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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/17/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • acro ss to any m em bers of the Committee who might care what labor thought, th eir hopes in favor of the beautification legislation, and that he would think about a donation to the National Capital, and he wanted me to think about being chairman
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/12/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • Natural resources and national parks
  • Desk work & phone calls; plaque from National Recreation and Park Association; 220 dogwoods for Columbia Island from 1965 Inaugural Committee; tea for Beautification Committee who donated 2500 dogwoods; 1 million daffodils; hike & bike trails
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, 3/9/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • Second Beautification Committee meeting; participants take tour of Washington for possible beautification projects; office work; nap; Selma, Alabama, and Voting Rights; ninth Congressional Reception; Selma incident
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/25/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird watches Chancellor Adenauer's funeral on television; annual meeting of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House; Oveta Culp Hobby donates Waterford Crystal chandelier; Lady Bird is in receiving line at Senate Ladies Luncheon