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  • makes presentation of Women in Community Service award for Job Corps; work on speech for Southwestern University; meeting with Clark Clifford about LBJ Library director; Madame Shoumatoff portrait of Lady Bird; 1968 election
  • Office work; arrival ceremony for King & Queen of Nepal; speeches & parade down Pennsylvania Avenue to Blair House; lunch; meeting with Clark Clifford & Madame Shoumatoff about portrait of Lady Bird; visit with LBJ in dining room; LBJ's announcement
  • . And only 8 members of the House. Senator Dirksen embraced everyone of us and a planted a large kiss right on my mouth. There were two members of the Court besides the Chief Ju stice. The Blacks and the Fortas'**and of course the Tom Clarks. And the amazing
  • ; LBJ awards medals to soldiers and gives speech; travel to Lawrenceville, IL, & George Rogers Clark National Historical Park; LBJ speaks on Vietnam; travel to Louisville, KY, and Jeffersonville, IN, for beautification award; LBJ gives 9 speeches
  • Lady Bird discusses business with LBJ; Lady Bird to the dentist; meeting with Clark Clifford about the LBJ Library; meetings about artwork for the White House; Lady Bird meets with Abe Fortas about LBJ Library; Arthur Goldberg and Supreme Court
  • LBJ meets with Clark Clifford & Abe Fortas about 1968 election; arrival ceremony for Prime Minister & Mrs. Egal of Somalia; Lady Bird works on Women Doers' Luncheon on child health; LBJ gives speech & awards to Federal Career Women group; Lady Bird
  • ; Lady Bird names guests at Women Doers' Luncheon; Lady Bird gives speech; speakers are Dr. Esther Clark, Mrs. Charles Welch & Muriel Humphrey; brief statement by Luci Nugent; Lady Bird to Mar-a-Lago, Florida, as guest of Marjorie Merriweather Post
  • class; Lady Bird gives speech for Williams College's Center for Environmental Studies; Lady Bird & Professor James McGregor Burns go to Mt. Hope Farm; books about LBJ; to Clark Art Institute; dinner at President Sawyer's home
  • Lady Bird to hairdresser; meeting of Preservation of White House Committee; new drapes and rugs for White House; briefing on finances of White House Historical Association by Clark Clifford; lunch; reception for Fine Arts Committee; Lady Bird's
  • LBJ's cold is worse; Lady Bird views September film at Naval Photo Lab; Lady Bird meets with Clark Clifford about proceeds from sale of diary; acquisition of Latrobe mantel; lunch & reminiscing with Belle & Phil Tippett; last Beautification meeting
  • ; lunch in China Room; new Tiffany wildflower china for Johnson administration; tea for American Federation of the Arts; viewing film, "Paintings of the White House;" party at Sulgrave Club for Lynda Johnson & Charles Robb; Charles Robb & Tom Clark toast
  • to the Capitol; Lady Bird reminisces about Sam Rayburn; Lady Bird describes ceremony; Nixon gives inaugural address; Johnsons to party at the Clark Cliffords'; LBJ gives speech from porch; large crowds at Andrews AFB and Bergstrom AFB; party at LBJ Ranch