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- e h is m e e tin g w ith
P o p e Jo h n - - a q u ite r e a l r e la tio n s h ip .
W edding B le s s in g " .
T he h e a d lin e w a s ;
" P o p e M ay B e sto w
" P o p e P a u l VI i s e x p e c te d to b e s to w h is p e r s o n a l
b l e s
- LBJ & Lady Bird breakfast with guests while others attend church; news articles about Johnsons and the wedding; Lady Bird bowls with guests; possible blessing of marriage by Pope Paul VI; gift from Tony Taylor of their mother's silver cups for Luci
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Bl& v---Bnery
Budaon Pinson, born 1892, •rr1ed Uraey Tunnell, 1~2
Bla VI----John rranl1n Pinaon, born, Bov. 19, 1893, Married Kary L•ch
Bl& VII--Kary 111sabeth Pinaon, born, Kay 1, 1895, married Oliff ••
lehr, June 27, 1914
Bl& VIII-Oba.rlea Pinkney
- MEMORANDUM'
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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F r id a y , M a r c h 3, 1967
Page 1
;It r e a lly began a t 12:05 a . m . w ith u s a rriv in g at Randolph
and ch an gin g to the J e tsta r bound
- for walk; LBJ picks up Lady Bird & Luci, and they ride around Lewis Ranch; Johnsons to runway to meet Jetstar with Lynda Johnson, Jo Anne Christian & Betty Furness, whom LBJ has appointed to a position; dinner; Paul Dresser is wounded in Vietnam
- 9:40 a. m. April 9, 1943
Dearest love:
This morning Paul Bolton and 11.1"r .. Richards on from Dalla.a ( INS
man) came to see me with a rather startling proposal. Richardson
said that :t:rr. Caparell, Sales 1'.ranager of DJS, called him and
told
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beauiJi
- LBJ & Lady Bird have coffee; Lady Bird reads while LBJ telephones & watches television; Johnsons go for walk; tourists on Ranch Road 1; group of African-American children from St. Paul's School, 500 miles away, wait to sing for the Johnsons; LBJ
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TH E W H IT E HOUSE
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S a tu r d
- ; Johnsons and guests go to Commander John Paul Jones' house to see baby owl; bowling; early dinner; two-hour conversation; confrontation between LBJ and Dean Acheson; Speaker Rayburn's comments about Dean Acheson; donation by Phyllis Dillon
- o c a l p o i n t i s t h e o l d w h i t e l i m e s t o n e Vi c t o r i a n
style C o u rt H ouse, d e s c rib e d by M r.
Z i s s e r m a n , the r e s t o r a t i o n a r c h i t e c t ,
a s a s t r u c t u r e u g l y e n o u g h to b e b e
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I'd like to cat it about four meals in a row.
I lay on top and go t two shad es darker tanned.
I read T hC' Rich
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- the city fathers would~d
the limits to include the transmitter house- - then I thought
the incre&oe in taxes might more than over-balance this
s c. vi ng • •• yes ?
I do have a couple of recommendstions that will save us a
little monev--not nmch.
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- in front of Escoe, that
we had asked for the raise and expected it bo be approved in a bout a month's
time . lfow I guess the engineer's think I am a ljrer too ••••• Escoe thinks
Farmer ,vi 11 stay but I doubt it.
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As you know by now, Bernard Hanks
- to make delivery they
would have surely notified me .... I ns afraid she might be
off on a vi it to 1ome ohild and I would be stuck with
ancth~r two week• rent. Of aourae l told her to take an,
peioea ot furniture ah• oould ue• and parcel out any among
- to be sponsors fo r a h o m e _ a
Vi l lage, fo r the w ives o f dependent fa m il ie s o f o ffic e r s , p rin cip a lly A i r
F o r c e o ffic e r s , but the whole A r m e d F o r c e s in gen era l.
And actually,
I think, she cam e as a sort of e m is s
- to p i e c e s , i t
w o u ld l o o k l i k ^ i f you s tu m b le d in to th e p l a n t . ..
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r o o m w in d o
- n d Ben C a b e ll; handsome young C o lo n el H ow ard B u r ri s
and B a rb a ra ;
the only n egro G e n e ra l- - I think he s t ill is -- M a jo r G en eral
Benjam in D a vis- - o r perhaps his son is a lso a G en era l by now.
MEMORANDUM
- - but 4 o*clock T ex a s ti m e at the L B J ranch, to be m et by a
grinn in g Jame s D a vis i n the little w hite g o lf ca rt ----- - and the p ro m ise
o f a re s tfu l to m o rro w .
- right-hand drawor of my deak in the study.
in a folder marked "4921 SOth Place •
and ·at out the reocrd of- puroha.se of -whatever
that thinb is called. copy the deaor1f)t1on 'or our houae, and mail it to Simf
Vi'.,
He alroad has the deeds
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ooe thinks he can oolleot--I haYe hfm
or 1.ng on total ot 250 but Row rd vi, ho
es 216.60 on Starlt1 t !oothpa te nd hes promiee4 e ohec . for 100 in a ttl ent ill
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almost oertainl7 nev r pay an7thing on 1t end thet ma1 r 4uoe th collect-~
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- and gr a n d c h il d and ano th er r e l a t i v e - - a group of s ix .
When they s t a r t e d pouring into the li vi n g r o o m m y f a c e m u s t have
b e e n a s ig h t to s e e .
It turned out to be 18 in s t e a d of the two or t h r e e
- o se th in gs a r e com fortab ly arran ged for m y '
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g u e sts . It i s a gay and a ttra c tiv e room . But how l i ttle 3 -1 /2 y ea r s .in the
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He j u s t c a m e b a c k
f ro m a to u r o f a g r e a t m a n y S outh A m e r ic a n c o u n tr ie s .
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- c h o f th e h is t o r y o f th a t d a y .
w a s v e r y p le a s a n t to s e e how M r s . L o n g w o r th w a s en jo y in g h e r s e l f .
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office,
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Ap e . n i . J t k eJ i n. J j u^e
- re fresh m en ts
and a little vis itin g .
That meant about 213 m e m b ers strong, and this
included the T ex a s State Society or rather the B oard of D ire c to rs of the
c,
T ex a s State Society, and a ll the officers thereof, who w e r e being
- d to s p e n d the n e x t f o u r t e e n
days in n e g o t i a t i o n s
to prevent a s t r i ke .
was a most u n i q ue -White House vi s i t /
said
goodbye to them^and
important word to me was St e i b e n 's
the l a s t
And
and
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w i t h Lynda B i r d who h a d , b l e s s h e r , b e e n
standing in lin e
a t t h e House Embassy t o u r , h a vi n g h e r
ti
s m a l l t o u c h o f co m e -o n t o t h e i n d e f a t i g u a b i e l i n e
of
t o u r i s t s who m i
- as o v e r I s lip p e d b a c k in to
th e liv in g ro o m and w a tc h e d th e end o f th e m o v ie w h ic h w as lig h t
an d fun in a s ty le a s n ew a s pop a r t and vi n yl d r e s s e s , a n d th e n
to b e d by m id n ig h t. . .
T he r
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w e r e , le d b y th e tw o c h a i r m e n , J a c q u e lin e S h a rp , a N e g ro g i r l , a n d G e o r g e
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TH E W H IT E HOUSE
WA3BINOTON
W e d n e s d a y , D e c e m b e r 2 8, 1966
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A n d g e o g
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L yndon did n o t co m e h o m e fo r a lo n g tim e .
T o d a y h a s r u n th e g a m u t f r o m e x a lta tio n to g r ie f , f r o m
a f i r s t s u c c e s s to a f i r s t tr a g e d y in th e s p a c e s to r y .
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- t b u s i n e s s a t th e R a n c h .
R a th e r c a lle d .
And M ary
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It i s s o c o m f o r t i n g to h a v e J i m C a in a n d W
- th is w o n d e r f u lly g e n e r o u s th in g l a s t y e a r , w ith m e a s s p o n s o r ; a n d a g a in
th is y e a r .
A n d I 'm a s g r a te f u l a s any one o f th e 6, 000 c h i l d r e n .
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TH E W H IT E HOUSE
• WASHINOTOM
W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 9, 1965
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a t th e d o l l s lin in g th e w a l l s o f th e p a r l o r , n e w ly d e c o r a t e d , h
- p a r t y an d I f e lt h a p p y .
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B a r t l e t t h a d b e e n e s p e c ia lly a r tic u la te and in te r e s tin g in
h e r c o n tr ib u tio n u p s ta i r s a b o u t w h a t youth h a d done in A la s k a , p r in c ip a lly
- e o f i t - - "Vi c t o r y Thro u g h A ir P o w e r ".
A n d h e s a i d , " Y e s , I s p e n t m o r e th a n 50 y e a r s o f m y lif e w o rk in g bn
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i t a b r i g h t e v e n in g f o r h e r to o , a n d to sh o w m y a p p r e c i a t i o n f o r th e v i t a l i t y .
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