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- . Braniff vs. Eastern Airlines.
Spring
LBJ has no opposition for re-election in primary.
June
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and Rebekah Baines Johnson travel from Washington to
Texas, visit Monticello and the Hermitage en route.
LBJ works for farm parity.
June
- (Lyndon Johnson) (recuperating in hospital; visitors include Governor James
Allred, and C.N. Avery.
4/24
LBJ released from hospital; went to parents’ home in Johnson City.
LBJ and CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) have dinner with Allreds at Governor’s Mansion.
4
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CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) in Washington
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) scheduled to speak at Hyde Park Baptist Church (Austin).
LBJ visits wounded servicemen McCleskey Hospital in Temple.
1/3
LBJ speaks at the Capitol, sponsored by the Austin American Legion.
1
- with his brother re CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) sketch and problem.
May
5/1
New York World’s Fair opens; LBJ and CTJ decide to go at last minute.
5/10
Maury Maverick elected mayor of San Antonio.
5/19
House passes $773 million Naval Appropriations Bill
- .
2/3
Congressional Club tea; CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) taking Mrs. Barkley.
2/4
Radio correspondents stag dinner honoring Truman.
2/6
Barkley reception, Shoreham Hotel.
2/9
Luncheon meeting of the 81st Club is held at the Congressional Hotel
- 1944 – January 1945
Both CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and Lynda Bird are sick at Christmas.
January
Early January
1/3
Controversy over Coke Stevenson’s appointments to the Board of Regents. Coke
is nominating Texas Regulars. LBJ (Lyndon Johnson
- ) plans to appeal personally to FDR.
1/11
Congressional reception; Dorothy Jackson Nichols recalls attending with CTJ
(Lady Bird Johnson), LBJ, and LBJ’s sister, Rebekah.
February
2/5
LBJ meets with director of budget, Harold D. Smith.
c.2/7
LBJ
- archival staff from oral history transcripts
and other sources as a service to our researchers. Not intended to be complete or definitive.
discoverlbj.org
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) attends a luncheon given by Mrs. Fritz Lanham in honor
of Miss Lou Rayburn
- training, health insurance, and
aid for Europe and Asia.
1/10
Truman submits federal budget to Congress. He proposes that an estimated
surplus of $202 million be used for reduction of the national debt rather than tax
cuts.
1/15
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson
- to find out what is causing the infection to continue. Lady Bird is in bed today
with a cold and Lynda is just recovering from high fever and a cold. In fact,
everybody in my house and in my office has been sick.”
Case Bill, designed to redress the “Pro
- , Texas to Norris City,
Illinois.
1/26
Rayburn appoints LBJ member of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy.
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) announces purchase of KTBC. Station operates only
during the day and shares time with UT, has no network affiliation
- Democrats, and 1
Independent (Senator Wayne Morse).
LBJ and CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) are guests of Sarah McClendon at the Women’s
Press Club dinner that night.
1/6
LBJ and CTJ attend a cocktail party given by the Dale Millers in honor of Speaker
Rayburn
-
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) leaves Marshall for Washington, D.C. with Ray Roberts.
1/2
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) hospitalized in Washington, D.C. with severe bronchitis;
friends said he was worn out and needed a rest; by 1/15 he is still being ordered
to rest
- /1
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) flies to Dallas with CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson), WJ (Walter
Jenkins), MMW (Mary Margaret Wiley), and Moursunds; they meet the Gene
Chambers, Mrs. West, and Mr. & Mrs. Charles McGaha, attend Cotton Bowl game,
return later to Ranch
- /1
New Year’s Day at the Ranch. In Washington by 1/4. (1/2 & 1/3 missing)
1/4
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) flies to NYC. CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and girls already there).
Returns 1/6 to Washington on JFK’s plane.
1/11
LBJ flies to Fort Worth
- of
women in the Regular Navy and Marine Corps, and Naval and Marine Corps
Reserves, which passed the Senate on 7/23/47.
1/27
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and LBJ attend the Army-Navy-Air Force Reception at
the White House, 9 p.m.
1/28
Stag Reserve Officers
- Angeles.
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) notes that she went to the West Coast with LBJ, trying
to be his secretary. LBJ was working on James Forrestal’s program, inspecting
Navy yards and training programs.
January
1/3
LBJ visits Lockheed Aircraft plant.
1/4
- in the Democratic Conference yesterday.
That afternoon LBJ, CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson), Yarborough and Bobby Baker fly to
Aiken, South Carolina to attend the funeral of Mrs. Strom Thurmond. They
return to Washington after the funeral and LBJ goes directly to a stag
- for them.
2/6
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) attends a luncheon hosted by Mrs. Tom Connally and
Mrs. George Mahon in the Senate wing of the Capitol honoring Billie Bob
Murphy, and that afternoon attends the 2:30 funeral of Harold Ickes, who died
2/3
- /5
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) and CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) are already in Washington at
the beginning of the year.
LBJ and other Democratic and Republican legislative leaders meet with
Eisenhower at the White House to discuss Eisenhower’s State of the Union
- in Washington. [On 12/31/48 there was a meeting of Democratic
senators in Washington]
January
1/3
Congress convenes. LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) is sworn in as Texas’ junior senator,
with CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and Lynda seated in the galleries.
A petition protesting
-
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) is invited to a dinner for ladies only given by Mrs. Bob
Kerr.
1/10
LBJ announces new committee assignments for Democratic senators. Former
Vice President Alben Barkley is assigned to the Foreign Relations and Finance
- against the bill.
LBJ, CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson), the Thornberrys and Mary Rather fly to Florida to
vacation until 1/28. They attend a dinner in honor of Senator George Smathers
on 1/19 in Miami Springs.
1/20
After George Brown informs Charles Francis
- that evening.
1/3
Apparently spends day at the Ranch.
1/4
Attends Senator Kerr’s funeral, returns to Johnson City, has dinner at the
Moursunds, calls Dr. Lawrence Lamb in San Antonio at 10 p.m.
1/5
LBJ, CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson), Luci and staff return
- government.
1/2
LBJ meets CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson), Lynda and Luci at the airport upon their arrival
in Washington.
1/3
LBJ meets with Senator Green; they apparently discuss the possibility of Green
giving up the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations
- to be complete or definitive.
discoverlbj.org
Former UN delegates Senators Sparkman, H. Alexander Smith and Cooper voice
approval in separate interviews of LBJ’s plan for UN program of manning space for
peace.
1/16
LBJ, CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and Senator
- to remain as vice chairman and
former Senator Earle Clements to serve as executive director.
1/24-1/25
Dulles continues his testimony on Mideast Resolution.
1/25
CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) meets with Walter Jenkins, Cliff Carter and Altavene
Spann
