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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/6/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • And then at 4 o 'c lo c k came the r e a lly im portant part of the day. was the second big slug of mental fodder that I have had this week. It The f ir s t being Helen Gahagan Douglas, F lo re n c e Mahoney ca lled and asked if she could bring o v e r a Dr
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/2/1966 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Johnson family and friends to St. Barnabas Church; press corps is invited in for refreshments; LBJ's plane takes Cantinflas and his sick wife to Temple to hospital; lunch with Senator and Mrs. Paul Douglas; Senator Douglas reminisces about 1960
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/5/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Gahagan Douglas to c o m e fr o m the banquet the night b e f o r e spend the night with us. He had supplied w ith h e r, a p p a re n tly , with m y night gown and robe and th ere she w as on the third flo o r. So, at b r e a k fa s t, I c a lle d h e
  • ; Cuban missile crisis; Congressional briefing; dance; swimming with the Thornberrys and the Pickles; overnight stay by Helen Gahagan Douglas
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/17/1965 (Monday) (Item)
  • 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/16/1964 (Monday) (Item)
  • ; reception for Latin American Ambassadors; office work; LBJ and Lady Bird to reception at Albert Thomas home
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/2/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Lester's home; tours and visits at several homes including 91-year-old Mrs. Carlson who knew Aunt Effie Pattillo; Lady Bird reminisces about her youth; flight back to LBJ Ranch; LBJ makes TV report to the nation on Dominican Republic; LBJ has cold
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/16/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/21/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • LBJ and Lady Bird stay at Taubman home in Palm Springs, CA; meeting with Mexican President Lopez Mateos; Charter Day exercises at UCLA with speeches by LBJ and Mateos; luncheon for women given by Governor's wife, Mrs. Pat Brown; visit to Abraham
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/23/1965 (Friday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird goes to Marjorie Post's home, Hillwood; office work; meeting at home of David Lloyd Kreager to view artwork; visit with Peter Hurd about portrait of LBJ; Johnsons go to Camp David with guests; Lady Bird watches Gregory Peck movie, Mirage
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/5/1966 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Mrs. Cantinflas [Valentina Ivanova Zuvareff] dies; steel strike; Lady Bird dubs home movie of 1941 Senate campaign; White House maid finds rat in Luci Johnson's room; Lady Bird has lunch with Luci; new Chef for the White House; LBJ lunches and has
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/4/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • meets residents, Episcopal Home for Aged, and the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce on 66 thousand project; Lady Bird to Senate Ladies Luncheon; LBJ briefs members of Congress, has Congressional Leadership meeting, and presents award to Adm. H.P. Smith
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/16/1965 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Situation in Dominican Republic; Lady Bird watches Arthur Schlesinger on TV; Lady Bird and LBJ to church in Smithburg, MD; Lady Bird bowls with June White and David Brinkley; Lady Bird and LBJ to Senator Harry Byrd's home in Berryville; Luci Johnson
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/2/1967 (Sunday) (Item)
  • ; hamburgers at Don Thomas' home in Austin; Johnsons tour possible house for Luci & Pat Nugent; to ranch to discuss remodeling plans; Johnsons & guests drive around ranches; dinner; back to White House with Luci Nugent
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/13/1965 (Friday) (Item)
  • Johnsons to the swimming pool; Lady Bird reads; LBJ rides around ranch with staff; Lady Bird takes a nap and tours the LBJ Ranch and Boyhood Home; Lady Bird joins LBJ at the Haywood Ranch; Johnsons visit the Charles Urschel house; guests talks
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/22/1967 (Saturday) (Item)
  • 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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/18/1967 (Thursday) (Item)
  • House past home on 30th Place; tea with Secretary Udall and New Mexico friends; small dinner party; "Operation Creche" to obtain creche for White House; LBJ late for dinner; vote on censure of Senator Thomas Dodd
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/1/1966 (Friday) (Item)
  • at the Riverwalk; ride on the river; dinner at La Paloma del Rio; private party at Nancy Negley's home
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/6/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird's hair styled; LBJ, Lady Bird & Luci Nugent fly to El Salvador; welcoming ceremonies at San Salvador; newspaper headlines; bus tour for First Ladies to President Sanchez' weekend home; Lady Bird describes coffee plantations, villages