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  • Contributor > Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 (remove)
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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/4/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • ci and I. Lyndon w a s in h is o ffic e - I knew a sta tem en t w as being p rep a red . He gave it on TV from the W hite H ouse -" A m erica i s shocked and sadden ed r b y the b ru tal sla y in g tonight of D r. M artin Luther King. I a s k e v
  • & speeches; LBJ works hard with little rest; Johnsons to Democratic fundraiser that night; Lynda Robb relays news that Martin Luther King has been shot & died; LBJ calls Coretta Scott King & makes televised speech; evening plans cancelled & Hawaii trip
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/8/1968 (Monday) (Item)
  • arborough ca m e up to g r e e t m e . H e had c a n c e lle d out a fter the a s s a s s in a tio n of M artin Luther King and I did not e x p e c t to s e e h im . I m an aged to be m o r e c o rd ia l than I had been at our la s t m eetin g ■^ . '-i
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/10/1969 (Friday) (Item)
  • , or rather he talked. That treadworn We talked about the He told us how in the days of the French Kings, Louis XIV and XV, i t had been made by using mercury, I think i t was, and after many painstaking years, the workmen would go blind. Then he
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/19/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • r s l i n e d up in c o s tu m e s . And M e r lin , m y old fr ie n d , had told m e I c e r t a i n l y . w o u l d n e v e r h a v e s e e n the King A r t h u r l i k e t h i s o n e . It w a s s l a p s t i c k , a n d e v e n I w i t h m y
  • LBJ Library meeting; office work; two-hour interview with Henry Branden of the London Sunday Times; lunch; Lady Bird to Shady Grove Music Theatre; Laurance Rockefeller and Project Trailblazers; Lady Bird greets cast of "King Arthur" & gives short
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/1/1964 (Saturday) (Item)
  • , a n d t h e n he w a s s u m m o n e d b a c k into t h e M a e l s t r o m . He t a l k e d of s o m e of t h e p r o b l e m s . He b e l i e v e d t h a t t h e R e v . M a r t i n L u t h e r King is th e o nly one up t h e r e h i s f o l k s w
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/24/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • d h im a n d h e d i d n 't We l e f t h im i n H e l e n 's k eep in g . c o m e o v e r l a t e r a n d s p e n d the n ig h t w ith h im . W a r r i e L y n n w o u ld O ddly he s e n s e d I th in k th a t w e w e r e n o t loo king a t h im
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/19/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • , a n d o n e m y s e l f I h a d put on th e l i s t a n d w a s s o g la d to s e e - - D r . an d M r s . John King o f o u r o w n H u s t o n - T i l l o t s o n in A u s t in .^ I than k ed Er n e s t C u n e o a s h e c a m e d ow n th e l i n e f