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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/10/1969 (Friday) (Item)
  • Middleton about bur film project and then around four o'clock Friday, January 10, 1969 Page 4 into the Lincoln Bedroom for a two hour sittin g with Robert Berks the sculptor, who is doing my head. I took a batch of mail in and signed i t and worked
  • with Harry Middleton about film project; Lady Bird sits for sculptor, Robert Berks; visit with Lynda Robb & Luci Nugent during sitting; dinner for Hubert Humphrey and the Cabinet; photos of ladies & LBJ with Cabinet; toasts; papers to LBJ Library
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/18/1963 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Sculptor Gilroy Roberts brings the model of LBJ's head for the Presidential Medal; Lady Bird visits Caroline Kennedy's school on third floor of the White House; Lady Bird remembers her mother's death when she was five; Lady Bird spends the afternoon
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/8/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • LBJ & Lady Bird read newspapers; to St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, for Robert Kennedy funeral; the Johnsons pay respects to the Kennedy family; lunch on plane back to Washington; Lady Bird reads newspapers and takes nap; mourners killed
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/3/1963 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • , Ann Chapman, Wendy Marcus, Jo Sherfy – a lot of good old friends putting their shoulders to the wheel. Mary Ellen Monroney and I went out to look for some chintzes for the windows for the two rooms that will be left vacated when the two Kennedy
  • Friends and volunteers help in White House living quarters; Lady Bird meets with Clark Clifford and others about the White House Fine Arts Committee; preservation of the White House and the Capitol; Jacqueline Kennedy's recommendation to discontinue
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/13/1969 (Monday) (Item)
  • would not be a candidate for re -e le c tio n . desk is a bleak business. Emptying a I thought about how the house had looked when I had v is ite d Mrs. Kennedy five years and two months ago. could be gripped by the sadness then. Today I cannot. I
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/28/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • each o f the two c h ild re n , and one which I said I h o p ed--I thought perhaps she m ig h t lik e --to send on i MEMORANDUM THE W H I T E HOUSE WASHINGTON F r id a y , F e b r u a r y 28, 1964 Page 4 to M r s . R o s e Kennedy, I said goodbye
  • Return home from Florida; Visit to and meeting with Mrs. Kennedy about Society for the Preservation of the White House and its members; Mrs. Kennedy agrees to be public member; Fine Arts Committee; gift of four JFK minted coins; office work; John
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/17/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird to Kennedy Garden to meet Multiple Sclerosis group; Victor Borge's humorous remarks; Lady Bird to lunch at Evelyn Symington's where she tells history of house & describes artwork; conversation about Beautification & Common Market; Lady
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/21/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird meets with Jim Webb about Cape Kennedy trip; Lady Bird has coffee with evening guests; Lady Bird works on upcoming speeches; Lady Bird to hair salon and visit with Lynda & Lucinda Robb; National Council on the Arts party; Lady Bird