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- & 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
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16, 1960
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from you. Visiting with you and Mrs. White
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- Johnsons to church with the Hubert Humphreys; party for Bill White; Lady Bird reads "The Ordways;" LBJ meets with House and Senate leaders about Selma and voting rights; dinner with the Valentis and Harry McPherson
- Visit by Mayor Robert Wagner and sons; LBJ & Lady Bird to memorial service for Senator Clair Engle; lunch; Lady Bird reads "When the Cheering Stopped"; dinner with Anthony Celebrezze, Willard Wirtz, Dick Goodwin and their wives; Robert Wagner
- Senator Edward Kennedy's plane crash; Lady Bird calls Rose Kennedy, Birch Bayhs and Mrs. Edward Kennedy; telephone conversation with Lynda Johnson about security problem on her flight; office work; Lady Bird reads; walk around White House
- LBJ & Lady Bird have coffee; Lady Bird reads while LBJ telephones & watches television; Johnsons go for walk; tourists on Ranch Road 1; group of African-American children from St. Paul's School, 500 miles away, wait to sing for the Johnsons; LBJ
- ; late lunch; LBJ & Lady Bird take naps and read newspapers; LBJ goes for walk with Yuki and greets people outside the fence; Johnsons play bridge; helicopter back to the White House
- Lady Bird discusses rugs for White House; Voting Rights Message; seating arrangements at Capitol for speech; LBJ's experiences at Cotulla; Lady Bird reads Cotulla part of speech; response from Democrats vs. Republicans; back to White House to visit