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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Date > 1969-04-10 (remove)

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  • a relieved way and began to file out. People looked a little pitying. But we were laughing. Lady Bird said to both of us, she took my hand and Petey's, "Thank you for being so nice about it." Well, we really hadn't been at all. She went out, and Luci
  • birth place, and chase the deer. bit on a personal basis. You could get to know him there a little Also, of course, Mrs. Paine and I were thrown in with Lady Bird on these occasions, and when Lady Bird visited the Cape, as you recall. We had
  • ; ceremony and party plans after the mission; LBJ’s interest in the technical details of space flight; LBJ never attended a launch; Lady Bird’s concerns for benefits of space program to man on the street; relationship with HHH; consultant to HUD; The Space
  • it said, "Dear Lady Bird"--I remember he addressed her by her first name, and the gist of the letter was this: "When the time comes, as it must soon now, for you to choose a painter for the official portrait LBJ Presidential Library http
  • to communicate with artists and intellectuals; eventual placement of the finished portrait; Hurd’s admiration for Lady Bird; Hurd’s acceptance of criticism.
  • advised against it, but nevertheless he was doing it, and he did. He signed it in my presence. We talked about--I've forgotten, a lot of different things. Lady Bird talked to me about conflicts of interest, whether or not she could rightly accept presents