnsons and guests bowl
- ; Lynda Johnson, the Arthur Goldbergs and the airplane problems; Lady Bird reads book, Portrait in Brownstone; Johnsons and guests to Haywood for boating
- Senator Edward Kennedy's plane crash; Lady Bird calls Rose Kennedy, Birch Bayhs and Mrs. Edward Kennedy; telephone conversation with Lynda Johnson about security problem on her flight; office work; Lady Bird reads; walk around White House
- is c u s s e d h e r book.
L u v ie P e a r s o n t a l k e d a b o u t h e r w o r k with a
group of women teaching the rudiments of reading to underpriveleged
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M o n d a y , D e c e m b e r 2nd (c o n tin u e d )
c h i l d r e n h e
- on e p o in t s o m e b o d y g r a b b e d
L y n d o n ' s h a t and a f t e r a m i l d t u s s l e , r e l i n q u i s h e d it to h i m .
T h e r e w a s o n e m a n in th e c r o w d c a r r y i n g a b a n n e r w h ic h
re a d , "Read A T e xan
- and President's waiting room; Lady Bird to Ringling Bros. circus; Lady Bird reads mail and a book
- LBJ & Lady Bird have coffee; Lady Bird reads while LBJ telephones & watches television; Johnsons go for walk; tourists on Ranch Road 1; group of African-American children from St. Paul's School, 500 miles away, wait to sing for the Johnsons; LBJ
- on LBJ; Gridiron Dinner; Lady Bird gives tour of White House and has dinner with Mrs. Dobie; Lady Bird goes through "Read and File"
- activity; LBJ has fever; Dean Rusk conveys well wishes from UN envoys; Lady Bird reads telegrams to LBJ; Lady Bird talks with Luci Johnson; LBJ to sleep; Lady Bird watches Gunsmoke
- Snow in Washington; reading and editing Ruth Montgomery's book; decorating Lynda's and Luci's rooms; meeting with Dick Adler about entertainment for Italian state dinner; briefing by Frank Meloy on Italy; LBJ's late for dinner because of Cabinet
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Library C a r l
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S a n d b u r g 's
P r a i r i e Y e a r s '"The l i f e
read up a b i t from Lynda B i r d ' s
"F o g " T h e
w a s,
p eo p le Y e s .
th o u g h t.
"The War Y e a r s "
of L i n c o l n
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the menu.
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it,
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I could r e a d ,
We then went in to the East Room a fter
dinner and heard the Dave
- LBJ & Lady Bird read newspapers; to St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, for Robert Kennedy funeral; the Johnsons pay respects to the Kennedy family; lunch on plane back to Washington; Lady Bird reads newspapers and takes nap; mourners killed
- arrive; LBJ takes nap; Lady Bird reads & goes bowling; party for the Bob Jacksons; reminisces about 1934; guests watch "Journey to the Pacific" and "Pancho" Head Start film; Mrs. Jackson's father dies on this day; Lady Bird has massage and goes to bed
- Arawak petroglyph site; party boards boat & returns to cottage for lunch; Lynda Johnson's arrival is delayed due to weather; Lady Bird reads "Look Homeward Angel"; candlelight dinner with birthday cake & presents for Lynda
- to cottage; two-hour talk with Lynda Johnson; dinner; Lynda goes for walk; Lady Bird reads "Look Homeward Angel;" she had finished "The Reavers;" Lady Bird did not like "A Girl Like I"
- ecid ed the s im p le s t thing to do
w ould be to p ile in c a r s and ju st take the rou te.
On the w ay I saw r e a lly
v e r y litt le ev id en ce of the burning and looting w e had read so m u ch about,
although w e w e r e going through a p
- of Achievement" Johnsons meet honored guests at Judicial Reception with receiving line for 700 guests; press ask Judge Sarah Hughes about W. Manchester book; Lady Bird reminisces about 1960 Campaign; visit with friends upstairs; Lady Bird reads "Of Time
