Lady Bird to Portland, Oregon, for last trip & speech; LBJ nominates Abe Fortas as Chief Justice & Homer Thornberry for Associate Justice of Supreme Court; Lady Bird gives speech to American Institute of Architects; Orville Freeman is in panel discussion; "Mrs. LBJ" azalea named for Lady Bird; Lady Bird presents AIA award to Arthur O'Dell for the Potomac River Planning Task Force; reception at Portland Sheraton; mobile playground is designed in Lady Bird's honor; to Toll Gate State Park & Timberline Lodge; Lady Bird arrives at Timberline Lodge, a WPA project from the 1930s; Lady Bird & Orville Freeman ride in Sno-Cat; back to the Lodge; rest; dinner; Lady Bird describes the Lodge; entertainment by folk singers; the history of Mt. Hood told by professor from the University of Oregon; singing by The Bohemians; photographs; Lady Bird retires
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/26/1968 (Wednesday)
Citation
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/26/1968 (Wednesday), LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/ctjd-19680626