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- at the door.
It was one of the most relaxed and satisfying parties I've been to in a
long time, partly because I was still flowing from that sensation of obligation
finished -- job accomplished.
I had told the White House that there would be no one for supper
- Lady Bird lunches with Hugh Sidey and Jean Franklin of Time magazine for study on Lady Bird; tea with friends; visit with friend from youth at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Dallas; Lynda Johnson to New York for Young Citizens for Johnson; Luci
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the ranch country; Gwen Gibson of the New Y ork H erald Tribune; and M ary
Packinham of the Chicago Tribune; and M u riel Dobbins of the B altim ore Sun,
Karen K le in felter, the best thing that happene d to the Dallas N ew s in years;
and Norm a Ekdahl
- ; Mrs. Johnson returns to White House; Lynda Johnson home for Luci Johnson's baptism; article in Herald Tribune;
- . Actually it’s a hall, but it’s what’s going to be the Johnsons’ informal family sitting room.
It’s remarkable how well my own furniture fits into the room that was Mrs. Kennedy’s. I’m glad
for the taxpayer, and I’m glad for me too because it saves my time
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house, at times of ordinary duty and probably at times of outrageous
inconvenience to them—besides a never ending general public, my own
groups of friends from home, or friends from the campaign t r a i l , or
from my trip s , or my Alabama cousins, a ll
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contributed to the White House with love and generosity.
And then I
sent them o ff on a to u r with Jim Ketchum and spent more time at my
desk, th i s time plowing deep in to the middle drawer, carefully taking
out very private things, such as the memo I
- wear.
The most imp c, ssi bk time
of the year to try to find something n e.w to stock your wardrobe to wtllk
out feeling
a r mor c~d
the Com,c-ntion.
ag.'.linst the world - - is the tim e bet -.•:c en n0w and
·w e looked a bit forlornly uver my
- children leave. We went first to 30th
Place, that I’d lived and loved for so long--18 years it was--and then to Mrs. Hendrick’s, and
looked at some chintzes. As usual, didn’t find just what we wanted; came home in time for
a 4:00 meeting with Clark Clifford
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the family graveyard.
the biting wind.
And this morning we were heavily bundled up against
The country is gray and sere.
The only splash of color
the small p ilo t [?] down by the river close to the Lutheran Church.
is the time I shall want to travel
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and
then
George Bro w n s and
for
lunch,
such a
s ho o k h a n d s
in
th e Bob
a bit
time
is
into
to
a young,
w i t h a f e w of
vital
the
-jp-uley.
and c o n tr o v e r sia l.
coincide
w ith
hour
the
who w ere c o m in g
a hard place
tourists
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by telling
group
.s
amu~ed
had delivered
and had done very
at the amount
of time
well.
a
He
she spent
on
only boys.
mountain
climber,
Mr. Dyringfurth,
Helen's
&f:fi-e-of Virginia
came
inl'\ or perhaps
-
there
-
Byrd
him self
- and we
- and who I somehow feel most
drawn to is Kenny O’Donnell, because I will never forget the way he looked that night in the
hospital on November 22nd.
After they left, our long-time favorite friends came for dinner. Upstairs, on the second
floor, informal
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:\i!EMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
j
WASHINGTON
Tuesday, May 9, 1967
Page I
....
There is a rhythm to life these days.
.
.
Weekdays
crowded,
.
demanding; and then a weekend
two days,
sometimes three, that
,~
Time to read and sleep a~d
- HITE
(
H O US E
W A SH INOTON
Saturday, F e b ru a ry 29, 1964
P a ge 3
the arran gem en ts fo r the appearance, and this was an ex cellen t time
also to have in the White H ouse, those other m e m b e rs of the Texas
so ciety that I m ay not get
- back some
of our birds in our own hands, the birds that I love so much that we’ve been accumulating
through the years.
We had dinner with just the Frank Ikards, Mary Lasker, and Jack, and Homer Thornberry.
Lyndon’s going to have a hard time doing
- like to take m y picture as I left.
And ended
This is the
fi r s t time that I can re m e m b e r being c l e a r l y annoyed at the p r e s s . ■
Not knowing how to ask h er to le a v e , I talked to her about the situation
of the press people fro m
- young Tony and
with Diana's h o u s e k e e p e r, f o r a tour of the ground s , a glim pse
of the sw im m ing pool, and then to rid e hom e.
Gerry w as aglow , with h e r
adventure--this t r i p - - and high time it is , b ecau se you can't avoid
- and came back Monday afternoon!
And this
sum m er I can think of a time or two when a very hard-working
P resident has done it, but he has also taken his work with him,
and packed m ore into those three days than any human ought to.
After an hour
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than I had thought that man of iro n would.
He mentioned they would have
had their thirtieth a n n iversa ry in a few months.
A ft e r eve ryb od y le ft, I took the time to do some reading and som e
w ork, and then clo se to seven, J e s s e and I
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publicity is ugly and it w ill be used abundantly by the Republican party fo r
the next five months I expect.
A t any rate, it was Abe*s opinion to do nothing, at least fo r the time
being.
I asked Elaine to go down and tel l Charlie Cutler I thought he
- to the White House in time to meet a rad iant Luci,
fr esh from her tr ium ph at Intcrl och c.:n and tasting th
- g t o n M o n u m e n t a n d on
.40Ai
i i
and I
had a
i n
bad cold,
a n d &A k o J i p i J a b J j e
o^ g.ue^i 4 i o
s o we J s - ^ i . i k e m
^eeJin^,
u/ehi
^oa. i k e
a i
ik e
one
l >Ai ng.
Ranch
mil l i o n t h
time in my life
- ; meeting with Harry Ransom & Frank Erwin about University of Texas, Wayne Grover & LBJ Library; first time LBJ has been guest at Luci's table; Pat Nugent coming home from Vietnam; Nugents will vacation in Formosa; Johnsons spend night at KTBC
- a long time
since I'v e seen the country so green.
F o r once th e re 's been enough rain
and to add to it a ll, there was an alm ost fu ll moon.
We drove until the last
ra y was gone fro m the sky and then stopped by the house, where
joined us fo r
- Days in M ay), and I
think p e r haps,^I^might have had F ra n ces and H elen , a t one time, and we
drove over/the
Scha rn h orst just as the shades of night w e r e fa llin g fast.
I enjoyed particularly^^taking them around the perilou s stretch
- a u t i f u l young w i f e ,
who seems to me
S e c r e t a r y of
U d a l l and Lee U d a ll ha d been
Interior
time
es c o r tin g them around Washington and
just about t h i r t y .
brought them to
I
the
White H o u s e ,
u p from
- is parched and a«fr^
T h ere
i s no, touch of, g r e e n a n yw h ere. ;:We have had only about an in ch of ra in s in c e
the l a s t o f S ep tem b e r . : It is approaching a d esp e ra te r e c o r d of d r y n e s s .
^A.
doesn't rem em b er a time
- a r y without p o rtfo lio, fro m the top
.
.
^
brass, to say that M cN a m a ra is wielding too heavy a hand, or am I imagining
things.
A t late lunch tim e i w alked in th e door, just in time to encounter
Lyndon
and then Huff Baines and his w ife
- sefu l to have M r s,
P ro v e n s en , and I*m n ever s a tisfied , and at 5:30,-q
uit in time fo r Lyndon
S30
and meto go to a quick church s e r v ic e at St. John’ s a c r o s s L a fa y e tte Square,
A so rt of la s t r e s o r t fo r church, la s
- Tour of White House gardens with Mrs. Paul Mellon; plan to create a Jacqueline Kennedy garden; personal time swimming with friends and family; approval for Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; telephone call to Jacqueline Kennedy
- in Perle's. apartment.
Jake Pickles, Lindy and Hale, Senator Ellender.
The Dale Millers, the
I circled the room, had
a drink, some light and pleasant talk and then left before I thought it was
time for them to go into dinner.
Dorothy McCardle
- ; LBJ takes nap; upcoming trip to Texas; Lady Bird does office work & records her diary; Eugene McCarthy showing surge in 1968 race; Hubert Humphrey joins Johnsons for dinner; styes on LBJ's eyes return; Lady Bird has massage and reads Time magazine
- 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
- LBJ & Lady Bird meet with John Ben Shepherd & Mark Gosdin about the LBJ Park & Visitors Center; LBJ drives around with Drew Pearson and German editor, Henri Nanen; Lady Bird meets group from Time-Life; Lady Bird reads "The Eighth Day" by Thornton
- nap; news story about Pat Nugent; Lady Bird is interviewed by New York Times about art; Willard Deasons and Emmet Riordans for dinner and to pick out one of Him's beagle puppies; Lady Bird reads "Guns of August"
- or t h r e e more d r e s s e s , p o s s i b l y an e v e n in g
d ress.
I was i n no mood and t h i n k i n g o f th e b i l l s
t h a t had a l r e a d y mounted up. A nd th e n n e x t i t was
time t o s e e Max Brooks and Roy W h ite.
Max's b u
- Richard Nixon visits LBJ for morning coffee; Nixon and LBJ discuss New York Times, Westmoreland, China and Vietnam, and upcoming campaign year; LBJ teases Lady Bird about Big Bend trip; LBJ has sore throat; Johnsons to St. Marks Church; LBJ gives
- that cou ld be a so u v e n ir.
Since then w e have p r a c tic e d givin g
them so m e en terta in m en t ahead of tim e - this time the Singing S argean ts -^
th eir au tograp hs p rin ted on the backs of the program s. The y a r e s e a te d
in c h
- hich he c a u g h t
from
L y n d a B i r d a f t e r she got b a c k f r o m H a w a ii, and the a n tib io tic s
h a d h a d s o m e th in g of a slo w in g down e f fe c t on h i m .
B ut time
I b e l i e v e th e d ays in th e su n a t th e r a n
- Lady Bird shops for clothes in New York with designers John Moore, Kandi Ohno, Sophie Gimbel and Adolfo; Lady Bird spends time with Lynda at White House; dinner with the McNamaras; LBJ's discussion with Labor leaders
