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in the White House. If I can get through my time here as well as Warrie Lyrm can with the press.
I’d be lucky. She is so gentle and gay and sensible.
[This portion precedes Page 1 of the April 21, 1964 transcript.]
MEMORANDUM
THE WH ITE HOUSE
WASHIN GTON
T u
- Press relations
- Photos for "Look" magazine; meeting about Christmas, parties & gifts; luncheon with Jane Engelhard, et al, about raising funds for education; LBJ with newspapermen; renovations made in the White House; tour of White House; LBJ has press conference
- Press relations
- Lady Bird watches on television as Apollo capsule lands; hair styled; Lady Bird & Muriel Humphrey to Austin for Humphrey campaign style show; few press on plane; breakfast; ceremonies at Austin airport; brief remarks by Lady Bird & Muriel Humphrey
- Press relations
- to hospital; Lady Bird tries to contact Chuck Robb in Vietnam; Lady Bird calls Chuck's parents; Lynda Robb gives birth to baby girl; Lady Bird calls General Lewis Walt to get message to Chuck; LBJ, Lady Bird & Luci hand out cigars & candy to press
- Christening at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church for Luci Nugent's baby; Lynda Johnson is proxy Godmother; lunch; to funeral of Mrs. Wright Patman in Texarkana; visit with Gordon Fulcher; to Karnack with press; helicopter lands at Dorris Powell's
- Press relations
- giant crocodile viewed; Lady Bird describes 139 people laughing, shrieking, joking and falling out of rafts; press women and Lady Bird all manned the paddles; box lunches; rain; dinner and music
- Press relations
- Lady Bird has an overwhelming day; afternoon tea for 3600 Democratic women; LBJ has breakfast meeting in bed; Lady Bird does desk work and has hair done; Women Doers about Head Start; Beautification project in Memphis; Lady Bird quotes press; Lady
- is p r e tty y o u n g w ife a n d
gentle Larry Temple with Lu Ann, and young Bill Blackburn,
and Lyndon's Press Secretary George Christian, whom I never
s e e a n y m o r e w ith o u t th in k in g o f th a t lu d ic r o u s n ic k n a m e
h e h a s r
- Press relations
- meeting on LBJ Library; planning committee stays for dinner; Lady Bird discusses need for more artwork at the White House; announcement of Luci's wedding goes out to press
- Moyers appointed as Press Secretary; George Reedy's health; relatives say goodbye