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  • Press relations
  • Election day; Lady Bird is suffering jet lag; Johnsons arrive at polls before officials; Lady Bird mentions the busy fall at the LBJ Ranch landing strip; Johnsons and guests drive around ranches; LBJ meets with press; Lady Bird takes nap; dinner
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  • Problems of the Johnson administration: inflation, Vietnam, Peter Hurd portrait of LBJ; press reaction to departure of Bill Moyers; Lady Bird writes response to Peter Hurd; work on upcoming Vice Presidential dinner; Lady Bird visits with Lynda about
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  • ; Johnsons fly to Puerto Rico; LBJ talks with press on plane; Johnsons stay at Porterfield House on Ramey AFB; LBJ talks with General McConnell while Lady Bird, Luci & Lyn tour base; dinner; LBJ plays dominoes; Lady Bird reads "Nicholas and Alexandra"
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  • Ugly stories in the press, including one on Tony Taylor; Lady Bird feels like staying in bed, but goes to see her family doctor; Lady Bird helps Luci Johnson with wedding plans; Lady Bird takes 3-hour nap; dinner with Arthur Krims and Robert
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  • LBJ and Lady Bird to National Institutes for Health to sign the Health Research Facilities Act; Lady Bird attends meeting on the LBJ Library; Bill Moyers will announce the LBJ Library site at his press conference
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  • Press reports on Johnson family activities; LBJ and Lady Bird drive around; Lynda tours with friend; Luci Johnson takes friends to Camp Mystic; LBJ on telephone about rioters in Los Angeles; Johnsons drive to Schornhorst Ranch; Story about LBJ
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  • ; Federal pavilion & LBJ press conference; Lady Bird to Spanish pavilion & Goya exhibit; to JFK Educational Civic and Cultural Center on Long Island for LBJ speech; to Atlantic City for Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner & LBJ speech; reception at Shelbourne Hotel
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  • Lady Bird delivers poinsettias; Johnson family Christmas; Christmas family photographs; tour of LBJ Ranch house for press; opening gifts; personal remarks about young family members
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  • Lady Bird to LBJ Ranch with agency and departments heads; press conference at LBJ Ranch; tours of LBJ Ranch; helicopter to Lewis Ranch; dinner at LBJ Ranch; visits with Cousin Oriole; Lady Bird watches "Gunsmoke"
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  • Johnsons to Christian Church and drive to Johnson City house; Lady Bird mentions relationship with Lucia; LBJ to Lewis place with press following; Lady Bird and guests have lunch; Lady Bird visits LBJ's birthplace house for decorating; LBJ and his
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  • Bill Moyers gives briefing on LBJ's health; Lady Bird sends telegram for President Eisenhower's birthday; Johnsons spend few hours in quiet, sunny room overlooking countryside; press were allowed to take photographs; Lady Bird goes to Great Falls
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  • Roanoke Island; Lady Bird sees childhood friend, Emily Crow Selden, from St. Mary's Episcopal School in Dallas; Press Reports about LBJ's fast driving at the LBJ Ranch
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  • 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
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  • meet with press; Lady Bird to Austin for architecture meeting on the LBJ Library; Lady Bird & Roy White look at stone on University of Texas campus buildings; Press stories about amount of Hill Country acreage LBJ owns; Lynda Johnson's first magazine
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  • John Gronouski sworn as Ambassador to Poland and Larry O'Brien as Postmaster General; press invited into LBJ ranch house for tour; swearing-in ceremony at Hye Post Office; story of LBJ jumping in cotton at gin and playing baseball; LBJ mailed first
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  • Johnsons and McNamaras go horseback riding to Martin and Danz ranches; press statement on Vietnam at LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird, the press and cookies; possible postponement of visits from Ayub Khan, Pakistan, and Shashtri, India; Lady Bird has lunch
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  • Lady Bird's meeting about tourist services at White House; "The President's Park;" tape recordings about history of White House; Lady Bird views USIA film, "A President's Country;" LBJ has press conference; tea for Independent Agency wives; Lady
  • Batt of the A R A ; Howard B irch with the F arm ers Home A dm inistration, and P eter Jones with the Department of C om m erce, who had prepared m e b y giving me Night Comes to the Cum ber~ lands by Caudel, to read; and some 34 press, Helen Thomas
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  • Lady Bird trip to Kentucky; press; Lady Bird meets Gov. & Mrs. Breathitt; 8-hour tour by motorcade; Lady Bird halts car to shake hands with schoolchildren; Lady Bird walks to Arthur Robertson home & Lick Branch School; reminiscences about Fern
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  • Examining samples for family quarters; tea for ladies of the press; Lady Bird mentions many press women; Esther Peterson, Assistant to the President for Consumer Problems; tour of the WH; history of WH rooms; Eleanor Roosevelt; Nan Robertson's news
  • Doug K ik er o f was a spring fe v e r yesterday. law , P r e s id e n t and comments back the H e r a l d T ribune s a id day a t the W h ite House C o n s i d e r two press c o n fe r e n c e s a chance f o r almost a b a lc o n y scene
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  • ; meeting with curator, dictation & bowling; Lady Bird describes Christmas decorations; Christmas party for 611 press women; Lynda jokes about recent press story; Lady Bird mentions guests and reminisces; gift related to Lady Bird's trips; music; dinner
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  • LBJ's 58th birthday; cookies & coffee for press who are invited into the house; LBJ reminisces about his life; Johnsons & guests drive through the ranches; Lady Bird describes flora and fauna; guests are invited to dinner party; Lady Bird describes
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  • Lady Bird cannot sleep; Johnson Administration officials fly in and out on ranch landing strip; LBJ has staff meeting; lunch; LBJ and Robert McNamara have press conference; Lady Bird works on furnishings for guest houses and hangar; staff depart
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  • work; lunch; nap; Lady Bird & Lynda have their hair done; snow causes cancellations for Arts Council party; select guests to Yellow Oval Room; Lady Bird mentions guests & press; Lady Bird introduces Gregory Peck who introduces entertainment
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  • LBJ & Lyn Nugent to St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church; LBJ is not sleeping well; Johnsons, Lynda & Chuck Robb to St. Barnabas Episcopal Church; gold crisis; Sweden & trial of U.S. for war crimes; press at church; Johnsons watch "Issues and Answers
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  • LBJ & Lady Bird are at Brooke Army Medical Hospital for tests; doctors find small growth in LBJ's colon; doctors issue press statement; Johnsons helicopter to LBJ Ranch; LBJ meets with Arthur Okun; lunch; Lady Bird to bed and reading; LBJ goes