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- FOR RELEASE AFTER Z:OO P. M.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1967
Office of the Press Secretary
to Mr s. Johnson
THE WHITE HOUSE
REMARKS OF MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON
AT COLUMBIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Dean Clark, Governor Ellington, Students
- families are d::dving, camping out, or jetting from one
end of the country to the other at an unprecedented rate.
I have had the pleasure of travelling about Australia with my good friends
Ed and Amt Clark. I know how well Ed knows and loves the United
- be a Peace Corps
Volunteer, a build~ in Dj akarta or Dahomey, a Methodist minister in Vietnam,
or an Ambassador ..... as witness Ed Clark.
Southwestern•s traditional missionary spirit is stlll very much at work.
And I feel sure that your graduates go
- to see the wbole scope of child health through the eyes of
three panelists today -- and then 1 hope some of you will have some commenta.
Our first speaker is a distinguished pediatrician. Dr. Esther Clark, who
was the guiding spirit and professional band
- invented the cotton
gin near here, and Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts , is
buried here.
The future is here, too. The el even dams approved by Congress will
give the Savannah river basin immense power resources and as you well
know the Clark
- passage
way--the trail of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, those great
geographer-adventurers who spent two thrilling months in Nebraska,
and whose footsteps can be followed today. (l'm told tbat their
original campsites can still be f ound 1
- Lady Bird works on remarks for luncheon; Madame Shoumatoff brings new FDR portrait for White House; Peter Hurd portrait of LBJ to be returned; Clark Clifford as possible Attorney General; Lady Bird sees doctors about arthritis in hand; Lady Bird
- as Queen Shenandoah; Lady Bird meets with Clark Clifford about Committee for Preservation of the White House; reception for Japanese Governors and wives; dinner with Jack Valenti; LBJ speaks to Democratic Women's Conference
- , the feeling of
the specialness of every guest.
There were Dean and Virginia Rusk,
Clark and Marny, and Georgia and Ramsey, Marvin and Marion looking
more beautiful all the time, and Stew and Lee ( I told him I wanted to
get together with him and talk about
- Phone call received about Vicki McCammon's family; Lady Bird works on Luci's wedding; Tom Clark's party for Luci Johnson and Pat Nugent; houseguests in the White House; work on Luci Johnson's wedding plans; family matters; Lady Bird mentions guests
- conference about Vietnam, LBJ's campaign trips, and civil rights; more houseguests expected; Lady Bird compliments her staff; LBJ addresses volunteers; Johnsons helicopter to Haywood Ranch with the Clark Cliffords; boating; dinner at LBJ Ranch
- Lady Bird is at Luci & Pat's home; Lady Bird has hair styled; Lady Bird to Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX; program at Coty Library for opening of Edward Clark collection; Lady Bird receives fifth honorary degree & makes a speech
- Johnsons & Clark Cliffords drive the ranches; Lady Bird describes wildflowers & birds; helicopter to John Hill ranch; to St. Luke's Church; to cypress grove along Pedernales River; to Hill's for lunch; Lady Bird to Fredericksburg courthouse
- makes presentation of Women in Community Service award for Job Corps; work on speech for Southwestern University; meeting with Clark Clifford about LBJ Library director; Madame Shoumatoff portrait of Lady Bird; 1968 election
- ; Lady Bird names guests at Women Doers' Luncheon; Lady Bird gives speech; speakers are Dr. Esther Clark, Mrs. Charles Welch & Muriel Humphrey; brief statement by Luci Nugent; Lady Bird to Mar-a-Lago, Florida, as guest of Marjorie Merriweather Post
- Lady Bird to hairdresser; meeting of Preservation of White House Committee; new drapes and rugs for White House; briefing on finances of White House Historical Association by Clark Clifford; lunch; reception for Fine Arts Committee; Lady Bird's
- LBJ's cold is worse; Lady Bird views September film at Naval Photo Lab; Lady Bird meets with Clark Clifford about proceeds from sale of diary; acquisition of Latrobe mantel; lunch & reminiscing with Belle & Phil Tippett; last Beautification meeting