Lady Bird has breakfast with LBJ; Lady Bird goes to Spanish class; meeting with Max Brooks; work on speeches for upcoming Appalachia trip; fitting for clothes; Lady Bird & LBJ go down the elevator to his press conference ; LBJ's decision to run in 1968; post-mortem discussion; Lady Bird has clothes fittings & desk work; LBJ gives prepared speech at dinner for Democratic National Committee and then goes "off-the-cuff"; that morning, LBJ meets with Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Henry Fowler & John McCloy, before presenting Congressional Medal of Honor to African-American soldier; houseguests; Lew Wasserman gives painting for White House
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/9/1967 (Thursday)
Citation
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/9/1967 (Thursday), LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/ctjd-19670309