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- a lw a y s f e e l good w hen I'm doing what I ought to do and t h e s e h o u r s
c e r t a in ly a s s u r e d m e that the s p e e c h w a s going to turn out b e tt e r than
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it w ould h a v e ,
I
Home\work a lw a y s h e lp s .
T hen, I c u r
- Lady Bird, LBJ and staff are up late because of the Farm Bill; Lady Bird does office work; LBJ, Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson attend funeral for General Douglas MacArthur; Lady Bird exchanges brief remarks with Robert Kennedy; Lady Bird describes
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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..''.
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
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fo r the June 12th dinner for Chancellor E rhard o f Germany.
I think their
ft
com ing might make all the differen ce to Dorris , make her fe e l m ore at home
l\
in~what u m str ne-ce s s a rily be r a the rather uncasual surroundings
I also
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house, at times of ordinary duty and probably at times of outrageous
inconvenience to them—besides a never ending general public, my own
groups of friends from home, or friends from the campaign t r a i l , or
from my trip s , or my Alabama cousins, a ll
- LBJ and Lady Bird stay at Taubman home in Palm Springs, CA; meeting with Mexican President Lopez Mateos; Charter Day exercises at UCLA with speeches by LBJ and Mateos; luncheon for women given by Governor's wife, Mrs. Pat Brown; visit to Abraham
- ; Lady Bird travels to Jane Engelhard's home; tea on terrace; tour of the Engelhard home; dinner party; Lady Bird names guests; LBJ sends telegram to Engelhards thanking them for being so nice to Lady Bird; toasts; dancing; security concerns; Brick House
- Lady Bird rides through New England countryside to Shaker Village near Pittsfield, MA; stop for lunch at roadside park; to home of Yale President Brewster in New Haven, CT; Lady Bird is greeted by anti-war protestors; Lady Bird rests; to Yale's War
- with a portrait; Lady Bird rests before working on Alabama speech; Lady Bird bowls and works on her home movies; LBJ and Lady Bird have dinner
- 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
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t h e ir w a y alon g the m o u n ta in s id e .
We la n d e d in a m e a d o w , c lo s e to the c o m m u n ity o f Inez, and d r o v e up
the m o u n ta in sid e to the home of Tom F l e t c h e r .
Now, a l l the s ig n s w e r e hom e
m a d e
- Steelworkers; to Huntington, WV, & Inez, KY; visit to Tom Fletcher's home; to Paintsville, KY, & Mayo State Vocational School; LBJ's Courthouse speech; the Appalachian recovery plan; Lady Bird interview by Helen Thomas and Frances Lewine; LBJ TV speech
- Conference on Youth for Conservation and Natural Beauty group at ranch; LBJ reads proclamation for 1967 Conference; Lady Bird makes remarks; car tour of LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird gives deerskin bookmarks; work on James & Mary Davis' home; pick up
- Meeting of Home Economists; Lady Bird meets two of LBJ's college classmates
- g e n t s .
M r s . John T . J o n e s who is c h a i r m a n of the
It w as a b rig h t, w a r m , sunny T e x a s day, the s o r t that
m ade me wiSh that we w e r e going to sta y a t home lo n g e r .
We d ro v e to the A d m in is tra tio n
- Lady Bird to New York City; signs photos for Christmas; meeting at Mary Lasker's home on beautification; Lady Bird mentions Mary's art collection; possible television program about beautification in cities; Lady Bird & Liz Carpenter to Carlyle Hotel
- ib le u s e s
of the p la c e .
A nd she h ad , in fa c t, so g e n e ro u sly in v ite d m e to com e up
to h e r A d iro n d ack s s u m m e r home^vlind to P alm B each b e fo re .
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A s m u ch a s I w ould love to,Xl h ad alw ays sa id
- ; speeches by Stewart Udall, Carol Fortas, Nash Castro & Lady Bird; Lady Bird Johnson Park; drive by Columbia Island; Beautification Committee meeting at Rockefeller home; National Street Hardware Study; Anacostia Park; overlook at LBJ Library; toasts
- Lady Bird's plane to Dallas is postponed and cancelled & takes later flight; Lady Bird visits at Luci Nugent home; Lady Bird to Salado, TX, for ceremonies honoring Liz Carpenter; Lady Bird gives impromptu remarks; Liz Carpenter gives speech; crafts
- ; lunch at LBJ Ranch; work with Roy White, Herbert Wells on house renovations; Lady Bird & Jessie Hunter meet at Lewis Ranch to discuss LBJ Boyhood Home; formation of Johnson City garden club; Lady Bird returns to Washington, DC & Sequoia for LBJ's
- Lady Bird goes to hair salon and then meets Lynda Johnson at Boyhood Home; tree planting ceremony at Johnson City; Lady Bird mentions where Rebekah Baines and Sam Johnson met; Lynda Johnson's magazine article on "See America;" park is donated
- ; dedication ceremony for Wilkes College's Science Center; homes along the Susquehanna River; back to Washington for meeting with and reception for Democratic National Committee; with LBJ to Camp David
- Park; to future amphitheater & deserted brewery; Faison House in La Grange; Lady Bird plants pine tree; to William Neece home in Warrenton; tour of Winedale by Miss Ima Hogg; to Roundtop to restored homes, Lutheran Church & social hall; Johnsons to Hill
- with Dwight Eisenhower; Lady Bird to New York to dinner at Mary Lasker's home; ABC beautification film to be shown overseas
- Lady Bird gives commencement address at Radcliffe College; discussion with Mrs. Carl Gilbert; luncheon at Radcliffe President's home; Helen Keller; tour of Kennedy Library site; back to DC; State dinner for Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark
- ; speech and tree planting; to Carmel Mission & Big Sur Scenic Highway; speech; cameramen have to back up; to Big Sur State Park & Nathaniel Owing's home; nap; to Hearst's San Simeon Castle; receiving line & dinner
- Lady Bird & party board buses; briefing on Teachers Corps; stop at Silver-Webster High School; Lady Bird leads group along trail to Mathis home; Lady Bird visits with family, photos are done & all ride to school; ceremony; Lady Bird gives speech
- Lady Bird and the Ellingtons meet LBJ at airport; LBJ late because of ceremony at JFK grave; to Hermitage, with Lady Bird in horse-drawn carriage; Lady Bird & LBJ give speeches; to Andrew Jackson's gravesite; tour of home; motorcade to State Capitol
