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- ; exchange of State gifts; receiving line; Lady Bird mentions many guests; LBJ's toast about our form of government; Sir Alec Douglas-Home's toast about Cuba; the "Strolling Strings" and dancing
- , the w ife
of our old fr ie n d Gus Wortham.
In the next one was M iss Ima, v e r y
re g a l, v e r y e ld e r ly , but v e r y full of excitem ent and v^rve about what
^
was
going on.
With h er w e re the d im in u tiv e Sir John B a r b a r o l l
- Lady Bird writes LBJ from Tyler, Texas, on her way home from Dallas. She says her trip was delightful, she still has the picture proofs, and will write in more detail later when she arrives home.
- Lady Bird describes her activities at home, how much she misses LBJ, and how much she enjoys his letters. She says the cook commented on what "a fine looking young man" he is.
- In a telegram sent from Tyler, Texas, Lady Bird tells LBJ that she had a hectic day and is taking the 5:00 bus home.
- ; railroad negotiations in the Cabinet room; dinner for Henry Fowler at C. Douglas Dillon's home
- said
he wanted to take me and Nellie to dinner some night.
On Tuesday, April.21, I have invited Mrs. Ickes, Mrs. Bill
Douglas, Elizabeth Rowe, and Tharon Perkins to lunoh. I havn't
had time to get an answer yet ~!'om Mrs. Douglas'1'i~§- l'm
thinking
- Lady Bird says she feels low after returning home from Dallas but goes on to tell him about her plans for the next day. She describes her trip to Dallas, including her dinner with Victor McCrea during which she told him she is in love with LBJ
- ] job offer, says she is looking at the NBC notebooks he sent, and tells him she will go to town tomorrow and bring home her chairs. She ends with the wish that her letters were more clever, bright and interesting.
- for LBJ. Lady Bird comments on the letter from LBJ's mother that he enclosed with his last letter. She says they cannot plan on Thanksgiving. She cannot be home before November 17.
- of her mother's estate. Then she wants to rush on home to see LBJ.
- Postcard from Bermuda, swimming, dinner and cocktails at the home of Captain and Mrs. Leeper, Admiral Gingrich
- sense of color and some good
little antiques. It will stand her in good stead, because
women can't quite get over judging other women by their
homes. She had a delicious dinner, too, and Bob told me
a lot about his· current problems--cornmissions, towns
- Brandt, and I was glad to see there such old friends as B ill
Douglas, Dean Ache son, L u c iu s C lay, and Tom C orcora n
that Drew Pearson and Joe Alsop w ere included.
Glad al so
And Dr, M ilton Eisenhower,
who's working on Lyndon's P r e sidential
- at home., and it was so !!:!:I,.
muoh less expensive that way. But now that I am working all day I
cannot eat lunch at home and I don't get there before eight o'clock
usually., and therefore do not have time to do my share of cooking.,
besides I'm a little
- JOHNSON=
438 HOUSE OFFICE BLDG=
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CONGRATULATIONS DARLING ON HAVING NO OPPONENT~ COME
HOME SOON=
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LADYBIRD~.
THERE IS NO DEPENDABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR WESTERN UNION TIME
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- , my love\ You know what the best thing about working
up here is?? It makes me understand you so much better. I
know why you can't get home any time you want to, and can
readily see how you could become disheartened about the chances of our way of life
- love livin
with us and having home cooked neals and a nice livinr; room;
but she 11vill miss the constant supply of males at the Dodge
and the freedom of hotel life. However, you intend to give
her a rsise of some size do you not when i'le be3in living
- us, and Lucy Baines
an d in the car with us Bob Waldron and the H arry McPhersons. There w ere long,
long lines of solemn, respectful people, all along the hill in Robert E. Lee’s home as we
wound up to the gravesite. The gravesite was covered
- to bring Senator Everett Dirksen to Walter Reed Hospital; nap; dinner with the C. Douglas Dillons
- e g oing to g iv e v e r y s e r io u s c o m p e titio n
f
MEMORANDUM
THE W H IT E HOUSE
V.
W A S H I N G T O N
M o n d a y , M a r c h 2, 1964
to Douglas Hume, and perhaps r e p la c e him ,
Lyndon had M r , W ils o n o v e r in his o f f i c
- LBJ's network television interview about "the first hundred days" with Eric Sevariad, Douglas Brinkley and William Lawrence; Luci Johnson returns from New York shopping trip; Lady Bird, Lynda Johnson, Warrie Lynn Smith & Jesse Kellam watch
- LBJ, Lady Bird, Lynda and Luci to St. Mark's with Secretary & Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon and Ambassador Adlai Stevenson; Dillons and Robert McNamaras to lunch at White House; LBJ takes nap; Lady Bird and LBJ say goodbye to Lynda's boyfriend, Bernie
- .
Up ea rly and out to the a irp ort to c atch
the chartered Convair at 7:00--with L iz , of course, and B ess b e cause we
w ere going to her home te rrito ry , Kentucky; and Congre ssman C arl P e rk in s
whose d istrict we would be covering; B ill
- Lady Bird trip to Kentucky; press; Lady Bird meets Gov. & Mrs. Breathitt; 8-hour tour by motorcade; Lady Bird halts car to shake hands with schoolchildren; Lady Bird walks to Arthur Robertson home & Lick Branch School; reminiscences about Fern
- belong
b o w in g
McNamaras
just
day in A p r i l ,
ihe
negroes,
there
q uite
a re f r e q u e n t l y
came home
an u p h i l l
who kno'ws/^I thinl#:/\ the
w ithout
A f t e r w a r d we to o k the
s e a r ch
M a r k ’ s i s always
is a s
- .
And then home fo r lunch.
On m y last day there a rriv e d a sort of contentment that you wish you
could start getting at the v e ry beginning - a sense of having settled down
and having r e ached a peace,
I did do som e m ore work.
Made some guest lists
- --our first guest in that beautiful place. And so, she and I
walked through the family quarters, and we hung pictures. We put the scenes in the bedroom.
So I feel very much at home. We put Mr. Sam out in the—well, it’s what I call the family sitting
room
- , in the endless miles of empty bookshelves. And to put
around my beautiful Lowestoft pieces and my Dorothy Doughty birds.
Because I want it to start looking like, that is, the little bit of the room that I can call mine,
that is the Johnsons’ home, and I want
- on• ot hia tavoritp oongJteaaman and you "oer•
tai.nly didn't
woh time in getting 1n."
••t•
Yeaterd&r I went to ••• Wiok)' in the hospital and took
her•~ pretty flower••
Both )ahe end the baby are tine,
cd they •r• going home Monday.
Th• hoap1.tal
- how many times she used to have me out to her
house when I was just a little University oo-ed with no prospects at all of being a "political asset"--and who seldom got
good home-cooked meals and much enjoyed themi second, I like
Betty because she works
- she would try her best
to stay until I got moved in. le seoond or third. but she
did want to get home t ~
h
job.
I il!l'nediately
te
• Dogan. asking him if he
oould find me an
gi
Then I called Edit~~ who used
to work for us.
I had heard Otha Ree say
- 5:30 p.m. April 19, 1943
Darling mine 1
I enjoyed our talk la.st night very much ~nd I was eepeoially glad
to hea.r tv~,o thinge-.-tha t we are releeeed from INS and the t you. may come
home thla week-end.
Both of those are things to oheer about
- to Washington April first and I very
inubh want her to, even though it is conceivable you might
come home and Nellie and Mary might not move out. Aunt
Ef'f'ie hasn't been with us in three years and this is some•
thing I really want to do, my heart.
Next, I
- Lady Bird has hair styled & makeup done; filming of ABC's Howard K. Smith interview; phone call from Muriel Humphrey about Mike Douglas show; Lady Bird has lunch with the Bill Hayes family; visit with Lynda Robb; nap; work on Chad state dinner
- be
pro is d to
T
for m eoon. Could you &et e pictures of the resident, Sam, nd Bill Douglas? These ar the three I'd s
ially
· n --r presenting my f vori e figure
n
h
three b ,. no ea
or
gov ra
ment--but it .might be bad t te to ask Sam and Bill
- status {wHic~ the people back home interpret to be one of combat or preparation-for-combat) and get
behind a desk where you could make lots of people funotion--and just let politics take care of itself. I am not at all
short or faith with our country
- , many kisses. I
assure you the size and mumber of them was most unexpected.
This afternoon I took off an hour and forty-five
minutes and carried Peggy, Jr., her present. Elizabeth
Rowe wasn1t at home, so I did not go by and leave her
present as I
- . So I
heartily enjoyed Diana's refreslunerits, went home a little past 7: 00 for the
walk slowly through the first floor of the White House. Already, the wedding
f
is confined to history.
A 16-foot spruce tree -- beautifully shaped -- went up today
- .
Then
to see if she wouldn't
because
house
at the flower
son,
Stafford,
had told me that
she was
mart.
and rushed
her
So I looked
home,
The booths
were
she would
we started
I
s missed
be.
down to Winchesterj\
-
~
in charge
for her
-
with
Ton y and B a rb a ra B i rd in the vanguard. —
It was an easy, in fo r m a l buffet supper, m o s tly T exans, t h e L eo n a rd
M a rk s,
a nd by 9:30, we w e r e home on the second flo o r .
Sundays a re our life s a v e r s, our chance to float
