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- Lady Bird does office work; John Steinbecks and Billy Grahams are guests to Camp David; Lady Bird talks with Luci Johnson; lunch with guests; Bill Graham talks about integrated crusades; Johnsons and guests to Camp David; Johnsons and guests
- Lady Bird attends the Congressional Wives Prayer Breakfast; LBJ, Billy Graham, and the Congress arrived later; Lady Bird goes to her Spanish lesson; office work with Ashton Gonella and work on Denver speech; Mrs. Philip Barry presents Lady Bird
- LBJ works in bed--Jack Valenti, Marvin Watson and Billy Graham are there; former Representative Carl Vinson is houseguest; Lady Bird has lunch with Lynda Johnson; reception held for Vinson; Lady Bird greets several guests who were on Whistle Stop
- Congressional Wives Prayer Breakfast; Rev. and Mrs. Billy Graham; Lady Bird's prayer greeting; meeting with Bess Abell, Liz Carpenter, and their staffs about correspondence procedures; tea with Mrs. Carl Sanders and Mrs. Farris Bryant; office work
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Ruth Graham
Bedroom
- Last full day in White House; Johnsons & Billy Grahams to National City Christian Church; Lady Bird writes letter to Curator, Jim Ketchum, about Children's Garden with thank you to his staff; thank you letter to John Loeb; more acreage for national
- my
h o s ts seemed s u r p r is e d and p le a s e d t h a t I was t h e r e .
Back a t th e W hite H ouse, I found B i l l y Graham whom Lyndon had
i n v ite d f o r d in n e r , a lre a d y i n th e West H a ll.
We ta lk e d w h ile we
w a ite d f
- ; huge crowd of well-wishers; LBJ gives speech; Lady Bird visits with & LBJ greets Alice Roosevelt Longworth; LBJ receives plaque & key to city of Washington, D.C.; remarks by LBJ; Lady Bird to cocktail party of Bromley Smith's; dinner with Billy Graham
- Lady Bird to LBJ's hospital room; vote on Highway Beautification Bill; Luci Johnson reads LBJ a poem and a prayer while LBJ kneels; LBJ to surgery;--removed gall bladder and kidney stone; Lady Bird talks to family and Billy Graham; LBJ returns from
- Marny Clifford; Johnsons and guests attend church at St. Mark's; Lady Bird compares Billy Graham and Bill Baxter; Lady Bird bowls with guests; Lady Bird uses camera at Camp David; LBJ sits for Hurd portrait; LBJ and Arthur Goldberg; guests take nap
- Filming of Lady Bird in the den of the LBJ Ranch; invitations for meals at friends' homes; Billy Graham & Cliff Barrow to lunch; Johnsons meet Lynda Robb & Krim family at runway; filming in study; LBJ is filmed talking about the Texas Hill Country
- by train; Lady Bird visits with Luci & Lynda; Lady Bird has tea for Princess Grace, Monaco; LBJ & Billy Graham arrive; Johnsons meet Kennedy train at Union Station; cortege to Arlington Cemetery; James Earl Ray is arrested; Cardinal Cushing has attack
- and also, I think, a good friend of
ours. And Susan Mary, lean and smooth, and Kay Graham, I guess the best way I can think
of Kay is sweet. And she with such a welter of problems of her own. Jack and Mary
Margaret were there, too, and also Homer Thornberry
- the White House Fine Arts Committee but keep the White House Historical Assn; dinner with Joseph Alsop, Katharine Graham, and others; guests gather around fireplace, and LBJ discusses his day
- w ere as in te r e ste d in t h is , or m o r e , than I w as - - the
on es who had g iv en i t .
Kay Graham and h er m o th er, M r s . Agnes
M eyer.
I got out of the car and sta rted over and Kay Graham got out
at the sa m e tim e , and w e m et
- Bird encounters Kay Graham at Bowen School; Lady Bird bowls; Lady Bird & Ramsey Clark discuss Washington, D.C. schools; small dinner party with friends; to theater to see "Charge of the Light Brigade;" Lady Bird retires
- Lady Bird has breakfast with LBJ; LBJ leaves for commencement address at Swarthmore; Lady Bird and Kay Graham to Art Fair sponsored by Washington Post; Lady Bird's remarks; Lady Bird works on Radcliffe speech; dinner with LBJ, Lynda Johnson
- 1961
Sunclay, July 26th
This morning we ,,·cnt to the N.:1.tional City Christian Church with
Jake and Beryl and their son, Graham McCarr oll, and then whe:n we got
decided to walk around the grounds, with Him a.nu Her on th!:!ir
back w
long
- arolin a e s p e c ia lly fo r
this, and M rs. Frank Graham, w ife of the fo r m e r P resid en t of the
U n iv e rs ity of North Carolina; and beautiful M r s . F r id a y , the w ife of
the present P r e s id e n t of the U n iv e rs ity of North
- Church services at Camp David; Lady Bird uses home movie camera; visiting with guests; John Steinbeck talks about Russia; crime in the District of Columbia; assistance for law enforcement officers; Johnsons and Grahams to bowling alley; Luci Johnson
- ber of T e x a s
Bob C a s e y ; the Jake P i c k l e s fr o m A u stin , who had
, /
wanted to be h e r e p a r t ic u la r ly * so that they could be w ith the H o m e r
T h o r n b e r r y s ; the Graham P u r c e l l s ; that hum orous W a lte r
- ,
Larry O 'B r i e n s ,
and W alter
handsome George Smathers
and from our s t a f f ,
J e n k i n s . . .Walter
loves him and he g ets a sk ed everywhere.
Graham,
some hot
lo o k in g brown
clim ate
and b e a u t i f u l
va ca t i o n i n g .
M
- on jumping up t o g r e e t f r i e n d s back i n th e s t a n d s ,
t a l l P o s tm a s te r G en eral James P a r l e y , a lw ays s t a n d s o u t'
e v er y w h e re and e v a n g e lis t B i l l y Graham, who had c o n d u c te d
th e p r a y e r s e r
- ; Lady Bird's office staff are all sick or pregnant; hair styled; state dinner for the Holyoakes; exchange of gifts; Lady Bird names dinner guests; Prime Minister Holyoake gives toast; Martha Graham dance company performs; visit with houseguests upstairs
