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- at the door.
It was one of the most relaxed and satisfying parties I've been to in a
long time, partly because I was still flowing from that sensation of obligation
finished -- job accomplished.
I had told the White House that there would be no one for supper
- a r y 's
MEMORANDUM
THE W HITE HOUSE
Tuesday, A p r il 7, 1964
WASH INGTON
Page 5
in Dallas, when I was 15.
A l l in all, I'd say, I'd settle fo r m y p erfo rm a n ce today, both fo r m y
intake and m y give-ou t, but there is in the background o
- Roanoke Island; Lady Bird sees childhood friend, Emily Crow Selden, from St. Mary's Episcopal School in Dallas; Press Reports about LBJ's fast driving at the LBJ Ranch
- Lady Bird lunches with Hugh Sidey and Jean Franklin of Time magazine for study on Lady Bird; tea with friends; visit with friend from youth at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Dallas; Lynda Johnson to New York for Young Citizens for Johnson; Luci
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the ranch country; Gwen Gibson of the New Y ork H erald Tribune; and M ary
Packinham of the Chicago Tribune; and M u riel Dobbins of the B altim ore Sun,
Karen K le in felter, the best thing that happene d to the Dallas N ew s in years;
and Norm a Ekdahl
- . They were done at the time of publication to
provide transition from the Elms to the White House and from the grief following the
assassination to Christmas time.
Claudia
- Lady Bird describes riding in the motorcade in Dallas, Texas, with JFK, Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally, and Nellie Connally; hearing shots fired; feeling the car accelerate and arriving at [Parkland] Hospital; Lady Bird discusses
- Dallas, Texas
- ; Mrs. Johnson returns to White House; Lynda Johnson home for Luci Johnson's baptism; article in Herald Tribune;
- . Actually it’s a hall, but it’s what’s going to be the Johnsons’ informal family sitting room.
It’s remarkable how well my own furniture fits into the room that was Mrs. Kennedy’s. I’m glad
for the taxpayer, and I’m glad for me too because it saves my time
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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
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contributed to the White House with love and generosity.
And then I
sent them o ff on a to u r with Jim Ketchum and spent more time at my
desk, th i s time plowing deep in to the middle drawer, carefully taking
out very private things, such as the memo I
- Smathers.
He's
But there was a
She spoke of George and of her
sons and o f continuing to live in Washington for a year or so, but in
true female fashion I could not help thinking with a pang of times
past.
And there were old friends, the Jim Rowes
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V
1965 : , ■
Friday, August 27th
Lyndon's 57th birthday was oddly divided between a quiet morning
(I actually lay in bed and did some recording) and hours of riding the nice
edge of tension.
Some time during the morning I got a call from Lyndon
- Telephone call from Bill Moyers; ceremony and presentation of Johnson City park; tour for guests from Time-Life; LBJ arrives in Texas; LBJ's gives a reminiscent speech; Johnsons and guests go to boyhood home; LBJ picks up little boy and gets a kiss
- wear.
The most imp c, ssi bk time
of the year to try to find something n e.w to stock your wardrobe to wtllk
out feeling
a r mor c~d
the Com,c-ntion.
ag.'.linst the world - - is the tim e bet -.•:c en n0w and
·w e looked a bit forlornly uver my
- , red ties and ballet slippers.
And, they
perform ed, as an o fferto ry , a dance to Randall Thompson’ s Hallelujah, the
fir s t time I ev er saw dancing in church!
It was rea ll y beautifully, gracefu lly
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
- of news about tl.e
times the spc·ed of sound at 80, 000 feet.
s:
For instance, yesterd ay
-71 that flies at three
It was deli\·ered too much by
rote, too much like readin g , although there were moments of humor.
I di
- Informal press conference in LBJ's office; Goldwater calls LBJ "the biggest faker of all time"; LBJ walks ground with press; lunch with Senator Richard Russell; visit from Alabama relatives who tell about public accommodations; dinner with friends
- children leave. We went first to 30th
Place, that I’d lived and loved for so long--18 years it was--and then to Mrs. Hendrick’s, and
looked at some chintzes. As usual, didn’t find just what we wanted; came home in time for
a 4:00 meeting with Clark Clifford
- ,
This is
the f i r s t for me.
The f i r s t time to be the guest at
such a luncheon.
a
one of
m y self,
Mrs.
f t e
r
fift e e n times as being
the h o stesses-- twelve times as a Senate
three times as the
wife
wife of the Vice P resid e n t.
Dominick
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the family graveyard.
the biting wind.
And this morning we were heavily bundled up against
The country is gray and sere.
The only splash of color
the small p ilo t [?] down by the river close to the Lutheran Church.
is the time I shall want to travel
- , on his other trip to ihc United St;:i.l
- gy, horn-rimmed
glas s~s
and the: most
comical of exp ressions of distress on he r face, biting h(·r lip, was ent itle d
"Luci Goofed." And anothe r, really quit e> attractive, of Van Cliburn,
Luci (pretty this time) and t he kin
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and
then
George Bro w n s and
for
lunch,
such a
s ho o k h a n d s
in
th e Bob
a bit
time
is
into
to
a young,
w i t h a f e w of
vital
the
-jp-uley.
and c o n tr o v e r sia l.
coincide
w ith
hour
the
who w ere c o m in g
a hard place
tourists
-
by telling
group
.s
amu~ed
had delivered
and had done very
at the amount
of time
well.
a
He
she spent
on
only boys.
mountain
climber,
Mr. Dyringfurth,
Helen's
&f:fi-e-of Virginia
came
inl'\ or perhaps
-
there
-
Byrd
him self
- and we
- and who I somehow feel most
drawn to is Kenny O’Donnell, because I will never forget the way he looked that night in the
hospital on November 22nd.
After they left, our long-time favorite friends came for dinner. Upstairs, on the second
floor, informal
- l
:\i!EMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
j
WASHINGTON
Tuesday, May 9, 1967
Page I
....
There is a rhythm to life these days.
.
.
Weekdays
crowded,
.
demanding; and then a weekend
two days,
sometimes three, that
,~
Time to read and sleep a~d
- HITE
(
H O US E
W A SH INOTON
Saturday, F e b ru a ry 29, 1964
P a ge 3
the arran gem en ts fo r the appearance, and this was an ex cellen t time
also to have in the White H ouse, those other m e m b e rs of the Texas
so ciety that I m ay not get
- beautiful; and then into the Blue Room , posing fo r
Vogue m agazin e.
The picture w il l be in c o lo r - a c o v e r picture perhaps -
and it sim ply devours time.
ThenI rushed back upstairs and changed into a cocktail dress fo r the
fourth of our s e r
- be a centerpiece from a different
adm inistration.
Of course, not ev ery one of the 36 Presidents has had
a special china.
When the supply gets low enough that you can’ t seat a
State Dinner of 100 or m ore people, then its time for the adm inistration
- back some
of our birds in our own hands, the birds that I love so much that we’ve been accumulating
through the years.
We had dinner with just the Frank Ikards, Mary Lasker, and Jack, and Homer Thornberry.
Lyndon’s going to have a hard time doing
- is going to
i f this
He a ~ked Hubert to call if.il:ciel to stay for dinner with
u:. .
and the six of
-
Thornberr~
hnd I t;ot the
UG
who arrived in just a few minutes
had a delightful time .
I have no illusioqs that
a rresident and his '/ice
- like to take m y picture as I left.
And ended
This is the
fi r s t time that I can re m e m b e r being c l e a r l y annoyed at the p r e s s . ■
Not knowing how to ask h er to le a v e , I talked to her about the situation
of the press people fro m
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presen ted me with a "h a rd hat"
with the M a r s h a ll Space F ligh t insignia on the front, and m y name, and
at the same time told the tale of how he happened to have the Tex a s
stetson.
Lyndon had given it to him when he was at the ranch fo r
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THE W H IT E HOUSE
W A S H I N G T ON
Tuesday, A p r i l 28, 1964
P a ge 3
president of the National Bu s iness and P r o f e s sional Womens Club s .
I always like^ to have one G o v e r n o r ’ s w ife to these luncheon s , and
this time it was M r
- them u ntil they a re one ye a r old.
And then, from the
MEMORANDUM
TH E W H IT E HOUSE
W A S H IN G TON
F r id a y , M arch 6, 1964
Page 4
time they a re one ye a r o l d ' t h e y belong to the school from then on.
P arents
can come and do
- her pain, which
!
I re m e m b e r with considerable satisfaction.
Having g r e e te d a ll the big b rass, we went m arching in to the luncheon.___
A d la i Stevenson a r r iv in g fro m his la test c r is is at the UN, just in time to
go in with us
- young Tony and
with Diana's h o u s e k e e p e r, f o r a tour of the ground s , a glim pse
of the sw im m ing pool, and then to rid e hom e.
Gerry w as aglow , with h e r
adventure--this t r i p - - and high time it is , b ecau se you can't avoid
- and came back Monday afternoon!
And this
sum m er I can think of a time or two when a very hard-working
P resident has done it, but he has also taken his work with him,
and packed m ore into those three days than any human ought to.
After an hour
- 2
about the time he went to make a speech for Congressm an Cannon in M issou ri,
ixp
and everybody from Cannon him self, right on upto the P resid en t h ad ca lled ,
beat the tables and im plored him to - and then Cannon didn’ t even show up
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than I had thought that man of iro n would.
He mentioned they would have
had their thirtieth a n n iversa ry in a few months.
A ft e r eve ryb od y le ft, I took the time to do some reading and som e
w ork, and then clo se to seven, J e s s e and I
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publicity is ugly and it w ill be used abundantly by the Republican party fo r
the next five months I expect.
A t any rate, it was Abe*s opinion to do nothing, at least fo r the time
being.
I asked Elaine to go down and tel l Charlie Cutler I thought he
- to the White House in time to meet a rad iant Luci,
fr esh from her tr ium ph at Intcrl och c.:n and tasting th
- g t o n M o n u m e n t a n d on
.40Ai
i i
and I
had a
i n
bad cold,
a n d &A k o J i p i J a b J j e
o^ g.ue^i 4 i o
s o we J s - ^ i . i k e m
^eeJin^,
u/ehi
^oa. i k e
a i
ik e
one
l >Ai ng.
Ranch
mil l i o n t h
time in my life
- ; meeting with Harry Ransom & Frank Erwin about University of Texas, Wayne Grover & LBJ Library; first time LBJ has been guest at Luci's table; Pat Nugent coming home from Vietnam; Nugents will vacation in Formosa; Johnsons spend night at KTBC
