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- THE WHITE HOUSE
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place) The
Entry
No.
Time
White House
Date Thursday, August 25, 1966
Activity
1. 7:30 Breakfast w/ President
9:15 Left for airport for New York
- Phil Babbitt left
6:28 To President's office
6:55 Lloyd Hand joined us
7:05 Returned to second floor with President and Ambassador Hand
7:30 Dinner
8:55 Ambassador Hand left
9:00 Luci returned from New York
10:30 Bed
- on TV at Smithsonian.
4:50 Had picture taken with Patty Perkins - Reception Room
4. 5:00 Left for New York
6:45 Arrive Carlyle. Called Ashton. Called house guests.
7:00 Dave arrived. Lynda arrived about ten minutes later. Drinks.
8:30 To "The Fantastics
- THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)TheWhiteHouse
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
Date Wednesday, September 29, 1965
H.G. Bob Ross Mary Kaltham not dictated
9:45 To East Room with Bess to look at new stage.
9:55
- THE WHITE HOUSE
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
Entry
No.
New
York
City
(Waldorf-Astoria)
Time
Activity
Date Monday, October 4, 1965
H.G. George Brown Bob Ross Mary Kaltham
8:45
- .
4:00 Return.
5. 5:00 Reception with new members of Congress. Briefing, pictures, buffet.
6. 6:00 To Yellow Oval Room for reception for Churchill bust.
7:45 With Dr. Cain and Dr. Hurst. President came over in a few minutes.
7. 8:00 Dinner with above
- of Georgetown for permanent with Bess
7:10 Return from Per
5. 8:25 Dinner with President and Dr. Hallenbeck
11:00 Retired
Luci! Big news
- with President, A.W. and Mariallen, Jake, Marie, Vicki
8:45 To Living Room to watch movies - "Opinion in the Capital" by
Mark Evans and then "March of Time."
10:00 Watched TV news
10:30 Retired
- and Mr. Sheffield. To the Guest
House, to Lewis Place, to Haywood.
To Nichols' to join President, Mr. Kellam, and A.W.
Heard news of Luci on ticker on TV
7:30 In Living Room. Plane from Washington arrived with Luci, Pat, Bill White,
Mr. and Mrs. Hurd
- of Behavioral Sciences, Radcliffe, and drove to Brandeis
University in Waltham.
5:30 To airport for New York City.
7:30 Arrived Mary Lasker's house. Lynda there. Had dinner.
8:45 Left for theater - "Royal Hunt of the Sun."
11:45 Returned to Mary's and retired
- THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
Date Saturday, November 20, 1965
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place) Mary Lasker's home - New York City
Entry No. Time Activity
not dictated
10:20 Left Mary's for airport
11:40
- McCardle and Bob Burchette. Pictures for stay for Thanksgiving.
2:00 Lunch w/ President, Roy White, A.W. Moursund, Irvin Frank,
Mr. Rios, Robert Frank (blind boy), Ashton, Marie, Jake, Vicky
2:50 Left w/ President in 1 of new Broncos. Toured Danz
watching
- : Lunch w/ Mecoms, President
2:08 With President told Mecoms goodbye at their plane
4:40 Went to new guest house
5:00 President, Harry Reasoner, Bill Moyers, Vicky, Marie, and
departed guest house and visited Heath Ranch,
Logan Ranch, Boyhood Home
- . 2:00 Left for Baltimore-Washington Parkway and New York Avenue
ABC filming
3:20 Filming at Memorial Bridge
4:30 Return to White House
4. 6:30 Farewell party for Kermit Gordon broke chair!
8:45 Work on desk and mail
10:20 Dinner with President
11:30
-
10:00 Record
1:30 Lunch with Lynda - hot dog, pineapple and cottage cheese, fresh figs from Mt. Vernon
3:30 To bowl with Lynda. Talked about trip to New York.
4:45 Return. Man to fit bowling balls to second floor.
5:30 To movie theater with Lynda
- to greet Ambassador and Mrs. Goldberg, son, Robert and date - Barbara Sprosta,
the Califanos, and Bob Akers.
6:30 To beach house w/ the Hurds, the Goldbergs, Bob Akers.
7:00 Boating w/ above and above newsmen.
Dinner at Haywood
Watch 10 o'clock news
11:30
- New York w/ Lynda and Bess - three ladies crying on plane!
3:40 Arrive Carlyle and immediately to Presidential Suite.
Saw Geoffrey Beene clothes w/ Henry Ginsberg and Cathy Collins - no purchase
Nap - Bess and Lynda on Bonwit's
Dinner in suite joined
- THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
New York
Date Thursday, August 5, 1965
Entry No. Time Activity
Up early and breakfast in suite
Tried on clothes from Neiman Marcus - bought
- and Liz
12:30 Look at Lynda's new clothes
1:00 Lunch with Bess (bacon and tomato sandwich and fruit salad)
1:30 Drive to MR. Per (with Bess)
2. 4:00 Return to White House. Short nap.
5:30 To third floor to see Luci in "little girl" dress - blackened teeth
- Fehmer
Watched news on TV
10:45 Returned to Ranch and to bed
Mr. Kellam, Marie, and Vicki: House guest
Lynn, Liz, Dr. Burkley, Jake: Guest house
- - departed 10 a.m.
11:00 Interview in Treaty Room with U.S. News and World Report - re: beautification
(coffee and rolls)
12:50 Interview ended
1:35 Lunch with Bess Abell
5:15 Mrs. Carpenter
5:30 Secretary Udall
6:30 Liz and Secretary Udall departed
5:50 -6
- Liz Carpenter and Jack Sutherland (U.S. News
and World Report)
3:25 Mrs. James Rowe - departed at 5:45
4. 6:32 To first floor to receive congressional guests
6:55 With congressional wives to theater to see "The White
House Story"
8:10 Returned
- MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, DAILY DIARY
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place) Carlyle
Entry
No.
Date
Hotel, New York
Time Appointment O P
February
Day Tuesday
Activity (include visited by)
Expenditure
9:33 Left
- and Mr. and Mrs. Sanders
arrived
8:30 Dinner with President and guests
8:50 Lynda returned from weekend in New York
11:05 Guests departed
11:30 Retired
Page No: 2
- to Virginia
10:50 Mrs. Smith arrived from New York
2. 12:25 To West Wing to Fish Room with Mrs. Smith joined by Mr. Busby and Bill Walton
1:20 Returned to second floor
2:45 To Fish Room accompanied by Mrs. Smith and Mr. West
- joined by Horace Busby
3:22
- John Macy and about 5-7 others Stanley Resor John Adams CAB Ross F. Power Com.
Woods - Deputy USIA Bagge F. P. Com. Sam Zagoria NLRB
7:34 Departed - stopped in Little Rock for refueling
at 9:07
10:45 Arrived LBJ Ranch
Attended presidential news
- coat
2:27 Returned to White House
2:50 Departed White House for Tidal Basin for Opening Ceremony
of National Cherry Blossom Festival
3:43 Returned for White House
4:00 Departed for National Airport
4:40 Airborne for New York accompanied by Bess Abell
5
- THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary Wednesday
New York Date April 7, 1965
10:21 Departed Carlyle w/ Bess and Mr. Fosburgh
1. 10:27 Arrived Frick Museum - viewed paintings
10:55
- with Lynda for National Gallery
of Art to view new Chester Dale Collection
2:15 Returned to White House
Worked with Ashton
2. 3:00 Tea in Oval Room with Jane Engelhard and group of teenagers
who had been taken on White House tour by
Jim Ketchum
3:35 Departed
- Oreole's new house
invited her to dinner w/ Moursunds, J.C., Jake, Marie, Vicky
8:00 Returned to main house and dinner with above
"Retired early"
- w/ Ashton
11:30 To Jean-Louis for comb-out
12:35 Pictures for "D.C. Post" and "New York Times"
1:05 Back inside
1:45 - 2:15 Lunch, Patsy told about Diana's Youth Conference
meeting
2:20 Dictated
3:05 To third floor to say goodbye to Thomases
- , Liz Carpenter, and James Pitt (Life Magazine) left square.
2:37 Arrived new park site and inspected.
2:51
With Lynda back to Boyhood Home.
4:13 Left Boyhood Home
4:28 Arrived LBJ Ranch
3. 4:55Drove alone in LBJ car touring ranch area.
6:02
7:08
7:27
- Reagan Ranch, inspected new helicopter.
12:46
Returned to main house
Departed main ranch
H.G. George Hamilton,
Phyllis Nugent
not dictated
1:22 Lunch: Krims, J.C., Jake, Marie, Vicky
1:47Arrived Gladys Beauty Shop, in Johnson City
2:04
Left beauty
- :05 Returned to ranch
Dinner w/ President, L. J. Taylors, Moursunds, Kellams,
Lynda, Warrie, Mrs. Jessie Hatcher, Cousin Oreole, Vicky.
Watched news
- ranch
and rode around Heath Ranch, Lewis Ranch.
To Johnson City and saw apartments over Bank.
1:22 Beauty shop
3:25 Looked at new gun w/ President and Kellam for John Bullion
Lunch w/ President, Kellam, Bullions, Jake, Marie, Vicky.
4:22 w/ President
- . Lunch (ham and black-eyed peas for New Years) with President, Tony Taylors, Winston
Taylor, Kellam, Secretary Mann, Jim Johnson, Mildred, Vicki, Marie, Judge Moursund for coffee.
7:20 With President, Kellam, Taylors, Marie, Mildred Stegall, and a man
St
- (approximately 500)
10:45 Return to second floor with Liz
1:10 Lunch with Luci in room (fried egg, bacon, toast)
1:30 Work with Bess on lists, etc.
2. 3:15 President over for lunch. CTJ in dining room to talk.
3:40 Work with Bess
3. (News of Shastri Death)
5:00
- Worley,
Mathilda Grant, Millie Hudson, Liz Hutchinson, André Lindow,
Zenda Pipkin 11:40 Photographer over for pictures
12:00 Guests left
Decided on clothes for New York trip
2. 2:05 President came over with Secretary Rusk, Admiral Raborn, Bundy, Ball
- to New York
10:05 Arrived LaGuardia
1. 10:43 Carlyle Hotel
Tried on Mollie Parnis until 2:00
Talked by phone with Abe Fortas and Lynda
2:00 St. Maur came with Miss Elizabeth - tried on clothes
Charles Engelhard came to pick us up
2. 8:05 With Bess to home
- THE WHITE HOUSE
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her da y at (Place)
Entry
No.
New York City - Carlyle Hotel Date Friday, January 28, 1966
Activity
Time
not dictated
9:15 Awake
10:00 Miss Treyz arrived w
