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- and George Christian
11:30 Breakfast with all guests
Talked to guests, read, sunned
2:30 Lunch - hamburgers
Sunned, nap
6:00 Watched TV: news
Dinner: Stroganoff
9:30 Returned to second w/ President
10:30 Retired
H.G. George Christian
- THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
Entry
No.
Time
Date Sunday, June 6, 1965
Activity
1. 9:00 Left in small boat for snorkeling in Turtle Beach
10:45 Returned to beach and sunned
- Garden w/ Lynda to sign mail and get sun
Expenditure
1:45 Lunch on second floor w/ President, Lynda, and Mariallen and children (Mariallen's jelly)
3:30 Leave White House for airport
3:45 Leave National for Philadelphia
(schedule enclosed)
1:30 a.m
- LeFeve, his parents, sister and brother-in-law, Lynda for tea
3:30 To roof for sun and read
6:15 To pool
8:25 Dinner with President
8:45 To movie "Beckett" with President (only saw first half)
10:00 To second floor
11:30 Retired
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MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, DAILY DIARY
DateJuly15,1964
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
Entry
No.
Time Appointment O P
Day
Wednesday
Activity (include visited by) H.G. - P
Expenditure
3:00 To third floor for Sun
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airport
for
Austin
ARRIVE AUSTIN (MET BY JESSE KELLAM)
am
Arrive ranch.
Sleep late.
11:00
Breakfast in bed with President
12:00
Dorothy Parker, alteration lady to fit clothes
2:00
Sun in bathing suit.
Lunch with Dorothy Parker,
4:00
5:00
6:30
- to sun. Read National Geographic story.
12:45 Return to second floor
1:30 Liz, Bess, Bob Knudsen re: pictures
2:30 Left w/ Lynda and Warrie for 14th Street Hat Shoppe. Ate
lunch in car.
3:30 Returned to White House.
3:55 Liz, Bess, Bob re: pictures
5:30
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10:00 Rose Garden with Simone and the Secondaris
12:10 Left White House
12:40 Ate lunch
1:10 Dentist
3:45 Left dentist and went to suite and the sun roof to join the President
5:10 Returned to suite
5:30 President walked into CTJ room
6:30
- , Liz, Jim Ketchum, etc.
1:45 Left for hospital via George Washington Parkway. Saw Congressman Mendel Rivers'
with car trouble and stopped and picked him up.
2:10 Joined the President
3:45 To sun deck with President
7:45 Dinner with President
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Saw a deer hung in the fence - Clarence and Rufus got him loose and had
to shoot him.
1:00 Lunch with President, Mr. and Mrs. Krim, Jimilu Mason, Jake, Jim Moyers,
Marie and Vicki (had Houston Harte's salmon)
2:15 President to pool for sun. CTJ napped
- 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
Mrs.
Entry
No.
White House Washington
MRS.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
Johnson began her day at (Place) LBJ Ranch
Time
Date Saturday, August 14, 1965
Activity
1. 10:30 Sat by pool and sunned.
2. 12:30 Lunch with President, Dr. and Mrs
- . 12:03 Departed for Kensington for 81st and 75th Congressional
luncheon at home of Mrs. Harold Lovre - bought
two books - "Hawaii" and "Suns of August" for benefit
of Children's Ward of D.C. General Hospital
2:30 Departed Kensington for Jean-Louis
- - Bloody Marys, swim, sun lamp (see attached list)
3. 12:50 To Solarium. Buffet lunch - Quiche Lorraine
4. 3:15 Ladies left except for Libby Cater who looked at third floor
redecorating ideas and talked about Youth Beauty Conference.
Then into Ashton's
- (President returned from Cleveland)
4:00 To roof for sun and sign mail and dictate
6:00 To Solarium to finish mail
7:00 West Hall. Signed note for Les (20th Anniversary)
Talked w/ Luci re - school and Wisconsin
10:20 Dinner w/ President
11:30 Retired
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MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, DAILY DIARY Date June 18, 1964 Day Thursday
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
Entry
No.
Time Appointment O P
Activity (include visited by)
Dr. Cain 303
12:00 Bess
1:00 To roof for sun
- . Rose Kennedy, Mrs. Joan Kennedy, Dr. Corridan
re: plane crash - Ted Kennedy
Talked to Lynda re: flight from Hawaii - man threatened wife, etc.
11:30 Dictating machine
3:30 Met Ashton's parents
4:00 Sun roof in bathing suit - read "The Best Plays
-
Dictating machine
12:30 To roof for sun - lunch on roof
4:30 To second floor
5:45 President and Lynda arrive. Greet on South Grounds.
5:50 To second floor w/ President, Lynda, Secretary Rusk, and Mr. Bundy
June and Bill White close by
7:10 Walk around South
- Lunch w/ Hugh Sidey and Jean Franklin (re: Time story)
3:00 To roof for sun
4:00 To Mrs. Per's
6:00 To Yellow Oval Room to meet Texas friends - Walter Hornaday family
Helen Bird Falley and son and 3 friends, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Catterall,
Mr. and Mrs. H
- floor to say goodbye
10:30 - 12:30 Robin Duke and Kandi - dressmaker
1:00 nap
2:30 Meet visiting Texans - Budwells, Paynes, Williams in Yellow Oval Room
tea - President came in
3:25 To West Wing
4:00 To roof for sun and dictating
4:30 Down to see
- for Syracuse, New York
1:30 Return to White House
1:40 To roof for sun. Sign mail and autograph pictures.
3:00 Robin Duke and Kandi Ohno
4:15 Rest on bed
6:00 Mary Foote (CPA from Dallas - working on auditing books)
9:00 Dinner w/ President, Mayor Daley and son
- :00 Talk to Mrs. Steinbeck about shopping for CTJ and Lynda
1:25 To South Grounds for walk with the President and press and dogs
1:40 To Dr. Turchin
3:00 To sun roof for sandwich and work on mail
Dr. Willis Hurst for short visit
5:00 - 8:30 To Queens
- . Liz told him about
the domino grave being moved to the park. President
suggested charging admissions for Boyhood Home and birthplace.
2:30 Sat by pool in sun w/ President, Liz, and Marie.
3:15 Walked down road with Liz - to cemetery, birthplace
- MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diarydictated8/31966
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
Entry
No.
Camp David
Time
Date Sunday, July 31, 1966
Activity
sun shining bright, brisk weather
1. 10:30 Breakfast w
- (Clark Clifford)
Secretary and Mrs. Fowler Congressman and Mrs. Mahon Him
Mr. and Mrs. Rostow Secretary and Mrs. Wirtz
4:25 On boat: President went above deck in sun. Joined by Califano and wife, Hale Boggs, Secretary Fowler,
Patsy, Abe Fortas, Clark
- with President
2. 10:40 To look at samples w/ Mr. West in the sun. To State Dining
Room to look at materials.
Goodbye to: Toini Jacquemin from Library of Congress who has been
working with Jim Ketchum
Bess introduced Sylvia Symington
11:30 Upstairs - worked
- house, after picking up Mr. Frank Erwin at runway.
12:40 To the hangar.
12:55 Returned to the main house.
1:04 Called Mariallen. John Connally's call to Teddy White and Cronkite
Lunch: on the front porch, in sun on trays, with the Krims, AW Moursund
- , Miss Sally Engelhard,
and Mr. and Mrs. Walt Rostow. It was Elspeth's birthday and we celebrated with gifts
and a cake.
Sat on sun porch -- played bridge with Lynda, Charles Engelhard, and CR Smith.
Inside to pack.
Entry
No.
Time
Activity
5:16 Went
- in motorcade for Big Sur Scenic Highway.
4. 2:40 Arrived Hurricane Point for dedication of highway. Nat Owings, Fred Farr, Brown there.
3:00 Left highway
5. 3:30 Arrived Nat Owings residence for rest: Sea lions sunning themselves, Udalls, Browns,
Fred Farr
- eating lunch. Also there: Ashton, Liz, Lynda.
4:50 Out into the sun into Rose Garden to read a chapter of "Living White House"
5:16 Back into house and to third and to look for Lucinda. She'd gone for the day.
5:17 Back to second floor. Read on bed.
6:15
- and breakfast
8:30 Down into yard where President was sunning.
9:00 Talk with Mrs. Murchie about clothes.
9:30 Shampoo and set. Read background on King and Queen and Thailand.
11:30 Rest on bed. Ordered lunch in room and then found out President was awake - so
- . We had cocktails in the library.
9:00 The President joined us.
Dinner (dove, quail, and delicious rum pie) in the Sun Room -- beautiful view
of Washington.
11:42 Left the Westmorelands' with the President and Luci.
11:54 Returned to the White House
- Garden and Begonia House. Met by R.L. Archibald
and Mr. Galloway. Saw Wildflower exhibit being set up. Drove to top of
the hill. B) Rode cable car down. Presented plaque - "Kiss of the Sun, etc."
11:20 Left in car for Ambassador Powell's residence
- area. Saw a collection of koala bears, kangaroos,
parrots in cages. Looked at where meat was being cooked.
Helped our plates and went to sit under colorful tent. Sun was
just going down.
6:45 President made speech. Then went in house to change clothes
