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  • JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT FOR ALEXANDER LAWRENCE; APPOINTMENT OF ABE FORTAS AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT; FORTAS' RECENT SPEECH ON CIVIL DISSENT; LBJ READS LIST OF CANDIDATES TO SUCCEED FORTAS, SUGGESTS REAPPOINTING TOM CLARK AND DISMISSING RAMSEY
  • MANSFIELD READS PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL DECLARATION OF SUPPORT OF VIETNAM POLICY TO BE ATTACHED TO VIETNAM SUPPLEMENTAL BILL; LBJ DISCUSSES POSSIBLE CHANGES IN US MISSION TO VIETNAM INCLUDING APPOINTING ELLSWORTH BUNKER AS AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE
  • PLANS FOR LBJ STATE PARK; JOHN BEN SHEPPERD'S APPOINTMENT; NEED TO COORDINATE CONNALLY'S PROPOSED STATEMENT ON LBJ STATE PARK CONTROVERSY WITH WILL ODOM, PREPARE ODOM FOR PRESS INQUIRIES; LBJ READS PROPOSED STATEMENT; LBJ'S PLAN TO MEET WITH JAMES
  • LBJ READS PRIVATE NOTE FROM TOM CLARK REGARDING ABA, OTHER SUPPORT FOR CLARK REMAINING ON SUPREME COURT IF RAMSEY CLARK IS APPOINTED ATTORNEY GENERAL; DISCUSSION OF PERCEPTION OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST IF TOM CLARK REMAINS ON COURT; VIEWS OF OTHER
  • LBJ READS MEMO CRITICIZING APPOINTMENT OF ALBERT BUSHONG BROOKE TO FPC, SUGGESTS WAYS TO GET HIM CONFIRMED; RALPH YARBOROUGH'S OPPOSITION TO UNESCO APPOINTMENT FOR HEW UNDERSECRETARY JAMES MCCROCKLIN; CRITICISM OF MCCROCKLIN'S DISSERTATIONS AND HIS
  • been reading about this coznmission from Kennedy. about it. We've started reading DALEY: Oh, yes. WATSON: I want to tell you what we know about it. Mel Elfrin, of Newsweek magazine, tells us he got his original tip from a freind of Ted
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  • e p t e m b e r and O c t o b e r and November o f 1 9 3 4 , a n d f r o m me t o h im a b o u t t h e same t im e a n d t h e r e were a few f ro m hi m i n s u c c e e d i n g y e a r s on up t o 1 9 4 0 . Though I h a v e n ' t re-read them i n
  • Marshall as Solicitor General, Leonard Marks to USIA, and Penelope Thunberg as U.S. Tariff Commissioner; LBJ praises Dean Rusk; Arthur Schlesinger's account of LBJ becoming Vice President; Lady Bird reads Agatha Christy
  • ; Lynda Johnson, the Arthur Goldbergs and the airplane problems; Lady Bird reads book, Portrait in Brownstone; Johnsons and guests to Haywood for boating
  • & Lady Bird drive the Lewis & Martin ranches and in to Johnson City; dinner at LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird has massage & reads "Twenty Letters to a Friend" by Svetlana, Josef Stalin's daughter
  • Bird & the Ed Clarks to Corcoran Gallery; tea & tours at White House for the Clarks & guests; LBJ speaks briefly to guests; Lady Bird practices Appalachia speeches; dinner at Scoop Jackson's home; LBJ reads John Steinbeck letter about Vietnam