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- August 28, 2007
Reference No. 11911
Processing Note
Transcript only of this conversation; there is no recording.
DATE: 6/21167
TIME: 2:03 PM
CALLER: George Aiken
Pages of Transcript: 1 page
Barbara Cline
Archivist
- *TRANSCRIPT ONLY OF THIS CONVERSATION; THERE IS NO RECORDING
- Telephone conversation
- Telephone conversation # 11911, transcript, LBJ and GEORGE AIKEN, 6/21/1967, 2:03PM
- White House Telephone Recordings and Transcripts
- Recordings and Transcripts of Telephone Conversations and Meetings
- 7 0 s - - and m ade up a lis t fo r B e ss, using two o f our p erson a l
telephone books a nd w ra ck ing m y brain , , - Those people I would lik e s o m e tim e to in vite to a State Dinner| and another lis t of those fo r recep tio n s,
luncheons
- Lady Bird finishes Bill White's book on LBJ; Lady Bird records her White House Diary; Lady Bird walks with Jerry Kivitts; Lady Bird works on invitation lists for upcoming events at the White House; Lady Bird has telephone conversation with Dr. Hurst
- Clark looking in bouncy good
health, one of the most genuinely at-peace men I know.
Madame Shoumatoff
came in and she was indeed in a way the guest of honor this evening.
She wears her considerable years lig h tly and her conversation is bright
- Brief conference with Abe Fortas; meeting with Henry Middleton about films; meeting of LBJ Library Audiovisual Committee; to theater to view "The President's House;" office work & telephone calls; hair styled; portrait party at the White House; Lady
- Lady Bird works on Johnson City House; telephone conversation with Lucia Johnson; LBJ on six-state tour of Midwest tornado damage; Lady Bird drives by the Schornhorst place and the bluebonnets; guests for dinner at the LBJ Ranch
- of Lyndon's staff, to have
accumulated so many people im portant to N A T O , - ^ such short notice.
I think the inviting had gone on until 10 or 11 o 'c lo c k the night b e fo r e , by
telephone or t e l e g ra m . ^
A d m ir a l R adford and M r s . Radford
- and others to Johnson City property; Lady Bird and LBJ to Moursunds and 3 Springs Ranch; LBJ reminisces about picnics and swimming as child; Lady Bird likes river-rafting; Peter Hurd's portrait of LBJ; telephone conversation with Nellie Connally
- 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
- Senator Edward Kennedy's plane crash; Lady Bird calls Rose Kennedy, Birch Bayhs and Mrs. Edward Kennedy; telephone conversation with Lynda Johnson about security problem on her flight; office work; Lady Bird reads; walk around White House
- Lady Bird meets with Warren Woodward and Bob Kollar about wedding travel plans; Lady Bird places several calls about wedding arrangements; office work; Lady Bird to luncheon for Luci Johnson given by bridesmaids; back to White House; telephone call
- with guests; dinner; bridge game; conversation about aid for India, war on poverty at home, Vietnam and China; Lady Bird talks on telephone with Luci and Pat Nugent, who are snowed in at Waukegan; Luci is expecting baby in June
- Lady Bird comments on LBJ's "lamb of a letter," and asks about his law school courses. She writes about how her work around the house is progressing, how she misses her friends in Austin and their good conversation. She mentions seeing the Dodge
- Lady Bird comments on her phone conversation with LBJ earlier in the day, describes her visit today with relatives, and thanks LBJ for sending books. She writes about the pictures she has enclosed and describes the busy week she has ahead
- LBJ expresses disappointment after his phone conversation with Lady Bird a day earlier. He says he wrote Lady Bird a long letter but decided not to mail it. He describes going out with friends despite still being sick and says Gene [Latimer] now
- LBJ comments on Lady Bird's letter to him describing her conversation with Victor [McCrea] while she was in Dallas. He also comments on letters from his mother and from "Mr. Dick" [Congressman Kleberg] and mentions again the letter he wrote Lady
- LBJ tells Lady Bird he received letters from her and Gene [Boehringer]; Gene expressed approval of LBJ's relationship with Lady Bird. LBJ mentions his long conversation with Helen Crouch and plans to have dinner with Bill and Irene White. LBJ
- went over to Lyndon's office.
We called Jake and I3cryl
Pickle ;rnd Bill and June White and asked them to come over and take pot
luck dinn
- to continue as long as the President needed
him. Woods approached him in April. McNamara came to see me
in August to tell me about his conversations with the World Bank, so
I wouldn 1t think he was out looking for a job. We talked again in
October and it went
- 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
- without self-consciousness and with the so rt o f
enthusiasm that makes you think it is within the reach of Am erica '
today.
.
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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
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- 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
- White House tour for "Life" photographers; visit from Helen Adams McBerney; office work; phone conversation with Lynda Johnson in Hawaii; Lady Bird to doctor for physical; LBJ back from speech in Cleveland; talk with Luci Johnson; LBJ conference
- Sale of The Elms; Luci and her friends at the White House; LBJ invites A.W. Moursunds and Jesse Kellams to White House; dinner with friends from Congress and their wives; dinner conversation about the Dominican Republic, Thomas Mann's appointment
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Our lunch was in the Lincoln Sitting Room, the table spread by
the window facing the monuments.
And we used china from various
Administrations, a small pleasant conversation piece for such knowledgeable people as Mr. Hoving
- a look at it.
The ease and naturalness, I n o rm a lly f e e l, in dealing with Maxine
/
and p r a c tic a lly any other newspaper woman,/was somewhat beclouded by
m y conversation beforehand with Jim Ketchum, the cu rator, who said
I
they had had a lo
- birthday party at the Haywood Ranch; Lady Bird has phone conversation with Lynda Johnson in Europe
- 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
- 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
- congregation members tell Lady Bird that LBJ saved them; Lynda Johnson has conversation with Dr. Walter Heller
- Lady Bird receives call during night of LBJ going to the hospital; Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson return to Washington and go to Bethesda Naval Hospital; Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; Luci Johnson to luncheon given in her honor; LBJ talks
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conversation,
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a n t h o l o g y --"Chicago
Rugged,
white
it
c ompletely un-
r a t h e r lik e
He h a d n 't hea rd about
l i t t le hard
I h a d h a d b ro ught
He was shaggy h a i r e d ,
almost in a dutch b o b .
t>¥tainT3 l e d in his
- to have some private conversation and that
would be m y time to depart.
So I did, thereby not seeing the thousand or
so guests cla m o rin g at the gates.
I rushed hom e, feelin g stra n gely truant,
jumped into m y red lace dress and went out to the W
- 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
- Lynda Johnson has conversation with parents in their bedroom; Johnsons go to St. Mark's Church; protests in Lafayette Square; Lady Bird plans for upcoming party; LBJ and Lady Bird have guests on the "Patrick J" boat; Walt Rostow talks of China
- phone conversation with Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Rusk delivers resignation of Ambassador to Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge; discussions about replacement for Lodge
- on Southeast Asia; Lady Bird's conversation with Lynda Johnson about Hawaii
- ; phone conversation with Lucia; Lady Bird meets LBJ & guests at Lewis place; Lady Bird watches "Gunsmoke"; meeting about tv and radio properties
- LBJ has phone conversation about appointments at Treasury and Budget; Lady Bird receives international YWCA delegates; Henry Fowler accepts Secretary of Treasury position; LBJ makes press announcement; diplomatic reception at Blair House; Lady Bird
- 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
- HOUSE
WASHINGTON
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And presently Luci came in.
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She had been out to dinner.
She curled up
on the bed beside me and we had one of those long conversations which make
me jokingly tell her that she is a part time
