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  • ; exchange of State gifts; receiving line; Lady Bird mentions many guests; LBJ's toast about our form of government; Sir Alec Douglas-Home's toast about Cuba; the "Strolling Strings" and dancing
  • born, sir; I was about four years old. W: Well, you don't know how hard it was to make a living. money. Nobody had any The bank closing certainly didn't affect me, I didn't have an account anyway. Most people didn't. Most of them were like Lyndon
  • and 20, 1977 INTERVIEWEE: Mrs. Jane Englehard INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Engelhard's home, Cragwood, Far Hills, New Jersey Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your parents, first of all. Your father was a Brazil- ian diplomat. E
  • and would have the Johnsons. As I recall, the President first invited me to their home in 1957. I don't have a diary invited to dinner with Mary the first time. SQ I can't pinpoint the r~argaret year~ but I was and was very excited about going
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 23 home and he repeated the same story to his daughter, a sixteen­ year-old, telling
  • Lady Bird explores New Zealand's Governor General's home; Sir Bernard and Lady Ferguson show Lady Bird the grounds; exchange of gifts; morning with Mrs. Holyoke and Mrs. Powell; Lady Bird describes flowers; ride in cable car; motorcade to Civic
  • DISCUSSION OF 4:30 SPEECHES AT LABOR LEADERS DINNER TONIGHT BY HELLER, WILLIAM MCCHESNEY MARTIN, WILLARD WIRTZ, DOUGLAS DILLON ON BALANCE OF PAYMENTS, INTEREST RATES; LBJ JOKES TO WH PRESS CORPS ABOUT GOING FOR A WALK
  • LBJ JOKES ABOUT HIS LANDSLIDE; CANDIDATES FOR WISCONSIN, TEXAS, MISSISSIPPI CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS; OPPOSITION TO DAVID RABINOVITZ; JOHN REYNOLDS; JAMES DOYLE; BEN CONNALLY; LEON JAWORSKI; DOUGLAS WYNN; CLAUDE CLAYTON; JOHN CROOKER; DUB
  • LBJ ASKS ABOUT APPOINTMENT OF HENRY MCGEE AS ACTING POSTMASTER IN CHICAGO; O'BRIEN SAYS PAUL DOUGLAS, RICHARD DALEY, DEMOCRATIC AND POST OFFICE OFFICIALS RECOMMENDED MCGEE WHO IS A NEGRO; LBJ ASKS O'BRIEN TO GET DIRKSEN'S VOTE ON HOUSING BILL
  • LBJ READS LIST OF CONGRESSMEN WHO HAVE NOT YET SIGNED WASHINGTON, DC HOME RULE DISCHARGE PETITION, DISCUSSES POTENTIAL SIGNERS; LBJ TEASES O'BRIEN ABOUT HIS APPEARANCE AT CONFIRMATION HEARING FOR HIS APPOINTMENT AS POSTMASTER GENERAL
  • Johnson family and friends to St. Barnabas Church; press corps is invited in for refreshments; LBJ's plane takes Cantinflas and his sick wife to Temple to hospital; lunch with Senator and Mrs. Paul Douglas; Senator Douglas reminisces about 1960
  • us, and Lucy Baines an d in the car with us Bob Waldron and the H arry McPhersons. There w ere long, long lines of solemn, respectful people, all along the hill in Robert E. Lee’s home as we wound up to the gravesite. The gravesite was covered
  • to bring Senator Everett Dirksen to Walter Reed Hospital; nap; dinner with the C. Douglas Dillons
  • LBJ's network television interview about "the first hundred days" with Eric Sevariad, Douglas Brinkley and William Lawrence; Luci Johnson returns from New York shopping trip; Lady Bird, Lynda Johnson, Warrie Lynn Smith & Jesse Kellam watch
  • Gahagan Douglas to c o m e fr o m the banquet the night b e f o r e spend the night with us. He had supplied w ith h e r, a p p a re n tly , with m y night gown and robe and th ere she w as on the third flo o r. So, at b r e a k fa s t, I c a lle d h e
  • ; Cuban missile crisis; Congressional briefing; dance; swimming with the Thornberrys and the Pickles; overnight stay by Helen Gahagan Douglas
  • erien ce a t Roy a l t y ^ ^ ^ Lu ci a r r iv e d fiv e minutes ahead o f schedule - Oh! Surpr i s e fo r m e ! - thi s m orning, at the im posing white columned b r ic k home of State Senator H a r r y Byrd. The f i r s t big event o f the day
  • . But we first went to Africa. aide on that trip. I went along. 8ill Moyers was sort of the presidential 1.4e came back through Paris. He vrent to Geneva, and then to Paris, when he had some NATO exercises to do; then we went on home. That vIas our
  • LBJ and Lady Bird to St. Paul's in the Desert church; lunch at Taubman home with friends; visit with the Taubmans; Air Force One to Washington; Lady Bird on Virginia Rusk;; greeted on White House lawn by beagles, Him and Her; greeted in White House
  • ,, JLa>it u^ed ^ o a ua w a s b ein g fra m ed a n d h u n g in th e o fficer's clu b . on ouA ret urn home Friday January 32, 1969 (' gp3 ea L o ts o f p eo p le sp o k e to m e in a ^Ax&n.
  • real happy that we'd come. There were two young Rowes home, Clarissa and young Jim, and B ill Bundy and their son, who is studying government at Harvard under [Richard] Neustadt, and Mrs. Stroud [? ]. Lyndon was in a mellow mood, amusing, jovial
  • I didn't think he was serious, I didn't think he had a chance. Billy Wilder said, "Not only does he have a chance, it looks like he's going to win." I went home and I thought about it and I thought, "Well, now's the time; if you ever want
  • Bird taking home movies; back to Schornhorst; Okamoto takes photos for Beautification Committee; boating at the Haywood Ranch; helicopter to West Ranch for dinner
  • Bird to movie theater to view clips of her home movies for a documentary; answers letters about "speeding, beer and dogs"; LBJ and Lady Bird to dinner at David Brinkleys
  • hing tl ·';·, in their sock feet, so to sp ea k, and talked about the old J o hn.son home and the use s it might be put to, that t he commu;.i l y might get s o me g
  • e c e n t ram b u n ctio u s b e h a v io r ." And th e n v e ry q u ic k ly we w ere o f f - - to a warm o v a tio n — and h e g a th e re d up George C h r is tia n and L iz and th e y ro d e home w ith u s i n th e b ig b la c k c a r — to th e
  • Visit from Tony and Matiana Taylor; trip to the LBJ birthplace home; trip to Johnson City to Sam Johnson House with discussion on landscaping; city park for Johnson City; Johnson family gift of trees for Johnson City; lunch at the LBJ Ranch
  • , [and] had her, and he and Mrs. Johnson arrange that wedding. story white house in Austin. that wedding. He said that Mrs. Johnson would handle the It was in the Johnson home, that old twoAnd they handled every arrangement for They got the preacher
  • the F ood and Home Fair Jane for Con­ and O r v ille Freeman were out in fro n t waiting for me and E s t h e r Petersen I to o k my stand on a l i t t l e and M r s . J o h n L . Lee. platform and said my few words, based on the very true fact
  • Head of State visit of King Hussein I of Jordan; Lady Bird to USDA for Food and Home Fair for Consumers; Lady Bird meets "Smoky the Bear;" Lady Bird to Senate Ladies Red Cross Luncheon; State dinner for King Hussein I; exchange of gifts
  • , "If you intend to ever go home to Texas, do it within two years or you'll never go back." He said, "I planned to come for a couple of years and I've been here"--I think he'd been there forty-something years at the time. He was a very special person
  • Lady Bird has breakfast with National Park Service staff, then to Hightower property to mark trees and make decisions on national park; Lady Bird describes LBJ; Lady Bird visits Boyhood Home and old fort with Roy White; lunch; meeting with Roy White
  • , and d r o v e to th e ir home and th en h e lic o p t e r e d to th e 7 /5 /6 4 - page 5 ran ch . So ended the third p e rfe c t day. Lynda B ird had gone on to C hurch in F re d e ric k sb u rg - - the Catholic Church - - with Dave, and then had
  • Lady Bird rises early and drives to LBJ Boyhood Home; LBJ gives speech on Middle East; Lady Bird & Neva West decorate the LBJ Ranch house; lunch; Lady Bird to Bailey House at Reagan Ranch to hang paintings and decorate; Lady Bird & Dale Malechek
  • Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
  • home; drive around town, Caddo State Park and to Lady Bird's childhood home, the "Brick House;" tour by Ruth Taylor; photos for press; helicopter back to LBJ Ranch; funny story about Ashton Gonella in Shreveport airport; Johnsons and guests to West
  • Lady Bird drives alone to St Barnabas Episcopal Church; long meeting with Roy White about renovations to LBJ Ranch home; lunch; Lady Bird has hair styled; Lady Bird & Luci, Pat & Lynn Nugent fly to Amarillo; Joe Batson takes them to Neil Johnson
  • f a c e to f a c e in t h e i r home t o w n s , .. Of Dime Box, T e x a s , or D o la n d , S ou th D ak ota . I lo o k ed fo r a f a m ilia r f a c e . And i t was a l o n g way b a ck b e f o r e I began t o f i n d them , A. W. w i t h e a r
  • on plane; Lady Bird says goodbye on intercom to fellow travelers in Austin; to LBJ Ranch; party for hostesses of LBJ birthplace & boyhood home; Lady Bird, LBJ & John Connally speak to group; Lady Bird gives awards; appointments to State Department
  • Tony Taylor home
  • ; to Luci's home
  • Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
  • Lady Bird rides through New England countryside to Shaker Village near Pittsfield, MA; stop for lunch at roadside park; to home of Yale President Brewster in New Haven, CT; Lady Bird is greeted by anti-war protestors; Lady Bird rests; to Yale's War
  • 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
  • Laurence Rockefeller home, Tarrytown, New York
  • Thanksgiving Day; Johnsons to St. Barnabas Episcopal Church; press invited for coffee, cookies & photographs; family photos taken at LBJ Birthplace & LBJ Boyhood Home; Luci to University of Texas football game; LBJ teaches Lyn Nugent to dance; LBJ