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- r e p u lle d c lo s e
and we s le p t u n til n in e t h i r t y .
T h a t w as a s good a p r e s e n t
a s a d ia m o n d rin g !
T he only h a r d p a r t of th e day f o r m e w as lu n c h
w ith Hugh Sidey and J e a n F r a n k l i n of T IM
- Johnson to Milwaukee, San Francisco and Los Angeles; Ranger 7 space flight
- sponsors
fo r the Houston Symphony when it plays tonight in Constitution Hall,
MEMORANDUM
c
T H E W H ITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Saturday, F e b ru a ry 29, 1964
Page 2
The angel of the Symphony, i s a s o r t of Duchess of Houston,
in a cultural way. M
-
time I had ever been on a long-distance train.
Wetook the train and went out to Los Angeles.
Mymemories of this are
not very clear, except I do rememberLos Angeles, I do rememberour going
downto San Diego. I remembermy father buying a Scripps-Booth
- AUSTIN:
Richard Lewis
Robert Toth
James Gansen
Mn?phy Martin
Ron Nessen
Chicago Sun Times
Los Angeles Times
American Broadcasting
Company
American Broadcasting
Compaiy
National Broadcasting
Company
PAN AMERICAN:
Captain
Fir ot Officer
Flight Engineer
- ll it fro m
Q.
L y n d o n 's lo o k s a n d m a n n e r , w ith o u t r e a d i n g the p a p e r ^ a l t h o u g h the p a p e r
s a y s he r a i s e d a n e s t i m a t e d m i l l i o n d o l l a r s b y s p e a k i n g a t two b ig fu n d
- Goldwater; Lynda Johnson returns from Hawaii and Los Angeles
- ■I'
1965
T h u r sd a y , A u g u st 12th
.
W as lik e a cam p aign d ay.
I had w anted to spend at le a s t one day
s e e in g PR O JEC T HEADSTART in o p era tio n .
We ch o se New J e r s e y
b e c a u s e it w as c lo s e and I could s e
- Angeles Times reporter; Lady Bird mentions LBJ's schedule; the Johnsons fly to Texas to LBJ Ranch
- that I was
there.
I persuaded your mother
stay there, which I did.
to go on back to Los Angeles and I would
I stayed till
her nurse, stayed with her for a time.
late that evening.
Breeda Murphy
There didn't seem muchthat I could
do so r went back
- to Washingtonfor my
Senate hearing; flew out again the same afternoon.
Then we drove on down
to Los Angeles. By prearrangement, when I got to Los Angeles, I got the
telegram from the Department that I had been confirmed. I went out that
evening in Glendale. Wehad
- 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
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U. ALEXIS
JOHNSON
Tape 21
(21a)
It is Thursday, March30, 1972. Muchhas happened since my last tape
in Novemberof last year after I had returned from a trip I took at that
time out to East Asia. First, on the personal side, on February 4 I
- to the experience at
Los Angeles and he just doesn't want to act in light of what he did to me then.
I have mixed emotions about this whole thing.
for a while and let it cook before I get involvedo
It's a good thing I'm away
Actually I have little zest
- was uncertain
job
at this
point,
although some time in the not too distant
future I probably
ought to get into something which will be permanent, and if I'm ever
going back to law practice
indicate
~t will .have to be fairly
to him the unhappiness I feel
- that after the Los Angeles conVention, Jack Kennedy returned to
the Senate and sought to carry forward a minimum wage b.111 and that th~ Sena:te
clobbered and r .an all over ·him, even though he was the Presidential. Naninee when
he tried to include some
- up^ I r e a liz e d that I had an 11 o 'c lo c k appointment with E lea n o r
L e m a ir^, that I needed to get m y hair combed, and that I was suppo s ed to
have m y picture made fo r the F lo r is ts Association,,-at a little bit past eleven.
So
- Justo S ie rr a and Christina.
I shook hands with eve ry b o d y and
said a few words in v e r y bad Spanish, and then came on back home in time to
see Lu ci who has just begun her tutoring in Spanish with Senora Lo p ez M cG u ire,
m y old f r iend
- this.
A ft e r b rea kfa st, around the kitchen table I c a ught an e a r ly plane into
Austin and went to Hausman Beauty Shop.
A s soon as I took m y seat, there
was Anita B r e w e r , of the Austin A m e r ic a n Statesman, who said rather
ap o lo g e
- e lle r
w a s g o in g to m a k e i t p o s s ib le to h a v e a lo n g te r m p la n fo r th e J o h n so n
P a r k i- ^ ^ n e by. the N a tio n a l P a r k S e rv ic e .
how m u c h /^ 6 ^ 1 p o u t w ith th e e x h ib its .
h e s it a t e a m o m
-
Citi zens for John :-. on, and she is spe nding full time ne2. rly eve ry d,.y at
the Commit '.c: c.
Margar et Price is o u t of Lo\vn, whtch is why we did not
ask her to joir, us.
I had phonec: and tried.
It was a good session for all of us.
Lyndon
- 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
- lady from Lyndon's a rm , so that I hope he got to dance with
n ea rly everyb od y present.
I know he wanted to.
How funny that we should do m o re dancing a fte r 50 than n e a rly any
time in our liv e s ]
And I lo ve it.
The evening was light
- ork and then at 3:15 had m y picture
taken with Martha Hartke, r e c e iv in g a cook book fro m her, hoping that w ill
do some good fo r them in their election.
And then at 4 o 'c lo c k
the day- - a
top o ffic e r s .
what I thought
- ld " f o r
And the r o s a r y , g iv en b y P o p e Jo h n to
L y n d a B ir d , w ill be h e r " s o m e th in g b o r r o w e d ". H e r " s o m e th in g b lu e " w a s a
g o ld lo c k e t tie d w ith a b lu e s a tin rib b o n th a t b e lo n g
- Luci's wedding day; Lynda sings "Get Me To The Church On Time;" cable from Jerry Nugent in Vietnam; Lady Bird describes her thoughts, decorations & the service; telegram read from the Pope; Luci stops to kiss parents and give roses to mothers
- 1965
T u e sd a y , J a n u a r y 5th
I s p e n t a l l d a y in th e N e v e r - N e v e r L an d of c lo th e s .
Up a t s e v e n to
c a tc h a n e ig h t o 'c lo c k p la n e to New Y o rk w ith R o b in D uke and h e r d a u g h te r,
e n ro
- 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
- beautiful; and then into the Blue Room , posing fo r
Vogue m agazin e.
The picture w il l be in c o lo r - a c o v e r picture perhaps -
and it sim ply devours time.
ThenI rushed back upstairs and changed into a cocktail dress fo r the
fourth of our s e r
- ,/to v ie
te ll o f that past with so much c o lo r and m eaning."
And s o on.
The part
o f it I lik e d b est was this, " T o m e, som e of the m ost strik in g paintings
a re those of the m en who occupied the White House as P re s id e n t, becau se
- and others who w e r e com ing by, , ,
Some of the stuff I have liv e d with and lo ved at the E lm s.
A t 3 o ’ clo ck I had a picture with Womens' National D em ocra tic Club,
that i s M rs . K e y s e r ling, the P r e s id e n t of it; Kay H a l l e
- to L y n d o n .
A ll
m o r n in g h e w a s on th e p h o n e, w ith e a c h c a ll r e s t iv e to g e t o ff and
in to th e p o o l b y 11 o ’c lo c k .
H e s a id , "D on't you w an t to s w im w ith
m e?"
I h a v e to o b r o a d a s tr a in o
- Lady Bird preparing for guests at the LBJ Ranch; LBJ signs a highway construction bill on the porch; hostess duties is time-consuming; LBJ tells about communion at the Christian Church; Lynda Johnson moves I to Austin for school; Johnsons greet
- 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
- r, C on gressm an Bob Jones, and an out-
standing e m p lo y e e o f the fligh t cent e r, M rs . M a r y B e r r i b e r r i , age 70.
I
1
Ivo Sparkman
and her daughter J u l i a Ann
had com e down with me on
the plane, as had Dorothy
- talks with G eorge R eedy, S e c re ta r y Vance, M cG e o rg e
Bundy, G o vern o r Eagen of A laska, and B ill M o y e r s .
So many ca lls that
I fin a lly went into the next room and went to sleep and didn't wake up until
c lo s e to noon.
It had
- a l com m u n ity t h at ^ ^
from the v e r y f ir s t h as b een in favor o f M ed icare!
I fe lt lo u s y - a poor
frie n d , a s la c k guardian o f the in te r e s ts of th ose who have b een our fr ie n d s .
D r , T u rch i n, a s o ffic e r
- MEMORA N DUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Sunday, May 17, 1964
Page 1
I had an ea rly breakfast* kissed a sleepy Lu ci goodby, feelin g that
/
our lo v ely vacation^/had at least accom plished something, toward returning
her to the norm al
- f o r L y n 's b irth d a y p u ttin g on m y w e t h a i r a n u n accu sto n ried
f a ll w h ic h lo o k e d f ra n k ly w h a t it w a s .
I took a b r ie f sto p f i r s t w ith C y n th ia to
L y n d o n 's C o u n c il on R e c r e a tio n
- MEMORANDUM
T H E W HITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
F r id a y , A p r il 3, 1964
M r. James F o s burgh a r r iv e d at 10 o 'c lo c k this m orning and we
had n ea rly two hours of a rt talk, about what would be nice to go with
the ChildeH assam a nd the M
- something of it.
And lo and
behold, in the course of the whole evening, never once did I encounter F r ank
and Ruth Stanton,
I must rem em ber to te ll him Lyndon's famou s story
MEMORANDUM
THE W HITE HOUSE
W A 3H I N O T ON
Monday, May 25, 1964
Page
- , v e l v e t c o v e r e d p la tfo r m ,
on w h ich r e p o s e d m any, m any, lo vely .,'? l^ b o ra te p illo w s , each b e a r in g the
coat o f a r m s o f a country, and on the p i l l o w s / m e d a l s , rib b o n s, d e c o ra tio n s
r e
- w a s lo o k in g up
a n d s e e i n g M a r y G r i f f i t h l e a n i n g o u t o f a w in do w w a v in g a t m e .
M ary
f o r m a n y y e a r s h a d b e e n i n c h a r g e o f a l t e r i n g th e c l o t h e s w h ic h I
p u rc h a s e d
- e b e s t w ir e w e could an d a ll w o rd s a r e h o llo w . A s L yndon
le f t to go to w o rk h e tu rn e d to m e and s a id "W e'v e l o s t th e s te e l
c
fig h t; we m a y lo s e th e w a r .
T h e y a r e going to in d ic t B o b b y
- 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"
-
THE WHI TE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Wednesday, May 6, 1964
Page 3
along - M rs. Charles Tobey, its p illa r and citadel; M rs, Edward Burke
who had been in charge of sewing ev er since time began; M r s. W illiam
B u lo w .
Others that m ean the m ost to us
- M EM ORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
S a tu rd a y , J u n e 4, 1966
WASHINGTON
Page 1
S a tu rd a y , Ju n e 4th, b e g a n w ith a sw im w ith L yndon - - j u s t the two of u s .
I lo v e to be a b le to s a y " y e s " to h im w hen he w a n ts u s
- LBJ & guests tour the ranches; Lady Bird spends time with Lynda Johnson; Lady Bird talks about Rebekah Johnson; photos taken of LBJ and Lady Bird in the wildflowers; LBJ and Lady Bird vote at the courthouse; Lady Bird mentions 1941 Senate race; LBJ
