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- doing m y home w ork
fo r the fiv e o 'c lo c k reception fo r the North C arolin a group, whi ch is a
presentation to the White House l ib r a r y of the A m e r ic a n drawings of John
MEMORANDUM
THE W HITE HOUSE
WASiriN O TON
Tuesday, A p r i l 7
-
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
- Hunter to get the word around about the boyhood home
th a t’s the second la rg e st crowd in Johnson City -- and then she had to
leave to find such necessary equipment as a platform and a m ic rophone
and notify Mayor George B yers.
I gave up my p
- Telephone call from Bill Moyers; ceremony and presentation of Johnson City park; tour for guests from Time-Life; LBJ arrives in Texas; LBJ's gives a reminiscent speech; Johnsons and guests go to boyhood home; LBJ picks up little boy and gets a kiss
- 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
- e g oing to g iv e v e r y s e r io u s c o m p e titio n
f
MEMORANDUM
THE W H IT E HOUSE
V.
W A S H I N G T O N
M o n d a y , M a r c h 2, 1964
to Douglas Hume, and perhaps r e p la c e him ,
Lyndon had M r , W ils o n o v e r in his o f f i c
- 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
- .
Up ea rly and out to the a irp ort to c atch
the chartered Convair at 7:00--with L iz , of course, and B ess b e cause we
w ere going to her home te rrito ry , Kentucky; and Congre ssman C arl P e rk in s
whose d istrict we would be covering; B ill
- Lady Bird trip to Kentucky; press; Lady Bird meets Gov. & Mrs. Breathitt; 8-hour tour by motorcade; Lady Bird halts car to shake hands with schoolchildren; Lady Bird walks to Arthur Robertson home & Lick Branch School; reminiscences about Fern
- --our first guest in that beautiful place. And so, she and I
walked through the family quarters, and we hung pictures. We put the scenes in the bedroom.
So I feel very much at home. We put Mr. Sam out in the—well, it’s what I call the family sitting
room
- 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
- 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
- , that
makes your h eart sing.
We w e r e just about 30 minutes too late, but we did see at lea st 40 o r
50 d eer.
A '
Then we a ll rendezvoused at the Scha rn horst house, went in and
replenished our b e e r, or w h a tever, and quickly back home to our
- drove
home together to have lunch.
And then in a h e lic o p t e r t o the Haywood, with Jack and Charlotte and
A . W. a
nd w e re m et there by M a r i e l l e n ‘and Neva and W e s le y , who are
spending the E a ster weekend at their ranch.
Since
- , 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
- 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
- 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
- Lester's home; tours and visits at several homes including 91-year-old Mrs. Carlson who knew Aunt Effie Pattillo; Lady Bird reminisces about her youth; flight back to LBJ Ranch; LBJ makes TV report to the nation on Dominican Republic; LBJ has cold
- ,"
and so i t was.
We had come w ithout o ur hats, soon took o ff o ur shoes,
moved around fro m person to person, while we drank coffee and munched
. some delicious home-made cookies that M r s . R e x W h itte n had brought
^, along..''.
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M
- me fine! o n e .
One b e lo n g s t o James R o o s e v e lt, hang s in h i s home and
was done b y a German Jew d u r in g th e e a r ly y e a r s o f
H i t l e r ' s a sc e n d e n c y i n t o Germany.
B oth p i c t u r e and
a r t i s t g o t sm
- 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
- 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
- her trip to Acapulco; bowling with Muriel Humphrey; dinner at Hubert Humphrey's home; discussion about Senate and leadership; return to White House and to sleep
- Lady Bird rises early and drives to LBJ Boyhood Home; LBJ gives speech on Middle East; Lady Bird & Neva West decorate the LBJ Ranch house; lunch; Lady Bird to Bailey House at Reagan Ranch to hang paintings and decorate; Lady Bird & Dale Malechek
- Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
- on plane; Lady Bird says goodbye on intercom to fellow travelers in Austin; to LBJ Ranch; party for hostesses of LBJ birthplace & boyhood home; Lady Bird, LBJ & John Connally speak to group; Lady Bird gives awards; appointments to State Department
- Tony Taylor home
- ; to Luci's home
- Nugent Home, Austin, Texas
- Lady Bird rides through New England countryside to Shaker Village near Pittsfield, MA; stop for lunch at roadside park; to home of Yale President Brewster in New Haven, CT; Lady Bird is greeted by anti-war protestors; Lady Bird rests; to Yale's War
- Johnsons, Don Thomas & John Ben Shepperd scout out proposed LBJ National Park; Lady Bird describes obstacles to creating the park; to Johnson City, by LBJ's boyhood home, and to three of the ranches; Lady Bird considers plantings by the runway; Lady
- v e enough sp a rk le and v ita lity to k eep th in gs going and sen d people
home fe e lin g r e a lly e x c ite d that th ey had b een to a g rea t W hite H ouse p arty .
- Lady Bird is guest of Laurence & Mary Rockefeller; Lady Bird reads "The Hudson River" by Carl Carmer; Lady Bird & Rockefellers to Van Cortlandt Manor; to Sunnyside Estate, home of Washington Irving; lunch; presentation by Carl Carmer; actor tells
- Laurence Rockefeller home, Tarrytown, New York
- ; Lady Bird & Alan Boyd discuss highways in San Antonio; Lady Bird & George Mahon discuss deeding the LBJ Boyhood Home & LBJ Ranch to the National Park Service; Beautification Bill is up for vote; bridge game with friends; military ceremony at Mount
- Thanksgiving Day; Johnsons to St. Barnabas Episcopal Church; press invited for coffee, cookies & photographs; family photos taken at LBJ Birthplace & LBJ Boyhood Home; Luci to University of Texas football game; LBJ teaches Lyn Nugent to dance; LBJ
- Johnson family to National City Christian Church; to Abe Fortas' home; Johnson family have lunch together at the White House; LBJ takes nap; Lady Bird goes swimming; Lady Bird records her diary; LBJ visits with Luci & Pat Nugent; Lady Bird has
- Christmas eve; LBJ returns home from trip; LBJ is first President to circumnavigate the world; LBJ, Lady Bird & family visit for two hours about the President's trip; LBJ goes to mass with Luci & Pat Nugent; Lady Bird goes back to bed; LBJ
- letter to grandmother at Hye Post Office; guests to boyhood home and LBJ Ranch for lunch; Gronouski on Poland and Red China; Johnsons & guests to Danz place--car is stuck in mud; Lady Bird takes nap & talks to daughters; foreign affairs
- Mrs. Cantinflas [Valentina Ivanova Zuvareff] dies; steel strike; Lady Bird dubs home movie of 1941 Senate campaign; White House maid finds rat in Luci Johnson's room; Lady Bird has lunch with Luci; new Chef for the White House; LBJ lunches and has
- wasteful practices at the White House; Johnsons attend dinner at the Bill Whites' home
- ; visit with Luci Johnson about Christmas gift list; beautification program benefits nurseries; dinner party at Abe Fortas' home; Fortas meeting with Jacqueline Kennedy about Kennedy Center; Lady Bird swims
