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  • classmates of mine also in high school: John Scribner and Bill Bogen. Wearranged a car pool to drive from Glendale every day over to the college, which, as I recall it, was an eight to ten-mile drive. Myfirst class in the morning, I'll at eight o'clock
  • a Cabinet Meeting for we spent the weekend in Minnesota and I gave a speech in Duluth. bad a pretty good review of the John ,Schnittker went. s~tuation. They apparently Yesterday morning when Israel attacked I got up rather late and crept out of here
  • , what do we do not?" In any event the whole thing is sure John Baker just called. He's in Indiana and said, And I told him I didn:t. know, but that we certainly needed to button down the hatches and to move all the more vigorously and strongly where
  • .>.. ~ .. ~ ­ parties ..: _ rather 'w.e ll done, but it was far from a glittering occasion and I - ... ~ I get a C- when I left had that ·sort of a dull feeling of opportU:nity missed. - -~ ~~ • ·
  • 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. One ; V_ 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 . ( , ■/ 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 c L— p ic t u r e s , ^ 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
  • . where I spent the night with John Duncan and four Commissioners of Agriculture from Sowth Carolina., Florida., Georgia. and Tennessee .. John· arranged this party. a little We did a little story telling, fishing -- a little and generally built
  • . Since returning homeI've been having myoffice, usually Bob Beaudry, who's my principal assistant nowwho replaced John Getz, been having him come out in the morning with the daily summariesand the telegrams to keep me up to date on what's happening
  • 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
  • night has a long play on 1 them--the Watergate scandals in the States are going on. Wehave two fonner membersof the Cabinet whomI knewquite well, as a matter of fact, John Mitchell and MauryStans, indicted for crimes. Wehave Bob Haldeman,who really
  • 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