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- L
1964
Tucsd~y.
July 2.lst
This is a light week for me and an unbearably he:avy one for Lyndon.
Liz. and B
- Press relations
- Houseguests leave; preparations are made for volunteer hostesses tea party at LBJ birthplace; LBJ wants BBQ for press and press conference; Lady Bird dictates information for handout on birthplace; BBQ luncheon for 85 at the LBJ Ranch; press
- Press relations
- ; Federal pavilion & LBJ press conference; Lady Bird to Spanish pavilion & Goya exhibit; to JFK Educational Civic and Cultural Center on Long Island for LBJ speech; to Atlantic City for Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner & LBJ speech; reception at Shelbourne Hotel
- Press relations
- Lady Bird's meeting about tourist services at White House; "The President's Park;" tape recordings about history of White House; Lady Bird views USIA film, "A President's Country;" LBJ has press conference; tea for Independent Agency wives; Lady
- made on the Unger announcement. They replied affirmatively.
The President gave the announcement to George Christian for release to
the press on Wednesday.
McGeorge Bundy presented a document to the group on "U.S. and
Jordan-Israel Settlement
-
USIA
Carl T. Rowan, Director
WHITE HOUSE
George Reedy, Press Secretary to the President
McGeorge Bundy, Special As sistant for National Secur ity Affairs
Bill Moyers, Assistant to the Presi dent
Jack Valenti, Special Assistant to the President
Walter
- :•-"'
July 30, 1968
NOTES OF THE PRESIDENT'S
MEETING WITH
BEN MEYER, ASSOCIATED PRESS
July 16, 1968
Mr. Meyer: I thought your Central America trip was very useful.
Luci stole the show.
The President: (Read talking points, attached, a copy of which he
gave
- Press relations
- Johnson family and friends to St. Barnabas Church; press corps is invited in for refreshments; LBJ's plane takes Cantinflas and his sick wife to Temple to hospital; lunch with Senator and Mrs. Paul Douglas; Senator Douglas reminisces about 1960
- Press relations
- couples; press stories on Hubert Humphrey; David Bell talks about Taiwan, Pakistan, Korea and the Dominican Republic; Lady Bird discusses rafting trip; national parks policy; documentary on Beautification in Austin
- Press relations
- Lady Bird to St. Barnabas Church with Dorothy Territo & Simone Poulaine; flight to meet Liz Carpenter and female press at Jefferson, TX; small crowds at Marshall airport and downtown; Lady Bird tours Excelsior Hotel; lunch at Guarding Oak & Ruth
- in Washington.
And
eith er Max or B il l sa id , "T h e p ress is one of the g rea t parts of the g o v e r n ment, and the White House that cuts it s e lf o ff fro m the press^ cuts i t s e l f
o ff from a la r g e part of governm ent. "
IS.
MEMORANDUM
T H
- Press relations
- LBJ & Lady Bird to Hemis Fair, San Antonio; gun control legislation; ceremony at Hemis Fair; speeches by Ed Clark, Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, John Connally & LBJ; LBJ & Lady Bird tour exhibits; LBJ receives questions from the press; painting for LBJ
- Press relations
- Mary Lasker's neighbor called police about noise from party; Lady Bird angry about press coverage; decision to not televise Luci Johnson's wedding; Lady Bird to see Eakins painting for White House from Joseph Hirshorn; Lady Bird flies back to White
- Press relations
- LBJ is in a dark mood; death of Senator Richard Russell's son; White House Festival of the Arts; press response to Festival; Lady Bird takes a nap; reception for Inaugural Committee workers; quick remarks by LBJ; visit by Tony and Matiana Taylor
- Press relations
- of Beautification Committee; Lady Bird bowls two games; Lady Bird records diary, eats cold dinner, watches television & receives massage; Lynda Robb attends Women's National Press Club Dinner
- Press relations
- LBJ and Lady Bird attend National Christian Church with guests; LBJ whispers a joke to Lady Bird during the service; press stories about Johnson family; lunch at White House and watching Senator Russell Long and Averell Harriman on television; Lady
- Press relations
- Lady Bird and Luci Johnson have clothing trip to New York; possible trip by Lynda Johnson to Spain; press stationed in hotel; tea for Mrs. Diaz Ordaz of Mexico; Elizabeth Arden hair stylist does Lady Bird's hair for party; Lady Bird to Mary Lasker's
- •.l-4) will depend gtieatly~ we think, on• how C\J+X"&-p~ ••
t~ty
problem with Panama lulndled. ·Velarde, Prestcte.t¢1a1
press secre.ry,
~s informed us t1-t during his r«efde,p.t .
~~ to Washington'he urged in talks with various ofticials
Ille -•ttber
- of Central Intelligence
Director McDermott, Office of Emergency Planning
Director Rowan~ U. S. Information Age:icy
Deputy Under Secretary of State Alexis Johnson
McGeorge Bundy, Special As3istant to the President
Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary
- 05:29-10:30 - variable speeds distort Lady Bird Johnson's voice; 09:44 - wrong sentence: "rather than the caricature painted of him of bombast and bafoonery" by some of the press
- . Where shall continuing responsibility for
monitoring this field be centered in the U.S. Government;
and what regular interdepartmental arrangements should be
made?
Suggested action: The responsibility for pressing
forward and monitoring the work
