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  • Lady Bird does office work; Lady Bird to hair salon; controversy about Lady Bird's property and tenants in Alabama; Lady Bird and Luci Johnson to Huntlands Estate in Virginia; Lady Bird reads Bill White's book on LBJ
  • have gone straight out to the Watts area and listened and let · the peopl~ know that someone (in this in~tance, their President) wanted to know what was hurting them and cared about them. I did do this -- the night before I left
  • the airpla ne and fly back to Washington at two o'clo ck in the morning. I thoug ht it was ridicu lous and we ought to spend the night , but Califano is ., LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • . {signed) Sargent Shriver Director, OEO [1 of 7] ­ 8:20 - M on Aug 23 Mr. Califano: "' ) /9, _. 1 Original plus one copy has been delivered at 8:20 a. m., Monday, Aug 23 to Jack Conway and was read to Jack Conway by John Perry last night
  • the President a report memo. Other times you'd give him a memo in which you needed his concurrence of his decision on some-- M: This would go into the night reading? C: Yes. M: So through the passage of this bill, he knew everything that was going
  • Batt of the A R A ; Howard B irch with the F arm ers Home A dm inistration, and P eter Jones with the Department of C om m erce, who had prepared m e b y giving me Night Comes to the Cum ber~ lands by Caudel, to read; and some 34 press, Helen Thomas
  • for us, saying one time that he was in his office working at seven or eight o'clock on a Sunday night, and the phone rang. Ciaccio said, "I knew that Marian was out for the night, so it couldn't be her," surprised that anyone would call then. He picked
  • and that is because you persuaded me that it was the thing to do. I did not realize when we discussed the matter last August that you were committing me to 100 days and nights of work - - but it turned out that way. The report makes specific and important
  • "h-'i th whor:i I uas in the) ·fight was l re~line Especially since th9 I th9 s3.r.;e Nr. Willis I _to whom I referred earlier as a r...e!Tlber of President Kennedy's panel. Ev~n· ?:1ore especially since I had to sit up ver-;1 iate one night
  • for those events before doing something about the rising crime rate in Arnerica. That 11 something 11 doesn' t mean the -~ unfettered use of the night-stick, or the unchained abuse of the Supreme Court. It means much more work than that -- more money
  • o m e o f h e r p i c t u r e s a n d s o m e of h e r p r i z e d b o o k s . I read a l i t t l e b i t i n U n c le R e m u s t h a t D ic k R u s s e l l h a d g i v e n h e r , p r a c t i c a l l y a d e a d la n g u a g e now . I l i k e d t
  • at the White House; LBJ goes to office; Lady Bird tries to nap and reads script for Barbara Walter's interview; dinner party with friends; Lady Bird takes ladies through the tour she will give for Barbara Walters; John Gardner's resignation
  • as up and d r e s s e d and had read m y little ca rd s fo r s p e e c h e s th r e e or four tim e s when w e le ft fo r the a irp o rt a t 8. ■. l' w The p lan e w as fu ll of n ew sp ap er p e o p le . T h ere w e r e the r e g u la r s , H elen
  • Lady Bird discusses rugs for White House; Voting Rights Message; seating arrangements at Capitol for speech; LBJ's experiences at Cotulla; Lady Bird reads Cotulla part of speech; response from Democrats vs. Republicans; back to White House to visit
  • , then reads Louis Auchinclass book, Brownstone Front; LBJ meets with foreign policy advisers about Vietnam; Poverty Bill passes; Adlai Stevenson; Arthur Schlesinger book