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  • the night, and Johnson was going to see some people in Pittsburgh the following day. He was going to make a speech in Clarksville, West Virginia the following night. So he called us all to his room--all the press party--and he said, "Now,1I he said, "when
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
  • start by summarizing what I know of your career here subject to your corrections and additions. You were born in Pittsburgh in 1918; educated at Amherst; University of Chicago Law School; Georgetown Law School; World War II service with the U.S. Army
  • at the University of Pittsburgh and later at Harvard, got this notion called the tipping theory, and it read very, very, very impressive. The only trouble with it is, it's like the theory that there is a time when if your temperature gets to be a certain amount
  • press MEMORANDUM ITH E I W H IT E HOUSE W A S n i N O T ON Saturday, M arch 2 8 , 1964 P a ge 2 conferen ce. Then a g re a t many of them h a d to lea ve in a hurry, since there w e r e no filin g fa c ilit ie s there at Stonewall, but some
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  • LBJ is sick with coughing, throat congestion and fever; LBJ receives call about earthquake in Alaska; press conference at the LBJ Ranch; tours given for some press members at the Scharnhorst Ranch; dinner at the West Ranch with the Moursunds
  • like to take m y picture as I left. And ended This is the fi r s t time that I can re m e m b e r being c l e a r l y annoyed at the p r e s s . ■ Not knowing how to ask h er to le a v e , I talked to her about the situation of the press people fro m
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  • Lady Bird to Austin to Hausman Beauty Shop; press at the beauty shop; Lady Bird to Johnson City with LBJ and the Jack Brooks'; to the Haywood Ranch and a boat ride; Lady Bird mentions the abundant bluebonnets; relaxed evening with friends at LBJ
  • that the President had decided at that moment that he would try to squeeze in some time and held sit for the portrait that lid asked them to make, the first official portrait he needed to get going on the presses and hanging in government buildings. I came over 1i ke
  • would logically come out of the White House at that particular time. And you may have read that this system came "a cropper" because on one day at the ranch, Joseph Laitin then an assistant press LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • House press apparatus; Dean Acheson; Dean Rusk; Senator Aiken; Congressman Moss; Mr. Rooney; Mr. Katzenbach; Eugene Rostow; the press; Joe Alsop; Vietnam coverage; mail; lag time in making records available; Douglas Cater; transition; Lady Bird; trip
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  • Houseguests leave; preparations are made for volunteer hostesses tea party at LBJ birthplace; LBJ wants BBQ for press and press conference; Lady Bird dictates information for handout on birthplace; BBQ luncheon for 85 at the LBJ Ranch; press
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  • Coffee and swimming with LBJ; walk with press at Reagan Ranch; LBJ and rest of press drive to Reagan; Lady Bird describes deer and livestock; lunch with select press; Lady Bird to hair salon; LBJ and Lady Bird to John Hills' for barbeque; tour
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  • Arrival of Administration and Cabinet officials to ranch for briefings and meetings; Lady Bird gets ready for press; press tours by Dale Malechek, Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson; Johnson family and LBJ Ranch history; Walter Jetton barbecue; press
  • Carpenter was Mrs. Johnson's press secretary? Yes. I said, "Well, I haven't prepared any remarks, Liz, and I don't speak German, and I understand the Chancellor does." She said, "Well, just come on in and present the acts." So I immediately acquired
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  • Election day; Lady Bird is suffering jet lag; Johnsons arrive at polls before officials; Lady Bird mentions the busy fall at the LBJ Ranch landing strip; Johnsons and guests drive around ranches; LBJ meets with press; Lady Bird takes nap; dinner
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  • Lady Bird to LBJ Ranch with agency and departments heads; press conference at LBJ Ranch; tours of LBJ Ranch; helicopter to Lewis Ranch; dinner at LBJ Ranch; visits with Cousin Oriole; Lady Bird watches "Gunsmoke"
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  • Johnsons to Christian Church and drive to Johnson City house; Lady Bird mentions relationship with Lucia; LBJ to Lewis place with press following; Lady Bird and guests have lunch; Lady Bird visits LBJ's birthplace house for decorating; LBJ and his
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  • meet with press; Lady Bird to Austin for architecture meeting on the LBJ Library; Lady Bird & Roy White look at stone on University of Texas campus buildings; Press stories about amount of Hill Country acreage LBJ owns; Lynda Johnson's first magazine
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  • LBJ's 58th birthday; cookies & coffee for press who are invited into the house; LBJ reminisces about his life; Johnsons & guests drive through the ranches; Lady Bird describes flora and fauna; guests are invited to dinner party; Lady Bird describes
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  • LBJ & Lyn Nugent to St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church; LBJ is not sleeping well; Johnsons, Lynda & Chuck Robb to St. Barnabas Episcopal Church; gold crisis; Sweden & trial of U.S. for war crimes; press at church; Johnsons watch "Issues and Answers
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  • LBJ & Lady Bird are at Brooke Army Medical Hospital for tests; doctors find small growth in LBJ's colon; doctors issue press statement; Johnsons helicopter to LBJ Ranch; LBJ meets with Arthur Okun; lunch; Lady Bird to bed and reading; LBJ goes
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  • Thanksgiving Day; Johnsons to St. Barnabas Episcopal Church; press invited for coffee, cookies & photographs; family photos taken at LBJ Birthplace & LBJ Boyhood Home; Luci to University of Texas football game; LBJ teaches Lyn Nugent to dance; LBJ
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  • Johnson family and friends to St. Barnabas Church; press corps is invited in for refreshments; LBJ's plane takes Cantinflas and his sick wife to Temple to hospital; lunch with Senator and Mrs. Paul Douglas; Senator Douglas reminisces about 1960
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  • Washington's Birthday; Lady Bird joins LBJ in bed for coffee and to read newspapers; tension about Vietnam; LBJ mentions role of press; Lady Bird works on tile samples and clothes from Mollie Parnis; Lady Bird talks with Luci Johnson about article
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  • LBJ on phone with McGeorge Bundy about foreign problems; LBJ meets with Dale Malechek about LBJ Ranch; lunch with staff, helicopter to Bergstrom and flight to DC; LBJ talks with press pool about Vietnam; Foreign Aid Bill; stop in Columbia, SC
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  • Lady Bird works at Johnson City home and gives tour to female press; to LBJ Ranch with NBC crew and George Stevens, for USIA film, "The President's Country;" after breakfast, filming and photos at the Scharnhorst; to Haywood and West Ranches to film
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  • Lady Bird meets with decorator about LBJ Ranch house; Lady Bird with John William Klein to decorate the Lewis Ranch and Haywood Ranch houses; boating on the Llano River; Lady Bird and guests watch LBJ's press conference; appointment of Thurgood
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  • Lady Bird at meeting on LBJ Library; Lady Bird hosts tea for Mount Holyoke and Connecticut College women; Bill Moyers has press conference about LBJ Library; Lady Bird continues with the tea event; LBJ signs a bill in the Rose Garden; Johnsons
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  • Johnsons to Methodist Church in Johnson City; drive by old Johnson house; to Lewis place; LBJ allows press to follow him; Senator Eugene McCarthy makes speech at University of Texas before visiting the LBJ Ranch; Elementary and Secondary Education
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  • to Johnson City for flower harvesting; dinner with Luci & Pat Nugent and friends at Steak Island in Austin; Luci has encounters with the press; Lady Bird to bed and reading "Of Time and The River" by Thomas Wolfe
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  • Press stories on engagement of Luci Johnson and Pat Nugent; visit of Peter and Henrietta Hurd; lunch with Hurds , Jack Brooks, et al; unveiling and discussion of the Hurd portrait of LBJ; portrait receives poor reviews from the Johnsons; Lady Bird
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  • LBJ and Lady Bird go to Johnson City to vote, then by boyhood home and bank; LBJ invites press to follow them by the Lewis place and Hartman Ranch; Lady Bird invites women reporters to join them; Johnsons drive by Logan Ranch; office work; lunch
  • it, because I thought he was just a young boy that was bragging about his good relations with the President. But I remembered very distinctly at the time that the impression I had from Mrs. Johnsdn from the press, from seeing her photographs in press
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  • LBJ has phone conversation about appointments at Treasury and Budget; Lady Bird receives international YWCA delegates; Henry Fowler accepts Secretary of Treasury position; LBJ makes press announcement; diplomatic reception at Blair House; Lady Bird
  • the camel driver now--as the I was on that trip. word that got into the press back here, when he visited. Really sounded as if they'd come straight frorn the Koran or something. C: Well, I think that they no doubt were dressed up a bit, but I think he
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  • Johnson family attend Easter service at St. Barnabas Church; some press attend service, too; Ralph Doppler gives Johnsons model of LBJ Ranch house; driving tour of Hill Country; story of LBJ driving over rattlesnake; Easter lunch at the LBJ Ranch
  • ? Tom Dewey. F: What a trio! C: The guys that didn't have the guts to show up and let the press see them! And wasn't it a strange combination? (Laughter) Well, anyway, after the convention is all over and I heard all of this storming about how
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  • Lady Bird with brother, Tony Taylor; press invited to breakfast; Lady Bird describes Tony's garden; to San Il defonso Indian pueblo; visit to pottery studio of Maria Montez & Popovi Da; to Sangre de Cristo mountains; goodbye to Taylors; lunch
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  • Johnsons to St. Barnabas Church; LBJ gives ranch tour to press; Lady Bird signs Christmas mats; small luncheon; Bess Abell decorates house for Secret Service weekend; LBJ & Lady Bird ride horses; tours of ranches to Secret Service men & wives; Lady