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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ; to Luci's home
  • Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
  • letter to grandmother at Hye Post Office; guests to boyhood home and LBJ Ranch for lunch; Gronouski on Poland and Red China; Johnsons & guests to Danz place--car is stuck in mud; Lady Bird takes nap & talks to daughters; foreign affairs
  • Lady Bird works on Christmas gifts; Lady Bird and LBJ lunch with Gordon Bunshaft, LBJ Library Architect; Johnsons and guests tour the Danz & Martin ranches and the boyhood home; LBJ reminisces about his boyhood; background of Cabinet members; all
  • Mrs. Cantinflas [Valentina Ivanova Zuvareff] dies; steel strike; Lady Bird dubs home movie of 1941 Senate campaign; White House maid finds rat in Luci Johnson's room; Lady Bird has lunch with Luci; new Chef for the White House; LBJ lunches and has
  • & inflation; Lady Bird to Austin with wedding gifts, bed & table for Luci; Lady Bird compares Luci's home with heads of state weddings gifts; Lady Bird to Scharnhorst & Orange ranches & then walks along river; to ranch for dinner; phone call with Luci
  • ; LBJ & Lady Bird to dinner for Secretary & Mrs. Dean Rusk at Averell Harriman home; Lady Bird one of 12 best dressed; Herb Block cartoon about Peter Hurd portrait; toasts; Rusk speaks of role of U.S. in world; LBJ praises Harrimans
  • Filming of Lady Bird in the den of the LBJ Ranch; invitations for meals at friends' homes; Billy Graham & Cliff Barrow to lunch; Johnsons meet Lynda Robb & Krim family at runway; filming in study; LBJ is filmed talking about the Texas Hill Country
  • g s ig n ab o v e th e B ase O p e r a tio n s t h a t s a i d , "Welcome Home, Mr. P r e s i d e n t and F a m ily ." Lyndon made a b r i e f s p e e c h e n d in g w ith h e hoped t h a t t h e c o u n tr y w ould b e a s u n d e r s ta n d in g
  • on Johnson City boyhood home; astronauts and wives to Paris Air Show; to State Department reception; astronaut wives borrow clothing from Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson; dinner with Governor Tom Dewey
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