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- the children’s ward, a little engagement that Mrs. Kennedy had
made some weeks ago and had asked me to keep.
I took Lucy and Beth Jenkins with me, and we had baskets of toys to distribute among the
children. The people were lined up out front: Dr. Schultz
- in the White House?
And then back to the Truman Balcony to meet Walter Reuther.
We had iced tea and I listened to him mostly.
to him about beautification.
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I had wanted to talk ^ .
I had wanted to enlist his own aid as a
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- . and shook h.:. nds with ev e rybody, Ph\Ui s c.:un c: up to me
and said, "You're in aking votes ev er y minute,
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"This means a lot to all of us and our friends.
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and
Lorr~iine
s aid,
I foel so rry about
not havi 11g taken the lrip out W est o.nd
- routine, with, I think,
equally good resu lts.
E lo ise and H om er w e re v e r y h elpful, as w e re a ll
the la rg e c o te r ie of handsome aides, m o s tly from the A i r F o r c e .
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MEMORANDUM
THE W H I TE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
T u e sday, M a r c
- Foreign aid
- from Lynda Johnson; wedding present from Ethiopia; foreign aid bill passed; packing suitcases for Luci Johnson; LBJ on boat with several ambassadors; Lady Bird dines with Luci and Betty Beale; long conversation with Luci Johnson
- Lady Bird visits with volunteers working on Mrs. Kennedy's mail in the EOB, WH telephone operators, and WHCF; meeting with Walter Jenkins and J.B. West about household matters; lunch with Lynda Johnson; article about spelling of Luci Johnson's name
- e r e so m e 45 y o u n g s te r s
who w o r k e d on the H ill in C o n g r e s s m e n 's o r S e n a t o r 's o f fic e s a n d in
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v a r i o u s C a b in e t D e p a r t m e n t s a n d a t OE O a n d AID, a n d o u r 6 o r so h e r e
in the W
- in g m ad e v e r y c le a r by C la r k that it w a s b e in g c o m m is s io n e d
and w o u ld b e p aid fo r by the W hite H o u se H is to r ic a l A s s o c ia tio n , a n d
m y o n ly o b lig a tio n w a s to s i t fo r it .
And that th e u
- s e x p e r i e n c e
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i n a u t h o r i t y aro u n d h im - —/ Aid e to a b o u t f i v e p r e s i d e n t s ,
I t h i n k i t is,^— I was p ro u d t o h a v e him on o u r team .
We c a l l e d him and M arie a l s o and th e n C a t h e r i
- p y and i t d o e s my h e a r t good t o
s e e him t h i s w ay . And R o b e r t a V i n s o n .
She, t o o ,
was one o f t h e o n e s I p a r t i c u l a r l y w a n te d t o com e.
And t h e r e was M rs. R o o s e v e l t ’ s m aid o f 30 y e
- good g u e s t, M r s . S tra u b , w h o se h u sb a n d
i s A s s is ta n t A d m in is tr a to r f o r AID, p r e tty , a n a s s e t to the ta b le , a n d a s
m u c h in lo v e with. W ash in g to n a s l a m .
R o b e r t M a s s ji^ ^ w ho w ro
- * s r o o m - - s h e ’l l b e in g w o rk in g th is s u m m e r .
w ho is in th e m aid *s r o o m .
S u sa n S tep h e n so n
And so w ill L a fa y e D a v is ,
And I had brought G ertru d e and h e r th r e e
c h ild r e n - - H a z e l, E th e
- - A V ie t-N a m C ivilian S e rv ic e A w ards - - that w as moving and sweet.
F o r m e r A m b a s s a d o r L o d g e w a s w i t h u s on the s t a g e , a n d a s m a l l
g r o u p of c i v i l i a n s , w o r k e r s in AID, m e m b e r s I b e l
- I w o u ld w r ite , a b o u t o u r g o o d b y e g ift, th e
little C h ild r e n 's G a r d e n Aa^Jjri^
(^rtd kouj 9 ko p e d j i t tuouJid
be uAe.d and- en^oy,ed. Jin ik e '^uJiun£..
A n d ihanhA J. 6 kJijn a n d aid.
th e W h ite H o u s e
- a u g h te rs o f te n a n t f a r m e r s w o re s h ir t s a n d d r e s s e s m a d e o u t
of ffaxgmoc flou r s a c k s .
S om ebody in t h a t AID p r o g r a m m u s t h a v e
a p a s t th a t g o e s b a c k to t h a t .
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