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- children leave. We went first to 30th
Place, that I’d lived and loved for so long--18 years it was--and then to Mrs. Hendrick’s, and
looked at some chintzes. As usual, didn’t find just what we wanted; came home in time for
a 4:00 meeting with Clark Clifford
- Friends and volunteers help in White House living quarters; Lady Bird meets with Clark Clifford and others about the White House Fine Arts Committee; preservation of the White House and the Capitol; Jacqueline Kennedy's recommendation to discontinue
- .
Close to two we drove out to the Clark C liffords.
birthday, and they had open house.
Christmas Day is his
There was one of their daughters there,
fiv e of her family, and a secretary who's been with Clark more than th irty
years.
I t 's one
- Christmas Day; telephone calls; Father Kaifer hold mass in Lincoln Room; special blessings for Chuck Robb & Pat Nugent in Vietnam; family opens more presents; Johnsons to open house at Clark Clifford's; LBJ lays down to rest; more telephone calls
- that
convalescence.
I went up in the plane with several of the Justices’ wives; Mrs. Warren, and Elizabeth Black,
and Mary Clark, and several others. And I was aware that some of the old-timers--Tommy
Corcoran, Ben Cohen, Grace Tully--were there with us. There were
- girls.
It was nearly 5:00 before we left, and I had meant to be at Diana's party
at the stroke of 4: 00.
It was going full blast, and all of the kinfolks were there, and a group
{
of Washingtonians as well.
The Ramsey Clarks, the Joe Fowlers
- Clark looking in bouncy good
health, one of the most genuinely at-peace men I know.
Madame Shoumatoff
came in and she was indeed in a way the guest of honor this evening.
She wears her considerable years lig h tly and her conversation is bright
- Bird encounters Kay Graham at Bowen School; Lady Bird bowls; Lady Bird & Ramsey Clark discuss Washington, D.C. schools; small dinner party with friends; to theater to see "Charge of the Light Brigade;" Lady Bird retires
- , the feeling of
the specialness of every guest.
There were Dean and Virginia Rusk,
Clark and Marny, and Georgia and Ramsey, Marvin and Marion looking
more beautiful all the time, and Stew and Lee ( I told him I wanted to
get together with him and talk about
- food flown in from San Antonio; Lady Bird bowls with friends; Life magazine story on Luci Johnson; dinner at Clark Cliffords; Lady Bird and Clark Clifford continue discussion about LBJ Library; evaluating art objects offered to the LBJ Library; emphasis
- Phone call received about Vicki McCammon's family; Lady Bird works on Luci's wedding; Tom Clark's party for Luci Johnson and Pat Nugent; houseguests in the White House; work on Luci Johnson's wedding plans; family matters; Lady Bird mentions guests
- LBJ has breakfast with Prime Minister Menzies of Australia; Lady Bird goes to the Congressional Club for presentation of doll wearing miniature of her inaugural ball gown; lunch with Sir Robert and Lady Jackson and Ed Clarks; ABC film
- LBJ meets with Clark Clifford & Abe Fortas about 1968 election; arrival ceremony for Prime Minister & Mrs. Egal of Somalia; Lady Bird works on Women Doers' Luncheon on child health; LBJ gives speech & awards to Federal Career Women group; Lady Bird
- LBJ's cold is worse; Lady Bird views September film at Naval Photo Lab; Lady Bird meets with Clark Clifford about proceeds from sale of diary; acquisition of Latrobe mantel; lunch & reminiscing with Belle & Phil Tippett; last Beautification meeting
- to the Capitol; Lady Bird reminisces about Sam Rayburn; Lady Bird describes ceremony; Nixon gives inaugural address; Johnsons to party at the Clark Cliffords'; LBJ gives speech from porch; large crowds at Andrews AFB and Bergstrom AFB; party at LBJ Ranch
