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  • by dinner with Senators Russell, Hill, Frear and Mrs. Frear, the Skeeter Johnsons, Thornberrys and the Smathers. 1/12 10:30 a.m. meeting with JFK, attends Texas Delegation family luncheon at the Capitol, then apparently has appointment with Dr. Travell
  • home before returning to the Ranch. 4/18 LBJ attends the board of directors meeting at the Citizens State Bank in Johnson City this morning, travels to the Austin to make a radio tape at KTBC before returning to the Ranch with Roy White, the Kellams
  • changes his party affiliation from Independent to Democrat. 2/18 Senator Lister Hill, in a Senate speech, charges that Adolphe Wenzell, vice president of the First Boston Corporation, a company scheduled to help arrange financing for the Dixon-Yates West
  • Diamond Jubilee Birthday Dinner in Boston, Massachusetts, which honors Truman on his 75th birthday. JFK introduces LBJ at the dinner as “Mr. Democrat.” Texas State Senate passes the amendments to HB 158 requested by Governor Daniel. 5/9 LBJ and CTJ fly
  • with Stanley Marcus, Ed Connally, Mr. Choate (Boston Herald-Traveler), Mr. & Mrs. Hobart Taylor, Jr., Jim Pipkin and Augustus Long of Texaco, and Frank Mayborn. Talks with Woodrow Seals and with Secy. Freeman. 1/20 Lunch at White House for [Democratic
  • , Pittsburg, Dangerfield, Linden, Atlanta, arriving in Texarkana for the night. CTJ is in Marshall for the rest of the week. Mary Rather writes Paul Porter: “Since the campaign started he has already worn out two grown men who took turns traveling with him
  • . Braniff vs. Eastern Airlines. Spring LBJ has no opposition for re-election in primary. June CTJ (Lady Bird Johnson) and Rebekah Baines Johnson travel from Washington to Texas, visit Monticello and the Hermitage en route. LBJ works for farm parity. June
  • LBJ travels to Burbank and back to Los Angeles. 1/5 LBJ travels to Wilmington, California and back to Los Angeles. 1/6 LBJ travels to San Diego and back to Los Angeles. 1/7 LBJ flies to San Francisco. CTJ visits Huntington Library in San Marino
  • by the Federal Reserve Board and the drought in Texas. 6/30 LBJ makes a speech on the Senate floor in support of the Mutual Assistance Program. Late June-Early July Steve Mitchell is traveling in Texas. July 7/2 Luci’s birthday party. 1953 Chronology ● p. 14
  • a day, six days a week, just to keep up. Texans sure do love to travel, and they all seem to travel to or through Washington with a problem. But I am enjoying it and guess I wouldn’t like anything that moved along in a quiet ordinary way. . . .” 3/3
  • desperately short of good people now.” Late August 8/22 The Alvin Wirtzes travel to South America when Senator Wirtz is appointed to serve as an adviser to the Brazilian-American Commission. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation administrator Stuart
  • to your family.” 1/30 A.W. Moursund writes LBJ about his plan to succeed Arthur Stehling as counsel for the PEC, Perdernales Electric Coop. 1/31 LBJ, Secretary for Air Stuart Symington, and Congressmen Ed Gossett and W. R. Poage travel to Texas
  • Elgin High School graduates travel to Washington. The group visits the Capitol, watches Senate and House in session, and calls on LBJ. LBJ honors them with a luncheon in the Speaker’s dining room, afterwards CTJ takes them to FBI for special tour, all