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Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 10/27/1964" (Item)
  • been among my husband's respected and trusted advisors. Three years ago this month our g reat President Kennedy acc epted from the city of Fort Smith the deed to this historic ground. I feel certain that he would have considered it a privilege, as I do
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
Press release, "Remarks of the President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at Dedication of Eufaula Dam, Eufaula, Oklahoma, 9/25/1964" (Item)
  • ~ry aec tion, men like 'l'heodore Roos evelt, men l ike Frank:U.. n Roosevelt, men like John F. Kennedy , men like Robert S. Kerr, men like Mike Monroney and your House Delegation, all be~n to act and to protect and to develpp the natural resources
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/8/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird, LBJ and staff are up late because of the Farm Bill; Lady Bird does office work; LBJ, Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson attend funeral for General Douglas MacArthur; Lady Bird exchanges brief remarks with Robert Kennedy; Lady Bird describes
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 10/8/1964" (Item)
  • for increased assistance for higher education and most specifically for a m u ch broadened educational vocational program. 1 am sure 1 do not have to tell you -- who sit here watching launchings at Cape Kennedy - - how tremendous our scientific achievements have
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Dedication of Stage - East Room, 9/29/1965" (Item)
  • billiantly than President and Mrs . Kennedy. Within this year the first ~pade of dirt was turned for a great cultural center for all our nation. Within this month the Congress passed the bill to provide a National Arts and Humanities Founda­ tion so
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at a Tea for Members of the Fine Arts, Painting and Advisory Committees on the Restoration of the White House, 5/7/1964" (Item)
  • Remarks of Mrs . Lyndon B. Johnson at a tea for members of the Fine Arts, Painting and Advis ory Committees on the Restoration of the White House, May 7, 1964 Friends : Welc om e to this house to which, under the inspira tion of Mrs . Kennedy, you
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the Statewide Democratic Luncheon/Fashion Show Introducing Mrs. Hubert H. Humphrey, Austin, Texas, 10/22/1968" (Item)
  • at stake in America this November. 1 belicve that issue is simply this: Will America, ha.ving forged so far ahead under President Kennedy and Preside nt Johnson, toward a more just and compassionate society, now turn back? Will we lQJeheart becaus e
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Naturalization Ceremony, East Room, the White House, 11/22/1968" (Item)
  • are, to use the title of a book by President Kennedy, "a nation of immigrants." But what we often fail t ‫ ס‬realize is how quickly new Americans and their families make their contribution t o a better America. We have with us today, for example, a number
Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks, University of Utah Commencement, Salt Lake City, Utah, 8/15/1964" (Item)
  • Young said, "Suppose there was a union of effort in every political and financial matter, undertaken for the benefit of the whole people? Who cannot see the good that would result? 11 It was this same union of effort that our late President Kennedy spoke
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/9/1964 (Saturday) (Item)
  • ay 9» 1964 P a ge 3 Then we went quickly out to M itc h e ll F ie ld on Long Island, fo r the dedication o f a John F , Kennedy Educational C iv ic and C u ltu ral Cente r . The scene was oddly ru ra l so clo se to New Y o r k C ity. fie ld , w ith
Press release, "Remarks of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Democratic Women's Clubs of Kentucky, Sheraton Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, 10/5/1968" (Item)
  • will be decided at the polls in November ? 1 believe it is this: Will America, having forged so far ahead under President Kennedy and President Johns on toward a more just and compassion­ ate society, now turn back? Will we continue on the upwa rd, hopeful road
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 10/24/1964" (Item)
  • Kennedy, when he created the Commission on the Status of Women, envisioned our participating as full partners. Because of t his President's determination women will no longer be the forgotten sex in labor, in business or in Government. And, I know you
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/28/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • MEMORANDUM C THE W H ITE HOUSE W A S H I N G T ON Page 1 Thursday* M ay 28, 1964 What a busy day. It began a little a fte r 11, by going to A r lington C e m e te ry to la y a w reath on the g ra ve o f P re s id e n t Kennedy, because to m o
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, University of Alabama and American Association of University Women Leadership Conference, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2/25/1966" (Item)
  • to do anything except get along together. One day we might hope that the conference table in Birmingham or Geneva will be as successful as the assembly line in Huntsville and the launching pad at Cape Kennedy. The second problem is closely
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/5/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • ; LBJ to New York for Joseph P. Kennedy dinner; Lady Bird dinner and talk with Luci Johnson; business meeting with A.W. Moursund; watched play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" in the Lincoln bedroom
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/28/1966 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • Meeting with Madam Shoumatoff about FDR portrait; Lady Bird, Nash Castro and Mary Lasker visit award-winning beautification sites; Beautification Committee meeting; Lady Bird mentions attendees and agenda; award ceremony in Jacqueline Kennedy Garden
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/19/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Presentations in Jacqueline Kennedy Garden to companies who donated landscaping at schools in Washington; Lady Bird fills in for LBJ to greet group from North Carolina; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital meets on the SEQUOIA; tour of Washington
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/16/1967 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird misses Spanish class, goes to hair salon & goes over details for the day; Lady Bird meets with American Heart Association winner, Marie Mushro; Beautification meeting; at Jacqueline Kennedy Garden to receive wheelbarrow of seeds; reception
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/7/1968 (Tueday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird works on speech; Lady Bird to hair salon; coffee for the Council on the Humanities; Lady Bird discusses the Kennedy Library with I.M. Pei; Lady Bird gives speech during Buchanan School dedication; speeches by Mayor Washington & Brooke
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
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/9/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird gives commencement address at Radcliffe College; discussion with Mrs. Carl Gilbert; luncheon at Radcliffe President's home; Helen Keller; tour of Kennedy Library site; back to DC; State dinner for Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark