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1965
T h u r sd a y , A u g u st 12th
.
W as lik e a cam p aign d ay.
I had w anted to spend at le a s t one day
s e e in g PR O JEC T HEADSTART in o p era tio n .
We ch o se New J e r s e y
b e c a u s e it w as c lo s e and I could s e
- Angeles Times reporter; Lady Bird mentions LBJ's schedule; the Johnsons fly to Texas to LBJ Ranch
- 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
- something of it.
And lo and
behold, in the course of the whole evening, never once did I encounter F r ank
and Ruth Stanton,
I must rem em ber to te ll him Lyndon's famou s story
MEMORANDUM
THE W HITE HOUSE
W A 3H I N O T ON
Monday, May 25, 1964
Page
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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
- lo c k with
Lyndon Baines Johnson in Hebrew around the face of the c lo c k , and the hour
them selves w ere m arked with sym bols of the twelve tribes of Isra el.
MEMORANDUM
T H E W H I T E HO U SE
Monday, June 1, 1964
W ASHIN GTON
But m in e
- young Tony and
with Diana's h o u s e k e e p e r, f o r a tour of the ground s , a glim pse
of the sw im m ing pool, and then to rid e hom e.
Gerry w as aglow , with h e r
adventure--this t r i p - - and high time it is , b ecau se you can't avoid
- ith the w e lc o m in g s p e e c h
r
I h a d p la n n e d .
She h a d ty p e d a n o p en in g s e n te n c e an d I w r o te o u t in lo n g
h a n d ,^ ^ y fe e lin g s on w h at I sh o u ld sa y .
A ^ ^ : h e n i t w a s tim e to g e t in th e c
- ; Lady Bird, staff & friends discuss press visit & riots in Washington; Lady Bird talks on phone with Lynda Robb; Lady Bird & Liz Carpenter work on speeches & talk to John Connally about Hemis Fair visit; the Secret Service change Lady Bird's arrival time
- DUM
* »THE W H IT E HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Thursday, A p r il 30, 1964
p^ge 3
while C u r ti s L e M a y crowned Luci, beaming. Lyndon as tal l and straight as
he usually is^li s tenmg to the na tional anthem in an a irp o rt, but this time
sm iling so sw
-
"
-" .
I had w aked up th is m orn in g to/the m o st m a rv elo u s fu ll-p a g e 'a d jl
in the N ew Y ork T im e s w hich read: " F r o m sw eat sh op s to S t o kow ski",
and it w a s a trium phant tellin g of the p r o g r e s s of labor from lo fts
- LBJ & Lady Bird breakfast; coffee with houseguests; Lady Bird to New York City to Carnegie Hall for Stokowski concert for International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; article about event in New York Times; David Dubinsky & Louis Stulberg give
- with his own hands w here they now liv e .
MEMORANDUM
THE W H ITE HOUSE
W A S H IN GTON
Thursday, May 21, 1964
P age 4
Th ree of their children w ere born in the log cabin.
He now has a part time
job on the Unemployed Parents P rogra m , setting out
- o m
a n d I r e a d m y P o r t l a n d s p e e c h , the B , Y. M o r r i s o n l e c t u r e f J f o r the A m e r i c a n
liistitu te of A r c h ite c ts .
lo n g , lo n g t i m e .
l a s t ^ I s w e a r s p e e c h a n d p u b lic a p p e a r
- t io n was in the M a y flo w e r and was like m any o t h e r s .
In the
Chinese Ro o m , the C h iefs o f M is s io n and the D ip lo m a tic C o rp w e r e r e c e i v e d
w h ile we stood in line with the E s h k o ls , and then we a ll m o v e
- g e n t s .
M r s . John T . J o n e s who is c h a i r m a n of the
It w as a b rig h t, w a r m , sunny T e x a s day, the s o r t that
m ade me wiSh that we w e r e going to sta y a t home lo n g e r .
We d ro v e to the A d m in is tra tio n
- Lady Bird's first honorary degree from Texas Women University; Lady Bird's speech, "This is a good time to be a woman;" speech by John Connally; luncheon and gifts; humorous mistake in presentation of gift to John Connally; "Chapel in the Woods
- l t h e v e r y d a y I go o u t - - " C a r e s s I n f a n t i n e " .
This
w o u ld b e f o r the b ig 4 - p o s t e r b e d a n d f o r the curtains^ in c o m b in a ti o n
w ith the lo v e ly , c l e a r , yello w b r o c a d e - - soft a n d
- At 10:33, the time Lady Bird says is "11:30" rather than "11:00"
- LBJ Library meeting; office work; two-hour interview with Henry Branden of the London Sunday Times; lunch; Lady Bird to Shady Grove Music Theatre; Laurance Rockefeller and Project Trailblazers; Lady Bird greets cast of "King Arthur" & gives short
