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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, 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, 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