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- and it is just up to us to start out. So let me introduce myself: I am Harry
Middleton, director of the LBJ Library. This is George Christian:. We both worked for
President Johnson in the White House. George was far more important than I; he was
press secretary
- Press relations
- use of the telephone and the Library's plans to make LBJ's phone conversation recordings available; how George Christian got to know LBJ; LBJ's strengths and flaws; LBJ's interactions with the press; how LBJ kept up to date on Congressional activity
- Press relations
- LBJ on phone with McGeorge Bundy about foreign problems; LBJ meets with Dale Malechek about LBJ Ranch; lunch with staff, helicopter to Bergstrom and flight to DC; LBJ talks with press pool about Vietnam; Foreign Aid Bill; stop in Columbia, SC
- Press relations
- Lady Bird & Lynda Robb to Smithsonian for "Reading is Fundamental;" welcoming speech by Dillon Ripley; speeches by Lady Bird & Margy McNamara; LBJ Library meeting covered by press; Lady Bird bowls with Muriel Humphrey & Jane Muskie; press take
- Press relations
- Bombing halt in Vietnam; Mar-a-Lago becoming part of National Park Service; Lady Bird describes china for Preservation & Restoration luncheon; Lady Bird names speakers & guests; press are invited to speeches; Lady Bird gives remarks & introduces
- Press relations
- some of the guests, the press, and the entertainment for the night; Lady Bird visits with Erhard about Germany; toasts; LBJ mentions Vietnam & Great Society in toast; visits with houseguests upstairs; Lady Bird introduces entertainers
- Press relations
- 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
- Press relations
- to hospital; Lady Bird tries to contact Chuck Robb in Vietnam; Lady Bird calls Chuck's parents; Lynda Robb gives birth to baby girl; Lady Bird calls General Lewis Walt to get message to Chuck; LBJ, Lady Bird & Luci hand out cigars & candy to press
- meeting on LBJ Library; planning committee stays for dinner; Lady Bird discusses need for more artwork at the White House; announcement of Luci's wedding goes out to press
- announcement:-
It had been in the back of my mind all day long because I knew he was
going to have a press conference in the morning 1 but it was not until the
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Park people left,...-that I could ask
som~body
what he had actually done and said.
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