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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/9/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • - • • • ·' in the · Washington Hilton who had paid $250 a plate -- the proceed~ to be divided equally between the Senate and House Congressional committees. Phil Re.&an singing the National Anthem .as he has since time began, and looking very . little older . A new touch
  • National politics
  • assistance; Lady Bird has dressing fitting with Adele Simpson; tea for East Wing staff; Democratic Campaign Committee Fund Raising Dinner; John McCormack, Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey & LBJ give speeches; Richard Daley family are houseguests
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/16/1967 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • for Citizens Advisory Committee on Recreation and Natural Beauty where Lady Bird makes statement and helps Alan Boyd present awards; Laurance Rockefeller speaks; LBJ joins reception; LBJ swims; Lady Bird reads Elia Kazan's "The Arrangement"
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/2/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • LBJ has Congressional Leadership Breakfast; Lady Bird meets Ladies Committee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; planning for the Women Doers' Luncheon on child health; photos with the National Association for Retarded Children and their poster child
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/17/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Wednesday, May 17, 1967 Page 8 in South Texas. It is hard for us to keep current, to bring in new names—new blood for invitations to committees, to add their strength to our personal and political life. Cecil showed me a delightful picture of a big complex
  • Bird reminisces about reading "Peter Rabbit" to daughters; Spanish lesson; Military Reception; Baroness Maria Von Trapp is guest & she wants to take "Sound of Music" to Vietnam for servicemen; dinner upstairs with guests; Committee on Retardation
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/22/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • double amputee ..-­ -/re lost to Romney .-fr'nd his pretty wife Alice. Dear Robin Duke's frienrl, Mrs. Harcourt Amory, who helps h(:r out by being Chairman of the Blair House Fine Arts Committee. The luncheon was remarkable for several the loudspeaki
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/14/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • Art Committee
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/28/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • Return home from Florida; Visit to and meeting with Mrs. Kennedy about Society for the Preservation of the White House and its members; Mrs. Kennedy agrees to be public member; Fine Arts Committee; gift of four JFK minted coins; office work; John
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/15/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • LBJ is in a dark mood; death of Senator Richard Russell's son; White House Festival of the Arts; press response to Festival; Lady Bird takes a nap; reception for Inaugural Committee workers; quick remarks by LBJ; visit by Tony and Matiana Taylor
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/12/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Hair salon; Luci Nugents escorts Tricia Nixon & Nixon Cabinet members' children through White House; Lynda & Chuck Robb are in Bangkok; last meeting of Committee for the Preservation of the White House; report on White House Historical Association
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/8/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Office work; Promotions for Women in Armed Forces bill signing ceremony; LBJ presents Bronze Star to Major Marie Rodgers, an African-American, and a Legion of Merit to Colonel Ethel Hefley; Committee for Preservation of the White House meeting