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  • Pinaon, born, Oct. 17, 19,~, Blav .. t>---»u4leJ Sennett P1naon, born, Karc!l 14, 19,~. •rried (Pinaon) Brooke, born, Deo. 27, 19~~, (Bla\15) lei
  • received. Anyhow, at the christening there was all the family and such old-timers as Bess Beeman and her husband, and Sherman and Delle Birdwell, and Paul and Dolly Bolton. Paul was with us at KTBC. (Interruption) Max and Marietta Brooks and Herman Brown
  • about that time, the Ladies for Lyndon movement. Predictably, Marietta Brooks was a big factor in it, and a lady named Mrs. W. A. Griffis, from, I believe, San Angelo. Later on they wore darling little red, white, and blue costumes, girlish straw hats
  • Governor Pat Brown, his wife, Bernice, and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies; India Edwards; friends such as Zendra Pipkin and Richard and Maureen Neuberger; LBJ's battle with Tom Miller over what Austin citizens had to pay for electricity; Luci's
  • York--and also I'm practically sure he was Republican, but that never made any difference to Lyndon--and [Edward] Hébert of Louisiana and Bill Hess and Warren Magnuson, Maggie, who was on Naval Affairs until he went to the Senate in--when was it? Did he
  • . Meantime, we were considering moving back into my apartment. We told the Edwards that we would like to have it back April the first. I planned to ask Mary Rather to move in with me. It had been marvelous living with Nellie Connally, but it was possible
  • impression of Australians, including Dame Mabel Brooks; President Franklin Roosevelt ordering congressmen and senators who were on active duty to return to Washington, D.C.; LBJ's meeting with Roosevelt to discuss problems in the military; the Johnsons
  • with consummate skill and a quick gavel. M: Well, all I can think of is chairman. J: Chairman, I guess he was. And she, she may have had the title of secretary. And she would make the announcements. M: Was that Indiana Edwards? J: No. Beautiful Alabama
  • LADY BIRD JOHNSON REPORTS THAT UNIDENTIFIED PERSON WILL ARRIVE AT 6:30 AND REPORTS ON EFFORTS TO CONTACT JACK AND CHARLOTTE BROOKS TO INVITE THEM TO DINNER TONIGHT
  • made Jewell believe tru:t Sbei~ron was still alive and. . . h· t if Bo he wo\L.. d be a pris ner et the above camp. Flea~e query the Tar Department again ana get any frag 1ent of information you can about it. Another thing: lirietta Brooks said Max
  • Brooks, Max
  • Brooks, KTBC studio space and rental contracts.
  • . Then we faced up to the hard problem of our actual cabinet installations which must be decided very soon. Dorothy said that Max [Brooks] would be in town on Tuesday. I suggested that we have another meeting on Tuesday and herein l ies the danger
  • perhaps is much more familiar with this place than any others. Charlotte Brooks, so fresh and young and pretty, and Jack Valenti, of course, and [unintelligible] too, somewhere we talked about when and what the Congress might do, the tax bill, the problems
  • . George Perkins Marsh once wrote that be was "forest b o rn" and in bis youth, ''the bubbling brook, the trees, the flowers, the W. ld animals were persons. not things" to him. In this setting in wbich the se thoughts were born. they appear again
  • brooks Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 11 You and your parks are our entrance to an intensified educational prog ram for the young. You have the laboratory and I am sure that you can find new ideas for new students. If so; you will have
  • ·toward us nov, and also Mari'htta Brook I ;unt to 1 rite to both 0,1. them, but don't quite know l ov.- to if caoy r ~l little les~ friendly than fon1erly to us. Do you t.hi uc thoy do, either of the ? !~ow about Mrs . ""eor 0 e: h bo.ve me sano very
  • is no reason that I l{now o:e why the Longs or the Brooks should feel clifferent ly toward us . 21 . _ Pollow through on ~terial t _o Legion and mater ial to ( nurses as suggested by Mr s . George . ) 22 . I think you are absolutely correct about Altavene
  • , the Jack Brooks, and the V alen tis. . » Then fro m A ndrew s to A u s tin, a r r iv in g b e fo re the sun set, g lo r y Hallelujah! And a quick chopper to A . W 's ranch. T h e re was s till a good 30 minute s of daylight le ft when we got to A. W ’ s
  • y M c P h erso n s, with ^ P Brooks r ' their darling little g i r l F r a n k Ika rd s , th e L e s Carpenters,, the Jack B r o o k s , W alter Jenkins, H ora ce Busbys and the T y l e r A b e lls . And when everyb ody came about 5:30, we chose up
  • nguished Congressman Jack Brooks who has worked tirelessly and effectively for you duri ng hi s 12 years in Washing­ ton . The President and I count hi m and his wife, Charlotte , among our close friends . Beaumont has always had a boom spi rit . We have
  • very pleased bus ess like wa.y Aunt Effie is going about getting im ready. from all the evidenoe she can obtain a conviction that it is quite right and she o it. \'llllS afraid she would not want to brook the pr elfishness of Unolo Harry, and me.y
  • Lady Bird to Austin to Hausman Beauty Shop; press at the beauty shop; Lady Bird to Johnson City with LBJ and the Jack Brooks'; to the Haywood Ranch and a boat ride; Lady Bird mentions the abundant bluebonnets; relaxed evening with friends at LBJ
  • e n a l o n g t a l k w ith Mrs. Lindow about t h e l o v e l y p a r t y sh e p la n a f o r L u c i around V a l e n t i n e t i m e . .. And then Lynda came i n and had l u n c h w i t h me on t r a y s i n my bedroom. Roy W hite and Max Brooks
  • Lady Bird spend morning with office work; Lady Bird and J.B. West discuss White House redecorating; Lady Bird discusses Lindow party for Luci Johnson; Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson go to see "Hostile Witness" movie; Lady Bird meets with Max Brooks
  • adjourned. Max Brooks was the architect. We had chosen Marcus Burg, absolutely local contractor--Stonewall, not even Johnson City. I think our bid was twelve thousand dollars. Obviously we had not taken the advice of our good friends the [Wesley] Wests
  • 1952 trips to Texas to oversee LBJ Ranch house renovations; Max Brooks and Marcus Burg's involvement with the Ranch house; decorating the Ranch; visitors to the Johnson home in Washington, D.C.; the Johnsons' relationship with the Melvin Winters
  • ;" helicopter back to White House; Lady Bird & Lynda finish watching movie; Lady Bird recognizes support of Senator Ed Brooke on Vietnam policies
  • at home or abroad. Anyone with imagination, zeal and brains has many opportunities in unfinished America. A number of you already participate in this through the Phillips-Brooks House. I can tell you first hand that Appalachia cries out for young women
  • Photos for United Givers' Fund and Holton Arms; lunch with Diana MacArthur and Lynda Johnson; meeting with Leonard Marks; Pago Pago newspaper article about U.S. election; dinner with the Jack Brooks
  • Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson to Wright Patman luncheon for Texas delegation; official photograph session of inaugural gown; LBJ takes nap; dinner with the Jack Brooks and Jake Pickles; Lady Bird watches "Gunsmoke;" dockworkers' strike
  • just finished writing Mr. Perry. He spoke of h~ and~ 'f":' Marietta Brooks were reaching the end of his architect ;~ess l~ ~ for private building. They are much on my mind and I do wish o.4.'I,,;- ~ there were some place we could get him a job. He
  • road that will join u• up. Give my love to Nita and reaerve •bable port on for youraelf. incerely, Lyndo B. 1ohnaon r. Melvin Winters, 1olmaon City, Texas. ' cc: Mr. . Mu Brook• i-a. yndon B •. J"olmaon /'
  • Lady Bird breakfasts with Lynda & guests; Johnsons & guests to St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Smithburg; back to Camp David to watch Senator Ed Brooke on "Face the Nation" speak of support for U.S. policy in Vietnam; LBJ calls Brooke to thank him
  • LBJ & Lady Bird are at Brooke Army Medical Hospital for tests; doctors find small growth in LBJ's colon; doctors issue press statement; Johnsons helicopter to LBJ Ranch; LBJ meets with Arthur Okun; lunch; Lady Bird to bed and reading; LBJ goes
  • VIP Suite, Brooke Army Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
  • of January you met with Max Brooks to talk about the new KTBC building. J: Ever since we went on the air with the television station, in Thanksgiving Day of 1952, we had been living in crowded, inadequate, temporary quarters. As I said, the radio station
  • on the job, things were not idle at home. There was a big program put on, I think it was June 2. It was a women's rally. Marietta Brooks was the state chairman of the women's division, and Claude Wild, of course, was the state chairman. Bess Beeman
  • relationship with the oil industry; the Taft-Hartley Act; Marietta Brooks' leadership in the women's division; the work of the female volunteers; the increased role of women in campaigns; the work of LBJ's advance men; LBJ's campaign locations and audiences
  • Johnsons attend Christian Church; LBJ gives kisses to small girl, Kimberly Frye; lunch at White House with the McNamaras; Jacqueline Kennedy; bowling with Lynda; dinner with the Bill Whites and the Jack Brooks; Jake Pickle, Clark Clifford
  • directive and got more active, including me, and Marietta [Moody Brooks] especially. We took a trip to Corpus Christi with Elizabeth Odom and [attended] a meeting of the women leaders. Meanwhile, Lyndon was checking in with all his bases of good friends
  • Texas; the death of Mary Rather's father; public speaking; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson's support for LBJ's campaign; Lady Bird Johnson's car accident with Marietta Brooks near Seguin; the Johnson family calling everyone in the Austin phone book to seek
  • years would we have been married then? From 1934--this was 1951, seventeen? Seventeen years. I think the Connallys, and Pickles, and Kellams, and Deasons, and Thornberrys, and Phinneys, and Max Brooks, and I don't know quite who all, were
  • Lady Bird has doctors visits and fittings for opera dress; LBJ signs Traffic Safety Bill; Lady Bird receives visit from nuns; nap; tea for Ambassadors' wives; tour of family living quarters; meeting about Western trip; Leonard Marks & Max Brooks
  • Lady Bird signs Christmas photos; snowing; Lady Bird talks with individuals about speech & artwork donated to White House; wedding gift for Beth Jenkins; cherry trees from Mary Lasker; telephone call with Brook Astor about Temple of Dendur; office
  • McGovern enters Presidential race; LBJ's test at Brooke Army Hospital; dinner; "Hang Em High" movie & bridge game; Lady Bird becomes ill & retires
  • LBJ & Lady Bird to Austin for meetings; Lady Bird goes to the LBJ Library site with Lawson Knott & Max Brooks; Lady Bird and Knott return to LBJ's office in the Federal Building; Lady Bird to LBJ Library site with a photographer; Lady Bird to hair
  • LBJ and Lady Bird go to National City Christian Church; both watch Hubert Humphrey on TV; LBJ and Jack Brooks discuss redistricting; Lady Bird interviews for chef position; Lady Bird bowls with Liz Carpenter; Johnsons have dinner with several