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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/18/1965 (Friday) (Item)
  • Governor Tom Dewey, LBJ and Lady Bird have breakfast and talk about crime; Lucius Clay; ABC film on beautification; telephone conversation with Lynda Johnson; Luci Johnson receives Stingray car for graduation/birthday gift; Johnsons to Camp David
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/28/1965 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird works with her office staff; Luci Johnson and her conversion to Catholicism; Lady Bird talks with Lynda Johnson; LBJ returns to work; Lady Bird reads Task Force on Beautification report
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but there were relatively minor in nature . M: Did he ever comment to you, either at the convention or later, about the nature of the vice presidency, his opinion of it? B: No, not in a personal conversation, nor did I have any occasion to be present in groups
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/17/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • without self-consciousness and with the so rt o f enthusiasm that makes you think it is within the reach of Am erica ' today. . ‘ The net of our hour and a half long conversation, besides a lot of pleasure for me, was word that he would help on getting
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/15/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • LBJ & Lady Bird review progress on Danz house; LBJ & Lady Bird to Stonewall; wildflowers and crepe myrtles for planting; LBJ & Lady Bird swim with Luci & Lyn Nugent; Lady Bird has hair styled; dinner guests; conversation about oral history project
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • don't think there's any comparison. I think Lyndon Johnson is head and shoulders above Nixon, in intellectual capacity and feeling . And yet, you know, in personal conversation, Lyndon Johnson is a very warm man, and he's funny as all hell! He's one
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/6/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • LBJ and Lady Bird talk about many subjects; LBJ Library; Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; LBJ returns to White House; Lady Bird entertains family; photographs taken outside the house; Lady Bird takes walk to birthplace home; visit
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/7/1965 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Relatives off to Fredericksburg; Lady Bird does office work; Lady Bird talks with Lynda Johnson about her trip to Wyoming; controversy over Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; Lady Bird and guest helicopter to Haywood Ranch; boating, swimming
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/14/1965 (Thursday) (Item)
  • ; Lady Bird describes conversation with Luther Hodges about his life; Lady Bird & LBJ to Texas; Lady Bird mentions Eric Goldman's ideas for inauguration; Prime Minister Pearson of Canada to visit LBJ Ranch the next day
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/28/1965 (Friday) (Item)
  • ABC filming of Beautification program at Mount Vernon; desk work at the White House; Lady Bird talks with Luci Johnson; Luci's conversion to Catholicism; Lady Bird to Barney House for a dinner; paintings at Barney House; LBJ's work
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/14/1964 (Sunday) (Item)
  • phone conversation with Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Rusk delivers resignation of Ambassador to Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge; discussions about replacement for Lodge
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , enormous. M: Is this just the converse of the way it was with Kennedy, that Kennedy came over well on television and in private-- S: Yes, absolutely, in private, disaster. I don't mean a disaster, but he was, first of all, ill at ease with men of power
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/22/1967 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Bird mentions guests; topics of conversation are jobs for the handicapped & anti-American sentiment in France; toasts; Lynda Johnson toasts to George Washington; Lady Bird visits; snowing; Lady Bird reads; San Antonio wins cleanest city award
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, 9/9/1965 (Thursday) (Item)
  • in the Grand Tetons; the Rockefellers give her tour of the ranch; Lynda Johnson goes hiking; Lady Bird describes dinner conversation; Jay Rockefeller and the poverty program; discussions on Medicare
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • talked to me, and the conversation was just about this . He said, "Alan, I've been hearing a lot and reading a lot about the Northeast Airlines case . As far as I'm concerned, I want good air service in New England and whatever you do to accomplish
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/14/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • to free circus for 6,000 children; LBJ gives speech at State Department reception; Johnsons greet Prime Minister & Mrs. Egal; exchange of gifts; Lady Bird names guests; conversation about conservation; toasts; Anita Bryant is entertainment
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/12/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • , it w a s a m u c h lo w e r key -- w a rm and easy conversation, our younger days. r e m in is c e n c e s abo ut B e b e and And m y ow n k e e n ly e x p r e s s e d r e g r e t that he - - o r s o it's s a i d - - i s g e t t i n g o u t of p o l