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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/17/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Creole shrimp, plus party food. The guests left about 11:30, and Lyndon went to night reading, and I to bed with my current book. I was delighted that he had told Herman Jones that he wanted to appoint Bess to the first vacancy on the Committee
  • 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, 4/23/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • e , u n d e r E is e n h o w e r, I th in k . I th o u g h t it w ould ta k e the a tte n tio n , the a c c la im , th e s p o tlig h t, off the D ip lo m a tj a n d th is w a s th e ir night,^ th e ir l a s t n ig h t w ith th e J o h n so n a d m
  • Start children; Johnsons hold Diplomatic Reception; Lady Bird names guests; small dinner party for the Joe Frantzes and Governor & Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller; Lady Bird reads before sleep
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/9/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • enough to get good and tire d .. Th e n we w alked. Th e n everybody la y down f o r a nap o r f o r read ing, getting up in tim e to watch F o re ig n M in is t e r Thanat Khom an of Th a ila n d on M E E T T H E P R E S S . C alm , a u th o rita tiv
  • Mother's Day; gifts from Lynda & Luci; "gourmet" breakfast; bowling and a walk; naps or reading for all; on television, watching Foreign Minister Khoman of Thailand on "Meet the Press;" Bill White; more bowling and dinner; back to the White House
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/16/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • to know, as a fem a le p a rticip a n t in a p ictu re s to r y w as what to w e a r . I d ecid ed on m y h ea v y w alking sh o e s from the Grand Tetons and p o ss ib ly som e h ea v y u n d erw ea r. And m y b eig e pants s u it . He sp read out m aps
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/7/1965 (Friday) (Item)
  • inside; Lady Bird gives speech; attends party at Anna Rosenberg Hoffman's; Lady Bird talks with Mr. Hoffman about Africa; discussion about LBJ and RFK relationship; toasts; back to Washington; Lady Bird talks about artwork for White House; Lady Bird reads
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/22/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Bird mentions guests; topics of conversation are jobs for the handicapped & anti-American sentiment in France; toasts; Lynda Johnson toasts to George Washington; Lady Bird visits; snowing; Lady Bird reads; San Antonio wins cleanest city award
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/23/1965 (Friday) (Item)
  • , then reads Louis Auchinclass book, Brownstone Front; LBJ meets with foreign policy advisers about Vietnam; Poverty Bill passes; Adlai Stevenson; Arthur Schlesinger book
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/16/1967 (Thursday) (Item)
  • 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, 12/9/1968 (Monday) (Item)
  • 5:31, should read "Alan" and I had planned instead of "Sharon" and I.
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