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  • Press relations
  • Johnsons and McNamaras go horseback riding to Martin and Danz ranches; press statement on Vietnam at LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird, the press and cookies; possible postponement of visits from Ayub Khan, Pakistan, and Shashtri, India; Lady Bird has lunch
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  • work; lunch; nap; Lady Bird & Lynda have their hair done; snow causes cancellations for Arts Council party; select guests to Yellow Oval Room; Lady Bird mentions guests & press; Lady Bird introduces Gregory Peck who introduces entertainment
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  • LBJ has a fever; Lady Bird and Liz Carpenter work on beautification; lunch and discussion about presidential libraries; Lady Bird meets with Bess Abell; LBJ has press conference; representatives chosen for Churchill funeral; Nicholas Katzenbach
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  • Lyn Nugent's first birthday; LBJ & Lady Bird have breakfast; desk work; Lady Bird swims 30 laps; Lady Bird to Council on Recreation and Natural Beauty meeting; press conference & photos with Lyn Nugent in the Rose Garden; visit with Andre Meyer
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  • 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
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  • Lady Bird with brother, Tony Taylor; press invited to breakfast; Lady Bird describes Tony's garden; to San Il defonso Indian pueblo; visit to pottery studio of Maria Montez & Popovi Da; to Sangre de Cristo mountains; goodbye to Taylors; lunch
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  • Memorial Hall; Lady Bird sees Jack Valenti; Lady Bird gives speech on the environment; receiving line; small party at President Brewster's home; Lady Bird said there was poor press coverage
  • ; 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
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  • to hospital; Lady Bird tries to contact Chuck Robb in Vietnam; Lady Bird calls Chuck's parents; Lynda Robb gives birth to baby girl; Lady Bird calls General Lewis Walt to get message to Chuck; LBJ, Lady Bird & Luci hand out cigars & candy to press
  • Christening at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church for Luci Nugent's baby; Lynda Johnson is proxy Godmother; lunch; to funeral of Mrs. Wright Patman in Texarkana; visit with Gordon Fulcher; to Karnack with press; helicopter lands at Dorris Powell's
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  • Lady Bird has an overwhelming day; afternoon tea for 3600 Democratic women; LBJ has breakfast meeting in bed; Lady Bird does desk work and has hair done; Women Doers about Head Start; Beautification project in Memphis; Lady Bird quotes press; Lady
  • is p r e tty y o u n g w ife a n d gentle Larry Temple with Lu Ann, and young Bill Blackburn, and Lyndon's Press Secretary George Christian, whom I never s e e a n y m o r e w ith o u t th in k in g o f th a t lu d ic r o u s n ic k n a m e h e h a s r
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  • 05:29-10:30 - variable speeds distort Lady Bird Johnson's voice; 09:44 - wrong sentence: "rather than the caricature painted of him of bombast and bafoonery" by some of the press
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  • Lady Bird & staff tour Lombard St., Ghirardelli Square, Fisherman's Wharf, and they ride cable car back to hotel; Lady Bird tells press about their touring; to the airport; beautification programs in California; flight to Monterey & Colton Hall
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