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Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 10/8/1967" (Item)
  • of this Center. I hope that you will feed out to the Nation new thought, new ways for 350 million people to live accor­ ding to their aspirations. -:­ MORE i ~ . 1 ,1 . ,e Eacb of you students will return to your home m Houston and Helena and Haverhill
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, 10/24/1967" (Item)
  • this historie old school is the wide range of its influence: how far..flung are the footprints of you.r graduate s. For .. a.lmos t a century, a graduate of Southwestern was most likely to be a leader close to home ..... in the pulpits or the business and civic
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Presentation of the Annual Albert and Mary Lasker Awards to Medical Journalists - St. Regis Hotel - New York City, 5/10/1968" (Item)
  • benefit. Of all the boys arriving at the center, he told me, fully half bad never visited a doctor or a dentist. Tbey came f:rom homes where chronic physical and mental defects were commonplace -- and uncared for. Here, for the first time, these young men
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Alexandria, Virginia, 10/6/1964" (Item)
  • . Anxiety because 1 am not accustomed to whistle - stopping without my husband ; anticipation because 1 feel that I am r eturning to familiar territory and heading into a r egion that 1 call home . I wanted to make this trip because I am proud of the South
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, University of Alabama and American Association of University Women Leadership Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2/25/1966" (Item)
  • , friends: Coming home is always a nostalgic experience and Alabama is second home to me. But my nostalgia i8 mixed with pride today as we gather at this great university. Back in the summer of 1931, I was enrolled here for six short weeks. Over the years
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/21/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • . Up ea rly and out to the a irp ort to c atch the chartered Convair at 7:00--with L iz , of course, and B ess b e cause we w ere going to her home te rrito ry , Kentucky; and Congre ssman C arl P e rk in s whose d istrict we would be covering; B ill
  • Lady Bird trip to Kentucky; press; Lady Bird meets Gov. & Mrs. Breathitt; 8-hour tour by motorcade; Lady Bird halts car to shake hands with schoolchildren; Lady Bird walks to Arthur Robertson home & Lick Branch School; reminiscences about Fern
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/30/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • erien ce a t Roy a l t y ^ ^ ^ Lu ci a r r iv e d fiv e minutes ahead o f schedule - Oh! Surpr i s e fo r m e ! - thi s m orning, at the im posing white columned b r ic k home of State Senator H a r r y Byrd. The f i r s t big event o f the day
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Presentation of Society Hill Medal and Dedication of 18th Century Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6/10/1966" (Item)
  • then and now survived a pe riod of decay that makes this renaiosa nce of today even m ore meaningfulo Society Hill and lndependence National Histo rical Pa1·k-­ with a ble nding of new apartzne nt!J, old homes, and historie buildings, set an example of p ast
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Acceptance of Book, 'The Living White House,' the White House, Washington, DC, 11/28/1966" (Item)
  • the White House read in th eir daily newspapers of the problems faced and the decisions made in the President's Executive Office. But tbere is a less familiar and more intimate aide to this building that is home as well as the hub of administrat ive leader
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Dedicating the Sylvania Recreation Area, Ironwood, Michigan, 9/22/1967" (Item)
  • Centers, they are working, learning, and growing. No higher compliment can be paid to an individual. - 1 ­ MORE 1 envy you your place of work. 1 grew up i:a the piney woods of deep East Texas and I remember so well bow nice it was to return home from
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the 1967 National Clean Up Contest Awards Presentation, the Statler Hotel, Washington, DC, 2/20/1968" (Item)
  • a better place to live. To me, the very phrase "home town" is one of the warmest I know. You have given greater meaning to it by your efforts. I know there must be new satisfactions you all feel in your towns -- because by working in them, you know them
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Presidio La Bahia, Goliad, Texas, 4/9/1968" (Item)
  • , but also seeking out-of-the-way places to discover and savor. La D~hia is such a place 1 Visitors from afar will corne here, not just to reminisce over old deeds (they can do that in their libraries at home), but because it is a faithful and stirring
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Garden Clubs of America Dinner, Greenwich, Connecticut, 5/16/1968" (Item)
  • doorstep. She spent many years working on her own woodland home beside a Wiaconsin lake -- working with nal'uire • I confess this is a luxury I look forward to pursuing after January, 1969. Already I ha\re done a very small thing, harvesting some wildflower
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Dedication of American Museum of Immigration - Statue of Liberty, 5/17/1968" (Item)
  • 1820. Every race, color, and creed pa.ssed through the waters of this bay. They brought their worn humble suitcases -- their pictures of home -­ their bits of needlework -- and their dreams. l'm so pleased that there will be a museum to show
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Savannah, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • . :­ FOR RELEASE UPON DELIVERY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1964 - 11 :30 a. m. EST REMARKS BY MRS. LYNDON B . JOHNSON SAVANNAH, GEORGIA I am deHghted to be standing in Johnson Park. It is easy for me to fe e l at home here in the Southland. Georgia
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Waycross, Georgia, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • is turning" because I feel at home in the Southland. Georgia strains run strong in my family and my husband's great-grandfather, Jesse Johnson lived in Oglethorpe County. I've heard it said -- and I agree -- that the South is not a matter of geography
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • and women home to the towns and cities of this state with a new thrust of ideas. We hope that you will put into the business and political community of Florida and your zest and intelligence. Surely a nation and a state which masters all the intricacies
Press release, "Excerpts from Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at Morven, Princeton, N.J., 8/12/1965" (Item)
  • changed.. It has been slow and I feel eight weeks is woefully inadequate but I am so grateful they have had this much. They come to school so starched and clean from homes that are often unbelievably dirty. They are shy and do not respond as quickly to any
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs Annual Convention in Lexington, KY, 5/21/1964" (Item)
  • the untrained, by giving skills to the unskilled, by preparing the jobless to hold jobs~ we can offer hope to the hopeless. For it is true that if this nation is wise enough to pursue peace in the world, we must be strong enough to fight poverty here at home
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson 'Salute to Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson' Luncheon Given by Federated Democratic Women of Ohio, Deshler Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, 9/18/1964" (Item)
  • who discovered America." Columbus is a discovery for me and a delightful one -- even though 1 do feel at home with you because 1 know you as good. hard­ working Democrats -- through the people you send to Washington. And, they are your admirers I
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Lamar State Technological College, Beaumont, Texas, 10/26/1964" (Item)
  • this tree , should be for more than his own t i me on earth . As Americans we have so much to be grateful for . Many of us have homes , jobs, cars and vacations , but we have a ways to go before we reach the summit . For not a ll of us have jobs and not all
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/25/1964 (Monday) (Item)
  • of ground that his home stood in, in those days. The Museum was begun in 1929. What an interesting picture that conjured up, and what an inte resting fa m ily they’ ve been - the R ockef'ell ers - pouring back their vast fo rtune into art and education
  • Lady Bird's speech for the Museum of Modern Art that evening; to Carlysle Hotel in New York; speech by David Rockefeller; dinner and reception at Museum; party at Adlai Stevenson's home
Press release, "Address of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Yale Political Union, New Haven, Connecticut, 10/9/1967" (Item)
  • to the city where I live. 815, 000 of us call Washington home -- but it is aleo a city that uniquely belongs to every American. Since 1964, our s mall Committee for a More Beautiful Capital bas been working throughout the city to demons trate what concerned
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, Washington, DC, 6/3/1964" (Item)
  • in what we are. Success is not always an accomplishment. It can be a state of mind ~ The qu~et dig nity of a h ome, the r el ationship of the individ ual s in that home . The continuing expression of an inquiring mind can mean more in terms of success t
Press release, "Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation First Anniversary Luncheon, Hilton Hotel, New York, 4/9/1964" (Item)
  • in print and admired her . I met her later in person and loved her. As she did to many very young and very timid Congressional wives, she extended her hand and hospitality to me ••• and Washington was warmer . I saw her last when she came to my home
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/10/1964 (Sunday) (Item)
  • MEMORANDUM TH E W H IT E HOUSE W A S H I N G T ON P a ge 1 M o th e rs* Day, Sunday, M ay 10, 1964 A ctu a lly , it [th ed a y]began rig h t a fte r we got home from A tlan tic C ity, about a little p a s t one o 'c lo c k at night, with Lynda, L
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Women Doers Luncheon on 'Rediscovering America' - the White House, 5/2/1968" (Item)
  • lost due to a language barrier. We must bring touri sts 0 and point with pride, to the many places where the best of Arnedcan products are sold. We must open our homes even more to visitors frc;;m abro~0 And we mwst incrcase the number of visitor
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Press Breakfast in Honor of Mrs. Johnson by Mrs. Richard Hughes and Mrs. John Bailey, Shelburn Hotel, Atlantic City. N.J., 8/27/1964" (Item)
  • he campaigns. I will go with him for three main purposes. -1­ To try to give him a link to home life and a quiet moment and a companion. I will go to try to thank the many people who are working so hard for us -- the sheer hours of volunteer work
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, San Angelo, Texas, 10/26/1964" (Item)
  • families in Washington and in all kinds of foreign visitors. She introduces them to such Anerican institutions as supermarkets and laundromats and informal buffet suppers at her home, and taking both 4-H Club members and foreigners to see the Department
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 10/27/1964" (Item)
  • institutions as supermarkets and laundromats and informal buffet suppers at home -- the wife of our Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Freeman -­ Jane Freeman. I'm proud to call these ladies my friends and the President is proud of them and the way they see fit
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Henderson, Kentucky, 10/27/1964" (Item)
  • national fame as the home of John J . Audubon, the patron saint of bird watchers and nature lovers. Kentucky is known for its Colonels and fast race horses, but what all of Kentucky a n d especially what Henderson and Hen derson Count y can be most proud
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dedication of Sam Rayburn Statue, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, 1/6/1965" (Item)
  • sight. Often, afterward he would recall the moment and envy others who experienced this sight for the first time. The freshman congressman checked in, received his office space, and carefully clipped from a country newspaper back home an editorial boldly
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/16/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • a lr e a d y knew and which I a c tu a lly had to t r y to p r y out of him - that we a r e having trouble in A u s tin ,m y so s u c c e s s fu l, so b eloved home town, on the in teg ratio n p ro b le m . It s e e m s the m o re r a d ic a l n eg ro
Press release, "Text of Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Convocation, Texas Womans University, on Receipt of Doctor of Laws Degree, 3/31/1964" (Item)
  • that these aim's have nobl e emissaries in you. We need expanding horizons for a g reat growing State, a State I am always proud to call home. It has been rliany years since I walked througl the groves @f academe. Like you. I car~ed my books and my dreams. As'l
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, Youth Conference on Natural Beauty, 6/27/1966" (Item)
  • friendships that you will keep alive through your mutua.l interests in cbanging the face of your c ountry and the atmos­ phere of your neighborhoods. You will take home with you a new awareness -- a new pair of eyes -- for seeing things that you have looked
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Democratic Women's Clubs of Kentucky, Sheraton Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, 10/5/1968" (Item)
  • Education Act; - 3 ­ MORE Head Start; the Hou sing Act ; the Higher Education Act. I thought of the steadily growing prosperity of these years -- which affects every home in America.. That little boy cannot vote. But I can vote. And as I vote, I
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Nebraska State Conference on Natural Beauty, Lincoln, Nebraska, 6/15/1966" (Item)
  • , and clean waters, close to home, for that summer afternoon swim. -3 ­ MORE : Ten days from now 1 will be meeting in Washington with a National Youth Conference for Natural Beauty and Conservation, and the young delegates there frorn 50 states
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/11/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • ," and so i t was. We had come w ithout o ur hats, soon took o ff o ur shoes, moved around fro m person to person, while we drank coffee and munched . some delicious home-made cookies that M r s . R e x W h itte n had brought ^, along..''. -'-V-'.V.. M
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/11/1967 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Breakfast; to Calvin Coolidge home, Plymouth; clean water project; National Historic Landmark plaque placed; John Coolidge tour of home; to First Congregational Church & Woodstock Historical Association; ride through Woodstock in 1911 Stanley
  • Laurance Rockefeller home, Woodstock, Vermont
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/4/1966 (Friday) (Item)
  • s i d e t h e p o i n t . And t h e n t o t h e b e a u t y p a r l o r an d t h e n t o work w i t h Ka n d i in t r a n s f o r m i n g some o f my e a s t e r n f a b r i c s i n t o ha n d so m e "a t home" c l o t h e s f o r s m a l l d i n