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- as if
you'reeavesdroppingon history."
So finally we've hecked off the last thing on the list that there ·s time to do! I've
just walked down to sec the tiny little garden which we want to leave for White House
children and grandchildren of day· to come.
I like the way it's
- the American lune
"Danny Boy," for instance-delight
ed the audience, which soon gave up
resisting the urge to keep time.
Ms. Miller, a prize-winning clog
dancer, demonstrated the form which
she learned in Appalachia and per
fected on her own. She and husband
- sails on.'
Mrs. Johnson, Luci Baines Johnson, and long
time LBJ staffer and family friend, Mildred
Photo by Charles Bogel
Stegall.
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"As we celebrate the 95th birthday of Lyndon Baines John
son. those of us who knew him can reminiscence about him
- .· .\l,·i.
andcr
As•l•ssm
- . That was a
big advance; it was so nice he didn't bury alive with him
6,000 people and horses to commemorate his death and to
accompany him into the next life! That habit had existed
prior to his time. After him there was less burying concu
bines, soldiers
- a
peaceful resolution to some of the
conflicts raging around the world.
Some of the points in his address:
... There are more wars on earth now
than at any other time in history
more than 100 conflicts. almost three
dozen of which are major wars.
... Almost
- :
-Reduce the time span of Presidential primaries to a
period of eight weeks beginning no earlier than June l
-Group primaries by time zones, to cut down on the
frenetic travel of candidates and delay the early locking-up
of the nomination.
-Bring more
- compiled by Dr. Hurst
and his colleague, the late Dr. Jim
Cain of the Mayo Clinic, also a long
time friend of the Johnson family.
The book, titled, LBJ: To Know
Him Better, contains recollections of
Johnson by some 40 persons who
were associated with him
- llf him A scnil1r
offo:ial of the .Johnson adrrnn1,tration someone in h1 White
Haus~. satd tu me rec ntly that by the time John.on c..ime lll
office his predecessors had created such a myt or inv1m:1blc
communism that Johnson and his adviser-. could
- , of the Museum
Tour Department. The visitors were given
a behind-the-scenes preview of the 1920s
exhibit (,;ee page 4), which was under con
struction at the time, and materials for use
in their cla ooms
KathyScafe
Teachers register in the Great Hall
- of those interv1ew!>-involving
91 persons-were accomplished in the past year Most of the
interviews-962-are
available for research; 56 others have
been deeded over to the Library but they are not yet open for
research because of time restrictions. Th
- .
Like the time Robert Merrill, the great baritone from the Met
ropolitan pera. came to the White House to sing for the Prime
Mm1ster of Gr at Britain The day before the dinner my phone
rang and 1t was Walt Rostow. He said. "You can't be serious
You
- Congress, he said, is "bigger and busier. It's better educated and
more experienced. It is more ethical, regardless of what you read, and more
open. It is more democratic and more accessible. It is too accessible, I might
add, at times. It is more
- and Museum
Mrs. Johnson began to see how a presiden
tial library might dramatically portray the
decisions of a president and his effect upon his
times. The archives and displays should
represent a melding- "a melding of both
library and museum," she wrote
- back into
those y ars with startling immediacy.
And the Johnson Library has them.
Virtually every time the President
made formal remarks, a Communications
Agency crew was there with tape
recorders running. Those tapes, nearly a
thousand of them
- discovery
shocked the western world in the early
days of the cold war and who were the
subject of a recent book written by
him ....
. . . Nan Robertson (below), Pul
itzer-prize winning former reporter
for the New York Times, whose own
just-published book
- .
Driven by the necessity of earning money to upport his family.
Grant began to write magazine articles about his battles. and
found the work so satisfying that he decided to prepare his Mem
oirs. Almost at the same time. he began to feel the pain in his
- g t o n M o n u m e n t a n d on
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and I
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bad cold,
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ik e
one
l >Ai ng.
Ranch
mil l i o n t h
time in my life
- ; meeting with Harry Ransom & Frank Erwin about University of Texas, Wayne Grover & LBJ Library; first time LBJ has been guest at Luci's table; Pat Nugent coming home from Vietnam; Nugents will vacation in Formosa; Johnsons spend night at KTBC
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Broadway play; m y own m in ister B ill Baxter and his pretty young wife,
from St. M arks; M argaret Truman Daniel and her husband Clifton Daniel
o f the New Y ork T im e s; Abe F ortas and Woody and Mary Ellen Woodward.
This is the firs t time w
- to .
50-mmutl• doc:urnl•nlation of tl1c e entful
l.ifo of th compl ·, col rf 1 and
n
cern xi mnu who lived- ml !eel-through
htrbulent times.
"Hi· manner, they would di cover 'i\:l!i 11lw11 the sum -wh •thcr ii w:i~ . p cc, edu
cation, military
- ~
• llichnrd G. C.,•tst111 IK't~. Ch,11nn.111
aromi:d-h\ the is:.ucs of our times, :ind
of Ilic fioard 111 G1•11cmlMotors Corp:
tll the ( ii> \ 111\'CTSII)' or Ne,, York, nud
\\ ho would broaden the horimn~ of ()Ur
fonnu S, \'.l'Ctnn· o{ IIUJ) m lus kc, null
- Burnham
of the
University of Texas led off the morn
ing session, with Robert Strauss, for
mer Chairman of the Democratic
Party and one-time Ambassador to
the Soviet Union. The three joined in
agreeing that, overall, the political
culture in Washington
- in Perle's. apartment.
Jake Pickles, Lindy and Hale, Senator Ellender.
The Dale Millers, the
I circled the room, had
a drink, some light and pleasant talk and then left before I thought it was
time for them to go into dinner.
Dorothy McCardle
- house; Lady Bird to Wesley West Ranch for dinner; Lady Bird describes the night sky and imitates a bullfrog; Lady Bird reminisces about time at the West Ranch; possible donation to the LBJ Library; Lady Bird sleeps in car on way back to Luci's home
- or t h r e e more d r e s s e s , p o s s i b l y an e v e n in g
d ress.
I was i n no mood and t h i n k i n g o f th e b i l l s
t h a t had a l r e a d y mounted up. A nd th e n n e x t i t was
time t o s e e Max Brooks and Roy W h ite.
Max's b u
- HOUSE
WASHINGTON
fMonday, June Z:4; ~ 968
And presently Luci came in.
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She had been out to dinner.
She curled up
on the bed beside me and we had one of those long conversations which make
me jokingly tell her that she is a part time
- ; Abe Fortas' Supreme Court nomination; Lynda Robb tells stories about her family; New York Times interview on LBJ Library; tea with American Association of Nurserymen; reception for Junior Army Navy Guild Organization members; Clark Cliffords to dinner
- LBJ Library meeting; office work; two-hour interview with Henry Branden of the London Sunday Times; lunch; Lady Bird to Shady Grove Music Theatre; Laurance Rockefeller and Project Trailblazers; Lady Bird greets cast of "King Arthur" & gives short
- riedm ans
an d t h e Jack G oulds who h a d w r i t t e n a
m a rv e lo u s r e v i e w o f my ABC s h ow.
The John Pom f r e t s
o f t h e New York T im es; th e John S t e e l e s o f Time a n d
L i f e a n d t h e L u c ie n W arren s o f B u f f
-
Kennedy walked into his office, the first time after John Kennedy 1 s death.
It was Lyndon that suggested that we see Guess Who's Corning to Dinner,
and we all went out to the hangar which is completed now, for showing movies, .
and very nice, except
