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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/17/1965 (Thursday) (Item)
  • ilie s , w iv e s and ch ild ren , to spend the night at the W hite H o u se. We had su ch a fr ie n d ly , n ic e tim e w ith th em in H ouston, and th ey had s e e m e d e a g e r at- the p r o s p e ct o f com ing to the W hite H ouse.- -He sa id
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/17/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Creole shrimp, plus party food. The guests left about 11:30, and Lyndon went to night reading, and I to bed with my current book. I was delighted that he had told Herman Jones that he wanted to appoint Bess to the first vacancy on the Committee
  • Bird reminisces about reading "Peter Rabbit" to daughters; Spanish lesson; Military Reception; Baroness Maria Von Trapp is guest & she wants to take "Sound of Music" to Vietnam for servicemen; dinner upstairs with guests; Committee on Retardation
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/2/1967 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Show; tea with the Bill Livingstons; tea with houseguests; late night due to House vote; 8th Congressional reception; men receive briefing while women have program from Presidential descendants; dinner; Johnsons to Texas; Lady Bird sleeps & reads
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/27/1966 (Saturday) (Item)
  • d slaw a n d hot hom em ade b read . A nd th e n a n g e l food cak e a n d h o m e m a d e p e a c h i c e c r e a m , a n d a w o n d e rfu l c h o c o la te cak e th a t M a ria lle n h ad b ro u g h t w ith L y n d o n 's b ra n d on i t
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/5/1966 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • nap; news story about Pat Nugent; Lady Bird is interviewed by New York Times about art; Willard Deasons and Emmet Riordans for dinner and to pick out one of Him's beagle puppies; Lady Bird reads "Guns of August"
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, 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/10/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • 05:55, this should read "Nkrumah"