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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/20/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • National politics
  • is visiting; Luci is writing book about Yuki; LBJ teases Luci about her briefcase; filming in Treaty Room; tea for Connie Freeman; visit with the Bill Whites; Dean Rusk testifies before committee of Democratic National Convention; Vietnam; USSR invades
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, 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, 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