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  • to the overall policies of • his Administration. One of the most troublesome aspects of our economy grew out 0£ the costs of the Vietnam war. This was the most difficult part of our budget to predict, because we had no experience in fighting this kind
  • Vietnam
  • Snow; meeting on education trip through Appalachia; lunch with Lynda Johnson; Lady Bird meets the Arthur Erschoens who lost their only son in Vietnam; Lady Bird visits with niece, Roxanne Johnson; informal party for White House Fellows; LBJ speaks
  • Vietnam
  • Bird for dinner; LBJ discusses problems around U.S. and world; Lady Bird mentions fears about Vietnam
  • Vietnam
  • Lady Bird greets Junior League Garden Club; Lady Bird to Head Start program at Trinity Zion Church; lunch with Jane Engelhard about White House renovations; Lady Bird's session with ABC TV on beautification program; diplomatic reception; Vietnam
  • Vietnam
  • ; LBJ awards medals to soldiers and gives speech; travel to Lawrenceville, IL, & George Rogers Clark National Historical Park; LBJ speaks on Vietnam; travel to Louisville, KY, and Jeffersonville, IN, for beautification award; LBJ gives 9 speeches
  • Vietnam
  • ; Lady Bird to beauty parlor; LBJ meets with advisors about Vietnam; LBJ meets with and gives speech to White House Conference on Education participants; dinners with aides and James Hagerty; Lady Bird's tv show on beautification; Dwight Eisenhower
  • attrib utable largel y tation s Vietnam War, the levels of fundin g have been such that these expec have not beEna ble to be fulfil led. I Until such time as we, as a nation , place high prior ity on what to solve believ e we have identi fied as necess
  • Drafting messages; road trips; campus visits; J. Califano; Ed Levi; consulting the academic community; University of Illinois; Northwestern University; Harvard-MIT "syndrome;" remedial programs; Kingman Brewster and Yale; Vietnam's impact
  • was astonished when the damn thing came up. I was off in the field somewhere, and I came back, and Shriver says, "The President, with the Vietnam War financing and all the rest of it, has suddenly picked up on the savings bond deduction program." We were located