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And then at 4 o 'c lo c k came the r e a lly im portant part of the day.
was the second big slug of mental fodder that I have had this week.
It
The
f ir s t being Helen Gahagan Douglas,
F lo re n c e Mahoney ca lled and asked if she could bring o v e r a Dr
- —I congratulated them on Jimmy's being in the
House, and Loraine McGee, very tan, without Gale, who's o ff making a
speech.
And from the Court, there were our life-long friends, Abe
and Carol, and B ill Douglas and Cathy—and I must confess looking
- ; railroad negotiations in the Cabinet room; dinner for Henry Fowler at C. Douglas Dillon's home
- Johnson family and friends to St. Barnabas Church; press corps is invited in for refreshments; LBJ's plane takes Cantinflas and his sick wife to Temple to hospital; lunch with Senator and Mrs. Paul Douglas; Senator Douglas reminisces about 1960
- LBJ's network television interview about "the first hundred days" with Eric Sevariad, Douglas Brinkley and William Lawrence; Luci Johnson returns from New York shopping trip; Lady Bird, Lynda Johnson, Warrie Lynn Smith & Jesse Kellam watch
- Gahagan Douglas to c o m e fr o m the banquet
the night b e f o r e spend the night with us.
He had supplied w ith h e r,
a p p a re n tly , with m y night gown and robe and th ere she w as on the third
flo o r.
So, at b r e a k fa s t, I c a lle d h e
- ; Cuban missile crisis; Congressional briefing; dance; swimming with the Thornberrys and the Pickles; overnight stay by Helen Gahagan Douglas
- erien ce a t Roy a l t y ^ ^ ^
Lu ci a r r iv e d fiv e minutes ahead o f schedule - Oh! Surpr i s e fo r m e ! - thi s
m orning, at the im posing white columned b r ic k home of State Senator H a r r y
Byrd.
The f i r s t big event o f the day
- .
And then home fo r lunch.
On m y last day there a rriv e d a sort of contentment that you wish you
could start getting at the v e ry beginning - a sense of having settled down
and having r e ached a peace,
I did do som e m ore work.
Made some guest lists
- , in the endless miles of empty bookshelves. And to put
around my beautiful Lowestoft pieces and my Dorothy Doughty birds.
Because I want it to start looking like, that is, the little bit of the room that I can call mine,
that is the Johnsons’ home, and I want
- Lady Bird has hair styled & makeup done; filming of ABC's Howard K. Smith interview; phone call from Muriel Humphrey about Mike Douglas show; Lady Bird has lunch with the Bill Hayes family; visit with Lynda Robb; nap; work on Chad state dinner
- MEMORANDUM
c
T HE W H I T E HOUSE
WAS H I N GTON
Tuesday, M a r c h 3, 1964
This m orning about 11,- Katie L ochheim came fo r a cup of co ffee , bringing
o/
a bound copy of the L a d ies Home Journal^ with her a r t ic le about m e.
It’ s
r e
- Lady Bird has coffee with Kate Louchheim about Ladies Home Journal article; joined by Doris O'Donnell; Lady Bird poses for Vogue magazine photos; fourth Congressional reception; Lynda Johnson as Azalea Festival queen; Luci or Lynda Johnson as queen
- . So I
heartily enjoyed Diana's refreslunerits, went home a little past 7: 00 for the
walk slowly through the first floor of the White House. Already, the wedding
f
is confined to history.
A 16-foot spruce tree -- beautifully shaped -- went up today
- .
Then
to see if she wouldn't
because
house
at the flower
son,
Stafford,
had told me that
she was
mart.
and rushed
her
So I looked
home,
The booths
were
she would
we started
I
s missed
be.
down to Winchesterj\
-
~
in charge
for her
- MEMORANDUM
TH E W H IT E HOUSE
W A S H I N G T ON
P a ge 1
M o th e rs* Day, Sunday, M ay 10, 1964
A ctu a lly , it [th
ed
a
y]began rig h t a fte r we got home from A tlan tic C ity, about
a little p a s t one o 'c lo c k at night, with Lynda, L
- parti cular island of course, "Oh, you know, we
have a little place in the islands, "
Home ea rly, dinner with the Valentis, and that restless fe e l ing that
we may not soon see the end of the ac celeration of troubles
be getting under way
- LBJ and Lady Bird to St. Paul's in the Desert church; lunch at Taubman home with friends; visit with the Taubmans; Air Force One to Washington; Lady Bird on Virginia Rusk;; greeted on White House lawn by beagles, Him and Her; greeted in White House
- a lr e a d y
knew and which I a c tu a lly had to t r y to p r y out of him - that we a r e having
trouble in A u s tin ,m y so s u c c e s s fu l, so b eloved home town, on the
in teg ratio n p ro b le m .
It s e e m s the m o re r a d ic a l n eg ro
- the night with u s ^ It was much too late to go to their
"
..
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:
home. ^ n d we a ll/r o
around in the balmy; intoxicating spring air;
. ■
"
.
It
v " ■■ 7 -
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a lm o st se e m s as though the sunshine does not know the tragedy
- . F o s b u r g h t o
to R obin;
H e came home a n d
th e r e p o r t b y L y n d o n 's
R o c k e f e l l e r a n d Ken Galbraith a r e
tr i e d to c a l l
talk
t o Mary L a s k e r t o
h im and i t
and a r a t h e r e a r l y
I h a d been
I
- real happy that we'd come.
There were two young Rowes
home, Clarissa and young Jim, and B ill Bundy and their son, who is studying
government at Harvard under [Richard] Neustadt, and Mrs. Stroud [? ].
Lyndon was in a mellow mood, amusing, jovial
- Smith, and Lynda Johnson; Warrie Lynn Smith; card from Lady Bird's cousin, Esther Lanier Dade in Ft. Lauderdale; LBJ home from New York
- ,
p e o p le I am s e e in g
on th e
I
g i f t s o f Madame Chiang, Ayub Khan and o t h e r s .
a l l u r i n g " a t home" c o s tu m e s .
m o th e r
New Y o r k .
1 96 6
tr ip
The name s o f th e
are r a t h e r l i k e
th o se
b oxes o f
- LBJ and Lady Bird drive to Blanco to the Episcopal Church; lunch; Lady Bird and Mathilde Krim fly to Santa Fe, NM, to see brother, Tony Taylor; Lady Bird reads paper on urbanization; shopping at her brother's shop for home furnishings; Lady Bird
- LBJ & Lady Bird swim; LBJ is exercising regularly; Lady Bird is trying to organize LBJ Ranch & items from their Washington homes, and decorating the LBJ Ranch; hair styled; sorting materials for LBJ Library; Johnsons to Luci Nugent's home in Austin
- , a b o u t a s much as
I c o u l d t a k e , and t h e n home f o r a b i t e o f l u n c h
l y i n g in b e d w h i l e I s i g n ^ m a i l w i t h A s h t o n ,
d iscu ss-^^
d e t a i l s o f a C l e v e l a n d t r i p w i t h L i z and w e n t o v
- Lady Bird has nightmares; Lady Bird makes telephone calls; Lady Bird goes to the first meeting of the Johnson City Garden Club; lunch; drive to Danz and Sweeney houses to view renovations; Lady Bird drives to Luci & Pat Nugent's home in Austin; Lady
- Luci & Pat Nugent's Home, Austin, Texas
- Bird to movie theater to view clips of her home movies for a documentary; answers letters about "speeding, beer and dogs"; LBJ and Lady Bird to dinner at David Brinkleys
- hing tl ·';·, in their
sock feet, so to sp ea k, and talked about the old J o hn.son home and the use s
it might be put to, that t he commu;.i l y might get s o me g
- ily of his home -- h e and Tlatharint· travd a lot
together.
school.
Ann ls mar de d to a Catholic, a young man who is slill in
Buford said he had behaved ver y ba dly about it l1imsdf, but
now he's r eco ncil e d - - thinks he 1 s a wonde rful
- Lady Bird drives around LBJ Ranch with the Malecheks; opening of the Johnson City home; Lady Bird flies back to Washington, DC; LBJ calls Congressman Adam Clayton Powell about the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; Luci Johnson is ill
- e c e n t ram b u n ctio u s b e h a v io r ."
And th e n v e ry q u ic k ly
we w ere o f f - - to a warm o v a tio n — and h e g a th e re d up George C h r is tia n
and L iz and th e y ro d e home w ith u s i n th e b ig b la c k c a r — to th e
- ; reception for Latin American Ambassadors; office work; LBJ and Lady Bird to reception at Albert Thomas home
- house; Lady Bird to Wesley West Ranch for dinner; Lady Bird describes the night sky and imitates a bullfrog; Lady Bird reminisces about time at the West Ranch; possible donation to the LBJ Library; Lady Bird sleeps in car on way back to Luci's home
- Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
- Visit from Tony and Matiana Taylor; trip to the LBJ birthplace home; trip to Johnson City to Sam Johnson House with discussion on landscaping; city park for Johnson City; Johnson family gift of trees for Johnson City; lunch at the LBJ Ranch
- LBJ and Lady Bird talk about many subjects; LBJ Library; Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; LBJ returns to White House; Lady Bird entertains family; photographs taken outside the house; Lady Bird takes walk to birthplace home; visit
- e com ing home from th e h o s p i t a l .
We went to t h e
Red Mass a t S t . M a tth ew s, a t r a d i t i o n a l s e r v i c e
b e g a n some 7 0 0 y e a r s a g o , or s o ,
th at
i n E n glan d w h ere
p r a y e r s a r e ^ o r a l l the l
- a cheks a n d th e n t h i n k ing
x t wayj o.bouX t^m e ^o a t h e K rim s t o be up, we r ode home wi t h
t h e Secr e t S e r v i c e .
Th er e weAe tdxAee o a
- Lady Bird's trip to New York Historical Society to see a Rembrandt Peale portrait of Thomas Jefferson for the White House; Audubon exhibit; lunch at James Fosburgh's home; Winslow-Homer painting for White House; Fine Arts Committee; Vincent Price
- Lady Bird & Muriel Humphrey to Philadelphia to appear on the Mike Douglas Show; Dorothy McCardle conducts interview with Lady Bird on airplane ride back; Lady Bird & Lynda Robb to Bethesda Naval Hospital to visit maternity facilities; Lady Bird
- Smith; Kermit Gordon; painting from Queen Elizabeth; Lincoln Room; Carl Hayden; Mrs. Paul Douglas; social gathering after dinner; night reading on Panama; Lady Bird's praise for Bess Abell and dinner menu
