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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
- ; 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
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eX2.,;~?l(;, held ho.nu the speech to Hrs. Johnson there in his bedroom and
say; in effec t;
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"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