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- ; exchange of State gifts; receiving line; Lady Bird mentions many guests; LBJ's toast about our form of government; Sir Alec Douglas-Home's toast about Cuba; the "Strolling Strings" and dancing
- , the w ife
of our old fr ie n d Gus Wortham.
In the next one was M iss Ima, v e r y
re g a l, v e r y e ld e r ly , but v e r y full of excitem ent and v^rve about what
^
was
going on.
With h er w e re the d im in u tiv e Sir John B a r b a r o l l
- ; railroad negotiations in the Cabinet room; dinner for Henry Fowler at C. Douglas Dillon's home
- Brandt, and I was glad to see there such old friends as B ill
Douglas, Dean Ache son, L u c iu s C lay, and Tom C orcora n
that Drew Pearson and Joe Alsop w ere included.
Glad al so
And Dr, M ilton Eisenhower,
who's working on Lyndon's P r e sidential
- belong
b o w in g
McNamaras
just
day in A p r i l ,
ihe
negroes,
there
q uite
a re f r e q u e n t l y
came home
an u p h i l l
who kno'ws/^I thinl#:/\ the
w ithout
A f t e r w a r d we to o k the
s e a r ch
M a r k ’ s i s always
is a s
- --our first guest in that beautiful place. And so, she and I
walked through the family quarters, and we hung pictures. We put the scenes in the bedroom.
So I feel very much at home. We put Mr. Sam out in the—well, it’s what I call the family sitting
room
- , in the endless miles of empty bookshelves. And to put
around my beautiful Lowestoft pieces and my Dorothy Doughty birds.
Because I want it to start looking like, that is, the little bit of the room that I can call mine,
that is the Johnsons’ home, and I want
- Lady Bird has hair styled & makeup done; filming of ABC's Howard K. Smith interview; phone call from Muriel Humphrey about Mike Douglas show; Lady Bird has lunch with the Bill Hayes family; visit with Lynda Robb; nap; work on Chad state dinner
- LBJ and Lady Bird to St. Paul's in the Desert church; lunch at Taubman home with friends; visit with the Taubmans; Air Force One to Washington; Lady Bird on Virginia Rusk;; greeted on White House lawn by beagles, Him and Her; greeted in White House
- Smith, and Lynda Johnson; Warrie Lynn Smith; card from Lady Bird's cousin, Esther Lanier Dade in Ft. Lauderdale; LBJ home from New York
- Final sale of The Elms; meeting with Jacqueline Cochran about a home for wives of dependent military families; LBJ & Lady Bird lunch with the Huff Baines'; Lady Bird films TV clip for American Cancer Society; story about Cancer Society sword
- drove
home together to have lunch.
And then in a h e lic o p t e r t o the Haywood, with Jack and Charlotte and
A . W. a
nd w e re m et there by M a r i e l l e n ‘and Neva and W e s le y , who are
spending the E a ster weekend at their ranch.
Since
- , a b o u t a s much as
I c o u l d t a k e , and t h e n home f o r a b i t e o f l u n c h
l y i n g in b e d w h i l e I s i g n ^ m a i l w i t h A s h t o n ,
d iscu ss-^^
d e t a i l s o f a C l e v e l a n d t r i p w i t h L i z and w e n t o v
- Lady Bird's trip to New York Historical Society to see a Rembrandt Peale portrait of Thomas Jefferson for the White House; Audubon exhibit; lunch at James Fosburgh's home; Winslow-Homer painting for White House; Fine Arts Committee; Vincent Price
- Smith; Kermit Gordon; painting from Queen Elizabeth; Lincoln Room; Carl Hayden; Mrs. Paul Douglas; social gathering after dinner; night reading on Panama; Lady Bird's praise for Bess Abell and dinner menu
- s i d e t h e p o i n t .
And t h e n t o t h e b e a u t y
p a r l o r an d t h e n t o work w i t h Ka n d i
in t r a n s f o r m i n g
some o f my e a s t e r n f a b r i c s i n t o ha n d so m e "a t home"
c l o t h e s f o r s m a l l d i n
- her trip to Acapulco; bowling with Muriel Humphrey; dinner at Hubert Humphrey's home; discussion about Senate and leadership; return to White House and to sleep
-
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
- LBJ and Lady Bird to National City Christian Church; Texas State Society brunch honoring Darrell Royal; Lady Bird rests and works; Texas guests to the White House; dinner at Pierre and Nancy Salinger's home
- p y so
up in bed w ith a l l
D e p a r t m e n t 's
S ta te
that the
get a tt e n d e d t o .
reache d home I r e a l l y w a s n ' t
the
indeed a
When I
I propped
info rm a tio n
on Jordan and took a q u ic k course on y oung K in g Hus s
- on plane; Lady Bird says goodbye on intercom to fellow travelers in Austin; to LBJ Ranch; party for hostesses of LBJ birthplace & boyhood home; Lady Bird, LBJ & John Connally speak to group; Lady Bird gives awards; appointments to State Department
- Tony Taylor home
- u sin e ss
c o n fe re n c e w ith J o e .
t o g o home w i t h h i m ,
J o e h a d a s k e d h im
T rudyeh ad cooked th e
t h i s he f o u n d a v e r y p l e a s i n g
" o f my h u m b l e o r i g i n ."
to
He h a d b e e n h a v i n g
So I
- Snow overnight; Lady Bird works on Christmas present and office work; LBJ calls from Rome on way home from Australia; open house at the White House; Lady Bird goes shopping with Lynda Robb; Lady Bird visits with C.P. Little family; Lady Bird
- f sn ow .
p i l e d many f e e t h i g h b y th e w in d ,
we w ent t o
D r ifts
the Red
Mass a t S t . M a tth e w s C a th e d r a l, L u ci and P at went w it h
Us ,
Lynda B i r d s nug l y a t home in b e d , and h ea rd
A rch B i s h o p O
- ; visit with Luci Johnson about Christmas gift list; beautification program benefits nurseries; dinner party at Abe Fortas' home; Fortas meeting with Jacqueline Kennedy about Kennedy Center; Lady Bird swims
- Visit of Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Italy; Lady Bird takes home movies in the Rose Garden; state dinner; Lady Bird mentions attendees; Lady Bird converses with Foreign Minister Fanfani at dinner; Leontyne Price is entertainment for the evening
- gives short speech and citations to volunteers at the boyhood home; Lady Bird recounts humorous stories; more fire at the Lewis Ranch and stories about it; socializing and dinner by the pool
- Return home from Florida; Visit to and meeting with Mrs. Kennedy about Society for the Preservation of the White House and its members; Mrs. Kennedy agrees to be public member; Fine Arts Committee; gift of four JFK minted coins; office work; John
- settling in, is a lrea d y
as much at home in Washington
and has a v e r y nice house.
as a cat by the f i r e , has been promoted^
T h e re w e re many Texans but also a goodly
sprinkling of other Washingtonian s ,
I le ft rath er e a r ly to go
- & inflation; Lady Bird to Austin with wedding gifts, bed & table for Luci; Lady Bird compares Luci's home with heads of state weddings gifts; Lady Bird to Scharnhorst & Orange ranches & then walks along river; to ranch for dinner; phone call with Luci
- ely , q u iet, brunette
M erle O beron and h e r Ita lian - M exican husband Bruno P a g lia i.
Lynda to th eir home, down in A cap u lco.
He in v ited
And a c t r e s s B arb ara R u sh .
And-
I
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
^
M onday
- LBJ & Lady Bird breakfast and go to St. Mark's Episcopal Church; to Jack Brooks' home for coffee; talk about House and Texas delegation; back to White House for office work; visit from Jack Valentis & Arthur Krims; tv and lunch; the Bob Jacksons
- Bird has photos taken; plight of the cities; meeting with Erv Duggan; meeting on Boyhood Home & LBJ's Birthplace; Lady Bird bowls with houseguests; Lady Bird walks South Grounds; dinner with LBJ; massage; retires for night
- Bird; reception for Democratic state chairmen; Lady Bird to David Lloyd Kreeger home to see paintings; Lady Bird critiques paintings; to John & Ashton Gonella party; dinner at White House with Lynda & Chuck Robb; Chuck & Pat Nugent leaving soon
- Johnsons attend National City Christian Church; sermon on rioters; negative stories in the newspapers about renovation of Johnson homes; lunch with friends; viewpoint on business community and economics; Luci Johnson and Catholicism; Lady Bird goes
- m a l l m a r b l e h e a d of A u g u s t u s C a e s a r ,
p i r a t e d out of Ita ly , it h a d b e e n found in s o m e c o n s t r u c t i o n b u ild in g
or home.
A n d a c c o m p a n y i n g it a l e t t e r i n J o h n S e c o n d a r i
- Lady Bird, with Dr. & Mrs. Correll, look for blue bells for flower seed at the Gibson Ranch; to the Diamond X Ranch where they picked Mountain Pinks flowers for seed; stop at LBJ Boyhood Home; lunch; drive to Martin Ranch; Lady Bird makes river walk
- Bird & the Ed Clarks to Corcoran Gallery; tea & tours at White House for the Clarks & guests; LBJ speaks briefly to guests; Lady Bird practices Appalachia speeches; dinner at Scoop Jackson's home; LBJ reads John Steinbeck letter about Vietnam
- LBJ leaves next day for German Chancellor Adenauer's funeral; Lady Bird cannot go with him; Lady Bird works on family album; lunch; drive through Watts Branch on way to Betty Talmadge's home to play bridge; Lady Bird describes Watts Branch; Lady
- Carpenter; meeting with Bess Abell; tea for Marilyn Walz; meeting, future transfer of LBJ Boyhood Home & LBJ Ranch to the National Park Service; bowling, massage & television; dinner with LBJ; Mary Lasker's book on health initiatives; phone call with Hubert
