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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/1/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird views January & March 1968 films at Anacostia Naval Film Lab; Lady Bird & Lynda Robb shop for Chuck Robb's birthday; LBJ lunches with Mayor Richard J. Daley; Daley wants the Johnsons to attend Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/5/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/4/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • & 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/21/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • ; 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.
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/12/1967 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Johnsons are at Bassett House, a John D. Rockefeller III home; Johnsons to Bruton Parish Episcopal Church; anti-Vietnam sermon; LBJ, Chuck Robb & Jake Pickle play golf; Lady Bird goes for drive around Williamsburg and has tour of Carter's Grove
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/8/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • ; lunch in China Room; new Tiffany wildflower china for Johnson administration; tea for American Federation of the Arts; viewing film, "Paintings of the White House;" party at Sulgrave Club for Lynda Johnson & Charles Robb; Charles Robb & Tom Clark toast
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/16/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • ; Lady Bird meets LBJ at hangar; park meeting continues at the LBJ Birthplace; to LBJ Ranch house; Johnsons, Lynda & Chuck Robb and the Krims drive the Lewis place; Robert Kennedy announces run for President; "Guess Who's Coming for Dinner?" movie shown
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/15/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)
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