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- 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
- conversation.
And before
^the evening was over there was dancing to the piano music of an eighty-one
year old German with a curly white mustache and an alpine cap and a vest
that was covered with medals.
He played a ll the old favorites lik e
"Carolina
- ; Lady Bird works while men talk; lunch; telephone calls about LBJ Library, LBJ Park & office business; drive through Reagan Ranch; LBJ eats dinner at Dale Malechek's; Lady Bird exercises & watches Gunsmoke; to Arthur Krim's for New Year's party
- 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
- k e r ’ s and a sort
of catalyst who brings people together fro m various walks of life .
So, it was a m ix ed up group, a re a l m osa ic of A m e r ic a n l i f e , and I
thought^^a delightful two hours of luncheon,^ and conversation,
Lyndon burst
- 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
- that he was contemplating proposing the opening of negotiations or
conversations, or talks I think is the word that was very carefully used,
with CommunistChina and proposing me as the U.S. representative,
I accept.
and would
I was somewhatstartled
- 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
- on Tuesdays and Fridays.
fonnal.
in our office and
The meetings are usually fairly
Wemake a statement to each other to get things in the record and
then, after the meeting, we break up into private conversations;and these
conversations have been going ~n
- 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
- him that they would do their best to cut back spending.
Then he got
to GSA and Booten. And after some little conversation, he began to bore in as
to the numbers; and it was clear
that he knew a good deai. about what was going
.
· on over
- is about to leave us, as to what he had learned in 4 years pere..
was interesting
conversation
First,
to willingly
which I might summarize.as follows:
that farmers are.unwilling
to accept and cannot be conVinced
accept real mandatory controls
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are firming up, so yesterday I called Frank Griswold, sweet talked him out of $5,000
and we're going to do some telephone spot polling.
I kind of took Frank off his
seat, but after gulping three times and asking whether he was expected to do it all
alone he
- ambassadorthere in Malta who is a political appointee
and he wanted me to see if I couldn't makesomechange on that.
Well, the British, of course, had been in Malta a long time. Wehad
a numberof conversations with the British and examinedall possibilities
- patio by the sw im m ing
pool.
There was a little crescent moon overhead.
Delightful conversation.
My only objection was that I wanted to hold up m y hand and say, "N ow e v e r y body else hush and let*s le t W alter Lippmann tal k fo r awhile
- 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
- for her, he admires her so much.
Well, finally, Clark finished and left, after a conversation here in the house with Mrs.
Kennedy, and he will report to us later where we stand on the perpetuation of the Fine Arts
Committee, or what’s going to happen
- 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.
.
‘
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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Go) ·wa ter in polls ; :.
conversation.
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in everybody's
- u r s t made conversation
there was any time
easy.
4 /1 4 / 6 4
Although I c a n 't
say
I made re a l contact with him.
We
sp oke about him h aving p ilo te d the 707 on the way
over.
I approached gingerly the subject of water,
he him self
- 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
- ; Lady Bird does desk work; dinner and dance for labor leaders; LBJ's briefing for labor leaders; Lady Bird's conversation with Walter Reuther; Lady Bird's toast
- being the life
blood of T exas, and dams and irrigation the biggest interest Lyndon
during his fir s t four ye a rs in the C on g re ss, so we had our conversation
cut out for each other.
. / ?
And another thing, I had read with great delight aboutDr
- 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
- 3
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
- Visit of Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Italy; Lady Bird takes home movies in the Rose Garden; state dinner; Lady Bird mentions attendees; Lady Bird converses with Foreign Minister Fanfani at dinner; Leontyne Price is entertainment for the evening
- 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 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
- 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
- This conversation is spread across three separate tapes
