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  • to Lewis Ranch, Mr. Yinski's home and the Hill Ranch; back to the LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird joins LBJ at the Moursunds' for supper; Lady Bird takes care of grandson, Lyn Nugent
  • Snow overnight; Lady Bird works on Christmas present and office work; LBJ calls from Rome on way home from Australia; open house at the White House; Lady Bird goes shopping with Lynda Robb; Lady Bird visits with C.P. Little family; Lady Bird
  • Christmas eve; LBJ returns home from trip; LBJ is first President to circumnavigate the world; LBJ, Lady Bird & family visit for two hours about the President's trip; LBJ goes to mass with Luci & Pat Nugent; Lady Bird goes back to bed; LBJ
  • 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
  • letter to grandmother at Hye Post Office; guests to boyhood home and LBJ Ranch for lunch; Gronouski on Poland and Red China; Johnsons & guests to Danz place--car is stuck in mud; Lady Bird takes nap & talks to daughters; foreign affairs
  • Lady Bird works on Christmas gifts; Lady Bird and LBJ lunch with Gordon Bunshaft, LBJ Library Architect; Johnsons and guests tour the Danz & Martin ranches and the boyhood home; LBJ reminisces about his boyhood; background of Cabinet members; all
  • Mrs. Cantinflas [Valentina Ivanova Zuvareff] dies; steel strike; Lady Bird dubs home movie of 1941 Senate campaign; White House maid finds rat in Luci Johnson's room; Lady Bird has lunch with Luci; new Chef for the White House; LBJ lunches and has
  • watches home movies; small dinner party; architect chosen for LBJ Library; Poverty programs; photographs by Okamoto; talk with Luci Johnson; Pope's visit to New York; upcoming State of the Union
  • wasteful practices at the White House; Johnsons attend dinner at the Bill Whites' home
  • Lady Bird goes to New York City to purchase clothing; Lady Bird attends dinner party given in her honor at Brooke Astor's home; Lady Bird mentions several people at the party; Charles Engelhard tells a funny story; Lady Bird recounts an earlier
  • f sn ow . p i l e d many f e e t h i g h b y th e w in d , we w ent t o D r ifts the Red Mass a t S t . M a tth e w s C a th e d r a l, L u ci and P at went w it h Us , Lynda B i r d s nug l y a t home in b e d , and h ea rd A rch B i s h o p O
  • and Roy White about the LBJ Library; LBJ and Lady Bird have dinner at Bill White's home; guests discuss Richard Russell; LBJ talks of Democratic National Committee problems; article about White House art
  • LBJ and Lady Bird look at samples for the LBJ Library; LBJ leaves for Honolulu; Mrs. William Westmoreland and daughter, Kathryn, travel with the President; Lady Bird works on her home movies; Lady Bird invites guests to bowling and dinner; Lady Bird
  • with a portrait; Lady Bird rests before working on Alabama speech; Lady Bird bowls and works on her home movies; LBJ and Lady Bird have dinner
  • ; 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
  • Visit of Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Italy; Lady Bird takes home movies in the Rose Garden; state dinner; Lady Bird mentions attendees; Lady Bird converses with Foreign Minister Fanfani at dinner; Leontyne Price is entertainment for the evening
  • Lady Bird works at Johnson City home and gives tour to female press; to LBJ Ranch with NBC crew and George Stevens, for USIA film, "The President's Country;" after breakfast, filming and photos at the Scharnhorst; to Haywood and West Ranches to film
  • 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
  • Situation in Dominican Republic; Lady Bird watches Arthur Schlesinger on TV; Lady Bird and LBJ to church in Smithburg, MD; Lady Bird bowls with June White and David Brinkley; Lady Bird and LBJ to Senator Harry Byrd's home in Berryville; Luci Johnson
  • ld sw im fo r hou rs w ithout touchin g b ottom o r ^ goin g b a ck to la n d . Indeed, it w as two hours b e fo r e w e sw a m in t o ■th e b e a c h and sta r te d home..-'.'' r"'.;'■ 'I n o tice d lit t le P a r k S e r v ic e s ig n s , u n o
  • Lady Bird meets 100 Maryland women; Lady Bird takes a nap; LBJ goes to funeral of Senator Russell's son in Georgia; Lady Bird discusses a triple TV cabinet with Frank Stanton; meeting about the LBJ Library; LBJ returns home to dinner with Lady Bird
  • Church services at Camp David; Lady Bird uses home movie camera; visiting with guests; John Steinbeck talks about Russia; crime in the District of Columbia; assistance for law enforcement officers; Johnsons and Grahams to bowling alley; Luci Johnson
  • Peter Hurd is working on LBJ portrait; Johnsons and guests to Central Christian Church, Johnson City; Lady Bird mentions the ecumenical group with them; communism; group to LBJ's boyhood home followed by the press; Bob Akers' appointment to USIA
  • gives short speech and citations to volunteers at the boyhood home; Lady Bird recounts humorous stories; more fire at the Lewis Ranch and stories about it; socializing and dinner by the pool
  • ; 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
  • Nancy had liv e d so lo n g , and, w hich the R o m n e y s do not make a g re a t deal o f use o f he s a id , the home o f the f i r s t A s t o r , of one o f the B id d le s , the F e r r y fa m ily who owned the fa m o u s seed h o u se /\ a ll o
  • LBJ & Lady Bird have breakfast in bed; funny story about peacock; lunch with Lynda Johnson; boating with friends and followed by photographers; dinner at Haywood Ranch; visit with Jack Maguire about University of Texas; visit to Aunt Oriole's home
  • 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
  • f C l e v e l a n d , O hio, s c h o o l t e a c h e r ^ 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 \\ in t r o u b l e . He s
  • Wedding of Barbara Boggs; reception at Hale and Lindy Boggs' home; Lady Bird's talk with one of the bridesmaids about Catholic missions; Barbara Boggs' students; back to the White House to view movie, "Shane," with Lynda Johnson; watched "Gunsmoke
  • Valentine gifts; D.C. League of Women Voters fundraiser; Heart luncheon; "Americans-At-Home" Program; visit by the John Steinbecks, and their story of visiting Russia; office work; LBJ to St. Louis for its Bicentennial; visit with Mary Lasker about
  • Return home from Florida; Visit to and meeting with Mrs. Kennedy about Society for the Preservation of the White House and its members; Mrs. Kennedy agrees to be public member; Fine Arts Committee; gift of four JFK minted coins; office work; John
  • settling in, is a lrea d y as much at home in Washington and has a v e r y nice house. as a cat by the f i r e , has been promoted^ T h e re w e re many Texans but also a goodly sprinkling of other Washingtonian s , I le ft rath er e a r ly to go
  • Lady Bird flies to Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she receives key to city; lunch at Williams College President Sawyer's home; Vietnam war protestors along procession route; Lady Bird receives honorary degree; walk-out protest by graduating
  • 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
  • t h e ir w a y alon g the m o u n ta in s id e . We la n d e d in a m e a d o w , c lo s e to the c o m m u n ity o f Inez, and d r o v e up the m o u n ta in sid e to the home of Tom F l e t c h e r . Now, a l l the s ig n s w e r e hom e m a d e
  • Steelworkers; to Huntington, WV, & Inez, KY; visit to Tom Fletcher's home; to Paintsville, KY, & Mayo State Vocational School; LBJ's Courthouse speech; the Appalachian recovery plan; Lady Bird interview by Helen Thomas and Frances Lewine; LBJ TV speech
  • ; visiting and lunch by swimming pool; Lady Bird takes home movies; Dr. Davis makes LBJ the first honorary elder of the Christian Church; strike mediation falls through; Lady Bird talks with Lynda Johnson about jobs; back to White House; swimming & bridge
  • & 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
  • ely , q u iet, brunette M erle O beron and h e r Ita lian - M exican husband Bruno P a g lia i. Lynda to th eir home, down in A cap u lco. He in v ited And a c t r e s s B arb ara R u sh . And- I MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON ^ M onday