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- with that. I found out•
this morning from talking to Guinn that the fellow said
he used to live in San Antonio and Judge Spears knows
him. So Adrian must not be pushing in an utter str-..nger.
I haven't called Adrian. He is the Senior Judge
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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
- of an international,serious thing.
We are
calling all the bankers in: We have a very bad deal there.
Our friend visited with Clifford this morning and I guess he
has told you what has happened:
D:
Yes.
P:
They demanded a public Presidential statement calling
- MONETARY CRISIS; CLARK CLIFFORD'S MEETING WITH RFK TODAY; RFK'S DEMAND FOR REAPPRAISAL OF VIETNAM POLICY; DEAN ACHESON'S ADVICE TO LBJ; DALEY SUGGESTS LBJ APPOINT HIS OWN COMMITTEE TO STUDY POLICY; RFK'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY; NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
- it back; if
and I talked to McCormack
last night.
set, they would give out an interview
Truman
- I will talk to them abrut that.
I always talk to the Big Four
on Monday.
I will talk to them at 11 o'clock
Monday morning
from here.
What do you want me
- to the University of New
Mexico for KNME-TV; $90, 660 grant
to the Community Television, Inc. ,
of Jacksonville, Fla.-, to WJCT-TV;
$388, 541 grant to Greater Washington
Educational Television Ass., Inc.,
to WETA-TV; $187, 881 grant to the
School District No. 1
- them clipped, they came in late but he would read--you know he'd
get the
highlights and some of that, listen to radio news, CBS news, almost every hour
on the
hour. He watched all three morning shows on the networks at the same time on
the three
sets
- in information; LBJ's interest in the news; LBJ as a liberal; what LBJ would have thought of 1996 political issues; the relationship between LBJ and Connally; speculations on LBJ's career if he had run for re-election in 1968; how LBJ's presidency will be viewed
- 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
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TO: Marie Fehmer
FROM: Barefoot Sanders
Per your request the attached is on the
Monday morning Fish Room meeting.
5/28
Meeting with Congressional Relations Officers
May Z7, 1968
The President met with the Congressional Relations Officers
- of things that I have
m eant to do, headed by re s t and learn to water ski, those not crossed
off.-'- V’
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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
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Ambassador Harriman
Secretary Rusk
Secretary Clifford
General Wheeler
Walt Rostow
CIA Director Helms
George Christian
Tom Johnson
Secretarv Clifford: We met with the Senate Committee this morning.
They spent one and a-half hours on Vietnam.
CIA Director Helms
- this morning?
The President: I thought we did very little good, very little harm.
General Brown was not a good briefer. He does not speak with authority.
We need to take the toughest questions we get and answer them with
authority with Senator Dirksen
- :00 p. m.
..
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM: Tom Johnson
Attached are the notes of the President's meeting Friday morning
on the Pueblo incident. This was the 7th meeting of the President
on this matter since January 23.
The following were
- good and I want you to look good.
I am not going to recommend a bunch of new programs.
going to review what we have done in a relatively brief address.
hope I can say we have a surplus of between 2 and 3 billion.
from an 8 billion deficit.
I am
I
- .
The President: I think they should be called in.
Secretary Rusk:
Habib is seeing them.
The President: I think you and Clark should see them.
to seeing them myself.
Secretary Rusk:
I wouldn't object
We need some good news from Vietnam, Buzz.
General Wheeler
-
Meeting began: 2:52 p. m.
Meeting ended: 3:55 p. m. ~ . ~
1
NOTES OF THE PRESIDENT'S MEETING
WITH HIS FISCAL ADVISERS
March 20, 1968
THE PRESIDENT: The new program in Vieblam will cost $8. 6
billion. I want to hear your views before I make a decision
- 1964
Sat urday, July 25~
Was an easy and pleasant day.
About noon I W(·nt ove r to Lyndon's
office, hoping I could snare him, a nd walked right into an informal press
conference.
Lyndon in his rockin;; chair, some 25 or 30 news paper peopl e
- of the C a r ly le .
-ylew
He R a n te d
to talk b e a u tific a tio n w ith m e, and p a rtic u la rly to te ll m e about h is own
p ro je c t. S te rlin g G a rd e n s, a la rg e tr a c t of fo r e s t land, only an h o u r's
d riv e fro m New Y ork C
- New York
- New York City
- , It '- tile wt...t
of die ay.
Ctlw Pn1ldat thaab4 lea. Aiba aJUI aMt• thll .-bf' 1~~d1oa
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tb.e Ml.wl• Saat tltutloaJut rtpt. .(dae Pn•ldeld taW tUt
CJaairmaa Ko..,.ta
- lutr.dou. He ta tile odae• way U yn want
Mm lO be.
B • J p11 I haY•n't knowa that. l dllak lal1hly of him. Some of
the people ta New York • J he doen•t P"· He It.ten•
polltelr, bat doe1a•t 1lve.
A - That la tru becau•• he could llOI • J aaftldnl to tbem
- they build that new schoolhouse or hospital. Or
it may mean they will forego these essentials because money costs
too much.
3.
Homebuilding:
As I told the Horne Loan Bank Board Executives on October 6, the
drastic slump in housing brought on by last year's
- the m e n f in is h e d t h e ir b r ie fin g , we jo in e d th em in the S tate
D ining R oom f o r c o c k ta ils a n d h o r s d ’o u e v e r s .
I h a d a ch a n c e to v i s i t w ith m a n y of th em a b it.
T he new R e p u b lic a n
l e a d e r
- Attack on U.S. Embassy in Moscow; Luci Johnson gives tour to her history class; possible paintings for the White House; Lady Bird meets with Liz Carpenter about interview with U.S. News & World Report; Congressional reception with briefing
- shot. 11
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#
MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT WITH MR. ST. CLAIR
MCKELWAY OF THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE ON
FEBRUARY 15, 1968.
Mr. McKelway: I have been on the New Yorker since 1933. These
days I am a free writer on the staff. A lot of our people have been
-
manpower requirements.
-- There is no military stalemate.
\
I
.
I
Walt Rostow reviewed with the luncheon group three proposals
_by McGeorge Bundy who was in New York on other business. These
proposals concerned Sovi~t arms shipments to the Middle East
- .
Secretary Rusk: I think they should be tough on the pilot of the DC-8 which
was downed in Russia.
Secretary Clifford: We handled that well. The plane is released. We made
quick apologies. It could have been an equipment error. It was a new plane.
General
- 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
- was the head man, and his
assistant Dr. Manigan, and the nice head of all the nurses, Mrs. Jenkins. They took us in, and
we went from floor-to-floor, and I noticed, over my shoulders, the faces of so many familiar
Washington news girls. I missed them. I like
- u d so n i s g o i n g
th ro u g h
th a t
c r u e l l y l o n e l y t i m e o f b e i n g a new w id o w .
When
t h
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e
y
And t h e n when L yndon
l e
f t
I w o r k e d o n my c l o t h e s
came i n w i t h S e c r e t a r y R u s k a n d
f o
- Lady Bird sleeps late; Lady Bird mentions her houseguests; Lady Bird works on clothing for New York trip; Lady Bird lunches with LBJ and staff members; President Kennedy's appointment of Averell Harriman at State Department; Lady Bird has tea
- suppose h i s l a s t ap p earan ce i n
th e h i s t o r i c a l House Chamber i n an o f f i c i a l p o s i t i o n .
I t began i n New York in th e P i e r r e .
Lyndon had gone back
a f t e r th e p a r ty l a t e th e n ig h t b e fo re and I had s
- New York
- Hotel Pierre, New York City
- ro u n d s of P r i m e M i n i s t e r
a n d M r s . H o ly o ak e of New Z e a la n d .
It i s a lw a y s a s p e c i a l a n tic ip a tio n w hen the g u e s t i s s o m e o n e I
have m et b efo re.
And I h a d s p e n t a p a r t of th is m o r
- Arrival ceremony for Prime Minister & Mrs. Holyoake, New Zealand; Lady Bird names guests; Leon Uris offers manuscripts to LBJ Library; Lady Bird has remarks about Lyn Nugent; lunch; recording diary; visit with Lynda Robb, Luci & Lyn Nugent; massage
-
h a d c o n d u c te d th a t o n e - d a y to u r th ro u g h the old 10th D i s t r i c t to s e e
g r a s s r o o ts u rb a n ren ew al and T exas re s to ra tio n s .
M rs.
E. T . X im e n e s of San A ntonio.
And D r . a n d
H e 's a new R e
- guests visit upstairs & receiving line; Lady Bird mentions guests; exchange of toasts; new strain of wheat for underdeveloped countries; entertainment is Herb Albert & Tijuana Brass introduced by Lynda Johnson; former Mexico President Mateos in coma
- ken up t h e ir se a ts on the G ro u n d F l o o r ,
and had re fu s e d to budge.
A s i t - i n in the W h ite H o u s e !
So m e 12 o f
th e m , m o s tly young f o lk s .
T h e m e e tin g came to a q u ic k h a lt w h ile B u z z got the new s
- m e to so m e new A f ric a n country, an d h e d id n 't know the
la n g u a g e .
She w a s w o r ry in g a littl e b i t a b o u t how h e w ould g e t a lo n g in
s c h o o l a n d e v e ry th in g - - how
aken ew f r ie n d s .
tm
S o lic ito
- T U ESD A Y , JANUARY 10, 1967 p ag e 1
T u e s d a y , J a n u a r y 10th w a s th e S ta te of th e U nion. N ot u n til
.it
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i t is o v e r do you r e a l l y f e e l th e New Y e a r h a s b eg u n . It i s a n
o b s ta c le , a m o u n
- of Congressman John Fogarty; impeachment of Adam Clayton Powell; new African-American Senator, William Brooke; Lady Bird describes reaction to speech; Lady Bird answers press questions; Johnsons to Speaker's Room & White House with guests for supper
- a c tiv e H o llin g s of S outh
I
C a r o lin a an d s t e r n fa c e d , r a t h e r L in c o ln e s q u e , S e n a to r H a n s e n , and
I
yo u n g , t e r r i f i c l y a t t r a c t iv e C h a r le s P e r c y .
h e rs e lf.
So th e new o n
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to th e o t h e r so fa a n d c h a tte d w ith the w ife of the A m b a s s a d o r f r o m P a r a g u a y .
W e t a l k e d of G e n e r a l S t r e s n o r s v i s i t .
A nd w ith d iffic u lty to th e new
A m b a s s a d o r 's w ife f r o m
- . They need the 7th day for maintenance.
It is interesting that the firm is opening a new plant
in Charleston, S. C. This will get production up from
200 to 300 / month.
THE PRESIDENT: Do we want to talk over this strategy change
with Congress?
CLIFFORD
- of a fellow Socialist
Republic.
We think it would be good for the President and Kosygin to meet.
We want to know about the NPT coming back.
1. Would a new committee hearing be needed?
2. What kind of vote would you expect?
3. How much
- e
N o b o d y w o u ld b e l i e v e i t .
T h ird , K T B C
's p la n e,
T h e c o m f o r t o f h a v in g a
p riv a te , d isc ree t,m
odeoftravell e a v i n g a t th e h o u r w e w a n t e d , c o u ld b e q u ite w ip e d o u t b y
new
- New York
- Johnson women to New York; Lady Bird buys dress for wedding and flies back to White House; phone call with Betty Weinheimer about LBJ Birthplace; lunch; meeting with Liz Carpenter about press; meeting about travel for Luci Johnson and Pat Nugent
- Carlyle Hotel, New York City
- 1965
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9
L y n d a and I w e n t up to the H ill to W rig h t P a t m a n 's
lu n c h e o n fo r the T e x as D e l e g a t i o n - - w i v e s , c h ild r e n , and g r a n d c h i l d r e n h o n o rin g the t h r e e new m e m b e
- V
MEMORANDUk
.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WA8HINOTON
M onday, M a rc h 1, 1965
T h e new m o n th b e g a n a t th e R a n c h , w ith a g r e y sk y .
vl £ o u
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w ith Jew el an d D a le .
I d ro v e a ro u n d
We lo o k e d a t th a t o ld C a lic h