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- . Discussed them pro and con.
1:30 Watch "Issues and Answers" Senator Everett Dirksen.
1:54 Honorable and Mrs. Deason and Dr. Davis arrive.
3. 2:00 With Honorable and Mrs. W. Deason, Dr. Davis, the Valentis, the Whites, the McHughs, the
President, Tim and Mary
- to bring Senator Everett Dirksen to Walter Reed Hospital; nap; dinner with the C. Douglas Dillons
- Halleck & Everett Dirksen and Republicans; Houston Symphony at Constitution Hall; Ima Hogg; national view of Texas
- Jackson about urban renewal; LBJ visits with Everett Dirksen; Lady Bird has afternoon guests; LBJ tells Dirksen about working with Dwight Eisenhower
- Ranch guests include Senators Mike Mansfield & Everett Dirksen and Congressman George Mahon; guests leave; Lady Bird goes to Johnson City to LBJ's Boyhood Home for restoration meeting; lunch; LBJ gives Lady Bird and Luci robes from Korea; Lady Bird
- ; Entertainment for dinner is Carol Channing in "Hello, Dolly!"; Carol Channing and Everett Dirksen have "same voice;" LBJ and Hubert Humphrey dance with Carol Channing; Lady Bird dances with Douglass Fairbanks, Jr.; Fairbanks speaks of President Franklin
- with Ashton.
10:40
The President woke
up and called Ashton and me to come in
--
had
him. He
called Senators Dirksen, Mansfield and Fulbright -Senator Dirksen about
his garden, etc. . . . .
12:11
I talked
with
with
With the President, J.C. Kellam, Mr
- proceeded to main house in LBJ car and then returned to
south end of runway to greet Humphrey with President.
12:30 With Senator Dirksen, Mrs. Humphrey, and Mrs. Mansfield went to main house
2:04 With Mrs. Humphrey and Mrs. Mansfield left main house in LBJ
- . Governor, Mrs. Paul Douglas, and Mrs. Dirksen. Dedication
of Court House and planted a Japanese cherry tree.
12:00 To Père Marquette Hotel. Greeted 25 of Peoria County
Beautification Committee.
1:05 Luncheon in hotel. Made short speech.
2:40 Departed
- - Mrs. Dirksen, Mrs. Cooper,
Mrs. Mansfield, Mrs. Pell, Mrs. Monroney, Mrs. Jordan,
and Mrs. Scott
1:10 Mrs. Humphrey arrived
1:15 Lunch
3:00 Guests departed
3:45 Reception guests to East Room
4:12 Joined guests in East Room for Catholic University
- in President's Room dictated 3/11/66
1. 9:30 Liz over to talk re: Big Bend
9:40 Talked to President after dressing
2. 9:45 Left for Spanish
3. 12:30 To Shoreham: Mrs. Smathers's apartment
Lunch and bridge w/ Mrs. Talmadge, Dirksen, Smathers
4:15 Mrs. Hobby
- Baltimore; watched some of "Gunsmoke" on videotape, but had to leave
before it was over to see Senator Dirksen on the Johnny Carson show in
the President's Room.
12:15 Retired.
*******
- to the second floor.
Worked with Ashton and Liz re: Expo
Worked with Ashton re: Karnack Post Office.
5:40 With the President and Senator Dirksen in the West Hall.
Worked with Ashton.
6:20 Secretary and Mrs. Vance and their children arrived and went to the Yellow
- THE WHITE HOUSE
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Daily Diary
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Johnson began her day at (Place)
Entry
LBJ Ranch
Time
Date
Saturday, November 26, 1966
Activity
dictated 12/11/66
1. goodbye to guests: Senator Dirksen, Senator and Mrs
- with Dr. Ransom,
Judge Heath, Mr. Brooks, Juanita, and Dr. Grover
5:00 To Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology
(President and Luci to hospital to visit Vietnam veterans, Senator Dirksen)
1966
Entry
No.
Activity
5:13 Left museum
5:21 Arrived
- ; after stopping by the Fish Room to chat with Senator
Dirksen who was waiting for an appointment with the President.
Entry
No.
Time
Activity
Recorded.
9:35 The President came from his office to the second floor.
10:00 Dinner with the President.
11:20
- . The President talked about our retiring
soon -- he wasn't very happy about the pancakes.
9:30 Sunbathed on the upper deck.
11:00 Played bridge on the fantail with Jake, Beryl, and Liz Roberts. The exhaust fumes
made me sleepy. (Watched Senator Dirksen
- and Mrs. Nixon, Senator Dirksen, Speaker McCormack,
Vice President and Mrs. Humphrey, Vice President-elect and Mrs. Agnew, Senator Mansfield, Congressman G. Ford, Senator Jordan,
Congressman Carl Albert, Lynda, Luci, Ambassador Leonard Marks, Mr. and Mrs
- of
Strategic Services dinner in honor of Senator Dirksen -- Nancy Kefauver died
suddenly just before he got there)
9:45-11:00 Chief Mills.
Retired.
******
House guests:
General and Mrs. William Westmoreland - #303.
******
-
And it was a p erfec t color match for
the deco ratio n s.
roses of Texas,
l i t t l e bird ,
Second Vice
Bowls of - you guessed it -yellow
and on time o f one p e r c h e d / a p retty
the property of Betty Talmad
g e,
A
M rs,
Dirksen put me in the re c e
- Robert Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles; LBJ discusses gun control with Senator Mike Mansfield; LBJ calls Senators Dirksen & Aiken about agriculture; Lady Bird cancels appointments; Lady Bird works on telegrams for Rose & Ethel Kennedy; LBJ makes
- .
And only 8 members of the House.
Senator Dirksen embraced everyone of us and a planted a large kiss
right on my mouth.
There were two members of the Court besides the Chief Ju stice. The
Blacks and the Fortas'**and of course the Tom Clarks.
And the amazing
- LBJ's staff in his bedroom; Lady Bird to Spanish class; lunch & bridge with Rosemary Smathers, Betty Talmadge & Louella Dirksen; Lady Bird records radio spots on beautification; discussion of upcoming trip to Big Bend; Lady Bird bowls; Lady Bird
