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in the · Washington Hilton who had paid $250 a plate -- the proceed~ to be
divided equally between the Senate and House Congressional committees.
Phil Re.&an singing the National Anthem .as he has since time began,
and looking very . little older .
A new touch
- National politics
- assistance; Lady Bird has dressing fitting with Adele Simpson; tea for East Wing staff; Democratic Campaign Committee Fund Raising Dinner; John McCormack, Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey & LBJ give speeches; Richard Daley family are houseguests
- we were so democratic I
traveled with my maid, who was Spanish and had at that point joined me.
It took forty-one days to go from Portugal to Buenos Aires,
because the British decided there were a lot of spies on the boat.
They
stopped us--I forget
- relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
- in the Texas legislature, the House.
I heard about a young whipper-
snapper who was in the Congressional race to succeed [James P.] Buchanan
who had died.
He had been chairman of the Appropriations Committee.
I
say a young whippersnapper because that's
- weaknesses as President; LBJ’s storytelling and sense of humor; if LBJ had been elected to Appropriations Committee, he would not have run for the Senate
- by the go vern o rs conferen ce jointly,
with the national go vern o rs association of Japan and the State Department.
T a ll, s e v e ra l-tim e s -g o v e rn o r of D elaw are, E lb e rt C a r v e ll, who’ d
made s e v e r a l trips to Japan
- 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
- National politics
- is visiting; Luci is writing book about Yuki; LBJ teases Luci about her briefcase; filming in Treaty Room; tea for Connie Freeman; visit with the Bill Whites; Dean Rusk testifies before committee of Democratic National Convention; Vietnam; USSR invades
- Hampshire primary a little bit, I don't
think he ever did anything affirmative to get in thereo
I think that
Johnson over-reacted by ordering Bobby to fire a fellow called Paul
Corbin from the Democratic National Committee.
Paul Corbin, C-O-R-B-I-N,
had
- really didn't have
enough money in the budget to do the things that he thought were important.
F:
So he was very active as long as he was there, you know.
Now, any congressional official who sits on a committee that oversees you is a person to think
- in 1968; post-mortem discussion; Lady Bird has clothes fittings & desk work; LBJ gives prepared speech at dinner for Democratic National Committee and then goes "off-the-cuff"; that morning, LBJ meets with Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Henry Fowler & John
- National politics
- ; Johnsons to party for National Council on the Arts at Roger Stevens' home; to party for Lynda Johnson at City Tavern; Lady Bird mentions guests; visit at White House with Arthur Krim, Abe Fortas & Marvin Watson about Democratic National Committee
- for John Bailey, and I had
been doing some minir:;2l li.aison work ,-lith the Democratic National
Committee trying to stay. And there were a few other people who were
doing it.
Roche was doing i t , and I guess McPherson in a different
way was doing
- acro ss
to any m em bers of the Committee who might care what labor thought,
th eir hopes in favor of the beautification legislation, and that he
would think about a donation to the National Capital, and he wanted
me to think about being chairman
- DuPont
and Mrs.
DuPont, the Chairman of Mrs.
Arts Committee,
came and seemed to enjoy them selves.
And the next day had many good
it.
Kennedy's Pine
things to say about
The Lloyd Hands were about the handsomest coup le
there.
And Clark C l i f f
- Natural resources and national parks
- Lady Bird breakfasts with LBJ; Lady Bird appointment with Indira Gandhi of India; Lady Bird's lunch with Jane Everhard about Fine Arts Committee; reception for wives of National Academy of Sciences members; LBJ's impromptu speech about "can-do
- Natural resources and national parks
- for Citizens Advisory Committee on Recreation and Natural Beauty where Lady Bird makes statement and helps Alan Boyd present awards; Laurance Rockefeller speaks; LBJ joins reception; LBJ swims; Lady Bird reads Elia Kazan's "The Arrangement"
- LBJ has Congressional Leadership Breakfast; Lady Bird meets Ladies Committee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; planning for the Women Doers' Luncheon on child health; photos with the National Association for Retarded Children and their poster child
- ik I n a u g u r a l
n memory, w h ic h makes Howard B u r r i s , th e
Parade Committee Chairman a D ip lo m a t as w e l l a s an
E x e c u tiv e .
Texas had a f l o a t t h a t was a r e p l i c a o f
th e LBJ r a n c h h o u s e , w i t h a p
- LBJ, Lady Bird & Luci Johnson to prayer service at National City Christian Church; Inauguration; funny story about Fern Baines; seating on inaugural platform; LBJ takes oath of office and gives address; inaugural luncheon; Lady Bird's classmate from
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Wednesday, May 17, 1967
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in South Texas. It is hard for us to keep current, to bring in new names—new blood for
invitations to committees, to add their strength to our personal and political life.
Cecil showed me a delightful picture of a big complex
- Bird reminisces about reading "Peter Rabbit" to daughters; Spanish lesson; Military Reception; Baroness Maria Von Trapp is guest & she wants to take "Sound of Music" to Vietnam for servicemen; dinner upstairs with guests; Committee on Retardation
- Bird taking home movies; back to Schornhorst; Okamoto takes photos for Beautification Committee; boating at the Haywood Ranch; helicopter to West Ranch for dinner
- double amputee ..-
-/re lost to Romney .-fr'nd his pretty wife Alice.
Dear Robin Duke's frienrl, Mrs. Harcourt Amory, who helps h(:r
out by being Chairman of the Blair House Fine Arts Committee.
The luncheon was remarkable for several
the
loudspeaki
- Lady Bird meets with J.B. West about household matters; office work; swims laps in pool; seventh Congressional reception; Education Bill is out of committee; Congressmen to briefing and wives to theater and second floor; funny story about Mrs. Ralph
- Return home from Florida; Visit to and meeting with Mrs. Kennedy about Society for the Preservation of the White House and its members; Mrs. Kennedy agrees to be public member; Fine Arts Committee; gift of four JFK minted coins; office work; John
- LBJ is in a dark mood; death of Senator Richard Russell's son; White House Festival of the Arts; press response to Festival; Lady Bird takes a nap; reception for Inaugural Committee workers; quick remarks by LBJ; visit by Tony and Matiana Taylor
- Presentation of Johns Adams silver urn to White House with Adams family members present; Mark Bortman, People-to-People program, and visit of Bashir Ahmed, camel driver, during Vice Presidency; Committee of Preservation of the White House; Bortman
- Hair salon; Luci Nugents escorts Tricia Nixon & Nixon Cabinet members' children through White House; Lynda & Chuck Robb are in Bangkok; last meeting of Committee for the Preservation of the White House; report on White House Historical Association
- ; bus tour & dedication of Haines Point fountain; remarks by Lady Bird; LBJ gives remarks to Committee; Beautification booklet; Lady Bird meets with Charles Maguire; LBJ to reception given by African-American appointees; LBJ awakens ill and goes
- Office work; Promotions for Women in Armed Forces bill signing ceremony; LBJ presents Bronze Star to Major Marie Rodgers, an African-American, and a Legion of Merit to Colonel Ethel Hefley; Committee for Preservation of the White House meeting
