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- Lady Bird writes LBJ from Tyler, Texas, on her way home from Dallas. She says her trip was delightful, she still has the picture proofs, and will write in more detail later when she arrives home.
- Lady Bird describes her activities at home, how much she misses LBJ, and how much she enjoys his letters. She says the cook commented on what "a fine looking young man" he is.
- In a telegram sent from Tyler, Texas, Lady Bird tells LBJ that she had a hectic day and is taking the 5:00 bus home.
- said
he wanted to take me and Nellie to dinner some night.
On Tuesday, April.21, I have invited Mrs. Ickes, Mrs. Bill
Douglas, Elizabeth Rowe, and Tharon Perkins to lunoh. I havn't
had time to get an answer yet ~!'om Mrs. Douglas'1'i~§- l'm
thinking
- Lady Bird says she feels low after returning home from Dallas but goes on to tell him about her plans for the next day. She describes her trip to Dallas, including her dinner with Victor McCrea during which she told him she is in love with LBJ
- ] job offer, says she is looking at the NBC notebooks he sent, and tells him she will go to town tomorrow and bring home her chairs. She ends with the wish that her letters were more clever, bright and interesting.
- for LBJ. Lady Bird comments on the letter from LBJ's mother that he enclosed with his last letter. She says they cannot plan on Thanksgiving. She cannot be home before November 17.
- of her mother's estate. Then she wants to rush on home to see LBJ.
- Postcard from Bermuda, swimming, dinner and cocktails at the home of Captain and Mrs. Leeper, Admiral Gingrich
- sense of color and some good
little antiques. It will stand her in good stead, because
women can't quite get over judging other women by their
homes. She had a delicious dinner, too, and Bob told me
a lot about his· current problems--cornmissions, towns
- at home., and it was so !!:!:I,.
muoh less expensive that way. But now that I am working all day I
cannot eat lunch at home and I don't get there before eight o'clock
usually., and therefore do not have time to do my share of cooking.,
besides I'm a little
- JOHNSON=
438 HOUSE OFFICE BLDG=
i,Ji JUN 7
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CONGRATULATIONS DARLING ON HAVING NO OPPONENT~ COME
HOME SOON=
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LADYBIRD~.
THERE IS NO DEPENDABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR WESTERN UNION TIME
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- , my love\ You know what the best thing about working
up here is?? It makes me understand you so much better. I
know why you can't get home any time you want to, and can
readily see how you could become disheartened about the chances of our way of life
- love livin
with us and having home cooked neals and a nice livinr; room;
but she 11vill miss the constant supply of males at the Dodge
and the freedom of hotel life. However, you intend to give
her a rsise of some size do you not when i'le be3in living
- on• ot hia tavoritp oongJteaaman and you "oer•
tai.nly didn't
woh time in getting 1n."
••t•
Yeaterd&r I went to ••• Wiok)' in the hospital and took
her•~ pretty flower••
Both )ahe end the baby are tine,
cd they •r• going home Monday.
Th• hoap1.tal
- how many times she used to have me out to her
house when I was just a little University oo-ed with no prospects at all of being a "political asset"--and who seldom got
good home-cooked meals and much enjoyed themi second, I like
Betty because she works
- she would try her best
to stay until I got moved in. le seoond or third. but she
did want to get home t ~
h
job.
I il!l'nediately
te
• Dogan. asking him if he
oould find me an
gi
Then I called Edit~~ who used
to work for us.
I had heard Otha Ree say
- 5:30 p.m. April 19, 1943
Darling mine 1
I enjoyed our talk la.st night very much ~nd I was eepeoially glad
to hea.r tv~,o thinge-.-tha t we are releeeed from INS and the t you. may come
home thla week-end.
Both of those are things to oheer about
- to Washington April first and I very
inubh want her to, even though it is conceivable you might
come home and Nellie and Mary might not move out. Aunt
Ef'f'ie hasn't been with us in three years and this is some•
thing I really want to do, my heart.
Next, I
- be
pro is d to
T
for m eoon. Could you &et e pictures of the resident, Sam, nd Bill Douglas? These ar the three I'd s
ially
· n --r presenting my f vori e figure
n
h
three b ,. no ea
or
gov ra
ment--but it .might be bad t te to ask Sam and Bill
- status {wHic~ the people back home interpret to be one of combat or preparation-for-combat) and get
behind a desk where you could make lots of people funotion--and just let politics take care of itself. I am not at all
short or faith with our country
- , many kisses. I
assure you the size and mumber of them was most unexpected.
This afternoon I took off an hour and forty-five
minutes and carried Peggy, Jr., her present. Elizabeth
Rowe wasn1t at home, so I did not go by and leave her
present as I
- for good within the next
few months, has had Friendly Pines remodeled and is thinking
of building El ba.rraoke there and turning it into a convalescent home for sick soldiers. Then he said something that was
perfectly sickening to me--he said ''his orowd
- -? , I ~ /)
ten days and is very much better now. Miss Foley did not W~ VV
L...v
knovr when she could come home. I sent her the new Antoine C ~ /~~
de St. Exupery book--I remember we discussed one of has
.
' ·~Af
~
former books at her house and she liked
- . Hope to come home tomorrow night or Sunday
morning--may catch a ride back with Nell Parmelee Sunde.y. Call me
at Bill's if you want me.
Iarling, I had forgotten how incred.i bly pleasant life in
Austin is and how I love the place. The weather is blue
- ve listened to me,
yes?'? Jiny,,.rey , I love you with a ll my heart Q.nd let' a try to
kee
that 1.d. tot~1 down .
Bills at home ere:
Telephone
Gae
Wa ter ( 5 months)
Laundry
&
cle~,n1nt:t
~VoodY'"ard • s
The · oodward'a bill includes e
- . • Seenie Dr1••
Au• 1.n. 'fe:xu
Sunday 4 p.m.,
De
pril 4, 1943
reat loTe:
Saturlay morning I went by to ae• it ·••Johnson•••
home yet but ahe wa•a'i. Then Saturiay night she e 11•4 ae
••haY1n1 Ju•1
r1Tet-to aay that there were a oupl ot
- I'd want your help on.
IT SEE1v1S TO JJ9J WE OUGHT TO Jff.AKE A DECISION ON ffffillRTrAN BEFORE
N'.E HIH.E ANOT1L~R SALESTlfP).N~ Burt leaves us in two weeks. Let's hire
Sherman or not hire him by then.
home by then, maybe?
That is, April 21.
Can
- of work
on the studio equipment, pick-ups, console, and microphone, that it was
all a home-made job and badly run down with poor fidelity that was definitely noticeable on the air . We could get along with it as it is for
a while but there is notelling
- ••••Since l am. ot com.inc: home, ther$ a.re o. numbe• or
t b ta nor or rleht « y. I'll 11st t
and you oan d1vide
Z phyr and
ry • or per 1&ps Ze hyr can do th . all.
l. U, tur ooat should ...,o to stora • r1 2h~ ~ • I don't want to riak ~
next two year
- was "going to tend to that about Lyndon."
I want to go to see him about it and remind liim end I
have no reluctance to call him for some of his time
either at his home or at the office. Would you like me
to and do you have any suggestions as to what I should
- what job Holtahoft holde in Justice, which I should have. but
will a1k Welly •hem I oan get him. I have al .r eady called Welly
at both ~ffioe and home to report but have not found him yet.
At tourthirty I wfttlt on down to see B•~istant Secretary
- ticL. . n in caso so . nebocy 1c.ntec1 to muke sometl:in,-- out o.f' tt .
',lht1.t c1o you think1
nd everythin_: :..,.lwuys --;ets knovm- -thl t oNe c~n
2.
iepeni on •••• I keep on thinking of thoae
artng blooka ••••
Senator aakei me to go home
