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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/7/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/4/1969 (Saturday) (Item)
  • —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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/3/1963 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/4/1966 (Friday) (Item)
  • s i d e t h e p o i n t . And t h e n t o t h e b e a u t y p a r l o r an d t h e n t o work w i t h Ka n d i in t r a n s f o r m i n g some o f my e a s t e r n f a b r i c s i n t o ha n d so m e "a t home" c l o t h e s f o r s m a l l d i n
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/1/1965 (Monday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird meets with James Fosburgh about art for the White House; LBJ presents Distinguished Service Medal to General Curtis LeMay; Lady Bird adds oral commentary to home movies; Lady Bird lunches with LBJ and his staff; Lynda Johnson's trip
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/10/1969 (Friday) (Item)
  • 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/19/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • ; Lady Bird travels to Jane Engelhard's home; tea on terrace; tour of the Engelhard home; dinner party; Lady Bird names guests; LBJ sends telegram to Engelhards thanking them for being so nice to Lady Bird; toasts; dancing; security concerns; Brick House
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/13/1967 (Friday) (Item)
  • Surprise birthday party for Ashton Gonella at Patsy Chaney's home; beautification meeting, with LBJ joining to give inspiring talk; LBJ reminisces about NYA highway parks in 1936; Johnsons meet Prince Juan Carlos & Princess Sophia of Spain; Lady
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/14/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • 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 .
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/18/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/28/1965 (Thursday) (Item)
  • LBJ and Lady Bird have breakfast and go for walk; new wrought iron gate at family cemetery; meeting about landscape design for ranch; Lady Bird lunches with LBJ and others; LBJ's weight loss; renovation of Johnson home in Johnson City; Lady Bird
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/5/1966 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/2/1966 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • and Roy White about the LBJ Library; LBJ and Lady Bird have dinner at Bill White's home; guests discuss Richard Russell; LBJ talks of Democratic National Committee problems; article about White House art
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/17/1966 (Thursday) (Item)
  • with a portrait; Lady Bird rests before working on Alabama speech; Lady Bird bowls and works on her home movies; LBJ and Lady Bird have dinner
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/14/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • Valentine gifts; D.C. League of Women Voters fundraiser; Heart luncheon; "Americans-At-Home" Program; visit by the John Steinbecks, and their story of visiting Russia; office work; LBJ to St. Louis for its Bicentennial; visit with Mary Lasker about
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, 1/6/1967 (Friday) (Item)
  • ; LBJ & Lady Bird to dinner for Secretary & Mrs. Dean Rusk at Averell Harriman home; Lady Bird one of 12 best dressed; Herb Block cartoon about Peter Hurd portrait; toasts; Rusk speaks of role of U.S. in world; LBJ praises Harrimans
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/27/1964 (Monday) (Item)
  • taken by TIROS 6; performance of "Oklahoma"; Lady Bird mentions home movies from '41 Senate campaign; Lady Bird mentions decorations & food; Lady Bird talks with President Tsiranana; Lady Bird walks lawn and then dances with General Clifton