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- y q u ic k ly w e w e r e in s id e in th e D ip lo m a tic R e c e p tio n R o om
g r e e t i n g th e r e s t of the p a r t y f r o m I r a n .
And w h e n L yndon to o k
the P r i m e M i n i s t e r a w a y , B e s s had Bob K nu dse n h an d
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t u l i p s , n a r c i s s u s , v i o l e t s — e s p e c i a l l y p r e p a r e d by
M a r i e t t a B ro o k s , s h e s a i d ; and Bob S t r a u s s , and C a ro ly n K ellam w ith
Monday, J a n u a ry 20, 1969
b o th h e r l i t t l e
- about twelve o’clock at night,
decided they would light the fire. So they did. And the smoke came pouring out, filling the
room and the hall. Lucy said that she thought the British were back again. It wasn’t so
funny to me. And I hope the staff didn’t
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what we
The curtains
I had a lrea d y taken down and disp o s ed o f and we looked at a lot of possible
o f s a m p le s fo r drapes and s lip c o v e r s , none of which w e r e r e a lly right.
I had rather hoped to turn it into a sun room
- rce One, taking Him, quivering
a ll over when he gets on a plane, and Sam H ouston, who can sc a rc e ly walk,
who Lyndon hopes to have helped by m assag e and m edical tre a tm e n t and such
com panionship as we have tim e fo r betw een now
- i t to Lyndon, who took i t with gusto and pretended that he was drinking i t .
I hope that none of the cars that passed us recognized any of us.
I t would have been an unsettling sight.
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Back at the White House Lyndon lay down.
y e t.
He's
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It was in the l ib r a r y
T V room , and the script was good enough
to make me anxious to see how it is going to turn out.
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Then, at 4 o ' c l o c k / I went back to the Green Room , to r e c e iv e the
s w ord of hope fro m the A m e r ic a n Cancer
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I sp en t the e a r ly
■morning w ith L iz on m y few w ord s to say at the J ew ish lu n ch eon and going
o v er r e p o r ts and fa c ts and fig u r e s for m y in te r v ie w w ith M e r le S e c r e s t
- w orks on the A r t s and C rafts portion of it.
Jane introduced me and then I had a few words to say, which em bodied
m y old hope that one day we w i ll have a National A rts and C r a ft s center where
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tourists to the USA, like they can in n e
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try in g to p ro te c t the , , . (v ery b lu rre d w ith s ta tic ).
And I hope som e tim e
in J a n u a ry o r F e b ru a r y we w ill a r r iv e a t som e p ro sp e c tiv e se p a ra tio n
of th is lo n g -co n tin u ed e s ta te .
Lyndon jo in ed
- move off, and I could plant the whole thing in pine
They' re the tail- end, the v e ry last residue of a dying economy,
trees,
and their only hope lie s in whether their children w ill learn some voc ational
sk ill at the Autangoville High School w h
- fo r the D an es on Ju n e
9 th,
D orris gav e m e little hope and M ary none, but N eva s a id that they would.
MEMORANDUM
T H E W H IT E H O U S E
W ASHINGT O N
Sunday, M ay 31, 1964
P age 2
Lynda had sta y e d in A u stin m o s t of the tim e
- 1964
Sat urday, July 25~
Was an easy and pleasant day.
About noon I W(·nt ove r to Lyndon's
office, hoping I could snare him, a nd walked right into an informal press
conference.
Lyndon in his rockin;; chair, some 25 or 30 news paper peopl e
- for President Kennedy and now for Lyndon. The Kenny O’Donnells, the O’Briens,
the Maguires, the Jenkinses, Bill Moyers alone, Jack Valenti. We just had a drink, watched
the fire, talked about the day’s events, the Congress, the problems, the actions, and I hope
- and yellow with a flowered moire
t a f f e ta .
I hope i t will be enjoyed, perhaps in some guest room in the
White House, in the future.
Then Helen raised the shades—and the
view was magnificently the same, now and forever.
I was up e a rly , worked
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When we did find it,
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
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S atu rd ay , F e b ru a ry 8, 1964
P age 2
I can see why the m an le ft and why i t is fo r s a le .
And I c e rta in ly hope we
d o n 't w ind up g
- popcorn and a d rin k , w atch in g a m o v ie .
If
e v e r I object^shaking th re e thousand hands I hope I r e m e m b e r th at I have
MEMORANDUM
T H E W HITE HOUSE
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W ASHING TON
Saturday, A p r il 4, 1964
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th is s ort of a p r iv ile g e
- into the ca r, w h irled
out the gate and started, we hoped, fo r the R ev eren d G eo rg e Davis'
Christian Church.
But we had only about three minutes to make it and
we didn’ t know ex a ctly the address, so instead we w h irled around and went
down
- hope
fu lly for b r id g e . It b eg in s
I b e lie v e I can w ork w ith
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- and not well at all I try to bring these girls into our
life as well as teach them some c;>f my thinking and phrases and bow I hope
they present us to the world.
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At a reception I usually ask Christine to give
a name · of one or two of her girls to Bess
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Suddenly in the drone of r ep ea ted g reetin g s
and fa c e s filin g by, th e r e in front of you i s a m an w ith no le g s , on a board
w ith r o lle r s down c lo s e to the flo o r and only one a rm .
You hope your fa c e
d o es not show shock or d
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But the m o st im p ortan t thing in m y day w as the b egin n in g of the
ABC p r o je c t, w h ich I hope w ill sp ea k to the w h ole cou n try and sow so m e
s e e d s o f in te r e s t in nationw ide b e a u tific a tio n .
I have n e v e r
- s to appoint so m eo n e to fit
hi s post.It w a s clou d y and w e could hope for rain .
m uch.
We n eed ed it v e r y ,
But for the night, p e r so n a lly , I hoped it w ould hold off u n til
10:00 b e c a u se w e had in v ited a ll the p r o
- E n gland and Irela n d
was now a thing o f the pa st o r not,
H is answ e r was in te restin g .
I hope I said it b e tte r than that.
He said, "T h e fa rth e r aw ay we draw le g a lly ,
the c lo s e r we com e as frie n d s , "
I was ch arm ed
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h o u r s v?ith B i l l a t T h e E l m s .
W h a t a jo b , t r y i n g to s e l l t h i s h o u s e t h a t I f i l l e d w i t h l o v e a n d
som e ta s te , I hope, and a g re a t d eal of c a r e .
I t to o k m e a b o u t t h r e e
o r f o u
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Up to now
sh e a n d W a rrie h av e m a n a g e d to do a lo t of th in g s
q u ite f r e e ly , q u ite u n b o th e re d by p e o p le , I hope th a t i t c o n tin u e s ,
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L a te in th e e v e n in g w e w en t fo r a dip in the p o o l. B
- length panel w i l l be a v a ila b le in about two w eek s and he p r o m is e d to send
it o v e r to m e to lo o k a t.
I t ’ s a fa it a c c o m p li and I can only hope that t h e r e 's
enough m o n e y in the t r e a s u r y o f the h i s t o r i
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with ab o u t 48 w o r s h i p e r s , m o r e than i t ' s e v e r h a d b e f o r e ,
I w ondered if
the w o r s h i p e r s h e a r d the s h e e p b le a tin g a c r o s s the s t r e e t , d u rin g the
se rv ice s.
I hope the p r e s s w
- at an e a r ly map o f Sir W alter
R a le ig h s * colony, and I had looked e a r l i e r / ^ t t h e ^ a r v e lo u s drawings of
lo g g e r h e ad tur tles, Indian co n ju rer, Indian spearing fish fr o m a boat, and
pelicans; and hoped that the guests
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THE W HITE HOUSE
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WASIHN GTON
Thursday, A p r i l 9, 1964
WHD
Today was a truly big day.
Up e a rly , 7 o ’ clock, brea kfa st with Lyndon, whom I had hoped would
sleep la te r.
M y la st words to him w e re
that I could
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To try
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it fo r at le a s t one y e a r , lea rn in g about life togeth er and r e s p o n s ib ility and
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in d ep en d en ce, then a lw a y s, alw a y s hope they w ill com e b ack to A u stin by
c h o ic e .
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w h om I hope v e r y m u ch to b e a b le to p e r su a d e to c o m e dow n and h e lp us
out in s o m e c a p a c ity .
Our p o o l o f th e h igh c a lib r e b r a in s lik e h is is not
to o d e e p and w id e and w e do
- uch in evidence and having a good tim e and, I hope, a r e m ee tin g som e
of the p r e s s ,
B ecau se Lyndon w as la te , L uci stood in lin e w ith m e and re c e iv e d
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THE WHITE HOUSE
M onday, J a n u a ry 6, 1964
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WASHINGTON
that overtak e m e when a ll o f a sudden I've had too m uch.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINOTOH
Saturday, F e b r u a ry 1, 1964
P age 2
and ev ery th in g i s fin a lly s e ttle d .
You a re hopeful
- Washington, the whole planeload fu ll of them, w h o
I hoped
would come to lo ve m y hometown as I lo ved it, and I told h er that
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r e a ll y I w ished she wouldn't take m y p ic tu re as I le ft.
So she got up and
went to the phone and made a ca ll
- at the sig n a tu res -- and v e r y often I cou ld .
S e c r e tly I hoped that Johnny W alker and C arter Brow n w e r e a s im p r e s s e d
■as I w a s!
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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
F r id a y , M a r c h 11, 1966
WASHINGTON
P age 2
- r a b ilia
w h ich w e
hope to s ta r t show ing in c a s e s in the E a st Wing fo r the to u r ists
oawr e bac ked up, often s ix -w id e on b u sy su m m er d a y s.
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T hey w ill be
r e a d y fo r th em to s e e in e a r ly S u m m er
- had gone into A u stin fo r
a p a r k m e e tin g that m igh t la s t a ll day, h is s e c r e ta r y s a id .
I a sk e d ■
E r n e s t to co m e out and ta lk w ith u s , and ta c tfu lly (I hoped) w en t o v er
th e a ttr a c tiv e p la n s M r. M
- an som and the R eg e n ts, and
th en in ca m e Lyndon.
so m ew h a t d iv id ed .
F r o m then on the p r e s s co n feren ce w as
Lyndon ta lk ed .
Y e s , he hoped the b uilding
w ould be fin ish e d w ith in two y e a r s a fter th e plan s w e r
- s so w e ll, is so s u r e in h e r to u ch ,
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I lo o k e d a t
th e m , lik e d th e m , am going to buy one o r two and hope I c a n so o n g et
c lo th e s o u t of m y l i f e f o r th e n e x t th r e e o r fo u r m o n th s .
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