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- d e d - - b y a b o u t 5:30.
And L u c i w as le av in g f o r New Y o r k a l m o s t
w i t h t e a r s i n h e r e y e s a s s h e s a i d g o o d b y e to l i t t l e L y n .
I w e n t to m y r o o m f o r d e s k w o r k a n d t e l e p h o n
- company; tea for ladies of the Texas delegation; Lyn Nugent makes appearance; LBJ stops in to say hello; Luci leaves for New York; Johnsons visit with the Abe Fortases & Oveta Culp Hobby; Detroit riots; Lady Bird reflections on leaving White House, Vietnam
- on t h e i r way to New York and I had asked them to stop by
Monday, January 1 3 , 1969
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the White House and spend the night.
We talked of Alabama and
kinfolks and then I dispatched them on a to u r and joined a second
group, Alice Brown
- ; Lady Bird reminisces about coming to the White House in 1963; reception in Blue Room for the Democratic National Committee; the Johnsons fly to New York City to the Pierre Hotel; dinner party for 450 at Plaza Hotel
- Transcript of Mrs. Johnson’s Audio Diary
Prepared by Staff of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
December 9, 1963
Monday, December ninth. Mary Lasker had come down from New York last night and spent the
night with us in the Queen’s Room
-
and spicy.
She was accompanied by a phalanx of relatives, the Burton
Bosseys, Alexander, a grandson, and Antoni Shoumatoff, a granddaughter,
and her son, Nicholas and his wife.
I t was a good day for cupid with
Betty Beale there and her new fiance, whom
- to a
I t 's a w onderful w ay to w elcom e the New
Y e a r, w ith m y own d e a r fa m ily , people th a t I love.
It m ak e s th is the
b ig g e st.
We looked out o v e r the c o u n try th a t I love.
The r u s s e t glow of
the su n s e t o v e r
- described the new process and how i t had become
the very popular thing today.
He spoke casually, authoritatively, of
other Administrations, whole decades of them.
strong Republican.
Obviously he was a very
I think we had between the three of us a sense
- Breakfast; desk work; swimming; hair salon; new china for the White House; luncheon with Walter Hoving, Chairman of Tiffany's; photos in State Dining Room with White House Tour Office; tea for Independent Agency wives; Lady Bird records diary; talk
- ro u n d s of P r i m e M i n i s t e r
a n d M r s . H o ly o ak e of New Z e a la n d .
It i s a lw a y s a s p e c i a l a n tic ip a tio n w hen the g u e s t i s s o m e o n e I
have m et b efo re.
And I h a d s p e n t a p a r t of th is m o r
- Arrival ceremony for Prime Minister & Mrs. Holyoake, New Zealand; Lady Bird names guests; Leon Uris offers manuscripts to LBJ Library; Lady Bird has remarks about Lyn Nugent; lunch; recording diary; visit with Lynda Robb, Luci & Lyn Nugent; massage
- of the Lost Colony and he was the
grandfather of V ir g in ia Dare, the f i r s t child born of English parents in the
new w orld.
So h e r e 's a part of the legend of A m e r ic a n h isto ry and one of the ties
that binds us both through h isto ry and art
- a ll led the g u e sts in . She i s a
P h ilip p in o ,
C . R . Sm ith w a s the on ly Cabinet m em b er p r e s e n t. H andsom e
Danny B r e w ste r and h is new w ife - - the only S en a to r,
T h ere w as H ale and
Liindy B o g g s
- e d Z a c h a ry S co tt
a n d w e n t to New Y o rk an d th en to H ollyw ood, w h e r e , a s so m a n y m a r r i a g e s
do, th a t one p e r is h e d .
A nd l a t e r on she b e c a m e M r s , S te in b e c k ,
And
a n o th e r I w a n te d
- h a d a l r e a d y le f t f o r P a r i s - -
on a 5:00 p la n e in f a c t..
I d r e s s e d l e i s u r e l y a n d s a id goodbye to M r s . B r e w s t e r , a n d
we d r o v e f o r o v e r a n h o u r th ro u g h the lo v e ly New E n g la n
- Breakfast; drive through New England countryside to Westchester County Airport; flight to Washington, DC in the fog; luncheon for President & Mrs. Ankrah of Ghana; exchange of state gifts; General Ankrah puts ceremonial robe on LBJ; Lady Bird
- Brewster residence, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- e C o u n tr y to f o s t e r th e a r t s .
And t h e n t h e y p a s s e d out th e c e r t i f i c a t e s to th e new m e m b e r s
of th e A r t s C ouncil - - a good m a n y of w hom I had h ad a b it of a hand
in s u g g e s tin g to L y n d o
- in g to g eth er in a sp a c e sh ip
to new a d v en tu re, to con q u er a new w orld , than to shoot down
ea ch o th e r 's p la n es a s w e had to la s t nigh t.
to a c tiv ity o v e r V ietn a m la s t n igh t.
X ', ;
-
z
T his tim e it r e f e
- New York
- Carlyle Hotel, New York City
- AO many. g.o ad ttnie.^, tkeM.e ioa.4 ,J,ovtad Henr y and l ovel y
C h i s tin a .
We t h a n ked them '^oM. tkexA . pant, t n th e p art y '^oA.
doA t Monday. n t ^ k t tn New Yor k and t o l d tkem kow heauJLt^udL
tkeJjL djOLu^kJ.eJi.i kadd>een
- New York
- Carlyle Hotel, New York City
-
Wednesday, May 17, 1967
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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
- so m e good
We did n o t h av e tim e to go out New Y o r k A v en u e - - the
m a j o r e n t r a n c e f r o m the n o r t h a n d e a s t an d the s h a b b ie s t o f a l l .
So th a t a w a it s a n o t h e r t i m e , a n d M a r y fle w off
- n g a new p l a y
L a t e r on I g a t h e r e d h e r up an d Te x G o ld -
s m i t h , who i s l e a v i n g f o r A s i a n e x t w eek, t o s i t
down f o r a q u i e t d r i n k in f r o n t o f t h e
f i r e , a n d Dr.
E l i z a b e t h
- u t, th a t w en t s o m e th in g lik e
th is ;
A new p r o c e s s of a u to m a tio n h ad b e e n p u t in a t one of th e F o r d p la n ts ,
th a t p u t o u t of w o rk q u ite a s iz e a b le n u m b e r of p e o p le , an d th in g s g o t
- Astor; pupils use new playground; Lady Bird to White House & lunch with Brooke Astor; office work in bed; Judicial Reception; Lady Bird views new state china; Lady Bird names guests at reception & visits upstairs with houseguests
- e s m o re u s e fu l o r m o r e fun - - th o se
w hom th e g u e s ts of h o n o r p a r t ic u la r l y w a n t to h a v e .
to t r y to b r in g in new p e o p le to e x p an d o u r f ie ld .
A nd a lw a y s a c h e c k in g
So i t w a s a b o
- - - the new p in k one w ith th e b ead s^ a'ro u n d th e
n e c k f o r th e p a r t y th a t w a s th e r e a l b eg in n in g of the C h r is tm a s s e a s o n - f o r th e p r e s s w o m e n o f W a sh in g to n .
'
'• T h e r e w a s a b u ffe t s u p
- at Giant Food stores; LBJ Library meeting; LBJ & Senator Richard Russell interrupt meeting; Lady Bird bowls; office work; phone calls to houseguests; dinner; LBJ talks about poverty programs; news article about McGeorge Bundy & bombing halt
- M a ll w h e r e , b o r d e r in g a h e a v y tr a f f i c
a r e a th a t c r o s s e s th e M a ll, t h e r e is a lo n g new b e d of p a n s ie s , a c a r p e t
o f p u r p le a n d g o ld , a n d I p la n te d a s y m b o lic few to f in is h
-
;
.I
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lenbgatiso m e of th e a d v e n tu r e s h e r m o th e r h a d h a d w ith th e b r a n d
E
V r-,
- is worse; Pageant of Peace Christmas Tree lighting; speeches by boy scout, Walter Washington & LBJ; Les Carpenter is very ill; party for press women; gift wastebasket with photo montage; houseguests watching movie; LBJ's assessment of news agencies & Strom
- with Lynda Johnson, Aunt Oriole, and join LBJ; drive around LBJ Ranch with Dale Malechek; visit with Diana MacArthur; Johnsons return to White House; Lady Bird talks with Birge Alexander about daughter, Becky; news story on beautification
- o m s a l e s f r o m th e g u id e b o o k .
T h e new b o o k c o n s H ^ - o u t i n th e F a l l - - th e " L i v i n g W h ite H o u s e " - - L i z
s u g g e s ts a f a n fa re p u b lic ity .
T h e m e e t i n g l a s t e d a n h o u r a n d
- b la c k v e l v e t
Queen F r e d e r i k a ,
flo w in g c o a t- d r e s s , topped
by a h e a v y v e i l , on the a r m o f the youthful new K ing Constantine.
her
B e s id e
P r i n c e s s Sophie, a nd Juan C a r lo s , on the other side P
- i o n s f o r o u r v i s i t ,
b u t I had no id e a of th e s c o p e of th e p r e p a r a t i o n s . I w as to s e e
th e m in the n ex t two and a h a lf d a y s ^ ra n g in g f r o m new C h in a an d
s i l v e r chop s ti c k s f o r the S
- ho h a s c o v e r e d u s s in c e
1*11 a lw a y s lo o k b a c k on th em w ■
ith a 'ffe c tio n !1
MEMORANDUM
TH E W H IT E HOUSE
WASHING TON
T h u r s d a y , M a rc h 14, 1968
Page 9
F r a n k R e y n o ld s of A BC; a n d a new -found f r
- a n y p la c e s .
New
A nd S ir P a t r i c k s a id , "O n th e
MEMORANDUM
TH E W H IT E HOUSE
c
F r id a y , F e b r u a r y 8, 196S.?
WASHINGTON
P a g e 10
w h o le , i t w o u ld , p e r h a p s h a v e b e e n b e t t e r f o r the w o
