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  • Johnsons to the swimming pool; Lady Bird reads; LBJ rides around ranch with staff; Lady Bird takes a nap and tours the LBJ Ranch and Boyhood Home; Lady Bird joins LBJ at the Haywood Ranch; Johnsons visit the Charles Urschel house; guests talks
  • 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
  • Lady Bird, with Dr. & Mrs. Correll, look for blue bells for flower seed at the Gibson Ranch; to the Diamond X Ranch where they picked Mountain Pinks flowers for seed; stop at LBJ Boyhood Home; lunch; drive to Martin Ranch; Lady Bird makes river walk
  • Carpenter; meeting with Bess Abell; tea for Marilyn Walz; meeting, future transfer of LBJ Boyhood Home & LBJ Ranch to the National Park Service; bowling, massage & television; dinner with LBJ; Mary Lasker's book on health initiatives; phone call with Hubert
  • ; speeches by Stewart Udall, Carol Fortas, Nash Castro & Lady Bird; Lady Bird Johnson Park; drive by Columbia Island; Beautification Committee meeting at Rockefeller home; National Street Hardware Study; Anacostia Park; overlook at LBJ Library; toasts
  • ; lunch at LBJ Ranch; work with Roy White, Herbert Wells on house renovations; Lady Bird & Jessie Hunter meet at Lewis Ranch to discuss LBJ Boyhood Home; formation of Johnson City garden club; Lady Bird returns to Washington, DC & Sequoia for LBJ's
  • 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
  • Plantings at the LBJ Ranch; plans for the LBJ birthplace home; trees for Johnson City; renovations for the LBJ Ranch house; LBJ portrait by Peter Hurd; George Reedy and Bill Moyers; Lady Bird talks to LBJ on telephone about several topics; Lady Bird
  • 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
  • home; return to LBJ Ranch; discussion with LBJ about changes and improvements to LBJ Ranch; Johnsons and guests drive the Scharnhorst Ranch; flight back to Washington, DC
  • Ranch; Johnsons take guests for drive around ranches; forestation project in Israel; tour of Johnson City & LBJ's boyhood home; Lady Bird suggests activities for next day; dinner, including Luci, Pat & Lyn Nugent; exchange of gifts, including Noah's Ark
  • at the Riverwalk; ride on the river; dinner at La Paloma del Rio; private party at Nancy Negley's home
  • LBJ and Lady Bird go for a walk; drive around LBJ Ranch with Dale Malechek; Johnsons to Johnson City and boyhood home with guests; Johnsons visit with tourists; visit to Scharnhorst Ranch; helicopter ride with A.W. Moursund; visit to Nicholson Ranch