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- , Bennett McCarroll (their grandson), Ambassador and Mrs. Locke and
their son Tom, Lynda, Chuck Robb, Bill Hobby (Houston Post), Joe Dealey (Dallas
Morning News), Jim Chambers (Dallas Times Herald), Jake Jacobsen, Marie, Ginny,
Jim Jones.
10:36
- w/ Kivett and Taylor for Dallas.
11:30 Arrived Dallas and left by car for Neiman's.
11:55 Arrived Neiman's and went to dress department. Saw Dorothy Parker. Saw Stan Key
and talked to Billie on phone. Went to luggage and jewelry departments. Had box
- for Syracuse, New York
1:30 Return to White House
1:40 To roof for sun. Sign mail and autograph pictures.
3:00 Robin Duke and Kandi Ohno
4:15 Rest on bed
6:00 Mary Foote (CPA from Dallas - working on auditing books)
9:00 Dinner w/ President, Mayor Daley and son
- THE WHITE HOUSE
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
Entry
No.
Time
The White House
Date Monday, October 7, 1968
Activity
ND
7:25 Breakfast.
Spend the morning recording in dressing room.
11:22
- three bucks
Back home lunch
Then to Three Springs
Swallows flint
new flower swift water
Stopped to buy
watermelon Monday
morning from Tom
Martin who did not recognize LBJ
Dinner at Haywood
8 of family
Moursunds, Heaths, Will Davis, Baileys,
Tom Miller
- THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place). White House
Entry
No.
MRS. LYNDO N B . JOHNSON, Daily Diary DateJanuary 4, 1966
Activity
Time
Morning at desk writing personal notes: Rietzke, Kennedy letters
11:45 Coffee w/ Bill
- .
During the morning, made several phone calls,
amon g others, talked to Roy
Mr. Pike, and Mrs. Green.
Had coffee in room.
10:30
Went to the hospital; visited with Luci.
11:30
To the Texa s State
School
12:30
To Seton Hospital
-- made short film
- THE WHITE HOUSE
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place).
Entry
No.
White House
Time
Date
Activity
8:30 Breakfast with President in his room.
Dictated diary sheets all morning.
2:00 Lunch alone
- THE WHITE HOUS E
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
Entry
No.
Time
The LBJ Ranch
Date
Tuesday, Januar y 2, 196
8
Activity
Spent the morning putting things in place in the bedroom, dressing
- THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place) The LBJ Ranch
Entry
No.
Time
Date
January
Activity
Spent the morning in my room working at desk, signing letters, working with Helen
re
- Room.
Met the "Rose of Tralee" (Irish girl en route to Rose Festival in Tyler, Texas)
Mr. and Mrs. Lawton from Longview and Mrs. Lambert from Dallas.
3. 12:08 Went to the first floor to do some looking and thinking about place to hang the
Eisenhower
- with Lynda; met Mrs. Hobby for a few moments as she was leaving
for the morning.
Went into the President's Room -- talked with him and Marvin re: weekend and
New York trip.
1. 10:10 LBJ Library meeting in the Treaty Room with Dorothy, Dr. Grover, Max Brooks
- THE WHITE HOUSE
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
Entry
No.
Date Thursday, June 6, 1968
The White House
Time
Activity
ND
(The news has come that Senator Robert Kennedy has died in Los
- .
Mrs. Johnson will present the National
Medal for Literature at a reception for
the White House Library Committee
Wedn~sday,
Visit to model Head Start Project,
Trinity Zion Church
May 5
Morning
Wednesday, May 5
7:30 P• m.
Diplomatic Reception
- and dressed.
9:50 Fitted clothes in dressing room with Lucinda and Helen.
10:15 Left the White House for Mr. Per's shop for comb-out -- Liz rode out -- went
over speech and details for morning trip.
10:45 Returned to the White House -- to the library.
11:05
- (
CLAUDIA TAYLOR JOHNSON
WHITE HOUSE DIARY TAPES
December 31, 1968
Tuesday, New Year's Eve at the Ranch was dreary and cold.
headline for the world.
An ominous
With the renewed fighting in the Near East, the
U.N. is about to censure the Israelis
- New Year's Eve; renewed fighting in the Near East; Senator Ted Kennedy will fight Russell Long for Senate Whip position; LBJ is swimming every day & walking with Lady Bird; coffee at Rev. Truesdale's; Johnsons meet new Treasury Secretary at airport
- for th e Prirr.e
New Z
:~
Mini~:L
- Lady Bird presented leather copy of "The President's Lady"; stag luncheon for Prime Minister of New Zealand; Lady Bird's appointment at Phillips Art Gallery; visit with Texans at luncheon; American Field Service reception and LBJ's speech
- .
To the President's room.
1. 8:37 Called Haywood Smith.
9:18 Called John Gonella at home -- talked about new baby!
10:15 Worked at desk with MWT.
Made numerous calls during the morning to Bess's and Sandy Fox's offices re:
sitting, etc. for dinner tonight.
10:56
- Transcript of Mrs. Johnson’s Audio Diary
Prepared by Staff of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
December 9, 1963
Monday, December ninth. Mary Lasker had come down from New York last night and spent the
night with us in the Queen’s Room
- Sunday
night.
I awoke Monday morning in my dear fam iliar room, but no,
everything was changed—i t had the impersonality of a hotel room.
All of my things had been moved out over the weekend, packed for Texas.
The smiling face of "Arturito" no longer
- ; Lady Bird reminisces about coming to the White House in 1963; reception in Blue Room for the Democratic National Committee; the Johnsons fly to New York City to the Pierre Hotel; dinner party for 450 at Plaza Hotel
- to a
I t 's a w onderful w ay to w elcom e the New
Y e a r, w ith m y own d e a r fa m ily , people th a t I love.
It m ak e s th is the
b ig g e st.
We looked out o v e r the c o u n try th a t I love.
The r u s s e t glow of
the su n s e t o v e r
- LBJ goes deer hunting; Lynda Johnson to Dallas; Luci Johnson to a game; Lady Bird takes nap; meeting with staff from Washington; social gathering with relatives; T.J. Taylor's estate; dinner with the Wests and Chambers; to Austin for two parties
- MEMORANDUM
T H E W H ITE HOUSE
W ASHINGTON
Monday, F e b ru a ry 24, 1964
This was an unrem arkable de sk day and dom estic day.
I w orked with B ess, and Ashton and L i z .
with Lynda.
This morning
And then had lunch in m y r o o m
- ; news reports on the change in spelling of Luci Johnson's name; free concerts by National Symphony Music for Young America
- of the Lost Colony and he was the
grandfather of V ir g in ia Dare, the f i r s t child born of English parents in the
new w orld.
So h e r e 's a part of the legend of A m e r ic a n h isto ry and one of the ties
that binds us both through h isto ry and art
- Roanoke Island; Lady Bird sees childhood friend, Emily Crow Selden, from St. Mary's Episcopal School in Dallas; Press Reports about LBJ's fast driving at the LBJ Ranch
- I
V
1965 : , ■
Friday, August 27th
Lyndon's 57th birthday was oddly divided between a quiet morning
(I actually lay in bed and did some recording) and hours of riding the nice
edge of tension.
Some time during the morning I got a call from Lyndon
- e I h a d a d d e d a s p a r k of g a y e ty to h e r d ay .
L y n d a h a s a g r e e d to go to th e New Y o rk b a r b e c u e s
f o r the young c i t i z e n s f o r J o h n s o n , one to be g iv en by
C h arlo tte F o rd
an d one by M a y o r
- Lady Bird lunches with Hugh Sidey and Jean Franklin of Time magazine for study on Lady Bird; tea with friends; visit with friend from youth at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Dallas; Lynda Johnson to New York for Young Citizens for Johnson; Luci
- MEMORANDUM
TH E W H IT E HOUSE
W A S H I N G T O N
f
Wednesday, A p r i l 22, 1964
t. >> vX-O
Lyndon w h irled o ff in the h elico p ter this morning, on his way to
open the W o r ld ’ s F a ir in New Y o rk .
I spent the morning doing desk w
- LBJ to World's Fair in New York; reception for leaders of Daughters of the American Revolution with descriptions of attendees by Lady Bird; LBJ's ancestor was founding member of DAR, Mary Desha; Lady Bird looks at samples for Luci's room; Lady Bird
- JANUARY 24 , 1 9 6 5
SUNDAY
And s o ,
th e old w arrior atls, i s dead. W in ston
C h u rch ill d ied about 3 :00 o 'c lo c k t h i s morning.
I
I was chagrined th
a
le a rn ed tha t th e y had waked up Lyndon to t e l l him.
to ld me la t e
- Saturday, January 4 , 1969
Page One
Our f ir s t fu ll day back in the White House on the last lap!
I usually feel vigorous when we f ir s t return from the Ranch and I
tackle my desk.
This morning I had a b rief conference with Abe and
then saw
-
the ranch country; Gwen Gibson of the New Y ork H erald Tribune; and M ary
Packinham of the Chicago Tribune; and M u riel Dobbins of the B altim ore Sun,
Karen K le in felter, the best thing that happene d to the Dallas N ew s in years;
and Norm a Ekdahl
- of things that I have
m eant to do, headed by re s t and learn to water ski, those not crossed
off.-'- V’
'
'
We reached the White, House about 1:15 in the morning, so it
was a short night, and I woke up early and worked with Liz before I
•
had a m
- ^and ju st as I hoped it w ould be,
■
'
■
I sp en t the e a r ly
■morning w ith L iz on m y few w ord s to say at the J ew ish lu n ch eon and going
o v er r e p o r ts and fa c ts and fig u r e s for m y in te r v ie w w ith M e r le S e c r e s t
- Lady Bird works on remarks for luncheon; Madame Shoumatoff brings new FDR portrait for White House; Peter Hurd portrait of LBJ to be returned; Clark Clifford as possible Attorney General; Lady Bird sees doctors about arthritis in hand; Lady Bird
- ~ a
a permane_nt.
mad dash to get dr~ssed and be ~t ~yndon~:~~- off~c·e.~~~ 1):30.-
. . . : >. . . . ~. . .¢~~~:~ ..
been a heavy d'?wnpou:t in the morning, . but
'
.
.::~-~ "~
,-· -~
ff~stopped_ miracu~onsly,
'$
we walked out ont~ t~e grdunds
- l ar ou n d th e per ipheryof
my well loved Austin.
c e n te r s on on e
Ther e ar e sp r ingi ng up shopping.
very hi l l and v a lle y a n d paAtjufus. landA
moAch ajowa o^ new houAeA,
Some o
- weather; Liz leaves plane in Dallas to drive to Austin; Lady Bird chooses building materials for house in Austin; desk work at Federal Office Building; Lady Bird to Roy Butler's party at the Westgate; Lady Bird meets LBJ at A.W. Moursunds'; swimming; late
- constituents.
when I got back to the White House I heard the happy news that Lyndon
had d riven down to W inchester, to be present at the crowning of L u c i Baines]
And la te r on, I saw the picture of him standing on the steps to the high school
MExMORAN
- Ap ril 15,
Monday
This morning
a possible
visit
I had a c a l l from Dorris
in a ny way I c o u l d .
is no work horse l i k e
add my e f f o r t s to h i s .
Elms and this tim e
may be
which i s v ery inuch n e e d e d ,
^nd Doris w a n
- u p e rb c o r n b r e a d , and L y n d o n .
a te s e n s ib ly .
J$ th e lo n g New Y e a r 's v a c a tio n w a s a tim e of the b r id g e to u rn a m e n t,
th is w e e k e n d i s the tim e of m o v ie s .
L a s t n ig h t, i t w a s
- Lady Bird is invited to the Greenhouse in Dallas; Lady Bird meets and tours with Roy White, Mark Gosden and National Park Service staff at the LBJ state park; lunch; visit to LBJ birthplace; visit with Roy White about renovations to LBJ Ranch; LBJ
- a good c o m p a n io n L iz O dom i s !
re m in is c e d about v ario u s tr ip s .
We
We h ad a d r i n k in r o u t e , a n d th e n w h e n
w e la n d e d J e s s e m
leaKj o i n e d us and t h e D e a th e s a n d w e w e n t to a new S p a n ish
- Lady Bird to hair salon in Austin; Lynda Johnson to Dallas shopping; Lady Bird and Jessie Hunter to Denison to Eisenhower birthplace; lunch at Holiday Inn; to Fort Worth for tour by Ruth Carter Johnson of Museum of the Southwest; view Museum
- a b le a n d w e ll d r e s s e d .
L y n d o n w as
s tr e t c h e d out in h is p a ja m a s , d rin k in g te a , an d th e y w e r e a p p a r e n tly
e n jo y in g t h e i r v i s i t .
N ixon w a s s a y in g , of th e New Y o rk T im e s
- Richard Nixon visits LBJ for morning coffee; Nixon and LBJ discuss New York Times, Westmoreland, China and Vietnam, and upcoming campaign year; LBJ teases Lady Bird about Big Bend trip; LBJ has sore throat; Johnsons to St. Marks Church; LBJ gives
- New York
- Lady Bird does office work; Lady Bird swims and then to beauty parlor; Lady Bird's television program on Beautification in Washington, DC; LBJ gives speech at the Smithsonian; Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson to New York City to see a play; LBJ has
- New York
- w ho a r e v e r y r i c h o r v e r y
t a le n te d a nd a p p e a r in c o lu m n s , and this is a new d im e n s io n for h e r
b e c a u s e C h u c k R o b b l o o k s l i k e the " A l l - A m e r i c a n b o y " , w h o l e s o m e ,
handsom
- plans; further renovation work when Herbert Wells arrives; Lady Bird & guests drive the LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird asks Don Thomas & Jesse Kellam for status of Johnson business affairs; Don & Jesse leave for Dallas; Lady Bird reads; LBJ calls just to talk
