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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/9/1967 (Thursday) (Item)
  • in 1968; post-mortem discussion; Lady Bird has clothes fittings & desk work; LBJ gives prepared speech at dinner for Democratic National Committee and then goes "off-the-cuff"; that morning, LBJ meets with Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Henry Fowler & John
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/23/1966 (Sunday) (Item)
  • ith A r t h u r Kr i m . hav e b e e n . And a d i s t u r b i n g one i t m u st Krim h ad been a n a l y z i n g t h e s t a t e o f a f f a i r s a t t h e D e m o c ra tic N a t i o n a l Committee and th e y a r e bad. H e a v i ly i n d e b t
  • LBJ and Lady Bird attend National Christian Church with guests; LBJ whispers a joke to Lady Bird during the service; press stories about Johnson family; lunch at White House and watching Senator Russell Long and Averell Harriman on television; Lady
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/17/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Wednesday, May 17, 1967 Page 8 in South Texas. It is hard for us to keep current, to bring in new names—new blood for invitations to committees, to add their strength to our personal and political life. Cecil showed me a delightful picture of a big complex
  • Bird reminisces about reading "Peter Rabbit" to daughters; Spanish lesson; Military Reception; Baroness Maria Von Trapp is guest & she wants to take "Sound of Music" to Vietnam for servicemen; dinner upstairs with guests; Committee on Retardation
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/18/1968 (Sunday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird flies back to Washington, D.C.; upcoming party for Orville Freeman's daughter; party for friends to give them magnolias; meeting of the audiovisual committee of the LBJ Library; "Life in the White House" exhibit; CBS and NBC films
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/1/1968 (Monday) (Item)
  • are to limit & reduce nuclear weapons & anti-missile systems; reception; LBJ meets Latin American ambassadors; Lady Bird receives International Consumers Committee; meeting about the White House China dessert plates; Lady Bird to Perle Mesta party
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/8/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Office work; Promotions for Women in Armed Forces bill signing ceremony; LBJ presents Bronze Star to Major Marie Rodgers, an African-American, and a Legion of Merit to Colonel Ethel Hefley; Committee for Preservation of the White House meeting