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  • 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
  • 0~ Go) ·wa ter in polls ; :. conversation. ( - 7 ~ ~ in everybody's
  • Ev resume of nv telei)hone conversation with him aG outlined he1·ein to you . Incidento.lly, I triPd to work out the .)roposi tion you su.e1gested Hr . c'..rant P'l.a..'k:e to Harry i:::1 d.olL..trs lmd cents, L,nd it com'?s out .]rL.ctic:..lly lH:P
  • the chance, to our friends-such as Aubrey and Mr. Ickes and maybe Tom or the Douglases. Is that unwise to say, in view of the fact that you are working for the Navy and under orders frOl'Jl the Navy? I remember nry conversation with Sam, when he asked me
  • 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
  • think it's really just a matter of concentration, of wanting to do it, and perhaps calling the person's name two or three times in the conversation after you've just met him helps to fix it in your mind. G: How good at it was he? Was he pretty
  • 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
  • , and he liked him very much, but he never could understand his South Carolina accent. They would just go through a whole conversation, which Lyndon didn't understand, or so he said. Maybank was a member of an aristocratic, old South Carolina family, as I
  • at the Mayflower. G: Would you get together a lot with him in the evenings? J: Yes, yes. His coming was always an opportunity for a good dinner and good conversation, in which women were included, although we did not participate too much in the conversation
  • 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
  • a r a r e museum quality, and it 's liv e d in. H ere again y '‘ r ' Lyndon su rp rised me,- by joining us fo r lunch, and we reshu ffled the place cards, and the conversation. I didn't get quite as much time to discuss with M iss Im a,' as I would
  • . conversation, And h a d 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
  • or a small group of people to be with him and have long conversations, and Lyndon sought out those times. One stopped and changed and spent a while in St. Louis, and they early had good friends there who would come join them at the station. G: Also
  • only speak English and that I think was a big drawback. It is one of the things that is a very sizeable asset to be able to converse in two or three languages. And also I argued against and felt sorry about the fact that those poor Chiefs of State
  • ; 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
  • he ventured to call upon him and had a lengthy conversation in which he impressed the old gentleman. But Lyndon always had a lot of respect for older men, successful men in the field in which he was interested. He wanted to learn from them, and he got
  • ; could take dictation lickety-split, and the fact that he was a man made him all right to be in Lyndon's bedroom at twelve, one, two, taking shorthand and, you know, avoid a lot of conversation that you didn't need to have on the part of opponents