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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/17/1965 (Thursday) (Item)

ilie s , w iv e s and ch ild ren , to spend the night at the W hite H o u se. We had su ch a fr ie n d ly , n ic e tim e w ith th em in H ouston, and th ey had s e e m e d e a g e r at- the p r o s p e ct o f com ing to the W hite H ouse.- -He sa id

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/13/1965 (Thursday) (Item)

on a flig h t a c r o s s ■T ex a s! L a te in the aftern oon I w ent o v er to L yndon's o ffic e to s e e if I could find out w ithout a sk in g anything about the r e s u lts of h is c a ll la te the night b efo r e fr o m P u erto R ic o . I didn't

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/21/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

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

Telephone conversation # 691, sound recording, LBJ and PIERRE SALINGER, 12/23/1963, 9:45PM (Item)

SALINGER ASKS IF VARIOUS PEOPLE CAN FLY ON LBJ'S PLANE TO ATTEND CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM GREEN'S FUNERAL; LBJ READS MANIFEST FOR AIR FORCE ONE; SALINGER ASKS LBJ ABOUT FRANCES LEWINE'S NEWS STORY ON LBJ'S CONVERSATION WITH JACQUELINE KENNEDY

Telephone conversation # 1168, sound recording, LBJ and WALTER JENKINS, 1/3/1964, 2:00PM (Item)

JENKINS READS PUBLIC OPINION POLL RESULTS TO LBJ; ERIC GOLDMAN STORY; MCGEORGE BUNDY; ARTHUR SCHLESINGER; ESTHER PETERSON; PAYING A PERSONAL BILL FROM THE BENELUX TRIP; GALLUP POLL ON BARRY GOLDWATER, RICHARD NIXON

Telephone conversation # 1183, sound recording, LBJ and ALBERT JACKSON, 1/4/1964, 8:45PM (Item)

MILLARD COPE'S DEATH; INQUIRY FROM MARGARET MAYER ABOUT LBJ'S PERSONAL FAMILY BUSINESS AND FINANCES; LBJ READS LETTER FROM MARGARET MAYER; BILL CLARK; 1964 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; PRESS SUPPORT FOR LBJ IN TEXAS AND LOUISIANA; SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA

Telephone conversation # 2588, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 3/21/1964, 1:32PM (Item)

LBJ READS AND DEFENDS HIS STATEMENT ON PANAMA, REFERS TO HIS MEETING WITH BARBARA WARD EARLIER, HIS CALL TO NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER IN MACON, GEORGIA; RUSSELL COMMENTS ON POPULAR OPINION, PRESS SUPPORT FOR LBJ'S POSITION ON PANAMA; UN; OAS

Telephone conversation # 7329, sound recording, LBJ and ARTHUR "TEX" GOLDSCHMIDT, 4/8/1965, 10:27AM (Item)

JOHNS HOPKINS SPEECH ON ASIAN DEVELOPMENT; SOUTH VIETNAMESE NEGATIVE REACTION; LBJ READS CRITICAL CABLES ON SPEECH; LBJ'S REPORT ON 1961 VIETNAM TRIP; MEKONG DELTA; EUGENE BLACK AND UN TASK FORCE; LBJ ASKS ELIZABETH GOLDSCHMIDT TO DRAFT MEDICARE

Telephone conversation # 7683, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE REEDY, 5/14/1965, 8:26PM (Item)

OFFICE CONVERSATION ABOUT VIETNAM; REEDY READS LBJ PROPOSED STATEMENT ON DEATH OF FRANCES PERKINS; LBJ TELLS REEDY TO HAVE CALLS DIRECTED TO HORACE BUSBY INSTEAD OF JOE LAITIN TOMORROW WHEN REEDY IS OUT OF THE OFFICE, TELLS REEDY TO AVOID CALLS

Telephone conversation # 7406, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FORTAS, 4/30/1965, 11:30AM (Item)

LBJ REPORTS THAT MRS. JUAN BOSCH IS GOING TO GIVE A PRESS CONFERENCE; COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO VIETNAM; COMMUNIST REACTION TO LBJ'S JOHNS HOPKINS SPEECH; LBJ READS INTELLIGENCE REPORT ON LATIN AMERICA

Telephone conversation # 9190, sound recording, LBJ and PHIL CARTER, 11/26/1965, 9:11PM (Item)

"(NEWSWEEK)"; NOTE FROM JAKE JACOBSEN TO LBJ ATTACHED TO DICTABELT REMINDS LBJ HE AGREED TO TALK TO CARTER FOR NEWSWEEK ARTICLE ON ROBERT MCNAMARA; SHORTHAND NOTATION READS "HE WILL TALK TO HIM TONIGHT"; CARTER ON HOLD 0:40; MUSIC AUDIBLE

Telephone conversation # 10217, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN COWLES, 6/8/1966, 11:51AM (Item)

LBJ CONTINUES TO READ REPORTS ON US LABOR SUPPLY, COMPARISON OF US CONSUMER PRICE INDEX WITH THAT OF MAJOR INDUSTRIAL NATIONS; NEED FOR CONGRESS TO STAY WITHIN FEDERAL BUDGET; LBJ TELLS COWLES TO DIRECT CORRESPONDENCE FOR LBJ TO MARVIN WATSON

Telephone conversation # 13344, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 8/29/1968, 7:31PM (Item)

LBJ PRAISES DALEY FOR HIS WORK AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION; DALEY SAYS HE IS SORRY LBJ DID NOT ATTEND CONVENTION; LBJ DENOUNCES PRESS COVERAGE OF RIOTING, CONVENTION; LBJ TELLS DALEY TO READ PRESS REPORT OF LIZ CARPENTER'S SPEECH TO DEMOCRATIC

Telephone conversation # 13718, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 11/6/1968, 11:32AM (Item)

LBJ AND LADY BIRD JOHNSON PRAISE HHH AND MURIEL HUMPHREY; HHH SAYS HE IS SORRY TO HAVE LET LBJ DOWN; LBJ DISCUSSES HHH'S DEFEAT AND DIVISIVENESS IN DEMOCRATIC PARTY, READS TELEGRAM THAT HE AND LADY BIRD HAVE SENT TO THE HUMPHREYS

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/24/1964 (Monday) (Item)

of showing w om en 's p±ax3e in space, and it 's peaceful b y -p ro d u c ts . On reading about it, I d is c o v e r that 14% of the p a y r o ll a re women, in another place, 20% of the p a y r o ll a re wom en, and at Cape Kennedy, clo se to 33% a re

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/28/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)

begun when I read a Joe A ls o p column about an elem en ta ry school tea ch er i n H a rlem^ M rs , Kate Tutman, whose s tudents w e re fro m a m ighty u n d erp riviled ged segm ent o f A m e r ic a n l ife , and about her tough, and rath er gay re

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/29/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)

50 or so le t t e r s , a ll h ostile, about speeding, b e e r and dogs. Some o f them w e re MEMORAN DUM THE W H ITE H OUSE W A S H I N G T ON ^ W edne s day, A p r il 2 9, 1964 s illy , cru el, quack - r ig h t read y fo r the waste basket file

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/24/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)

Page 7 his arm around m e, and the resulting picture was r e a l l y amusing. The caption under it read, or so L i z opined, " L a d y B ird , a fte r this is o v e r, le t 's you and m e go out and have a drink. T h e re was a second and somewhat le

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/30/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

with pneumonia. Imagine walking in an apple orch a rd at nine o 'c lo c k in the morning, in a sheer organza evening d ress, in about 50 d eg ree tem perature, m istin g rainj I ve b e en delighted to read that she ' s posed w illin g ly fo r the many

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/13/1964 (Monday) (Item)

b e f o r e , c o u ld s ta n d up as the farces. in that was never a f a v o r i t e have read a b i t everywhere S h a k e s p e a r e /o f I f i n a l l y got S h a k e s p e a r e 's e a r l i e s t p la y s one j u s t r ig h t

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/14/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)

the gentleman on my right tos n ig It b eing in A r a b ic , the menu. I c o u ld n ’ t read it, but then he very g r a c io u s ly added "Husse i n "-on e w hich ‘A I could r e a d , We then went in to the East Room a fter dinner and heard the Dave

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/24/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)

0:00-0:10 contains last segment of September 21, 1968, audio diary; 4:08, transcript should read "Voltaire's Candide." There are several missing and wrong words in the transcript.

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/27/1964 (Monday) (Item)

r o o m ^ T h is i s a n o th e r one of m y l e s s o n s in gettin g MEMORANDUM TH E W H I T E H OU SE M onday, A p r il 2 7 , 1964 W A S H IN GTON read y for the M a y the 7th m e e t i n g . . Page 2 le a r n in g about a r t w ith a c