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- assistance; Lady Bird has dressing fitting with Adele Simpson; tea for East Wing staff; Democratic Campaign Committee Fund Raising Dinner; John McCormack, Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey & LBJ give speeches; Richard Daley family are houseguests
- ring.
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o f m y g rea t a m b itio n s of th is F a ll i s to a s s e m b le a v e r y
s m a ll g r o u p of s c h o la r s and the m o st k now ledgeable G overnm ent
p eo p le — lik e W alt and E lsp eth R ostow and M cG eorge Bundy and
John
- hite H ouse!
how dull of m e not to know it b e fo re I m e t h e r .
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T h is is the s o r t
of thing, m e e tin g a w om an lik e h e r, th a t m ak e s m e like m y p a r t of L yn d o n 's
job.
N ext, I w ent to see M r. Bobby L e h m a n 's
- ich I c o n s id e r
dull, m u s ty and d e v o id o f p e r s o n a lit y .
And ta lk e d about how to b r in g
r
so m e c o l o r and v iv id n e s s ,^ a n d c o m f o r t into them f but e x c e p t f o r
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p ic t u r e s ,
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that w i l l
- Lady Bird visits with Ruth Carter Johnson about art for White House; visit to John Singer Sargent exhibit at Corcoran Gallery; reception for American Society of Newspaper Editors; LBJ's speech on civil rights, poverty, taxes, Medicare, railroad
- ou se, found in a New Y ork
antique shop and g iv en to the White H ouse b y the Lyndon John sons
b a ck in A ugust o f ’6 3 !
It w as a good day fo r m e , b e c a u se I can c a ll n e a r ly e v e r y
one o f th e SenateL
adiesb y f ir s t nam e
- e K n e t s c h 's w ife; and, of c o u r s e , M r s. B ill S trib lin g , the
sta lw a r t o f an y c iv ic o r p o litic a l w ork in John son C ity.
Som e I w as p a r tic u la r ly s o r r y not to see:
N a n ell M o o re, the
County A gent; M
- rs, John Oswald,
President of the U n iversity of Kentucky; and about 150 people lined up along
MEMORANDUM
THE W H ITE HOUSE
Thursday, May 21, 1964
W ASHING TON
Page 2
the fence to whom , after I said hello to a ll the dignitaries, I went over
- of the ones I was m o s t glad to see w a s Uncle John W il l
P a ttillo , 87, ruddy of cheek, a little slow o f walk, who p redicted that Lyndon
w il l beat the other fe llo w , w h o ever he is, and make him like it.
Th is goes
back to the time of a ll
- s e m y au d ien ce when th ey stepp ed out of the bus, I began to
d e s c r ib e it.
R ow s of b rok en w indow s w hen w e begun, the g rim dull
ex p a n se of cem en t, but i t had b een turned into a p la c e for a ll s e a s o n s
- Lady Bird slept little; Lady Bird has coffee with LBJ; they decide Crossing the Trails of Texas trip should continue; Lady Bird alters speeches to include statement about Martin Luther King; to Dulles airport; Washington & foreign correspondents
- p le that h a v e fun as the y e a r s go on.
en th u sia sm .
H o u se.
How dull would life be w ithout
F in a lly , h o t and tir ed and d irty w e w ent back to the S ch orn h orst
We se ttle d down for a can of b eer or d ie te tic drink
- le d up in b e d and w a tc h e d W alter L ippm ann.
fo r an hour and n e v e r a dull m o m e n t.
He w a s on
What he s a id about f o r e ig n aid
c e r t a in ly i s n ' t g oin g to m a k e it any e a s i e r to g e t a F o r e ig n A id B i
