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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/9/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • ~~-quite the flare of a State Dinner. ' . . ¥1 ~ ' cAt my table I had the pxa:x1u1k President, the Ambassador, T£~J.are , Virginia, Frank Pace who had been my host when I had been given an award in New York last December. It was so good to get
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/1/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • to th e o t h e r so fa a n d c h a tte d w ith the w ife of the A m b a s s a d o r f r o m P a r a g u a y . W e t a l k e d of G e n e r a l S t r e s n o r s v i s i t . A nd w ith d iffic u lty to th e new A m b a s s a d o r 's w ife f r o m
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/3/1968 (Sunday) (Item)
  • o d e in w ith M u r i e l a n d O p al - - L yndon a h e a d w ith H u b e r t a n d th e S e n a to r o v e r a new high w ay th a t w a s o pen ed to d ay f o r the f i r s t ti m e . And th en t h e r e w e r e g a th e r in g c r o w d s a n d
  • staff; Johnsons fly to Houston Astrodome for Humphrey rally; new Houston highway; Lady Bird reminisces about 1941 campaign; Lyn Nugent walks with grandfather; speeches by Ralph Yarborough, LBJ & Hubert Humphrey; return to LBJ Ranch; LBJ's speech on tv
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/27/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • u ite n a t u r a l in L u c i 's h o u s e h o ld . B u t p e r h a p s not e x a c t l y w h at the p r e s s i s u s e d to. We a r r i v e d in v e r y f u ll n u m b e r c o n s id e r in g th at the b ig new s w a s m o r e th a n a th o u s
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/6/1968 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • a n d ta lk e d a n d ta lk e d a b o u t the U n iv e r s ity , i t s d i f f ic u ltie s , i t s f u tu r e , the new A d m i n i s t r a t i o n in o A u s tin , th e in c o m in g G o v e r n o r S m ith, w h a t Jo h n w ould do w ith h is lif e
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/8/1967 (Friday) (Item)
  • g t h e r e . The p a i n t e d w o o d e n c h a n d e l i e r in the li ttl e s ittin g r o o m h a s gone up, a n d I lik e it v e r y m u c h . I s p e n t the m o r n i n g stuffing a l b u m s a n d b o o k s into the new b o o k c a s e s
  • Lady Bird works with Herbert Wells & Roy White on LBJ Ranch house renovations; Lady Bird fills bookcases and decorates; good news about Nellie Connally's surgery in Houston; John Connally flies to LBJ Ranch for visit & meeting with LBJ; LBJ, John
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/8/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • New York
  • LBJ & Lady Bird read newspapers; to St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, for Robert Kennedy funeral; the Johnsons pay respects to the Kennedy family; lunch on plane back to Washington; Lady Bird reads newspapers and takes nap; mourners killed
  • St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/9/1968 (Friday) (Item)
  • e r too . And M a r i e - - a t l a s t L yndon is a c h ie v in g one of h i s a m b itio n s - - h e 's g e ttin g M a r i e tau g h t to sw im . And th e n B e r n i c e B u r g c a m e a n d gave m e a new h a i r - d o , and u n d e r the d r
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/5/1968 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • There are small number of wrong or missing words. At 04:44 it should say "But I was tied. Everybody was tied to the news."
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/22/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • o n n a lly w as on m y left, . a n d the w ife of the new G o v e r n o r, M r s . P r e s t o n S m ith , an d M a v is H eathe a n d M r s . H a r r y A ik en a n d M r s . R o la n d B oyd a n d L iz Odom w h o h a d b e e n c h a i r m a n