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  • Press relations
  • John Gronouski sworn as Ambassador to Poland and Larry O'Brien as Postmaster General; press invited into LBJ ranch house for tour; swearing-in ceremony at Hye Post Office; story of LBJ jumping in cotton at gin and playing baseball; LBJ mailed first
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  • ; meeting with curator, dictation & bowling; Lady Bird describes Christmas decorations; Christmas party for 611 press women; Lynda jokes about recent press story; Lady Bird mentions guests and reminisces; gift related to Lady Bird's trips; music; dinner
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  • LBJ's 58th birthday; cookies & coffee for press who are invited into the house; LBJ reminisces about his life; Johnsons & guests drive through the ranches; Lady Bird describes flora and fauna; guests are invited to dinner party; Lady Bird describes
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  • Lady Bird cannot sleep; Johnson Administration officials fly in and out on ranch landing strip; LBJ has staff meeting; lunch; LBJ and Robert McNamara have press conference; Lady Bird works on furnishings for guest houses and hangar; staff depart
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  • Johnsons' 33rd wedding anniversary; Lady Bird has medical appointment; office work; LBJ has televised press conference; Lady Bird works with Lynda Johnson on wedding plans; lunch; Lady Bird has dress fitting with Adele Simpson; Lynda Johnson & Chuck
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  • Johnson family and friends to St. Barnabas Church; press corps is invited in for refreshments; LBJ's plane takes Cantinflas and his sick wife to Temple to hospital; lunch with Senator and Mrs. Paul Douglas; Senator Douglas reminisces about 1960
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  • Lynda Johnson & Luci Nugent's family at White House; Lady Bird has hair styled; family photos in Yellow Room; family outside for press photos; Luci gives press conference; Lady Bird works on Henry Branden's script; Lady Bird & Ashton keep LBJ
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  • Lyn Nugent's first birthday; LBJ & Lady Bird have breakfast; desk work; Lady Bird swims 30 laps; Lady Bird to Council on Recreation and Natural Beauty meeting; press conference & photos with Lyn Nugent in the Rose Garden; visit with Andre Meyer
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  • is worse; Pageant of Peace Christmas Tree lighting; speeches by boy scout, Walter Washington & LBJ; Les Carpenter is very ill; party for press women; gift wastebasket with photo montage; houseguests watching movie; LBJ's assessment of news agencies & Strom
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  • to press; Lady Bird accidentally opens door for reporters' room; Lady Bird meets Nancy Negley at LBJ Ranch to hang pictures & arrange furniture; lunch; to Lewis Ranch; hair done in Austin; visit with Luci & baby; Lady Bird has dinner with classmate
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  • to hospital; Lady Bird tries to contact Chuck Robb in Vietnam; Lady Bird calls Chuck's parents; Lynda Robb gives birth to baby girl; Lady Bird calls General Lewis Walt to get message to Chuck; LBJ, Lady Bird & Luci hand out cigars & candy to press
  • Christening at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church for Luci Nugent's baby; Lynda Johnson is proxy Godmother; lunch; to funeral of Mrs. Wright Patman in Texarkana; visit with Gordon Fulcher; to Karnack with press; helicopter lands at Dorris Powell's
  • is p r e tty y o u n g w ife a n d gentle Larry Temple with Lu Ann, and young Bill Blackburn, and Lyndon's Press Secretary George Christian, whom I never s e e a n y m o r e w ith o u t th in k in g o f th a t lu d ic r o u s n ic k n a m e h e h a s r
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  • 05:29-10:30 - variable speeds distort Lady Bird Johnson's voice; 09:44 - wrong sentence: "rather than the caricature painted of him of bombast and bafoonery" by some of the press
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  • speech includes memories of Sputnik; Lady Bird receives models of rocket & lunar module for LBJ Library; Lynda returns to White House; Dr. Debus talks about earth resources satellite; Lady Bird to Surf Side Cottage; Dr. Paine briefs press
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