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- —I congratulated them on Jimmy's being in the
House, and Loraine McGee, very tan, without Gale, who's o ff making a
speech.
And from the Court, there were our life-long friends, Abe
and Carol, and B ill Douglas and Cathy—and I must confess looking
- 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
- Lady Bird has hair styled & makeup done; filming of ABC's Howard K. Smith interview; phone call from Muriel Humphrey about Mike Douglas show; Lady Bird has lunch with the Bill Hayes family; visit with Lynda Robb; nap; work on Chad state dinner
- MEMORANDUM
c
T HE W H I T E HOUSE
WAS H I N GTON
Tuesday, M a r c h 3, 1964
This m orning about 11,- Katie L ochheim came fo r a cup of co ffee , bringing
o/
a bound copy of the L a d ies Home Journal^ with her a r t ic le about m e.
It’ s
r e
- Lady Bird has coffee with Kate Louchheim about Ladies Home Journal article; joined by Doris O'Donnell; Lady Bird poses for Vogue magazine photos; fourth Congressional reception; Lynda Johnson as Azalea Festival queen; Luci or Lynda Johnson as queen
- . So I
heartily enjoyed Diana's refreslunerits, went home a little past 7: 00 for the
walk slowly through the first floor of the White House. Already, the wedding
f
is confined to history.
A 16-foot spruce tree -- beautifully shaped -- went up today
- 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
- 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
- Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
- LBJ and Lady Bird talk about many subjects; LBJ Library; Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; LBJ returns to White House; Lady Bird entertains family; photographs taken outside the house; Lady Bird takes walk to birthplace home; visit
- s i d e t h e p o i n t .
And t h e n t o t h e b e a u t y
p a r l o r an d t h e n t o work w i t h Ka n d i
in t r a n s f o r m i n g
some o f my e a s t e r n f a b r i c s i n t o ha n d so m e "a t home"
c l o t h e s f o r s m a l l d i n
- Lady Bird meets with James Fosburgh about art for the White House; LBJ presents Distinguished Service Medal to General Curtis LeMay; Lady Bird adds oral commentary to home movies; Lady Bird lunches with LBJ and his staff; Lynda Johnson's trip
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house, at times of ordinary duty and probably at times of outrageous
inconvenience to them—besides a never ending general public, my own
groups of friends from home, or friends from the campaign t r a i l , or
from my trip s , or my Alabama cousins, a ll
- 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
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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
- ; Lady Bird travels to Jane Engelhard's home; tea on terrace; tour of the Engelhard home; dinner party; Lady Bird names guests; LBJ sends telegram to Engelhards thanking them for being so nice to Lady Bird; toasts; dancing; security concerns; Brick House
- ; to Luci's home
- Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
- Surprise birthday party for Ashton Gonella at Patsy Chaney's home; beautification meeting, with LBJ joining to give inspiring talk; LBJ reminisces about NYA highway parks in 1936; Johnsons meet Prince Juan Carlos & Princess Sophia of Spain; Lady
- v e enough sp a rk le and v ita lity to k eep th in gs going and sen d people
home fe e lin g r e a lly e x c ite d that th ey had b een to a g rea t W hite H ouse p arty .
- LBJ and Lady Bird have breakfast and go for walk; new wrought iron gate at family cemetery; meeting about landscape design for ranch; Lady Bird lunches with LBJ and others; LBJ's weight loss; renovation of Johnson home in Johnson City; Lady Bird
- 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
- and Roy White about the LBJ Library; LBJ and Lady Bird have dinner at Bill White's home; guests discuss Richard Russell; LBJ talks of Democratic National Committee problems; article about White House art
- Poor weather delays flight to East Texas; Lady Bird answers questions from reporters in Shreveport, LA; drive to Dorris Powell's home in Karnack; new Karnack post office made with bricks from T.J. Taylor's general store; meeting about landscaping
- & 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
- Bird has photos taken; plight of the cities; meeting with Erv Duggan; meeting on Boyhood Home & LBJ's Birthplace; Lady Bird bowls with houseguests; Lady Bird walks South Grounds; dinner with LBJ; massage; retires for night
- Meeting of Home Economists; Lady Bird meets two of LBJ's college classmates
- Lynda Johnson's request for White House job; to Scharnhorst Ranch with LBJ; LBJ's run for Presidency; lunch with Roy White & Weezie Deathe; LBJ's boyhood home renovation; meeting with LBJ Ranch staff; Johnson homestead in Johnson City; helicopter
- 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
- L y n d a a n d G e o r g e h a d b e e n w i t h m e.
a l s o g oo d t h e a t r e .
I k n ow ,
I t w as
B a c k a t home I f o u n d th e m u p i n
t h e S o la r iu m b a r r e d fro m L u c i a few days I h o p e
sat
And
down f o r a l o n g
- LBJ & Lady Bird attend church at St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church; LBJ & Lady Bird visit Percy Brigham at Blanco Nursing Home; Johnsons visit Johnson City bank, ranches, and the Hartman house, LBJ's poverty project; Late lunch; visit
- Lady Bird goes to hair salon and then meets Lynda Johnson at Boyhood Home; tree planting ceremony at Johnson City; Lady Bird mentions where Rebekah Baines and Sam Johnson met; Lynda Johnson's magazine article on "See America;" park is donated
- 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
- e n Ly ndon began t o t a l k ,
qui e t l y , low key , g e n tle h i ^ a c t.
^ t woA good a n d 9- wo a
pAoud o^ him.
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And tn e n -it ujcla t i me. to go home and eve.Agbodg. began t o
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dr i f t away ~ - l t wo.a abaul 11: 00
