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- To Bill Moyers' office for press conference
5:00 To Library to see Mount Holyoake students again. Escorted them to Rose Garden and then
to Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.
4. 5:30 To Rose Garden for Presidential signing of Postmaster Work Bill
6:40 To mansion
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Entry
No.
Time
4. 3:10 To West Wing w/ Mrs. Smith
4:10 To Jean-Louis accompanied by John Secondari of ABC
5. 6:10 Returned to White House Talked with Liz re: J. Kennedy letter
6:40 Peter Hurds - house guests - arrived
7:55 Vice President
- :45 To the President's Room to visit with him
1. 10:05 To Jacqueline Kennedy Garden to present certificates to
S. Klein Department Store and Hechinger
To Diplomatic Reception Room to greet Charlotte, North Carolina
Chamber of Commerce
2. 10:27
- with Liz
Tried on hats w/ Liz, Patsy, and Helen
Wore new blue outfit - Mollie Parnis -- and found it too big.
12:30 Pictures in Jacqueline Kennedy Garden with Mayor of Palmdale, California
Presentation of 300 lilac trees to D.C.
12:50 Left for Capitol w
- Breakfast.
Bathed and dressed.
1. 9:30 Met with Jim Webb in the West Hall -- talked about space, in preparation for
visit to Cape Kennedy.
11:05 Mr. Webb left.
2. 11:10 To the Yellow Oval Room for coffee with guests: Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Girard, Dr. John
O
- Force Base and boarded Air Force One.
5:05 Left for New York.
Entry
No.
Time
Activity
5:53 Landed at Kennedy Airport -- motorcade to the Pierre Hotel.
6:26 Arrived at the Pierre -- to Suite 1915 with the President and Luci.
Comb-out; changed
- with CR Smith and Mathilde.
7:15 Returned home.
5. 8:00 Dinner with guests who came up with us.
Talked about going to church tomorrow -- which movie to see (gossip about
Mrs. Kennedy)
6. 8:45 Saw "Rachel, Rachel." President left after five minutes.
10:45
- minutes later, returned to the second floor
via the Rose Garden and Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.
Recorded.
Entry No.
Time
Activity
4. 8:55 Greeted Senator Russell at the ground floor elevator landing and walked with
him to the President's office.
5. 10
- To the Blue Room for photos with Mrs. Davis Brinkley and Mrs. Frank Wisner -then received "Friends of the Kennedy Center." To the State Dining Room
for refreshments -- mixed and mingled with guests.
3:02 To the second floor.
3. 3:43 Departed the White House
- and Senator Kennedy on TV)
Nap.
2:00 More guests arrived by small boat: Mr. and Mrs. Bill Deason, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hackler, Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Johnson, Dr. Davis and his son Tim, Margaret Mayer.
2:30 Lunch inside: hamburgers.
Called Pat and Luci in Nassau
- , Mr. and Mrs. John Walker.
Entry
No.
Time
Activity
4:55 To the second floor.
5:07 To the South Grounds.
5:10 Returned to the second floor.
5:15 Once again to the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden for interview with Hugh Sidey of Time.
5:45 To the first
- -- talked with Lynda.
Worked with Ashton.
Looked at evening bags for Liz's birthday.
11:00 To the Yellow Oval Room to meet ambassadors' wives.
12:07 Took the ladies to the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.
12:13 Bid guests goodbye; return to the second floor
- albums
11:05 Lynda in to talk/Writing Mrs. Kennedy/Posed for pictures
11:38 Jean-Louis
Noon Left Jean-Louis's
12:05 Arrived White House. Pictures for CARE in Diplomatic Reception Room.
12:20 Departure from White House.
12:27 Arrival at Mrs. Humphrey's
- planting.
11:45 Returned to the second floor.
12:00 Talked with Mary Kaltman and Mr. West.
1:00 To the President's office to join him for swearing-in of Marvin Watson as
Postmaster General -- followed by reception in the Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Garden.
2
- THE WHITE HOUSE
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
Entry
No.
Date Thursday, June 6, 1968
The White House
Time
Activity
ND
(The news has come that Senator Robert Kennedy has died in Los
- -- shampoo, set, and treatment.
4:20 Returned to the White House.
4. 4:35 To the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden for reception on the status of women.
5:15 Returned to the second floor. Hot, wilted sandwiches.
Entry
No.
Time
Activity
5. Birthday party for Lyn
- with President and others
5:15 Mrs. Burg - shampoo and set
Finishing work on Arts Council and Kennedy Center
5. 7:30 Drove to Scharnhorst and joined President, the Hardestys, and Middletons. Stopped
by Eugene Lindy's house. Time of long shadows. Young calves
- 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
- to the White House -- second floor.
2. 2:46 To the President's office to get him for family picture.
3:03 With the President to join Luci, Lynda, Chuck, and Lyn in Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Garden
for family picture.
3:14 Returned to the second floor
- with the President, Lynda, and Chuck.
11:27 Returned to the second floor with the President, Lynda, and Chuck.
12:40 Jack Valenti to the second floor.
12:45 Mary Fehmer to the second floor.
Saw Ted Kennedy on
TV in the President's Room with him, Lynda, and
Went
- FOR TRAVEL ACTIVITY AND CODE
Sen Kennedy and
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TELEPHONE CODE:
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Notes concerning the Senator's Activity
from
to
Local
Long Distance
EXPENDITURE CODE:
A C E SP -
Automobile
CP - Commercial Plane
R - Restaurant
Cab
Entertainment T
- Kennedy in El Paso at airport; addressed airport crowd
4. 10:30p
September 11 , 1960
Checked into Hotel Cortez.
Groucho Mar x (Los Angeles, Cal.) re: appearance on t v progra m
To El Paso -- see travel activity
Selected names should be underscored
- in Muehlbac h
To Truman's farm and Truman Corner s (shopping area). Went through a grocery
store in shopping area.
Spoke at Kennedy-Johnson headquarters
Lunch with Pres. Truman and others at Breton's restaurant
To Garden City, Kansas -- see travel activity
- Civic Center
Watched Kennedy-Nixo n t-v debate
Spoke to rally at Civic Center
To Washington, D. C. -- see travel activity
Selected names should be underscored.
SEE VERSO FOR TRAVEL ACTIVITY AND CODE
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Notes
- from St. Francis School in Brooklyn
Lunch in P-38: Walter Hornaday, Dick West, Bob Baskin $4.00
Phil Potter
Bill White
Cecil Dickson
Sen Eastland
Kenneth Crawford, re: Newsweek errors
Bobby
Sen Kennedy, re: West Virginia primary
To Speaker's office
- of Thailand
Texas Delegation
John
Sen Bill Knowland (Oakland, Cal)
Sen Dirksen
Speaker
George Sokolsky (Otis , Mass)
Gover Tawes (Baltimore)
Abe Fortas
Chief Aystunb e Rosiki (Nigeria) and Louis Martin (Chicago)
W. P. Kennedy, (Cleveland); Walter Munro
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Telephone
f or t
Day Monda y
August 31 , 195 9
Date.
h Place , N W
Activity (include
visited by)*
Lo LD
Left hom e fo r Capito l
Military Construction Conference Committee, F-37
Senator Johnso n opene d th e Senat e
Lunch in P-38 1.50
Sen. Kennedy, Andy
- President and Sen Dirksen Khrushchev droppe d in but did not eat)
To 30t h Place with Norman
Arrived at 30th Place
To bed
Arrived at P-38 with Bobby
Sen Kennedy
Bill Macomber
Staff Meeting
Secretary Dillon
Carl Marcy
Judge Walsh
Congressman Clark Thompson
- not open it)
Ed Clark , Austi n
Sen Jordan, re seeing J.V. Whitfield (Wallace, NC)
Drew Pearso n
Drew Pearson, r e: wire from Paul Ziffren on civi l right s
Lunch in P-38 with Tom Kennedy, James Mark, Bobby $5.00
Dave Botter and group of students from
-
Ranch
Date.
Activity (includ e visited by)
*
LD
December 7, 1960
Expenditure
Code
Sen Kennedy (Wash, DC)
R. D. McCain (Dallas)
A. W. (Johnson City)
John White (Austin)
French Robertson (Abilene)
Gov. Buford Ellington (Nashville)
Bob Clark (Dallas
- AFB fr
JV Genl Clifton
South Lawn
via helicopter
Agent Youngblood
arr
w/
Gov Harriman
To NYC via AF #1
Arrive
John F Kennedy
Intl
Airport
Helicopter to World's Fair Heliport w/ Gov
Harriman
Sen Keating Cong Burkley
Cong Rooney Cong Rowan
Cong
- m sand of the
suite an d offered the m drinks ) also
Mr and Mrs Richard
Berlin
The President seclude d in his bedroo m w/ Georg e Reedy
Mayor Rober t WXHRK X Wagner i n bedroo m w / Presiden t and . GER
Mr. Rober t Kennedy t o the bedroo m - me t
-
Office ^^a^^eebget.
use •
Pres.
creating
having a high-level commission
•for investigation of : Mrs.
Kennedy's
development of budget for
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LEAVE - RUSK REMAINS Oval
Office
from the House and Senate
on Dallas affair. Tax Bill. Mrs. Kennedy
- . Justice Clark
tSenator Robert Kennedy
:Rei!x±x The flight was only a 40 minute one, and the stewards hurried to
feed the members of Congress. The President did not eat.
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DateFeb 23_
White House
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Activity (inctud e visited by )
The Manifest
- SECRETARY
TO THE PRESIDENT
The President's plane touched down at Skid Strip, Cape
Kennedy AFB, at 3:36 p.m. The skies were overcast,
with a misty rain sprinkling approximately 200 Air Force
and NASA officials awaiting the Presidential Party.
More than 110
- alone
—.
OFF RECORD
and went to Arlington Cemetery for brief memorial services (see
while President John F. Kennedy remains moved from one
location to another. Mrs. John Kennedy had invited the
j President
and she was also present for this.
(others
- . Gen . Thoma s P . Gerrit y
To Arlington
Genl Clifton
National
Cemetery to visit
President
Kennedy's
grave
- walke d u p the wal k t o th e gravesite . Di d not shak e hand s wit h thos e onlookers ,
who at firs t burs t i n a roun d of applause
- of History at Rutgers
Mr. Larry Bilder
Senator Willis Robertson
Mayor Steven Bercik, Elizabeth, New Jersey
Joe Katz
Cong
Wm B
Widnall
at
Mon
White
House
6-15-64
G Reedy
Mr
Floyd
Boring
of Secret
Service
To Flower Garden to meet with the Kennedy
- : Dr. Weaver
Judge Marvin Jone s and grou p to shake hands
Sen Dirksen
Bobby Baker
Hobart Taylor, Jr. , Abe Fortas; Arthur Goldberg
Sen Gruening
Sen Pell
President Kennedy -- re: Dr. Weaver and Sen Blakley's inquiry about any Communist
connections
Bobby
- (Austin) (re: wanting VP to proclaim Bowling Week in Texas)
Albert Thoma s
Dan Kimball
Peruvian Embassy with Mrs. Johnson - Dinner honoring President and Mrs. Kennedy,
hosted by President and Mrs. Prado.
* Selected names should be underscored
