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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
- us, and Lucy Baines
an d in the car with us Bob Waldron and the H arry McPhersons. There w ere long,
long lines of solemn, respectful people, all along the hill in Robert E. Lee’s home as we
wound up to the gravesite. The gravesite was covered
- to bring Senator Everett Dirksen to Walter Reed Hospital; nap; dinner with the C. Douglas Dillons
- e g oing to g iv e v e r y s e r io u s c o m p e titio n
f
MEMORANDUM
THE W H IT E HOUSE
V.
W A S H I N G T O N
M o n d a y , M a r c h 2, 1964
to Douglas Hume, and perhaps r e p la c e him ,
Lyndon had M r , W ils o n o v e r in his o f f i c
- LBJ's network television interview about "the first hundred days" with Eric Sevariad, Douglas Brinkley and William Lawrence; Luci Johnson returns from New York shopping trip; Lady Bird, Lynda Johnson, Warrie Lynn Smith & Jesse Kellam watch
- LBJ, Lady Bird, Lynda and Luci to St. Mark's with Secretary & Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon and Ambassador Adlai Stevenson; Dillons and Robert McNamaras to lunch at White House; LBJ takes nap; Lady Bird and LBJ say goodbye to Lynda's boyfriend, Bernie
- .
Up ea rly and out to the a irp ort to c atch
the chartered Convair at 7:00--with L iz , of course, and B ess b e cause we
w ere going to her home te rrito ry , Kentucky; and Congre ssman C arl P e rk in s
whose d istrict we would be covering; B ill
- Lady Bird trip to Kentucky; press; Lady Bird meets Gov. & Mrs. Breathitt; 8-hour tour by motorcade; Lady Bird halts car to shake hands with schoolchildren; Lady Bird walks to Arthur Robertson home & Lick Branch School; reminiscences about Fern
- 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
- .
And then home fo r lunch.
On m y last day there a rriv e d a sort of contentment that you wish you
could start getting at the v e ry beginning - a sense of having settled down
and having r e ached a peace,
I did do som e m ore work.
Made some guest lists
- --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
- . So I
heartily enjoyed Diana's refreslunerits, went home a little past 7: 00 for the
walk slowly through the first floor of the White House. Already, the wedding
f
is confined to history.
A 16-foot spruce tree -- beautifully shaped -- went up today
- .
Then
to see if she wouldn't
because
house
at the flower
son,
Stafford,
had told me that
she was
mart.
and rushed
her
So I looked
home,
The booths
were
she would
we started
I
s missed
be.
down to Winchesterj\
-
~
in charge
for her
-
with
Ton y and B a rb a ra B i rd in the vanguard. —
It was an easy, in fo r m a l buffet supper, m o s tly T exans, t h e L eo n a rd
M a rk s,
a nd by 9:30, we w e r e home on the second flo o r .
Sundays a re our life s a v e r s, our chance to float
- MEMORANDUM
TH E W H IT E HOUSE
W A S H I N G T ON
P a ge 1
M o th e rs* Day, Sunday, M ay 10, 1964
A ctu a lly , it [th
ed
a
y]began rig h t a fte r we got home from A tlan tic C ity, about
a little p a s t one o 'c lo c k at night, with Lynda, L
- children leave. We went first to 30th
Place, that I’d lived and loved for so long--18 years it was--and then to Mrs. Hendrick’s, and
looked at some chintzes. As usual, didn’t find just what we wanted; came home in time for
a 4:00 meeting with Clark Clifford
- Lady Bird takes food to Jesse Kellam's home in Austin; Lady Bird has Jesse Kellam to ranch for the evening; drive to see land that is for sale; LBJ has meeting with McGeorge Bundy and Walter Jenkins; Lady Bird watches "Gunsmoke"
- 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
- , that
makes your h eart sing.
We w e r e just about 30 minutes too late, but we did see at lea st 40 o r
50 d eer.
A '
Then we a ll rendezvoused at the Scha rn horst house, went in and
replenished our b e e r, or w h a tever, and quickly back home to our
- ,, JLa>it u^ed ^ o a
ua
w a s b ein g fra m ed a n d h u n g in th e o fficer's clu b .
on ouA ret urn home
Friday January 32, 1969
('
gp3
ea
L o ts o f p eo p le sp o k e to m e in a ^Ax&n.
- a lr e a d y
knew and which I a c tu a lly had to t r y to p r y out of him - that we a r e having
trouble in A u s tin ,m y so s u c c e s s fu l, so b eloved home town, on the
in teg ratio n p ro b le m .
It s e e m s the m o re r a d ic a l n eg ro
- the night with u s ^ It was much too late to go to their
"
..
:- x :;
:
home. ^ n d we a ll/r o
around in the balmy; intoxicating spring air;
. ■
"
.
It
v " ■■ 7 -
-' '
a lm o st se e m s as though the sunshine does not know the tragedy
- . F o s b u r g h t o
to R obin;
H e came home a n d
th e r e p o r t b y L y n d o n 's
R o c k e f e l l e r a n d Ken Galbraith a r e
tr i e d to c a l l
talk
t o Mary L a s k e r t o
h im and i t
and a r a t h e r e a r l y
I h a d been
I
- 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
- ,
p e o p le I am s e e in g
on th e
I
g i f t s o f Madame Chiang, Ayub Khan and o t h e r s .
a l l u r i n g " a t home" c o s tu m e s .
m o th e r
New Y o r k .
1 96 6
tr ip
The name s o f th e
are r a t h e r l i k e
th o se
b oxes o f
- LBJ and Lady Bird drive to Blanco to the Episcopal Church; lunch; Lady Bird and Mathilde Krim fly to Santa Fe, NM, to see brother, Tony Taylor; Lady Bird reads paper on urbanization; shopping at her brother's shop for home furnishings; Lady Bird
- LBJ & Lady Bird swim; LBJ is exercising regularly; Lady Bird is trying to organize LBJ Ranch & items from their Washington homes, and decorating the LBJ Ranch; hair styled; sorting materials for LBJ Library; Johnsons to Luci Nugent's home in Austin
- , 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
- r e d the fa th er o f to e K orean A rm y .
F rom T exas, D r.
and M r s . T rum an B lo c k e r , M r s . Douglas Chand or, widow o f the a r t is t ,
ow ner of a p o r tr a it o f E lea n o r R o o s e v e lt that I w is h the W hite H ouse
H M
- Lady Bird has nightmares; Lady Bird makes telephone calls; Lady Bird goes to the first meeting of the Johnson City Garden Club; lunch; drive to Danz and Sweeney houses to view renovations; Lady Bird drives to Luci & Pat Nugent's home in Austin; Lady
- Luci & Pat Nugent's Home, Austin, Texas
- ; Barbara Walters interview with Lady Bird; office work; Lady Bird swims 30 laps; LBJ comes home late for dinner; Lady Bird exercises, has massage and goes to bed
- ; Lady Bird bowls; LBJ comes home for dinner
- Bird taking home movies; back to Schornhorst; Okamoto takes photos for Beautification Committee; boating at the Haywood Ranch; helicopter to West Ranch for dinner
- Bird to movie theater to view clips of her home movies for a documentary; answers letters about "speeding, beer and dogs"; LBJ and Lady Bird to dinner at David Brinkleys
