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  • ; exchange of State gifts; receiving line; Lady Bird mentions many guests; LBJ's toast about our form of government; Sir Alec Douglas-Home's toast about Cuba; the "Strolling Strings" and dancing
  • us, and Lucy Baines an d in the car with us Bob Waldron and the H arry McPhersons. There w ere long, long lines of solemn, respectful people, all along the hill in Robert E. Lee’s home as we wound up to the gravesite. The gravesite was covered
  • to bring Senator Everett Dirksen to Walter Reed Hospital; nap; dinner with the C. Douglas Dillons
  • LBJ's network television interview about "the first hundred days" with Eric Sevariad, Douglas Brinkley and William Lawrence; Luci Johnson returns from New York shopping trip; Lady Bird, Lynda Johnson, Warrie Lynn Smith & Jesse Kellam watch
  • LBJ and Lady Bird to St. Paul's in the Desert church; lunch at Taubman home with friends; visit with the Taubmans; Air Force One to Washington; Lady Bird on Virginia Rusk;; greeted on White House lawn by beagles, Him and Her; greeted in White House
  • ,, JLa>it u^ed ^ o a ua w a s b ein g fra m ed a n d h u n g in th e o fficer's clu b . on ouA ret urn home Friday January 32, 1969 (' gp3 ea L o ts o f p eo p le sp o k e to m e in a ^Ax&n.
  • Bird taking home movies; back to Schornhorst; Okamoto takes photos for Beautification Committee; boating at the Haywood Ranch; helicopter to West Ranch for dinner
  • Bird to movie theater to view clips of her home movies for a documentary; answers letters about "speeding, beer and dogs"; LBJ and Lady Bird to dinner at David Brinkleys
  • hing tl ·';·, in their sock feet, so to sp ea k, and talked about the old J o hn.son home and the use s it might be put to, that t he commu;.i l y might get s o me g
  • e c e n t ram b u n ctio u s b e h a v io r ." And th e n v e ry q u ic k ly we w ere o f f - - to a warm o v a tio n — and h e g a th e re d up George C h r is tia n and L iz and th e y ro d e home w ith u s i n th e b ig b la c k c a r — to th e
  • Visit from Tony and Matiana Taylor; trip to the LBJ birthplace home; trip to Johnson City to Sam Johnson House with discussion on landscaping; city park for Johnson City; Johnson family gift of trees for Johnson City; lunch at the LBJ Ranch
  • Lady Bird has breakfast with National Park Service staff, then to Hightower property to mark trees and make decisions on national park; Lady Bird describes LBJ; Lady Bird visits Boyhood Home and old fort with Roy White; lunch; meeting with Roy White
  • , and d r o v e to th e ir home and th en h e lic o p t e r e d to th e 7 /5 /6 4 - page 5 ran ch . So ended the third p e rfe c t day. Lynda B ird had gone on to C hurch in F re d e ric k sb u rg - - the Catholic Church - - with Dave, and then had
  • Lady Bird rises early and drives to LBJ Boyhood Home; LBJ gives speech on Middle East; Lady Bird & Neva West decorate the LBJ Ranch house; lunch; Lady Bird to Bailey House at Reagan Ranch to hang paintings and decorate; Lady Bird & Dale Malechek
  • Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
  • home; drive around town, Caddo State Park and to Lady Bird's childhood home, the "Brick House;" tour by Ruth Taylor; photos for press; helicopter back to LBJ Ranch; funny story about Ashton Gonella in Shreveport airport; Johnsons and guests to West
  • Lady Bird drives alone to St Barnabas Episcopal Church; long meeting with Roy White about renovations to LBJ Ranch home; lunch; Lady Bird has hair styled; Lady Bird & Luci, Pat & Lynn Nugent fly to Amarillo; Joe Batson takes them to Neil Johnson
  • on plane; Lady Bird says goodbye on intercom to fellow travelers in Austin; to LBJ Ranch; party for hostesses of LBJ birthplace & boyhood home; Lady Bird, LBJ & John Connally speak to group; Lady Bird gives awards; appointments to State Department
  • Tony Taylor home
  • ; to Luci's home
  • Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
  • Lady Bird is guest of Laurence & Mary Rockefeller; Lady Bird reads "The Hudson River" by Carl Carmer; Lady Bird & Rockefellers to Van Cortlandt Manor; to Sunnyside Estate, home of Washington Irving; lunch; presentation by Carl Carmer; actor tells
  • Laurence Rockefeller home, Tarrytown, New York
  • Thanksgiving Day; Johnsons to St. Barnabas Episcopal Church; press invited for coffee, cookies & photographs; family photos taken at LBJ Birthplace & LBJ Boyhood Home; Luci to University of Texas football game; LBJ teaches Lyn Nugent to dance; LBJ
  • Johnson family to National City Christian Church; to Abe Fortas' home; Johnson family have lunch together at the White House; LBJ takes nap; Lady Bird goes swimming; Lady Bird records her diary; LBJ visits with Luci & Pat Nugent; Lady Bird has
  • letter to grandmother at Hye Post Office; guests to boyhood home and LBJ Ranch for lunch; Gronouski on Poland and Red China; Johnsons & guests to Danz place--car is stuck in mud; Lady Bird takes nap & talks to daughters; foreign affairs
  • Lady Bird works on Christmas gifts; Lady Bird and LBJ lunch with Gordon Bunshaft, LBJ Library Architect; Johnsons and guests tour the Danz & Martin ranches and the boyhood home; LBJ reminisces about his boyhood; background of Cabinet members; all
  • Mrs. Cantinflas [Valentina Ivanova Zuvareff] dies; steel strike; Lady Bird dubs home movie of 1941 Senate campaign; White House maid finds rat in Luci Johnson's room; Lady Bird has lunch with Luci; new Chef for the White House; LBJ lunches and has
  • Lady Bird goes to New York City to purchase clothing; Lady Bird attends dinner party given in her honor at Brooke Astor's home; Lady Bird mentions several people at the party; Charles Engelhard tells a funny story; Lady Bird recounts an earlier
  • ; visit with Luci Johnson about Christmas gift list; beautification program benefits nurseries; dinner party at Abe Fortas' home; Fortas meeting with Jacqueline Kennedy about Kennedy Center; Lady Bird swims
  • Lady Bird works at Johnson City home and gives tour to female press; to LBJ Ranch with NBC crew and George Stevens, for USIA film, "The President's Country;" after breakfast, filming and photos at the Scharnhorst; to Haywood and West Ranches to film
  • Lady Bird meets 100 Maryland women; Lady Bird takes a nap; LBJ goes to funeral of Senator Russell's son in Georgia; Lady Bird discusses a triple TV cabinet with Frank Stanton; meeting about the LBJ Library; LBJ returns home to dinner with Lady Bird
  • Peter Hurd is working on LBJ portrait; Johnsons and guests to Central Christian Church, Johnson City; Lady Bird mentions the ecumenical group with them; communism; group to LBJ's boyhood home followed by the press; Bob Akers' appointment to USIA
  • gives short speech and citations to volunteers at the boyhood home; Lady Bird recounts humorous stories; more fire at the Lewis Ranch and stories about it; socializing and dinner by the pool
  • ; Johnsons ride to Scharnhorst with guests; Lady Bird mentions renting the Scharnhorst to movie studios for westerns; guests from Houston arrive; Oveta Culp Hobby gives desk for boyhood home; boating; LBJ uses amphibious car as joke
  • LBJ & Lady Bird have breakfast in bed; funny story about peacock; lunch with Lynda Johnson; boating with friends and followed by photographers; dinner at Haywood Ranch; visit with Jack Maguire about University of Texas; visit to Aunt Oriole's home
  • Return home from Florida; Visit to and meeting with Mrs. Kennedy about Society for the Preservation of the White House and its members; Mrs. Kennedy agrees to be public member; Fine Arts Committee; gift of four JFK minted coins; office work; John
  • ; visiting and lunch by swimming pool; Lady Bird takes home movies; Dr. Davis makes LBJ the first honorary elder of the Christian Church; strike mediation falls through; Lady Bird talks with Lynda Johnson about jobs; back to White House; swimming & bridge
  • & inflation; Lady Bird to Austin with wedding gifts, bed & table for Luci; Lady Bird compares Luci's home with heads of state weddings gifts; Lady Bird to Scharnhorst & Orange ranches & then walks along river; to ranch for dinner; phone call with Luci
  • ; LBJ & Lady Bird to dinner for Secretary & Mrs. Dean Rusk at Averell Harriman home; Lady Bird one of 12 best dressed; Herb Block cartoon about Peter Hurd portrait; toasts; Rusk speaks of role of U.S. in world; LBJ praises Harrimans
  • LBJ & Lady Bird breakfast and go to St. Mark's Episcopal Church; to Jack Brooks' home for coffee; talk about House and Texas delegation; back to White House for office work; visit from Jack Valentis & Arthur Krims; tv and lunch; the Bob Jacksons
  • Lady Bird & Mary Lasker work on LBJ Library; Lady Bird chooses paintings for Cedar House and Davis House; Davis daughter to work at KTBC; Lady Bird to Luci Nugent's home; Lady Bird picks up Mary Lasker at airport; Lady Bird & Mary Lasker
  • Johnsons are at Bassett House, a John D. Rockefeller III home; Johnsons to Bruton Parish Episcopal Church; anti-Vietnam sermon; LBJ, Chuck Robb & Jake Pickle play golf; Lady Bird goes for drive around Williamsburg and has tour of Carter's Grove
  • Bird; reception for Democratic state chairmen; Lady Bird to David Lloyd Kreeger home to see paintings; Lady Bird critiques paintings; to John & Ashton Gonella party; dinner at White House with Lynda & Chuck Robb; Chuck & Pat Nugent leaving soon