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  • I V 1965 : , ■ Friday, August 27th Lyndon's 57th birthday was oddly divided between a quiet morning (I actually lay in bed and did some recording) and hours of riding the nice edge of tension. Some time during the morning I got a call from Lyndon
  • Telephone call from Bill Moyers; ceremony and presentation of Johnson City park; tour for guests from Time-Life; LBJ arrives in Texas; LBJ's gives a reminiscent speech; Johnsons and guests go to boyhood home; LBJ picks up little boy and gets a kiss
  • her pain, which ! I re m e m b e r with considerable satisfaction. Having g r e e te d a ll the big b rass, we went m arching in to the luncheon.___ A d la i Stevenson a r r iv in g fro m his la test c r is is at the UN, just in time to go in with us
  • 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
  • a u t i f u l young w i f e , who seems to me S e c r e t a r y of U d a l l and Lee U d a ll ha d been Interior time es c o r tin g them around Washington and just about t h i r t y . brought them to I the White H o u s e , u p from
  • ell, a lm o st v e r y w e ll, and she would like the m elon accent in it. M ost of a ll, was the fact that I took some time to get her opinion, and that I wanted it. qV And then next on the agenda,^’^was a m eeting then with B o is fe u ille t Jones
  • nap; news story about Pat Nugent; Lady Bird is interviewed by New York Times about art; Willard Deasons and Emmet Riordans for dinner and to pick out one of Him's beagle puppies; Lady Bird reads "Guns of August"
  • Lady Bird shops for clothes in New York with designers John Moore, Kandi Ohno, Sophie Gimbel and Adolfo; Lady Bird spends time with Lynda at White House; dinner with the McNamaras; LBJ's discussion with Labor leaders