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contributed to the White House with love and generosity.
And then I
sent them o ff on a to u r with Jim Ketchum and spent more time at my
desk, th i s time plowing deep in to the middle drawer, carefully taking
out very private things, such as the memo I
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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
- and came back Monday afternoon!
And this
sum m er I can think of a time or two when a very hard-working
P resident has done it, but he has also taken his work with him,
and packed m ore into those three days than any human ought to.
After an hour
- from the T ru m a n B alco n y
He and r e p o r t e r s
and forth^
can.
sort of
$
poet C a r l Sandburg a n d his brother-in-
Edward S t eichenS to hea r and see union
and
management o f f i c i a l s n e g o t i a t e the r a i l r o a d d i s p
- of
Palm Springs,
w hen I say little * I a lm o st have to take it back, when I re m e m b e r what
a long, long stream of com m unicants kept w alking on up to the a lta r a s we
took com m union, I just w onder i f there was a crow d outside that kept
- T uesday, Ja n u a ry 14, 1969
Page 1
T uesday, Jan u a ry 1 4 th was an a b s o lu t e ly u n iq u e day In my
t h i r t y - f o u r y e a r s In W ashington.
I t was th e day Lyndon gave h i s
l a s t S t a t e o f th e Union speech and I
- LBJ returns to White House; Lady Bird spent night at Pierre; Lady Bird reads about last night's party; invitations to State of the Union speech; Lady Bird back to White House; LBJ practices speech & rests; separate cars to Capitol; Lyn Nugent
- in the United States fo r their senior
high school year.
of our States.
They h;id been dispersed all across this union i.n 47
Lyndon and Luci and I arrived on the South Grounds \•.:hen
they \Vere ab:ea
- Lady Bird meets leaders of "Let's Beautify America" campaign; Lady Bird's interview on beauty is published in "Reader's Digest" who donated 800 rose bushes for Union Station; Lady Bird mentions projects in Topeka, KS, & Greenville, MS; Dominican
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1965
M onday, J a n u a r y 4 th
O ne of th e b ig d a y s of th e y e a r f o r u s - - th e S ta te of th e Union
M essage!
A t n in e o 'c l o c k to n ig h t - - th e f i r s t t i m e i t 's b e e n a t n ig h t s in c e
F D R , c r e a t
- White House houseguests and seating for inauguration; dresses for Lady Bird, Lynda & Luci Johnson; Gerald Ford elected Minority Leader in House; State of the Union message; speech includes education, medical research and national beauty; LBJ & Lady
- State of the Union Message; Lady Bird has a Beautification luncheon and tour of Washington, D.C., including public housing projects; LBJ has lunch at 6:30 p.m.; Lady Bird attends State of the Union Message with family and friends; 20-day bombing
- watches home movies; small dinner party; architect chosen for LBJ Library; Poverty programs; photographs by Okamoto; talk with Luci Johnson; Pope's visit to New York; upcoming State of the Union
- lothing Union and rem em b ered how I had a sk e d
him how old he w a s w hen he ca m e to th is country.
And he sa id , "It
a ll dep en d s." It turned out he had given h is age in th ree d ifferen t
w a y s to su it the n e c e s s it ie s of the o c c
- e r e l a s t w e e k , r e a f f i r m i n g a g r e e m e n t
on V i e t - N a m
and M a l a y s i a , an d they s p l i t on t r a d e with C u b a and c r e d i t
with S o v i e t Union,
Well, B r i t a i n m u s t li v e by t r a d e an d L o
- LBJ works on State of the Union message; Lady Bird, et al, to Buchanan School to see renovated playground; Beautification meeting at the White House; LBJ meets with Congressional leaders; statement drafted on LBJ's decision not to run in 1968; Lady
- r e enough t h e p r e a c h e r to o k
h i s t e x t r a t h e r p e r s o n a l l y on t h e S t a t e of t h e Union
^
w i t h a c c e n t on V ietnam w hich c a u s e s me t o f l i n c h .
And
one l i n e was a b o u t l i f e , n o t V
- as t h a t e v e r y f a c e wa s i n t e r e s t e d
a n d m any w ere s m i l i n g .
g o t up t o
ta k e
I t w as a c o m m u n ity .
com m union we d i d
w as no a l t a r r a i l o f c o u r s e .
it
Wh e n we
s ta n d in g .
The l i t t l
- no, we went by
to s a y h e llo to D a v id D u b in sk y and what we thought w a s a m e e tin g of
h i s g a r m e n t union w o r k e r s .
I
It turn o u t to be that_— i t tu rn e d out tha t
Q .y
D a v id D u b in sk y and a l l of h is c h u m s
- by train; Lady Bird visits with Luci & Lynda; Lady Bird has tea for Princess Grace, Monaco; LBJ & Billy Graham arrive; Johnsons meet Kennedy train at Union Station; cortege to Arlington Cemetery; James Earl Ray is arrested; Cardinal Cushing has attack
- a r l y a n y a c t o r p r e s e n t - th e S ta te of th e Union a s f a r b a c k a s I c a n r e m e m b e r .
And the
J o e M oodys of GSA.
T h e r e w a s a t l e a s t one l i t t l e g i r l w h o se r e l a t i o n to th e w hole
p a r t y
