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knows what airmail does these days.
Am leaving on 2 :30 train this afternoon for Dallas. F..s.ve
called Bill Clark to ask him if I could see him sometime tomorrow
morning and of course he responded with an invitation to stay at
their house and said he
- for an hour each day.
Since Bill indicated that he Nould take something else, Escoe has
prepared four other suggestions and mailed them to him last night.
Escoe was going to Dallas this morning to see him. Since I
wanted to go to Dallas myself to see 1:rr
- . • Seenie Dr1••
Au• 1.n. 'fe:xu
Sunday 4 p.m.,
De
pril 4, 1943
reat loTe:
Saturlay morning I went by to ae• it ·••Johnson•••
home yet but ahe wa•a'i. Then Saturiay night she e 11•4 ae
••haY1n1 Ju•1
r1Tet-to aay that there were a oupl ot
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I.t you ob~eot, let me k.no • oth rwise I sh 11 write
lilm. An1 old uncl 1 ed r
orda of no u e to ue I sh ll give to Reed's
b cau ., thy ar nice to us and thy need them for eor p, else the1
oan' t g t new record •
Jam1e oalle. Scurry today. was told
- 4921 30th Place,~.
Washington, D . c.,
April 12, 1943.
w.,
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson,
e/o Mr. J. c. Kellam,
Brown Building,
Austin, Texas.
Dear Lady Bird:
This morning I had a talk with Jim Bond of the Manpower Commission here. He told me that under
- Lady Bird:
Just received your note written at 1:25 PM April 6.
The news on the Standard and aSCAP situation appears to be
good. Please follow through and get both definitely settled.
I will give some thought to the Safeway matter, but I know we
cannot
- , pianos, .
chairs, draperies, and everything be new looking, bright and modernistic.
We must go now from one extreme to the other - from the old to the new,
from the dirty to the clean, from the drab to the bright - and I know you,
Mother, Betty, with F
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The other two big problems with the station as I see them are
these:
( l) Keeping opera.ting costs at a minimum l9w.' Roughly, I
think these can be divided under the following heads:
(a)
Personnel
(b)
Service ( including news reports, Standard Library
- Press; Homer
Williams of the Postal Clerk (about you); and Mr. Buckner
of the San Marcos Record. Today I see I have the fo~lowing
to write: Mrs. Dale of the J3J..a.nco_Oounty News; Mrs. Glidden of the Johnson City Courier; and Leslie Cooper ot the
San
- was all 1.in and they were going to New
York over the week-end for a vacation\ (She was really glad I
_.!..n --, ~
took notice of her to ask her though, and I'm very glad I got
~ --'
that off.) So I actually took Mrs. Arthur Carter, who has moved
up here
- be going to
dinner or meeting him anywhere o
not going to New
York this· week-end and that I
. t want him to call me with
any plans to -~!£1f!ie a meet·
hink he knew it all ahead
of time and was n~ surprised
waa very full of gh.arming
compliments, whioh
- - /, \
mand being approved end he said he had--so I will forbear. \A
~
I
1(rY.
.,,.
I called Kate Foley as soon as your letter came.
Mrs. Forrestal is at Doctors' Hospital, East End Avenue at
87th Street, New York City, N. Y. She has been there for ~, 1 -H
- of any uncertainties and to enerate a
little enthusiasm.
Now, dear, I shall begin giving you report• on all the thin a you a&ked about.
2.
l.
Statue of' new epaoe
As you suggested l asked Jamie to phon• Sourry •
He phoned both Scurry and San
- March 18, 1942, 12 o'clock noon
Dearest:
Much important stuff is happening tod~y. First. we received three hot wires this morning on the labor situation,
one signed by the directors of the Chamber of Commerce of
Austin, the other two signed by San
- there was someone
in ou:r otfioe from eight-thirty in the morning to seven-thirty in
the evening and muoh of the day S1mdny and the moment the decision
was reached, it would mean a. lot to ua if' he would lat us knO"l:h
Fr013 the general compl~'l;ion or the talk
- Judge appointments, Army Air Support Command for Austin, office visits and mailing. Attachments concerning judge appointments for new Municipal Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia
- legtsl t1on, that the House passed it, and O'D. vetoed
it, thereby "saving my skin" and, I gathered, seving his prestige
with hie oompany. He se1d he was going to aue the Reader's Digest u: they printed the New Republic (or '.Nation??) story eeying
- on the lookout for them.
I talked to International News and think I should have
something by the end of the week.
I am enclosing checks for $1500.00 which you can deposit
in your account in the American National Bank and let Jesse draw
it out to pay bills. I
- ska again ••I orten I ••Nptel ~or ruture t1111e•• I
alao ••• Benp thia morning-•h• ••• beamiDC am aa14 ha wa led
to talk to me leiaurely an• t leng,h oon.
aul Bolton• llei
me alli a•k•• m•. "8 ti er omorrow.
But the beat ot all ••• aeeillg iear olt
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meeting at it's monthly luncheon Wednesday--for which I
would not give two pins except that I do see about twenty
Congressmen's wives there and this time it is being given
as a farewell party for Mrs. Leavy before they leave to
assume the new duties.
V
- ., Its th first t1me en7th1ng of that nature ha ever be•n done
in the history of the te.t1on and ev r7bod7 id eeem \o haT
grend
time.
2.
hie morning H rfield nd I ent to ae
r. Belnan about our
moving. ·e eimpl7 told him that we woulJ be mo•1ng between
- Harfield starting at station and station picnic, KTBC moving studio space, difficulty collecting on old account debts, getting new KTBC studio space furnished and arranged
- . KNOWLAND, CALIF.
HARRY P. CAIN, WASH.
RALPH E. FLANDERS, VT.
WILLIAM H. DARDEN, CHIEF CLERK
COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
May 12, 1952
Dear Lady Bird:
I am enclosing copies of several letters I dictated
as soon as I got to the office Monday morning.
W e
- March 12, 1942--1 P.
Iii
Darling;
The best news I've had today came in a wire from Aunt
Effie this morning--a oopy of' which I shall enclose. In
February, 1939, just before she oame to see us in Washington
when ff'! were living at 1910 Kalorama
- ong
letter 't". eoom.rnending settlom nt tor 1'. 25 t o tlieir New York hea.d,1 u.r~r-
tora--o r m·-- y'bo ho had · lr ady. sont the l etter,
.. r now u sin
t.SC.t-. mud o. but the wholo thin~ OtHl 1t bo h oneotl)' pro nmmoosd
we hour bhn
tho lietv Y
- .
a
oopJ of .Dad•
note and I
taking
f~-- ~ll'~,:•/
John H1oks o m by thi morning.
fine, alb 1t he. 1a extremel1 7ouns.
I liked hi
th
loolf:•
n4 ma . er
Beal is so difighted
setting h1ma so is J. abel; I think there 1e a general
e1a m gettlne; round
- ~:45 p. m. April 14, 1943
Dearest love:
The last two days I have almost felt like throwing up my hands
--but I don't think I'd ever really do that.
Yesterday morning I went out to the transmitter and spent about
an hour ·with Mr. Meiners. I don't
- March 11, 1942,
11 A. M.
Darling:
Here goes the volume, written in the morning because if I wait until seven or eight o'clock at night
there is never time enough.
Your letter or March 9, in which you tell me that
you really are not ~using 100
- Maroh 8, 1942
Dee.rest love:
!~~
This is Sunday afternoon and there are on~ Ed, Nellie, and
I at the office. Mary is reading yours eeches at her room at
the Dodge for "prophecies" for 1\Jordon. O. J. i inted this morning--so Mary told me ; I
- Lady Bird writes on stationery from the New Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans saying she showed her father her ring when she returned from Austin, and they talked. Her father and other family and friends think she should wait before marrying.
- Lady Bird thanks LBJ for the phone call which "made everything alright again." She asks about the "New York business" and the "South Texas deal."
- of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO MY DEAR THE SPEM
- Happy New Year
- TELEGRAM
DAY LETTER
NIGHT LETTER
RADIOGRAM
CABLEGRAM
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April 21, 1966
Mrs. Lyndon Bo Johnson
cl o Pierre Hotel
Sapphire Room
New York, New York
I KNEW 30 YEARS AGO WHAT PEABODY HAS FINALLY LEARNED ..
YOU
- Lady Bird tells LBJ that if he comes to Texas she will be with him "all the time you can put up with." She asks about offers he has received from New York and South Texas. She comments on his low spirits and encourages him to have enthusiasm
- LBJ writes that "he has just about lost his ambition" although their phone call last night "gave me new strength." He is discouraged by Lady Bird's indecision, says Maury Maverick has offered to lend them his house for a honeymoon. LBJ says he
- LBJ writes in response to Lady Bird's October 17 letter to him, reassuring her of his love for her. He discusses plans for their future together, including a possible new job. He descibes seeing the play Jayhawker and his plans to go dancing
- LBJ expresses his feelings about their continued relationship and tells Lady Bird about his mother's letter about her. He writes that the GE [General Electric] plans in New York are "out of the picture." He has caught another cold but will go
- , talks about the show he saw, and a discussion with Helen [Crouch] about her father who is on the New York Court of Appeals. LBJ tells Lady Bird he is anxious to receive the pictures of her in her cotton dress.
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Rogers a~ ,ia not to sk for a new ol iti if 1oat1on , even
1f n w d.utea r nd re pone1b1l1tee were. adAed. .. becau e th t was
corning to be looked upon ae a.n ttempt at evasion of th law.
It goea to Houston, vhere they just rJ'mil._1t--no a.ct
- Liver with On.i.cm.1, 1.15 (Steak Cut) 1.30
Club Steak-·-··· -_r-..
Filet Mignon or ·i·-Bqne Steak
1 A:
New York Cut Sirl(ijn S+eak
1.4
Double New Yori Out Sirloin {for 2)-2.9J
Double Porterhouse Steak (for 2)---2.91
Planked Steak (for ~)---------4.80
- Asking to store film from election, for new film to take pictures of bluebonnets, and clippings from the clippings file to be used for writing a new program script
