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  • them in abundance in window boxes in the front of practically every home, in gardens, in the streets, and the roads approaching the towns 0 W e have much to learn from the people of the Netherlands. Like the people of your country, Mr. Ambassador
  • 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
  • , 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
  • ," 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
  • 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
  • ; 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
  • ; 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
  • 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
  • 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 . / . 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
  • 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
  • ; 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