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  • painting; Bess Truman portrait; office work; Lynda & Chuck Robb's party; Johnson family have dinner; victory on Civil Rights Act of 1968/Fair Housing Act
  • & speeches; LBJ works hard with little rest; Johnsons to Democratic fundraiser that night; Lynda Robb relays news that Martin Luther King has been shot & died; LBJ calls Coretta Scott King & makes televised speech; evening plans cancelled & Hawaii trip
  • ; Lady Bird has nice comments about George Mahon & Alan Boyd; helicopter to the Haywood Ranch; fish fry; back to LBJ Ranch; Lynda Robb stayed back in Washington, D.C.