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Letter, Lyndon B. Johnson to Lady Bird Johnson, 5/7/1943 (Item)

. Then you'll have to write your next of kin at least twice "a'month. Had dinner with Bill Douglas last night and he was his usual entertaining self. He wished tha t you could have been there, but not half as much as Con gre s sma.n I r • Johnson. Mrs. Lyndon

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/10/1942 (Item)

said he wanted to take me and Nellie to dinner some night. On Tuesday, April.21, I have invited Mrs. Ickes, Mrs. Bill Douglas, Elizabeth Rowe, and Tharon Perkins to lunoh. I havn't had time to get an answer yet ~!'om Mrs. Douglas'1'i~§- l'm thinking

Postcard, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 7/31/1954 (Item)

Postcard from Bermuda, swimming, dinner and cocktails at the home of Captain and Mrs. Leeper, Admiral Gingrich

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/16/1942 (Item)

sense of color and some good little antiques. It will stand her in good stead, because women can't quite get over judging other women by their homes. She had a delicious dinner, too, and Bob told me a lot about his· current problems--cornmissions, towns

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/3/1942 (Item)

at home., and it was so !!:!:I,. muoh less expensive that way. But now that I am working all day I cannot eat lunch at home and I don't get there before eight o'clock usually., and therefore do not have time to do my share of cooking., besides I'm a little

Telegram, Lady Bird Johnson, Lynda Bird, and Lucy Baines to Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/27/1959 (Item)

• -- ~ - ~- .... ,;~ 'SENATOR LYNDON B JOHNSON= - ~ - -~~--- CARE PROGRAM ·cHAl'RMAN BRIDGE "';.. DEDICAT.JON EL PASO TEX THREE GO WIIH YOU EVERY MILE OF 1 TODAtS MARATHON JOURNEY• WE ARE HAPPY THAT END OF TRAlL -- BRtlNGS YOU HOME J0 US ON THlS BiRTHDAY AND ALL DAYS

Telegram, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 6/7/1938 (Item)

JOHNSON= 438 HOUSE OFFICE BLDG= i,Ji JUN 7 / J. ( CONGRATULATIONS DARLING ON HAVING NO OPPONENT~ COME HOME SOON= - - - LADYBIRD~. THERE IS NO DEPENDABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR WESTERN UNION TIME PM 59

Letter, Lyndon B. Johnson to Lady Bird Johnson, 8/17/1940 (Item)

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/15/1942 (Item)

, my love\ You know what the best thing about working up here is?? It makes me understand you so much better. I know why you can't get home any time you want to, and can readily see how you could become disheartened about the chances of our way of life

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 2/16/1942 (Item)

love livin with us and having home cooked neals and a nice livinr; room; but she 11vill miss the constant supply of males at the Dodge and the freedom of hotel life. However, you intend to give her a rsise of some size do you not when i'le be3in living

Letter, Lyndon B. Johnson to Lady Bird Johnson, 1942 (Item)

ever seen. She is waiting until I get home to try it on her, and I can hardly wait to see her in _it. Enclosed is copy of letter that I have written O. J. this afternoon. Will write a gain soon and hope to be able to tell you that I have gained ten

Memo, Horace Busby to Lyndon B. Johnson, 1/15/1968 (Item)

a ''lame-duck" might have unforeseeable serious consequences abroad without offsetting gains at home. I would not belabor that view, however, because on a decision like this, I earnestly believe every man -- including Presidents -- must step to his own drum

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 2/19/1942 (Item)

on• ot hia tavoritp oongJteaaman and you "oer• tai.nly didn't woh time in getting 1n." ••t• Yeaterd&r I went to ••• Wiok)' in the hospital and took her•~ pretty flower•• Both )ahe end the baby are tine, cd they •r• going home Monday. Th• hoap1.tal

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/17/1942 (Item)

how many times she used to have me out to her house when I was just a little University oo-ed with no prospects at all of being a "political asset"--and who seldom got good home-cooked meals and much enjoyed themi second, I like Betty because she works

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/27/1942 (Item)

she would try her best to stay until I got moved in. le seoond or third. but she did want to get home t ~ h job. I il!l'nediately te • Dogan. asking him if he oould find me an gi Then I called Edit~~ who used to work for us. I had heard Otha Ree say

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/19/1943, 5:30 pm (Item)

5:30 p.m. April 19, 1943 Darling mine 1 I enjoyed our talk la.st night very much ~nd I was eepeoially glad to hea.r tv~,o thinge-.-tha t we are releeeed from INS and the t you. may come home thla week-end. Both of those are things to oheer about

Letter, Lyndon B. Johnson to Lady Bird Johnson, 4/7/1943 (Item)

are now refinishing and I am confident they will be through by the time you arrive. Anyway, the fire didn't bother the kitchoo, breakfast room or the upstairs, which is the usable part of our . home, and we will certainly consider it a pleasure and quite

Letter, Claud to Aunt Effie, 1/16/1938 (Item)

you with it. However, I think you should try and get some of the good out of it while you are here. And in this connection, if it would not bring more worry than benefit, then it seems to me that it might be a good idea for you to have a winter home

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/12/1942 (Item)

to Washington April first and I very inubh want her to, even though it is conceivable you might come home and Nellie and Mary might not move out. Aunt Ef'f'ie hasn't been with us in three years and this is some• thing I really want to do, my heart. Next, I

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 5/12/1943 (Item)

be pro is d to T for m eoon. Could you &et e pictures of the resident, Sam, nd Bill Douglas? These ar the three I'd s ially · n --r presenting my f vori e figure n h three b ,. no ea or gov ra ment--but it .might be bad t te to ask Sam and Bill

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1942 (Item)

status {wHic~ the people back home interpret to be one of combat or preparation-for-combat) and get behind a desk where you could make lots of people funotion--and just let politics take care of itself. I am not at all short or faith with our country

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/9/1942 (Item)

, many kisses. I assure you the size and mumber of them was most unexpected. This afternoon I took off an hour and forty-five minutes and carried Peggy, Jr., her present. Elizabeth Rowe wasn1t at home, so I did not go by and leave her present as I

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/13/1942 (Item)

for good within the next few months, has had Friendly Pines remodeled and is thinking of building El ba.rraoke there and turning it into a convalescent home for sick soldiers. Then he said something that was perfectly sickening to me--he said ''his orowd

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/14/1942 (Item)

-? , I ~ /) ten days and is very much better now. Miss Foley did not W~ VV L...v knovr when she could come home. I sent her the new Antoine C ~ /~~ de St. Exupery book--I remember we discussed one of has . ' ·~Af ~ former books at her house and she liked

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/9/1943 (Item)

. Hope to come home tomorrow night or Sunday morning--may catch a ride back with Nell Parmelee Sunde.y. Call me at Bill's if you want me. Iarling, I had forgotten how incred.i bly pleasant life in Austin is and how I love the place. The weather is blue

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/17/1943 (Item)

ve listened to me, yes?'? Jiny,,.rey , I love you with a ll my heart Q.nd let' a try to kee that 1.d. tot~1 down . Bills at home ere: Telephone Gae Wa ter ( 5 months) Laundry & cle~,n1nt:t ~VoodY'"ard • s The · oodward'a bill includes e

Letter, Lyndon B. Johnson to Lady Bird Johnson, 4/1/1943 (Item)

day. Last night I went by and picked Jim Rowe up and had dinner at his home with Elizabeth, her mother and Jim's father. Got hom3 about 10:30 and Sam Houston and Albertine were still up. I have been getting down to the cormnittee meetings

Telegram, Lyndon B. Johnson to Lady Bird Johnson, 4/2/1948 (Item)

for America's favorite magazines-HOLIDAY 1 yr•• $5 • the request,, Publlsherwlll,onsubserlber'a . ' refund full amount Post, 1 yr.,'$6 • LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, 1 yr., $3. All prices U.S. only. No charce paldforcoplesnotpre:vlously n W • • • · malled. Prices

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/4/1943 (Item)

. • 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

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/8/1943 (Item)

I'd want your help on. IT SEE1v1S TO JJ9J WE OUGHT TO Jff.AKE A DECISION ON ffffillRTrAN BEFORE N'.E HIH.E ANOT1L~R SALESTlfP).N~ Burt leaves us in two weeks. Let's hire Sherman or not hire him by then. home by then, maybe? That is, April 21. Can

Memo, 1943 [re: KTBC] (Item)

29 to April 3! ! ! Says this of course most unusual . Did not go home before 9:30 t\ny night . IIer tti tude very rna.tter-of-f~wt about this, not at all bragging or expect1n~ praise . Recommend that we keep Iviiss Sneed permanently . she's caliber

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/14/1943 (Item)

of work on the studio equipment, pick-ups, console, and microphone, that it was all a home-made job and badly run down with poor fidelity that was definitely noticeable on the air . We could get along with it as it is for a while but there is notelling

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 5/5/1943 (Item)

••••Since l am. ot com.inc: home, ther$ a.re o. numbe• or t b ta nor or rleht « y. I'll 11st t and you oan d1vide Z phyr and ry • or per 1&ps Ze hyr can do th . all. l. U, tur ooat should ...,o to stora • r1 2h~ ~ • I don't want to riak ~ next two year

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/11/1942 (Item)

was "going to tend to that about Lyndon." I want to go to see him about it and remind liim end I have no reluctance to call him for some of his time either at his home or at the office. Would you like me to and do you have any suggestions as to what I should

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 2/26/1942 (Item)

what job Holtahoft holde in Justice, which I should have. but will a1k Welly •hem I oan get him. I have al .r eady called Welly at both ~ffioe and home to report but have not found him yet. At tourthirty I wfttlt on down to see B•~istant Secretary

Letter, Lady Bird Johnson to Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/2/1943 (Item)

ticL. . n in caso so . nebocy 1c.ntec1 to muke sometl:in,-- out o.f' tt . ',lht1.t c1o you think1 nd everythin_: :..,.lwuys --;ets knovm- -thl t oNe c~n 2. iepeni on •••• I keep on thinking of thoae artng blooka •••• Senator aakei me to go home

Note, Lynne to Dorothy, 1965 (Item)

~e.4J..deni. /4 tcdhe.1t/4 4J..4i.eA. They, lzved i.n the hoMe io1i Lj2 ·fj-ea;w until i.he;; 4ol..d i.t. i.o t.he i.hen 1 U... .)r . ) encdoA. fA.Om ~ T 1 exM .. ';Owu_nf} i.f.4 occupancfj- bf!- t.he /YJCVLi.J.rw t.hVLe wVl.e manfj- addi.t.J