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Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, transmitted around the various Cabinet offices, but these were very stilted and I didn't learn a great deal from reading the other Cabinet officers reports, and I doubt seriously that they learned much from reading mine . I had a feeling all the way through

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/13/1966 (Sunday) (Item)

discussed his Honolulu Conference, Vietnam and the SEATO Treaty; LBJ and Lady Bird call Maxwell Taylor about his TV appearance; Johnsons read newspapers

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/18/1966 (Saturday) (Item)

Lady Bird records diary; Lady Bird walks Scharnhorst and Danz ranches and talks about harvesting wildflower seeds; Lady Bird describes a family of armadillos; Lady Bird reads "The Devil's Advocate" by Morris West; another walk later that day; Lady

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/8/1965 (Monday) (Item)

LBJ and the Vietnam War; Lady Bird's interview with a magazine; Lady Bird reads about Beautification; Lady Bird has lunch meeting with Bess Abell about mail; Lady Bird meets with Stewart Udall about Beautification; Lady Bird swims and has

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/25/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)

Lady Bird & Liz Carpenter to Boyhood Home in Johnson City; Lady Bird is recorded reading script; late lunch; Lady Bird records narrative to be used at the LBJ Birthplace; Lady Bird has tea for her restoration friends from Fredericksburg, TX; tours

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

talked to me, and the conversation was just about this . He said, "Alan, I've been hearing a lot and reading a lot about the Northeast Airlines case . As far as I'm concerned, I want good air service in New England and whatever you do to accomplish

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

to bed about midnight and got up the next morning and ate breakfast . The President invited us all to go to church . And after breakfast, I was sitting in the living room reading the paper, and the President said, "Alan, come in here . I want to show

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/30/1968 (Sunday) (Item)

LBJ & Lady Bird to National City Christian Church; read newspapers; Saul Pett interviews Lady Bird for article on LBJ; Johnsons watch Sunday news programs; lunch; Lady Bird bowls; guests arrive for dinner on the "Sequoia;" Lady Bird names guests

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/3/1966 () (Item)

LBJ and Lady Bird drive to Blanco to the Episcopal Church; lunch; Lady Bird and Mathilde Krim fly to Santa Fe, NM, to see brother, Tony Taylor; Lady Bird reads paper on urbanization; shopping at her brother's shop for home furnishings; Lady Bird

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/12/1966 (Tuesday) (Item)

; Lady Bird back to White House; wedding gift for Luci Johnson; funny story about 25 tourists as stand-ins; LBJ gives speech to American Alumni Council; talk with Luci and Pat Nugent about wedding; Lady Bird reads press stories about White House weddings

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: I have read that there was some friction with the highway people over the Highway Trust Fund, and possible plans to use that more broadly by the department . B: Is there anything to that? You have to refine your question, Dave . The answer

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/11/1968 (Thursday) (Item)

ecid ed the s im p le s t thing to do w ould be to p ile in c a r s and ju st take the rou te. On the w ay I saw r e a lly v e r y litt le ev id en ce of the burning and looting w e had read so m u ch about, although w e w e r e going through a p

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/19/1967 (Monday) (Item)

to Johnson City for flower harvesting; dinner with Luci & Pat Nugent and friends at Steak Island in Austin; Luci has encounters with the press; Lady Bird to bed and reading "Of Time and The River" by Thomas Wolfe

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/2/1967 (Monday) (Item)

Blvd.; Lady Bird makes note of renovations that are needed; back to Luci's; Lady Bird reads herself to sleep

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/8/1965 (Friday) (Item)

Lady Bird to LBJ's hospital room; vote on Highway Beautification Bill; Luci Johnson reads LBJ a poem and a prayer while LBJ kneels; LBJ to surgery;--removed gall bladder and kidney stone; Lady Bird talks to family and Billy Graham; LBJ returns from

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/7/1965 (Friday) (Item)

inside; Lady Bird gives speech; attends party at Anna Rosenberg Hoffman's; Lady Bird talks with Mr. Hoffman about Africa; discussion about LBJ and RFK relationship; toasts; back to Washington; Lady Bird talks about artwork for White House; Lady Bird reads

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/22/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)

Bird mentions guests; topics of conversation are jobs for the handicapped & anti-American sentiment in France; toasts; Lynda Johnson toasts to George Washington; Lady Bird visits; snowing; Lady Bird reads; San Antonio wins cleanest city award

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/24/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)

0:00-0:10 contains last segment of September 21, 1968, audio diary; 4:08, transcript should read "Voltaire's Candide." There are several missing and wrong words in the transcript.

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/23/1966 (Sunday) (Item)

Bird reads newspapers; White House telephones; Lady Bird takes nap; guests for dinner and watching Dean Rusk on tv through Telstar; Lady Bird talks with John Macy about LBJ Library and Thomas Mann about Latin America; talks with Lynda Luci Johnson

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/23/1965 (Friday) (Item)

, then reads Louis Auchinclass book, Brownstone Front; LBJ meets with foreign policy advisers about Vietnam; Poverty Bill passes; Adlai Stevenson; Arthur Schlesinger book

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/16/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)

; Lady Bird mentions many people at the fundraiser for the JFK Library; program of Frederick March reading JFK's favorite poetry; LBJ & Bobby Kennedy discuss Civil Rights Bill; Lynda Johnson is in Hawaii

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

if they'd really wanted to. But it was hard to read the corps. I am not as critical of the corps on this fee matter as most of my colleagues were. I think I understand their problem better and they had real problems. Mc Did you get opposition from

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/16/1967 (Thursday) (Item)

for Citizens Advisory Committee on Recreation and Natural Beauty where Lady Bird makes statement and helps Alan Boyd present awards; Laurance Rockefeller speaks; LBJ joins reception; LBJ swims; Lady Bird reads Elia Kazan's "The Arrangement"

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/9/1968 (Monday) (Item)

5:31, should read "Alan" and I had planned instead of "Sharon" and I.

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/17/1968 (Wednesday) (Item)

Bird & LBJ discuss statement; Lady Bird visits with guests before going to Capitol for State of the Union message; teleprompter malfunctions; LBJ does not read the "I will not run" statement; visit in Speaker's office; buffet dinner at White House

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/30/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)

NBC filming for Project Head Start; Actor Danny Kaye is there for Head Start ceremony; Lady Bird gives remarks for Head Start ceremony; Sargent Shriver reads a funny letter; praise for Luci Johnson from her boss, Dr. Kraskin; LBJ has luncheon

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh beautifully done . We sent ore to every member of Congress, to which I might add I'm convinced that 90 percent of those books were never read by anybody ; to look

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/18/1968 (Saturday) (Item)

Lady Bird is guest of Laurence & Mary Rockefeller; Lady Bird reads "The Hudson River" by Carl Carmer; Lady Bird & Rockefellers to Van Cortlandt Manor; to Sunnyside Estate, home of Washington Irving; lunch; presentation by Carl Carmer; actor tells

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/6/1966 (Saturday) (Item)

Luci's wedding day; Lynda sings "Get Me To The Church On Time;" cable from Jerry Nugent in Vietnam; Lady Bird describes her thoughts, decorations & the service; telegram read from the Pope; Luci stops to kiss parents and give roses to mothers