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- avid th is s u m m e r .
flo w n .
I lo v e th a t p la c e .
B u t oh th e s u m m e r h a s
I hope w e s h a ll h a v e a few m o re tim e s th e r e
w h ile i t is s t i l l o u r s to go to.
MEMORANDUM
THE W HITE HOUSE
S unday, S e p te m b e
- o r s e sh o e of sand, and the sig n that sa id "L ife
Guard on Duty a few lim ite d h ou rs" , so we hoped for tom orrow , but L u ci,
-
MEMORANDUM
c
THE WHITE HOUSE
S a tu rd a y , M arch 2, 1968
WASHINOTON
Page 5
w ith the e x u b e r
- tic k e ts and
p a r c e l th em out to m y v e r y fa v o rite c o n stitu e n ts.
And then, stand ing
in the h a ll, hoping that I w ould at le a s t get c lo s e enough to a C abinet
o r C ourt w ife to in tro d u ce m y c o n s titu e n ts .
So w
- w eapon w ith w h ich he is a ch iev in g h is own e m a n c ip a tio n ." I hope a lo t of p eo p le h eard h im , b e c a u s e h e ’s going to g et the
b la m e fo r le ttin g th em go too fa r, to o f a s t.
I think h e 's tough enough to
stan
- MEMORANDUM
THE W H ITE HOUSE
W ASHINOTO N
T h u r s day, A p r i l 30, 1964
Today dawned cold and rainy.
Ah, unhappy fo r e c a s t fo r Saturday,
when the 3000 Dem o c ratic ladies w ill converge upon us, on--hopeful ly ^ t h e
White House
- m en tion ed J a c k ie ’ s hope fo r new d r a p e s
and new c h a ir s i n the State Dining R o o m , but she fe e l s that ad d itio n s w ill
co m e , not fro m m a jo r g if t s , but fro m the s a le of the guide book.
And sh e
w arn ed m e
- ck ed h a ts , a
g lo r io u s s p la s h of c o lo r .,^ n that e m e r a ld law n,
I ju s t hope that a whole lo t
of those stu d e n ts w h o had c a m e r a s / \a n d p r a c tic a lly every b o d y d id /\w e re
u sin g c o lo r film
- and I, and then I went
to bed thinking that this was enough of a day to have lasted a month!
And
just hoping that my guests at noon,/di d notice the Andrew Jackson urn from
the H erm itage, and the Madison tureen a n d the John Adams tureen and
perhaps
- to v is it A tlan tic C ity, but I do hope you w ill in vite m e to com e back
this su m m e r.
M aybe I ’ ll even b rin g m y husband with m e, "
When the dinner was o v e r , w e file d out, shaking hands w ith a s m ajiy
people as we could p o s
- l's water shortage, through the highly prom ising technique
of desalting. "Let us hope," he added "su ch technique w ill bring benefits to
all peoples in the parched Middle E a s t ."
the other people
After dinner
I particularly liked bringing
- at M a y o 's and
had o p e r a te d on J im C ain) flew in , in th e hope th at sh e co u ld s e e h e r
-
2
-
f:"
1963
^
‘
.
S a tu r d a y , D e c e m b e r 28th (co n tin u e d )
fa th e r .
S h e got th e r e oh, a lo n g abou t c o c k
- , 1964
^
Page 3
co m in g le g is la tiv e y e a r , w e c a n n o t sp e n d o u r e n e r g ie s fig h tin g a m o n g
o u r s e l v e s , I hope we d o n ’t.
'
F in a lly , w e w ound up o u t a t the a i r p o r t , I th in k it m u s t h a v e b
- and o ra n g e ju ic e and 'O
good r e s o l u t i o n s .
I 'm ab o u t fiv e pounds o r m o r e h e a v i e r th an I 'd lik e to be,,
a n d Lyndon is a b o u t 20 p o u n d s h e a v i e r .
I .hope to c o z e n , b u lly and b r a g
on h im
- u rin g th e tim e I am h e r e which I hope w i l l in c lu d e
some o f th e American g r e a t - - Mary Cus s a t , my most
h o p e fu l a d d itio n
-r
I w ould lo v e to have t h i s
'I , George Ca le b Bingham, S id n ey Mount.
I would l i k
- .
They show
At presen t there
was a long waiting fo r each school, and they c o m p ris e only a sm all group
of the Russian school-age children, although by 19 70 they hope to have
a third of them in such schools, and by the y e a r 2 000, a ll of them
- A , in A p r i l , w as a g r e e d to.
It*s
one o f the tw e lv e states that D ick M c G u ir e said that he hoped v e r y m uch I 'd
go in to, ^
T h e A tla n ta , G e o r g i a one- - f o r the d e d ic a tio n o r ground b re a k in g c e r e m o n y
- f a c e s , a l l
s a y i n g , " G i v e our lo ve to the P r e s i d e n t . "
Or m a y b e ev en , " Y ou ’ r e
p r e t t i e r than y o u r p i c t u r e s . "
I hope that the A m b a s s a d o r and M r s . L a b o u i s s e went h o m e
- a l s on
a t r e e , o r put a p la q u e e v e r s o little u n d e rn e a th s o m e b e n c h . "
So now I m u s t g e t b a c k tc M r s . M e llo n w ith that, and I think it w ill
h a p p e n.
My m a in hope i s to h av e the g r o u n d s an d
- g ro w in g up b e f o r e m y e y e s .
I s li p p e d out ab o u t 5:15 and went u p s t a i r s f o r d e s k w o rk , and fin a lly ,
a s it a p p r o a c h e d 9 o ’ c lo c k , I w ent o v e r to L y n d o n 's o ffic e with the hope of
s p r
- ard a little b it, about the L ib ra ry , ajid h e and I cam e
c l o s e s t to lau gh in g.
And then Wilbur Cohen, iabout the L ib r a r y ,'h o w m uch
I hoped the r e c o r d s of HEW, w h ose w ork had con tain ed so m uch of the things
- is c lo a k -a n d -d a g g e r m is s io n .
The John S e c o n d a r is, L yndon's
b ea u tifu l young frie n d fr o m New Y ork, Jeanne V an d erb ilt, and,
o f c o u r s e , our h o u se g u e sts the P e te r H urds.
G u ests that I hope to s e e
- hope w e w ill have 200, 000 p la n ts, w ith the govern m en t
1965
W ednesday, M ay 19th (con tin u ed )
h elp in g the g o v ern m en t.
And then th ere w e r e g ifts , b ig and lit t le , ranging
fr o m one pink dogw ood fr o m Gordon Junior H
- o m - - I hope w ith a m p le d rin k s
a n d p le n ty of h o s te s s in g fro m m e m b e r s of the C a b in e t- - c a m e b y to b e g r e e te d
b y u s in th e ir tu r n .
L a te r on, M a rg y M c N a m a ra a n d I w e r e ta lk in g a b o
- p tio n and the N orth C a r o lin a
r e c e p tio n had d e p a r te d , about two h o u r s of w o r k , r e s t l e s s ly , I w ent o v e r
^
to L yndon’s o f f ic e , hoping to jar him l o o s e , / a n d b rin g him h o m e ,
'
i^ound
him
- at M a y o 's -- who p u lled it out w ith p in c e r s
or so m eth in g lik e th a t -- a n d Lyndon w as on h is fe e t in th r e e d a y s.
I grip p ed h er hand w ith s p e c ia l w arm th .
n ow .
I know
She is an ard en t R ep u b lican
I hope
- i r d f lo o r , and r ig h t a c r o s s f ro m th e m , M a r i a lle n and A, W. , w ith
Will an d M a r y
in a d jo in in g r o o m s .
And they a r e the g u e s ts I am hoping
v e r y m u c h w i l l h av e the b e s t tim e of a l l f o r
- out in th e r i v e r I
c o u l d s e e tw o b l i n k i n g l i g h t s - - t h e S e q u o i a - - a n c h o r e d .
We w e n t o u t
and I c lim b e d on a n d c a r e fu lly w ent d o w n s ta irs , hoping I w o u ld n 't w ake
up Lyndon - - f r
- , a n d w e 'l l s h a r e the b e s t w a lk - i n c l o s e t a n y b o d y c o u ld
hope f o r .
The p o in t i s it m u s t not be a c r a s h p r o g r a m .
We m u s t w o r k
to w a r d s o m e th in g I 'l l be s a t i s f i e d w ith a n d lo
- w ith c o f f e e , and the M a yo r t e llin g us
how he hoped to han dle the p r o b le m of a r a c e r io t in C h ic a g o .
s a id he w ould not have h is p o li c e m e n w e a r s t e e l h e l m e t s .
He
T h ey
s i m p l y w o r e c a p
- h i n g , a n d
i t t a k e s a q u a l i t y of p a t r i o t i s m t h a t i s r a r e a n d t o u g h .
D o n w i l l d o it , b u t I a m n o t a t a l l s u r e .
I hope v e ry m u c h that
N or a m I s u r e that W inifred, his
w i f e , w i
- o c ra tic
N a tio n a l C o m m itte e in r e c o g n itio n o f p a s t h e lp and in hope f o r f u t u r e
h e lp .
T h e y w e re th e b r i e f e s t s to p s o f a ll.
W e q u ic k ly w ^ d e d o u r w ay
^
M onday,
J a n u a ry 18 (C o
- th ey b e g a n to r in g 1 h o u r b e fo r e L u c i's w e d d in g ?
I w o r k e d a t m y d e s k fo r a w h ile .
c
in p r o g r e s s .
7 :0 0 p a s s e d .
I knew the m e e tin g w a s
B ut th e r e w a s no r e p o r t o f w hat to hope fo
- and to in v ite them to sta y at the W hite H o u se .
I hope by now that th ey know th ere is alw ays room for th e m ,
M arilyn und ertook to r e tr ie v e th em from N ew Y ork .
to w ork on sea tin g and ju st how w e w ould handle i t .
And B e s s and I
- i o n .
h o m e c o u n t r y to C h u c k .
F o r Lynda,
F or me,
showing o u r
And for Lyndon I hope, p e a c e a n d re la x a tio n .
H e ’s b e e n g o n e tw o m o n t h s .
A b o u t 1 0 : 0 0 , t h e f o u r of u s - - C h u c k a n d L
- e x p e c t
th em to do i t a n y m o r e .
B u t I hope th e y w ill c o n tin u e to b e a p a r t of m y
life - - M o l l i e a n d A d ele.
I w a s fig h tin g to f in i s h m y shopping so t h a t I c o u ld c a t c h th e l a t e
p la n e ton
- e n in g .
I hope th e y w i l l .
T h e r e w a s m o r e to it
th an m a n y I 'v e c ro w d e d w ith e x c ite m e n t and b ig n a m e s and im p o r ta n t e v e n t s .
- i s ,
a f t e r n o o n w i t h Mr. S t . Ma u r
t he
and I hope I ' l l g e t
e n o u g h c l o t h e s i n t h e s e y e a r s n e v e r t o have to go
b a c k a g a in !
But w h i l e I am h e r e I w ant t o l o o k a s
w e l l a s I can f
- e r n e r )
w a s the C h a ir m a n , and M rs . N o rm a n V in c e n t P e a le w a s th e m a in s p e a k e r ,
I hope I ta k e a le s s o n fro m h e r b o o k .
A la r g e p a r t o f h e r s p e e c h w a s th r e e
s t o r i e s - v ig n
- in g of
p a p e r s , a g o o d ly a m o u n t of w o rk done a n d th en b a c k fo r a 6:30 a p p o in tm e n t
w ith L iz a nd Doug C a te r in the W est H a ll, to r e a d , w h a t I hope to h e a v e n ,
is th e fin a l d r a f t of th e A la b
- l o n e !
of th em in our lif e th e s e d a y s .
A nd th e r e a r e fe w
P e o p le a s s u m e th at w e a r e v e r y b u s y , that w e
d on 't go out to s m a ll p r iv a te p a r t i e s .
A t l e a s t th a t's w hat I hope th e y a s s
