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  • 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
  • Friends and volunteers help in White House living quarters; Lady Bird meets with Clark Clifford and others about the White House Fine Arts Committee; preservation of the White House and the Capitol; Jacqueline Kennedy's recommendation to discontinue
  • LBJ sleeps late; breakfast; Lady Bird to the dentist; Law Day Proclamation; UNESCO ceremony; Johnsons to swearing-in of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; Tom Clark swears in his son, but has to step down from Supreme Court; desk work; lunch; Lady
  • Bird describes Jack Valenti; guests for dinner at White House with meeting about campaign; Lady Bird talks with Clark Clifford about Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and recording White House entertainment
  • Lady Bird works on remarks for luncheon; Madame Shoumatoff brings new FDR portrait for White House; Peter Hurd portrait of LBJ to be returned; Clark Clifford as possible Attorney General; Lady Bird sees doctors about arthritis in hand; Lady Bird
  • Bird encounters Kay Graham at Bowen School; Lady Bird bowls; Lady Bird & Ramsey Clark discuss Washington, D.C. schools; small dinner party with friends; to theater to see "Charge of the Light Brigade;" Lady Bird retires
  • , the feeling of the specialness of every guest. There were Dean and Virginia Rusk, Clark and Marny, and Georgia and Ramsey, Marvin and Marion looking more beautiful all the time, and Stew and Lee ( I told him I wanted to get together with him and talk about
  • Lady Bird awakens to LBJ working in bed; they talk and have breakfast; Lady Bird flies to New York City for clothes shopping and fittings; article about Ed Clark; hair styled for evening; Lady Bird & Bess Abell go to "I Do, I Do" play; Lady Bird
  • Visits by Darrel Royal, University of Texas football coach, and the Houston Symphony; Lady Bird to beauty parlor; LBJ's first press conference; luncheon with Miss Ima Hogg and others; visit with friends, Ann Clark and Mrs. Herring; stories about
  • Lady Bird is at Luci & Pat's home; Lady Bird has hair styled; Lady Bird to Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX; program at Coty Library for opening of Edward Clark collection; Lady Bird receives fifth honorary degree & makes a speech
  • Lady Bird feels overwhelmed; Lady Bird talks with Clark Clifford about portrait for White House; Lady Bird & Liz Carpenter discuss transcription of diary tapes; Lady Bird has hair styled by Mr. Per; Lady Bird is filmed giving tour of the White House
  • ; LBJ rides about Camp David with Robert McNamara, Clark Clifford & Tony Taylor; LBJ talks with John Chancellor; Vietnam; appointment of Goldberg to UN and Chancellor to USIA; Luci Johnson and Catholicism; Lady Bird talks with Lynda Johnson
  • makes presentation of Women in Community Service award for Job Corps; work on speech for Southwestern University; meeting with Clark Clifford about LBJ Library director; Madame Shoumatoff portrait of Lady Bird; 1968 election
  • Office work; arrival ceremony for King & Queen of Nepal; speeches & parade down Pennsylvania Avenue to Blair House; lunch; meeting with Clark Clifford & Madame Shoumatoff about portrait of Lady Bird; visit with LBJ in dining room; LBJ's announcement
  • Lady Bird discusses business with LBJ; Lady Bird to the dentist; meeting with Clark Clifford about the LBJ Library; meetings about artwork for the White House; Lady Bird meets with Abe Fortas about LBJ Library; Arthur Goldberg and Supreme Court
  • ; Lady Bird names guests at Women Doers' Luncheon; Lady Bird gives speech; speakers are Dr. Esther Clark, Mrs. Charles Welch & Muriel Humphrey; brief statement by Luci Nugent; Lady Bird to Mar-a-Lago, Florida, as guest of Marjorie Merriweather Post
  • Lady Bird to hairdresser; meeting of Preservation of White House Committee; new drapes and rugs for White House; briefing on finances of White House Historical Association by Clark Clifford; lunch; reception for Fine Arts Committee; Lady Bird's
  • ; lunch in China Room; new Tiffany wildflower china for Johnson administration; tea for American Federation of the Arts; viewing film, "Paintings of the White House;" party at Sulgrave Club for Lynda Johnson & Charles Robb; Charles Robb & Tom Clark toast