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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the table and really took pleasure in doing it, although I never for a moment thought I was going to make a life's career out of that. I was just doing it until we had a more expansive household and more means. G: Was this the Kennedy-Warren place? J

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/19/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

Proclamation 3629 - John F. Kennedy, A Rededication issued by LBJ; LBJ & Lady Bird to Austin for party at the Frank Erwins; to LBJ Ranch; Lady Bird mentions LBJ conserving his energy

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/22/1965 (Friday) (Item)

L i b r a r y a nd t h e E i s e n h o w e r L i b r a r y and t h e Kennedy L i b r a r y i f t h e y a r e a v a i l a b l e to t h e p u b l i c , ' ^ D u r i n g t h e m o r n i n g we h a d some s e r i o u s d i s c u s s i o n a b o u t

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/7/1965 (Sunday) (Item)

Johnsons attend Christian Church; LBJ gives kisses to small girl, Kimberly Frye; lunch at White House with the McNamaras; Jacqueline Kennedy; bowling with Lynda; dinner with the Bill Whites and the Jack Brooks; Jake Pickle, Clark Clifford

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was that McFarland lost to Barry Goldwater, and that was a personal sadness and an opportunity for a forward step for Lyndon. And, going against the tide, Henry Cabot Lodge was defeated by Kennedy--young Jack Kennedy. Price Daniel was elected handily and also

Collection, Papers of Virginia Durr (entire collection) (Item)

on to the essentials it, they that to be done. Lady B~rd typified ·, in from the it by the act ' oj coming I• ,. 0 funeral simple of President Kennedy( certainly his death I ¢, . was. one of the greatest 0 she.walked ' in her -house, to go

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/21/1968 (Sunday) (Item)

; late lunch; Lynda Robb arrives; Lady Birds takes a nap, swims & has her hair styled; appointments to the Arts Council & Kennedy Center; another ride with guests

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/30/1964 (Saturday) (Item)

of the fu tu re , " When it w as o v e r we went in to take off our r o b e s , and I saw John and N e llie , and with the f i r s t tim e Joh n u sin g h is rig h t handr'^t^ shake h an d s s ince the a s s a s s in a t i o n of P r e s id e n t Kennedy. We

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/19/1964 (Friday) (Item)

LBJ to California; Lady Bird's television taping for Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation; visits by family friends; shopping; dinner with Luci Johnson, Dr. Jim Cain & Jack Valenti; to Olney Theatre for play; airplane crash of Sen. Edward Kennedy

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/8/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)

Lady Bird is interviewed by Bill Wise at Life magazine; LBJ & Lady Bird greet U.S. Attorneys; Life magazine article about Bobby Kennedy family; coffee with granddaughter of President Teddy Roosevelt; stories about Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt dinner

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/3/1964 (Monday) (Item)

Tours arranged for the Bobby Russells; Lady Bird to luncheon on Capitol Hill in her honor; Lady Bird sees P-38, LBJ's Senate office, and John Kennedy's office across the hall; meeting with Howard Smith and Bob Fleming about ABC show on Mrs. Johnson

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/24/1964 (Friday) (Item)

Meeting on Arts project; Executive Order establishing Society for Preservation of the White House and permanent curator; possible members of Society; Jacqueline Kennedy; Fine Arts Committee and the Painting Committee; swim and trip to Mr. Per's

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, 2/29/1964 (Saturday) (Item)

, appointed by M r s . Kennedy, and that she had sent them a check, b u t that she didn't know quite what use it had been put to. Th ey both showed m e a way you could f e e l under the seat 0-'' of a Hepple- white chair and find a certa in cu rved re in fo rc

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/24/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)

of red f i r e , I t lasted m o r e than two minutes, and actually it seem ed an eternity. Th is Saturn I w il l be used to send an unmanned A p o llo space c r a ft into orbit, in fact, one's on the pad down at Cape Kennedy n o w fo r launching la te r

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/15/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)

ggestions. i n the F irst, Red Room the mantl e p i e c e n e e d e d a c o u p l e of Mrs. Kennedy had t a k e n the obelisks t h a t w b e l o n g e d t o h e r when she le f t and he s a i d why d o n ' t you go down t o 'I vermeil room and f i n d

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/18/1967 (Thursday) (Item)

Lady Bird sleeps late, goes to Spanish lesson and to hair salon; tea for Friends of the Kennedy Center; Lady Bird mentions guests; receiving line; Lady Bird to Nicaraguan Embassy for tea for diplomatic wives in Lady Bird's honor; drive back to White
iv es o r s o m e t h i n g -V ig n e tte s o f th e d a y - - o n ly o n e w o m a n in th e r e c e iv in g lin e c a l l e d m e M r s . Kennedy. T h a t u s e d to h a p p e n q u ite f r e q u e n tly , b u t no t in th e l a s t y e a r o r tw o

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/21/1968 (Friday) (Item)

; to hair salon; reception in Jacqueline Kennedy Garden for Conference on the Status of Women; Lyn Nugent's birthday party; Luci Nugent records sound from party for Pat Nugent in Vietnam; late dinner; special mass for Lyn Nugent at the White House

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/19/1968 (Saturday) (Item)

Jacqueline Kennedy & Aristotle Onassis to marry; Lady Bird visits with Lyndon Jenkins; LBJ visits with Lyndon Jenkins in Oval Office; LBJ Library meeting about "Life in the White House" exhibit; Lady Bird visits with LBJ at lunch; new portraits

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 10/20/1967 (Friday) (Item)

Lady Bird to hair salon; Lady Bird to Columbia Island for daffodil plantings; back to White House for photos in the Rose Garden & Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; Lady Bird & Lynda Johnson to lunch at the Jockey Club; office work; Lady Bird records diary

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, 7/14/1966 (Thursday) (Item)

dinner for Prime Minister Harold Holt; Lady Bird has lunch and nap; work on wedding in Jacqueline Kennedy garden; meeting on beautification; article by Barnaby Keeney; office work; bowling; Luci Johnson upset over release of wedding dress design

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/17/1965 (Monday) (Item)

on beautification; house guests; Jacqueline Kennedy letter to Lady Bird that appears at auction; State Dinner for President Park; Lady Bird mentions several guests; LBJ leaves party to work until 4:30 a.m.

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, 7/22/1965 (Thursday) (Item)

Small break in sound while talking about Kennedy playground

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/16/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

a n ' t h e l p b e l i e v i n g h e l i k e s L y n d o n , to o, t h o u g h c o m p l e t e l y w ithout th a t m o t h - t o - t h e - f l a m e a ttitu d e th a t so m a n y in te lle c t u a ls had f o r P r e s i d e n t Kennedy. B e c a u s e

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/4/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)

k a w a r d o f the W o m e n 's N a tion a l P r e s s Club. D inner, a speech by Lyndon, a p r e s e n ta tio n o f the a w a r d . B ut in the custom so u s e fu lly set by P r e s id e n t Kennedy had supper at hom e f i r s t , ^a nnd d w en

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/11/1968 (Monday) (Item)

of Public Service; why LBJ kept Kennedy appointees; Lady Bird gives Pat Nixon tour of family quarters; photo montage for press women; performance of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" in East Room; dinner; LBJ has a cold

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, 7/11/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)

a s w e e t l e t t e r I h a d had fro m M rs . Kennedy about P a t r i c k Lyndon's b irth . f r i e n d a n d I t h i n k a d v i s e r of h e r s . He i s a g r e a t We t a l k e d of b o o k s . He w a k e s up a b o u t 4 :0 0 i n the m o r

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/3/1967 (Friday) (Item)

Office work; swearing-in ceremony for District of Columbia Council; LBJ gives off-the-cuff speech; Lady Bird has lunch & goes to hair salon; family photographs in Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and the West Hall; Francis Lewine interviews Lady Bird

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/26/1966 (Wednesday) (Item)

Lady Bird sleeps late; Lady Bird mentions her houseguests; Lady Bird works on clothing for New York trip; Lady Bird lunches with LBJ and staff members; President Kennedy's appointment of Averell Harriman at State Department; Lady Bird has tea

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/3/1965 (Tuesday) (Item)

Lady Bird to beauty shop and works on magazine article; LBJ gives Distinguished Service Medal to Gen. Ted Clifton; Lady Bird to Jacqueline Kennedy Garden for beautification ceremony; Lady Bird looks at photos with Luci and Lynda Johnson of Lynda's

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/25/1964 (Tuesday) (Item)

Lady Bird visits with volunteers working on Mrs. Kennedy's mail in the EOB, WH telephone operators, and WHCF; meeting with Walter Jenkins and J.B. West about household matters; lunch with Lynda Johnson; article about spelling of Luci Johnson's name

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/27/1964 (Thursday) (Item)

LBJ, Lady Bird, Lynda & Luci to Paltka, FL, for Intercoastal Canal ceremonies, flipping switch for initial excavation, and presentation of ceramic bull; to Palm Beach to visit Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Kennedy; to reception for President's Club

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/27/1964 (Monday) (Item)

" women; Lady Bird's trip to Museum of Modern Art in New York; Luci Johnson's dress for Apple Blossom Festival; Lady Bird visits Jackie Kennedy about Committee for Preservation of the White House; reception for labor newspaper editors; Lynda Johnson news

Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 11/23/1968 (Saturday) (Item)

Lady Bird has breakfast & hair styled; Lady Bird & Lynda Robb fly to Cape Kennedy; tours of facility, lunch and briefing by Apollo 8 astronaut; competition for space facility between Florida & Texas; award ceremony for NASA employees; Lady Bird's
l a r l y a t th o s e f r o m a b r o a d - - a b r i e f h i s t o r y o f Cape Kennedy. And th e n c lo s e to noon s a t down on th e s k id t r e p a t C ape K ennedy w h e r e we w e r e m e t b y D r . and M r s . T h o m a s P a i n e , D r

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 (Tuesday) (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

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