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- Zoo.
And we secured authority from the Secret Service to present those,
not as a gift to the President that night, but to name them Lyndon
and Lady Bird.
And they were brought into just part of the pleasant
part of the evening which we went through
- in their meetings with LBJ and Hubert Humphrey; tiger cubs at Atlanta zoo named for President Johnson and Lady Bird; relations with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Mrs. King; MLK's assassination and resulting racial problems in Atlanta; concerns and involvement
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was, to me, of the highest caliber.
a dedicated American.
I believe him to be a good American,
I think his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, is one of the
most charming women I have ever met.
I think she, too, was an excellent
companion for him and a woman who
- ; contact with community leaders; conflict of subway vs. freeway; housing problems; unique business and economic situation in D.C.; tourist trade; LBJ's interest in D.C. government; Lady Bird's beautification program; bipartisan support; personal summary
- was there to do some pick-up work.
Toward midday, I think it was--oh, that was the Z day that Lynda
Bird arrived home, and she arrived home quite early from having come
all the way from California.
Naturally the child was very upset
because Chuck was on the way
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eX2.,;~?l(;, held ho.nu the speech to Hrs. Johnson there in his bedroom and
say; in effec t;
F:
"Bird, ",hat do you think about this?"
Hm.J long in advance did he start that speech?
You might say five years
in advance, in one sense