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- Breakfast on back deck. Read papers.
2. 10:15 Play bridge w/ Mary, Tim, and Ashton. Beer and popcorn.
12:40 Watched TV - Arthur Goldberg w/ President.
3. 1:00 To get dressed.
1:25 Bridge again.
2:30 Mr. Kellam, June and Bill White arrived.
Dr. Davis
4. 2:35
- in briefly
3:00 Began to take a nap.
2. 3:20 President came over for lunch. Went into dining room to talk to him.
3:40 Left for Jean-Louis. Took Germany background to read under the dryer. Lynda also at Jean-Louis.
6:40 Returned from Jean-Louis.
Dressed while
- / President, Whites, Deasons, John and Ashton. Talked about
press. Luci and Pat came in from church. President read New York Times story.
2. 12:00 Walked to bowling alley w/ Pat.
four games
12:10 President. Whites, Deasons, Simon, Vicky, John and Ashton joined
- in President's Room and read telegrams.
10:00 Bathed
Talked with Bess, Ashton, Jim Jones
10:50 Left with President for Mrs. George Davis's funeral. National City Christian Church
11:40 Returned to White House
12:15 Mr. George of Jean-Louis came in for comb-out
- group and went to West house w/ Lynda, Mariallen,
Jane and Ashton. Played bridge.
6:20 To chopper to join President.
7:00 Landed at Bergstrom. Press took pictures and we left on Air Force One for Washington.
(Over)
Entry
No.
Time Activity
7:30 Read
- : worked on mail
7:40 Read and signed mail in President's car
5. 8:30 Depart for boat. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Denius, Mr. and Mrs. Don Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Heath, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Irwin,
Mr. Meyers, Mr. Bruck, Mr. Quill, Yolanda, Ginny, Jake J
- Arrived VISTA Training Center - delivered
graduation address - had luncheon with
graduates and visited Remedial Reading Class
2:20 Departed Training Center via motorcade with
Congresswoman Edith Green, Miss Teggatz, and Mr. Ferguson
3:07 Arrived Baskin's
- and Simone -- on trays in room
6. Read National Geographic re: redwoods
9:00 Retired.
*******
- called from the Boyhood Home.
With the President and Mme. Shoumatoff.
Talked with Lucia about Boyhood Home and birthplace -- got the scripts and read over.
Went swimming with the President.
Lunch with the President, Mr. and Mrs. Krim, Micheline Bettex
- Rather, Jim, Larry. . . .
Said goodbye to Birge and Lucia in Austin.
Took Air Force One to Washington -- played bridge en route with Lynda and the
Bynums -- then went to the State Room to read the Washington Post -- then
rested in bedroom.
1:59 a.m
- to work with Bess.
12:30 Bess left.
12:55 Lunch on tray in room -- fried egg, toast, bacon.
Recorded.
1:50 Worked with Bess.
3:30 Laying in bed reading a book.
Entry
No.
Time
Activity
Nap.
4:52 Worked with Ashton.
5:50 Ashton left.
6:10 To the bowling
- ) and reading
newspapers -- waiting for the weather to clear. Also worked on party
lists with Mrs. Pickle.
12:14 With the President and the Pickles, departed Camp David via chopper.
12:53 Arrived at Andrews Air Force Base; bid goodbye to the President who left
- :30 Got up; read the newspaper, etc.
Big breakfast. L talking "important not to get off your desk
by to make decision your grandchild and mine can live with"
Taylor resume -- eco. polit. military
since 1954 - Clark's answer about election
2. 12:30
- - slides - Pennsylvania Avenue letter from President to Aspinall
11:40 Worked with Bess.
12:05 To the West Wing.
12:15 Returned to the second floor.
12:25 Working with Bess in the West Hall.
3. 1:35 Worked with Ashton.
Stretched out in bed and read about
- , Ashton, Marie, Mary, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley West. President read news
release about Luci skiing; talked about strange foods.
2:15 Into living room with guests.
4:35 Out to look at trees with Mrs. Hill's tree man via auto.
5:05 Return main house.
5:19
- until dinner.
5. 8:15 Dinner with the above guests.
9:00 See film, "The Wrong Box" Massage read book watched part of Bonanza
9:55 The Deasons and Dr. Davis left.
Talked with the President and Mr. White.Re: plans for next year Campaign of probable I
- .
Bathe and dress.
11:00 Dentist.
12:10 Return to second floor.
Record in dressing room.
2:15 Ashton down to read. Lunch: bacon and tomato sandwich; pears.
2:30 To library for picture with Mrs. K. Rockefeller; Honorary YWCA card.
2:45 To second floor.
Work
- with Mrs. George Brown in West Hall.
11:45 Returned to room to read and work on bed.
12:00 Ashton down to work on mail.
1:20 Lunch on tray in room.
2:45 Chatted with Lynda in room.
4:03 To Green Room to meet ambassadors' wives.
4:53 To second floor.
5:05
- floor.
2. 12:35 Departed White House with the President for Ramsey Clark's swearing-in as
Attorney General at the Justice Department.
1:20 Returned to White House.
Worked at desk; read in bed.
2:15 Jean-Louis and assistant in for comb-out.
2:45 Mrs. Ed
- too late
10:10 To the Cedar House and back with Mr. Leob and Secretary Smith.
10:35 Returned to the main house.
1. 11:03 Left the house with Secretary Smith, Mary Lasker, André Meyer, Leobs, Engelhards,
and Bess. L read and telephoning then went to St
- .
To the Lincoln Sitting Room to see the President being painted by Madame
Shoumatoff (President was reading a letter from Chuck).
11:40 To the Grape Arbor with Liz and Sharon to work on speeches (lunch outdoors).
1:55 Returned to the second floor.
2:02
- Returned to the White House.
2. Lunch.
Looked endlessly at TV
Read and relaxed -- worked at desk.
Played bridge with Luci, Lynda, and Helene Lindow.
3. 5:32 Tea in the Yellow Oval Room with Mrs. Duke, Princess Grace, and Jack Kelly.
6:14 Tea guests left.
7
- the President, Congressman Pickle, Susan, LaFaye, and Mary Rather at breakfast table
10:30 Read morning papers
11:00 President went below to rest. Played bridge with Congressman and Mrs. Pickle, and Mary
Rather.
12:00 Phoned Lynda and asked if she would like
- to read most of
the historical markers -- re: Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.
3. 3:00 Arrived at Yale -- at President Brewster's residence. Met with the Brewsters,
Liz, and Simone -- discussed pickets. Rested; changed clothes and had hair
combed.
5:49 Left
- coral dressing room
11:21 Left the theater.
Entry
No.
Time
Activity
4. 11:55 Arrived at Newark Airport -- waited in private lounge. Flight delayed because of
change in pilots.
Read Burns's book on President Kennedy
2:15 a.m.!! Left Newark on Braniff
- in the Lincoln Sitting Room with Mr. and Mrs. Robert McKinney, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McDermott,
and Canon and Mrs. McAllister.
5:17 Tea guests left.
5:20 Rested in bed -- did some reading -- playing with Lyn. Luci came in and fed him.
7:00 Jean-Louis in for comb
- , and Jim Ketchum -- discussed NBC
production to be filmed next Monday; also talked about the Eartha Kitt
incident at yesterday's luncheon.
2:15 Liz, Simone, and Jim left -- I worked at my desk; read several telegrams re: the
luncheon yesterday -- dictated
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Mrs. Johnson bega n he r day at (Place )
7:00 Breakfast.
Worked on speeches
Talked with Liz.
Called the President -- read Hemisfair speech to him --.
8:45 Jerry Kivett in for security report on San Antonio
- said oh, I know all about him.
I have read all his speeches and I don't
like any of them. (I can't, as I said,
put quotation marks around that because
the Senator has told the story several
times since but this is the general
statement
each time
- (pl)
Thomas Corcoran
Bob Kintner (in Watson's ofc.)
To Oval ofc.
desk
Reading things in mjdr's
room
first
OFF RECORD: Hon. Thurgood Marshall
Standing in
Watson's ofc talking
M Watson (pl)
Harry McPherson
Working desk w/ VM
MWatson (pl)
w/ Chmn
- Calls checked
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DECEMBER 1, 196
19655
WHITE HOUSE - TEXAS
WEDNESDAY
Texas s
Don Thomas - Austin, Texa
Breakfast in bed w/Mrs. Johnson - reading newspapers
McGeo. Bundy - Wash, DC
To the office - work s his des k w/Jake Jacobsen
Joe Laitin
- . V M for flight to XKX Washingtor . D . c
During the flight, the President visited w / the Congressmen discussin g bill s
now o n the Hill - Texa s politics - an d read the papers. (He did not nap)
He also visited w/ JV , Luci, and VM during th e
- Lunch Week
To the
office
stopping
in
outer
office to say
to G Reedy
What are
they
saying
that
it's
like
old
times
here at the
White
House
referring
to press
reaction
to his
press
conference
this
morning
In outer office
reading
Washington
Daily
News
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The President rose during dinner and went into the office to read the latest
tickers. He picked up one about Luci and Pat
- /Harry McPherson's note. President started reading it and immediately told
Geo. Christian to see if he could get the VPresident back who obviously had been
with him at the Statler-Hilton.
Standing outside porchway reading Wattenberg remarks w/Geo
- . The President was unhappy that they were not
at the Ranch waiting, and more unhappy when he found that they had not left Fredericksbu
yet.
The President read the backs of pictures purchased on the trip and then looked carefully
at the paintings.
George Christian
- and changed clothes
To the office -- reading memos and tickers
The President -- accompanied by Mrs. Johnson, Mr. Krim Mr. and Mrs. Bishop
drove on the ranch area --to the Malechek House - on the Reagan Ranch,
Danz Ranch area
Returned to the Main House. While
- Archbishop Lucey welcome him and designate the President as one
who gives good example, lives his religion -- a doer, not a talker -listened attentively to a Scripture Reading
and then stood as the Gospel of today's service was read -- a narration
- to the tickers to read.
To the barber shop.
Returned to the office with Walt Rostow
Joined by Secretary Dean Rusk, Asst Secy Lincoln Gordon, Bill Bowdler.
-- to discuss the OAS Charter changes - Gordon to leave Washington on Friday Bill Moyers ioined 11:04 group
- "
- - s read
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newspapers
DeLoach
Speaker John MacCormick (returnin g the President's call) (b.
Cong. Carl Albert (b.
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To Fish Room to greet group fr. Texas an d New Mexico on behalf of Guadelupe National
Returned to Offic e w/Horace
