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  • , Massachusetts Crowdus Baker, Chicago, Illinois (Pres. Sears Roebuck and Co.) J. L. Beesley, Senior Vice President, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, New York, N. Y. Kenneth W. Bilby, Executive Vice President, Radio Corporation of America New
  • President's Daily Diary
  • ••• a natural instinct to want to discover what lies over the next mountain • • • what's happening beyond the next state boundary. Our new cross-country d.iltural renaissance has simply made getting to know our American neighbors even more tempting
  • Motor Co. &t Mrs. Max Freedman Chicago Daily News &: M rs. Robert F. Goheen President & Mrs. Leonard H. Goldenaon President • Nathaniel Greenblatt V Mr. George Hamilton / v41 r. & Mrs. Ralph Harris Reuters Lucy B.a ines Johnson iss Lynda Bird Johnson
  • Chicago , Illinois r • Robe rt Pierpoint CBS, Wa hington, D. C . S Hrs lfario Mareno Reyes a\stu n ■ azUuA.a1e:, 1,e11iee,C:iCiiy, J hnhe v r. John D. Rock f ller, IV a hington, D. C. r. r • Laurance S . Rockefeller V New Yor , New York r • :ymond L
  • Nancy White ,,-. Editor, Harper 1 s Bazaar 7 / Mr. Sydney Wragge j B. H. Wragge Clothes Corp., NYC i Mrs. Peg Zwecker \ Chicago Daily News Mrs. Ruth Whitney ..... ,...,.; ........ T:"' .-J.!..t.-- , . . , _ _ _ ,......, .. _ l\Jf-"'\~ L:ll. [6 of 6
  • Wayman Francis Miller New York Tim, s .. Goorae Tames TIME ..- Wally Bennet LOO!< - Stan Trettick Ncwsweh.k - Phil MacMullen Sutm.·day Evenin1 Dlack ftar - Fred ,Yard AFP • Arnold U. s. Post .. Ollie Atklns • Sachs Ne\-.is & World Hepo:rt
  • , Massachusetts Mr. Robert.-E. Bennett Bronze-swimming; Long Beach, California Mr. Isaac Berger Silver-weightlifting ; Brooklyn, New York Mr. William B. Bentsen Bronze-yachting, Beloit, Wisconsin Mr. J. Lyman Bingham Exec. Dir., U.S. Olympic Committee Mr. Ralpb-H
  • . l{_Dr. Martin D. Jenkins Pres., Morgan State College, Baltimore, Md. Mr. John H. Johnson Pres, , Johnson Pub. Co., Inc., Chicago, Ill. Francis R. Lara · Agence France ·Presse, Wash., D. C. Dr. Arthur Logan Surgeon, New York, N. Y. t
  • New York
  • with Mayor Daley of Chicago, et al; LBJ meets with Dean Rusk about Gulf of Tonkin situation
  • Syracuse, New York
  • ra ry . We w e r e going to,-^ ^ ^ rticu larly,ytelk about film in g a State D inner, w h ich D r. Stanton m ig h t do, fo r the L ib ra ry only, not for CBS u s e . But today ,/t h e p ic tu r e s took a sin g u la rly new tumy^isft. im p e r a tiv e
  • LBJ gives speech to National Association of Broadcasters in Chicago; LBJ Library meeting; responses to LBJ's March 31 speech; Lady Bird visits with her daughters; second LBJ Library meeting; office work; swearing-in ceremony of Angie Biddle Duke
  • . conversation, And h a d a n t h o l o g y --"Chicago Rugged, white it c ompletely un- r a t h e r lik e He h a d n 't hea rd about l i t t le hard I h a d h a d b ro ught He was shaggy h a i r e d , almost in a dutch b o b . t>¥tainT3 l e d in his
  • to th e o t h e r so fa a n d c h a tte d w ith the w ife of the A m b a s s a d o r f r o m P a r a g u a y . W e t a l k e d of G e n e r a l S t r e s n o r s v i s i t . A nd w ith d iffic u lty to th e new A m b a s s a d o r 's w ife f r o m
  • Lady Bird views January & March 1968 films at Anacostia Naval Film Lab; Lady Bird & Lynda Robb shop for Chuck Robb's birthday; LBJ lunches with Mayor Richard J. Daley; Daley wants the Johnsons to attend Democratic National Convention in Chicago
  • o u t V e r n a , a n d S e n a to r a n d M r s . K a r l M undt. d e c lin e d . I o b s e r v e d th a t the R o b e r t K en n ed y s M r s . K ennedy is aw ay . T h e r e w e r e tw o G o v e r n o rs : R ic h a r d H ughes of New J e r s e
  • Mr. and Mrs. Horace Gioia 398 Beresford Rochester, New York r Mr. and Mrs. Gerald G. Wilmont 50 Sunset Boulevard Pittsford, New York Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fago 880 Le Brun Road Eggertsville, New York Mr. and Mrs. Leo Spezio 21 Orchard Park Blvd
  • on t h e i r way to New York and I had asked them to stop by Monday, January 1 3 , 1969 Page 2 f the White House and spend the night. We talked of Alabama and kinfolks and then I dispatched them on a to u r and joined a second group, Alice Brown
  • ; Lady Bird reminisces about coming to the White House in 1963; reception in Blue Room for the Democratic National Committee; the Johnsons fly to New York City to the Pierre Hotel; dinner party for 450 at Plaza Hotel
  • Transcript of Mrs. Johnson’s Audio Diary Prepared by Staff of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum December 9, 1963 Monday, December ninth. Mary Lasker had come down from New York last night and spent the night with us in the Queen’s Room
  • ■I' 1965 T h u r sd a y , A u g u st 12th . W as lik e a cam p aign d ay. I had w anted to spend at le a s t one day s e e in g PR O JEC T HEADSTART in o p era tio n . We ch o se New J e r s e y b e c a u s e it w as c lo s e and I could s e
  • New Jersey
  • Lady Bird visits Project Head Start in Newark and Lambertville, New Jersey; airplane filled with press; press conference in the classroom; Lady Bird to Governor's mansion; Lady Bird makes speech in Morven; Lady Bird is interviewed on plane by Los
  • New Jersey
  • husband had been a Senator from - was it New Y ork , or New Hampshire ~ but now we know her as the w rite r of many books, particula r ly about New Orlean s and L ou isiana, Baroness S ilvercru ys, the lo v ely R osem ary with whom I occasionaly get
  • of the C a r ly le . -ylew He R a n te d to talk b e a u tific a tio n w ith m e, and p a rtic u la rly to te ll m e about h is own p ro je c t. S te rlin g G a rd e n s, a la rg e tr a c t of fo r e s t land, only an h o u r's d riv e fro m New Y ork C
  • New York
  • New York City
  • and B e s s , and we w ent to u r is t on re g u la r a ir lin e , w hich se e m e d to be a fa c t of c o n sid e ra b le i n te r e s t to the new sm en , a r riv in g in New Y ork, th e re w as a s m a ll c lu s te r of p h o to g ra p h e rs
  • Touring Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Lady Bird's description of several paintings considered for loan to White House; to Whitney Museum to view additional paintings; lunch at Mary Lasker's house; to theater to see Arthur Miller's "After
  • and spicy. She was accompanied by a phalanx of relatives, the Burton Bosseys, Alexander, a grandson, and Antoni Shoumatoff, a granddaughter, and her son, Nicholas and his wife. I t was a good day for cupid with Betty Beale there and her new fiance, whom
  • to a I t 's a w onderful w ay to w elcom e the New Y e a r, w ith m y own d e a r fa m ily , people th a t I love. It m ak e s th is the b ig g e st. We looked out o v e r the c o u n try th a t I love. The r u s s e t glow of the su n s e t o v e r
  • m en tion ed J a c k ie ’ s hope fo r new d r a p e s and new c h a ir s i n the State Dining R o o m , but she fe e l s that ad d itio n s w ill co m e , not fro m m a jo r g if t s , but fro m the s a le of the guide book. And sh e w arn ed m e
  • National Committee, and were in the mailing department. Now that the campaign is over they may have other jobs new, but I feel sure the personnel officer at committee can tell you how to locate them -- or Cliff Carter's office can run them down for you
  • described the new process and how i t had become the very popular thing today. He spoke casually, authoritatively, of other Administrations, whole decades of them. strong Republican. Obviously he was a very I think we had between the three of us a sense
  • Breakfast; desk work; swimming; hair salon; new china for the White House; luncheon with Walter Hoving, Chairman of Tiffany's; photos in State Dining Room with White House Tour Office; tea for Independent Agency wives; Lady Bird records diary; talk
  • ,-^of t r a v e lin g in the f o o t s t e p s of M r s . K en n edy, in a w ay , that is^ w o rk on A r t m a t t e r s , I fle w up to New Y o r k a t 11 and went to the New Y o r k H i s t o r i c a l S o c ie t y , w h e re I w a s m e t b y D r . H e
  • Lady Bird's trip to New York Historical Society to see a Rembrandt Peale portrait of Thomas Jefferson for the White House; Audubon exhibit; lunch at James Fosburgh's home; Winslow-Homer painting for White House; Fine Arts Committee; Vincent Price
  • that M ary L a sk er is going to g iv e m e fo r m y b irth d a y . 'D o ris and I talked about the p o s s ib ility of m y con tribu tin g the planting to the new P o s t O ffice that is to go up in K ck arn in a c a ll to B rook e A s to r . She i s v
  • ~~-quite the flare of a State Dinner. ' . . ¥1 ~ ' cAt my table I had the pxa:x1u1k President, the Ambassador, T£~J.are , Virginia, Frank Pace who had been my host when I had been given an award in New York last December. It was so good to get
  • a lly , attack on the m a s s iv e problem b e fo r e her,-. We had a rranged to m e e t he r in New Y o rk , we liked her; I«d asked her to come down and be our speaker fo r this luncheon. • 9' F ro m the Cabinet,/! had M a rg ie M cN a m a ra , because
  • . __~~✓------------ ------------------------- Regret R eason (Daie) the invitation for on at_ _ _""' i:___,,~ P~W ~:..._-• per ~ . Regret Reason_k /~ ~ ~ ~ ~OML~~ e. ~ · ~~~ $_~~~~A/ ~~~ 7v~ {U 1 I ~ ¥ • IJ I 1( !i~-1' ~ 729 SEVENTH AVE. NEW YORK TELEPHONE CIRCLE 5 - 6000
  • r i v e d a t the White H o u se a little l a t e , h u r r i e d into m y b e a u t ifu l / i\ new y e llo w d r e s s , ( b y G a l a n o s !) , but s t i l l w a s a litt le l a t e w alk in g to the E a s t R o o m fo r the fo u r o ’ c l o c k r
  • before the mad rush to leave, the la te -August fever, set in. P ro sp ect's not good, but w e'll try . After all, it took 20 years for M edicare. Th n e I had a look at Lynda B ird's new clothes. She takes - to heart too much this idea of economy
  • MEMORANDUM TH E W H IT E HOUSE W A S H I N G T O N f Wednesday, A p r i l 22, 1964 t. >> vX-O Lyndon w h irled o ff in the h elico p ter this morning, on his way to open the W o r ld ’ s F a ir in New Y o rk . I spent the morning doing desk w
  • LBJ to World's Fair in New York; reception for leaders of Daughters of the American Revolution with descriptions of attendees by Lady Bird; LBJ's ancestor was founding member of DAR, Mary Desha; Lady Bird looks at samples for Luci's room; Lady Bird
  • of flo w ers. And then I went upstairs fo r the nagging troubles of the day, that is, to listen to a tape of a news conference which two Republican C ongres smen had had, a fter they had made a v is it to m y tenants in Autauga County, c a r r y ing
  • was the head man, and his assistant Dr. Manigan, and the nice head of all the nurses, Mrs. Jenkins. They took us in, and we went from floor-to-floor, and I noticed, over my shoulders, the faces of so many familiar Washington news girls. I missed them. I like
  • MEMORANDUM THE W H I TE HOUSE WASHINOTON M onday, M a rch 30, 1964 An e a r ly c a ll fro m B e s s ^ had the am azing news that there was a six inch snow in Washington and it was s till snowing. - T h e r e fo r e the egg r o ll was out
  • u d so n i s g o i n g th ro u g h th a t c r u e l l y l o n e l y t i m e o f b e i n g a new w id o w . When t h — e y And t h e n when L yndon l e f t I w o r k e d o n my c l o t h e s came i n w i t h S e c r e t a r y R u s k a n d f o
  • Lady Bird sleeps late; Lady Bird mentions her houseguests; Lady Bird works on clothing for New York trip; Lady Bird lunches with LBJ and staff members; President Kennedy's appointment of Averell Harriman at State Department; Lady Bird has tea
  • ro u n d s of P r i m e M i n i s t e r a n d M r s . H o ly o ak e of New Z e a la n d . It i s a lw a y s a s p e c i a l a n tic ip a tio n w hen the g u e s t i s s o m e o n e I have m et b efo re. And I h a d s p e n t a p a r t of th is m o r
  • Arrival ceremony for Prime Minister & Mrs. Holyoake, New Zealand; Lady Bird names guests; Leon Uris offers manuscripts to LBJ Library; Lady Bird has remarks about Lyn Nugent; lunch; recording diary; visit with Lynda Robb, Luci & Lyn Nugent; massage
  • h a d c o n d u c te d th a t o n e - d a y to u r th ro u g h the old 10th D i s t r i c t to s e e g r a s s r o o ts u rb a n ren ew al and T exas re s to ra tio n s . M rs. E. T . X im e n e s of San A ntonio. And D r . a n d H e 's a new R e
  • guests visit upstairs & receiving line; Lady Bird mentions guests; exchange of toasts; new strain of wheat for underdeveloped countries; entertainment is Herb Albert & Tijuana Brass introduced by Lynda Johnson; former Mexico President Mateos in coma
  • d as an antique T h ere re an^old fra m e d print o f N ew Y o rk h arbor-- the city w h ere Eamon d e V a le ra was b orn a nd a lso a copy o f his baptism al c e r tific a te and a pictu re o f the church, St, Agne s in New Y o r k w h ere he